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2024-02-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Failed US policy to date based on gross exaggeration of American firepower and misguided wishful thinking Russia would eventually back down

...Without for an instant endorsing a single damned decision by this administration, it would not have been unreasonable for the strategists to believe that, given the scale of Russian losses, they would have long since declared victory and given up. I get that.

The problem here is that nobody reads their history. Josef Stalin - one of the hardest cases to ever rule anywhere, with literal megadeaths on his head - retreated into seclusion for about three days after the German invasion, then stood up and rallied the USSR, and they didn't stop for five years, until they stood on the rubble of Berlin.

That needed to be in the minds of everybody making decisions, but it wasn't even on the radar. The people in charge had no possible conception of a nation like the real Russia, and now we're dealing with it.

Yes, somebody might - might - eventually give Volodya the long polonium nap, but they will be every bit as stubborn on this subject as he was.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-08 06:29|| 2024-02-08 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Have you considered the idea that Putin is front man for FSB junta, Mike?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-08 06:47|| 2024-02-08 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Biden's policy=throw money at it.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-08 10:15|| 2024-02-08 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks, Mike.

Posted by badanov 2024-02-08 10:22|| 2024-02-08 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5
#2 ^Have you considered the idea that Putin is front man for FSB junta, Mike?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-08 06:47|| 2024-02-08 06:47|| Front Page || Comments Top

Grom,

I had figured he was leading it - had not considered a figurehead role.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-08 11:00|| 2024-02-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ^😎

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-08 11:04|| 2024-02-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Have you considered the idea that Putin is front man for FSB junta, Mike?

That might work for Biden and the CIA but I get the impression that Putin is a whole other kettle of fish. We'll have to wait and see how much stuttering and stammering he does in his interview with Tucker. Of course, it would be tough to verify Putin's version of Corn Pop.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-08 12:06|| 2024-02-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 As much as I detest Russia's invasion, I've always figured that the US response is just a cover operation for the Big guy's 10%.

Posted by AlanC 2024-02-08 15:20|| 2024-02-08 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 "I remember him clearly. Quite nice,
And like me he had mind like device.
Why, while turning its screws
He imparted his views
Which I've ever since used." [eyes of ice]

Corn Papa, or, Felix the Coot

Posted by Gloling Tingle8050 2024-02-08 15:33|| 2024-02-08 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Cripes, has he really been talking with Napoleon about a Ukraine strategy?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-08 15:54|| 2024-02-08 15:54|| Front Page Top

#11 ^He’s talking to Helmut Kohl

Biden Says He Spoke to a SECOND Dead European Statesman

Posted by Beavis 2024-02-08 16:57|| 2024-02-08 16:57|| Front Page Top

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