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2022-01-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-26 07:16|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Seriously? I doubt it.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-26 08:03|| 2022-01-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect thee are FIS staff with plans for his "flying lessons".

Posted by Mercutio 2022-01-26 09:12|| 2022-01-26 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Know what Putin really fears.....hashtag campaign, that's what.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-26 10:43|| 2022-01-26 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 For decades we've talked about how scary a madman with nukes would be. Usually it's over the top rhetoric aimed at GOP Presidents but seriously, I would be scared of Biden if I were Putin.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-01-26 11:32|| 2022-01-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 swksvolff, are you going to start 1? I haven''t been able to do my pouty face in awhile.

Posted by Chris 2022-01-26 12:40|| 2022-01-26 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Time specializes in comedy masquerading as news. Putin wants a bigger Russia. The man he fears is the one who would get in the way - Trump. In Syria, for the first time since Wilson sent the Polar Bears into Russia a century ago, Trump took out hundreds of Russian ground troops.

Trump understands the logic of nuclear deterrence. No nuclear power will launch a first strike against another nuclear power in response to conventional attack. The logic is simple - it might lose tens of millions, at worst, in a conventional war. A nuclear exchange means a hundred million dead and, in Russia's case, the annexation of Russia by China. The promise of American air support for Ukraine, much as the Russians provided it for North Korea in 1950, would seriously complicate Putin's plans.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-01-26 14:18|| 2022-01-26 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ~~consults the Zeitgeist~~

#donetskdotell (pronouns) *surprised soy face photo*

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-26 15:46|| 2022-01-26 15:46|| Front Page Top

#8 #donetskdotell (pronouns) *surprised soy face photo*

lol

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-01-26 16:17|| 2022-01-26 16:17|| Front Page Top

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