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2022-03-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Surber: It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right

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Posted by badanov 2022-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 There was a neutral Ukraine before the US backed coup in 2014 that put Nazis into power.

Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2022-03-16 00:55|| 2022-03-16 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Bzzzzzt! You fail. You said Nazis, Punky Elmigum9411, so we will disregard everything else you said afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-16 01:09|| 2022-03-16 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Thx TW! Remember 'Godwin's Law'!

Posted by borgboy 2022-03-16 01:26|| 2022-03-16 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 They’re destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus.

Yeah but the Russians are taking a hell of a mauling doing it. And it has shown how crappy their military stuff is compared to western arms and their international sales will take an even bigger dump.

Russia may force Zelensky out, but they lost big time in the strategic sense.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-16 10:50|| 2022-03-16 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Liz Cheney showed she was the daughter of a man the left called a chickenhawk by denouncing the colonel. "This is the Putin wing of the GOP."

Posted by Crolung Gluth7306 2022-03-16 10:55|| 2022-03-16 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Losing a war does not necessarily cost a leader his job so maybe Putin and Zelensky stay. The latter would be ironic since Zelensky marketed himself as a modern Churchill. Sir Winston won his war and lost his job. The Big Z looks to lose his war and keep his job. Face it, that is his real motivation.

The media has been so hawkish that one could believe World War 3 is handing out free donuts and bagels to reporters to ply their support.

Ukraine has been a cash cow for Washington insiders for decades. I am not sure where Ukraine gets the dough to pay off the spawn of politicians such as Biden and Pelosi. Maybe it is kickbacks from U.S. foreign aid.

Meanwhile, the war has shown globalism for what it is: economic suicide.

Posted by Knuckles Noodleman1469 2022-03-16 10:59|| 2022-03-16 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 You said Nazis, Punky Elmigum9411, so we will disregard everything else you said afterward.
Neener neener my fingers are in my ears I can't hear you!
- (not) civil well-reasoned discourse

Posted by Tiny Stalin2556 2022-03-16 13:27|| 2022-03-16 13:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Screaming “Nazis” is not reasoned. It’s non-discourse. It’s an attempt at emotional manipulation that fails in this venue. Come up with something worth talking about or take yourself where such nonsense will get traction. Try Reddit or the Kos kiddies. Antifa, maybe.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-16 13:42|| 2022-03-16 13:42|| Front Page Top

#9 "Screaming"? You mean, like screaming "Kos! Antifa! Neener!"
How about Dovid Katz from Vilnius, the Jewish scholar who has devoted his life to exposing lies and coverups about Nazis in Lithuania? Is Dovid Katz also Antifa?
Getting it wrong on Ukraine
Western media have failed to understand the crucial role of nationalistic xenophobia and anti-Semitism

And the US Congress is also Antifa?
More than 50 US Congressmen condemn Ukrainian legislation that “glorifies Nazi collaborators”
Ukraine’s luck of flying beneath the radar has finally run out,” Dovid Katz, founder of the Defending History website about Holocaust distortion in Eastern Europe, wrote on Twitter about the letter. “Never imagined we’d see this day.”

Posted by Chesney Hupoting5332 2022-03-16 14:13|| 2022-03-16 14:13|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ My, what a compelling series of statements!

Is there someone we can talk to about getting a better grade of "influencer"? All the noise and static is bothersome.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-16 14:27|| 2022-03-16 14:27|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Daytraders who have lost their 'shorts'.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-16 15:03|| 2022-03-16 15:03|| Front Page Top

#12 A bunch of posers. Dress up and say the magic words and "va la" they're Nazis, not. Just a bunch of thugs. The National Socialists Workers Party was just that, a political movement upon which gravitated their own version of thugs. There is no real political movement here other than hierarchical and tribal behavior.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-16 15:59|| 2022-03-16 15:59|| Front Page Top

#13 There are plenty of reasons to dislike Ukraine, as there are plenty to dislike Russia and America — often enough the exact same reasons. *cough* Hunter Biden *cough* If those are your reasons — great, have at it. But don’t throw around trigger words and expect me to be triggered. My family was hunted by, and fought against, the real Nazis.

The people you’re complaining about? Immature cosplayers who think their white idols in Russia are da bomb. They couldn’t conquer a country, let alone half the world — all they’re good for is acting like the brainless yobs they are. Ditto for the ones in Germany, by the way, and the couple thousand of them here in America.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-16 16:19|| 2022-03-16 16:19|| Front Page Top

#14 who think their white idols in Russia
he was talking about anti-Russian neo-Nazis in Lithuania and Ukraine and other parts of E Europe

Posted by Bob Lumplump4321 2022-03-16 16:32|| 2022-03-16 16:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Is there someone we can talk to about getting a better grade of "influencer"?

Biggest invasion since WW11 so got to keep it tiktok real - Dead Snow: Zombie Nazis, or Nazi Zombies?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-16 16:39|| 2022-03-16 16:39|| Front Page Top

#16 You can call folks Nazi's but if they don't round people up into death camps and invade their neighbors they are just another brand of fascists. If a fascist nation attacked another fascist nation I'd favor the invaded while counseling the US stay out of it.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-16 18:14|| 2022-03-16 18:14|| Front Page Top

#17 Here's a Ukrainian Nazi news presenter on Ukraina-24 TV, broadcast internationally, with its own YouTube channel (English subtitles);
"I will allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann who said that in order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, children... I adhere to the doctrine of Adolf Eichman..."

Posted by Deadeye Glinegum6771 2022-03-16 19:10|| 2022-03-16 19:10|| Front Page Top

#18 I cite Sun Tzu does that make me Chinese? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-16 20:19|| 2022-03-16 20:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Sure. My boss quotes Eichmann all the time. My colleagues are more into Goebbels tho

Posted by Fester tse Tung2884 2022-03-16 20:27|| 2022-03-16 20:27|| Front Page Top

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