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originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: network dude
Winning does not stop history from repeating.
Because the subsequent generations just make the same to similar mistakes as their ancestors and refuse to learn from our past historical transgressions.
into the Baltic states then move on to Europe.
originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: watchitburn
Putin's stooges are threatening to take Alaska back
Is that close enough for you
originally posted by: Maybenexttime
Putin has no intentions of going into Europe ot any nato country.
What a joke.
originally posted by: andy06shake
The oligarchs and corrupt government officials.
I don't think the average joe anywhere outside the likes of St Petersburg and Moscow.
Can claim to be doing well considering the deprivation and abject poverty in which they live.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: gortex
I don't care.
It's a Europe problem. Not mine. Let the EU fund that BS.
originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: watchitburn
If Japan hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor, do you think the US should've stayed out of WWII?
If so, do you think the US would be better off today if Germany and Japan were allowed to annex all of Europe, Asia, and Africa?
originally posted by: WeMustCare
Actions of the West are mostly based in Fear. That needs to change.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Freeborn
Not getting involved in a war on the other side of the planet isn't isolationism, it's common sense.
You must be incredibly naive to think that funding the most corrupt country in Europe while we're racking up $3 Trillion in debt every year is a smart decision.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: gortex
I don't care.
It's a Europe problem. Not mine. Let the EU fund that BS.
Actions of the West are mostly based in Fear. That needs to change.
originally posted by: Kenzo
a reply to: watchitburn
You really have no idea...
Right now there are no US military fighting in Ukraine, no deaths of American soldiers.
If this spread to bigger war, there will be American soldiers dying in battlefield .
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: andy06shake
The oligarchs and corrupt government officials.
I don't think the average joe anywhere outside the likes of St Petersburg and Moscow.
Can claim to be doing well considering the deprivation and abject poverty in which they live.
RussianTroll keeps talking about how great life there is right now and for him maybe it's pretty good, but damn...there are over 100 million living in desperate times, and it wasn't like their life before the invasion was good...It was bad and now it is worse.