This whole thing strikes me as more reminiscent of 1914....."great power status" "spheres of influence".
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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This war won’t truly be over until the Russians are soundly defeated
How did you verify it?
I’m all for posting whatever info we come across and find interesting.
But something isn’t real just because you found it on the internet.
It sounds wrong but is common among all armies - the spoils of war. GIs brought souvenirs back from WW2 as well. Every once in a while you will read (at least we used to growing up) about some work of art being sent back to Europe when the owner dies and the relatives feel guilty.
The fact anyone is dumb enough to write this, read it and believe it, forward it onto a message board shows why we elected a vegetable.
Its amazing how the Native Americans still put up with us and all our Sh!t.
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Read the comments. Russian trolls making the same arguments some on here make. Interesting. They are everywhere.
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At the 1:46 mark the soldier riding by all BAU on a lady’s 3 speed bike made me lol.
I mean, I don't have the expertise or time to try to see if it was completely made up but.....It's a tweet from an accredited journalist and there are some links to the actual calls if you want to listen since you are fluent in Russian.
But yes, it's not some false equivalency cut and paste (and then italicized) shit post on HROT.
Not in liberal democracies.
It's why those countries weren't spending on military, because they didn't believe they needed that infrastructure - the ONLY reason they need it now is because of authoritarian regimes, NOT another liberal democracy.
Authoritarian regimes are nearly ALWAYS responsible for wars, because authoritarians need to retain power, or die. The peaceful transfer of power in democracies eliminates this root cause.
Freedom-fighting soldiers get all the pussy...
Even some Russians hate Russia
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Our northern neighbor is benefitting a bit from this conflict:
www.wsj.com
As Trade With Russia Halts, Countries Turn to Canada
Canada produces many of the same commodities as Russia, such as oil, nickel, wheat and potash, and countries are lining up to broker deals.
www.wsj.com
GIs bought that stuff for cigarettes during the occupation. The Army after WW2 was cool with people taking military souvenirs, but they were actually quite serious about looting.
BAU for Londongrad and Putin's boy Boris Johnson
Trudeau in 2019: Canada will not purchase 50 F-35sOur northern neighbor is benefitting a bit from this conflict:
As Trade With Russia Halts, Countries Turn to Canada
Canada produces many of the same commodities as Russia, such as oil, nickel, wheat and potash, and countries are lining up to broker deals.
Trudeau in 2021: Because we’ll take 88 F-35s
Sorry-we aren't any better than any other victor.
"As the United States Army drove deep into Germany in early-1945, American soldiers
stole and appropriated objects on a large scale. While GIs did take items when marching
through Allied countries, what occurred in Germany throughout the final campaigns was
different and more extensive. Not only was there souvenir hunting on the battlefield –
taking pistols, helmets, and flags from German soldiers – but also widespread looting of
civilian homes. Servicemen justified their actions by claiming wartime necessity,
opportunities for profit, keepsakes, and revenge for Nazi atrocities. Drawing on
memoirs, journals, personal papers, and interviews, this thesis seeks to divide American
soldiers’ stealing into two categories, souvenir hunting and looting, and to extrapolate the four major reasons why GIs looted. Using archival evidence, this work will also examine the U.S. Army’s reaction to soldiers’ rapacity, its policy-making processes, and the civilmilitary relationships in Europe throughout the dying days of World War II."
GIs, Souvenir Hunting, and Looting in Germany, 1945
As the United States Army drove deep into Germany in early-1945, American soldiers stole and appropriated objects on a large scale. While GIs did take items when marching through Allied countries, …
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I want to give this a like but count me as wary because there could be double agents and saboteurs among them.
I am ignoring him currently so viewed the embedded content. That goes beyond being uncool, and is banhammer worthy.
I've seen this two other times in 21 years on these message boards. One loser, Guck, threatened to jump me at one of our tailgates. He said I would tremble in fear the entire time because I wouldn't know what he looked like but others from the board, fellow right wingers, had promised to tell him who I was. Fortunately, I've trained enough BJJ and Muay Thai that stupidity like that doesn't faze me. Actually, I can think of a third time. Our old mod, UCLA, used to receive similar threats but he is in Los Angeles and most of the tools doing the threatening were in the deep south. I seem to remember him saying that he wouldn't go back to TLH for one of our games because people had threatened him. Maybe Belem remembers more specifically.
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Considering international travel is closed to Russians currently, I'm not too worried.
Hey, I recognize those. We call those "jacks"...they're are used to make jetties and breakwaters out here. No doubt they have a more strategic use in this regard.
Have you heard us rule it out yet, in terms of this new proposal? You can be certain that Cheeto or DeathSantis won't honor it in 2025 if we do.
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I wonder if we will ever know a relatively precise number on how many Americans participated.
Bush and Clinton didn’t think they could get the Senate to sign onto a treaty guarantee for Ukraine.
I think in 2022 they could as part of a larger peace agreement.
Art of War shit, but we all know better now.
**** Russia. More sanctions!
**** Russia. More sanctions!
Of course not, but it’s no surprise we have the largest contingent given the size of our population and the fact we’ve been cycling kids through war zones for two decades.
Big candidate pool.
We even have one on this board, and he checks the boxes.
There might be a reason nearly every vassal Soviet state now hates those people.
Apparently you've never watched the pron.
