imaginethat (10-26-2022)
If an asset that the government can get for nothing — capital — is essential to producing assets that command prices — consumption goods — then you would be wise to search for a sleight-of-hand operation.
Funny thing. The only logical reason (given Russia's history) to invade Ukraine was to restore Kate the Great's borders and the fabulous strategic depth they afford to Russia.
But NATO was a wonderful "buffer" for Russia. And he was getting a thick buffer zone for nothing.
Take away the US and what is NATO? A collection of European weak sisters who specialize in lots of gab but no action. Less the US, NATO has zero first-rate powers, maybe three third or fourth-rate powers (Germany, UK, France), three fifth-rate power (Poland, Sweden, Finland) and twenty-odd mini-states (think Hungary or Slovakia) with no ability or will to do anything about their own defense. Just talk. NATO is normally reluctant to even schedule a conference on security. Trump was rightly disgusted with this collection of two-bit bureaucrats and was working to disengage the US from this bunch of moochers.
But the Tsar hits NATO with a Pearl Harbor sized jolt and now faces the toughest sanction regime ever. Even China suffers from the "overspray."
Monumental screw-up. He could have left everything the way it was BEFORE the invasion and enjoyed a thick and benign buffer zone. Twenty-odd Hungarys. Bu being Russian he just HAD to be aggressive.
And then added insult to injury about faux-Nazis.
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Marxists, Socialists, Democrats, Russians, and the legacy media.
They lie all the time. They lie about everything.
They know they are lying. We know they are lying. They know we know they are lying.
They lie anyway. It's what they do.
imaginethat (10-27-2022)
The U.S., NATO and Europe could have left everything alone and not kept marching right up to Russia's border for the past two decades. We are have a comfortable buffer two oceans to protect us and have not been invaded a bazillion times.
If your friends ask you to negotiate with your enemy, then the traitors have already agreed behind your back. Al Capone
memesofine (10-28-2022)
A detail that is usually overlooked, many of the new NATO member countries had suffered as Soviet Socialist Republics. Hungary and Czechoslovakia had been invaded. Poland wasn't about to forget that Hitler and Stalin had divvied up Poland between them.
The first additions to NATO were Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, no surprise.
Wildrose (10-28-2022)
imaginethat (10-28-2022)
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