Airstrip One
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Is Russia at war?
Russia's army could collapse amid huge losses of more than 30,000 troops
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Is Russia at war?
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Yes, but not with us. You...being a warmonger, want to get involved though and that's why you are the LAST person whose opinion should matter here.
is that as much fun as killing Germans? No I think Russians is your top get.
they are dime a dozen -they pop up like weeds in summer. They cant be stopped
if Germany cant do it,it's certainly not the USA's war is my reasoning
moon
Satire for Sanity
Retarded in what way ?
Incidentally- why do you think that an army that invades another country to ethnically-cleanse and murder its population should be called a ' defense ' force ?
Tell me about that retardation again....................
Haw, haw................................haw.
moon
Satire for Sanity
Now you're seeing who started the war. Or maybe you still ain't.
IDF ?
Haw, haw.........................haw.
cancel2 2022
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3D, you detest Germany, so here is some more grist to your mill.
The nasty truth about Lenin: Antony Beevor doesn't fully explore the tale behind the USSR's birth, but he still produces a well-researched volume
In the late summer of 1914 a small, nasty man was arrested as an enemy alien in a remote corner of the Austrian empire. The man was Vladimir Lenin
Yet the Austrian and German empires thought they could use him. They appreciated his efforts to promote Ukrainian nationalism.
Then, these ultra-conservative monarchists sprang him from prison and conveyed him to safety in neutral Switzerland.
Later, they arranged for him and his clique of Bolshevik agitators (whom they would normally have arrested on sight) to return to Russia across Germany. And there they supplied his movement with nine tons of gold to help him ruin Russia.
Thanks to them he was able to overthrow Russia’s first liberal democracy in a ruthless putsch, which was the beginning of 70 years of police-state terror.
In return for these favours, Lenin pulled Russia out of the First World War, so allowing Germany to send huge numbers of troops to the Western Front. There they came within an inch of breaking through to the Channel and defeating Britain and France.
He also handed Germany vast slices of Russian territory, not least Ukraine, important then, as now, as a pivot of power.
All this is known, including the role in it of the most sinister and cynical secret agent ever known, the weirdly named Parvus Helphand. Yet you will barely find a word of this in Antony Beevor’s new book about the Russian Revolution.
Mr Beevor is a fine historian – diligent, conscientious and knowledgeable, with a long list of excellent books behind him. This volume is well researched and full of telling detail. I have read every word of it.
But, like so many before him, he has not felt quite able to acknowledge the role of Germany and its Austrian ally in the deliberate crushing of Russian freedom and the creation of the Soviet prison state.
For many decades, widespread Left-wing admiration for the Soviet Union made it hard to tell the squalid truth, that Lenin was a German agent and the much-romanticised ‘revolution’ a miserable foreign-inspired coup d’etat.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/ev...ution-Civil-War-review-nasty-truth-Lenin.html
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Airstrip One
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Airstrip One
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Naw, it's still Krauts.
Airstrip One
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Do you think it's appropriate to lend aid to allies when they go to war? How is it warmongering to literally not go to war?
im getting there. but then again im not pleased with NATO in many ways
I consider it a necessary evil now.
I got it. You're that "anatta". That member I didn't recognize when I got here. The last time she's been seen was 10 days ago. So you're anatta.
yes i dont make any secret about it, but "anatta" isnt a feminine name it's a Buddhist term = no self
Other subject peoples in Russia would be smart to coordinate a rebellion right now. Russia is effectively an empire, where a majority of ethnic Russians keep millions of local populations of ethnic minorities under their heel with the threat of military force. No one ethnic enclave has a chance against that. But with Putin's inept blundering having wiped out a lot of Russia's military power in mere months, and with what remains mostly tied up and bleeding out in Ukraine, it's a rare opportunity. If several of those ethnic enclaves could make common cause and simultaneously declare independence, others would soon follow suit and Russia would see its empire tear apart at the seams. It's not so different from when the Soviet bloc nations took a moment of Soviet weakness to tear away in the early 1990's.
moon
Satire for Sanity
Sounds like the American domestic empire- a majority of immigrant Americans sitting on the ethnic populations and other minorities under the threat of military force.
California might lead the way ? There's a Latino majority on the near horizon. There might be some change in store after that.
I don't think so. For starters, we have a pluralistic multi-party democracy. If people don't like the leaders, we have a chance to vote them out... whereas Putin has been in de facto control of Russia for two decades. We also have open media and regardless of who is in power at the moment we have state and local governments in the hands of the opposition party. Again, that's different from Russia where you risk prison by speaking out against the leader (or even just protesting his war), and where opposition politicians wind up murdered or imprisoned.
Because of that, if, in the US, an ethnic minority group that formed a substantial majority in a significant locality wanted to break away, there'd be a way to campaign for that. And such campaigns do, in fact, exist, right out in the open, without fear. They just never get much momentum, because most people are happy to stay with the US. That's very different from Russia, where military force keeps people in line.
I doubt it. The only way I could see California breaking away would be as part of a much larger multi-ethnic block of states -- including NV, OR, and WA, at least, and probably also the whole of the Northeast. Going it alone would be problematic for any state, and sticking around in the rump US would be problematic for any liberal state that didn't leave.