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  • H Horace
    28 Feb 2025, 02:49

    @xenon said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

    I could understand the old stance - don’t appease Russia, don’t let countries capture land through conquest.

    Except we were letting Russia capture land through conquest. Not letting them, would have required military escalation.

    Maybe such escalation could exist without any threat of nuclear war. Doesn't seem like that's a provable claim either way, though.

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    Renauda
    wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 03:41 last edited by Renauda
    #174

    @Horace

    Maybe such escalation could exist without any threat of nuclear war. Doesn't seem like that's a provable claim either way, though.

    You’re right. It’s not. However the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) backed up with a reciprocal policy of maintaining a credible deterrence has kept any use of nukes in check between nuclear powers. Both Russia and the US adhere to the principles of nuclear deterrence developed in the Cold War. Crossing the nuclear threshold is always regarded as a last resort deployment. We used to call it thinking the unthinkable.

    Elbows up!

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 00:37 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Jan 2025, 00:46
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      Not even allowed to plan. This isn’t appeasement, it’s straight up surrender.

      "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
      -Cormac McCarthy

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        Axtremus
        wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 02:19 last edited by
        #176

        The Trump administration loves Putin. They really, really love him!

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        • J jon-nyc
          1 Mar 2025, 00:37

          Not even allowed to plan. This isn’t appeasement, it’s straight up surrender.

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          Renauda
          wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 03:26 last edited by Renauda 3 Jan 2025, 05:39
          #177

          @jon-nyc

          Not even allowed to plan. This isn’t appeasement, it’s straight up surrender.

          Unless that stand down order extends to NSA and SIGINT I don’t think it is at all significant in terms of security. From what I can tell as is, it only eliminates a level of unnecessary redundancy more than adequately covered by the other two.

          Elbows up!

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            jon-nyc
            wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 09:01 last edited by
            #178

            Glad to hear that.

            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
            -Cormac McCarthy

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              AndyD
              wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 09:26 last edited by
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              Perhaps the UK could poach them to work for us. Russians hacked our NHS only seven months ago

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 12:45 last edited by
                #180

                Like the leftists used to say about Stalin, Andy, Putin is just misunderstood. You just have to stop threatening him.

                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                -Cormac McCarthy

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                  xenon
                  wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 15:49 last edited by
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                  I guess we’ll see what happens. Trump said he’d get the war stopped in a day. I’d be fine with 6 months.

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                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 18:20 last edited by
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                    I’m wondering if his plan to end the war is by invading Ukraine, ourselves?

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                      1 Mar 2025, 18:20

                      I’m wondering if his plan to end the war is by invading Ukraine, ourselves?

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                      Renauda
                      wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 18:35 last edited by Renauda 3 Jan 2025, 18:55
                      #183

                      @LuFins-Dad

                      I’m wondering if his plan to end the war is by invading Ukraine, ourselves?

                      Interesting question. It could very well be since Trump speaks of sending American miners and oil patch roughnecks to Ukraine ostensibly as human shields against future aggression from Russia. If true, both the logic and morality seem strange and borne of a bygone era. It suggests that Ukrainian and Russian lives are of little or no value to him but American material interests on Ukraine’s territory in the form of natural resources are of great value and worth to defend militarily.

                      Elbows up!

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                        kluurs
                        wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 19:03 last edited by
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                        Ukraine could still become our 51st state.

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                        • K kluurs
                          1 Mar 2025, 19:03

                          Ukraine could still become our 51st state.

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                          Renauda
                          wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 19:08 last edited by
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                          @kluurs

                          Better them than us.

                          Elbows up!

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                            LuFins Dad
                            wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 20:21 last edited by
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                            If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

                            The Brad

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                              1 Mar 2025, 19:03

                              Ukraine could still become our 51st state.

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                              LuFins Dad
                              wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 20:22 last edited by
                              #187

                              @kluurs said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                              Ukraine could still become our 51st state.

                              And as a bonus, it wouldn’t be a part of NATO…

                              The Brad

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                              • J Jolly
                                27 Feb 2025, 12:04

                                Are there any Trump opponents, on this board or in public, that have a workable plan to end the Ukraine War?

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                                LuFins Dad
                                wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 20:25 last edited by
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                                @Jolly said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                Are there any Trump opponents, on this board or in public, that have a workable plan to end the Ukraine War?

                                Remember when we conservatives used to look for answers on winning the war?

                                The Brad

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                                • L LuFins Dad
                                  1 Mar 2025, 20:21

                                  If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

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                                  Renauda
                                  wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 20:37 last edited by Renauda 3 Jan 2025, 22:39
                                  #189

                                  @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                  If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

                                  Not really. In fact not at all. Gaza is by far a more strategically suitable location for a massive multi force US strategic military facility. One could make a whole list of rock solid and bullet proof reasons supporting that claim. It also appears quite attainable in the short run. Possibly even before the beginning of summer.

                                  Elbows up!

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                                    1 Mar 2025, 20:37

                                    @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                    If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

                                    Not really. In fact not at all. Gaza is by far a more strategically suitable location for a massive multi force US strategic military facility. One could make a whole list of rock solid and bullet proof reasons supporting that claim. It also appears quite attainable in the short run. Possibly even before the beginning of summer.

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                                    LuFins Dad
                                    wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 22:10 last edited by
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                                    @Renauda said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                    @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                    If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

                                    Not really. In fact not at all. Gaza is by far a more strategically suitable location for a massive multi force US strategic military facility for a list of rock solid and bullet proof reasons. It also appears quite attainable in the short run. Possibly even before the beginning of summer.

                                    See? There you go using global geography… You have to use ‘Merican geography… then you’ll realize that North is North … Europe is a Northern continent, and is closer to Greenland, no matter the miles (or even that gay “kilometer” crap, if you insist. Everybody knows that Gaza borders Egypt, which is Northern Africa. And Africa’s south, so obviously Greenland’s closer to Europe.

                                    The Brad

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                                      LuFins Dad
                                      wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 22:21 last edited by
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                                      Seriously, though? It is absolutely astounding looking at the satellite maps and realizing just the sheer frigging size of Russia (what is it, 10% of the landmass of the world?) and the population is about 150M? And 80% of that is in an area roughly the size as the Easter Seaboard? I mean, north of Yakutsk, it’s just miles of nothing.

                                      The Brad

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                                      • L LuFins Dad
                                        1 Mar 2025, 22:10

                                        @Renauda said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                        @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                        If Russia took Ukraine, the EU would probably really appreciate having a strong US military based in Greenland… Just saying…

                                        Not really. In fact not at all. Gaza is by far a more strategically suitable location for a massive multi force US strategic military facility for a list of rock solid and bullet proof reasons. It also appears quite attainable in the short run. Possibly even before the beginning of summer.

                                        See? There you go using global geography… You have to use ‘Merican geography… then you’ll realize that North is North … Europe is a Northern continent, and is closer to Greenland, no matter the miles (or even that gay “kilometer” crap, if you insist. Everybody knows that Gaza borders Egypt, which is Northern Africa. And Africa’s south, so obviously Greenland’s closer to Europe.

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                                        Renauda
                                        wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 22:34 last edited by
                                        #192

                                        @LuFins-Dad

                                        I’ll try to do better next time and confine my thinking to the northerly region of Golfo del Gringo Loco.

                                        Elbows up!

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 1 Mar 2025, 23:12 last edited by jon-nyc 3 Jan 2025, 23:15
                                          #193

                                          General Washington would like a word with the little man from Miami.

                                          Not to mention Jackson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Grant, Bush Sr, etc etc etc

                                          "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                          -Cormac McCarthy

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