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The Last War of the Neocons
Taki's Magazine ^ | 14 March 2022 | The Z Man

Posted on 03/14/2022 7:09:40 PM PDT by arthurus

The history of Western man is the history of war, and no war looms larger in the West than the Peloponnesian War. Fought in the fifth-century BC between the Delian League, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, the war has come to define the two natures of the West. One side is the austere, efficient men of war and the other is the creative men of culture and philosophy.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: agitprop; athens; chechens; chechnya; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; thucydides; ukraine; zot; zottherussiantrolls
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1 posted on 03/14/2022 7:09:40 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

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2 posted on 03/14/2022 7:24:49 PM PDT by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: arthurus

I really have trouble here understanding why SOME PEOPLE will not join the DNC, Soros, WEF, and the Neocons in claiming that Russia is the center of all evil and Ukraine is as pure as the wind driven snow. Pathetic.


3 posted on 03/14/2022 7:30:55 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: arthurus

One the consummate land power base upon a slave based agricultural society and one the consummate sea-power based upon a far flung trading empire. And the sea power destroyed itself because it’s appetite got too big, ventured all on an irrelevant effort to conquer Syracuse, lost it’s fleet and was subsequently destroyed by the land power.


4 posted on 03/14/2022 7:31:37 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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And it is the parable for the consequence of strategic over-reach.


5 posted on 03/14/2022 7:33:00 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: BobL

Saint Zelensky patron Saint of all we hold dear in the Biden regime of truth, social justice and climate change mitigation.


6 posted on 03/14/2022 7:35:06 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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"...The history of Western man is the history of war..."
There, fixed it.
Silly humans...doomed to extinction.
7 posted on 03/14/2022 7:35:58 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: BobL

Because Russia invaded Ukraine’s sovernity.
Still not our business though. There needs to be some kind of peace agreement.


8 posted on 03/14/2022 7:36:27 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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“Saint Zelensky patron Saint of all we hold dear in the Biden regime of truth, social justice and climate change mitigation.”

Yes, yes, you’re one of us. Good to hear. Thank you for joining me, and the WEF, and Soros, and the DNC, and the Media in wishing the best for Saint Zelensky.


9 posted on 03/14/2022 7:38:33 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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“Because Russia invaded Ukraine’s sovernity.”

I don’t remember the media complaining when we did the same in Kosovo.

“Still not our business though. There needs to be some kind of peace agreement.”

Agree there, the sooner the better!


10 posted on 03/14/2022 7:39:55 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: arthurus

Z man has excellent insights, such as, if everyone had a gun, then communists would always be defeated.


11 posted on 03/14/2022 7:44:26 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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This has so many falsehoods it’s staggering. Can anyone find a single instance of someone saying the USSR, or Russia in general was efficient? Did this writer graduate 5th grade?


12 posted on 03/14/2022 7:45:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: arthurus
I am sure their are Freepers ready to lavish praise on this.

Make sure you note how you approve the part where he says Christianity is not a real religion, it's just a Jewish conspiracy to impose their ideas on the West. That's what this writer says.

13 posted on 03/14/2022 7:48:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: BobL
Neocons in claiming that Russia is the center of all evil and Ukraine is as pure as the wind driven snow. Pathetic.

Name one person on this forum who opposes the Russian invasion of Ukraine who believes that, and provide us with evidence.

14 posted on 03/14/2022 7:50:31 PM PDT by windsorknot
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“Name one person on this forum who opposes the Russian invasion of Ukraine who believes that, and provide us with evidence.”

Sorry can’t read minds, I can only look at who they’re in bed with.


15 posted on 03/14/2022 7:52:50 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: arthurus

His tortured analogy doesn’t work. All of history is not a parallel to the Peloponnesian War. This person read one article and now they think their a genius, even though he’s a dunce.


16 posted on 03/14/2022 7:53:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sorry can’t read minds,

Exactly.

17 posted on 03/14/2022 7:54:02 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Falconspeed

So you believe Christianity is a phony religion created by Jews to impose their beliefs on the world?


18 posted on 03/14/2022 7:55:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Falconspeed
then communists would always be defeated.

Didn't you read the article. According to your Z, U.S. was Athens during the Cold War, and the communists were Sparta, i.e. the good guys.

19 posted on 03/14/2022 7:56:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I can only look at who they’re in bed with.

So you are okay with people who are in bed with Obama, Biden, Hillary, Xi Jinping and country-plundering globalists.

Just to be clear, I don't believe the United States should be involved militarily in the Ukraine. But it's interesting that you claim to be against Neocons, but you are praising war more than anyone else.

20 posted on 03/14/2022 8:02:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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