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Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself
The Daily Beast ^ | 05/11/2014 | P. J. O’Rourke

Posted on 05/11/2014 6:18:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 05/11/2014 6:23:14 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

So the international sanctions aren

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: banking; economy; international; pjorourke; president; putin; russia; ukraine
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To: struwwelpeter

Mercy is about all there could be left for the USA at this point. If it is not to go to hell forthwith.


21 posted on 05/11/2014 8:11:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...although it would have been much more costly and hard-fought.”

The USSR did suffer some minor casualties, somewhere around 20-22 million


22 posted on 05/11/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: Insigne123

Mostly due to Stalin’s incompetence and brutality.


23 posted on 05/11/2014 8:12:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PaulCruz2016

Yes, they did.


24 posted on 05/11/2014 8:14:02 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Insigne123

Socialism/Communism and National Socialism sure are deadly, aren’t they?


25 posted on 05/11/2014 8:14:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Given that a Satanic Mass is about to be performed at Harvard, I believe we’re fast heading towards having to do penance for throwing God’s just mercy away on the Devil.


26 posted on 05/11/2014 8:16:03 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Russia served as a way to drain German resources and distract the German military command.


27 posted on 05/11/2014 8:17:47 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Harvard has long been weird.


28 posted on 05/11/2014 8:18:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: texican01

The people who voted Obama in are the ones destroying the country with what you’ve just described.


29 posted on 05/11/2014 8:18:57 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought Mr. O’Rourke was smarter.


30 posted on 05/11/2014 8:19:01 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: henkster

Makes me wonder what Putin has up his sleeve.


31 posted on 05/11/2014 8:19:56 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Harvard has long been weird... but anyhow that should get Harvard damned (maybe) but the whole US? No follow.


32 posted on 05/11/2014 8:20:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

By the time the US entered the war, Russia was legendary for being the place where German soldiers knew that they would not be allowed to live as hostages. They would be killed and in very painful ways. In fairness to Russia, Russia did in many ways drain the energy of the German military. Hitler made the same mistakes, but Russia took one of the biggest hits of WWII. If not the biggest hit.


33 posted on 05/11/2014 8:21:27 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Russia got many of their supplies and armaments from .... wait for it .... the United States.


34 posted on 05/11/2014 8:22:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The US, by choices, has moved so disgustingly against and away from God that that something like this could be fathomable, much less actually carried out, is beyond the pale.


35 posted on 05/11/2014 8:22:49 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

As if the US would make Harvard stop?

Sorry to break it to you but this has not been a theocracy. Ever.


36 posted on 05/11/2014 8:23:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet they were fighting while we manufactured and supplied. I’m not going to dump on Russia or ignore Russia’s huge sacrifice.


37 posted on 05/11/2014 8:23:49 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

No of course not, nor should we be, but really, I never imagined Harvard would do something like this.


38 posted on 05/11/2014 8:24:55 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister
We were fighting all over the world while we manufactured and supplied. If you want to lionize Stalin and the Red Army, go right ahead, I can't stop you. They treated prisoners and civilians far worse, in the main, than either the Axis or Allied powers ever did. If you want proof, read any detailed history of that period.
39 posted on 05/11/2014 8:30:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: struwwelpeter
“God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” ― Otto von Bismarck -------------------------- They sure seems to fit.
40 posted on 05/11/2014 8:33:35 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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