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| 4/20/24
| Kateryna Serohina
Posted on 04/20/2024 5:33:31 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: moovova
To: hardspunned
Add the draft (simple majority vote by our warmongering Congress) and it’s off to the races. Uh, no. LOL.
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posted on
04/20/2024 7:49:03 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Lots have tried. Going way back.
Russian start to their wars is always a mess, but they finish strong.
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posted on
04/20/2024 7:56:04 PM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
To: hardspunned
It’s Dejong-vu all over again.
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posted on
04/20/2024 7:57:44 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: Reverend Wright
Russian start to their wars is always a mess, but they finish strong.That's the Russian way. They always have to relearn how to fight wars. Every time.
To: MinorityRepublican
It’s that cursed Russian capacity for suffering.
66
posted on
04/20/2024 8:06:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Zhang Fei
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:06:55 PM PDT
by
linMcHlp
To: dfwgator
MrT5 was there-so was the friend I work for and several of my friends, 3 cousins, etc. I don’t think any of us who remember Vietnam want to see this movie again...
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:08:23 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: dfwgator
War with Russia would more likely trigger some kind of undesirable exchange of big weapons. A civil war would be the last thing on anyone’s mind.
To: Bob Wills is still the king
I think there would be a considerable part of the military and civilian population that will not fight, so what happens when the government comes to try to force them?
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:09:52 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: hardspunned
Good Morning Vietnam!!!
5.56mm
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:11:57 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
To: hardspunned
The US believes that Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict. Duh! Bring back Captain Obvious.
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:22:31 PM PDT
by
Kazan
To: dfwgator
I’d actually be pleased if instead of military type advisors, a contingent of accountants/CPAs were being sent to monitor and manage where OUR money is being spent-and on what, by whom, etc...
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:22:52 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: dfwgator
Been there, done that and not again. FJB.
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:23:38 PM PDT
by
Mouton
(A 150MT hit will not solve our problems now.)
To: mass55th
75
posted on
04/20/2024 8:26:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Brian Griffin
You’re helping to buy villas in Provence. But, unfortunately, you won’t be living in any of the villas you helped pay for.And Christmas shopping sprees in Europe for 'the wives' and cash for Ukrainian 'public servants' and housing for many.. . etc etc etc and I'm guessing a little money for kickbacks. Happens in places like that.
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posted on
04/20/2024 8:28:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Two items Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 7 year old girls to look at...)
To: GOPJ; marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; familyop; MercyFlush; tet68; BeauBo; ...
Ukraine ping
GOPJ: [And Christmas shopping sprees in Europe for ‘the wives’ and cash for Ukrainian ‘public servants’ and housing for many.. . etc etc etc and I’m guessing a little money for kickbacks. Happens in places like that.]
Has corruption hived off a chunk of aid? Sure. But that’s true of *any* government program, and even more true of *any* foreign aid program. The main question isn’t whether 100% of the aid has been spent appropriately but whether it has been effectively spent, overall. The goal of the aid is to have Ukraine hold the Russians back. So far, they have not only held the line, they have retaken territory the Russians overran in the first months of the war. In that respect, they have spent the money well, whatever leakage has occurred through corruption.
Note that annual aid to Ukraine is about the same as annual aid to Iraq and Afghanistan individually. And the War on Terror involved desultory small-scale guerrilla engagements in which equipment did not undergo the kind of punishment it has absorbed in Ukraine’s high-intensity war. That it is holding a far tougher enemy, the Russians, back with the same amount of funding, whereas Iraqis and Afghans needed direct US participation to keep a bunch of part time guerrillas at bay is testament to Ukrainian grit and ingenuity.
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posted on
04/20/2024 9:38:48 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
To: hardspunned
The US believes that Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict. This can't be true. Two FR Zeepers just this morning told me, in no uncertain terms, that Russia was bogged down in Donbas, and losing the war.
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posted on
04/20/2024 10:01:26 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: MinorityRepublican
Putin is reestablishing the Russian Empire. Whatever.
We've got the neo-Marxist global comintern right here in Washington DC.
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posted on
04/20/2024 10:04:30 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: dfwgator
That was exactly what I thought when I saw the headline...
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posted on
04/20/2024 10:11:52 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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