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To: Drew68

The German Army in fighting Russia is like an elephant attacking a host of ants. The elephant will kill thousands, perhaps even millions, of ants, but in the end their numbers will overcome him, and he will be eaten to the bone.

—Colonel Bernd Von Kielst


10 posted on 10/12/2016 3:10:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator; Drew68

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk


26 posted on 10/12/2016 3:51:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: dfwgator

Russia lost 20 million. When I first saw that number I could not believe it. The numbers reported vary but they are all high. Some say 11 million soldiers and 20 million civilians; some say 20 million all together. The population of the U.S. was only 140 million at that time.


54 posted on 10/12/2016 7:00:55 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: dfwgator

It would be stupid for us to attack Russia, and Obama is that stupid. But he won’t have to pay the price because he’ll be living off the kick back he got from Iran.


58 posted on 10/12/2016 7:31:17 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: dfwgator

That was true for much smaller Germany, but the USA has twice as many people than Russia.

USA: 324,687,000

Russia: 146,691,020

So maybe we’d be the ants...


61 posted on 10/12/2016 7:46:50 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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