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The same government who denied the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border in 2022 was a training exercise and not for an invasion of Ukraine? That’s who you believe?

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Yeah, because they've got no reason to lie about it.

The Russians don't have a European style government, culture, outlook on life, or history. Peter the Great could decree anything he wanted to but that and pulling out traditional Russian beards or outlawing Russian dress wasn't going to change anything; if anything, the way he went about forcing these changes only reinforced the Russian way of doing business, it didn't change it. The Russian approach to life stayed the same, and it shows to this day.

And Putin and his ilk have repeated that mantra for a decade now, if not more. Dugan has written about it, Putin has repeatedly drawn a comparison to the EU and Europe as a whole, and there was and obviously still is a competition for hearts and minds.

I get that Russia edges, geographically and in other ways, into Europe but calling Russia European is like calling Texas 'Southern,' or 'Southwestern.' Even though there's geographical, historical, and cultural overlap with others it doesn't make Texas anything but Texas.

So, yeah, I'm with Ag on this one, believe it or not.

Russia is Russia. They aren't European.

Joke's on you.

Vol only made it to fourth. :booboo:



I'm just kiddin' Vol.

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The EU is sending a message to Hungarian voters...

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Hungary is going to have to choose whether its going to go with Russia or with Europe.

In a logical world, this is as easy a choice as one could ever imagine, but we aren't living in a logical world right now.

It's utterly amazing.

It's taken Donald a year to go from the country that others looked to for protection to a country that has to be protected from the bullies.

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Exactly. This is why I never thank vets that fought in Iraq. You certainly were defending me in Mosul, but I paid for it with my taxes.

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Forgive me, but someone who risks their life in war (and gets constantly lied to in the process) isn't the same who pays one of the lower tax rates on earth.

And taxes were lowered during that time:

George W Bush lowered taxes

We put those wars on a national credit card. Our children - and probably grandchildren - are going to pay for it, not you and your generation.

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Are you, by any chance, actually Pete Hegseth?


Tattoos are trashy so no

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Well, we can agree on that at least.

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Tired: Russia is running out of money

Wired: Ukraine is running out of money

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Reality: THEY'RE BOTH RUNNING OUT OF MONEY BECAUSE ITS A DAMN WAR.

The difference is Ukraine has not only has the largest combined economy in the world, the EU, backing them they've got hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets that's going to be used in their defense.

So the advantage goes to the Ukraine.

Iran may have as many as 100,000 drones, and they are going to send them in swarms against our troops. The idea we are just going to send light infantry in mass against this number of drones is asinine and I pray that Cain has a plan for this because I know Donald and Pete don't.

I spent three years in the 82nd. Holy Crap am I glad I'm not being sent over.

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You shouldn't need any help waking up. You either don't have any problem waking up at 3am to spam this thread first thing in the morning or you're on some European time. I'll guess the latter.

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Are you, by any chance, actually Pete Hegseth?

It’s utterly amazing.

The Ukrainians have chronic personnel shortages and yet the Russians still can’t do jacks!t against them.

A year from now the Ukrainians are still going to be shorthanded and the Russians are still going to be screwing it up.

For God's sake, don't show this to Vol, it might mean that the Ukrainians are " developing warfare technology (and other things, like tactics) that will end up saving us more money (and lives) than we spent on them." (parenthesis mine)

Or, at least, the US military thinks they are, else why would we be going to them?

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Once again, nice job Tiger.

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This is both false and incredibly stupid.


Everyone has a problem with this comment but no one has provided any persuasive evidence to support the one it's criticizing.

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We've done it constantly, Vol, you and Ag just ignore it and go into ya'lls little make-believe land. I myself have posted multiple times on how Ukraine is now the #1 drone producer on the planet, how they are considered the best in the world, how we, the United States, are now asking for their help in this wartime endeavor, and I've see Tiger do it so much people just scroll past it - especially you. It's incredibly persuasive to anybody not quietly rooting either for the Russians or against the Ukrainians.

Christ, this is what's wrong with our whole country. You can constantly point to facts and use literally hundreds of verified sources to do so and fools just go "Meh, you didn't do anything to persuade me." Goddamn the internet.