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It’s always something with the MIC and its supplicants. The communist infiltration sapping our precious bodily essence, the iron sheik, the Teflon kimono, the Wiley Chinese. It grows old.
Ain't it the truth? They manufacture all this fancy killing hardware that tends to pile up in dangerous and expensive-looking junk heaps, and so they need wars to test and burn up ordinance...

If you ever doubt America's widget-making and manufacturing capacity just look at our MIC.

"A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia (modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The newly established Communist Party, led by Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took control of the government."(wiki)

Things went south after that.
Lenin was on the right track but somehow Stalin ran things off the rails. I know very little of Stalin and none of it is good.

The Great Depression may have had some influence on that...or that might have had some influence on The Great Depression...

What I know is probably false and nothing but the product of Western propaganda. I imagine Stalin was truly a wonderful and sorely misunderstood man, and since I believe he was bad then he must surely have been good beyond measure.

My assessment of Putin is, I imagine, completely false as well...and Trump...and Hitler and all the rest, living and dead, I am a cesspool of false information and I ask only that you enlighten me!

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Isn’t the current situation in Ukraine so much better than if we negotiated a security framework with Russia? You know, the demand from them that we rejected, and I started this thread over?
Never said it was. But we didn't. We got what we got.

It remains Putin's war. Everybody else wishes it would stop.

Change my mind.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...