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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
History is just that, history! We need to STOP prolonging this war, and START promoting a peace agreement, before it too late!

That is where President Trump comes in. He needs to end this bullshit. I think the day he's elected a whole bunch of good things will start happening between Russia and Ukraine.

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Originally posted by egregore:
^^^ This "culture" goes back centuries. Do you seriously believe this fucking around in and with Ukraine is going to change any of that? And trust this incompetent administration to do it?

I mean, if it doesn't, we can just nuke them into the 21st century, amirite?

I think war is too profitable for select few just to stop it.
Iraq and Afghanistan wars went on for almost 20 years.
These weapon manufacturers are making a lot of easy money. Politicians approve sales using our money.

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Originally posted by egregore:
^^^ This "culture" goes back centuries. Do you seriously believe this fucking around in and with Ukraine is going to change any of that? And trust this incompetent administration to do it?

I don’t trust Biden/Harris to ensure that Biden gets his diaper changed regularly.

Russia has a history of changing autocrats, when they fail in a war. They have a history of not changing autocrats during a war. (FWIW, that’s an opinion of why Putin invaded, along with a desperate need for population/the threat a “free” Russian speaking nation poses to Putin, and his hold on the population.)


The war in Ukraine will not fix Russian culture - it might fix Ukraine’s.

There are almost no resources for spreading the Reformation and Enlightenment in Russian.

Our church is working on that - our pastor found Christ under the Soviets, and is fluent in Russian.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
The war in Ukraine will not fix Russian culture - it might fix Ukraine’s.

Maybe you could enlighten us on how the war MIGHT fix Ukraine's historically corrupt government. Seems like a lot of money is being spent on a "MIGHT fix".

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I don’t trust Biden/Harris to ensure that Biden gets his diaper changed regularly.

Protest to the contrary all you want, it is still exactly what you are doing.

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Originally posted by Bytes:

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
The war in Ukraine will not fix Russian culture - it might fix Ukraine’s.

Maybe you could enlighten us on how the war MIGHT fix Ukraine's historically corrupt government. Seems like a lot of money is being spent on a "MIGHT fix".

That's my view as well.
You don't stop corruption by feeding it.
You stop corruption by starving it.

U.S. culture was formed, in large part, by the struggles we went through, and the various travails of the pre-Revolution Germanic populace and the French Huguenots.

I think this may be the first time Ukraine is actually fighting “on its own”, and for itself.

At some point, most of the men will be armed, and most of them will be combat vets. (What really cleaned up the South was combat vets coming home from WWII and Korea.)

Stealing from armed vets might lead them to not want to tolerate it.

It’s a long shot, and there’s a serious spiritual deficit to address, but it might help.

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Originally posted by Bytes:

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
The war in Ukraine will not fix Russian culture - it might fix Ukraine’s.

Maybe you could enlighten us on how the war MIGHT fix Ukraine's historically corrupt government. Seems like a lot of money is being spent on a "MIGHT fix".

The last thing DC wants is to “fix” Ukraine’s corruption.

It’s like expecting DC to seriously back a reform movement in MX.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
I think this may be the first time Ukraine is actually fighting “on its own”, and for itself.

Except... they're not.

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At some point, most of the men will be armed, and most of them will be combat vets. (What really cleaned up the South was combat vets coming home from WWII and Korea.)

Except... they're running out of men.
The ones who are left don't want to fight.

And I'm absolutely opposed to getting NATO or the US involved (further) by sending in troops to fight for them.