War in Ukraine

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PKT_VOL said:
Salient point to remember over the next 48 hours. If only our Russian sympathizers had understood this over the past year or so.

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If only the war at all costs crowd would entertain the thought of is it worth risking nuclear war with Russia over a border dispute (Russia v Ukraine) a just barely slightly less corrupt country in Ukraine the United States would be about 70 thousand million less dollars in debt.
PKT_VOL said:
You do understand Wagner vs the Kremlin has nothing to do with either of those situations, right?
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You do realize that Wagner is a military contractor group don't you?
 
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AM64 said:
I was curious if you had lived in Maryville. We did for a while back in the '50s; the Alexander family went to the same church that we did according to my parents (have to say I don't remember myself). We knew the Proffitts and several other families; I lived across the hall from Fred one year at UT and ran across some others I knew from Maryville days. Lots of interesting people in Maryville. I grew up an AF brat, and Maryville was probably the place I liked most. If we hadn't been attached to middle TN, my parents would likely have retired to Maryville.
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One branch of family was out of Cades Cove and Townsend, the other branch was successful businessman in Alcoa living in Maryville. I was born and grew up in upper ET. Spent a lot of time in Murvule and live on lake now.
 
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vols40 said:
If only the war at all costs crowd would entertain the thought of is it worth risking nuclear war with Russia over a border dispute (Russia v Ukraine) a just barely slightly less corrupt country in Ukraine the United States would be about 70 thousand million less dollars in debt.



You do realize that Wagner is a military contractor group don't you?
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Are you going to lecture PKT on military matters?

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Hey @Rasputin_Vol, hoping you can trot out your list of false Ukrainian hopes for victory. Weird how you've gone silent on us on such a historical evening.

Do you think Prigozhin will protect the Russian speakers of Rostov? I'm sure he's just trying to maintain their linguistic history.
 
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evillawyer said:
Wonder if Putin is questioning whether it was a good idea to give an ex-con chef a bunch of weapons and allow him to round up and arm ruthless criminals as his henchmen.
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Hopefully this little debacle is opening eyes all around the globe. We need to ditch Blackwater and any other wannabe contractor/mercenaries here immediately. Should never have even let them germinate from a manure covered seed in the first place.
 
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If you study Russian History, this is pretty par for the course for them. Lose a war and get a regime change. Happened with WW1 and Soviet-Afghan War.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
Oh ****! Ben away from the internet and TV since Wednesday, come back and Russia's about to fall.
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We'd been on vacation completely ignoring the news and were on the way back home years ago. Then as we were eating breakfast in a motel, we saw the Soviet Union had collapsed. It's one of those WTH moments; you go away for a few days and the world changes.
 
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AM64 said:
We'd been on vacation completely ignoring the news and were on the way back home years ago. Then as we were eating breakfast in a motel, we saw the Soviet Union had collapsed. It's one of those WTH moments; you go away for a few days and the world changes.
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I had CQ and watched it unfold on a little black and white TV in the barracks at Redstone Arsenal. Had no concept of what was playing out.
 
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