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On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:20:15 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<
michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 28/09/2023 11.44,
pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 12:17:24?PM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:49:46 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
>>> <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 8:02:57?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> On 9/25/2023 8:30 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Thank goodness, then, that Canada can pledge $650 million in aid to
>>>>>> Ukraine, when in the United States, $300 million in aid has
to be stripped
>>>>>> from the budget to avoid a government shutdown.
>>>>
>>>>> The USA is bankrupt.
>>>>
>>>> Dear me. That would be a serious problem. However, I don`t
recall hearing this
>>>> lamentable fact being announced anywhere in the mainstream news media.
>>>>
>>>> Instead, based on the information I have, if the Republicans
just rolled over and
>>>> approved every requested increase to the debt ceiling - just
like they do when
>>>> there is a Republican President - according to all the
information I have, all would
>>>> be right.
>>> Or just join with the Dems, who by now must be as tired of this game
>>> as the Republicans should be, to abolish the debt ceiling altogether.
>>>> And the United States needs to avoid letting monetary fictions
stand in the way
>>>> of fully employing its resources of land, minerals, and a
skilled workforce.
>>>>
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troops-rape-ukrainian-women-force-famili
es-listen-war-crime-2023-9
>>>>
>>>> Because there`s a war on, a war against ultimate evil.
>>> I don`t think Putin is ... impressive ... enough to be "ultimate
>>> evil". And it`s Ukraine`s war anyway; we`re just the arms dealers.
>>
>> He`s not the Ultimate Evil, but definitely one of the top 5 or so
>> threats to the West at the moment. Maybe Saruman as opposed to
>> Sauron.
>>
>> It`s been repeatedly made clear that he`s trying to reinstate the
>> Soviet Union, and impose "Russkiy Mir"[1] on as much as the world
>
>[*]
As the OP was, no doubt, intending to point out, in Russian "mir"
means both "peace" and "world". Which it means here I have no idea;
possibly both at once (I suppose Putin could also have the Roman
Peace, which prevailed in the Roman World, in mind).
I suspect you can figure out what "russkiy" means by yourself.
>> as possible. He despises Western values, and wants to replace it with
>> Russian authoritarianism, Orthodox religion, intolerance wherever possible.
>>
>> This is a Bad Thing.
>>
>> The current attempt to annex Ukraine has allowed the US to spend about 5%
>> of its military budget to degrade Russia`s military by at least
50%, at the cost
>> of no US Military lives. Many of the arms we`re sending over is stuff we were
>> planning to (expensively) dispose of anyway (such as the cluster shells).
>>
>> It`s been a huge bargain for the US and NATO. It may be Ukraine`s war, but we
>> have very good reasons to try to ensure that Russia loses.
>
>As somebody once said, "the best place to fight a war is on somebody else`s
>territory."
Indeed.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, `I never knew him.`"
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