Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On 1/16/25 12:02, Anonymous wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

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    First bomb out of the rack from Russia
or its North Korean pal will result in a lot of
unplanned Russian demolitions and NK would be
be history.

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Putin won't nuke the Ukraine because he views it as an integral part of
his empire and he wants it whole and intact.  Or as whole and intact as
possible.
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But surrounding areas, he doesn't care about except in that they provide
a zone of isolation around Russia... and Poland and Czechia can do that
just fine whether or not they are habitable.
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Now the question: is he stupid and crazy enough to do that in the face of
invariable retaliation?  That's the one I can't answer, and the more that
he isolates himself from the outside world the harder that gets to answer.
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    If we had stood up to the Third Reich earlier
the Germans might not have advised the Japanese that
we were not fighters. Pacificistic Isolationists and
anti-semites kept Roosevelt from helping Europe until
we were attacked by Germany's Allies, the Axis.

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Indeed.  On the whole, Chamberlain and Petain didn't go down very well
in history.
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    Pacifistic intentions are fine until the invader
is at your door. Then you better hope that you have
learned from the past.

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I am very strongly against war in general.  But we have war:

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You started it back in 2014.

      Wasn't that when Putin stole Crimea and the USA did not
raise much of a stink at this invasion of a sovereign state.