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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by NewRoxFan, Nov 25, 2018.

  1. Deckard

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    The reply I fully expected. I’m not the least bit “mad” at you, Trader_ J, as you know perfectly well, but rather disappointed at your lack of originality. You’ve become a bit repetitious.
     
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  2. SamFisher

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    Except this is the opposite of what he actually did. He publicly and repeatedly praised Russia, it's dictator and it's military and intelligence operations publicly, disparaged that of the United States - while Commander-in-Chief! - and tried to withdraw from NATO.

    This all happened. I still can't believe it actually happened. And he's still doing it today.
     
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    The rapid change in his public persona is hard to miss -- his legacy is extremely important to him and it may be true that his time in power is coming to an end so he's taking a big risk to secure Mother Russia and his place in history.
     
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    I still can't believe it either. I mean I knew having a reality TV show guy as a President was a new low, but I would have never in my wildest dreams envisioned him doing and saying that stuff either. Never!
     
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    He praised Xi multiple times as well and yet Milley thought a phone call to a Chinese counterpart was necessary.

    I don't question the craziness of a man that bragged about his ratings for his pandemic briefings....
     
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    https://www.vinceflynn.com/mitch-rapp-17

    The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO.

    When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion—war with the West.
     
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    It makes his bizarre social distancing protocols make much more sense. It’s been reported he’s been making members of his own government isolate in select quarantine areas of the building for weeks before a single meeting with him.

    Him being immunocompromised makes a ton of sense because of a health condition and a ticking clock that makes him rush to go out in a blaze of glory solidifying his name in the history books next to either Alexander the Great or Adolf Hitler.

    I hope that’s the case and this ******* is dead in weeks.
     
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  10. AleksandarN

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    Sanctions has to be more severe. No messing around
     
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  11. Newlin

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    I wonder if the Ukrainians could bomb Moscow?
     
  12. Tuckankhamun

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    Russia out here making Desert Storm look like the battle of the Somme.

    Amazing that domestic energy production was curbed right in time for this.

    This might be over before I wake up tomorrow, Ukraine's air force is already wiped out.
     
  13. AleksandarN

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    That would give more support to Putin. Kill as many soldiers as they can. I want to his support at home to fail.
     
  14. Tuckankhamun

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    I have no interest in defending a CIA installed dictatorship in Kiev from getting trampled on by the oligarchy in Moscow.

    Less than a year after the Afganistan fiasco and politicians from both sides are calling for another war.
     
  15. AleksandarN

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    Ok so it's CIA's fault for Putin killing innocent people?
     
  16. Surfguy

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    So we gave Ukraine a bunch of weapons and soon they will belong to the Russian military. We like to give away military stuff to the enemy albeit indirectly. Such a waste.
     
  17. Redfish81

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    meh... javelins are outdated. Russia has a better anti-armor 2 man system than the javelin.
     
  18. AleksandarN

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    He went full Phil Leotardo.
     

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