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2025-07-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin, unfazed by Trump, will fight on and could take more of Ukraine
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Posted by Fred 2025-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [209 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Russia can't afford NATO Ukraine - what's so hard to understand?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-16 00:44||   2025-07-16 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Like the Russian General Staff said yesterday “everyone wants peace but nobody wants not to win”
Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2025-07-16 05:18||   2025-07-16 05:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia can't afford NATO Ukraine - what's so hard to understand?

Exactly. And why should Putin stop fighting when he's winning? I'm disappointed that Trump doesn't understand that. I thought he knew how to make a deal.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-16 11:28||   2025-07-16 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 But then, after the shabby treatment he received with the Minsk agreements, Putin might be forgiven if he thinks the only way to keep NATO out of Ukraine is to take it all himself. Once the trust is lost, there's nothing even Trump can do about it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-16 11:46||   2025-07-16 11:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Ukraine should do to Russia what Russia do to Ukraine.

Karma can be a bitch.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-16 14:46||   2025-07-16 14:46|| Front Page Top

#6 The majority of the white papers I've read:

The goal would be to take Odessa and unite Greater Russia with Transnistria and the Southern Slavs.

Many have Poland administrating that NW UKR Province where the POL genocide happened.

Some have Russia taking Kiev.

But there is always a rump state left. Usually without any ports.
Posted by mossomo 2025-07-16 14:48||   2025-07-16 14:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Putin "fights to the end" with other people's sons.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-16 14:49||   2025-07-16 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 ...but strangely the 'draft' doesn't land as hard around Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-16 15:22||   2025-07-16 15:22|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ College deferments is it ?

Some went to UCLA, some went to Fort Benning.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-16 16:08||   2025-07-16 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 1-A notification always came by Registered Mail, usually within a couple of months you got your Selective Service Draft Notification. I got mine while at MCRD San Diego, and it made the Drill Instructor smile briefly.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-07-16 16:48||   2025-07-16 16:48|| Front Page Top

#11 How many deferments did Chuckie Schumer get?

Or, you can be like BlumenTALE and just *say* you went to Vietnam.
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-07-16 17:53||   2025-07-16 17:53|| Front Page Top

#12 ^#9 Yea I went the Ft Benning School for boys...
Posted by Alpha2c 2025-07-16 23:47||   2025-07-16 23:47|| Front Page Top

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