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2018-09-22 Europe

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Posted by 3dc 2018-09-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Nice work, 3DC!

Bless You! And all of you providing this captivating content:)

Posted by newc 2018-09-22 01:10|| 2018-09-22 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 So we're doing Operation Barbarossa Part II: Only We Make It To Moscow This Time?

I'm just not seeing the benefit to the American people. Starting a major war with a nuclear power seems quite likely to kill millions of us, and fail to boot. Remember how well they did in Iraq?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-09-22 06:26|| 2018-09-22 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep your head in the sand , Herb

Posted by Frank G 2018-09-22 06:50|| 2018-09-22 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin respects power. You have to deal with him from a position of strength.

Peter Zeihan wrote a book that has a section about a possible conflict with Russia in the Baltic. He wrote an intriguing book called “The Absent Superpower: the Shale Revolution and a World without America.” A read worth the time.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-09-22 11:29|| 2018-09-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Putin wants a new Russia like the old USSR’s grandeur. Only he has some issues to deal with.
*an economy the size of Italy.
*a collapsing demographic.
*China looking at Siberia.
*Institutions are corrupt.

Putin could win the battle while his country collapses.

All he has in his toolkit are nuclear weapons. So he in some ways is acting like Iran and North Korea.

I think President Trump must have read Peter’s Book.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-09-22 11:50|| 2018-09-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Russians are paranoid & xenophobic: they think everybody wants to invade and enslave them - I wonder why?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-22 12:05|| 2018-09-22 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Because that's what's in their History books.

Why is Slavic and Slave so close linguistically?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-22 16:45|| 2018-09-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

#8 The word slave does not come from Slav. it comes from sclavus.

Actually…the word Slav comes from Sclavus.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-22 17:07|| 2018-09-22 17:07|| Front Page Top

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