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One Russian general got this completely right
Problem is he’s retired:
In January, the head of a group of serving and retired Russian military officers declared that invading Ukraine would be “pointless and extremely dangerous.” It would kill thousands, he said, make Russians and Ukrainians enemies for life, risk a war with NATO and threaten “the existence of Russia itself as a state.”
To many Russians, that seemed like a far-fetched scenario, since few imagined that an invasion of Ukraine was really possible. But two months later, as Russia’s advance stalls in Ukraine, the prophecy looms large. Reached by phone this week, the retired general who authored the declaration, Leonid Ivashov, said he stood by it, though he could not speak freely given Russia’s wartime censorship: “I do not disavow what I said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/europe/putin-russia-military-planning.html
To many Russians, that seemed like a far-fetched scenario, since few imagined that an invasion of Ukraine was really possible. But two months later, as Russia’s advance stalls in Ukraine, the prophecy looms large. Reached by phone this week, the retired general who authored the declaration, Leonid Ivashov, said he stood by it, though he could not speak freely given Russia’s wartime censorship: “I do not disavow what I said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/europe/putin-russia-military-planning.html
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We learned it in the Bay Of Pigs.
We learned it in Viet Nam.
We learned it in Afghanistan.
We learned it in Iraq.
We love learning.
he was wearing a $10,000 puffy coat. Did you see that? Some fancy designer duds. I don't believe he is in it for the "Revanchist vision"... it's the money man. He wants it to continue to be ALL HIS... and maybe some of his close friends... who are of course very loyal.
