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Why is the Russian offensive not going at full speed? Ukraine war latest (Original Post) Uncle Joe Mar 2022 OP
We are going to have to stand up and lead. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2022 #1
Just the thought makes me queasy every time it crosses my mind Rhiannon12866 Mar 2022 #2
a russian barbarian llashram Mar 2022 #3
Their most interesting interviewee, the "military expert in Moscow" gave detailed and informative Martin68 Mar 2022 #4
I thought so as well, Uncle Joe Mar 2022 #5

OAITW r.2.0

(24,468 posts)
1. We are going to have to stand up and lead.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 01:42 AM
Mar 2022

Sooner, rather than later. It sucks to say it, but Putin goes, period. World said so.

So glad Biden is in charge. Where would we be now if Trump was still in the WH?

Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
2. Just the thought makes me queasy every time it crosses my mind
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 04:40 AM
Mar 2022

And that's on top of how anxious I feel about what we - and the rest of the world - are facing now. We've seen this kind of behavior previously throughout history - but those perpetrators didn't have nukes.

We sure are fortunate to have the most experienced POTUS we've ever had leading this country right now. From my limited perspective, he's made all the right decisions in these perilous times.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
3. a russian barbarian
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 12:08 PM
Mar 2022

with his military has caused immense grief. Human beings just can't seem to get it together. I watched the Rwandan slaughter '94. 800,000 men, women and children in 100 days. Presently the 'Hutu's here are slaughtering the 'Tutsi's' on a scale that when the final count is in will resemble that '94 slaughter, I'm sure.

Humans just cannot get it together. We try, yet fall COMPLETELY short over the long run of history. There is a map of Europe on this site that shows 1000 years of countries etc. coming and going. I don't think the changes seen on that captivating view of history were done without rivers of blood flowing. The Mongol empire was amazing in me knowing my history. Did you know that the Mongols when a territory was in the process of being captured would make...blood and decapitation the order of the day. Ten-mile encirclements were a speciality in which that ten-mile encirclement would slowly shrink and everything within that encirclement was slaughtered.

https://www.historynet.com/right-hand-khan/

The same was going on elsewhere, everywhere in that world and time.

Here we are today tenuously holding on to peace with MAD.

I'm just sad we cannot get it together to find peace among ourselves. TPOSFG did show me again just how easily, still, people are manipulated to hate based on origin, race, culture.

Martin68

(22,800 posts)
4. Their most interesting interviewee, the "military expert in Moscow" gave detailed and informative
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 12:55 PM
Mar 2022

answers. I wish they had given him more time to complete his analysis. He was factual and to the point.

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