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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (196722)	2/25/2023 2:19:45 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217588

Back attcha... It is funny how you see the pro Russia crew engaged in two mutually exclusive efforts... On the one hand... while ignoring Russia's aggression (long history of, obvious proofs of)... and their clearly stated intent to "resume ownership" of a large number of neighboring countries as fiefs... they see Russia's invasion of a neighboring country as "entirely defensive"... in the face of "aggression" from NATO (which in context thus means only that there is an legitimate European interest in obstructing Russian's plans for invading their neighbors... to keep the pesky Russians from storming fences to take control of their own backyard picnics.) On the other hand... they're (correctly) entirely dismissive of NATO and the west's military capacity to "compete" with Russia militarily... first because of "western failure to understand" Russia's "superior plan" for defense in depth and their gearing for "total war", then, on to the inferiority of western arms in failing to not be well purposed in design to enable them to sustain a long term competition against Russia's "superior" schemes for how to conduct a war... on its own territory. But, more than qualitatively unprepared, they note, the west are quantitatively unprepared... because of the west's pairing of misunderstanding of the scope of the challenge... AND its near total neglect of meaningful military preparation for well over a decade... Which is correct. And, its true, as due (some in) the west (wrongly) believing, due to shared interest in commerce, that Russia no longer represented any threat. That purposeful "stand down" occurring in the west... means they don't have sufficient numbers, today, even to sustain a viable defense (against the threat they imagined Russia's "superior" forces represented)... only less come close to posing an offensive threat. And, that's EXACTLY correct... NATO, now proven as being barely capable of sustaining a defense against the FACT of a Russian invasion in Ukraine...has no capacity... ZERO... for "invading Russia"... and clearly have had no will, or any interest at all in "preparing" for such... much less actually doing so. Putin's miscalculation in invading Ukraine... NOT due to his concern re NATO invading Russia... knowing it was not possible... was instead borne ENTIRELY of his awareness and expectation that there would be nothing that the west could do about it... he expected a fait acompli in result of brandishing his arms and declaring it so... Why didn't that happen ? And, yet... the crew of idiots persists in thinking NATO... which was essentially moribund and fracturing before Putin's stupidity suddenly revitalized it by providing it renewed purpose... are made the bogeyman responsible for Putin invading Ukraine... because they had a sneaky plan to invade Russia ? LOL !!!! That's... breath-takingly stupid... That being true... does nothing to pin medals on the chests of Europe's "heroic" leaders ? That Putin is a abject moron... doesn't mean that German or American leaders are geniuses... even in a relative sense ? The only thing we agree on... is that with stupid people in control... those things that ARE designed into the structures of our relationships that SHOULD work to prevent... stupid people doing stupid things... have failed.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (196722)	2/25/2023 8:15:37 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217588

Do you think the Yank tanks doing manoeuvres North West of Murmansk were just helping keep CO2 levels up? Your telling us... the U.S. invaded Russia... and no one noticed ? Do you also have difficulty driving... related to panicking every time a car in the opposite lane passes by... because they're clearly part of an evil plot to invade your lane ? And that causes you to swerve into them in self defense ? The lines on the road... mean something. Get help.