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"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. AMEN."

Putin has some of the same characteristics as Hitler. Both are evil, Godless opportunists. Let's see if bammy give back everything Reagan gained.

In Venezuela, Maduro (sp) is being assisted by 5,000+ thugs sent from Cuba.

Time to ramp up the German army.

Only this time, tell'em to remember to pack their warm clothes. Oh, and try not to kill so many Jews this time, it's bad for their image.




We might also want to redeploy what A-10's we have left to the Fulda Gap area, just in case...

About the only option we have without getting into a costly war is to blockade the Black Sea at Bosphorus Strait and the Gulf of Finland. I guess we could try to blockade the Sea of Okhotsk too.

But to blockade you have to be willing to sink ships.

Just let them have Crimea, and the east. Don't I vaguely remember someone who was let have "just" the portion of Poland that was in question?

glad to see that someone else is on top of this.

....admittedly more MY concern than troubled and bloody ground half a planet over.

If we're looking for "Freedom Fighters" to support, it might not be a bad idea to look closer to home.



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When this Ukrainian mess broke I remembered what a college professor of mine who had escaped the USSR once said, "Once KGB always KGB."

To make Colonel in the KGB you had to be smart and ruthless. Putin is both and right now he is playing Obama and Western Europe like a bass fiddle.

I was not surprised to see Russia move on the Crimea because having secure access to the Black Sea has been a major Russian priority for well over 200 years.

There was NO way Putin was going risk that access and the Russian naval bases on the Crimean Peninsula on the uncertainty of Ukrainian politics.

I am pretty certain that the rest of military posturing/threatening is mainly to let the Ukraine and the rest of Western Europe know that the old Russian Bear still has some teeth and claws left and don't screw with Vlad too much.

The only way a big time shooting war breaks out will be if Putin moves beyond the Ukraine proper to threaten Poland or Germany or if Obama and his bunch get so butt hurt by Putin's bitch slapping that they do something really stupid like mounting a military action to assuage their bruised feelings.

When this Ukrainian mess broke I remembered what a college professor of mine who had escaped the USSR once said, "Once KGB always KGB."

To make Colonel in the KGB you had to be smart and ruthless. Putin is both and right now he is playing Obama and Western Europe like a bass fiddle.

I was not surprised to see Russia move on the Crimea because having secure access to the Black Sea has been a major Russian priority for well over 200 years.

There was NO way Putin was going risk that access and the Russian naval bases on the Crimea Peninsula on the uncertainty of Ukrainian politics.

I am pretty certain that the rest of military posturing/threatening is mainly to let the Ukraine and the rest of Western Europe know that the old Russian Bear still has some teeth and claws left and don't screw with Vlad too much.

The only way a big time shooting war breaks out will be if Putin moves beyond the Ukraine proper to threaten Poland or Germany or if Obama and his bunch get so butt hurt by Putin's bitch slapping that they do something really stupid like mounting a military action to assuage their bruised feelings.

The problem isn't really Crimea or eastern Ukraine, per se.
The Russians will secure their only warm water port at Sevastopol for the navy.

You'd better dig out your geography books. Russia already has several big ports all around the Black Sea as well as The Sea of Azov.

This is strickly a land grab with guns.