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Finally, I am not sure if you were a Infantry, but I'll take your word for it.
I am so touched.
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I was Infantry for 22 years and faced the East German Warsaw Pact Countries in Europe.
I appreciate that, As much as we disagree, your country's contribution - and yours - was instrumental.
But seriously, Russia today ain't the Warsaw Pact of the 80s. They'd like to be, it appears, but they just aren't. If anyone back then had started a NATO ex with "For the purposes of this exercise, the following countries will be considered friendly: East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia", we would have considered the idea laughable, ridiculous. (I probably missed some, btw.)
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Putin may take measures to preserve power at home and abroad.
Mostly at home. It's depressing, but it appears Russia simply considers it the normal state of things to be led by someone they fear. But - then so be it. We can afford cold war better than they. In the meantime, 1 in 4 Russian males die before age 55.
Oh for cripes's sake. Look at a map. Unless you're going to postulate a seaborne invasion across the Baltic that would make D-day look like a cakewalk, Russia would have to either go though Finland (and I don't think even Putin is itching for that rematch) or long-standing NATO member Norway, in both cases through some of the world's unfriendliest terrain.
If there is ever World War III between Russia vs. the West, my prediction is that you will see the GOP tea party base align themselves with their hero Adolf Putin....
....all because they saw him naked riding a horse.
Go figure.
Obama messed it up with Putin and now gave the go ahead for Iran to get a windfall of money to put nuclear weapons in their hands much quicker.. they are almost there... 3 months
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