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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 10, 2024 at 8:30 pm
(June 10, 2024 at 3:37 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: (June 10, 2024 at 12:21 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Right -- the first thing I thought of when I read an article about this was this sounds a lot like Hitler's misapprehensions about America.
Didn't it remind you more of The Zimmermann Telegram?
There's that, too.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 11:18 am
Ukraine has been beefing up their mech infantry backend with an aim toward maintaining Leos in country in future through a deal with Rheinmetall. Moar Marder.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 1:06 pm
I see where Putin's letting women out of prison to fight for the Fatherland. Now, the drunken men will have drunken women to consort with and console each other as they are immolated at the war front. That's disgusting and disturbing. I'm only happy that it's the aggressors.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 3:27 pm
(June 13, 2024 at 1:06 pm)Fireball Wrote: I see where Putin's letting women out of prison to fight for the Fatherland. Now, the drunken men will have drunken women to consort with and console each other as they are immolated at the war front. That's disgusting and disturbing. I'm only happy that it's the aggressors.
More dead cannon-fodder...
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 3:55 pm
(June 13, 2024 at 1:06 pm)Fireball Wrote: I see where Putin's letting women out of prison to fight for the Fatherland. Now, the drunken men will have drunken women to consort with and console each other as they are immolated at the war front. That's disgusting and disturbing. I'm only happy that it's the aggressors.
Fortunately, no other countries ever engaged in such a heinous practice. Except for, you know, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland…
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 6:56 pm
(June 13, 2024 at 3:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 13, 2024 at 1:06 pm)Fireball Wrote: I see where Putin's letting women out of prison to fight for the Fatherland. Now, the drunken men will have drunken women to consort with and console each other as they are immolated at the war front. That's disgusting and disturbing. I'm only happy that it's the aggressors.
Fortunately, no other countries ever engaged in such a heinous practice. Except for, you know, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland…
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I can't speak about the other countries, but I'm pretty sure a felony conviction in American is a solid bar to serving in uniform, nowadays. Used to be a judge here would vacate a felony charge if the accused enlisted in the armed forces, but our military got tired of that back in the 60s, for indiscipline in the ranks.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 6:59 pm
(June 13, 2024 at 6:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (June 13, 2024 at 3:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Fortunately, no other countries ever engaged in such a heinous practice. Except for, you know, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland…
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I can't speak about the other countries, but I'm pretty sure a felony conviction in American is a solid bar to serving in uniform, nowadays. Used to be a judge here would vacate a felony charge if the accused enlisted in the armed forces, but our military got tired of that back in the 60s, for indiscipline in the ranks.
I’m aware, which is why I used the past tense.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Russia is still a thing, huh?
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 7:57 pm
(June 13, 2024 at 6:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 13, 2024 at 6:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can't speak about the other countries, but I'm pretty sure a felony conviction in American is a solid bar to serving in uniform, nowadays. Used to be a judge here would vacate a felony charge if the accused enlisted in the armed forces, but our military got tired of that back in the 60s, for indiscipline in the ranks.
I’m aware, which is why I used the past tense.
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I had fellow enlistees in boot camp who had been given 6 years- "take your pick, prison or the service". I can tell you that some of the "regular" guys acted like criminals, too.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
June 13, 2024 at 9:25 pm
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(June 13, 2024 at 6:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 13, 2024 at 6:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can't speak about the other countries, but I'm pretty sure a felony conviction in American is a solid bar to serving in uniform, nowadays. Used to be a judge here would vacate a felony charge if the accused enlisted in the armed forces, but our military got tired of that back in the 60s, for indiscipline in the ranks.
I’m aware, which is why I used the past tense.
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Right, but comparing the UK from 100 years ago or America from 60 years ago to modern-day Russia is not apt. We're not talking about the past; we're talking about the here-and-now. That's why I used the term "nowadays".
It's apples and oranges. Dragging up a tu quoque from decades ago has a point, I'm sure, but I'm not sure what it is.
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