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  • But I was told this was just a special operation to free the Pro-Russian Ukranians?
    “Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”

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    • Another change in explanation: Russian Orthodox Christian Putin sent in Chechen battalion to Ukraine to *checks notes* defend Islam.

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      • Originally posted by aparch View Post
        Another change in explanation: Russian Orthodox Christian Putin sent in Chechen battalion to Ukraine to *checks notes* defend Islam.

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        Uh, huh. And I am commonly known as the greatest NFL Running Back of all time.
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        • I wish we would shoot some of those little ***** down and teach them a lesson https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...ction-00045832
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          Crosby probably wouldn't even be on BC's top two lines next year

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          • Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
            I wish we would shoot some of those little ***** down and teach them a lesson https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...ction-00045832
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            • Originally posted by aparch View Post

              Nah, being soft is how you get war. If we continue to let them walk all over us it just emboldens them.
              Originally posted by BobbyBrady
              Crosby probably wouldn't even be on BC's top two lines next year

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              • Listen to Drew, proud member of the internet Fighting Keyboard Kommandos.
                What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                • Not that I know anything about anything, but isn't this a backdoor to taking Russian oil and not taking the public heat for it? I thought Azerbaijan was well inside the Russian circle.
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                  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Not that I know anything about anything, but isn't this a backdoor to taking Russian oil and not taking the public heat for it? I thought Azerbaijan was well inside the Russian circle.
                    Well, Azerbaijan is friendly-ish with Russia due to proximity, but they've been on Turkey's side when it comes to their constant fighting with Armenia (who is staunchly on Russia's side). I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Azerbaijan capitalizing on a market that has a gaping hole in it.
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                    • Originally posted by Swansong View Post

                      Well, Azerbaijan is friendly-ish with Russia due to proximity, but they've been on Turkey's side when it comes to their constant fighting with Armenia (who is staunchly on Russia's side). I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Azerbaijan capitalizing on a market that has a gaping hole in it.
                      Makes sense.

                      I didn't know Azerbaijanis hate Armenians until I looked at their foreign relations. That's Serb-Croat edge towards the doorway level stuff.
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                        • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                          Makes sense.

                          I didn't know Azerbaijanis hate Armenians until I looked at their foreign relations. That's Serb-Croat edge towards the doorway level stuff.
                          Yeah, it's a bad scene there. Armenia has relied on Russia for a century for protection against the Turks, and Armenia just recently had their asses kicked in yet another shooting war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Turkey couldn't possibly care less about the conflict but they hate Armenia (honestly, go look up official Turkish statements on the Armenian Genocide. It's frightening). The alliances in that part of the world seem almost entirely on who you hate less, and not at all about who a country might actually align with.
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                          • Originally posted by Drew S. View Post

                            Nah, being soft is how you get war. If we continue to let them walk all over us it just emboldens them.
                            Uh, we've been the strongest (by far) since WWII, and that certainly has not prevented us from getting into a war. By your point, we would not have gotten involved in Korea or Vietnam. Let alone the trillions we spent in the middle East.

                            Greed gets us into war. Greed is 100% why we made up a war out of thin air in Iraq, and it also the actual reason Vladdy is doing what he is doing.

                            If, instead, people and corporations allowed the local people to prosper just a little while we take their natural resources, that would prevent pretty much every conflict we've been in for the last 50 years. And some before that, too.

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                            • The idea that we should shoot down or otherwise escalate every single provocative act is ridiculous. This kind of thing happens all the time.
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                              • But we can't be seen as weak. Or impotent. Or some such ****.

                                Cause that's just embarassing to Drew's manly, testosterone-fueled perception of how foreign relations should work.

                                Why don't they all just flop it out on the desk, and biggest one wins. Work for you, Drew?
                                What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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