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The Global War on Terror 5.0: Putin on the Risk

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Kepler said:
Says you.
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Everybody sing:

Andorra
Notes: words by Malvina Reynolds, music by Pete Seeger; copyright 1962 Brio Music, renewed 1990. a.k.a. "I Want to Go to Andorra!" Pete Seeger's recording of this song was issued on a CD in 2003 by the Andorran government. Also on the CD is a 1996 speech by the Andorran Foreign Minister given on the occasion of his signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty at the U. S. State Department in Washington, D.C.


Chorus:
I want to go to Andorra, Andorra, Andorra,
I want to go to Andorra, it's a place I adore,
They spent four dollars and ninety cents
On armaments and their defense,
Did you ever hear of such confidence?
Andorra, hip hurrah!
 
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Old Pio said:
Then 'splain it to us, Lucy. Liar.
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Are you really going to maintain you are unaware that "Sergeant at Arms" means one and only one thing to people born between around 1960? (i.e., 40+ years after you):

Faithfully submitted, Douglas C. Niedermeyer, Sergeant-at-Arms.
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I won't ask whether you get it now, since even if you did you'd twist it into your typical hate pretzel. Now, get thee back to Ignore, princess.
 
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Kepler said:
Are you really going to maintain you are unaware that "Sergeant at Arms" means one and only one thing to people born between around 1960? (i.e., 40+ years after you):



I won't ask whether you get it now, since even if you did you'd twist it into your typical hate pretzel. Now, get thee back to Ignore, princess.
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Yeah, it's hard to imagine why anyone wouldn't immediately see the connection between a hero and a fictional d*uchebag.
 
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SteveP said:
And I thought he was talking of Scott and Rob. Of course, I was 7 in 1960.
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Well, the connection's just a tiny bit obscure. And I'm confident I wasn't the only one to miss it. He and I both do a lot of movie trivia around here. But IMO it's a bit of a stretch to compare Mr. Vickers in any way with Niedermeyer, who was an a*shole from the word "go."

And I'm reminded of the golf scene:

Boon: I gotta work on my game.

Otter: No, no, no, don't think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNm5RZoL2Ro

My only exposure to the RCMP was in Happy Valley, Labrador. They had a brand new HQ (nicest building in town, which aside from the Hudson's Bay Co. store wasn't saying much) and they were all very big dudes. At the time I was on the CBC payroll, while on active duty with the AF. Very nice gig.
 
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Old Pio said:
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why anyone wouldn't immediately see the connection between a hero and a fictional d*uchebag.
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You have your bile gun ready for anything people say. Then you refuse to walk it back because it's embarrassing that you went off half cocked. FFS, stuff a sock in it just this once and don't drag your viciousness into this.
 
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Sounds like the Russians just conducted a NATO-Preparedness test. :(

BRUSSELS—Russian military aircraft conducted aerial maneuvers around Europe this week on a scale seldom seen since the end of the Cold War, prompting NATO jets to scramble in another sign of how raw East-West relations have grown.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said that more than two dozen Russian aircraft in four groups were intercepted and tracked on Tuesday and Wednesday, an unusually high level of activity that the alliance said could have endangered passing civilian flights.

Military jets from eight nations were scrambled to meet the Russian aircraft, which a NATO spokesman said remained in international airspace and didn’t violate NATO territory.

However, NATO officials said such flights heighten the risks of military miscalculations.

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NATO said it has conducted over 100 intercepts of Russian aircraft so far this year, about three times as many as were conducted in 2013.

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NATO said this week’s flights were detected over the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Baltic and Black seas. The Russian aircraft included fighters, bombers and tanker aircraft, it said.

Such flights pose a risk to civilian flights, according to NATO, because the Russians often don't file flight plans or use onboard transponders, which mean civilian air-traffic control can’t detect them.
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So Russia just wants to become North Korea West, right?

Why does that region of the world have such an inferiority complex?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
So Russia just wants to become North Korea West, right?

Why does that region of the world have such an inferiority complex?
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It's a ploy by the military industrial complex. They're paying Putin millions to rattle the sabers so as to alarm Western leaders who will then stop the demobilization of their militaries.

You gotta spend money to make money!

The above was typed with tongue firmly in cheek. However there may be a small grain of truth in it.
 
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joecct said:
It's a ploy by the military industrial complex. They're paying Putin millions to rattle the sabers so as to alarm Western leaders who will then stop the demobilization of their militaries.

You gotta spend money to make money!

The above was typed with tongue firmly in cheek. However there may be a small grain of truth in it.
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It's not the craziest theory to posit that ostensibly opposed military organizations would reinforce the need for one another by behaving provocatively. From a budgetary perspective, the military's biggest rival is not an opposing military but domestic needs that compete for appropriations. If you push a neighbor to expand their military budget then your government will in turn expand your budget to deal with the threat.
 
There are Russian spies everywhere!!!
http://20committee.com/2014/11/03/is-a-top-american-diplomat-a-russian-agent/
 
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