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03-18-2022, 11:16 AM
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Born on a mountain top in Tennessee...Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
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I assume you don't mean this Davy Crockett. Nearest thing ever built to an atomic hand grenade....
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Ass-u-meing me again I see. 
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03-18-2022, 08:38 PM
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03-18-2022, 08:57 PM
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Putin's Accomplishments
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In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine’s little-known president into a global hero, wreck Russia’s economy, and solidify his legacy as a murderous war criminal.
How did he miscalculate so badly?
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...lantic%20Daily
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03-18-2022, 09:20 PM
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She lost me at "Zelinsky knew Ukraine was no match for Russia." Not exactly how it looks on the ground just now. Who is "Gravitas," where does this originate?
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03-18-2022, 09:36 PM
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Jigsawed
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On the converse: Why are the Democracies so consistent? Iraq, Lybia, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc.
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03-18-2022, 09:41 PM
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Jigsawed
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She lost me at "Zelinsky knew Ukraine was no match for Russia." Not exactly how it looks on the ground just now. Who is "Gravitas," where does this originate?
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Gravitas is pro-India, anti-China.
On the ground, there is the fog of war.
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03-18-2022, 09:42 PM
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On the converse: Why are the Democracies so consistent? Iraq, Lybia, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc.
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Your message seems to attack democracies as a class. 
The examples you give are all U.S., other democracies just kind of followed along sometimes. The US has been in a power corrupts situation since WWII. I don't this our status as a democracy is what has made us so interventionist.
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03-18-2022, 09:46 PM
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Gravitas is pro-India, anti-China.
On the ground, there is the fog of war.
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Hmm. Pro-Russia because Russia is India's traditional ally against Pakistan?
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03-18-2022, 09:56 PM
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Jigsawed
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Hmm. Pro-Russia because Russia is India's traditional ally against Pakistan?
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Basically anti-Russian pro-American from a business point of view - representing the desires of the large group of American educated Indians. They deplore the ideas of the Nehru clique.
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03-19-2022, 01:18 AM
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Russian cosmonauts giving Pootin the middle finger?
Russia’s astronauts enter the space station in yellow and blue flight suits.
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Jonathan McDowell, a scientist at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who closely follows space missions, suggested the colors might actually be those of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, which all three of the astronauts — Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov — attended.
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Uh-huh 
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