Re: Putin's gambit

On 15 Maijs, 18:10, hol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Eugene Holman) wrote:
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> <cedr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 13 Maijs, 22:44, Dmitry <dmitrijsfedot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On 11 May, 10:43, hol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Eugene Holman) wrote:
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> > Western and especially American intervention in Latvia in 1919 was
> > really awful, too. I mean, British war****ps killed the people, and the
> > Americans brought food with all of those strings attached. Woe is me.
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> Back in those days the "bad guys" were easy to identitfy and eliminate.
It
> should be clear after some seven years of conflict that intervening in
> Afghanistan is a great way to help some of the people in Kabul but
purely
> dysfunctional as a strategy for containing or destroying al-Qa'ida.
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> Warfare with amorphous, supranational, rag-tag, leaderless organizations
> whose sup****ters have no regard for human life, not even their own, is
> quite a different prospect than war with states that have infrastrucures
> to maintain, populations to feed and protect, and a technologically
> advanced military to concretely project power.
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> Regards,
> Eugene Holman

And your last paragraph doesn't describe the Bolsheviks? Ask Black
Monk.

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