From: "Oleg Smirnov" <os333@netc.eu>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.russian.z1,alt.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: Russian asset
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:52:42 +0300
Organization: ...
Dhu on Gate, <news:vqg3r9$2gr4g$4@dont-email.me>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 20:31:57 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
>> Atlanticist support for the [ugly and unpromising] Kiev regime
>> has become burdensome, and any sane one can see it. Americans,
>> even those of them who are the most dumb, still can recall the
>> fact that the Euros managed to unwind those two world wars while
>> the U.S. helped ending them. However, this time America itself -
>> at least its "liberal" / neocon / "deep state" faction - joined
>> the club of morons by provoking the Ukraine war. Trump now tries
>> to turn it toward deescalation through "carrot and stick" means.
>> The fact is, Trump's options to apply "stick" to Russia - so as
>> not to damage American interest as well - are now limited,
>> given that Biden administration exhausted most of this resource.
>> Today Trump issued a threat of new "big sanctions" on Russia.
>> If any, one can hardly expect it would be very effective.
>
> We live in a tightly closed loop planetary economy now:
> there is nowhere to have "a little war far awa' to raise
> the price of man an' beast", so War has no tangible
> human benefit$.
>
> Since we are still gonna need Civil Defense in the years to
> come, I would begin by relocating the department of defense
> under whatever department is responsible for public heath
> and welfare.
A big stress brings some benefits, as it stimulates
revealing of settings that are no longer correct/relevant.
Issue is, at what costs. Gradual and timely update seems
much preferabler. It demands a proper sense of proportion.
Lack of it seems to be one of the main roots of evil.