From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.russian.z1,alt.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: Russian asset
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 03:03:36 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:52:42 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
> 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
In human terms it takes 3 generations to accomplish meaningful
social change without murderous resets.
> much preferabler. It demands a proper sense of proportion.
> Lack of it seems to be one of the main roots of evil.
Ain't nothin' in this existence worth
doing that's ever truly done.
Living with incompleteness is all, and
some things are just best left to others ;-)
Dhu
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Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais.
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
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