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How many times have we seen/read the sentence "We must not let the Russians win"

First of all - what do these people mean when they say that? Will we nuke Moscow to "not let the Russians win"? Russia may or may not be a world power in "real politik" terms. But in historic and cultural terms it most definitely is one and, more importantly, SEES itself as one. What do you think a world power does when clueless morons like Biden or Johnson push its back against a wall? It just "lets us win"? By meddling in an inter-Slavic conflict we would have been well-advised to stay away from, we are inviting WW3 to our doorstep. Of course, in the meantime, the Saudis have a free reign over Yemen where tens of thousands of innocents are dying in bombing and shelling - but America prefers protecting Ukrainian "democracy" over Yemeni "democracy"

Lastly, as a former victim of a Soviet occupation and as a careful reader of history, I'd remind the inept and venal idiots in Washington that Russia almost NEVER loses a war. It cost 25 million Russian lives to send the Wehrmacht packing back to Berlin but they got it done. They got it done in Chechnya in a most brutal way - but they sure as hell did not give in to pressure and did what they felt was in their interest to do. They beat Hitler and Napoleon and they subdued revolutions in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. They will not run and hide from Volodymir Zelensky just because Uncle Joe laughingly says "We must not let the Russians win"

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As always, very fine writing. One comment. You write "Most people are completely onboard, so sedated by technology and drugs that they cannot see beyond the diet of conflicting information and empty entertainment they are constantly being fed"

Of course, that is not an incorrect statement but I have now come to the firm conclusion (after suspecting it for almost 70 years) that "most people" are just stupid. Nothing more, nothing less. Stupid and lazy. Anyone with an IQ over 95 can inform himself/herself and anyone can read. My wife, who is by no means an intellectual and who has held down two jobs most of her working life to put food on the table, reads all the time. And I mean ALL THE TIME. She's way more read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky than I have and she knows all the famous 18th and 19th century English writers well. That's just an aside. But you said it yourself: Europeans HAVE already experienced the kind of hell that may be in store for us in America - and yet look at them now. Too stupid to see where that vile Communist/Fascist Schwab and his cohorts are leading them (and us)

Have a wonderful Christmas and let's hope and pray that somewhere there lurks an intelligent leader who can help shepherd us out of this morass. Because obviously we're not capable of doing so ourselves

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