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Old 01-19-2026 | 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
We certainly won the Cold War with economic reality. Perhaps that generalizes to future conflicts. On the other hand, there is that old military shibboleth about generals always trying to fight the last war and not realizing things have sometimes changed. Time will tell I guess.
Maybe i should have been more clear, ‘western’ appeasement to Russian aggression, territorial conquest is undeniably in progress diplomatically. Agree, it is not business as usual. Times change. It’s still ghastly business on the books.

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Old 01-19-2026 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by METO Guido
Times change. It’s still ghastly business on the books.
There is a LOT of ghastly business in the historical record. Not sure current events are even as bad, and certainly not worse. The first war of the Industrial age (AKA, “the Great War” or WWI after there was a WWII) killed (conservatively) 15 million people. And that from a total world population only a quarter what we have today.

Few of our predecessors actually had it this good really, which of course is little comfort to those that are being affected.
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Old 01-19-2026 | 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
There is a LOT of ghastly business in the historical record. Not sure current events are even as bad, and certainly not worse. The first war of the Industrial age (AKA, “the Great War” or WWI after there was a WWII) killed (conservatively) 15 million people. And that from a total world population only a quarter what we have today.

Few of our predecessors actually had it this good really, which of course is little comfort to those that are being affected.
Our predecessors being among the Grateful dead fortunately for them. The now game being leveraged superpower brinkmanship. The conflict is control centric. Control of; labor compensation/terms, air, land, water rights. Barriers/punishment for poaching and or perceived disloyalty a close 2nd. Nothing new there especially imo. Drones are relatively new.
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Old 01-20-2026 | 04:17 PM
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Of course, I’m also Bolshevik false flag. Which is entirely legal btw.

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