| Re: Empire [message #98725 is a reply to message #98724] |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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I've watched the middle-east conflicts through my lifetime and thought of it as a sad war between fanatic moslems and Israel. I don't think it's the common people that are to blame - I think it's the politicians and fanatics driving that perpetual conflict. Jews, Christans and Moslems should consider themselves like-minded, but the mentally sick ones don't and they cause strife. Other than that, I don't have an opinion on events in the middle east.
But I do have my finger on the pulse of the conflict in Ukraine and it is caused solely by Putin. It isn't the west. You may say America and Europe had fingers in stuff in other parts of the world, but not there. We should have, in my opinion, but we didn't. At least not 'til now, and we're a little late.
That's just how it is, my friend.
Let me give you just one of a million examples. Back in the late 1990s, I considered buying a Volga and having it shipped here. I wanted to put a blown big block in it and wrinkle-wall back tires. Paint it black and put the words, "Механическая Перегрузка" on the back. That means "mechanical overload" and I just thought it would be really cool.
Well, days passed and I didn't get around to doing that. I spent my hot-rod dollars on my Cutlass and eventually bought an Impala. But I never stopped thinkin' about the Volga...
Then later I learned that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to smooth-over relations with the Russians with a "Russian Reset" campaign. I don't suppose it's ever a bad thing to improve relations with anyone, but my point is that American political attention to Russia and Ukraine is so abysmally slight that we didn't even take the time to pay a translator a hundred bucks to make sure we got the word right.
We gave the Russian Foreign Minister a cute little Staples-like-that-was-easy button with what we thought was the word for reset - "перезагрузка" - but instead, we labeled the button "перегрузка" - overload.
Caught my eye 'cause of my fun Volga phrase. Still think that would have been cool on a funny car based on a Volga.
Point is, we ain't into it here. We don't have a clue what's going on there. Not at the everyman level and not even at the highest political levels. It's not a sinister plot. It's a comedy of errors.
Odessa, at the top of the Potemkin stairs, right by the statue of Duke de Richelieu (in a jacket, just for fun):
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| Re: Empire [message #98727 is a reply to message #98726] |
Tue, 24 June 2025 17:05 |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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When I was over there, I bought pistons and other car parts for a Lada. Kinda just wanted to show my American hotrod buddies what the Russkis were dealing with.
The Volga would have just looked cool being tubbed.
Here's the deal: I was over there way back, not long after the wall fell. I wondered back then why we weren't more involved, and kinda thought probably there were higher-level diplomats and negotiations between politicians and other things I didn't understand. I thought that the evolution of time would prove that.
Decades have passed since then. I've watched the Russians and other former-Soviet states since long before most other Americans cared. And what I saw proved to me that I was wrong about any sort of higher-level anything. Our highest levels literally couldn't even spell. Can you believe the lack of engagement, attentiveness and well any sort of concern showed when they made that "reset" button?
And even less intelligent or informed than that are all these pro-Putin, Zelinsky-bashing bloggers and journalists. These nut-cases just want to hear themselves talk, and worse than being flat-out wrong, they are irresponsible. Quite frankly, it is downright evil for them to spew their nonsense.
Let me make this plain: Those bloggers don't know shit. I mean, they are completely clueless, and just make up stuff based on the propaganda they read from Putin. They can't even do that - they have to run it through a translator, 'cause they don't know Russian.
So you and I agree on one thing - incompetence and misjudgment. What we don't agree with are the responsible parties. You somehow have given Putin a pass on this and I do not. I personally know people that have died there, and I know who is responsible for their deaths: Владимир Владимирович Путин
But the brave men and women of Ukraine seem to be doing pretty well keeping Putin's war dogs at bay.
Losh and others like him in Ukraine are ready for Putin's murdering slaves:
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