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Re: “...Russia is not stronger economically nor militarily than it was before the Special Two Day Operation.”
Russia's GDP. And in 2024, its GDP was 2.098 trillion... about where it was in 2023.

Military strength is harder to gauge, but I am of the opinion that following a war, participants that have not been attacked always come out stronger militarily than they went in. After all, during the war, wouldn't they presumably have been enhancing their weapon industries? Yep... here's something new they've done that you might not have seen:
http://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/RUSSIA-MISSILE/gdpzknajgvw/
While Russia didn't bulldoze through Ukraine during the war's early days - as I thought it would - let's not lose sight of the fact that it has been gradually defeating the combined... admittedly half-hearted... resistance of the entire Western world. That's impressive, actually, for a single country that didn't resort to using nukes.





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Re: Zelensky says, f*ck Trump
By: ribit
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Mon, 03 Mar 25 10:37 PM
Msg. 04989 of 05038

What one post-Soviet nation wants to do to another post-Soviet nation is of little concern to me.  

...me neither, but like the potato chip commercial. Do ya think PUtin can stop with just one?

Ukraine wasn't one of our friends. 

...no, but maybe they could have been.

We had no agreement to defend it militarily.It should never have counted on us in the first place and we shouldn't have given it a penny.
 

...Budapest Memorandum or did you forget again?

Moreover, the war with Russia was not winnable by Ukraine and the Pentagon must have known that from the start. 

...first of all, everybody in the know said it would be over in a couple of days. Guess what?

All the fighting and money did was to slow Russia down while making it economically and militarily stronger. 

...Russia is not stronger economically nor militarily than it was before the Special Two Day Operation.

The thing that really ticks me off is that Russia COULD have been an ally of ours. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a golden opportunity and we BLEW it. China is and has been the real threat, not Russia. 

...I rather have a pet Cobra.


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