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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
Date: 08/17/2025 2:26 PM
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Replying to my own post, specifically this part:

Unilaterally you and the Europeans are taking chess pieces off of the table and putting the fight even more on Russia’s terms. Fighting on your enemy’s terms is the best and fastest way to lose.


If I find myself in a bar fight with a bigger, stronger opponent who’s a very skilled boxer, then why on Earth would I adopt a strategy of standing there and trading punches with him?

Applying Brussels’ way of thinking would be me turtling up in the corner and letting the guy pound on me until he gets tired. Never mind the damage he’s inflicting.

Some of you are no doubt going to counter with “hahahaha Dope stupid. Rope-a-dope is how Ali won all the the time”…except when you do that you forget that Ali was perhaps the greatest boxer of all time and most people have 1/10th his combination of speed, power, endurance and smarts.

So. The rest of us who aren’t Muhammad Ali need to find other ways to gain advantages. Like attacking his legs, putting him on the ground or using things laying around bar.

But standing there absorbing punches to my liver, rib cage and eventually my head while hoping he gets tired isn’t a great way to go. That’s what you guys are sentencing them to.

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