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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
Date: 08/15/25 6:35 PM
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(Taking you off of Ignore because I'm watching this thread)

Yeah, he doesn't get it.

No, *you* don't get it. You think that putting the Ukraine Facebook avatar over your photo and reading rando blogs is giving you some insight...but, no. It's not.
Your points about "asymmetrical warfare" are asinine. You think the Russkies don't know how to play dirty? (Which is one way to stomp an insurgency before it starts). Do you think they weren't paying attention to their own failures? And ours?

You - like all the other libs - refuse to look at a map that hasn't changed. At sanctions that haven't worked. At a President who's at least trying to slow down the bloodshed. You won't look because in your mind Trumpbadorangemanhitler is all your brains can process.

Ukraine is also introducing new tactics with cheap technologies, specifically drones. A few thousand dollars worth of drones did hundreds of millions of dollars damage to Russia's bomber and tanker fleet, and severely damaged their air force (I'd have to do some digging, but as I recall they eliminated about 1/3 of the Russian bomber wings). Not to mention the decimation of the Russia's Black Sea Fleet (against a power that doesn't have a navy).

Did that cause Putin to stop? Nope.
At least we have one contestant on this board that agrees that taking the fight to the Russkies is that way to go.

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