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I don't know much about Putin, but with Zelenskyy I smell a rat.

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Zelensky will win even if Ukraine falls in the hands of it's former owners. He'll collect the billions squirreled away from NATO and USA and head to the Greek Isles or some other warm location. He'll be jet setting with the billionaires.

On another note how much carbon has been released into the atmosphere during the Ukrainian war?

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Love the military history “out takes”. Makes for an interesting read.

And mankind has been one accident after another since the garden of eden.

Really pathetic with little improvement.

Krugman is a dick. Always has been!

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These two sentences highlighted to me that war in the end is eventually a losing proposition for those that continue to use it as a means to their end. I’ve always believed “peace through strength” as being a truth we could hold on to. Could it be a misnomer?

“That there are no accidents in war is surely incorrect too. Military history is full of them. In almost every battle, the fog of war is thick with mistakes, lies and accidents.”

“Take out the accidents, mistakes and miscalculations and not much military history would remain.”

Thanks Bill for bringing this history lesson to our attention’s.

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I love your historic references...you impart a world of knowledge. I learn a lot just reading your column everyday.

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Sweet music to my ears Bill, thank you for setting the record straight, once again, as always! 😃

I'm back in the U.S.S.R

You don't know how lucky you are, boy

Back in the U.S

Back in the U.S

Back in the U.S.S.R

Well

The Ukraine girls really knock me out

They leave the West behind

And Moscow girls make me sing and shout

That Georgia's always on

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind

(Beatles, 1968)

Wooo!

The US needs to add 100,000 pounds of cheese to the Ukraine package for that tunnel rat bastard Zelenskyy!

Hahaha!

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Tennyson wrote "Charge of the Light Brigade" not Kipling...

In ONE NIGHT in March of 1945, over 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed in a firebomb raid on Tokyo...

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Bill, in one of yesterdays posts you stated I (we) will tell you tomorrow why we are here, Normandy,

the reason is not stated in this post. Is there more coming???????

Ralph W.

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While we’re on the subject of war, I wonder who is going to foot the bill for rebuilding the Ukraine. What would be the cost if US and NATO hadn’t soaked billions of military aide to the Ukraine?

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The fog of war will give you eye strain is you look long enough. But, not to worry, AI now has been found to have political bias. No need to guess where this leads. Just sayin'

Don Harrell

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LOL!!!!

A great piece. I fear much pushback you will get from readers about these opinions on Ukraine, Love it! 👏🏻

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There was a movie back in the 60s, Our Man Flint, about a group of elitists who sought to control the world through climate change. I find it amazing that not too many years later (57), we should find ourselves in the real world, dealing with a group of elitists that seek to control the world through climate change.

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Bill wonderful comparisons that are completely irrelevant .. if I come and invade your house no matter what our social, religious or ethnic differences, I'm invading your home to ensure you obey my social financial religious moral laws .. you have lost your freedoms over any of these subjects.

YOU WILL NOW DANCE TO MY (PUTIN's) TUNE .. the rest is just noise made by those who want to distract from this reality ..

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First time commenting: Humans make a lot of mistakes. History judges. If your cause is just then even history is kind to you. And if you voluntarily sacrifice yourself to the good of others then you are a martyr. Unfortunately, the nobility of sacrifice is judged differently, but the universal truth remains. Therefore the only action considered just is that performed in one's duty. Unfortunately, duty can be enforced against one's will. Thus being human can be a mistake in itself.

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Bill, I enjoyed your historical anecdotes but I did not found in your writing any argument why we have to support the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Any aggression has no justification and should be stopped. Otherwise, Putin's next step will be an annexation of the Baltic republics that are NATO members (the Russian propaganda openly says this), and if NATO is coward enough , swallows this, and do not invoke Article 5 of defense of a NATO member, this would be the end of NATO. It will trigger an annexation of Taiwan, and actually ends the World as we know it. There are a lot of people in the West now who are ready for a concession to the Putin's aggression (and reading your message, I suspect that you are one of them) . Since your post is mostly historical, let me please also use an historical example. The cowardice Munich accord with Hitler and failure to stop his aggression against Czechoslovakia since the very beginning triggered the WW2 and millions dead. I am sure that Europe in 30s also had a lot of people who preferred to sacrifice Czechoslovakia and had a lot of convincing arguments in favor of this . The Russian Gulag's argument "let you die today but I will die tomorrow" turns out to be quite convincing.

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Hi Bill,

It was not Kipling but Tennyson who wrote, Into the Valley of Death Rode the 600.

You’re Forgiven

Best Regards, Robert

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