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    Financing wars with little plan and no realistic endgame, whether they are in Iraq or Afghanistan, is exactly what we're doing in Ukraine.

    No realistic timetable... No realistic goals... No realistic estimate of what this costs... etc, etc, etc....
    You GD right! & AFTER Putin had went into Afghan and got ed himself. "We'll show him how it's done."

    20+ years later how'd that end? Biden out at Dover waitin' on the children to disembark the cargo plane, eyes on his watch, like a hawk...


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    Of course they're relevant. This has everything to do with the cost of war and the reasons for financing wars.

    Why can't you just answer these simple questions?

    How many American troops have died in Ukraine?

    Did we invade Ukraine?

    Do we have American troops currently fighting in Ukraine?
    Like I told ya above..."No, it ain't our dirt. It's Russia's dirt."

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    We responded because you rather breathlessly wanted to attempt to correct the record for the benefit of Putin (although you don't actually believe Budanov).
    ...I do, devoutly.

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    Of course they're relevant. This has everything to do with the cost of war and the reasons for financing wars.

    Why can't you just answer these simple questions?

    How many American troops have died in Ukraine?

    Did we invade Ukraine?

    Do we have American troops currently fighting in Ukraine?
    Quote the whole sentence I wrote.

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    Quote the whole sentence I wrote.
    No.

    Just answer the questions or fold.

    War doesn't happen in your ledger sheet vacuum. The reasons for and manner of involvement in Ukraine are wildly different from those in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can't ignore them and I'm not going to let you get away with such a desperately disingenuous premise.

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    Quote the whole sentence I wrote.
    You nailed him up, 7: Tree of Woe.

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    Guyz no! Natural causes!

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    A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy

    Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.


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    For more than four years, Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer of the disgraced German financial services company Wirecard, has been living in Russia under this assumed iden y, a year-long investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, ZDF, and Der Standard has uncovered. Wirecard, the German equivalent to PayPal was once a DAX-30 listed company, one of the wealthiest traded en ies on the German stock exchange, with a valuation of $28 billion. Then came June 2020, when, in the midst of an audit, Wirecard could not locate €1.9 billion in assets it claimed were being held somewhere in the world – Russia, the United Arab Emirates or the Philippines. In fact, the money didn’t exist. Wirecard’s worth was predicated on commissions supposedly earned from three companies, Al Alam, Senjo and PayEasy, based in Dubai, Singapore and Manila, respectively. Wirecard money flowed into all three but the only do ented flows in reverse existed in the German conglomerate’s imagination. Or, as the now imprisoned former CEO Markus Braun claims, it had been funneled away to a complex web of offshore accounts controlled by his then number two, Jan Marsalek.

    Marsalek, the man responsible for overseeing the forging of company records, money-laundering, and extensive espionage and harassment campaigns against the journalists and speculators who exposed the enormity of Wirecard’s graft, fled in a sinuous route from Germany to Austria to Belarus to Moscow on June 19, 2020, at a moment when COVID-19 lockdowns made movement across borders more difficult than usual for ordinary citizens. But Marsalek is not only an internationally accused swindler. He is also an agent of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, and he has been for the last decade. More recently, since his defection to Russia, he has also done jobs for the FSB.

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    https://theins.ru/en/politics/269612

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    Bulgaria ceases oil imports from Russia

    Bulgaria has enacted a complete ban on the import of Russian oil into the country effective today, 1 March.

    Source: Bulgarian news outlet BGNES

    Details: "A complete ban on Russia's oil imports to our country comes into effect today, following the ban on exports of products made from Russian raw materials on 1 January," the news agency reported.

    Russia's war against Ukraine was the reason for the ban. Disputes have been raging in the Bulgarian parliament since mid-2023. Some parties called for a complete ban on Russian oil to be introduced. Bulgaria's National Assembly [parliament] adopted a decision that introduced a gradual reduction of Russian oil imports from the beginning of this year.

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    https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/1/7444569/

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    Blame Bud, Dumps.

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    Bout time, it's only been 2 years & 6,600 dead Ukrainian Nazi's.

    tee, hee.

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    When Russia has spies, BAD.
    When U.S. has spies, GOOD. And Hollywood makes a bundle.

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    I'm just a sheep... BaaaaBaaaaBaaa
    When's the last time you visited Ukraine?

    Imagine simping over such a corrupt hole like Ukraine but then again you simp for Biden too. Obviously your simping knows no bounds.

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    When's the last time you visited Ukraine?

    Imagine simping over such a corrupt hole like Ukraine but then again you simp for Biden too. Obviously your simping knows no bounds.
    Right on, 21 is the worst simper I've ever encountered on these Boards. I've never liked him and I always will.

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    ing legend


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    When's the last time you visited Ukraine?

    Imagine simping over such a corrupt hole like Ukraine but then again you simp for Biden too. Obviously your simping knows no bounds.
    You hate to see it

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    Sounds like you already folded.

    I speak about the massive open-ended financial cost of the war, and you want to talk about something else... anything else.

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    The Germans ed around


    Will they find out?

    No idea



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    Cannot call Russian's cowards.

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    When's the last time you visited Ukraine?

    Imagine simping over such a corrupt hole like Ukraine but then again you simp for Biden too. Obviously your simping knows no bounds.
    I always love how your posts demonstrate your internal stupidity. You of course have never been to UKR and are poorly educated. You would think that would prevent you from making declarations but there is no stopping the stupid with Joey.

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    Sounds like you already folded.

    I speak about the massive open-ended financial cost of the war, and you want to talk about something else... anything else.
    Already sa8d the ROI is better than almost any other foreign aid ATM.

    What part of that do you not understand?

    Do you need your hand held here?

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    Already sa8d the ROI is better than almost any other foreign aid ATM.

    What part of that do you not understand?

    Do you need your hand held here?
    You've given no reason that survives even the slightest scrutiny that this is a great ROI.

    You've already admitted you don't think Ukraine can take back all its territory. But you want to spend an unlimited amount trying to do that?

    I kind of doubt you can manage your own finances if this is really how you think.

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    Will they find out?

    No idea

    Well, it's not like we didn't know these conversations were happening. Macron has now publicly floated the idea of putting (combat?) troops in Ukraine.

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    The Germans ed around


    Will they find out?

    No idea


    They ain't had to go out to their "Dover AFB" in over 80 years. That's like money from home. They ain't risking that. Not for money, marbles, nor chalk.

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    Well, it's not like we didn't know these conversations were happening. Macron has now publicly floated the idea of putting (combat?) troops in Ukraine.
    ...Blinken & Biden have their hands up Macron's back like a ventriloquist. He's saying what they tell him to say.

    Losing Ardvark like that has scared America and the Nazi's in Ukraine something fearsome.

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