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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" 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 9:22 PM
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Actually, pretty well (as wars go).

Wow. Is this post of yours a veritable symphony of sloganeering and general gooberiness.

Right. Their GDP is zero and they have Russians making slow inexorable gains. That’s “pretty well”, eh?

the Russian boneyards are almost empty, some of the refurbished equipment going back to WWII

Really? Where are the battlefield photos of T-34s and Il-2 Sturmoviks flying overhead?

the Black Sea Fleet has been seriously injured

How many of cities was the Black Sea Fleet occupying?

Russian casualties are extremely high (with mounting complaints from the population about receiving loved ones in body bags)

Yeah there’s a rich history of protest and civil disobedience in Russia, isn’t there.

the Russian economy is foundering

the Russians aren't able to replace equipment at a rate to keep


And it hasn’t slowed down their war effort. Which would make most people question this and the above assertions, but…

As long as the west supplies Ukraine, it can be said that Russia is losing this wa

Okay, this is just silly. You know that warfighting is the trifecta of dudes, guns *and* money, right? You planning on supplying dudes? Because they’re running out of those.
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I won't address

You won’t because you can’t. Your posts on this subject are little more than ignorant pablum reminiscent of the “In this house we believe” signs that dot liberal neighborhoods. Perhaps you should sit this debate out because all you’re doing is the equivalent of saying “in this house Ukraine is free”.

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