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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 9:30 PM
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Ooooh! I'm on "ignore"! Got tired of losing arguments? :-)

It became clear that Reality wasn’t your thing. Besides, I normally don’t make time for thin-skinned posters who cry when they get even mild pushback to the punches they throw.

But for this thread I’m making an exception.

Not yet. But it will.

Everyone said this 2 years ago and it hasn’t happened. So all you’re doing is saying “Let’s kick Putin in the nuts down to the last Ukrainian”.

Great strategy. Not.

the map isn't going to change.

I see the problem. Your knowledge of the scenario is frozen in amber from oh, 2023.

He didn't learn the lessons of the USSR in Afghanistan, nor the British in Afghanistan, nor the USA in Afghanistan, nor Vietnam, nor Iraq... And, unlike most of

You have zero idea what you’re talking about. The AQU-style “insurgency” that you think is going on isn’t what is going on. I’ll ask you the question that Al keeps ducking. You’re a dad in Mariupol and Putin has your kids in Siberia.

How willing are you going to be to go out and plant roadside bombs?

Read more on this topic. You might realize that your yard sign approach to strategy wilts under the blazing light of actual fact.
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