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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: onepoorguy ⎊✺  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: El Salvador Controls Their Gang Problem
Date: 02/28/23 3:18 PM
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I agree. We need to support Ukraine completely. And, as one of his videos said a few months ago, we can do it almost for free. We (NATO nations) have stockpiles of armor that will never be used again, but is perfectly serviceable. Ship it over (which is what we are starting to do). Russia is emptying their depots of obsolete armor to put it on the front lines, also. There is an accounting cost to doing it, but it's mostly just moving numbers from one ledger to another. The armor is already there, isn't going to be used ever again (too old), so it's not like we have to spin out a new Abrams to send (costing millions). He really likes speaking about the economics of war.

But he does a better job of explaining that than I do.

Putin really stepped in it here. He galvanized NATO against him, and many member nations are sending tanks and artillery pieces to Ukraine (e.g. Poland, Germany). And he underestimated Ukraine, so a victory in two weeks has become failure to achieve most objectives after a year, and over 100K casualties. Now that western nations are supporting Ukraine, he can't win. It's just a question of how badly he will hurt Russia in the process of losing.
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