The Russians
"The Third Army alone, and with damn few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them, and it will take six years and cost 6 million lives."
He also thought them to be less European, and more Asiatic, and therefore offered that the Russian "thinks deviously."
My personal favorite:
"I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them."
As an ethnic German, why does Trump love the Russians so much? Doesn't he believe Patton?
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Dang greasy Slavs
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You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"creepycoug said:Remember Patton's words:
"The Third Army alone, and with damn few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them, and it will take six years and cost 6 million lives."
He also thought them to be less European, and more Asiatic, and therefore offered that the Russian "thinks deviously."
My personal favorite:
"I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them."
As an ethnic German, why does Trump love the Russians so much? Doesn't he believe Patton? -
We've all played Risk. It's impossible to hold Asia. You're everyone's card trade.PurpleThrobber said:
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"creepycoug said:Remember Patton's words:
"The Third Army alone, and with damn few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them, and it will take six years and cost 6 million lives."
He also thought them to be less European, and more Asiatic, and therefore offered that the Russian "thinks deviously."
My personal favorite:
"I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them."
As an ethnic German, why does Trump love the Russians so much? Doesn't he believe Patton? -
Australia is the key to the game.Mosster47 said:
We've all played Risk. It's impossible to hold Asia. You're everyone's card trade.PurpleThrobber said:
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"creepycoug said:Remember Patton's words:
"The Third Army alone, and with damn few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them. Someday we will have to fight them, and it will take six years and cost 6 million lives."
He also thought them to be less European, and more Asiatic, and therefore offered that the Russian "thinks deviously."
My personal favorite:
"I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them."
As an ethnic German, why does Trump love the Russians so much? Doesn't he believe Patton? -
I once said on this board that I wasn’t scared of Russia and I stand by that. I ain’t fucking scared of Russia. But that does not mean they won’t try us.
Read a history book, men like Putin all want the same thing. It’s not to be buddy buddy with a greater country. It’s not to be BFFs with a reality tv star. He wants to be in those history books. If you think sitting down with Trump changed that then you’re delusional. -
No racist crap
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Everyone tries us. Top DAWGS get that treatment
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Douglas MacArthur wanted to nuke multiple cities in China. And now here we are.
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At bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity. Originally, this was insecurity of a peaceful agricultural people trying to live on vast exposed plain in neighborhood of fierce nomadic peoples. To this was added, as Russia came into contact with economically advanced West, fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies in that area. But this latter type of insecurity was one which afflicted rather Russian rulers than Russian people; for Russian rulers have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of Western countries. For this reason they have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between Western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within. And they have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it. - George Kennan, 1946
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Someone should have clued Teddy and the democrats into all this keen insight on Russia
This isn't news to most of us. Welcome aboard to the rest
