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RonaldB's avatar

I really appreciate you and Edward Slavsquat. You don't make things happier but make them make more sense. Edward hit it out of the ballpark with his latest piece on BRICS. I'm on the cusp of a paid membership with Edward, and I'll leave a note that I heard of him through your blog.

Concerning Putin, I don't think its counter to any of your information to say Putin didn't want or expect a long, drawn-out costly war. He's not a great 3-D chess player or even 2-D chess player, as he didn't anticipate all his opponent's moves. He was checked (not checkmated) easily by the simple tactic of refusing his gambit to overrun Kiev in exchange for a reasonable, not to say extremely generous, offer for peace terms.

What you're saying is that the war is as much a mechanism for the spook agencies of both sides to win power as it is a strategic quest for a national goal. The countries and their peoples are simply milch cows for the benefit of the spook farmers.

Big Mike's avatar

Back in the ’70’s James Bond and Russian agent XXX (The Spy Who Loved Me) were cooperating in the spirit of detente, the mutual fleecing of peasants and Yom Kippur, or something like that. Same old story.

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