 Editor in Chief Bill   | 09 Mar 2022 5:52 a.m. PST |
I know that these are trying times, but that does not mean that forum rules have been suspended. You cannot make personal attacks against other forum members, no matter what you think their views are. And no, just because we won't let you insult someone doesn't mean that we're "pro-Putin". |
| Choctaw | 09 Mar 2022 7:17 a.m. PST |
Can I say that I think Jerry Jones is an idiot for not paying our punter? |
| redbanner4145 | 09 Mar 2022 7:17 a.m. PST |
Bill, If I thought for a second you were "pro-Putin" I'd be long gone. |
| NWMike | 09 Mar 2022 2:08 p.m. PST |
Neutrality only aids the criminal, never the victim. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 09 Mar 2022 9:17 p.m. PST |
Civility is not the same as neutrality. |
Dn Jackson  | 10 Mar 2022 3:24 a.m. PST |
I happen to think that you are a mean old poopy head. You know who you are…… |
| Umpapa | 10 Mar 2022 7:22 a.m. PST |
I agree with Bill. However I wonder: if Putin were member of our forum, could we insult him or not? |
| Zeelow | 10 Mar 2022 11:23 a.m. PST |
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 Mserafin | 10 Mar 2022 12:50 p.m. PST |
if Putin were member of our forum, could we insult him or not? I think everyone collectively stifling him would be civil, but still send the right message. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 11 Mar 2022 8:45 p.m. PST |
If Putin was a wargamer, he would have known better than to start this war. |
 Legion 4 | 13 Mar 2022 9:40 a.m. PST |
If he was a wargamer … he was not a very good one … |
 deadhead | 13 Mar 2022 1:11 p.m. PST |
The idea that the reported 180,000 soldiers "massed" around Ukraine could conquer, let alone occupy, a country the size of France, relied completely on a lack of any significant resistance. Now that happened in Crimea and, decades ago in Czechoslovakia, but could not be expected here. I am not sure 500,000 would have been enough. What we have seen is awful logistics in supplying what is too small a force anyway and tactical incompetence by the feared Russian Army. Am I the only one who has some sympathy for the conscripts who had no idea what they faced? What about the courage needed to demonstrate on Red Square or Nevsky Prospekt against the war? Where is the Stauffenberg who can save Russia and restore friendship with what can be really nice folk? The courage of the Ukrainians goes without saying. Like the Finns in 1939, who are legends to this day. I do feel that the enmity will last long after this war, however it turns out. |
| deadhead | 15 Mar 2022 4:46 a.m. PST |
It would be a sad old world if we could not occasionally "let off steam"…indeed that is just what Putin's Russia will not allow. Crimea has mortal remains of many a Briton, a Frenchman or a Turk (not to mention every end of the Imperial Russian Empire) |
