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volprof said:
You just said they got along much better.

Maybe Putin said, "Hey, Dubya, think I can get me some sweet Georgia ass? If so, I'll let you keep pretending like you actually have a competent foreign policy. No biggie though, man."

Then Dubya said, "Naw, man. No big deal at all. Just get ye some Georgie ass. We all know I'm a 'Mission Accomplished' kind of guy, so ain't no folks back in the States gonna care."
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Do we really need to go through this again tonight?
 
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Velo Vol said:
It wasn't intended to be a detailed analogy. I could have more simply said that you're much more concerned with what's happening in your neighbor's backyard than you are about a yard two miles away.

And so we see Putin risking soldiers, where the U.S./NATO will send none. Putin offers $15 billion, and we offer $1 billion. The stakes are much bigger for Russia. And consequently it's much more difficult to dissuade its conduct.
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I think we are talking past each other.
 
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Fun Fact: In the last week more Americans have been accidentally shot than the number of people injured in this international crisis in Crimea.

Which place is more dangerous?
 
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Velo Vol said:
Fun Fact: In the last week more Americans have been accidentally shot than the number of people injured in this international crisis in Crimea.

Which place is more dangerous?
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Shouldn't you have provided us with information on how many people were accidentally shot in the US and how many were accidentally shot in Crimea?

Or was this just a rhetorical question?
 
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DC_Vol said:
Shouldn't you have provided us with information on how many people were accidentally shot in the US and how many were accidentally shot in Crimea?

Or was this just a rhetorical question?
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Actually, I'm thinking he is implying it's safer if we invaded the Crimea rather than have the troops stick around the US.
 
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Flashback to 2012, for the Putin apologists:

Inside Vladimir Putin's Paranoid Vision

Notably, the last time Russia lashed out as rashly as it’s doing in Ukraine was when the U.S. passed Magnitsky Act sanctions against corrupt Russian officials in 2012, and Russia responded “asymmetrically” by banning adoptions of Russian orphans by Americans. Under Kremlin rules, acting out so disproportionately made perfect sense, because the rules of the game had been thrown out the window. That’s how Putin sees the law: not as something that regulates actors’ behavior, but a framework to guide it so long as the implicit understandings are adhered to. If you violate the law — who cares? Everyone does it. But if you violate those understandings, the geopolitical gentleman’s agreement is gone.
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Too bad they don't have an opportunity to live there a few months, to see how wonderful the Russian government is.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Over 40 people are accidentally shot per day in the U.S. Two fatally.

WISQARS Nonfatal Injury Reports

How many in Crimea?
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Did you mean to post this in the I'm Scared of Guns thread?

But if it's just 1 person every four days, then it's safer here in the US. I'm going to go out on a limb and make the assumption that it's at least 1 person a day, making it 4 times as safe here. A lot of loose AKs in that part of the world.
 
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