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applegrove

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6. It isn't a pissing contest. Putin is the aggressor.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 27, 2014, 11:47 PM

Apr 2014

The object is to make it so expensive for Putin that he goes back to wrestling bears and doing torso shots to fullfill his ego instead of reconstituting the USSR.

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Pissing contests, especially nuclear ones, are soooo entertaining. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #5

It isn't a pissing contest. Putin is the aggressor. applegrove Apr 2014 #6

At the risk of war? Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #7

A lot of Russia's defense industry is in eastern Ukraine /nt jakeXT Apr 2014 #8