you are absolutely right, Mark --- no purges --- let us just imagine the
STRENGTH and INTENSITY of Louis' refutation -- but I bet it would have been
a decent back and forth.

So to bore people with something I suggested about two years ago --- here's
my historical analogy

(and admittedly it's not perfect)

Think of the US (aided by Australia, South Korea) imperialist effort to
stamp out the three Indochinese revolutions ---- the Vietnamese part of
that goes all the way back to 1950 ---

THough the Soviet Union was hardly a beacon of world revolution, it decided
that it was good "cold war policy" to help the Vietnamese Laotians and
Cambodians win ---- ditto for Mao's China (though Sino-Soviet conflict
sometimes interfered with help for the Indochinese) ---

I SEE THE ANALOGY TODAY -- The Ukrainians broke free of the Russian Empire
with the demise of the SOviet Union and Putin feels strong enough to try
and get (some of) if back ---

Putin is to Ukraine what the US was to Indochina --

and THEREFORE --- the US (with it's own imperial imperatives) is playing
the role the Soviets played in helping the Vietnamese beat back the US
onslaught ....

(there might even be further analogies --- the Vietnamese settled for "half
a loaf" at Geneva in 1954 (no one expected the elections to take place)
---- the Ukrainians might settle for the loss of Crimea and even some
sections of Donbass ---)

My $.04 (given inflation) --- and apologies for those who remember this
from a couple of years ago ..

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:04 AM Mark Baugher via groups.io <mark=
[email protected]> wrote:

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