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: > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29951): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29951 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105561161/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
