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Mike Marvin's avatar

If history means anything, then "Citizen Soldiers" can be very, very dangerous to a professional army. Here it is: It was the guys with whom we went to high school and college who faced Nazi machine gunners on Omaha Beach. It was that dopy kid down the block who got killed in Guadalcanal but saved four others in the action. It was the 2nd string halfback who ran the satchel charges into the Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima. And, as I heard them say aboard the Enola Gay a few days ago, "We were just ordinary citizens, really, and all we really cared about was ending the war and getting home." The Nazis were surprised and lost. The Japanese were brutal and tough and they lost. Now, it's Russians facing a bunch of Citizen Soldiers who, no surprise here, don't want Russians taking their country away from them. This war will likely end in real estate partitions with the perception that the Russian were beaten. It's looking this way.

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Judith Testa's avatar

"Victory Day parade in Moscow. There was Putin looking like somebody had just run over his favorite dog, surrounded by a cast of generals and admirals who looked like they had been rolled out of a wax museum and positioned around him like flesh-colored statues."

BRILLIANT-- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

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