you oughtta tell it, mark_b –nothing like them concrete anecdotes to put a little meat in the soup.
jeez, poul, lessee, red army smashing Germans all by itself, Europe would’ve been all Red except for D-Day, postwar red army cleans up Europe in a blink, f**king spineless coward USA should’ve fired up WWIII at any time, hare-brain me accusing you of being on Rus side, Kosovo helped jihad, Clinton blowing the Sauds –did i miss anything?
ok, first of all, the question was rhetorical, I didn’t expect an answer.
Next, i’d never diss the fighting power of Red Army WWII –hell it liberated my dad from Stalag Luft I, enabling me to be created later –so, thanks Ivan!
I don’t understand why it insults you that Red Army had some help –the material thru Murmansk & Vladivostok, the North African & Italian Campaigns, and most of all the day and night anglo-american strategic bombardment –before the great 1944 red army offensive. Facts is facts.
Nice to know that red army WAS after all on the way to the channel –I guess Patton was right about that. Also, he thought he could take 3rd Army to Moscow, but what did he know, he was only Patton, not poul.
Also, nix on your nuke theory –USA had enough –one was all Truman offered to drop on Uncle Joe unless he backed out of Turkey & Iran, and it worked.
I thought sure you’d say something about my eastern europe comment, maybe, “Those 100 million weren’t under the boot, why, they were getting free medical care, and that trying-to-escape stuff was just happy people acting silly”.
Lastly, and boy am i ready for lastly, the ”fighting jihad” element of the thing called ‘Kosovo’ was the establishing of a show of respect for Islam. Your reducing the concept to “…because clinton sucked saudi cock so hard, his ears got red’ is a nice line –i don’t like Clinton either (and BTW note that Obama has apparently pointedly disinvited Wesley Clark from any place of honor at the convention –that’s a nice touch, anti-Kosovo -wise) –but it seems that you do understand that there was the strategic side to it, too. Question remains, why didn’t the russian side control the thing –that would’ve been the natural way, and then there’d have BEEN no problem.
–BTW note i didn’t call you any names, nor bluster and cuss, nor type any naughty words into my keyboard.
