Assuming Ukraine executes a perfect elastic defense indefinitely.. it's not really how that works.

#10 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

The Civil War was 159 years ago. We still have not defeated the Confederacy and its hateful ideology. Confederates stormed the US capitol and it appears now they have completely regained their strength and have taken over the entire U.S. government.

You really skip the critical part of a thinking. By that logic, we didn't defeat the Nazis either, nor Imperial Japan. Nobody has ever defeated anybody without a complete extermination of the ideology.

... not really how that works.

#39 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

What a wildly genocidal concept. They're not really defeated if you don't exterminate their belief system.

#40 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Which was basically my point.

Genocide wasn't necessary. Being firm and unwavering in support of the Constitution and holding them accountable to the law as we tried with the Nazis would have gone a long way to dampening down the damage.

Not sure about Imperial Japan. I don't see their ideology being spread on the internets. Maybe I just don't hang out in those dark corners like you. Seems to me we did defeat that ideology. Though it may have a resurgence thru nostalgia or some such.

And yes. We did defeat the Nazis but not Nazi ideology. That is correct. Apparently it escaped to Argentina and is now all over the internets and even in the White House.

No. We did not defeat the ideology of hate that the southern man has for the black man. Jim Crow proved that. And now the confederate flag and its ideology is being paraded proudly around in the White House and the traitors statues are being cleaned and restored.

Reconciliation was a complete failure.

The biggest mistake we made was not hanging JD and a few of the southern "generals". And as maga has discovered education is the key. Teaching Americans our history and how to behave as civilized humans is imperative. And they will not allow any more of that nonsense.

Here is the real point.

Russia cannot defeat Ukraine unless it kills all of the Ukrainians that are able to fight back.

Or else they will become either rebels or the resistance.
So 109 years from now they will still be fighting with them. Either politically or physically.

Just as we are still fighting with the confederacy. Politically and physically. Hell they may actually regain power at some point and take over the country again from Russian imperialists just as the confederates have done to the Union Federalists.

What happened was a recession and the North pulling funding from their own restoration efforts.

Nice try at rewriting history. Yes there was fascism in the north too. But it was not the north "pulling funding".

But it was President Andrew Johnson was one of the main reasons reconciliation failed. He sabotaged it from the start. And was nearly impeached for his hateful attempts at undermining the nations attempt to return to normalcy.

Because you see. Normalcy for the south was imbedded in racism and they refused to accept that their defeat in war meant they had to change the way they treated blacks.

That attitude has survived unchecked until this day.

And appears now to be ringer than ever.

US Grant won the civil war but he could not win the peace.

The assassination of Lincoln ended any hope of reconciliation right from the start just as the confederates had hoped.

history. Yes there was fascism in the north too. But it was not the north "pulling funding".

"Fascism" should have been racism.

Thanks Siri!

"Ringer" should have been stronger.

I guess I am done for now if I have to re edit all my posts.