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Most excellent news - already signed up. On an interesting tangent, I recently saw two separate analyses of the Ukraine war, and both of them said that eventually Ukraine will win. A Chinese Russian scholar laid out the geopolitical hurdles for Russia. The other one is far more interesting because it puts statistics to the situation. Russia has only 18-24 months left to prosecute the war in Ukraine. They are drawing down the vast stocks of old Soviet weapons that can be reworked and refurbished, and their losses are far in excess of what they can refurbish and produce. In 18-24 months, they will have run out of the old stored vehicles and guns that can be rebuilt, and their new production is crippled by the lack of advanced computer chips in sufficient quantities and the lack of labor (Russia currently has a shortage of 5 million workers and the economy is suffering from this deficiency). Also the central bank has told Putin that the bank cannot keep the economy stable in the current war economic conditions..... The icing on the cake is that if Putin persists in trying to defeat Ukraine, he will bleed the Russian military to the point that Russia will not be able to wage any wars on anyone. In 10-15 years Russia's declining population guarantees they will not be able to mount large-scale operations. If this does play out this way, that's one major world disrupter taken off the board.....

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Meaning, GET THE UKRAINE AID THERE ALREADY!!!

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Fuckin' A!

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Thank you Bruce, for those excellent bits of encouragement. If you missed my response to Tom above,

EXACTLY! Use this too: <jamesmichaeljohnson983@gmail.com>

Hit the Mo Fo Hard, if he has not cancelled his personal gmail acct because of so many of us whacking him for his BS. A & E are inverted, just like his brain.

This was his first response to me with the right wing telegram address.

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Thu, Feb 15, 5:47 AM

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EXACTLY! Use this too: <jamesmichaeljohnson983@gmail.com>

Hit the Mo Fo Hard, if he has not cancelled his personal gmail acct because of so many of us whacking him for his BS. A & E are inverted, just like his brain.

This was his first response to me with the right wing telegram address.

James Micheal Johnson <jamesmichealjohnson983@gmail.com>

Thu, Feb 15, 5:47 AM

to me

Text me on telegram

Using this link

https://t.me/jamesmichealjohnson

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One should also point out that the other major disrupter (China) is also heading for a premature end to its Asian hegemony, courtesy of a catastrophic population collapse resulting from several factors, mainly the "one-child" policy in force for 40 years. The second half of this century will likely be vastly different from the first half.....too bad I won't see it.

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Thank you Tom. She is great. I don't know what to do. I sit here reading so many Substacks a day that I'm losing muscle tone in my legs. I'm at $150/mo already, too. Yikes!

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Thanks for the heads up Tom. All of her writings are a must read.

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Thanks for this, Tom. Applebaum is excellent!

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Thanks Tom, I signed up on the spot, Anne has a brilliant mind, I subscribe to The Atlantic just to read her thoughts. ;-)

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