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US Can't Deal with Defeat | Michael Brenner | Consortium News (consortiumnews.com)
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The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff โ€” since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, the first time they used them was March last year. There's some hilarious cope in western media about a patriot intercepting one but it happened at like twenty meters above the patriot launcher, and the launcher was destroyed.