Thought For The Day - 23 February 2022

Before there was Mitt, now taking credit for his Russian expertise, there was this guy. And, yes, it wasn't too difficult to track down the quote to verify the lower brain stem memory from, around, high school history class.

I'll say this; the Third Army alone with very little help and with damned few casualties, could lick what is left of the Russians in six weeks. You mark my words. Don't ever forget them... Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives.
-- George Patton

As noted before, wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 and Putin have a deal: the USofA gets dictatorial control of the New World and Russia gets the Old World. Remember: Ukraine has been the bread basket of Europe (not just USSR/Russia) forever. How much of Russia is frozen tundra?

In essence, roughly 68 percent of people in Russia live in the European part of the country, which makes up only 20 percent of the whole territory.

That describes Canada, too.

Canada is the second-biggest country on earth, yet over 80 per cent of the country's land is uninhabited, and most Canadians live clustered in a handful of large cities close to the U.S. border. This reality stems from Canada's unique geography, which is, all things considered, rather unfriendly to humans.

When I was in school, the figure was 80% of Canadians lived within 200 miles of the US border. Let's see what it is now, shall we?

90 per cent of Canadians who live within 160 kilometres of the U.S. border. [that's 100 miles]