Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

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--Russian soldiers admit they didn’t expect to be frozen either. If there was any army in the world that would have cold weather gear you’d expect it to be Russia – but not.

Didn't that happen back in the Winter War too?

Which is why one would expect them to be ready this time.

Well, you know that quote about not learning from history that's attributed on various web pages to Georg Hegel, George Bernard Shaw, and George Santayana...

In his Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte (Lectures on the Philosophy of History), G.W.F. Hegel wrote: "Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, daß Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen wären, gehandelt haben."

Google Translate, given this input from Detect Language to English, output: "But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history and acted on the lessons that should have been learned from it."

Within John Brunner's Hugo- and BSFA-winning non-novel Stand on Zanzibar, Chad C. Mulligan, after starting with the most common paraphrase of "Papa Hegel" in his The Hipcrime Vocab's definition of history, observed, "I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view."