Posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Letter to Congress from American Veteran in Ukraine Jake Broe [I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N). 437K subscribers 2-24-2024 17:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg49VcsWvd8
Excerpt: "Jake is sharing an opinion piece from an American Service veteran currently in Ukraine. An American Veteran plea arm Ukraine or Surrender Freedom. This man's name is John Roberts call sign name is Jackie Not everyone has and uses social media. Not everyone wants to be on camera.
So today, I'm going to use my platform and my voice to share his message. This is the piece that he wrote for the Kiev Independent and I'm going to read it in its entirety as an American in Avdiivka.
What is Congress doing?
I am an American Military veteran: call sign name is Jackie. I am writing from Donbas, Ukraine. I'm originally from Orange County California. I served in the US military for 8 years stationed in Colorado, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. I also worked as a contractor at the John F Kennedy special Warfare Center in North Carolina helping prepare our future special operators.
As an American Soldier, I have always been interested in our national security and Global interests. I am currently an assault instructor serving in the third assault Brigade in elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A few days ago, we came to the rescue of Ukrainian forces who had been enduring the Russian attack on the town of Avdiivka. Our Fighters quickly destroyed two Russian brigades and kept a corridor open for Ukrainians from Avdiivka to retreat from the town. Our soldiers are true professionals undisturbed by the massive Russian Firepower being flung at them and fighting hard to gain and maintain the corridor.
One thing I teach my students is to conduct shaping operations. Essentially, to take steps by using alternative means such as artillery air power drones in our case or electronic warfare to prepare the battlefield for success of our infantry to capture their final positions. My students are very excited to employ these techniques. They train on them and use them in the battle frequently.
Ukrainian soldiers are highly motivated to fight efficiently and reduce casualties as they are making their transition from Soviet to Nato doctrinal Warfare. Our Brigade is leading this transition and using shaping operations at every level possible. Even down to the squad, we make plans, we do reconnaissance, we task support assets and we review our actions after battle to learn what we did well and what we need to change. We admit our successes and failures and we improve and grow ourselves as professionals. Because of this in battle, we are confident and unrelenting.
On the ground in Avdiivka, we felt the results of current US politics with full force.
We are accustomed to fighting with less artillery than Russia. We have already developed clever ways of using Precision fire to counter Russian Artillery. Our artillery soldiers use their U.S. provided weapons efficiently and effectively to battle the second largest military in the world. So, that while our assaulters have cover, we pierce like needles to rapidly cut Russian critical arteries. We are used to fighting under strength. We are intelligently adapted and trained to push ourselves to the highest level of combat performance. But, we cannot deliver Miracles.
We have already delivered many miracles in this war and and I sure we will continue to do so. BUT, hoping for miracles is not a reliable way to win a war.
I need to go pray and say goodbye to some more of my students and friends. These soldiers, these men and women, are incredible people. It takes weeks to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are able to learn in hours. Their standards and self- expectations are high. They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt. Every time they fail in training they get angry with themselves and repeat the task until it is right. I have never had to ask them to stay late or work harder. They hardly sleep. They don't complain and most of them have families. Besides not getting to spend time with their families these soldiers know that this fight is for their future and for their safety.
I am extremely disappointed in a super minor minority decision in Congress to block funding for Ukraine. They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn't have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950. Our decision and ability as Americans to have funding for something we supposedly want has nothing to do with enabling Ukraine's current defense.
The problem in the US that this super minority in Congress is citing to block funding has endured since the founding of our nation in the 1700s has nothing to do with Ukraine in 2024. I am sure that France in 1776 could have come up with many excuses not to support American colonists fighting for independence from British subjugation. Foreign support in arms enabled Congress to stand today.
Now we are tasked to keep the light of Freedom lit for others. The current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants to pour water on that fire.
We are fighting hard against impossible odds. All you need to do is help from a distance and that is a good thing for Americans. You do not want to come here. The Ukrainians are dying and it is not out of our ignorance or accident. They are dedicated to their Liberation from Soviet values and Russian oppression. They are spilling oceans of blood to join the free democracies of the world.
Ukrainians who enjoy an average income of something like $5,000 a year are the largest public donors to the war. Ukrainian soldiers purchased most of their professional equipment with their own income. This economy was already struggling before The Invasion and there are still not enough resources to fight and equip everyone.
Ukrainians are doing everything and giving everything they have for this. And, they will not stop. They are fighting for their future and they will not give-up on their future. They will not surrender to Russian capture and enslavement. They received a soft Independence in 1991 which they turned into complete self-governance and independence by 2014.
Now, Russia has come to crush them.
Thanks to U.S. Aid, Ukrainians have not been crushed. Thanks to U.S. Aid, they have taught the second largest military power in the world that might doesn't make right. Where is the Russian cruiser Moskva? Thanks to U.S. Aid, a new free nation is being born in the world.
Ukraine is not giving up. Americans we cannot give up either. I can say from living in California, Colorado, and North Carolina, that I love the United States. I love the peace and prosperity that I enjoy in the U.S. I have been to enough places around the world to know that we are blessed with the lives we live and even the hardships we sometimes endure... (con't)"
>I have seen many such complaints on these threads.
Maybe you werent one of these, but one case doesnt make policy.<
Oh stop with the feeble excuses.
If you’re going to post frequently on FR, you should know who wants to receive your posts and who doesn’t.
Make a list if you have to. It’s not rocket science.
“Does our willful cluelessness make you feel even more superior?”
You make me feel anxious. All my assets are in the US, placed my bets long ago and I thought things had gone well... but not anymore. The people in charge aren’t trustworthy, from the President down to the average voter. You, for instance.
Besides my personal situation - The main threat to the world at this time is the internal state of the US. It looks terrible at the top and going by FR, its no better at the bottom. You are going to destroy each other and yourselves, out of greed, madness, demonic possession, and arrogant, willful cluelessness. You guys are entirely capable of destroying the world out of crankiness and pique.
>You make me feel anxious. All my assets are in the US, placed my bets long ago and I thought things had gone well... but not anymore. The people in charge aren’t trustworthy, from the President down to the average voter. You, for instance.
Besides my personal situation - The main threat to the world at this time is the internal state of the US. It looks terrible at the top and going by FR, its no better at the bottom. You are going to destroy each other and yourselves, out of greed, madness, demonic possession, and arrogant, willful cluelessness. You guys are entirely capable of destroying the world out of crankiness and pique.<
Don’t blame me, or any American for that matter, if you lose your a$$.
You should have paid closer attention.
“Since you have such low regard for Americans”
I HAD a very high regard for Americans. The generation I worked with was superlative. There was a reason US productivity was so high. Those guys were absolute animals at professional learning and becoming self educated. They were creative, brilliant, self-sacrificing, responsible to a fault - nothing more can be said. The guy who introduced me to all the ins and outs of Homeric translations was a manufacturing engineer.
That famous scene in Apollo 13? I’ve been there, done that (on different sorts of problems), with people who were drawn with great accuracy by the filmmakers. For an engineer that was heaven.
How far we have all fallen. Those men are gone, now. What we have left here - is you. You don’t measure up, at all. You are sub-standard, poorly made, unformed, and poor material should you even think of becoming something better.
The contrast between the superlative and the dross has made me bitter.
“Don’t blame me, or any American for that matter, if you lose your a$$.”
I do blame you. It is your personal, social and political failure that put you where you are. And me. And all of us.
The guy who got me into close reading of St. Thomas’ “Summa” was a robotics programmer. The guy who introduced me to medieval plainsong was an astrophysicist working on curve fitting algorithms for aerospace parts manufacture.
Are you the same sort of being as them? Are you the same sort of human, biologically compatible? You who so proudly reject learning anything? It is hard to imagine. It is distressing to realize to what state “Americans” have devolved.
The message is for everyone.
“No personal attacks please, everybody practice civility.”
Violations can be linked to me in FR mail by clicking on my name at the bottom of this post.
Oh! There you are! :-)
You seemed to have missed my original ping…not sure how.
Glad you saw this one.
😉
From your homepage …
And if you are trying to embarrass another Freeper by recalling his inconvenient comments from prior threads, THAT is also “making it personal” and I will pull it to avoid a flame war.
If you see a violation of the RF guidelines, send me a link by clicking on my name below.
“As an American Soldier, I have always been interested in our national security and Global interests.”
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If you are truly interested in AMERICA’S national security…. YOU’RE ON THE WRONG BORDER. And if you’re interested in OUR Global interests, Ukraine is not one of them. You’re VERY CONFUSED.
Will do.
Thanks!!
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