Posted on 09/02/2014 3:51:36 PM PDT by tcrlaf
I think us defeating them in the Afghan war that they fought from 1979 to 1989, broke them and their army and demoralized them, as much as Reagan opposed them everywhere else and was outclassing them in Europe with missiles and SDI, he stripped their national pride and confidence in the military, during their decade in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan kept undermining their ability to bluff their way through the Reagan years, hoping to hang on until another president came into office.
We’ve still got another year and some of Obama to go.
Why in God’s name are we going to the Ukraine.
Not our circus
Not our monkeys.
Actually 871 days to go.
When you’ve got an ulcerated hemorrhoid in the white house time is irrelevant.
Because we do annual training exercises there.
Maybe it is time to stop and do annual training exercises on the Texas border, which is actually our business.
“it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
“a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
Active Duty ping.
National defense is the business of our military, that means training exercises like this one.
BURKO NEWS [BING TRANSLATION]
“A summary of today did not write, not physically, but personally, for myself I would like to highlight the interesting moments: 1) today on the part of the Molodogvardejska in the direction of Krasnodon was two big columns technology fighters (tanks, Trucks). This technique may be drawn with lines Of what would later emerge in a completely unexpected place. For example, in Donetsk, after going through the Sverdlovsk and Makeyevka.
2) in the border areas there are few cases of sudden onset of auto-mobile communication MTS, which was for a long time, as soon as the villages are rašisty and are searching for the wounded Ukrainian soldiers to hide the locals. In particular, a similar incident occurred in the vicinity of the villages of Starobeshevo. Experts note that rašisty to identify soldiers on a signal of the phones using a set of special-purpose type “Lizard GSM”.
3) think the key events of the war in Ukraine pripadut in mid-September or early October. It is worth noting that in September in Ukraine scheduled several traditional international military exercises, with the participation of United States and NATO allies: from 16 to 26 September there will be a military exercise Exercise Rapid Trident 2014-(quick Trident “)-and 8 September, with the participation of the United States, Canada, Turkey, Spain, Romania and Ukraine in the Black Sea will exercise Sea Breeze (” sea-breeze-2014 “). It is possible that if Russians have nerves and a drunken officer accidentally release a missile at a u.s. ship, the entire Russian gang in Sevastopol and on the approaches to the Ukrainian mainland by the peninsula comes quick and irreversible end. (I can dream, thoughts are material:).) “
The negative consequences occurred because we did not follow up with effective support for / to the new pro-West Afghan gov’t, so that they could fight off the Pakistan (and others) supported Taliban. The original action was correct and effective.
Oh, good grief. The Italian Navy alone, at least as it now stands, could send the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet to the bottom and (mostly) come home to tell the tale. That’d send ol’ Putey-Pute a message. Do you maintain the US has less capability than Italy?
Similarly, Ukraine has the manpower to reverse an invasion by Russia, in the long run — Ukraine just doesn’t have enough modern weaponry to do it NOW.
In one sense though, a few of our guys in an exercise in western Ukraine, scheduled 2 years ago, IS only symbolic at best. “Moves” with no risk are usually useless. Now, if our guys were shepherding a large shipment of arms to Ukraine, that might be different.
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