Posted on 03/10/2022 8:42:29 AM PST by Mariner
You ain’t big enough.
I don’t think it really matters. Those nazi women in labor and babies deserved to die. /s
I can remember when an artillery battery of six guns on a live-fire exercise fired three rounds each on an axis exactly 180 degrees opposite to where they should have been targeted. 18 rounds hit a farm near Copperas Cove, Texas, outside the limits of the Fort Hood range.
I was the stenographer for the III Corps command investigation ... and the Army ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace livestock, two barns, and a farmhouse. Luckily, the family in the house was not physically harmed.
Or someone screwed up.
Or someone didnt give a @#$% and dropped it randomly.
Or it was the sort of random thing that just happens in wars.
It’s war. Bad things happen.
The biggest mistake in hindsight was not having a formal conference, like Helsinki in 1975, to approve the borders of the new countries after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Would have saved us a lot of trouble.
Here is what Russia will say next .
The Ukrainians tricked them and had something military related in the hospital .
That’s the next page on their playbook.
One of the things Freepers have generally enjoyed is knowing both sides of any issue or conflict....and making their own decisions about a conflict. However in this conflict we have people who ‘assume’ one is supproting one side or the other ....and can’t contain their emotions.
It’s not which side one is on it’s what’s happening there and informing us......which they fail to see.
That sounds right from the photo I saw, probably one of the ones you put up. The injuries I saw in other photos looked like glass cuts. Good thing it wasn’t a direct hit.
I always speculated it would have been more like this in 1939.
Everybody calling each other “Hitler Lovers” “Stalin Lovers” “FDR Lovers” “Limey Lovers”, etc.
If Trump were still in office, this never would have happened - but now that the Russians are openly violating international norms and international law, sitting here watching and wringing hands (or just echoing the flood of Russian disinformation) isn't a useful option.
Putin may be crazy, but isn't going to initiate WWIII over the Ukrainian mess - he has to know, that even if the folks in our subs and silos are were pink tutus to work (thank you General Milley), our crap works and is far more accurate than their stuff (They know it because while we were destroying our Pershing IIs during the execution of the INF Treaty, our missiles were capable of being sent to their home addresses, not just somewhere "around Moscow") They know full well that they (and China) will cease to exist when that first nuke flies.
Russia was in no condition to participate in such adjustments unfortunately. It was too politically unstable. So also Ukraine.
Breakups of empires always inevitably lead to the next war.
Remember the high school from last week...
But did they hit the Baby Milk factory?
Nah, these types are always "Let's you Ukrainians and the Russians fight!", as they disappear out the back door to the next "violent keyboard confrontation"...
“If Trump were in office…”
I see this line repeated often, and I wonder if it’s true. Right up until the start of this war Trump was calling Putin a “genius”.
If in fact Putin could count on the full support of Donald Trump then why wouldn’t he have more confidence to invade Ukraine knowing that the US would not interfere?
I’m just thinking out loud here. Perhaps the reason why Putin would not have invaded would be because the US would not have so aggressively, along with NATO forces, pushed for such an invasion.
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