Posted on 12/21/2022 11:03:14 PM PST by Freedom56v2
“What do Adolf Hitler and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have in common..”
Antichrist.
Strong Delusion: 2 Thess.
I did not like Zelensky talking about “GLOBAL” this and that...at this whatever it was tonight with both houses of congress applauding and giving standing O...
Always makes hair on my neck stiffen...
What about us?
Early on during the vax mandates phase when hospitals were firing huge numbers of nurses and med personnel for not wanting vax after calling them heroes, a group of nurses in Charlotte, NC, posted this song with a video...(I have never been a fan of Pink but it fit the situation. Family member who shared vid w/me is hosp. microbiologist...)
Of course very poignant video was removed from YouTube as misinformation, but the song seems to work for how I and perhaps many We the People are feeling these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhqGBB1ShwM
I PRAY for our country and our children.
Zelensky may be a useful provocateur from Putin’s point of view, serving to draw in NATO and thus provide opportunity for Putin. While Biden facilitates. Three socialists doing what socialists do: break everything.
IMHO, Zelensky is more and more worried about morale, and he wishes to “cancel the negative waves.”
But I think he should live with the risk, given that, without a few thousand more artillery field pieces, plus 4 x that number of barrels, plus 10,000 x that number of accurate ammo rounds, Ukraine forces will have a very tough time just holding the line.
Ukraine forces are having a very tough time trying to hold the trench lines - absent artillery support, and absent small mortar fire support.
In 70-72, Chief Infantry Branch sent me back to college for two years around to finish my degree. I was very lucky. Bush 1 and 2 both knew zip. Hussein had Iran in check.
Then we used one well thought out mission with two SF A teams leading the Northern Alliance and those south. In a few months they won. When is the regular Army going to understand that UW is not their business? Look at all those we have had KIA and/or lost limbs from IED’s. Damn sad.
Interesting. Perhaps you can comment on why most of the casualties in Iraq came about over ambushes and bombings of US forces on highways. Most US military vehicles have been designed for several decades to have cross country mobility capacity. Why then did motor vehicle echelon movements always used highways. In some cases, the line of communication from the Green Zone to Baghdad International Airport for instance, there was no choice as it was totally through an urban landscape. However, much of the operational area was open and often semi-arid or desert terrain. Using the highways for most missions made US forces highly visible targets. Am I wrong in this perception, or, if I m correct , was was such a tactical MO embraced?
You are dead on target as this was idiotic. Never did I ride in any vehicle on a road in Vietnam, much less in Cambodia. Why not fly supplies and REMF troops in choppers and fixed wing like 130’s and 123’s. I would never put any US soldier on any MSR.
The more shocking number is $66bn... that's what Ukraine's entire national budget was in 2021. Not just military. Everything.
In the last 10 months, the EU has "loaned" (laundered) $40bn through them, Biden has pushed $100bn, and UK has added another $15bn.
Anyone who isn't outraged by what's going on here by now simply doesn't want to face reality, or is in on the scam.
In Viet Nam there were large convoy operations. I was a passenger on more than one of these. However, these were large convoys guarded by up gunned M-114s and generally several M-60 tanks and ‘gun trucks’ with automatic cannon. Ambushes were regular battles. Life Magazine bought pictorial coverage of one such event in 1966. Everything I saw in Iraq was overwhemingly sxmall convoys and often no real coverage. Thes invite hit and run attacks and mines which produced most casualties. Between Viet Nam and Iraq I would pick Viet Nam any day. I am not being contemptuous of Americans who were in Iraq, all I can say is many seemed like young strong men who enlisted to ‘fight terrorism’ and didn’t have a clue what was going on in Iraq or what they were supposed to be accomplishing. Along with this, the enemy hit and run Arab type of combat left many of them with pretty severe PTSD and they were very shaken up and disoriented young men. US military leadership appeared to have no real tactical ideas as to how to defeat the enemy. Readers comments appreciated.
You don’t need money trees as long as you have gullable sheep to shear.
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Zelenski AND Fauci are on the same level of utter hatred for me!!!
I disagree unless you are speaking of Saigon to Long Binh type routes. Tell me all about the Pleiku to Duc Co convoys. The Ban Me Thout to Duc Lap? How about YOUR MOS? Mine is 31542.
BFL
M-14’s. Then 16’s. We had CAR 15’s and AK’s. It depended on mission.
yeah, but he’s a snappy dresser and a dancer extrodinaire!
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