Posted on 09/19/2014 6:14:44 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
(Reuters) - Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania launched a joint military force on Friday that Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said could start its first exercises in the tense region in the next year.
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With the Russian Army quickly broken by Air power, any pro-Russian partisans would probably go back to ground.
Anyway, so it gets nasty, if Russia invades us and we have to fight then it sure wouldn’t be nasty like we were facing during the Cold War, when Russia was powerful and capable of, and built for an attack on Europe.
I’ll just take your comment to mean that you didn’t follow the results of the last election in Ukraine.
With old women wearing colanders on their heads. Maybe the Russians aren't all they're cracked-up to be.
Personally, As an American, I just want to avoid American boys involved in a ground war in the Ukraine vs. Russia (whether straight up or by semi-proxy)... which may be harder than our Generals tend to think it might be. These things can escalate.
...and as a human being I would hope we can avoid a couple hundred thousand casualties on whichever side and the devastation war usually brings to an area.
I’m just saying that both sides will think they are right, and you can’t change their minds.
Still we should be sending the Ukrainians the weapons they need to repel the invaders.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! Ukraine’s Poroshenko begging Congress for military aid: “Can’t win a war with a blanket!”
but, we can send all the muslems military supplies that will be taken by terrorists... where is the logic?
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