On his youtube page, David Axe tells us, "I make weird little movies and report the news at Forbes.com."
https://www.youtube.com/@davidaxe
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Posted on 03/11/2024 6:01:48 PM PDT by Mariner
American military personnel may have been killed in a Russian strike on a United States-supplied Patriot air defense system supplied to Ukraine, according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker in comments reported by Kremlin-backed media.
When asked for a response to the claims, a spokesperson for the Pentagon told Newsweek, "I can confirm no U.S. injuries because we have no US service members in the fight."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
“The Original source is David Axe, newly connected to Forbes. And published by Forbes.”
Same thing - why is Forbes being assigned to inform the American public of our troops being in Ukraine?
On his youtube page, David Axe tells us, "I make weird little movies and report the news at Forbes.com."
https://www.youtube.com/@davidaxe
He's covered war and politics for The Daily Beast, Vice, The Village Voice, The Washington Times and C-SPAN.
Yes
JFK put US advisors in Vietnam. (If Eisenhower did it, he didn’t talk about it.) In 1969 it was half a million combat troops. Plus navy and air force.
“published by Forbes”
Forbes bought by Chinese interests:
“American military personnel may have been killed in a Russian strike on a United States-supplied Patriot air defense system supplied to Ukraine, according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker in comments reported by Kremlin-backed media.”
“Kremlin-backed media” under the control of a former Stasi operative.
We lost some good people on that one
I want to know what they are telling spouses and parents? You army AD specialist was killed crossing the street in Germany? I have no Doubt the notified knew where their desd love ones were.
I’ve seen a few vids of Americans being fratricided by nAZI Azovs they were trying to lead. One in particular when they stepped out into a mine field and the advisor tried to get them to hold in place. They murdered him for it. Lovely Ukes!
Tried to search for it, but alas, search engines seem to only carry water for Ukrainian propaganda.
“... according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker ...” - I can’t trust that they are proven liars.
“... a spokesperson for the Pentagon ...” - I can’t trust that they are proven liars.
“... told Newsweek, ...” - I can’t trust them they are proven liars.
This is the worst video I’ve seen of senseless death in a while.
Has to be an entire Ukr platoon try to move across a wide field and get mowed down by Russ Arty.
I have no words except negotiate for peace before Ukr is utterly destroyed and perhaps Russ as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9CjAfo5n0
I was in the 11th ADA in the 90s, Ft Bliss and Korea. It takes too long to train crews to operate the Patriots. It only makes sense that they were crewed by trained operators. There hasn’t been enough time to train Ukrainian crews.
You mean American-backed Ukrainians. It would have been over in weeks if not for our muscle and money. Stop pretending the Ukrainians are magical heroes.
Our money in the form of weapons for sure. But it wasn’t Americans taking out Russian armor with ATGMs or fighting at Hostomel with whatever they had before any real military aid arrived. Putin, our intel, and everyone else expected them to fold. They didn’t.
Yesterday they were in the Army, today they are civilians, and tomorrow if caught or killed, they didn’t work for us.
Our boys when caught in Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)#/media/File:Operaci%C3%B3n_Gede%C3%B3n_2020_-_SEBIN_capture.png (I think their facial hair still meets Navy and Army grooming standards)
How one defines things, how you tabulate them, and how hard you look, sometimes plays a role.
I have an old friend who retired from one of the se ret agencies... his child has left in similar employ, and the whispers indicate a fear the grown child may not surface from where no one goes.
The kid failed to lauch so to speak and hope for parents a safe return... I dread my wife getting a high probability call.
The family is is actually of a death by an accident. During Desert Shield the last couple we had dinner with before ourbgoing to Korea had her husband killed in an automobile accident during Desert Shield. I was working the J1 casualty surge planning for Desert Storm. Turned out the Army was actually still reporting his status as present for duty in Iraq. His wife had been informed a month prior and moved back to Korea to luve her children. Three days into Desert Storm his Humvee was truthfully reported as hit by Iraqi artillery fire but more than a day late and a dollar short.
It is like laundrying dirty money.
So a weapon system that’s designed to be operated by people with an 8th-grade education, and 120-days of training is incapable of being operated by people with a 12th grade education and 160-days of training? And so they had to send the 8th graders in to operate it?
Lemme guess, no UKRs wanted to operate it cuz they’d rather be in the trenches?
WTH were U.S. troops doing in YouCrayne if this story is true?
Well there have been a lot of helicopter crash lately.
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