Posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Letter to Congress from American Veteran in Ukraine Jake Broe [I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N). 437K subscribers 2-24-2024 17:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg49VcsWvd8
Excerpt: "Jake is sharing an opinion piece from an American Service veteran currently in Ukraine. An American Veteran plea arm Ukraine or Surrender Freedom. This man's name is John Roberts call sign name is Jackie Not everyone has and uses social media. Not everyone wants to be on camera.
So today, I'm going to use my platform and my voice to share his message. This is the piece that he wrote for the Kiev Independent and I'm going to read it in its entirety as an American in Avdiivka.
What is Congress doing?
I am an American Military veteran: call sign name is Jackie. I am writing from Donbas, Ukraine. I'm originally from Orange County California. I served in the US military for 8 years stationed in Colorado, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. I also worked as a contractor at the John F Kennedy special Warfare Center in North Carolina helping prepare our future special operators.
As an American Soldier, I have always been interested in our national security and Global interests. I am currently an assault instructor serving in the third assault Brigade in elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A few days ago, we came to the rescue of Ukrainian forces who had been enduring the Russian attack on the town of Avdiivka. Our Fighters quickly destroyed two Russian brigades and kept a corridor open for Ukrainians from Avdiivka to retreat from the town. Our soldiers are true professionals undisturbed by the massive Russian Firepower being flung at them and fighting hard to gain and maintain the corridor.
One thing I teach my students is to conduct shaping operations. Essentially, to take steps by using alternative means such as artillery air power drones in our case or electronic warfare to prepare the battlefield for success of our infantry to capture their final positions. My students are very excited to employ these techniques. They train on them and use them in the battle frequently.
Ukrainian soldiers are highly motivated to fight efficiently and reduce casualties as they are making their transition from Soviet to Nato doctrinal Warfare. Our Brigade is leading this transition and using shaping operations at every level possible. Even down to the squad, we make plans, we do reconnaissance, we task support assets and we review our actions after battle to learn what we did well and what we need to change. We admit our successes and failures and we improve and grow ourselves as professionals. Because of this in battle, we are confident and unrelenting.
On the ground in Avdiivka, we felt the results of current US politics with full force.
We are accustomed to fighting with less artillery than Russia. We have already developed clever ways of using Precision fire to counter Russian Artillery. Our artillery soldiers use their U.S. provided weapons efficiently and effectively to battle the second largest military in the world. So, that while our assaulters have cover, we pierce like needles to rapidly cut Russian critical arteries. We are used to fighting under strength. We are intelligently adapted and trained to push ourselves to the highest level of combat performance. But, we cannot deliver Miracles.
We have already delivered many miracles in this war and and I sure we will continue to do so. BUT, hoping for miracles is not a reliable way to win a war.
I need to go pray and say goodbye to some more of my students and friends. These soldiers, these men and women, are incredible people. It takes weeks to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are able to learn in hours. Their standards and self- expectations are high. They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt. Every time they fail in training they get angry with themselves and repeat the task until it is right. I have never had to ask them to stay late or work harder. They hardly sleep. They don't complain and most of them have families. Besides not getting to spend time with their families these soldiers know that this fight is for their future and for their safety.
I am extremely disappointed in a super minor minority decision in Congress to block funding for Ukraine. They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn't have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950. Our decision and ability as Americans to have funding for something we supposedly want has nothing to do with enabling Ukraine's current defense.
The problem in the US that this super minority in Congress is citing to block funding has endured since the founding of our nation in the 1700s has nothing to do with Ukraine in 2024. I am sure that France in 1776 could have come up with many excuses not to support American colonists fighting for independence from British subjugation. Foreign support in arms enabled Congress to stand today.
Now we are tasked to keep the light of Freedom lit for others. The current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants to pour water on that fire.
We are fighting hard against impossible odds. All you need to do is help from a distance and that is a good thing for Americans. You do not want to come here. The Ukrainians are dying and it is not out of our ignorance or accident. They are dedicated to their Liberation from Soviet values and Russian oppression. They are spilling oceans of blood to join the free democracies of the world.
Ukrainians who enjoy an average income of something like $5,000 a year are the largest public donors to the war. Ukrainian soldiers purchased most of their professional equipment with their own income. This economy was already struggling before The Invasion and there are still not enough resources to fight and equip everyone.
Ukrainians are doing everything and giving everything they have for this. And, they will not stop. They are fighting for their future and they will not give-up on their future. They will not surrender to Russian capture and enslavement. They received a soft Independence in 1991 which they turned into complete self-governance and independence by 2014.
Now, Russia has come to crush them.
Thanks to U.S. Aid, Ukrainians have not been crushed. Thanks to U.S. Aid, they have taught the second largest military power in the world that might doesn't make right. Where is the Russian cruiser Moskva? Thanks to U.S. Aid, a new free nation is being born in the world.
Ukraine is not giving up. Americans we cannot give up either. I can say from living in California, Colorado, and North Carolina, that I love the United States. I love the peace and prosperity that I enjoy in the U.S. I have been to enough places around the world to know that we are blessed with the lives we live and even the hardships we sometimes endure... (con't)"
Im not a leftist, I’m a Catholic royalist! I’m WAY more right wing than you lot.
As, no doubt, a lot of wiser heads said at the time, the Inquisition should have dealt with your predecessors, or there would be no end of trouble. And so here we are, yes?
As I have often explained, you are compromised by your weak grasp of political philosophy, hence your passions are often confused and incoherent. You really have no grasp of what you are, what you think, why you feel, or what you want. Its tragic.
“Return Moorish property to the Moors.”
No. We stole all that all proper and everything.
Yeah, the moops. Them too.
Nah. You just have no concept of humor and therefore, you don’t know when you’re causing a good laugh.
You peopke make it nearly impossible to laugh *with* you, so we have little choice but to laugh *at* you.
And you make it too easy. 😏
Recognize their ancient claims!
Spain was SOMETIMES ruled, in part, by THE Moors, depending on how you define that lot - perhaps when there was a ruling native dynasty in Morocco that also ruled in Spain. But for most of that time it really wasn’t so.
Consider the Caliphate of Cordoba, at what most think was the high point of Muslim Spain. The ruling Ummayads were, and they saw themselves as, Arabs, not Moors, as they came from Damascus. And they only sometimes ruled in Morocco.
Their claims were superceded by the apparition of St James, and of the campus stellae, so we have our land by manifest divine will.
Deus Vult and all that.
Those guys will have to get their own miraculous deal with God.
VIDEO
Ukrainian Air Force reveals remaining A-50 aircraft in Russia
Kanal13
1.6M subscribers
2-26-2024
124K views 1:30 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdsr_CkpNg
In Russia, fewer than eight long-range A-50 radar detection aircraft remain. One such aircraft was destroyed February 23, by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, reports Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat during a televised marathon.
“The successes we have today, this extended arm, the ability to reach the enemy where they absolutely don’t expect it, speak to the fact that the adversary will have fewer capabilities in this direction after losing the A-50,” he said.
The spokesperson noted that the destroyed aircraft had been modernized. As explained by Ihnat, the A-50 is essentially a radar that can observe and scan, detecting all aerial targets within a radius of 600 km and identifying electronic warfare systems.
“We need to look at the intelligence data. The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, said there were eight aircraft before this. Not all of them were operational, and not all of them were modernized. So, there were only a few of them left,” Ihnat added.
On February 23 Defense Forces of Ukraine reported that a Russian A-50 aircraft was shot down over the Sea of Azov. This is the second A-50 that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed since the beginning of the war.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the A-50U is a new modernized version of the aircraft. The cost of the destroyed aircraft is $350 million.
The Russians used such an airborne command post for long-range radar detection, control, and guidance for strikes against Ukraine with missiles from strategic aviation.
To put it another way, some people have a defective sense of humor. There are several sorts of defect, of which you have at least one. You are not really capable of “laughing with” anyone. You can’t create a jest that crosses a dispute. Your only sort of humor, so far, is the equivalent of throwing rocks.
You can work on this. Begin by laughing at yourself. Share, tell us about yourself, your foibles and silliness. Show us the real person who is Allegra.
711 to 1614.
It really bothers you doesn’t it.
And you had no idea who the Moors were when I mentioned them previously.
So much for superiority.
VIDEO
“All of them died, they could not reach to battle” - UAZ vehicles carrying Russians were destroyed
Kanal13
1.6M subscribers
Premiered 2-26-2024 7:30 a.m. EST
5:14 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwczTvHbQE
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Please yourself, I guess.
And 1614 was when the “Moriscos” were expelled. These were subjugated people already, they weren’t ruling anything at the time. And they werent even Moors, in spite of the term. They spoke a variant of Spanish (or, in the main, Valencian) not Arabic, and were descended from Iberian converts to Islam.
“Moorish” rule ended in 1492, with the surrender of the last Muslim state.
ARTICLE
Kuleba: EU plans to send almost 170 thousand shells to Ukraine by end of March
News Censor.NET World
24.02.24 18:08
https://censor.net/en/n3475251
The European Union plans to supply nearly 170,000 artillery shells to Ukraine by the end of March and is working to further increase the volume of supplies.
This was announced on the social network X by Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba following a telephone conversation with EU High Representative Josep Borrell.
“The absolute priority now is artillery shells. By the end of March, the EU plans to supply almost 170,000 shells to Ukraine and is working to further increase the volume of supplies,” the Foreign Minister said.
He informed that during today’s conversation Borrell reaffirmed the EU’s full solidarity with Ukraine.
“The EU has taken historic decisions to provide weapons to Ukraine, impose sanctions against Russia, start negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU and support President Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula. Many decisions are still to come, and we are working together to ensure that they are taken quickly,” Kuleba emphasized.
Moors refers to Muslim rule of Spain collectively.
Again, so much for superiority.
While I really am a nice person, I do find it fun that I can get under your skin so easily.
It’s not even difficult; your obvious inferiority complex makes it easy. Keep bloviating on about how great and superior you are, Buwaya. And keep lamenting the fact that the Spanish Inquisition didn’t destroy my Irish ancestors. It’s all quite amusing. 🤡 🤡 🤡
Sad, on some levels, but amusing.
And then there is the silly Spanish custom, which goes back a thousand years probably, and is still going strong, of calling all Muslims “moros”.
That is what they called the Muslims of the Philippines, on the other side of the world, sharing nothing with Morocco but Islam. They called them that so consistently that even the Muslims broke down and started calling themselves “moros”.
Total combat losses of Russian Federation since beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion,
Ukrainian defenders have eliminated
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 26.02.24 are approximately:
• personnel ‒ about 410700 (+880) people,
• tanks ‒ 6555 (+13) units,
• armored combat vehicles ‒ 12478 (+37) units,
• artillery systems – 9993 (+12) units,
• MLRS – 1000 (+1) units,
• air defense systems ‒ 686 (+2) units,
• aircraft – 340 (+0) units,
• helicopters – 325 (+0) units,
• UAVs of the operational and tactical level – 7707 (+26),
• cruise missiles ‒ 1910 (+3),
• ships/boats ‒ 25 (+0) units,
• submarines - 1 (+0) units,
• automotive equipment and tank trucks – 13037 (+26) units,
• special equipment ‒ 1580 (+2)
Ah, then you admit to a fundamental hostility? A degree of, lets say, looking for amusement in contempt? In what way, then, am I wrong about your problems?
You need to work on you.
You don’t get excused from the Inquisition by being Irish. There was much less opportunity to work on you lot, “protected” as you were by the heretical English, but no doubt over the centuries a good number deserved investigation and a resolution through an auto da fe.
ARTICLE/VIDEO
Marines destroy Russian Lancet launcher in Kherson direction.
Censor.NET
26.02.24 20:10
https://censor.net/en/v3475565
VIDEO
1:31 Minutes
https://storage2.censor.net/video/3/260224_sdat.mp4
Marines of the 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion and the 38th Separate Brigade destroyed a Lancet mobile launcher near Radensk in the Kherson region.
The video of the destruction was published by the press service of the 38th Separate Marine Brigade of Ukraine, Censor.NET reports.
It is noted that aerial reconnaissance managed to spot a mobile launcher mounted on a KAMAZ 4310 truck. In total, there were 3 loitering munitions of the Lancet type in the body. After launching one of them, the truck moved to the shelter.
The Russian military tried to disguise the vehicle under trees, the report said. The destruction took place 20 kilometres from the front line.
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