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)"
Contempt is a good way to put it. I don’t care enough about you zeepers to generate such strong emotions as hostility. Just a minor dislike.
In what way, then, am I wrong about your problems?
In every way, but you’re not smart enough to grasp that.
You don’t know me from Adam and you don’t need to. You can pretend that you do if that makes you happy, but this is just an Internet forum.
I do have some friends on here and quite a few I know personally, with whom I have broken bread and enjoyed a drink or two.
You are not one of them. You are merely a bunch of pixels to me. I don’t know, or really care if all of the things your blow your own horn about are true. You’re amusing. A bit annoying, but amusing. That’s all you are to me.
Rush always said it so well. “They don’t know that they’re the entertainment.”
“You are merely a bunch of pixels to me.”
Like I said, you need to work on you. This is a fundamentally disordered (to put it in the Catholic way) attitude. I KNOW you are a person, and you know I am too. The “bunch of pixels” line is a cop-out.
We are speaking with some expectation of sincerity, else why are we here discussing world events?
“Like I said, you need to work on you. “
Thus decrees one who pretends to be superior online to deflect from their real life.
But go on.
You’re not getting it. I don’t care a whit what some random, insecure internet foreigner thinks of me. You can pretend that you have some significance by telling your intellectual superiors what they “need” to do if that makes you feel better about yourself.
Of course, it just makes me chuckle. It’s like the cat pretending he’s a tiger. Except that that’s cute and you’re just kind of pathetic.
A lion does not concern herself with the opinions of the sheep.
Now, you’ve become rather tiresome and time-consuming, so it’s time for me to extricate myself from this waste of time. I will permit you to have the last pathetic, likely pretentious little word and be on my way.
Bye, now.
I have been on about a number of things since I joined FR.
- Many people don’s know squat, and don’t care to learn.
- Many people don’t look anything up, which is so easy to do.
- Many people are incapable of reasoned argument.
This leads to certain conclusions...
Does any of the above seems familiar to you?
For those who prefer to use the telephone, the very old but still in use phone number for Congress is 202-CA4-3121. You will get an operator who will transfer your call to the Senator or Representative you ask for. Ask them for that number and write down in case you get cut off. If you don’t know who your representative is, you will have to give your zip code, or in some cases the zip code of the district the representative represents.
In some cases you will get a site for recording a message. Sometimes you will get a staff member. If you have a specific or urgent message you wish to deliver, ask for the staff member who is dealing with the topic at hand. For example Ukraine funding, Taiwan funding, Israeli funding, or all of the above. If you want to directly support someone currently running for office, ask for the number to their campaign headquarters.
Yeah, it reminds me of someone claiming to be superior.
“- Many people don’s know squat, and don’t care to learn.
- Many people don’t look anything up, which is so easy to do.
- Many people are incapable of reasoned argument.”
You nailed it!
I think Darksheare is starting to get it while Allegra is still lost.
“Phone number for Congress is 202-CA4-3121. You will get an operator who will transfer your call to the Senator or Representative you ask for.
Ask them for that number and write down in case you get cut off. If you don’t know who your representative is, you will have to give your zip code, or in some cases the zip code of the district the representative represents.”
Thank you for reminder :D
Please send him more US Taxpayer Dollars.
“Jackie the Nazi”
Source for your label?
You’ve posted this chart hundreds of times without any source info.
I’ve asked you before to post your source but to no avail.
Please list a source.
List a source!
I honestly think she’s just not smart enough to do that.
She’s one of those people who isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer and she thinks acting ugly and telling constant lies will mask that. For some weird reason.
>I honestly think she’s just not smart enough to do that.<
Mommy’s the copy and paste Queen of FR. Anything more than that is beyond her intellectual capability.
She’s mad because I schooled her arrogant little friend today. 😁
I’m beginning to think that one or two of the zeepers are her kids.
You rang?
>She’s mad because I schooled her arrogant little friend today. 😁
I’m beginning to think that one or two of the zeepers are her kids.<
Mommy’s seething. She does not like AGITATORS making waves on her threads.
As for her kids being zeepers, it’s possible. She needs all the supporters she can find.
>I think Darksheare is starting to get it while Allegra is still lost.<
Notice how mommy, The FR Rules Expert, violates the rules every day.
She doesn’t include the FReepers mentioned in her posts in the list of Recipients and continues to talk about them behind their backs.
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