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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ukraine has no weapons. All their weapons are coming from the USA and NATO.

You literally have no idea what you're talking about. The Ukrainians are carrying AK-variant assault rifles, driving T-64/72 series tanks, and driving BTR/BRDM/BMP armored vehicles. Anyone who knows anything about arms knows we didn't provide them with all that. Apart from the stuff they manufacture themselves -- which they do -- the overwhelming majority of the weapons with which they are fighting are holdovers from their time in the Soviet Union/Red Army. Part of the dissolution agreement in 1991 was that they got to keep all the nonnuclear weapons on their soil. To say they "have no weapons" is sheer ignorance.

More importantly, none of what you said has anything to do with the point I made about the predictions for this war. Everyone knew what equipment the Ukrainians had before the war even started, and yet they all still predicted this war would be over in 72 hours. The flow of NATO supplies didn't even start arriving for weeks -- long after Ukraine supposedly would already have collapsed.

And of course, there's the issue of the Ukrainians actually fighting back and using those weapons properly, which again defied most expectations. We all saw in Afghanistan what happens when you give people a ton of weapons but they don't want to fight. Immediate collapse. That's was what most everyone -including Putin - thought would happen in Ukraine also.

Except it didn't.

28 posted on 05/06/2022 7:52:20 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (Sounds like a lot of malarkey to bewhat is this )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

It’s a CIA war, as usual.

But all you know is what TV tells you. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA bad! Ukraine good!


30 posted on 05/06/2022 7:55:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

In addition to this while Ukraine didn’t send its troops to Afghanistan, they were one of the coalition partners in Iraq.

Some Freepers served with them and from that time their assessment was “very brave, very bad at logistics, eager to learn”.

Ukrainians started learning from the US how to build a proper military already in 2003. Russians never learn anything.


33 posted on 05/06/2022 7:58:58 AM PDT by Krosan
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