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Letter to Congress from American Veteran in Ukraine
youtube.com ^ | 2-24-2014 8:00 p.m. | Jake Broe

Posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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1 posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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2 posted on 02/25/2024 1:53:28 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸 )
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If you want to continue to militarily support Ukraine during this Invasion by Putin you may contact your Representatives:

https://www.house.gov/representatives...
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senat...


3 posted on 02/25/2024 1:57:00 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸 )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

A brainwashed soldier, I mean mercenary. This is a perfect example of being so zealous for a cause that one cannot critically evaluate the overall landscape. He does not seem to grasp 2014 at all, and seems perfectly OK with the US military steamrolling around everywhere to accomplish questionable policies.


5 posted on 02/25/2024 2:27:57 AM PST by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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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.

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We also did not have millions of illegal alien invaders coming unabated across the southern border…


6 posted on 02/25/2024 2:51:01 AM PST by Skybird
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Americans are tired of throwing money at losing wars. I remember the same pleas about Vietnam 60 years ago. Then it was Nicaragua, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan. I see no point in throwing money at an other losing war.
We all know the Biden regime egged this war on as a gift to the MIC and to launder billions of our tax dollars. This writer wants us to make more useless sacrifices to support a notoriously corrupt country to try to hang on to territory that was Russia's before the Soviet Union and is mostly ethnic Russian. I'm sick of caring about political wars on the other side of the world while the Biden regime and it's Wokesters are destroying this country whom they think is full of “Deplorables”. If this war is so important then the EU can get off their pampered arses and take care of it. I'm concerned about my family and country.
7 posted on 02/25/2024 2:53:02 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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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.

Oh, cry me a river. The biggest threats to the freedom of Americans aren’t in Moscow, but in Washington DC and our own state capitals.

This “Jackie” has plenty of work to do here in the U.S. instead of chasing some delusional dream in some Eastern European dump.

8 posted on 02/25/2024 2:53:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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Prior to this war, Ukraine spent around $5B annually on defense. We have given them $46B already just in military aid, and $75B in other aid. This includes 160 155mm howitzers, with 1.5 million rounds. This price tag does not include the entirety of our Intel capabilities both from space and forward deployed forces, as well as forward deployed military expertise that is training, coaching and guiding. That is more than enough; if you can’t win with that much of an edge in this much time, you aren’t going to.


9 posted on 02/25/2024 3:07:51 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: Ragnar Danneskjöld

He is a soldier, not a mercenary, Ukraine does not use mercenaries.


10 posted on 02/25/2024 3:14:34 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“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.”

Easy for you to post stuff like this. Our cities are crumbling. Go to one, see the potholed streets, the cracked sidewalks, the broken curbs, the streetlights out, the vacant lots, the burned out buildings, the derelict cars. I dare you to go walk at night in Memphis or Newark, you wouldn’t dare. We have to save our own country first.


11 posted on 02/25/2024 3:24:43 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Ragnar Danneskjöld

Check out: You may appreciate the VICE News 2014 photo-journalism series:

Russian Roulette in Ukraine - 2014
VICE News
113 videos [on the ground coverage]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o5zqF6WJR8zuC7Uwyv76h7R


12 posted on 02/25/2024 3:29:23 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸 )
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Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.


13 posted on 02/25/2024 3:30:38 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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This “Jackie” seems like a perfect application of the old axiom: “When your tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail to you.”

“Jackie” wouldn’t know how to fix an American city if you have him 25 years and an unlimited budget to get the job done.

14 posted on 02/25/2024 3:33:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

All this YouTube bellyaching boils down to “GIBS-ME-MO’-BILLIONS” of American taxpayer hard earned money. They can piss up a tree for all I care… I don’t want another American penny going over there.


15 posted on 02/25/2024 3:37:33 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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This reads like it was written by Chat GPT and Google AI..


16 posted on 02/25/2024 3:50:37 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Ragnar Danneskjöld

He is or was serving with the AZOV brigade, one of the ultranationalist (nazi) formations that was sent to Avdeevka as a Hail Mary to hold some positions ( as they tried in Azovstal in Mariupol) or possibly to get rid of them as a power play by Zelensky to rid the military of a unit loyal to his rival, Zaluzhny.

The Russians hit them hard with missiles on their deployment base before they ever saw battle, killing 300-600 of them ….then hit them again at the same base when they retreated after failing or refusing to sacrifice themselves at the coke plant. No love lost for the nazi formations.

AZOV “ elites” have not had the mission of covering retreats, that is high grade propo. The nationalists are usually a barrier force, held back from the frontline to the rear of the fighting, executing Ukr troops that try to retreat or surrender.

When Syrsky recognized that units were leaving the battlefield on their own, even the AZOVs, he ordered a retreat to “ save lives” ( more like, save face)

It will be interesting to read from future reports how much of the AZOV brigade survived or is reconstituted.

Btw, this American merc is lucky to have survived, others have been executed to cover their involvement


17 posted on 02/25/2024 4:16:52 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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Yeah - mercenaries make the best “witnesses”...war is how they get their paychecks


18 posted on 02/25/2024 4:42:52 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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Effing traitor to America. Signed up with Nazi forces. Here’s to hoping he gets whacked by an incoming missile.


19 posted on 02/25/2024 4:49:46 AM PST by DesertRhino (16 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: newnhdad

This priceless statement HAD to be Chat GPT or a typical propagandist, “It takes WEEKS to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are ABLE TO LEARN IN HOURS....They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt.”

Also, the “letter” wasn’t written in American style of English. Nice Try!! Chat GPT is getting better.


20 posted on 02/25/2024 4:54:31 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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