Posted on 02/27/2022 3:10:13 PM PST by Starman417
Putin apparently learned nothing from Russia's 9.5 year war in Afghanistan. During that fiasco, 15,000 Russians were killed and 35,000 were wounded. The same country that bested Germany in WWII was defeated by the Mujahjideen armed with American supplied surface-to-air missiles. The battered and worn Russian war machine withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. America said, "Hold our beer," while marching merrily to war singing, "The Yanks are coming-the Yanks are coming!" Unfortunately, America ignored the huge sign at the border with flashing red lights that warned:
WELCOME TO AFGHANISTAN-THE GRAVEYARD FOR EMPIRES!
That didn't end well for us either.
In 2022, President Putin dreamed of reuniting Russia into one big happy family but got tired of waiting for abused exes to love him again. Putin invaded the Ukraine to force them to either love Russia or to die horribly; the choice was theirs.
Russian rockets, bombs, missiles and tanks are now killing innocent men, women and children in the Ukraine who just happened to be in the way and couldn't afford the cost of a train ticket out. The suffering of innocents was just considered collateral damage. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the city had not suffered such an ordeal since 1941 "when it was attacked by Nazi Germany." Pictures are worth a thousand words and thousands of pictures (seen by the world) are documenting the horrific devastation of Putin's unprovoked invasion.
I always admired the Russians who defeated Hitler's Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941). The Germans threw 138 divisions plus 36 of their allies and 8 Hungarian brigades against the Russian defenders. The odds against a Russian victory were staggering. The Russians didn't know they were supposed to lose and fought fanatically to defend the Motherland. The German Wehrmacht suffered over a million casualties and eventually they retreated all the way back to what was left of Germany.
Russia impressed the world and was appropriately "lionized for its heroic role in WWII."
Putin's horrific invasion of the Ukraine in 2022, which terrified the residents and shocked the world was not heroic. The words ugly, repulsive and evil come to mind. The world is appalled watching Putin randomly and wantonly killing innocent civilians, destroying beautiful cities and possibly starting WWIII.
Putin is now acting like a bully and everyone hates a bully. Hitler was a brutal, evil bully and look how that turned out. Sun Tzu, a revered Chinese military strategist and general, once said, "The wise warrior avoids the battle." Putin was wise during the Trump administration and avoided attacking anyone. He knew that Trump "tweeted loudly and carried a big stick." But that was then and this is now. Elections have consequences and President Lite Biden lacks the courage to even answer questions from the press. Biden barely speaks without using a teleprompter and carries a big ice cream cone. Putin knows that Biden is a feeble, inept, puppet, controlled by others and condemned to blindly follow the instructions of the mysterious wizard behind the curtain. Putin laughed at Biden's sanctions, cried havoc and let slip his tanks and armored divisions against a peaceful nation.
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Biden would rather buy oil and gas from Russia.
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Maybe not hanging, but a public whipping would be good.
Of course you fight fanatically when there are machine gun battalions behind the front lines that will shoot any soldier walking the wrong way.
I say that every freakin stupid anti american who voted democrat gave us this crisis!
“The same country that bested Germany in WWII “
Russia didn’t best Germany in WWII.
We did and Russia benefitted.
That didn’t/won’t end well for us either.
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