Posted on 03/02/2022 8:19:44 AM PST by Rummyfan
Some quick thoughts to share, and we will get the big ones out the way first. Should we send U.S. troops: NO! Do I like Vladimir? No, though I have had professional respect for him in some areas, and personal in one. If you are not mature enough to differentiate between respecting someone and liking them, bugger off.
My heart bleeds for the Ukraine, and I’m moved by the willingness of its people to resist the invasion. To watch those who now live elsewhere, or are the children/grandchildren/etc. of those who immigrated return to defend it is amazing. What they have accomplished in resisting the invasion is nothing short of amazing. We should do all we can to support their efforts. Governmentally, this means sending them all the anti-tank, anti-air, and other arms and ammunition they so desperately need. It means providing humanitarian aid via public/private means. It does not mean providing troops on any level. That would be the worst thing we could do. On multiple levels.
That said, I have no problem with allowing U.S. Citizens to go there and fight. To join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion that has been proposed. In fact, I’m reminded of something the late (and much missed) L. Neil Smith wrote in one of his books, about an American staunchly opposing the U.S. taking a stance in a European conflict, and then leading a 1,000 airship volunteer armada to do just that. It is the difference between official action and non-official action, and is something we haven’t done much with since the Spanish Civil War. While that is a bag of worms for another day (and a nasty bag it is), we must not get sucked into this on an official level.
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The US is no longer equipped for this kind of conflict. Oh we have the material, but we do not have the leadership with the morality & strength of character. They’re like kindergartners waving around loaded firearms.
Or movie actors.
Indeed. There is a great deal of ruination in a nation, and we are witnessing it daily.
Is General Milley in contact with Vladimir to let him know if ChiComjoe’s puppetmasters are planning anything?
I’m more worried about these jabonies preventing or allowing a nuclear war.
You know you are provoking the Russophobes by denying them their Globalist Propaganda that they love so much, right?
It says more about the American economy and stability of the dollar, that mercs will go fight in another country.
Good job if you can get it, you can kill people and break things. Nothing takes off the edge of the American anxiety than taking it out on someone who you can hate on without being called a “far right wing white supremacist insurrectionist homophobe transphobe misogynist”. You can be a star in the eyes of the Progs once more.
Actually Nato is a joke. It was formed to protect against a Russian expansion yet most Nato countries import half of their petroleum from Russian.
That’s exactly what Nato members were not paying their dues and had to be badgered by Trump.
Yeah, same opinion here.
Ukrainians are very tough people - it was foolish for Putin to think he could just run over them. Russia may eventually take control of Ukraine on paper, but they’ll be facing an insurgency that will be impossible to defeat. Russia will end up leaving Ukraine the way they left Afghanistan (and the way we left Vietnam).
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