Posted on 03/06/2022 1:30:44 AM PST by xxqqzz
KHARKIV, Ukraine - In a downtown government office building, men and women in military fatigues carried rocket-propelled grenades through hallways lined with ornate white crown molding. Others had AK-47s with loaded clips slung over the shoulders. Sandbags rested along windows - protection in case of potential blasts.
One of the city’s public buses pulled up to the building. There were hundreds of boxes of bullets inside. ...
Ukraine’s Territorial Defense, which is believed to have more than 130,000 volunteers, has been conducting weekend training sessions for months in preparation to help defend its turf from Russia. Now that the attack has started, Ukrainians across the country are mobilizing and turning to the Territorial Defense to arm them and send them into the fight. Anyone between 18 and 60 can join.
... But arming civilians, many of whom have little training, risks exacerbating the violence in Ukraine’s cities and potentially giving the Russian military more pretext to fire indiscriminately.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Passing out weapons because you’re only allowed guns for hunting....not personal protection.
In the article someone mentions, his only experience was shooting cans with an air rifle, probably all he was allowed. However, they are passing out AK-47s and rocket propelled grenades. In Switzerland, most men are in the militia and are given semiautomatic weapons, but not many in this country have weapons like that.
“But arming civilians, many of whom have little training, risks exacerbating the violence in Ukraine’s cities and potentially giving the Russian military more pretext to fire indiscriminately.”
A small price to pay for FREEDOM.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. All these cowardly types want the Ukrainian people to just surrender.
Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!”—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry – March 23, 1775
I was very surprised recently while traveling through several former Soviet Eastern European countries. The stores and street vendors sold toy weapons everywhere just as the USA did in the 1960’s. The toys were imitations of AK-47’s, Uzi’s, and just about every current military weapon. The gun mindset is strong and accepted.
Air guns that are replicas of just about every gun ever made are sold in stores on the main streets, next to all the other stores.
I remember when the Woolworth’s Five and Dime, and Newberry’s Department Store had trash cans filled with WWII surplus rifles for $3, $5, and $7, based upon condition, on display right as you entered the store. I, as a very young child was allowed to pull them out and look at them.
The trip through Eastern Europe was like revisiting my childhood. We had guns everywhere, many loaded, just sitting against the wall or behind the door. No one thought anything was wrong with it.
100% agree with your post.
I see the desire for freedom causing revolutions in many Communist countries, including China, as the soul of the people desires to grow through the equivalent of a teenager rebelling against their parents to get freedom.
If you aligned with metally and morally CONFUSED THINKING of so many, we should be rooting on the CHICOMS to invade America and enslave us because we have socialists, communists, globalists, NWO types in our midsts and even ruling over us.
Some people can’t appreciate freedom until they lose it.
And now comes the insurgency. This won’t end well for that mongoloid thug in the Kremlin.
Keep rubbing your war-boner Bidenista.
I couldn’t agree more. These Russian filth and that KGB mongoloid who sent them into Ukraine will learn the hard way the Ukrainian people will not lay down without a bitter fight. Just as in Afghanistan, Russia will not prevail in a protracted quagmire that’s taking shape. Does anyone really believe the Ukes haven’t studied the tactics of the militias in Iraq and Afghanistan?
“may provoke the Russians to fire on civilians”
there was some discussion of this today, with the discussion antagonist proposing that civilians with guns weren’t combatants so could be considered they were using the non-armed (children/females) as ‘human shields’ and residences and office buildings were fair game. However, since there’s a presidential order (18-60 will remain and fight), and the militia are flagged with yellow armbands, all are legal combatants under presidential order. Russians better figure out fast they’re not in Allepo any more.
Ignoring now how the West would have reacted: Would the Slavic invaders have been welcomed by the Muslims, or not?
Would the remaining Swedes have mounted a defense, or not?
Would anyone have thought to hand out rifles, or not?
Regards,
tired&retired: A small price to pay for FREEDOM.
Yeah, resisting the Russian invaders might trigger them - and we can't have that, now, can we? And won't giving the Ukrainians weapons just "fan the flames of White Supremacy and exacerbate White Fragility?"
Important questions for the times in which we live!
Regards,
The Russians fire on civilians as a matter of military policy.
Wolverines!
“But arming civilians, many of whom have little training”...”
And that’s why the Second Amendment calls for a well-regulated (trained, for those in Rio Linda) militia. Report to the town common for drill.
Wolverines!
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