Posted on 03/17/2022 3:42:22 PM PDT by vmirog91
When I went through ROTC training we were were obviously taught to respect the numerical superiority of the Soviet bloc Armour units deployed across the Iron Curtain. But I remember some of our NCO instructors mentioned that Russian enlisted personnel lacked strong NCO guidance....that they were heavily dependent on top-down leadership. After all these years...this holds true today.
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The U.S won the battles but lost the war. Only way you could win a war in that country was to kill everything breathing. And of course that would not be a war, but war crime. Winning a war would look like Japan. Replacement of the militarists with a reasonably stable country. The Taliban control now, just like they did before 2001. Nothing changed after 20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands killed and maimed. That is not winning.
We better send them more money so they can hire more nazis!
Serbia bombing was to prove Cluntoon didn’t have a bent dick
Albania is a country, it’s next to greece
Very true. Interesting how the old antiwar peaceniks are loud war drum beater this time around. Weird
Associated Press on the reported theater bombing in Mariupol: “More than a day after the airstrike, there were no reports of deaths.” https://apnews.com/article/russia
Only a day after reporting deaths of hundreds of “refugees - women, children, elderly” using theater as shelter.
Like I said, propaganda dude.
It’s the Australian bleeper bashing the US again. How did the Australians screw up in Afghanistan? How about 20 posts on that?
In after Zot 🤣😂
People who lack the faculty of self criticism are pretty boring. Go bore someone else
As they did Vietnam...Democrats behind both.
Flaming idiot - YOU BASHING THE US IS NOT SELF CRITICISM. YOU ARE NOT AN AMERICA. THERE US NO SELF THERE.
As is usual, we are not getting the whole story and likely never will. But for certain, things are not exactly as they are being presented to us by both the pols and the media. Anyone who believes that the prior sentence is wrong is very naive.
“As they did Vietnam...Democrats behind both.”
Yup.
Ghost of Kiev
40 mile convoy ‘stuck’ for the past 3 weeks [that somehow manages to avoid being shot at]
Mariupol theater
No bio labs, then yes ‘defensive, US funded biolabs’ 2 days later. [like ‘defensive’ nukes, I guess]
And that’s just what I could write down in 5 secs.
This is not pro/anti Putin or Uke. It is anti-lies. If you can’t or won’t recognize the propaganda, you have war fever. I prefer to make decisions [like going to war against Russia] based on actual facts.
I meant you having self criticism instead of slavishly thinking everything the U.S does abroad is kosher. The U.S deserves praise when praise is due and thank god there is plenty to praise. But there are somethings that are just plain wrong. Like bombing Serbia for example. But you probably think it was wonderful
“The U.S won the battles but lost the war. Only way you could win a war in that country was to kill everything breathing. And of course that would not be a war, but war crime. Winning a war would look like Japan. Replacement of the militarists with a reasonably stable country. The Taliban control now, just like they did before 2001. Nothing changed after 20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands killed and maimed. That is not winning.”
We won the war. A new government came to power. It governed the country for a few years, but was too inept to keep it. We drew down and Biden came along and f**ked up our withdrawal, throwing away all we had accomplished.
"Russian troops turned to using open telephone and analog radios following the failure of encrypted communications systems, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has said, making them vulnerable to intercept or jamming. Russian officers were likely targeted after their positions were exposed by their use of open communications, Western military analysts said.In the strategically located town of Voznesensk, Ukrainian forces comprising local volunteers and the professional military drove off an attack early this month, in one of the most comprehensive routs Russian forces have suffered since invading Ukraine.
Russia’s failings appear to trace to factors ranging from the Kremlin’s wrong assumptions about Ukrainian resistance to the use of poorly motivated conscript soldiers. They suggest that Russia and the West overestimated Moscow’s overhauls of its armed forces, which some military analysts say appear to have been undermined by graft and misreporting.
Still, Russian warplanes flying over Ukraine continue to inflict heavy damage, including against civilians. The mayor of Mariupol said Russia’s air force had bombed the city’s drama theater Wednesday, killing an unknown number of people who had taken shelter there.
Even with 500,000 they will face decades of partisan attacks.
Do you think we somehow don’t know what the problems are? We need you to enlighten us from the world’s newest fascist super state? We Americans (NOT YOU) elected a president who was leaving Afghanistan in great shape. A majority of Americans DID NOT elect the vegetable in power that left Afganistan in a mess. A MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS DID ELECT YOUR CURRENT FASCIST LEADERS. YOU NEED TO PONDER THAT CLUSTER SCREW.
P.s I think stuff the U.S has done that is no different to what Russia is doing, establishes some fertile ground for pointing out a tad bit of hypocrisy. If you going to be ‘the city on the hill’ you’ll have to lift the game a bit. Partic with the current kook in the whitehouse, who is jumping into bed with the mullahs. You have any criticism of that. I suspect deep down, you think the light shines out of bidens ass at the moment, because he wants to go balls deep in Ukraine. Just like you
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