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'I'm a Former Marine Training Ukrainians—The Russians Are Worse Than ISIS'
Newsweek ^ | 20APR22 | ANDY MILBURN

Posted on 04/20/2022 5:09:05 PM PDT by familyop

My first experience of combat as a Marine was in Mogadishu, Somalia in the '90s and then subsequently I was in the first Marine division during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. I have completed tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, been involved in the evacuation of civilians from Libya in 2011 and commanded a special operations task force against the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2016...I have a greater respect for the ethical behavior of the Islamic State than I do for the Russians. That is no exaggeration.

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To: lodi90

I did read that part, but I’m also hearing some of the same things being done by the Ukrainians.


41 posted on 04/20/2022 5:38:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: rrrod

Another page out of the deep state playbook. Watching CNN and MSNBC daily is almost comical. These paid operatives read their scripts well.

K street and the Spooks have a lot of assets and sympathizers on these boards too.. Sometimes it’s very obvious.


42 posted on 04/20/2022 5:40:35 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: chuckb87

Now I’m not a Marine but I’ve heard them brag “once a Marine, always a Marine.” Is there such a thing as a former Marine?

“’I’m a Former Marine Training Ukrainians—”


As an old Navy guy, I have never heard a Marine refer to himself as a former Marine.

Once a Marine, always a Marine.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Once+a+Marine%2C+always+a+Marine.&rlz=1CAMWDF_enUS930&oq=Once+a+Marine%2C+always+a+Marine.&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

28 posted on 4/20/2022, 5:26:58 PM by Grampa Dave


43 posted on 04/20/2022 5:41:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!!)
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To: lee martell

Near a 1,000 dead civilians in formerly Russian occupied Bucha. Most with gun shot wounds. Many documented by international organizations. There is a mountain of evidence proving Russian banditry at this point and only the willfully blind can’t see it.


44 posted on 04/20/2022 5:43:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: blackberry1

Not even a good try Putinista.


45 posted on 04/20/2022 5:43:45 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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You seem to have a preoccupation with a certain part of the male anatomy which makes me wonder about you. 🤣


46 posted on 04/20/2022 5:45:07 PM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: familyop

The irony in this is we and Israel both at times directly and indirectly helped elements of ISIS against Assad and Hezbollah

Christians fled to Hezbollah who aided them....gaining support they lacked before

We screw up everything ....Israel ain’t perfect either in their choices ....sorry Hagee acolytes here

Russian aided Assad and they opposed ISIS

Oh another factoid given how good globalist are at lying

That chemical attack by Assad which we used as a pretext to blow shit out off him

Fake news....a lie ...

Who runs our foreign policy

Oh I know same folks who brought you

Bomb Serbs to help Muslims

Benghazi

Iraq war

Stay in Afghanistan 20 years

Leave Afghanistan to taliban non secured with a zillion in weapons and exposed friends including our own citizens

Covid world clamp down

Russia election meddling hoax

And now Zelensky is Churchill .....and his oligarchs noble lords

What a crock

This marine is dim

So fubar but way too complicated for meat and taters crowd


47 posted on 04/20/2022 5:45:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: kiryandil

https://newtube.app/user/Hostage/Fvi7ZDL


48 posted on 04/20/2022 5:45:24 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: lonestar67

U need to revisit how WE HANDLED Syria

There are no good guys

Like now


49 posted on 04/20/2022 5:46:04 PM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: lonestar67

Their defense of Russia and Putin, an avowed enemy of the West, is sickening.

They are so sure reports of Russian bad behavior are false? Their heads are in their a@@es.


50 posted on 04/20/2022 5:46:43 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lodi90

So is he training Ukrainian troops or is he embedded with them and out on patrol? Who TF is paying him then?


51 posted on 04/20/2022 5:48:07 PM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: Grampa Dave

It’s likely he worded it that way deliberately, to help keep readers from thinking he’s training Ukrainians as an active duty U.S. Marine.


52 posted on 04/20/2022 5:48:45 PM PDT by Izzatso
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To: wardaddy

I’ll tell you how we handled Syria pal, President Trump struck the Soviet controlled bases there - twice.

Now you’re crying for poor Assad and ISIS?

Oh yeah, Putin has brought Syrian Muslims to Ukraine to kill Europeans. But that didn’t bother you.


53 posted on 04/20/2022 5:49:05 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: familyop
I have a greater respect for the ethical behavior of the Islamic State than I do for the Russians. That is no exaggeration.

Seek help.

54 posted on 04/20/2022 5:51:00 PM PDT by McGruff (It's America First.)
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To: chuckb87

From the title, “I’m a former Marine...” Now I’m not a Marine but I’ve heard them brag “once a Marine, always a Marine.” Is there such a thing as a former Marine?
You are absolutely correct in your observation. No Marine EVER refers to themselves as a former Marine. A possible exception would perhaps be a Marine who served solely in Administrative services. Though I’ve never met even one of those who has ever done so.


55 posted on 04/20/2022 5:52:47 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (God is Great and Jesus is Our Lord)
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To: Hostage

Exactly.


56 posted on 04/20/2022 5:52:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JonPreston

I’ve tried to tell the Obama/Biden supporters here who prop Biden up that the only two things propping Biden up is the war and the MSM. The MSM supports Zelensky, Biden, Obama, Soros, WEF, neoliberalism, etc, and we need to stay out of this and support neither Zelensky nor Putin but they won’t listen. They’d rather help Biden and the MSM:

I hate what’s happening; it sux but Ukrainians voted Zelensky in. Their problem. Zekensky and the crowd he runs with could care less about average Americans. The crowd being WEF/Soros/Biden/Obama and others. They are all in for him and why not as the Obama regime installed him via the 2014 coup which greased the skifs for Zekensky in 2019.

Neoliberals/Neocons (which includes Obama, Biden, Bush, etc) get us involved in war after war, have said we need to fund very shady fighters in other countries like Syria. Now they call Putin a dictator (he is one, true) while they have “bombs away” in support of some of the most repressive dictators on the planet. So people here talking about Putin being an awful dictator (he is) is virtue signaling [in intent] and will lead to more deaths as NATO will fight to the last Ukranian and doesn’t care about them. Zelensky needs to negotiate and cut bait.

We need to stay out of this as it is clear the Russian military is incapable of dealing with NATO and won’t go outside of Ukraine, so all of the talk here we had earlier a month ago about Putin overrunning Europe was libtard, emotional hyperbole not fitting of conservatives to engage in, and yet it’s ongoing still here. Typical Neocon/Neoliberal claptrap.

And first it was from Biden we’ll send small stuff but that’s it. Then it’s bigger stuff but that’s it. Then it’s now training them outside of Ukraine. Then there’s reports of a U.S. airplane flying above the area around the time the Russian ship was sunk.

Too much incrementalism. Too much of a chance of WW3.


57 posted on 04/20/2022 5:56:48 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: familyop

Not even close, ive seen the videos.


58 posted on 04/20/2022 5:57:37 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Williams

Did it bother you when Muslims helped us

Plenty in our military hate to break it to you

Foreigners it’s a path to citizenship like for bean people


59 posted on 04/20/2022 5:59:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (Faulkner never knew Free Republic but he coined its nickname...The Sound and The Fury)
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To: familyop

Good article. Thanks for posting. Based on the posts I’ve read, I think the Putin Brotherhood is having it’s monthly meeting tonight.

Any marine not burdened with serious issues on his record is to be respected. Unlike FR’s keyboard warriors, he, on his own dime, is over there trying to help these people fight off the Russians.

I “absolutely” applaud his efforts.


60 posted on 04/20/2022 5:59:46 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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