Posted on 08/28/2022 8:21:41 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
As the war in Ukraine has passed the six-month mark, US and European officials say Ukraine has successfully used a method of resistance warfare developed by US special operations forces to fight back against Russia and bog down its vastly superior military.
The Resistance Operating Concept was developed in 2013 following Russia's war with Georgia a few years earlier but its value was only realized after Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014. It provides a blueprint for smaller nations to effectively resist and confront a larger neighbor that has invaded.
Russia's nearly bloodless takeover and annexation of the occupied territory stunned Ukraine and the west, intensifying a study of how to build a plan for total defense that included not only the military, but also the civilian population.
But Putin's wider war on Ukraine launched in February has been its proving ground.
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Outnumbered, outgunned, and outmanned, Ukraine has nevertheless fought back against a Russian military that thought it would romp through the vast majority of the country within a matter of weeks, if not days.
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Beyond my observations about WWII Ukrainians, you have no idea what my concerns are or aren’t, and you’re foolish to ask the question you did.
My knowledge of what some Ukrainians did as camp guards, along with the larger collaboration of others in that country with Germany serves to caution against unfettered worship of the country. I’m quite certain there’s still a level of anti-Semitism in Ukraine, just as there is in Poland, France, and several of the now independent countries formerly of the USSR, just as there’s likely racism in parts of the US, having been taught from former generations.
Now end this stupid back and forth.
That's just bigotry against Ukrainians, cloaked in the Holocaust, and it demeans the real victims of the Holocaust, many of whom were Ukrainian.
I’m not blaming; I’m suggesting a knowledge of history should inform decisions. You choose to be offended, so that makes it your problem.
I’m outta here.
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