Excellent point - I would also note that for many Ukrainians, they know (looking at history and at Putin's actions), that many would be shot in the back of their heads while kneeling before Tsar Putin.
Posted on 01/16/2023 8:57:51 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The U.S. military’s new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday, with a goal of getting a battalion of about 500 troops back on the battlefield to fight the Russians in the next five to eight weeks, said Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Milley, who plans to visit the Grafenwoehr training area on Monday to get a first-hand look at the program, said the troops being trained left Ukraine a few days ago. In Germany is a full set of weapons and equipment for them to use.
Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.
The so-called combined arms training is aimed at honing the skills of the Ukrainian forces so they will be better prepared to launch an offensive or counter any surge in Russian attacks. They will learn how to better move and coordinate their company- and battalion-size units in battle, using combined artillery, armor and ground forces.
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Good post. One small part of the big picture. We won’t see it all.
Excellent point - I would also note that for many Ukrainians, they know (looking at history and at Putin's actions), that many would be shot in the back of their heads while kneeling before Tsar Putin.
Can you say proxxy ? I knew that you could.
-fJRoberts-
I was in one of the engineering units for the Graf reconstruction project in the early 80s. We built some of the tank roads and parking lots. I remember thinking it looked like a shooting range for tanks similar to a scaled up local rod and gun club range, mostly flat.
Yeah, yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Ooh, they’ll send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, “How much should we give?”
Ooh, they only answer, “More, more, more”
I Belize you are correct
Wait, we can’t have Ukraine defending itself!
A battalion? That seems to be a pretty trivial sized force for the current war.
Omitted from the article was the sentence “American Russian sympathizers are distressed to see that their loss is to be expanded”
There is a clue there.
A well equipped and led battalion is all that is needed to overcome the miniscule resistance of ill fed, poorly armed, poorly led and destitute of morale Russian troops
Actuwally, Graf doesn’t look like a concentration camp!
That is a silly statement and encapsulates the propaganda think of postings on this subject. This is a big high intensity war, one battalion more or less means little or nothing.
Standard Oil was horizontal slant drilling into Iraq sweet crude and that is why Iraq was in there in Kuwait , to turn off the theft
The "news" told us Sadaam was an evil dictator trying to expand his empire, and that his troops were throwing babies out the window of the hospital
a short study of the pre-googled up revised history of the Ukraine conflict reveals that the EU was getting gas through a Ukraine pipeline and Ukraine was stealing gas, Russia tried to collect and sued and got awarded only a portion of $ owed (30B) but never got paid Ukraine said "good luck collecting".
But useful idiots just buy into the "news" narrative and rush off to war for the theiving politicians like Biden Or Bush, so bringing up the facts is a waste of time because the MSM owns the narrative and people believe what they want in spite of facts and its "my country right or wrong" anyway .
but have at it , gotta go kill those evil Ruskies trying to "take over the world" by trying to collect whats owed to them, ( the nerve of those guys )
Iraq had some very legitimate claims against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. That didn’t justify invasion.
Iraq wanted to make Kuwait it’s province.
Do you think that Kuwait was an “Iraqi asset”?
I do not support your guy Biden's war either.
Yes if you support this war with Russia you are a BIDEN SUPPORTER !!!!! more than if you are against this war you are a "Russia sympathizer
Very few people know the history of this conflict, they just gobble up the propaganda fed to them by the Globalist prix like Biden and BUSH
In arbitration Gazprom could not and did not provide proof for this alleged theft.
You don’t invade a country and kill people to collect on debts - at least not since 1945
so the idiotic wars continue
go ahead and march off to war for BIDEN, send your kids, my country right or wrong , loot smash and destroy Russia , How dare they try to defend themselves
Military action by another country is never justified , only when MY country does it.
I am just thankful we don't act this way on a local level anymore, like stealing gas from the next door neighbors pipe and killing them if they say anything or try to stop it.
its much easier when its on the other side of the globe and especially if my kids body bag isn't coming home
BS
complete BS
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