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US Troops 'May Have Been Killed' in Strike on Patriots in Ukraine: Russia
Newsweek ^ | March 11th, 2024 | By Brendan Cole

Posted on 03/11/2024 6:01:48 PM PDT by Mariner

American military personnel may have been killed in a Russian strike on a United States-supplied Patriot air defense system supplied to Ukraine, according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker in comments reported by Kremlin-backed media.

When asked for a response to the claims, a spokesperson for the Pentagon told Newsweek, "I can confirm no U.S. injuries because we have no US service members in the fight."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: killkilkillforpeace; tripwires; ukraine; worldwariii; ww3
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A Battery with 4 launchers was being moved in E Ukraine, Russia hit with Iskander missile(s).
1 posted on 03/11/2024 6:01:48 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Correction: 2 x 4 Launchers.


2 posted on 03/11/2024 6:02:26 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Volunteers. Or cia folks.


3 posted on 03/11/2024 6:04:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The operators “resign” from the US military, get a big bonus from zelensky and if they survive, go back into the US military with a bump in grade. Easy-peasy.


4 posted on 03/11/2024 6:11:57 PM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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“The operators “resign” from the US military, get a big bonus from zelensky and if they survive, go back into the US military with a bump in grade.”

Yep, the worst-kept Neocon ‘secret’.


5 posted on 03/11/2024 6:13:08 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Volunteers. Or cia folks.

And here I was pulling for Zeepers, then I remembered they are to cowardly to go to the Front.

6 posted on 03/11/2024 6:13:58 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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“I can confirm no U.S. injuries because we have no US service members in the fight.”

But we do have service members operating the Patriot missiles batteries, (that cost one billion each).

And he can’t confirm because he hasn’t been informed. Never will be. He can deny until the cows come home and he, himself, will be telling the truth.

See how easy that lying is.


7 posted on 03/11/2024 6:17:23 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Secret Agent Man

Third Option contractors


8 posted on 03/11/2024 6:17:25 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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We have some veterans with PTSD who’ll love to go to Ukraine. They’ll work as “contractors” for Blackwater (I know they have a new name now). And we’ll give them fake passports. Some Canadian, Irish and South African. They’ll be mercenaries fighting for Ukraine. The Russians will get annoyed but they can’t do anything because we’ll have plausible deniability.


9 posted on 03/11/2024 6:17:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Secret Agent Man
Probably contractors if in fact any Americans were involved at all. The patriot is used by many other countries than the US, so training in other languages is probably something we often do.

The Russians have a hard time fathoming that the Ukrainians for whom they have so much contempt have been able to fight then to a stalemate, despite having 1/4 the population and being starved of weaponry.

10 posted on 03/11/2024 6:22:05 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Nixon Holds World in Doubt on U. S. Role in Laos

"Ambassador David K. E. Bruce reasserted that "no American ground combat forces or advisers will cross into Laos." He said that American air and artillery units are supporting the South Vietnamese incursion -the artillery firing from across the South Vietnamese border."

They are mercenaries, imho.

11 posted on 03/11/2024 6:25:25 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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The question isn’t so much regarding why Americans are at the Front Line WITHOUT Americans being told such, as that question is answered easily with two words: “Victoria Nuland”.

The REAL QUESTION is why are the Neocons assigning Newsweek the task of providing this information to the American public? At this point we can only speculate, and thus I think the reason is to soften up the American public for the large number of body bags that will soon be arriving back in the US, but other theories are also welcome.


12 posted on 03/11/2024 6:30:35 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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“ Volunteers. Or cia folks.”
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Contractors! Good money.


13 posted on 03/11/2024 6:31:55 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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MAY> have?
14 posted on 03/11/2024 6:34:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Our guys can go fight the Russians and the Newcomers can take their place in the military.


15 posted on 03/11/2024 6:35:54 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: odawg

The spokesman is nameless as well.


16 posted on 03/11/2024 6:37:07 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: House Atreides

Maybe contractors working for Universal Exports.


17 posted on 03/11/2024 6:37:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: dynachrome

I wouldn’t doubt it. That’s happened in just about every war since the turn of the last century.


18 posted on 03/11/2024 6:49:47 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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And the trans should be put in charge of the interrogations of the many captured Russians.


19 posted on 03/11/2024 6:52:32 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: BobL

The Original source is David Axe, newly connected to Forbes.
And published by Forbes.

It’s on the web


20 posted on 03/11/2024 7:11:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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