Posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Letter to Congress from American Veteran in Ukraine Jake Broe [I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N). 437K subscribers 2-24-2024 17:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg49VcsWvd8
Excerpt: "Jake is sharing an opinion piece from an American Service veteran currently in Ukraine. An American Veteran plea arm Ukraine or Surrender Freedom. This man's name is John Roberts call sign name is Jackie Not everyone has and uses social media. Not everyone wants to be on camera.
So today, I'm going to use my platform and my voice to share his message. This is the piece that he wrote for the Kiev Independent and I'm going to read it in its entirety as an American in Avdiivka.
What is Congress doing?
I am an American Military veteran: call sign name is Jackie. I am writing from Donbas, Ukraine. I'm originally from Orange County California. I served in the US military for 8 years stationed in Colorado, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. I also worked as a contractor at the John F Kennedy special Warfare Center in North Carolina helping prepare our future special operators.
As an American Soldier, I have always been interested in our national security and Global interests. I am currently an assault instructor serving in the third assault Brigade in elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A few days ago, we came to the rescue of Ukrainian forces who had been enduring the Russian attack on the town of Avdiivka. Our Fighters quickly destroyed two Russian brigades and kept a corridor open for Ukrainians from Avdiivka to retreat from the town. Our soldiers are true professionals undisturbed by the massive Russian Firepower being flung at them and fighting hard to gain and maintain the corridor.
One thing I teach my students is to conduct shaping operations. Essentially, to take steps by using alternative means such as artillery air power drones in our case or electronic warfare to prepare the battlefield for success of our infantry to capture their final positions. My students are very excited to employ these techniques. They train on them and use them in the battle frequently.
Ukrainian soldiers are highly motivated to fight efficiently and reduce casualties as they are making their transition from Soviet to Nato doctrinal Warfare. Our Brigade is leading this transition and using shaping operations at every level possible. Even down to the squad, we make plans, we do reconnaissance, we task support assets and we review our actions after battle to learn what we did well and what we need to change. We admit our successes and failures and we improve and grow ourselves as professionals. Because of this in battle, we are confident and unrelenting.
On the ground in Avdiivka, we felt the results of current US politics with full force.
We are accustomed to fighting with less artillery than Russia. We have already developed clever ways of using Precision fire to counter Russian Artillery. Our artillery soldiers use their U.S. provided weapons efficiently and effectively to battle the second largest military in the world. So, that while our assaulters have cover, we pierce like needles to rapidly cut Russian critical arteries. We are used to fighting under strength. We are intelligently adapted and trained to push ourselves to the highest level of combat performance. But, we cannot deliver Miracles.
We have already delivered many miracles in this war and and I sure we will continue to do so. BUT, hoping for miracles is not a reliable way to win a war.
I need to go pray and say goodbye to some more of my students and friends. These soldiers, these men and women, are incredible people. It takes weeks to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are able to learn in hours. Their standards and self- expectations are high. They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt. Every time they fail in training they get angry with themselves and repeat the task until it is right. I have never had to ask them to stay late or work harder. They hardly sleep. They don't complain and most of them have families. Besides not getting to spend time with their families these soldiers know that this fight is for their future and for their safety.
I am extremely disappointed in a super minor minority decision in Congress to block funding for Ukraine. They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn't have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950. Our decision and ability as Americans to have funding for something we supposedly want has nothing to do with enabling Ukraine's current defense.
The problem in the US that this super minority in Congress is citing to block funding has endured since the founding of our nation in the 1700s has nothing to do with Ukraine in 2024. I am sure that France in 1776 could have come up with many excuses not to support American colonists fighting for independence from British subjugation. Foreign support in arms enabled Congress to stand today.
Now we are tasked to keep the light of Freedom lit for others. The current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants to pour water on that fire.
We are fighting hard against impossible odds. All you need to do is help from a distance and that is a good thing for Americans. You do not want to come here. The Ukrainians are dying and it is not out of our ignorance or accident. They are dedicated to their Liberation from Soviet values and Russian oppression. They are spilling oceans of blood to join the free democracies of the world.
Ukrainians who enjoy an average income of something like $5,000 a year are the largest public donors to the war. Ukrainian soldiers purchased most of their professional equipment with their own income. This economy was already struggling before The Invasion and there are still not enough resources to fight and equip everyone.
Ukrainians are doing everything and giving everything they have for this. And, they will not stop. They are fighting for their future and they will not give-up on their future. They will not surrender to Russian capture and enslavement. They received a soft Independence in 1991 which they turned into complete self-governance and independence by 2014.
Now, Russia has come to crush them.
Thanks to U.S. Aid, Ukrainians have not been crushed. Thanks to U.S. Aid, they have taught the second largest military power in the world that might doesn't make right. Where is the Russian cruiser Moskva? Thanks to U.S. Aid, a new free nation is being born in the world.
Ukraine is not giving up. Americans we cannot give up either. I can say from living in California, Colorado, and North Carolina, that I love the United States. I love the peace and prosperity that I enjoy in the U.S. I have been to enough places around the world to know that we are blessed with the lives we live and even the hardships we sometimes endure... (con't)"
DeToilette
Good Editing for sure.
I hate to break this to you, but everything you’ve posted on this subject over the last two years has been a “dogmatic and unproven statement.” LOL.
“Time Outs” by management give me the opportunity to work on my Social Skillz. ;)
“Someone needs to pull this whole joke of a thread. And you madam, should be ashamed for posting it.”
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I completely agree.
Check out Post 26 that Jane Long found and put up on another thread. This is an interesting account about a recent visit to Ukraine by a Twitter/X user, Maria Mateiciuc. It’s a little different from the idyllic scenes that were posted by our favorite banned pedo.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4219870/posts?page=26#26
Maria Mateiciuc
@MariaMateiciuc
“But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine.”
Sadly, No. It is about the global, war-mongering, military-industrial complex. And their lust for corrupt gains achieved only through the death of every Ukrainian soldier. How many is enough? It isn’t noble. It’s war porn. Unless/until the United States gets involved nominally and visibly in this war, Ukraine loses, and it loses more than one war.
So, the big question is: Do we commit the entire might of the United States in a war that has proven nothing but a sink of death and corruption which source is lies and lust for money at all human cost? That is the Biden way, not the American way.
“Julius Caesar was the end of Rome”
Yeah, 400 years later. Facts matter.
>This is from someone who went to Ukraine. Lotds of truth in this post.
https://twitter.com/MariaMateiciuc/status/1743658029893984735<
Maria closes her post with, “Shame on the people, regardless of their intentions, who have supported this war. And shame on the media for continuing to lie about it.”
Zeepers have blood on their hands.
Nope,
Biden’s US government wastes such a money in week. All going down the drain, no showing anything for it!
So instead sending it through US toilets, let us make some use of it. Even if you think it is going down Ukrainian toilet, so be it. It is of better use!
>I know.
I was born in Toledo back when it was relatively safe to be white in that area.
Toledo has degenerated since.
Detroit has always sucked for my entire lifetime.<
I was born and raised in Cleveland. It was a great place to grow up, kids could go anywhere. The streets haven’t been safe in a long time and many neighborhoods look like Mogadishu.
I moved to an agricultural farm in the middle of nowhere. I’d never go back to that cesspool.
Didn’t he invade russia
Declare an empire / dictatorship
Oh yeah
That was Obama / biden
Gog hitler usa
MaGog hitler nato
Rev 13
US Army awards $1.5B to boost global production of artillery rounds - October 26, 2023
EXCERPT:
U.S. Army said it awarded contracts to nine companies in the U.S., Canada, India, and Poland to boost global production of 155mm artillery rounds . . . the service finalized a flurry of contracts that “resourced each major component, material or required production process to maintain momentum for the goal of 80,000 projectiles per month by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.”
Ukraine to make shells with US firms as it seeks to develop defence sector - December 7, 2023
EXCERPT:
Dec 7 (Reuters) - Kyiv has agreed with two American firms to jointly manufacture vital 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine . . .
"We have agreements with two leading American companies to jointly produce, in Ukraine, 155-calibre ammunition," Oleksandr Kamyshin, minister for strategic industries, said in televised comments.
But he noted that Ukraine had never produced such shells and it would be "a minimum of two years, a maximum of three" before production could begin.
Mesquite 635 Industrial Park [just 12 minutes from downtown Dallas at the crossroads of Interstate 635 and U.S. 80]:
DMN: General Dynamics Selects Mesquite Industrial Park for New Artillery Casings Plant - April 25, 2023
EXCERPT:
“The manufacturing facility will effectively produce 20,000 units per month” of artillery casings only.
Mesquite [City Council] approves new General Dynamics plant to make artillery casings - May 10, 2023
Note: The Mesquite artillery shell casing manufacturing plant is expected to open in June, 2024; but some of the funding might be hung up in the Congress. And another maybe: that same funding pool includes funds for the Lima, Ohio heavy armor tank plant.
YouTube - 2 videos re 155mm status
Inside the US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo - August 6, 2023
Why the 155mm Shell Is One of the World’s Most Wanted Objects Now - January 24, 2024
>Bimbo eruption is wrong on so many levels.<
There you go again mommy...violating FReeper rules.
You’ve been told you’re supposed to notify FReepers whom you mention in your posts.
If you’re going to stab someone one in the back, please be woman enough to do it to their face.
You really like to rag on FReepers for your perceived rule violations and now I see you’re slamming that Abuse Button because an “AGITATOR” (your words, mommy) has offended you.
The rules apply to you as well.
UGH.
Another one of mommy’s self-help memes.
She’ll post bs, lie, put words in your mouth, twist things, stab you in the back, report you to the mods, and when she gets challenged, she becomes Sue Ann Nivens and posts these stupid memes.
>Biden’s US government wastes such a money in week. All going down the drain, no showing anything for it!
So instead sending it through US toilets, let us make some use of it. Even if you think it is going down Ukrainian toilet, so be it. It is of better use!<
Oh that makes a lot of sense! /s
I think it’s unconscionable that you would burden future generations with debt they will never be able to pay, instead of cutting the current spending levels.
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