re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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I feel sorry for the poor Ukrainian people who were forced to vote for Zelensky at gunpoint by the CIA.

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Bless your heart. The State Department and CIA are simply spending billions out of the goodness of their hearts to defeat mean old Russia. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with building a puppet state on the Russian border over the last 30 years. One where corruption from the Untied States runs rampant (see Hunter Biden sitting on the board of a Ukranian company pulling in 500K a year when he had no qualifications for the position).

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Yeah it’s rarely that quick and plenty of US servicemen have been killed due to the indecisiveness of the guys doing the thumbs up at the targeting cell and even more bad guys have lived to fight another day. US commanders don’t get reprimanded or fired for losing troops or not killing the enemy, they get fired for accidentally or negligently killing civilians more often than not.


I doubt the Ukrainians will be so careful.

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Yeah that was my point - that a big part of their efficiency relative to the US has to do with all of the vetting/authorization/etc. that has to take place per US policy. I imagine a lot of that shite goes out the window when you’re fighting for your homeland.

The same Twitter thread went on to say this:

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In 2006, when US Army Special Forces task force hunting high value targets was given direct access to an MLRS battery with GMLRS rockets - without a JAG officer poisoned chain of command - got it back down to Vietnam 15-minute levels in Iraq, thanks to the Blue Force Tracker.

This didn't last long with the Obama Administration thanks to Taliban high value targets using their own kids as human shields followed by cellphone photos of dead kids.

Then everything went back to the JAG officer game & the Special Forces started buying loitering drones.

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Makes sense to me. Still seems like the Ukrainians have a pretty impressive system worked out, assuming everything in that thread is accurate. Their usage of commercial satellite services is very interesting and a sign of the times.

AMA with a Finnish volunteer LINK

In my lifetime the US had spent trillions of dollars to guard against Russian imperialism. That’s better than spending way more than that in lives and money fighting them directly.

Russian imperialism has caused problem after problem for her neighbors. You could even argue that the Russian/German pact which carved up Poland jump started WWII.

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Still seems like the Ukrainians have a pretty impressive system worked out,

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Its wartime targeting, acquire target, firing solution, round out.

Our "targeting" in Iraq and Afghanistan was mostly a debating society.

Chicken

I am not talking about the whole war, I'm talking about your statement that Russia would take most of the Donbas in the next month. Put your money where your mouth is.

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In another month Russia will nearly have the Donbas region.

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will take at least a year for Ukraine to completely fall/surrender

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Wait....you still think the Russian Army is about to conquer the nation of Ukraine? Like capture Kiev and force the government to fall, lay down their arms, and cease sanctioned resistance?

Are you for real?

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Wait....you still think the Russian Army is about to conquer the nation of Ukraine? Like capture Kiev and force the government to fall, lay down their arms, and cease sanctioned resistance?

Are you for real?

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Absolutely. Russia will take the Donbas region and funnel in more troops over the coming months and fully mobilize to destroy and occupy larger portions of the country. Kyiv will fall at some point in 2023/2024.

I'm not trying to be snarky. What makes you believe this? I'm seriously trying to understand your view.

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Absolutely. Russia will take the Donbas region and funnel in more troops over the coming months and fully mobilize to destroy and occupy larger portions of the country. Kyiv will fall at some point in 2023/2024.

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a puppet state on the Russian border over the last 30 years

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You're unhinged. So all of Europe is just one big puppet state of the US? Because under your description, they are.

It's just poor little Russia out there trying to take down the evil empire that is the united states and its European puppet continent.

This war would never have happened if Ukraine had just given Russia everything they wanted, right?

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One where corruption from the Untied States runs rampant (see Hunter Biden sitting on the board of a Ukranian company pulling in 500K a year when he had no qualifications for the position).

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Because this doesn't happen in other countries with other politicians all across the fricking globe. Nope, it's just this one because Biden and Hunter and, and, and!!!!

Biden is a corrupt potato. But so are half of our politicians. The fact you have such a hardon for Ukraine while ignoring all the other shite our politicians, to include Republicans, do on a daily basis shows your complete bias and the fact you've been successfully swayed by Russian propaganda.

Of course helping Ukraine benefits the politicians. Everything they do is solely for their benefit. But in this case, it's also helping a nation who was unilaterally invaded in 2014 and again in 2022, who is in our best interests to keep pulling further into European alignment...for the exact reasons Ukraine is fighting for their country right now.