Hey Colonel! I share your FRUSTRATION about UKRAINE! As a Viet Nam Vet that flew FOB out of CCC in Kontum RVN, into Cambodia and Laos, we were violating International "LAW "a couple of times a week and we were successful at "interdicting" THE RESUPPLY MISSIONS WITH SPECIAL FORCES, but that was the same HALF-ASSED STRATEGY we've forced on UKRAINE! Obama and Biden were totally ignorant when they let Crimea go without any help in MATERIAL methods to defeat them! Biden had the same attitude when they tried to take KIEV! If we had provided Javelins and Shoulder fired AA weapons the Invasion would have been STOPPED AT THE BORDER! We hemmed and hawed about F-16's and TACMS and have let Russia launch WAR CRIMES from Russian Territory without any substantial responses because we have let them down!
I am AMAZED AND PROUD OF UKRAINES BRAVERY AND COMMITMENT OF THEIR ENTIRE COUNTRY IN DEFENDING THEIR DEMOCRACY and we should be embarrassed at our FAILURE to honor their BRAVERY with whatever they need to throw Russia out of their Country!
As you know I have no military experience, however I do have a personal experience with bullies having been in elementary schools in the sixties and seventies when, let's say, things were more a little more hands on. There is no appeasing a bully. More hugs don't work, more understanding doesn't work. Bullies understand one thing, consequences, a bloody nose tends to work well. Ask Neville Chamberlain (if you could), how appeasing Hitler worked? You will never change the character of a bully, the best you can do is defeat them, contain them or send them back under their rocks. You go Ukraine, make Putin and Russia pay.
I hope Charlie accepts your invitation. I hear he is worth hearing from!
Hey Colonel! I share your FRUSTRATION about UKRAINE! As a Viet Nam Vet that flew FOB out of CCC in Kontum RVN, into Cambodia and Laos, we were violating International "LAW "a couple of times a week and we were successful at "interdicting" THE RESUPPLY MISSIONS WITH SPECIAL FORCES, but that was the same HALF-ASSED STRATEGY we've forced on UKRAINE! Obama and Biden were totally ignorant when they let Crimea go without any help in MATERIAL methods to defeat them! Biden had the same attitude when they tried to take KIEV! If we had provided Javelins and Shoulder fired AA weapons the Invasion would have been STOPPED AT THE BORDER! We hemmed and hawed about F-16's and TACMS and have let Russia launch WAR CRIMES from Russian Territory without any substantial responses because we have let them down!
I am AMAZED AND PROUD OF UKRAINES BRAVERY AND COMMITMENT OF THEIR ENTIRE COUNTRY IN DEFENDING THEIR DEMOCRACY and we should be embarrassed at our FAILURE to honor their BRAVERY with whatever they need to throw Russia out of their Country!
As you know I have no military experience, however I do have a personal experience with bullies having been in elementary schools in the sixties and seventies when, let's say, things were more a little more hands on. There is no appeasing a bully. More hugs don't work, more understanding doesn't work. Bullies understand one thing, consequences, a bloody nose tends to work well. Ask Neville Chamberlain (if you could), how appeasing Hitler worked? You will never change the character of a bully, the best you can do is defeat them, contain them or send them back under their rocks. You go Ukraine, make Putin and Russia pay.