Earl (09-27-2022)
The United States saw something similar in our own criminal war in Vietnam
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russi...b0e376dbf001ec
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
Earl (09-27-2022)
Doc Dutch (09-27-2022), LurchAddams (09-28-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
Doc Dutch (09-27-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
Rune (09-27-2022)
Cypress (09-27-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
We saw too many posts from MAGA morons last February prematurely celebrating that Russia would easily roll over Ukraine.
I tried to warn them that Ukraine had a large, modern, well equiped army which could inflict substantial pain. Ukraine's military probably ranks in or near the world's top 20.
The Viet Cong were an insurgent militia, and the North Vietnamese army was no match for the US Army on a toe to toe basis
Doc Dutch (09-27-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
martin (09-27-2022), Rune (09-27-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
Our military wasn't defeated; it was the politicians who fucked it up by hamstringing the military and continuing to order them into position which couldn't be won.
Is there really any doubt that the Russian Army is poorly led, poorly trained and given poor equipment because Putin's Oligarchs are robbing the country blind?
Is there any doubt that the Russian Army is getting its ass kicked daily?
The US was in Vietnam for about a decade and lost over 56K men. The Russians have been in Ukraine for less than a year and have already lost over 20K men. Why else is Putin threatening nukes if he wasn't desperate about getting his ass kicked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual...tal_casualties
Russian and allied forces
70,000–80,000 killed and wounded
(20,000 killed)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
LurchAddams (09-28-2022), ThatOwlWoman (09-27-2022)
We made the mistake of thinking the Viet Cong were communists when most of them didn't know what the word meant. The Viet Cong were Vietnamese. They wanted us the fuck out of their country, like they wanted the French out before us.
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
moon (09-27-2022)
And women and children. They anticipate that NATO is going to initiate WW3. I hope they're wrong.Russian Men Are Fleeing by Tens of Thousands
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
Why was Vietnam a guerilla war? For the same reason the Arabs switched from conventional war to terrorism: They were getting their asses kicked conventionally.
Guerilla warfare is used when a conventional war cannot be fought. If the West wasn't supplying Ukraine, they, too, would be forced to resort to guerilla warfare.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
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