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French aviation “expert” Cyril de Lattre told RIA Novosti the limitations of F-16s destined for Ukraine and the shortcomings of its pilots could be compensated for by foreign pilots, in his opinion.
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The US should completely bypass House speaker and queer Mickey Johnsonnyboy, and send Ukraine what it needs without the US Putler sect member's support.
Additionally, it is ridiculous that a one-queer show can endanger our whole way of living to begin with.
There is a serious malfunction in the system that undermines our democracies and patriotism.
Ben Hodges is correct in all respects!
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MEMO TO US ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WALLANDER:
DATELINE KYIV OBLAST
Sorry, Ms. Wallander. Feckless allies don't get to call the shots. Reliable allies get a vote and a proper hearing.
Ukraine is a sovereign nation. It's up to the Ukrainian people to decide their form of government, determine their own foreign policy, strategic alliances, etc. With or without the full-throated support of her allies, Ukraine will continue to stand tall and, if necessary, virtually alone in defense of Western Europe and traditional liberal democratic values.
This is our war too. Ukraine's fight is an existential one. By definition, Ukraine and her people have agency, and therefore ought to be viewed as the first among equals in the ongoing debate about war aims, strategy, tactics, peace terms, accountability and ultimately her place in the sun.
World War III is already underway in Europe. Whether we like it or not, the countries of NATO, the European Union, and their allies are behind the eight ball at this hour. It's high time for liberal democracies throughout the free world to transition their economies to a war time footing with all deliberate speed. Time is not on our side.
V/r - IB
An American in Ukraine
(2019 - Present)
To paraphrase Plato: " The price of not participating in politics is that you are ruled by lesser men."
It is hard to think of any people lesser that Donald Trump, MT Green and Mike Johnson.
As General Hodges says, Joe Biden and his timid advisers must also take their share of blame for the US policies in Ukraine, especially the one about no US supplied weapons being used on the territory of Russia proper. The gliding bombs currently being used to terrible effect by Russia can be launched from Russian territory, cross the border and land with precision at the front. Unless the US has a weapon that can stop these when they cross the border, the bombers must be attacked in Russian skies, or even at their airfield. Missiles, F-16s, you name it, must be provided by the USA. To not do this is weakness of the first order and Russia will continue to exploit it.
Victory to Ukraine. Hold on to Chasiv Yar.
Hodges lijkt de enige Amerikaan die objectief kijkt.
Here are two additional excellent articles featuring General Ben Hodges, Retired, take on the war in Ukraine:
Will Putin Start a Nuclear War? – Interview With Ben Hodges
October 26, 2022:
https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/489
U.S. Must be Prepared for End of Russia as it Looks Today – Hodges
September 5, 2022:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/1428
There was a third video interview in June of 2022 however I cannot locate that article in the Kyiv Post archives.
I thought that everyone knew that???
Ben Hodges is just about THE man that understands the failure of the West and knows what it takes to get where we and Ukraine need to be.
Them armchair US politicians and softshell US presidents of the last couple of years are despicable and mayhem will come back to them as a boomerang once they see and realize it is too late to act decisively, like a man without fear.
Ben Hodges is just about the only retired US general who in my view recognizes the face of Satan, knows how to deal with him effectively and calls out in the way it should be done.
So sad to see how the West is run by a bunch of losers and tap-myself-on-the-shoulder-RATS ....
@Mike Johnson is the face of Satan, What a fucking estrogen charged nom de plume. You are a shameless fucking idiot. It is Joe BRIBEn who allowed Putrid to walk into Ukraine dumbshit. He kneecapped the US oil and gas production causing world oil prices to skyrocket. Putrid is using those petro dollars to fund this war. Dumb fuck. When Putrid was amassing his forces on the Ukrainian border, pray tell us all what Joe BRIBEn did to deter Purtid from invading. It's dumb fucks like you and John the loon from Canada that make these comment threads a worthless joke. Go read up on Secretary of States Condoleezza Rice and Mike Pompeo. Or General Jack Keane, retired who heads up the Institute for the Study of War, or ISW. Dumb fuck.
@HEY MGRA troll jack....Thank you via your rants against informed Ukraine supporters, for making MRGA look both unethical and uneducated. YOU effectively sabotage your MRGA bosses.
Well troll 'jack', I see you got all your talking points wrong agains above. You certainly are a dense one when it comes to learning new facts.
Biden warned Ukraine +1 month before invasion and helped rally the allies to get aid there quickly once the invasion manifested. We can question his admin's hesitancy to provide Ukraine more effective weapons faster and its ongoing inability to circumvent putins aid stalling MRGA minions (putinrump, Johnson, Vance, Jordan, Gaetz, troll posting as 'jack griffin'...etc), but its a fact Biden spent more aiding Ukraine than he technically had available.
The names you mention all also want more aid to Ukraine, but putinrumps told his HOUSE minions to prevent this.
In contrast Putinrumps tells Ukraine they will get no aid if he has a say and tells them to surrender territory. Putinrumps' buddy Whatley which he got appointed to head the RNC (along with his daughter inlaw Lara), now openly state Ukraine as their enemy, but not russia....Absolutely outrageous. Traitors the bunch! The poster is correct Mike Johnson, Putinrump and all MRGA like yourself are foul creatures.
He may say it’s not intentional, it’s just an unfortunate side-effect of some just strategy or other, but it is a fact: Mike Johnson is assisting Russia in achieving its military aims in Ukraine.
@Mike Johnson is helping Russia, Get some professional help dumb fuck. All Joe BRIBEn has to do is secure the southern border and Ukraine gets their $61 billion. But you're too fucking stupid to understand such a complex quid pro quo. Do you know what "quid pro quo" means? Dumb fuck.
@stopv acting russian Jack Griffin. You are an embarrassment. Take your fucking medicine and get on the same side as the Ukrainians !!
I love this man’s insight and attitude. We need people like him in charge in these dark times.
I wish the General was sitting in the white house instead. Putin and other autocrat dictators only respect strength, an excellent interview. There is an old saying either pay me now or pay me later, and the latter ends up being much more expensive.
A crucial pointthat is rarely understood about Russia’s action in and against Ukraineus that in Putin’s view it is necessary to eradicate the Ukrainian state so that he and his chosen oligarchs can rob Ukraine of all its riches, just as they have done in Russia for th past 20+ years, making themselvrs enormously ruch in the process.Putin’s goal is to do thie same in Ukraine
In military news elsewhere today (MSN):
"More than a dozen retired four-star generals, admirals and other former military leaders filed an amicus brief with in the Supreme Court on Monday, arguing against former President Trump’s claims of immunity in his criminal cases.
The group said Trump’s claims “would threaten the military’s role in American society, our nation’s constitutional order, and our national security,” and would have a “profoundly negative effects on military service members.”
The group argued that granting Trump immunity against the criminal claims could open the door to future executive intervention in the country’s elections and could put national security at risk.
The group also wrote that if the court agrees with Trump’s argument, it will destroy the relationship between the commander in chief and the military, because the president would not have to follow law, while the military still would.
The situation could end up “creating the likelihood that service members will be placed in the impossible position of having to choose between following their Commander-in-Chief and obeying the laws enacted by Congress,”
This should be shared far and wide across the USA
The General is absolutely right. Putin is escalating this war pretty much at will. Now he's begun to use chemical weapons in Ukraine! Sounds like Syria all over. Managing this war will not stop him. Getting some strategic courage, as General Hodges says, is what is needed.
I'd like to know what was actually said at Geneva in 2021 between Biden and Putin. Reportedly, our management strategy was to talk, talk, talk to Putin while really focusing on the Asia-Pacific. That is, Russia is nothing but a regional power. Talk is cheap. More hubris. Well, that regional power has got N. Korea working for him. Xi told Sergei Lavrov this week that China and Russia are fully joined at the hip on toppling the liberal world order. And Iran is supplying weapons to Putin and creating a diversion for him in Gaza. That's what a regional power has done. Because we will not recognize that sitting behind two oceans doesn't protect us. The Germans got us into two world wars with submarines. Do we really think it won't happen again. This is the difference between management and strategic planning. And talk is not cheap after all.