There Is A Time-Honored Way To Help Ukraine
Quickly Defeat Russia
American Thinker,
by
Ed Sherdlu
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/5/2022 6:03:21 AM
The economic sanctions and boycotts directed at Putin’s Russia have been and will continue to be a complete failure. They may cause an economic slowdown in Russia, even a significant one. Aeroflot may stop flying outside the country. The French may seize the oligarchs’ floating brothels disguised as yachts, and Putin’s mistresses may miss their latest designer gowns from the Paris fashion shows. At the corner grocery store in Moscow, the shelves may be more even bare than usual. The sanctions will be “successful” only in that way. But these sanctions will not stop one bullet from being fired in Ukraine or prevent another kilometer
Russians and Putin will, remembering that 24 million Russians were killed by a civilized and enlightened western European country led by a man who considered himself and his "thinking" to be universally correct. I make no apologies for the terrible suffering the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused for innocent people. I DO , however, think that Putin and those Russians who support him believe that their country is in peril again.
It's interesting to me that the United States twice invaded Iraq. The U.S. led the bombing of the civilian filled city of Belgrade in 1999. And, there can be no mistaking that the U.S. led and directed the coup in 2014 that replaced an elected President in Ukraine with a leader that WE in the U.S. chose. Read about Victoria Nuland. The U.S. should be ashamed of the violence it has caused in Ukraine. The world should be looking at the U.S. with condemnation. We are guilty!!!
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In my previous post... I meant to say that "Russians and Putin will react, remembering...."
Also, let's not forget that after the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych the Bidens were among those who lined up for the "money" in the corrupt country of Ukraine. It is STILL corrupt. Biden as the U.S. VP was bragging about his ability to remove the Ukraine prosecutor. That's undeniable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scottyboy 3/5/2022 7:07:40 AM (No. 1090360)
There hasn’t been a democrat president who liked the military or knew how to use it since at least JFK.
The national security gene disappeared from democrat DNA during Vietnam and has zero chance of returning . . especially with the ‘progressive’ girlie-men & think tank geeks currently running the Biden Regime.
Forget about it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/5/2022 7:25:45 AM (No. 1090371)
Putin is starting to feel the pressure. Every country needs to keep up confiscating the Russian Billionaire's stuff (freeze their assets). These billionaires will make Putin understand one way or another.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/5/2022 7:44:17 AM (No. 1090399)
Speaking of Lee, the B-BAM reminds me of the Union Army’s use of canister rounds against Lee’s troops at the battle of Gettysburg. Canister was essentially a huge shotgun shell filled with lead “mini balls” and fired from a cannon. At one point in Pickett’s charge, as Lee’s soldiers advanced up the hill to Cemetery Ridge the Union artillery fired canister rounds point blank into the Confederate troops, essentially turning them into hamburger. What was left of Lee’s troops retreated the next day.
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It wouldhave been nice of the author to let the rest of us in on what missile he's talking about (you won't find "B-BAM" in any search engine, beyond a custom printing shop in Seattle). I assume he's referring to the Army Tactical Missle System.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NamVet70 3/5/2022 8:06:47 AM (No. 1090424)
The weapon described is equivalent to the ICM rounds we fired in VietNam. I keep reading media statements that cluster bomb weapons are outlawed, but I don't understand how that can be any kind of reasonable limitation. These weapons, which distribute a few hundred grenades, are to modern warfare the equivalent of what the machine gun has been to the battlefield since Dr Gatlin invented his weapon. I probably owe my life to these weapons because we used them in Cambodia one night to repel an NVA battalion assault on our arty battery. Not using the most effective weapon available is equivalent to dereliction of duty because it will guarantee that the conflict will continue until tyranny wins.
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Never mind that NATO wants Ukraine to join them so they can put missiles on their border. Never mind that NATO wants full access to their resources. Never mind that NATO wants Ukraine to be part of the Great Reset... Never mind that the media has been lying to us all for years on end... Never mind all that and blindly and foolishly root for Ukraine. Will we ever learn???
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#8. Imagine if Xi in China approached the dictator Trudeau in Canada and offered him a gazillion Yuan worth half a gazillion Canadian dollars for a port on the Great Lakes. And the U.S. got wind of this.. and also learned that China would bring soldiers and missiles to the new port city for its defence (as they spell in Canada). I think the United States would react, invade Canada and replace Trudeau.
I think, for Putin, invading Ukraine is the equivalent of burning Moscow. There is no turning back and no alternative to Russian security and sovereignty in his mind. I don't think he's crazy. The U.S. and NATO countries have been "playing" around with Ukraine and its relationship to Russia. And now we in the West are surprised at the reaction... "Hey Ruski Dudes and PootiePoot! You're taking this way too seriously! Chill, huh?" Really?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/5/2022 9:38:41 AM (No. 1090506)
But in the other Must Read, it is noted that biden the cheater has painted himself into a corner. So has NATO. So, can we reasonably expect B-BAMs to be hand-delivered to Ukraine? Nyet.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/5/2022 9:45:47 AM (No. 1090517)
#9 I've been thinking of this same scenario but with Mexico and Iran. Mexico invites Iran in after being paid billions (in US cash that Obama paid the mullahs) and they set up shop all along the Rio Grand. They might even test a nuke or two. There'd definitely be no problem sending terrorists into the US with our wide open borders.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/5/2022 12:29:27 PM (No. 1090757)
Ukraine is not going to "quickly" defeat Russia. And despite saying we were not going to get involved, we are involved in that we are supplying weapons and training to Ukraine, in addition to money and credit. We are also arming Ukrainian neighbors in NATO. All this adds more U.S. debt. The reaction of throwing Russia out of SWIFT will only shorten the life for the U.S. as a reserve currency, as other countries build alternatives. The sanctions will not work. 75% of the world will still trade with Russia, including China, India, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/5/2022 12:35:43 PM (No. 1090766)
Well written and logical but the only thing missing is US Government desire to help Ukraine. They are fine with the Putin distraction and the damage that inflation and a fuel crisis is inflicting on the American people. We could be supplying all sorts of effective weapons, messing with Russian radar and communications, disrupting their supply lines, supplying satellite intelligence by the hour. Joe and the Washington coven want Ukraine damaged and their president dead to cover up Joe and Hunter's record. This is not war, it is destructive politics.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SALady 3/5/2022 12:54:05 PM (No. 1090794)
So Ed Sherdlu honestly believes that if we did what he is suggesting, Russia would just withdraw with their tails between their legs?!?!?!?!?
What an idiot!!!
If we even seriously considered this, Russia would go scortched-Earth on Ukraine. There wouldn't be anything left for the Ukrainians to defend!!!
Putin may be Hitler-level evil, but he is not stupid!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/5/2022 1:08:06 PM (No. 1090806)
One of the many reasons that Putin want to control Ukraine, ESPECIALLY the eastern part, east of the roughly north-south Dnieper River is because it some of the most productive farmland anywhere on planet earth. Without the "breadbasket of the Soviet Union", Putin has been unable to feed his population from food grown in Russia's remaining croplands.
Cutting off food shipments would squeeze, too.
In Russian aviation museums, American B-25 medium bombers and P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft were featured prominently. The P-39 didn't have a high altitude capability, due to supercharger limits, and we didn't use it for air-to-air fighting much, but it had a 37mm automatic cannon firing through the spinner of the prop, and was quite effective as a ground attack aircraft. The Russians loved it for that application and it accounted for a lot of German vehicles, including lots of tanks. And American Sherman tanks were used extensively by the Russians, too. I saw a DC-3, our famous WW2 "C-47" in military form, also in the Russian air museum. These, it turns out were license-build copies, the Li-2, a C-47 with Russian engines, again, extensively used.
A Ukrainian project manager's father was a soviet pilot in The Great Patriotic War against Germany. She showed me his log book, and I identified the aircraft types he had flown, mostly Li-2s but a few American built C-47s, too. She was pleased to have that added info about her father's wartime service, had never known what kind of planes he had flown.
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