Robert Wilson said:
ShooterTX said:
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Canada2017 said:
ShooterTX said:
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Married A Horn said:
Who is winning this war? I was under the impression Russia would win in a week (a.k.a. Nazy vs Poland 1939). I wake this morning and read: No Russian objectives met; All Russian advances halted; Putin bit off more than he can chew; Ukraine retakes Kyiv airport; Russia has 3 to 4 times the casualties...
These were from many different sources from the right and left.
I also read that someone estimated Kyiv falls within 4 days.
Ukraine doesnt have a chance, do they?
I don't see how 200,000 people can hold back a determine and well armed 40M people (unless they're Afghanistan)
Because you are thinking like an American liberal encased in first world prosperity .
Russian occupied most of Eastern Europe for over 50 years utilizing their traditional subjugation tactics.
Executing tens of thousands of suspected opponents ....especially those in the educated / military / professional classes. Imprisoning thousands more without trial . Often people were basically kidnapped in the middle of the night by Russian security forces and not heard from for years....if ever.
This tactic was found to be even more effective than executions .
Americans have an incredibly hard time accepting that any regime can be so brutal .
We shouldn't be surprised.
The dems have made sex and LGBTQ the main focus of our education system, for decades. They did everything they could to stop the truth about communism and the Cold War, from being taught in American schools.
It is sad just how many people do not understand that brutality has been the norm in most of Asia & Africa, for thousands of years. Kids today think that everyone in the world is either just like America, or at least holds the same values & principles as Americans.
Exactly
Once had a client from Dresden, Germany . The Berlin Wall had been down for only a few months and he and his wife were thrilled to take a job with Woodward Governor in Fort Collins, Colorado .
I asked him if his family had any personal memories about the Dresden fire bombing at the very end of WW2.
He gave me a long, hard look and said I was the first American he had ever met that knew the first thing about the atrocity .
A week later he brought me their family album loaded with pictures of the carnage .
Explained that although he was happy to be in Colorado.....he found our people to be incredibly naive and basically under educated.
Dresden was a war crime.
And several high ranking members of the British bomber command should have hanged.
We justly hung Nazi commanders at Nuremburg for similar crimes.
and to be honest, our fire-bombing of Tokyo was pretty horrible. It is one thing to destroy massive parts of a city, in order to destroy military installations or manufacturing. It is another to intentionally create a firestorm which will mostly affect civilian structures.
How about dropping 2 nukes?
Those actions were the only thing that forced the emperor of Japan to surrender. They had the kamikaze mindset. Otherwise, we were looking at a land invasion that was going to cost many more lives.
yeah... i do believe there was a stark difference between the Germans and the Japanese. The average German wasn't willing to fight to the death, but was more than happy for the war to end. The average Japanese was far more willing to commit suicide, rather than be "invaded" by a foreign power.
Some say it was because of very effective Japanese propaganda, combined with centuries of isolation and xenophobic beliefs by the Japanese society. Sadly, the nukes were necessary to bring a swift end to the war in the Pacific... which is why I wouldn't go so far as to label the nukes or the fire-bombing as "war crimes". Without those massive bombing attacks, it is unlikely that the war would have ended without a full scall invasion.
ShooterTX
