Interesting line I noticed
trading the soil for the lives of our people
This shows lack of awareness. If he and every other Ukrainian nationalist didn’t act so fanatical about keeping their land, then most of the dead Ukrainians would be alive. Russia never intended on taking any land until they realized they had to do it the hard way. Zelenskky provoked everyone to fight. He had the power to tell everyone to stand down and cede to Russia’s demands.
leaning much more for NATO and friends than RU at this point in time
Yeah it’s worthwhile to note that the Ukraine has essentially become a neo-colony for NATO (mainly the US). Afaik, for most of the aid they’re receiving, they’re expected to pay interest on it. The West doesn’t want to lose out on that money. I’m sure rebuilding the country would involve loans with interest as well.
Well here’s some examples
Korea - was losing very badly at first, got pushed all the way to the southernmost point
Vietnam - never quite got a good foothold in the 7 or so years they were there. Wasted countless artillery and air strikes on trying to bomb VC bunkers and trenches, but were ineffective probably 90% of the time. Also was too cowardly to invade the north, when I think it’s likely that China wouldn’t have escalated.
Afghanistan - spent 20 years, got nothing productive done, the liberal govt installed was a failure, no one cared about it, everything was completely pointless in the end.
If this is in response to the two amerikan soldiers that got captured by Russia (and the one that died), then that would be very funny.
Desperate to not make it look like amerikan soldiers suck (which they do a lot of the time…they continually lose over and over even though they like to spin it otherwise).
“There was no security,” Nettles says. “We should have all been slaughtered, because no one had guns on the wood-line, and most everyone was being extremely loud, and we were very close to the burning vehicle right next to the Russian position. If the Russians had any tactical competence or courage at all, they would have sent a forward observation team, who would have seen our group with no weapons up, carrying a stretcher, and killed us all.”
Keep taking that copium
Because I think it’s not a very good religion. Better than the abrahamic ones I suppose, but it leads people down to lives that I don’t think are positive development.
Also, the way it was implemented felt very forced. Didn’t feel natural. Just felt like a promotion for the religion.
It did lead her to eventually feal inner peace though, so that’s nice.
I agree. It’s potentially very destructive. I don’t know if you ever watched this film called Heaven & Earth, but it’s about a Vietnamese women marrying a US soldier, moving to the US with him, and having children. He seemed nice at first, but then he starts getting abusive, and threatens to kill her. And he also admits to her that he was a Black Ops soldier who tortured Viet Cong.
Based on an actual Vietnamese woman too! Main issue I have with it is that it has Buddhist stuff in it, since the writer/director Oliver Stone is a buddhist himself. But besides that, it’s pretty good.
I do believe that. His organization would be swimming in cash at that point.