sherpa Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 45 minutes ago, reddogblitz said: This is an extremely naive and willfully ignorant statement. We dropped 7,000,000 tons of bombs on Viet Nam. 3 1/2 times the number of bombs we dropped in WW 2 and came nowhere close to winning anything. We were fighting the Viet Kong backed by, you guessed it, Russia. When we started dropping bombs they climbed down in their tunnels and smoked their dope. When it was over, they came back out and carried on. We couldn't even beat Iraq's army with Shock and Awe alone. And they didn't even have airplanes or a Navy. It is imprudent to compare Vietnam to WWII. During Vietnam, the target list was controlled by Washington, not the military. As the result, valuable military targets were off limits. The same targets assigned, day after day, with absolutely no military importance were bombed, while targets with military significance had to be avoided. It was a joke to those who served and they have never forgotten. Johnson and specifically McNamara had no strategic capability and subjected those airmen to unnecessary peril. The US military demolished the Iraqi military, in two of the greatest routes in military history. What happened after is not on the military, it is on a nation that had been so beaten up by it's regime that it had no interest in establishing a nation. Shock and Awe was never used. It was a phrase used to convince the regime that it was senseless to challenge, and more importantly, to convince it's rank and file military that anything other than surrender was pointless, and they did just that. The point is that if you are going to commit to war, you bring everything you have. You let the military leaders handle it, and when they do, there better be something left to fill the void. 1
Niagara Bill Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 50 minutes ago, Big Blitz said: All I know is nothing but peace and prosperity under Trump. Then the flu. And the nazis took over. Now I pay $3.50 for gas. The rent is to dam high. And Putin is about to take Ukraine. If the measurement of prosperity is only Wall Street, you are correct
Chef Jim Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Big Blitz said: All I know is nothing but peace and prosperity under Trump. Then the flu. And the nazis took over. Now I pay $3.50 for gas. The rent is to dam high. And Putin is about to take Ukraine. $3.50? Awwww isn’t that cute. I just paid $4.39 and that was after my $.60 per gallon discount for Ralph’s points.
Chef Jim Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 30 minutes ago, Niagara Bill said: If the measurement of prosperity is only Wall Street, you are correct Who mentioned Wall Street? 1 1
reddogblitz Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Tiberius said: Nice post!!! Yes, so true. But this is a very different situation. You might be right, I might be overly optimistic, ya. But not for the this reason above. Russia is attacking with tanks and other equipment. They will have the air superiority, probably It's sort of like the Brits trying to conquer the Yanks in the 1770's. The Russians are more like the Americans in Nam here and the Ukranians are more fit for role of Vietcong and NVA. Make sense? Makes ZERO sense.
Tiberius Posted February 24, 2022 Author Posted February 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, reddogblitz said: Makes ZERO sense. ok 1 hour ago, sherpa said: It is imprudent to compare Vietnam to WWII. During Vietnam, the target list was controlled by Washington, not the military. As the result, valuable military targets were off limits. What targets were off limits? I know there were, but wasn't that because of the vast human suffering hitting them would cost?
BillStime Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 And so it begins - I wish Biden would stop encouraging on Ukraine with Putin’s dogs… right @B-Man?
Big Blitz Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 17 minutes ago, BillStime said: And so it begins - I wish Biden would stop encouraging on Ukraine with Putin’s dogs… right @B-Man?
BillStime Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 8 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said: You mean that guy Trudeau? I agree. We should cross the border, arrest that dictator, and put him on trial for human rights violations. I can’t believe what Trudeau is up to - just shocking.
Coffeesforclosers Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) Putin is saying he had to declare war on Ukraine in self-defense. BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Russia's invasion is going, to quote Putin, "Demilitarize Ukraine and punish the Nazis and Criminals". Aka, Russia's going to turn Ukraine into a colony and shoot anyone that might threaten their rule. If I were Finland, I'd be applying for NATO membership right ***** now. In the 22nd Century, you are either a huge country, in a defensive alliance with a huge country, something not worth attacking, or dog food. Edited February 24, 2022 by Coffeesforclosers
Big Blitz Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, BillStime said: Um. 13 seconds. I know that's a taboo number around here but this is beyond absurd Maybe Brandon's bravado "I'm going to stand up to Putin" basically led Putin to this conclusion Here is 2 plus minutes of Nazi Democrats mocking the notion that Russia is a threat https://video.foxnews.com/v/6298653314001/ 11 minutes ago, BillStime said: Bring it bich You got a plan to handle Russia in Ukraine and China in Taiwan? Because that's coming. Edited February 24, 2022 by Big Blitz
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 42 minutes ago, Big Blitz said: Putin couldn’t be happier with this outcome. He may have funded the ballot harvesting himself. 1
Big Blitz Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 Uniparty going to get its war - FU Mitt America First had nothing to do with this 14% of our kids are military ready btw.
B-Man Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 Putin has officially announced it: Russia is at war with Ukraine. Europe failed to stop him. NATO failed to stop him. Joe Biden failed to stop him. Absolute collapse of Western credibility. Paper tigers all. 1 1
Coffeesforclosers Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said: Mitt Romney is an odd duck, but at least he's got a sense of right and wrong that's genuinely patriotic and involves issues bigger than himself. Nikki Haley, though, rolling out the cheap shots. What a crock. Then again, George McClellan ran against Abraham ***** Lincoln in 1864 on a platform of negotiated peace with the Confederacy...when the Union was smashing southern army after sourthern army and the war was all but won. So I guess there's always somebody that tries this crap. 1
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