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Retired Army Colonel's Assessment about the Ukraine War-Are we being lied to and lead down a dangerous road? How bad is our military broken?

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Interesting. Listen if you want. About 50 mins long or so. Make up your own mind. Are we being fed a line of crap in regard to this war and our involvement?

If you totally believe DC then take a bit to listen to it and draw your own conculusions.

 
There are reports our generals are at serious odds with Ukrainian leadership reverting back to WWI style warfare. In large part because they are absolutely blowing through ammo & weapons at an unsustainable rate.

From the WashPo:

The administration has focused largely on expanding output of the 155mm artillery round, which has been a mainstay of the West’s conventional arsenal for decades and proved critical for Ukraine in the ongoing counteroffensive. Despite Ukrainian forces receiving U.S. training on modern combined-arms maneuvers over the winter, the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky has largely jettisoned these tactics, instead embracing an attritional, artillery-heavy approach as it seeks to breach Russian minefields and fiercely defended lines of trenches.​
 
There are reports our generals are at serious odds with Ukrainian leadership reverting back to WWI style warfare. In large part because they are absolutely blowing through ammo & weapons at an unsustainable rate.

From the WashPo:

The administration has focused largely on expanding output of the 155mm artillery round, which has been a mainstay of the West’s conventional arsenal for decades and proved critical for Ukraine in the ongoing counteroffensive. Despite Ukrainian forces receiving U.S. training on modern combined-arms maneuvers over the winter, the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky has largely jettisoned these tactics, instead embracing an attritional, artillery-heavy approach as it seeks to breach Russian minefields and fiercely defended lines of trenches.​
The colonel brings part of that up. Apparantly, the Russian technology is better than we/they thought. If you do troops movments the Russians are using technology to bombard them with missiles/artillery. He said that is why you are seeing some of the WW1 tactics.

However, the Ukraninians are not good at combined arms. They simply don't have the numbers of men to fight the Russians one on one.

The Russians have hundreds of thousands of men in reserves and the Ukrainians do not. They are going to run out of men to fight.

The USA involved itself in a boondoggle
 
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The colonel brings part of that up. Apparantly, the Russian technology is better than we/they thought. If you do troops movments the Russians are using technology to bombard them with missiles/artillery. He said that is why you are seeing some of the WW1

However, the Ukraninians are not good at combines arms. They simply don't have the numbers of men to fight the Russians one on one.

The Russians have hundreds of thousands of men in reserves and the Ukrainians do not. They are going to run out of men to fight.

The USA involved itself in a boondoggle
Involved? Hell, not only did we predict it, in the lead up Zelenskyy said we had exacerbated it. We’re funding, arming, & even have troops there (read the leaks.) This debacle is Biden’s war
 
Involved? Hell, not only did we predict it, in the lead up Zelenskyy said we had exacerbated it. We’re funding, arming, & even have troops there (read the leaks.) This debacle is Biden’s war
His invterview was good. He did most of the talking and raises serious questions. Not sure what the USA was thinking. Hell, we could have possibly had a peace agreement where the Russians just took the Russian ethnic areas. But, not we wanted a big war for some reason.

What are they going to do when the Ukrainians run out of men to fight?
 
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Cons in trucks^^^
 
His invterview was good. He did most of the talking and raises serious questions. Not sure what the USA was thinking. Hell, we could have possibly had a peace agreement where the Russians just took the Russian ethnic areas. But, not we wanted a big war for some reason.

What are they going to do when the Ukrainians run out of men to fight?
They will not run out of men . You are listening to Tucker Carlson. What a joke he is. Russia started this war not Ukraine. Do you just want Russia to take all of Europe? You talk as if we should just give in to Russia. Dictators and fascists do not stop with winning one battle. You need to read your history books.
 
They will not run out of men . You are listening to Tucker Carlson. What a joke he is. Russia started this war not Ukraine. Do you just want Russia to take all of Europe? You talk as if we should just give in to Russia. Dictators and fascists do not stop with winning one battle. You need to read your history books.
They will not run out of men? That is not a conservative or Republican view. If this fighting continies they most certainly will. Hell, Geopolotical people and Analyst are saying so. The demographics for Ukraine just don't add up. Those are the facts. They will run out of fighting age men. Do you want to have 70 year olds and kids out there?

Russia would not have invaded a NATO country. They are not that stupid.

Get past CNN and learn how we were involved in absolutely helping start this war.

But, to say they will not run out of men is just plain crazy. Germany had the same problem.
 
Get past CNN and learn how we were involved in absolutely helping start this war.
Oath breaker loved his 20 year war in Afghanistan. We've already seen what your beloved putin will do when unchecked. Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine...
 
Oath breaker loved his 20 year war in Afghanistan. We've already seen what your beloved putin will do when unchecked. Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine...
^^^too dumb to understand that it was actually the US fighting people who attacked us in Afghanistan
 
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^^^too dumb to understand that it was actually the US fighting people who attacked us in Afghanistan
Lying oath breaker^^^too stupid to understand he's supporting 2 fellow oath breakers (oath breaker and orange jesus) and putin.
 
Oath breaker loved his 20 year war in Afghanistan. We've already seen what your beloved putin will do when unchecked. Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine...
No, I didn't love it at all. I thought it was time to get out but, not they those complete morons did it.
 
No, I didn't love it at all. I thought it was time to get out but, not they those complete morons did it.
You supported and defended the afghanistan war for 20 years. oath breaker. And the ONLY thing that changed your "mind" was your chemical dependency on what your orange jesus said about it.
 
They will not run out of men . You are listening to Tucker Carlson. What a joke he is. Russia started this war not Ukraine. Do you just want Russia to take all of Europe? You talk as if we should just give in to Russia. Dictators and fascists do not stop with winning one battle. You need to read your history books.
God you are stupid.
 
You supported and defended the afghanistan war for 20 years. oath breaker. And the ONLY thing that changed your "mind" was your chemical dependency on what your orange jesus said about it.
Of course I support it. We did what we had to do and what needed to be done. It was time to draw down forces there but, the withdraw moron. the withdraw was an uncecessary debacle.
 
Some 05’s and 06’s definitely try to be more important than what they are. Not saying he’s wrong, but this guys was a Brigade commander at most.
 
Obamas war
Afghanistan was every President's war since W. And every single POTUS since Bush Sr should have heeded the warnings about nation building. They all were presenting a picture to voters that things were waaaay better than they really were. I've said it before, I don't blame us for getting out, but not in the absolute cluster f***ed manner we did. I don't see how anyone can justify Biden's latest debacle/boondoggle (deboondacle?) in Ukraine by pointing to Afghanistan. If anything, it should be a clear warning not to relive past mistakes.

Hell, dems wanted a no-fly zone from the start. Willfully ignorant & borderline catastrophic ignorance of history from the jump.
 
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Afghanistan was every President's war since W. And every single POTUS since Bush Sr should have heeded the warnings about nation building. They all were presenting a picture to voters that things were waaaay better than they really were. I've said it before, I don't blame us for getting out, but not in the absolute cluster f***ed manner we did. I don't see how anyone can justify Biden's latest debacle/boondoggle (deboondacle?) in Ukraine by pointing to Afghanistan. If anything, it should be a clear warning not to relive past mistakes.

Hell, dems wanted a no-fly zone from the start. Willfully ignorant & borderline catastrophic ignorance of history from the jump.
You're an idiot.
 
How did the conservatives start it dumbass? The war was started on 9/11, remember when some guys flew airplanes in to buildings.
Afghanistan started as a response to Bin Laden’s directed attack on US soil.. Is someone against us responding to 9-11? That’s certainly a new take on this board, a pro 9-11 poster.
 
^^^unhinged lunatic who sides with al qaeda
^^^oath breaker defending oath breakers that incited and/or participated in an illegal insurrection against the Constitution and attempted to illegally overturn the results of a free and fair election.

Cons war. They started it and couldn't end it. You lying idiot.
 
^^^oath breaker defending oath breakers that incited and/or participated in an illegal insurrection against the Constitution and attempted to illegally overturn the results of a free and fair election.

Cons war. They started it and couldn't end it. You lying idiot.
Whatever you say extra bin laden
 
So when the US homeland is attacked & thousands die, only the right sees fit to retaliate while the left is cool with it?
 
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