The Russians have gone in

[oldbrownhat]

..."Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment" is a little piece of high-tech kit that can make it's home in any vehicle bed...

Clearly a case of "Hey- I have a great name for this new weapon: VAMPIRE.
Now we just need to come up with an acronym for it."

 

[Der Verminator]

Mocking people fighting and dying for their freedom is unattractive.

"Ugly American" is a stereotype depicting American citizens as exhibiting loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior mainly abroad, but also at home.

So.........you are happy to mock the Ruskies but uncomfortable when somebody does the same to the Ukes?

All these soldiers are fighting for their lives.......both sides.

Sounds to me like you just want to mock somebody who disagrees with you.

Both sides in this circus of a war seem fairly incompetent.

If my saying that bothers you......well, keep in mind it's just my opinion.

 

[Der Verminator]

Nah ... I'll just let your ego walk you to the gallows till you figure out how not to be a jerk.
You can call them "Ukes" all you like. At the rate things are going we'll be calling them refugees, and quite possibly neighbors.
I'd much rather avoid culture clash and language barriers by making safe their homeland if possible.
I don't believe that is possible however.
They may very well be gutshot and dying in the street. Only one in this thread seems intent to kick them in the abdomen while picking fights with those who'd rather ease that process of suffering.

That kind of attack is uncalled for and inappropriate.

If you can't answer the question, just say so without the namecalling.

 

[biku324]

So.........you are happy to mock the Ruskies but uncomfortable when somebody does the same to the Ukes?

All these soldiers are fighting for their lives.......both sides.

Sounds to me like you just want to mock somebody who disagrees with you.

Both sides in this circus of a war seem fairly incompetent.

If my saying that bothers you......well, keep in mind it's just my opinion.

Shame on you. Blocked.

 

[Beemerguy53]

...With the huge problems we have at home in America...why are we flushing money down the toilet?

If you think we have "huge problems" in this country now, watch what will happen if the Russians succeed in conquering Ukraine. Does anyone think Putin will stop there? A Russian victory in this war will almost certainly lead to a wider conflict involving NATO and inevitably, the United States...and when that happens, what will you and your ilk say then?

Call me corny, but defending the sovereignty of another nation doesn't strike me as flushing money down a toilet.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZztKOQXdm6c[/ame]

 

[Imissedagain]

The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom and lives.
The Russian troops are fighting, most likely, for fear of what will happen if they just said no.
Of course there are those that love mayhem etc etc.
Sad but true.

People like that live here as well.
Sad funeral yesterday in South Florida.

 

[Der Verminator]

If you think we have "huge problems" in this country now, watch what will happen if the Russians succeed in conquering Ukraine. Does anyone think Putin will stop there? A Russian victory in this war will almost certainly lead to a wider conflict involving NATO and inevitably, the United States...and when that happens, what will you and your ilk say then?

Call me corny, but defending the sovereignty of another nation doesn't strike me as flushing money down a toilet.

President Kennedy: We Shall Pay Any Price - YouTube

Kennedy?

Kennedy's been dead for SIXTY years.

His ideas are history. He's a man of the previous century.

Defending another nation when it's really none of our business and especially when it's a lost cause is a mistake in the 21st Century.

This current little "war" will most likely end in a peace settlement in a year or two that gives Russia all the seaports and almost total control of the Ukraine economy.

Russia will spend another ten or twenty years in pacification of Ukraine as it again slowly becomes part of Russia.

Putin will be long dead by then.

Anyway, it was never any of our damned business.

Given the problems Putin is having with Ukraine.........the idea that Russia would attack a Nato country is absurd.

 

[Der Verminator]

The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom and lives.
The Russian troops are fighting, most likely, for fear of what will happen if they just said no.

In other words.........

The Russian troops are fighting for their lives, and dying, just like the Uke troops.

The Ukranians may be more motivated........but neither side has a choice.

There are no villains in this war except Putin.

 

[Imissedagain]

I googled UKE and all that came up was the kid in blue and a Batman 4 stringer.
Ukes they be.

 

[ditrina]

2798 posts....
And all we ended up with is BICKER BICKER BICKER, SNIPE SNIPE SNIPE, FORD vs CHEVY, 9mm vs .45... That about covers it, We're done.

Thank you all for your input and opinions

 

[biku324]

Russian 3-star Surrenders to Ukrainians

So much for the pitiful remnants of the 'stand or die' Russian military. Zhukov rolls in his grave.

For comparison, the only American lieutenant general in modern history who surrendered was (temporary) Lt. Gen. Jonathan 'Skinny' Wainwright, a month after Bata'an fell to the Japanese and the last major US artillery battery (Battery Geary) was destroyed by a freak Japanese shell hit at Corregidor Island, the last position held by Americans in the Philippines, in Manila Bay in May, 1942.

Images and video shared on Twitter and Telegram purportedly show Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi among a group of Russian troops handcuffed on their knees with one social media user saying they were near Balakliya, in the Kharkiv region

Many noted the similarity of one of the captured men to other images of Sychevoi.

Slava Ukraini!!

Top Russian Commander of Invading Army Captured by Ukraine—Report