Vet 0369

Note the sandbags on top of the bed frame. Obvious attempt to defend from top-down munitions.

How do we know he was the pilot? Was he questioned and said “I’m just the driver. Another of the crew who didn’t survive was the one who dropped the bombs.”

Probably does, but that doesn’t mean anything. Take “Ponce De Leon (spelling probably incorrect)!” It means Ponce of Leon. A very common thing among European countries, where Nordic, Baltic, and Slavic cultures used son (or sen) or dotage, ski, sky, or ska or something similar to indicate son or daughter.

Nope, just the unlucky ones.

The German anti-tank units in Market Garden weren’t using “just panzerfausts and panzershreks. They also had AT guns situated at specific cloak points along the roads. It’s really difficult ti protect your armor’s flanks when you can’t run your infantry far enough out on the flanks without overexposing them. I taught my regular opponent a very valuable lesson about using infantry to secure the flanks of your armor advance by wiping all his Soviet AT teams with infantry clearing buildings in a CM1 mission called “The Library.” He has never forgotten, and that was about 20-years ago.

Wow, look at that guy’s RED beard! I guess he’s one of them “ethnic” Chechens! Just how do we tell who are ethnic Russians, and who are ethnic Ukraines?

Yup, I assume the use of the term “blood feud” means he’s fighting against the others.

Yes, I guess this is very different from Allied carpet bombing turning Axis cities to so much rubble and fire bombing Dresden and Japanese cities. At least we can acknowledge our own sins.

Why are you so surprised? The basic difference between this invasion and Operation Market Garden is that mud is forcing the columns to stay on the roads, and in Market Garden, they had to stay on the roads because of the flooded terrain. Same basic premise of extremely unrealistic pie in the sky planning in both.

This +1! while this former military man has a war dog inside struggling to get out, I understand my country’s position. One really great line in an online game I play goes something like “Control your hatred. A warrior is like a finely forged weapon. Once you lose your temper, you lose your effectiveness, and you are no good to anyone!”

Very, very powerful “interview!” While the possibilities remain that it was coerced, they look to me to have injuries that can be consistent with battle wounds. Sure, they might be trying to save their own hides, but they were very convincing.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately depending on your point of view, in order for the U.S. and NATO to “hold the moral high ground,” they can’t do that. Perhaps you have noticed the absence of Russian cyber warfare dispite their claims they would “destroy” western economy with cyber warfare. Perhaps NATO stating that cyber attacks on any member would invoke “Article V” or something like that has something to do with it. What it looks like to me, is that SOMEONE in the Kremlin is still conscious and thinking.

Personally, I consider that “preparation” vs. “panic.” When you live in a forest in the Pacific North West, packing a “go bag” in case of a forest fire is preparation, if you live in the desert, it’s panic.

In reality, the Soviets didn’t back down on anything. John F. Kennedy made an agreement to deactivate the obsolete Hercules ballistic missiles sited in Turkey before the U.S. were intending to do so. So, the Cuban missile Crisis served it’s purpose for the Soviets.

Look at his history. Every time he started feeling his grip was being weakened by economic or social conditions, he has slapped a neighbor to increase his public standing. I know that coincidence doesn’t equal causation, but it’s a mighty solid trail.

LOL, possibly, I don’t know the band, and couldn’t understand a word they were saying!

I don’t think “taking” Ukraine was ever the main reason Putin invaded Ukraine, keeping Putin in charge was.

I assume that the militaries and intelligence services of the USA, UK, and Sweden assessed those possibilities and decided that the Russians already had either actual Javs and NLAWs, or at least detailed plans and specs for them, especially since the UK and Sweden began developing the NLAW 20 years ago in 2002. It’s really difficult to keep something secret for that long.

I’m a bit confused. What exactly does this have to do with what’s going on in Ukraine?

I honestly don’t mind that. To me, it means that they’re making an effort to verify truth. I respect that. They also don’t have our CM boys and girls reporting straight from the AOOs.

Hey, they needed to save at least some of them for the Red Square Victory Parade.

Thank you very much! Friends?

This is “pie in the sky wishing!” I sometimes attempt to fly rage Warthog in Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) which is acknowledged by many to be one of the best (real life) simulators. It is very difficult and demanding to learn how to simply start it up. After that you have to learn how to program the navigation, waypoints, targeting, etc. I have heard that even U.S. pilots who fly it every day don’t really begin to become competent in it for about a year of training in it. About the only way a new, even experienced pilot, would be effective in it would be as a Kamakazi.

Yes, you’ve gotten a like for this one! You are much more likable when it’s not vicious.

OK, I’ve read just about enough of this that I can stand without commenting. While I completely understand why you feel this way, and not being one of the “boots on the ground” in Ukraine or Russia, have no place to exalt or vilify your comments. This attitude is is a prime example of the vindictiveness that led the “Victors” of WWI to level such severe reparations and conditions on Germany that it caused WWII. Please try to tone it down a bit, or unfortunately, I’ll have to put you on ignore, because I don’t believe in “Stirring the S*#t.” It really is nothing except extreme prejudice of the Russian people, and no peoples anywhere deserve that attitude.