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Originally Posted by Jackie S
We keep seeing reports of how the Ukrainians are preparing for a guerrilla type warfare against the invading Russians. College students are making Molotov Coctails, every citizen possible is being issued an assault rifle and plenty of ammo.
Of course, most of the pundits are saying it is really an exercise in futility, the Russian war machine will simply be too much.
Women and children are being ushered to safety, every able bodied man is expected to stay and fight. Is it possible that a well armed citizenry could actually make life so miserable for any Russian Soldier that they would loose their will to fight?
It has happened before. In Afghanistan.
My next question would be if the US found it’s self in the same predicament as Ukraine, would we actually fight, or curl up into a fetal position and admit defeat.
The odds are against Ukraine. No other Country can send in troops because Putin has his finger on the Nuclear button.
But we can furnish the Ukrainians with the means to kill every damned Russian soldier they lay eyes on and put a Javeline Missle into every armored vehicle they can find.
Maybe we are witnessing something historical. People who have tasted freedom are willing to stand up against a huge “Thugocracy” and show the World that there are things worth fighting for.
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I think we are seeing something historical. While the Afghan soldiers decided to lay down their weapons and not fight their oppressors ( no insurgency to speak of ) it looks like Ukrainians will fight to the death. I just heard one military expert say that if Ukraine can hold on for a couple of weeks till most of this military equipment can get to them, the Stingers and Javelins being sent by the thousands and more of those armed drones, Ukraine might very well be able to defeat the Russian Army, not destroy them entirely but sap their will to fight.
Hearing stories of Russian conscripts weeping beside their broken down transport vehicles saying they were not told what they are expected to do and do not want to kill innocent women and children. If a fever like that takes old in the Russian Army, it will destroy them.
Just heard Germany seized the largest private owned Russian plane and yacht, both bigger than Putin's from a Russian Oligarch and this is happening all over the world. Will it be enough for these so called power brokers ( if they are any more ) to get Putin to stop or better yet, "take him out"?
For VM, that is not a rhetorical question.
