Bosun
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In other news the Biden administration announced that another $800 million in security assistance would be sent to Ukraine Wednesday, including artillery, coastal defense drones, anti-aircraft and anti-tank armored vehicles, and Mi-17 helicopters.
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I donāt know about inept, Nato showed how to be inept after 20 years in Afghanistan!
Good thing weāre finally out of that quagmire.
Welcome to Hannity-Land.
Thereās a big difference. Our incompetence didnāt involve our Abrams tanks getting towed away by farmers with tractors.
Piper
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I think that was the same ship where the Russians aboard asked the Ukrainians to surrender.
I started to post a link with a picture yesterday of the stamp somebody made with the ship and a soldier but the language was foul.
Piper
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Welcome to Community.Hannity, @Corky56, 
Seems Ukraine has a well armed MIlitia. Well practiced or " Regulated"
Iām think we should allow Americans to buy tank destroying missiles, so we can fight tyranny if needed also! Seems the natural extension of the 2nd A in the modern world as Ukraine has taught us.
Plus it would make fun youtube vids. Love to see āDemolitionranchā or āKentuckyballisticsā on youtube blowing up stuff with those. Why should Ukraine be more free than US?
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conan
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I donāt think they were inept. We just stayed too long Btw welcome to Hannity Land
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Just 80 billion in war equipment. lol
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Thatās true. We did ā ā ā ā up pretty bad.
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I hope Ukraine wins. They were brutally invaded. The Russians decided to gamble and ā ā ā ā ā ā up. The Russian Federation deserves to lose. And the bigger that loss, the better.
But I do take a nuanced view on our involvement. I think we are at the limit of what we should do. We shouldnāt go any further, and I vehemently disagree with expanding our involvement. And Iāll say that the people calling for extended American involvement are being incredibly irresponsible and disregarding the reality of potential nuclear warfare.
So Iāve been very consistent. Hope the Russians lose big, but we tread very carefully and keep our support to a practical minimum.
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NJBob
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Iām my book, regardless of the ultimate outcome of the war, they already did.
They showed the world what a piss poor excuse for a superpower Russia is.
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The Italians couldnāt fight their way out of a wet paper bag in WW2.
Possibly worse than the French.
Italian units did well on the Eastern Front. In Italy itself⦠not so much. Mainly because Italian society was so split and fragmented.
The Nazis had managed quite successfully to create an all powerful dictatorship in Germany under Hitler. The entire nation, sans a few brave outliers, became dedicated to the various goals of the Nazi regime. Not to say that every German was a Nazi; they werenāt. But the movement of German society was defined by the Nazis after 1933 and most open dissent was brutally crushed over the next few years.
Mussolini and the Fascists were never able to consolidate that level of authoritarianism in Italy. They had a lot of support, but there was a ton of dissent. Once it became clear that Fascists were incompetent following the invasion of Sicily, what little Italian solidarity that had been forged completely fell apart.
That to me, explains the Italians poor performance in World War II on the Italian front itself.
But the Italian units who were assigned to the Eastern Front during Case Blue did surprisingly well considering their poor circumstances, such as poor logistics, outdated equipment, and having to rely on the Germans who contrary to belief, really looked down on Italians. They were above Jews, Slavs, Africans, and Asians in the Nazi racial totem pole of course, but they were below all the other groups.
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Look at whoās never visited his local national guard armory.
As for the French, yeah they did an awful job in World War II. There aināt no excusing it. Even the Free French military was only able to do anything in 1944 thanks to the British and Americans basically giving them a nations worth of equipment and Eisenhower mostly assigning them the easiest operational objectives during and immediately after Overlord.
Americans, British, Canadians, and the ANZACs (Aussies and Kiwis) got the hard jobs. The Free French mostly got the easier, less pressing stuff.
It actually really pissed De Gaulle off; he wanted French Forces to engage in every operation, even the most difficult ones. But I get why Eisenhower made the decisions he made in regards to the French. They simply werenāt up to the task at that point.
Complete turn around from World War I. The French, despite making a ton of mistakes in the first war, overall did an outstanding job holding theirselves together and they shouldered most of the Western Frontās burden in the First World War from start to finish. They were the great victors of 1918. I think the first world war broke their society though in immeasurable ways and thatās at the core of why they did so terribly in the second.
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conan
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Seriously, I really overestimated the Russians.
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