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Shades of The Spanish Civil War----Many Americans
https://news.yahoo.com/16-000-foreigners-volunteered-fight-170755032.html


@jimm619 said
Shades of The Spanish Civil War----Many Americans
https://news.yahoo.com/16-000-foreigners-volunteered-fight-170755032.html
Except the Ukrainians appear to be far more competent than the Spanish Republicans were at warfare...unless it's all propaganda I'm hearing


@AThousandYoung
Not propaganda. Better weapons. US provided a half bil in anti tank missiles.
They are also shipping in 3 warthogs.
If I was Ukraine military I would be using those planes to bomb the snot out of that 40 mile long convoy of military hardware chugging their way to Kyiv.

Can u imagine the cleanup crew if all 40 miles of Russian hardware got destroyed?

I heard the bunch the Russians sent are all green soldiers with no experience or training in battle, just expendable grunts as far as Putin is concerned.
He doesn't care if he loses a million men in his army if he wins Ukraine.
Real nice dude, Puking Putin.


@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
Not propaganda. Better weapons. US provided a half bil in anti tank missiles.
They are also shipping in 3 warthogs.
If I was Ukraine military I would be using those planes to bomb the snot out of that 40 mile long convoy of military hardware chugging their way to Kyiv.

Can u imagine the cleanup crew if all 40 miles of Russian hardware got destroyed?
...[text shortened]... oesn't care if he loses a million men in his army if he wins Ukraine.
Real nice dude, Puking Putin.
biden enabled all this, and is still enabling to at least $70 million per day

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@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
Not propaganda. Better weapons. US provided a half bil in anti tank missiles.
They are also shipping in 3 warthogs.
If I was Ukraine military I would be using those planes to bomb the snot out of that 40 mile long convoy of military hardware chugging their way to Kyiv.

Can u imagine the cleanup crew if all 40 miles of Russian hardware got destroyed?
...[text shortened]... oesn't care if he loses a million men in his army if he wins Ukraine.
Real nice dude, Puking Putin.
Good point.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia

Meanwhile the raw recruits were getting no military training that could be of the slightest use to them. I had been told that foreigners were not obliged to attend ‘instruction’ (the Spaniards, I noticed, had a pathetic belief that all foreigners knew more of military matters than themselves), but naturally I turned out with the others. I was very anxious to learn how to use a machine-gun; it was a weapon I had never had a chance to handle. To my dismay I found that we were taught nothing about the use of weapons. The so-called instruction was simply parade-ground drill of the most antiquated, stupid kind; right turn, left turn, about turn, marching at attention in column of threes and all the rest of that useless nonsense which I had learned when I was fifteen years old. It was an extraordinary form for the training of a guerilla army to take. Obviously if you have only a few days in which to train a soldier, you must teach him the things he will most need; how to take cover, how to advance across open ground, how to mount guards and build a parapet — above all, how to use his weapons. Yet this mob of eager children, who were going to be thrown into the front line in a few days’ time, were not even taught how to fire a rifle or pull the pin out of a bomb. At the time I did not grasp that this was because there were no weapons to be had.


@Mott-The-Hoople
Hey you POS FUK YOU AND THE HERSE YOU CAME IN ON TRAITOR.

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@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
Not propaganda. Better weapons. US provided a half bil in anti tank missiles.
They are also shipping in 3 warthogs.
If I was Ukraine military I would be using those planes to bomb the snot out of that 40 mile long convoy of military hardware chugging their way to Kyiv.

Can u imagine the cleanup crew if all 40 miles of Russian hardware got destroyed?
...[text shortened]... oesn't care if he loses a million men in his army if he wins Ukraine.
Real nice dude, Puking Putin.
The Russian Army is bristling with AAA. This guy talks about it starting around 22:00:

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@athousandyoung said
Good point.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia

Meanwhile the raw recruits were getting no military training that could be of the slightest use to them. I had been told that foreigners were not obliged to attend ‘instruction’ (the Spaniards, I noticed, had a pathetic belief that all foreigners knew more of military mat ...[text shortened]... f a bomb. At the time I did not grasp that this was because there were no weapons to be had.
Wasn't Hemingway also there?

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@jimm619 said
Wasn't Hemingway also there?
Yes, as a journalist.

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@athousandyoung said
Yes, as a journalist.
''The Sun Also Rises?''

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@jimm619 said
''The Sun Also Rises?''
From his time as a playboy intellectual author before the Civil War.

He also got hit with shrapnel in Italy in WW1.


@jimm619 said
Shades of The Spanish Civil War----Many Americans
https://news.yahoo.com/16-000-foreigners-volunteered-fight-170755032.html
Well, except that in the Spanish civil war the volunteers were there to oppose a nasty right-wing regime…

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@athousandyoung said
From his time as a playboy intellectual author before the Civil War.

He also got hit with shrapnel in Italy in WW1.
I saw that was,''For Whom The Bell Tolls''

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@jimm619 said
I saw that was,''For Whom The Bell Tolls''
That was published after the Civil War.


@shavixmir said
Well, except that in the Spanish civil war the volunteers were there to oppose a nasty right-wing regime…
...and in Ukraine, they're there to oppose a nasty right-wing invader.