OSINT (Open Source Intel) look at Russia-Ukraine

...'nuff to get the job done.
AND....we've stated that we will 'respond in kind.'

While not exactly an OSINT site, Binkov offers a fairly good high level overview of the 'Not" mother of all battles.....
IF you can ignore the presenter's unusual wardrobe.

Binkov alludes to the surprising (more like stunning!) willingness of the Ukes to fight for the home sod, but the other head turner is the collective support that the Slava Ukraini! folks have received from an amazingly unified EU/West.
Even Poland with their sorta 'Trumpian' government is getting a lot of support from the blue checks.

 

^ If you follow that logic, then we should ESTABLISH a nfz and then just not enforce it.....

Ironic, huh?
The LAST guy was the one who was supposed to always be making moronic statements in front of cameras.

 

There must be a media blackout in Lancaster…..

No….
P-saki is actually pretty sharp.
Notice how she always “gets the ‘Vid” when it’s time for her boss to fire up the big white bird and leave the nest??
Think: Time Zones, and an intellectually lazy press.

If we had ANY OTHER veep, it would be time “to have the talk” about taking the keys and maybe getting somebody to babysit…..

 

That one got by me too.....

 

Concur

The Nam was a different kinda gig.
The US never really "invaded" North Veetnam, but rather we came to the aid of a corrupt pro-western government that was invaded by the peace loving, human rights centric people's republic up north.
Ironically, we're on the cusp of getting basing rights in Cam Ranh Bay because of fears by the Veetnameese that THEY are about to be invaded by a peace loving, human rights centric people's republic.
This caused one of our nucular carriers to get a new boss a few years back when his bosses "lost confidence" after a visit to the Nam caused some of the sailors to get the Vid.

Most of the people out there who like to jam square pegs into round holes with historical examples of what is happening in Ukraine use Iraq or Afghanistan, which were two times that we tried (and failed) to get to that "Goldilocks amount." of juuuuust enough force to effect a regime change.

Iraq is somewhat arguably better off today, since they figured out what Germany JUST did.
YOU are responsible for YOUR security.

Afghanistan OTOH, is back to the wonderful pre-12th century patriarchal society that they started out with.
We paid between 50 and 80 billion $USD in post war "reparations" (sources vary) for the high crime of not allowing the locals to use biological females as chattel property, and actually supporting a local government that allowed some local females to educate themselves beyond the 6th grade, not get sold into sexual slavery, and to wear western apparel, drive, leave the house without a male, etc...etc...

I didn't include Libya because that was a an EU more than a US gig, and involved no "boots on the ground." (ish.)
Libya wasn't about changing a flag, or even drowned children washing up in EU beaches, but rather the fact that the EU was trying to moderate sub-Saharan undocumented migration.
The result, of course, was the exact opposite, but hey....
OUR government isn't the ONLY one that does stupid stuff.

 

PTSD is not exactly a new thing.
After we in the US threw off the yoke of our evil oppressors during the US Revolutionary War, folks were too busy "homesteading" (looting the continent from the indigenous folk) and building roads, bridges, cities and towns to notice.
Even after the costliest and most brutal of US conflicts (The US Civil War) combats vet either became the local drunks and troublemakers or they put their uniforms away and set about building families and the rest of their lives. Since most company level troops served with relatives, friends, and neighbors - peer pressure was a very non-trivial support structure.

ALL of this was, of course, pre narco-economics.

It's important to remember that, post Veetnam era, we are an all volunteer force.
As a twice deployed (REMF) vet, I'm fully aware that many of our wounded warriors are not receiving the care that they deserve.
HOWEVER (comma!) this is a non-binary issue, and perhaps a STARK WARNING to those who who embrace socialized ANYTHING.
Lots and lots of gray shades out there!
SOME hangers-on are actually receiving MORE care than they deserve, and I've personally witnessed people who self-diagnose and self medicate for "combat issues" arising from deployments where the largest threat was the local street vendors not following modern sanitation practices.
This isn't new either.
Many of the "crazy Nam vets" were ALSO...."combat vet adjacent" (REMFs)
Like ALL fakes, they're easy to smoke out with just a few questions.

IYKYK.