Ukraine

[HoustonSaint68]

That's awesome. UKR MoD are experts at trolling russians.

They must have taken lessons from the Saints social media crew on how they treat the Falcons....

 

[baarbogast]

 

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[efil4stnias]

Looks like there is an ongoing info blackout in place during this current increased activity.

 

[SamAndreas]

 

[SamAndreas]

Looks like there is an ongoing info blackout in place during this current increased activity.

That makes a lot of sense in terms of what I'm seeing here at home. At first I thought the sudden drying up of the flow of information was wholly due to problems at Twitter.

When I looked beyond Twitter I also found a shortage of news there. I suppose that's good news, but during a period when it's too hot to go outside to work, it's irritating from a personal stand point.

 

[SamAndreas]

To the three of you who have chuckled my post above this is for you:



To have something to do while it was so offensively hot, I watched the second of that Yale history course about Ukraine.

I learned as much about the US as I learned about Ukraine. We share a very unique in this world, very similar pasts, which has been covered over by the creation myth of our nation. A very interesting lecture, we were unique in the world at our founding, Ukraine much later was unique in Europe.

It places this war the're having with Russia as being somewhat similar to what our own 1814 war with England was about.

We shouldn't have won that war, but we did. Ukraine will win their 1814 war as well.

The Professor didn't say all of that. Some of that is what I said after having listening and then reflecting on what he said.



I will be finishing this course I can see that already. I have to deal with and in doing so deny an urge to binge watch all of the lectures at once.

One class lecture every other day is the proper accelerated pace to take. It screws up courses to push them too fast. Time to reflect and absorb each lecture in one's thoughts is necessary.

My niece who graduated from Yale last month was who told me about this class. She took the class in person, and this will be beneficial toward sharing something significant with her as well as it filling a need I have as well.

I have a song to go along with this post as well:

 

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[SharonT]

It places this war the're having with Russia as being somewhat similar to what our own 1814 war with England was about.

We shouldn't have won that war, but we did. Ukraine will win their 1814 war as well.

I have a song to go along with this post as well:

The Battle of New Orleans and War of 1812 could stand as a thread on its own. Many here have family stories or grew up near the Chalmette Battlefield, etc.

Like Ukraine, we took steps forward in the big picture, then back. Hopefully they'll keep more of their forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_D'Aquin's_Battalion_of_Free_Men_of_Color

 

[efil4stnias]

full video of assault on RuAF position(s)

Intense, graphic - but the key take-away is just how in control this squad leader is even with pure adrenaline running thru his veins. This is the kind of squad leader that guys rally around.