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RFK Jr. Warns ‘Next Step’ Is Military Advisers in Ukraine: ‘Have They Forgotten’ Vietnam?
Breitbart ^ | 28 Sep 2023 | KRISTINA WONG

Posted on 09/29/2023 8:33:51 AM PDT by Red Badger

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned on Thursday that the “next step of Ukraine War escalation” is stationing United States military advisers on the ground.

He flagged a recent article by Foreign Affairs titled “Why America Should Send Military Advisers to Ukraine: On-the-Ground Help Will Bolster Kyiv Without Risking Escalation.”

He posted on X: “Establishment journal Foreign Affairs signals the next step of Ukraine War escalation: stationing U.S. military advisors on the ground. Have they forgotten how we got embroiled in Vietnam?”

The article, written by Alexandra Chinchilla, an assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, and Sam Rosenberg, a Ph.D. candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, argued that Western training for Ukraine troops could reach more troops if it took place within the country.

They wrote:

Although Western instruction has reached many Ukrainian soldiers, it has missed the overwhelming majority. That is because Western training has been administered outside Ukraine, from locations across Europe. This distance has limited how many Ukrainians can access instruction and how customized the training can be to the terrain of Ukraine and the specialized tactics needed there. It also limits the extent to which the United States can catalyze enduring transformations in Ukraine’s defense establishment.

Washington should therefore lift the strict restrictions on the number of U.S. government personnel allowed in Ukraine and begin stationing military advisers within the country and across its defense apparatus. Sending advisers would increase the number of Ukrainian soldiers who receive top-of-the-line training.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: militaryadvisers; nevertrumpers; rfkjr; robertfkennedyjr; ukraine; vietnam
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1 posted on 09/29/2023 8:33:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Pretty sure they’re already there. Same as the ‘50s in VN, when there were plenty of advisors running around.


2 posted on 09/29/2023 8:35:55 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Red Badger

DemocRATS have started every war in the last 200 years.
Why would you think they would not get this one going?
No money for yukraine, not another dime!


3 posted on 09/29/2023 8:36:57 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Red Badger
Numnuts needs to get current, or at least buy a clue. Of course advisers are already on the ground. Have been since likely the second month of the invasion.

Same BS that China and Russia did in Korea and Vietnam.

4 posted on 09/29/2023 8:39:47 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Red Badger
the “next step of Ukraine War escalation” is stationing United States military advisers on the ground.

As I understand it, they have been there the entire time.

5 posted on 09/29/2023 8:40:17 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Red Badger

They always believe their war will be different.


6 posted on 09/29/2023 8:40:27 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

Ukrainians say that NATO instructions has been worse than useless, actually degrading.

So the purpose of this is to get American boys & girls to die so we can escalate to nuclear war. It’s what the NeoCons want and this run this nation. Resistance is futile.


7 posted on 09/29/2023 8:40:52 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: usurper

‘Unofficially’, yes................


8 posted on 09/29/2023 8:40:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
It would make Dems heads explode if President Trump chose RFK Jr. for his running mate. OMG.

9 posted on 09/29/2023 8:45:43 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Red Badger

There’s nothing wrong with sending a few American advisers to Ukraine. Of course these advisers would need a secure base of operations. So force protection people would also need to be sent in. Perimeter defense units, anti-aircraft units, a combat air patrol, etc.

Would all this greatly increase the chances of accidentally getting into a hot war with Russia? Yes. No doubt about that.

Oh, wait. I guess there’s a lot wrong with sending in a few advisers.


10 posted on 09/29/2023 8:45:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Red Badger

The Vietnam hippies who protested the Vietnam War and burned their draft cards are now in power wanting the USA to get involved directly in the Ukraine war so they can profit off the destruction.


11 posted on 09/29/2023 8:46:16 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: larrytown

Yep...already there....at least virtually. I suspect we will are also will supply them drone pilots remotely....in additional to all the satellite’s we have likely positioned over the country to supply them with real-time surveillance data. The real enemy is China....but our politicians and business leaders are all in the pockets of China.


12 posted on 09/29/2023 8:46:23 AM PDT by consult
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To: Red Badger

Next step? They engineered and oversaw the 2014 regime change. It’s what they do.


13 posted on 09/29/2023 8:47:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Not really.

They would just tell their base that RFK was a nutjob and he and Trump are colluding to destroy ‘their democracy’................


14 posted on 09/29/2023 8:49:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

President Eisenhower warned us of the “Military Industrial Complex” which makes much money by war. They are still in power.


15 posted on 09/29/2023 8:51:20 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: larrytown

US is not gonna let the Uke’s play with multi-million $ toys without a few advisors.


16 posted on 09/29/2023 8:51:57 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: mountainlion

And his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev said the American economy would not work without a war going on...................


17 posted on 09/29/2023 8:52:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: larrytown

Yeah. How funny he missed that.

Been there for nearly a decade.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161220213304/https:/www.army.mil/article/178147/ukrainian_soldiers_conduct_mortar_live_fire_at_ipsc

Since July, Vanderberg has been responsible for planning, coordinating and training Ukrainian Soldiers on the mortar system. She is currently on her second rotation training Soldiers and said she is impressed with the knowledge of the current unit.


18 posted on 09/29/2023 8:53:04 AM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: Red Badger

A couple of weeks ago, one heard an anecdote about a lady who was happy that her son just got back from Ukraine-OOPS-Poland.


19 posted on 09/29/2023 8:53:26 AM PDT by OKSooner (Well, I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know.)
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To: Red Badger

Advisors and troops have long been on the ground.


20 posted on 09/29/2023 8:55:28 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Vacate the chair. Shutter the government until it can be correctly defunded.)
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