Posted on 02/25/2024 1:51:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Letter to Congress from American Veteran in Ukraine Jake Broe [I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N). 437K subscribers 2-24-2024 17:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg49VcsWvd8
Excerpt: "Jake is sharing an opinion piece from an American Service veteran currently in Ukraine. An American Veteran plea arm Ukraine or Surrender Freedom. This man's name is John Roberts call sign name is Jackie Not everyone has and uses social media. Not everyone wants to be on camera.
So today, I'm going to use my platform and my voice to share his message. This is the piece that he wrote for the Kiev Independent and I'm going to read it in its entirety as an American in Avdiivka.
What is Congress doing?
I am an American Military veteran: call sign name is Jackie. I am writing from Donbas, Ukraine. I'm originally from Orange County California. I served in the US military for 8 years stationed in Colorado, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. I also worked as a contractor at the John F Kennedy special Warfare Center in North Carolina helping prepare our future special operators.
As an American Soldier, I have always been interested in our national security and Global interests. I am currently an assault instructor serving in the third assault Brigade in elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A few days ago, we came to the rescue of Ukrainian forces who had been enduring the Russian attack on the town of Avdiivka. Our Fighters quickly destroyed two Russian brigades and kept a corridor open for Ukrainians from Avdiivka to retreat from the town. Our soldiers are true professionals undisturbed by the massive Russian Firepower being flung at them and fighting hard to gain and maintain the corridor.
One thing I teach my students is to conduct shaping operations. Essentially, to take steps by using alternative means such as artillery air power drones in our case or electronic warfare to prepare the battlefield for success of our infantry to capture their final positions. My students are very excited to employ these techniques. They train on them and use them in the battle frequently.
Ukrainian soldiers are highly motivated to fight efficiently and reduce casualties as they are making their transition from Soviet to Nato doctrinal Warfare. Our Brigade is leading this transition and using shaping operations at every level possible. Even down to the squad, we make plans, we do reconnaissance, we task support assets and we review our actions after battle to learn what we did well and what we need to change. We admit our successes and failures and we improve and grow ourselves as professionals. Because of this in battle, we are confident and unrelenting.
On the ground in Avdiivka, we felt the results of current US politics with full force.
We are accustomed to fighting with less artillery than Russia. We have already developed clever ways of using Precision fire to counter Russian Artillery. Our artillery soldiers use their U.S. provided weapons efficiently and effectively to battle the second largest military in the world. So, that while our assaulters have cover, we pierce like needles to rapidly cut Russian critical arteries. We are used to fighting under strength. We are intelligently adapted and trained to push ourselves to the highest level of combat performance. But, we cannot deliver Miracles.
We have already delivered many miracles in this war and and I sure we will continue to do so. BUT, hoping for miracles is not a reliable way to win a war.
I need to go pray and say goodbye to some more of my students and friends. These soldiers, these men and women, are incredible people. It takes weeks to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are able to learn in hours. Their standards and self- expectations are high. They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt. Every time they fail in training they get angry with themselves and repeat the task until it is right. I have never had to ask them to stay late or work harder. They hardly sleep. They don't complain and most of them have families. Besides not getting to spend time with their families these soldiers know that this fight is for their future and for their safety.
I am extremely disappointed in a super minor minority decision in Congress to block funding for Ukraine. They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn't have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950. Our decision and ability as Americans to have funding for something we supposedly want has nothing to do with enabling Ukraine's current defense.
The problem in the US that this super minority in Congress is citing to block funding has endured since the founding of our nation in the 1700s has nothing to do with Ukraine in 2024. I am sure that France in 1776 could have come up with many excuses not to support American colonists fighting for independence from British subjugation. Foreign support in arms enabled Congress to stand today.
Now we are tasked to keep the light of Freedom lit for others. The current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants to pour water on that fire.
We are fighting hard against impossible odds. All you need to do is help from a distance and that is a good thing for Americans. You do not want to come here. The Ukrainians are dying and it is not out of our ignorance or accident. They are dedicated to their Liberation from Soviet values and Russian oppression. They are spilling oceans of blood to join the free democracies of the world.
Ukrainians who enjoy an average income of something like $5,000 a year are the largest public donors to the war. Ukrainian soldiers purchased most of their professional equipment with their own income. This economy was already struggling before The Invasion and there are still not enough resources to fight and equip everyone.
Ukrainians are doing everything and giving everything they have for this. And, they will not stop. They are fighting for their future and they will not give-up on their future. They will not surrender to Russian capture and enslavement. They received a soft Independence in 1991 which they turned into complete self-governance and independence by 2014.
Now, Russia has come to crush them.
Thanks to U.S. Aid, Ukrainians have not been crushed. Thanks to U.S. Aid, they have taught the second largest military power in the world that might doesn't make right. Where is the Russian cruiser Moskva? Thanks to U.S. Aid, a new free nation is being born in the world.
Ukraine is not giving up. Americans we cannot give up either. I can say from living in California, Colorado, and North Carolina, that I love the United States. I love the peace and prosperity that I enjoy in the U.S. I have been to enough places around the world to know that we are blessed with the lives we live and even the hardships we sometimes endure... (con't)"
NOTE: Please remember no one is required to buy a subscription from: WSJ; NYT; The Atlantic; Barron’s, or any Youtube videos, et al.
LINK for articles to be excerpted on Free Republic:
https://freerepublic.com/perl/FORUM/THREAD/view-edit?edit_id=134346
If you want to continue to militarily support Ukraine during this Invasion by Putin you may contact your Representatives:
https://www.house.gov/representatives...
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senat...
A brainwashed soldier, I mean mercenary. This is a perfect example of being so zealous for a cause that one cannot critically evaluate the overall landscape. He does not seem to grasp 2014 at all, and seems perfectly OK with the US military steamrolling around everywhere to accomplish questionable policies.
They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn’t have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950.
##########
We also did not have millions of illegal alien invaders coming unabated across the southern border…
Oh, cry me a river. The biggest threats to the freedom of Americans aren’t in Moscow, but in Washington DC and our own state capitals.
This “Jackie” has plenty of work to do here in the U.S. instead of chasing some delusional dream in some Eastern European dump.
Prior to this war, Ukraine spent around $5B annually on defense. We have given them $46B already just in military aid, and $75B in other aid. This includes 160 155mm howitzers, with 1.5 million rounds. This price tag does not include the entirety of our Intel capabilities both from space and forward deployed forces, as well as forward deployed military expertise that is training, coaching and guiding. That is more than enough; if you can’t win with that much of an edge in this much time, you aren’t going to.
He is a soldier, not a mercenary, Ukraine does not use mercenaries.
“They have said that we need this or that border security or health care or whatever you want to say. But, it is clear to me that this is solely about Ukraine. We didn’t have proper border security or health care in 2010 or 2000 or 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960 or 1950.”
Easy for you to post stuff like this. Our cities are crumbling. Go to one, see the potholed streets, the cracked sidewalks, the broken curbs, the streetlights out, the vacant lots, the burned out buildings, the derelict cars. I dare you to go walk at night in Memphis or Newark, you wouldn’t dare. We have to save our own country first.
Check out: You may appreciate the VICE News 2014 photo-journalism series:
Russian Roulette in Ukraine - 2014
VICE News
113 videos [on the ground coverage]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o5zqF6WJR8zuC7Uwyv76h7R
Matthew 6:5
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.
“Jackie” wouldn’t know how to fix an American city if you have him 25 years and an unlimited budget to get the job done.
All this YouTube bellyaching boils down to “GIBS-ME-MO’-BILLIONS” of American taxpayer hard earned money. They can piss up a tree for all I care… I don’t want another American penny going over there.
This reads like it was written by Chat GPT and Google AI..
He is or was serving with the AZOV brigade, one of the ultranationalist (nazi) formations that was sent to Avdeevka as a Hail Mary to hold some positions ( as they tried in Azovstal in Mariupol) or possibly to get rid of them as a power play by Zelensky to rid the military of a unit loyal to his rival, Zaluzhny.
The Russians hit them hard with missiles on their deployment base before they ever saw battle, killing 300-600 of them ….then hit them again at the same base when they retreated after failing or refusing to sacrifice themselves at the coke plant. No love lost for the nazi formations.
AZOV “ elites” have not had the mission of covering retreats, that is high grade propo. The nationalists are usually a barrier force, held back from the frontline to the rear of the fighting, executing Ukr troops that try to retreat or surrender.
When Syrsky recognized that units were leaving the battlefield on their own, even the AZOVs, he ordered a retreat to “ save lives” ( more like, save face)
It will be interesting to read from future reports how much of the AZOV brigade survived or is reconstituted.
Btw, this American merc is lucky to have survived, others have been executed to cover their involvement
Yeah - mercenaries make the best “witnesses”...war is how they get their paychecks
Effing traitor to America. Signed up with Nazi forces. Here’s to hoping he gets whacked by an incoming missile.
This priceless statement HAD to be Chat GPT or a typical propagandist, “It takes WEEKS to teach American soldiers what Ukrainians are ABLE TO LEARN IN HOURS....They usually accomplish complex team-based tasks correctly on their first attempt.”
Also, the “letter” wasn’t written in American style of English. Nice Try!! Chat GPT is getting better.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.