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'I'm a Former Marine Training Ukrainians—The Russians Are Worse Than ISIS'
Newsweek ^ | 20APR22 | ANDY MILBURN

Posted on 04/20/2022 5:09:05 PM PDT by familyop

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To: chuckb87

Yes, that’s the term they use. Most actual military people know that, but go ahead and think you know something different.


61 posted on 04/20/2022 6:09:56 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: familyop

Fap-fap-fap once again.


62 posted on 04/20/2022 6:11:20 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Hostage

So let me get this straight.

The side that advocates for citizens in the United States all
to be armed, is now complaining because the Ukraine is arming
its citizens?

I get it that the criminal element is using those weapons to
conduct crime. That happens here too.

Should our crazy control freak government here be confiscating
guns then, so no crime can take place?

How would we vet those who picked up guns?

You know, in a war time setting, there are always those
who will try to take advantage for self gain. It seems
to me you try to help your people be able to defend
themselves.

Maybe the best way to stop the criminals, is to punch their
ticket, not make videos.


63 posted on 04/20/2022 6:12:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: lee martell
"where he describes exactly how the Russians are ‘worse than ISIS’. I didn’t see any specific examples."

He did not get into a lot of specifics, but he said he was among the first into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal.

What was found, was mountains of evidence of systematic, deliberate, torture, rape, murder, looting and oppression.

Before the Russians went in, reports were published that kill lists of opposition figures had been compiled ahead of time. Well, they were used. Apparently, it is underway systematically across the Country, in the Russian occupied areas.

The FSB had an field office set up in a house in Bucha, where they brought in the opposition folks who were arrested. For example, Olga Sukhenko, the Mayor of the small town of Kopyliv.

They broke Olga's fingers. They broke both of her arms. They broke both of the arms of her husband and son. They shot all three of them, and dumped their bodies in a mass grave they were filling, with about 400 other civilians from the area. That is her husband's body, dropped into the drain>

This is policy. This was planned.

64 posted on 04/20/2022 6:12:34 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Cen-Tejas
Absolutely. The fat-assed Putin fluffers who never did a hard thing in their lives are jumping all over an actual military vet because of his firsthand account of undisciplined Russian shitbags who are raping, looting, and murdering their way across a sovereign nation. But, Nazis! or whatever their Russian disinfo masters say, so nevermind.
65 posted on 04/20/2022 6:14:38 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: BeauBo

Thank you for the explanation.
I try to learn from everyone.


66 posted on 04/20/2022 6:17:41 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ocrp1982

Yes, they all do. You’ve obviously never served or ever met any actual Marine or former Marine.

So funny how you try use your own ignorance and lack of military experience to discredit an actual veteran. That is irony to the 10th power.


67 posted on 04/20/2022 6:20:27 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: wardaddy

You win the whataboutism award of the day, pardner. An impressive list of unconnected accusations and implications worthy of the Russian troll machine.

You might want to try filling in the white spaces to make your point, but I reckon that might not work for you.


68 posted on 04/20/2022 6:31:39 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: ocrp1982
Bingo:

You are absolutely correct in your observation. No Marine EVER refers to themselves as a former Marine. A possible exception would perhaps be a Marine who served solely in Administrative services. Though I’ve never met even one of those who has ever done so.

69 posted on 04/20/2022 6:32:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!!)
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To: McGruff

You might try using facts and reason to argue your case, because to me this looks like the response of an infantile d*ckhead.


70 posted on 04/20/2022 6:33:35 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: wardaddy

I appreciate how Trump killed 200 Russian troops in Syria.

I appreciate how trump bombed a Russian base in Syria.

He did that because they were the bad guys. And no that didn’t make ISIS the good guys.

It’s really about 100 years late on recognizing that the Russian revolution is not in our interest. It may have looked appealing to Roosevelt at yalta but in reality: Russia’s revolution is our enemy.


71 posted on 04/20/2022 6:34:53 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: lodi90

I will go with war crimes by a third country national. This poser marine is beneath contempt.


72 posted on 04/20/2022 6:35:52 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: wardaddy

So if all things are equal, why not root for the home team?


73 posted on 04/20/2022 6:35:57 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: BeauBo

I love your rhetorical firepower.

Very well argued.

Devastating.


74 posted on 04/20/2022 6:37:33 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: DoughtyOne

Why are you so full of it?

Your whole premise is faulty.

Why must anyone instruct you?

Try and do better.

You will be given this and only this from which to draw a correct analysis:

UKRAINE DOES NOT HAVE A SECOND AMENDMENT.

Start from there and outline their risks from distributing military grade weapons to criminal gangs. It shouldn’t be difficult. Do it and report back here to all.


75 posted on 04/20/2022 6:41:14 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: familyop
The poor baby Nazis are begging for help now.

.

More.....

76 posted on 04/20/2022 6:42:00 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Izzatso

He’s been retired for three years and is CEO of The Mozart Group.


77 posted on 04/20/2022 6:47:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ocrp1982

No, they say “former”, they do not say “ex”.


78 posted on 04/20/2022 6:48:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: kiryandil
https://t.me/intelslava/26133

Russian propaganda

79 posted on 04/20/2022 6:52:13 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ocrp1982
From the title, “I’m a former Marine...” Now I’m not a Marine but I’ve heard them brag “once a Marine, always a Marine.” Is there such a thing as a former Marine? You are absolutely correct in your observation. No Marine EVER refers to themselves as a former Marine.

wrong...

They never refer to themselves as "EX-Marines"... they prefer "former" or "former active duty Marine".

What a bunch of clowns saying Once a Marine, Always a Marine so there is NO OTHER WAY to address them or they address themselves.... no sh#t...

That's the way it is.. if you are a Marine, it' a title that's "earned" and not given. If you're a Senator, Astronaut, Governor, thief, murderer, saint... they will all first remind everyone that they were first and foremost... "a Marine".

.... till the day they die.

But as my dad said when I asked him about Oswald and other Marines I read about that were criminals etc.. " son, we're the Marine Corps. We don't make saints. We make well disciplined killers that will follow orders and will adapt and overcome any difficulty in order to keep faith with his fellow Marines and NEVER QUIT a mission in the Corps." Then he added, "if you're a thief or a burglar... you'll just be a well disciplined thief or burglar.... and that's it.."

80 posted on 04/20/2022 6:54:10 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
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