Posted on 08/19/2022 7:45:39 AM PDT by JonPreston
Perhaps so. US operations are famous for masses of material and loose controls. I saw plenty of organized, protected, stealing in Salvador and Viet Nam. A family friend who, was a career US Army Quatermaster branch officer and who retired an O=6, swore that he had seen the documented evidence, when he was a captain and staff officer with the petroleum control and distribution center in France,that so much POL and particularly motor vehicle grade gasoline, was stolen or somehow diverted in the ComZ area in France that it was a significant element in the POL shortage crisis in the fall of 1944. Patton, through his G=4 , was aware of this happening and tried to exert direct pressure on the Supreme Command, to no avail.
I asked what happened? He said there were just thousands of US military personnel , some of high rank, in the Com Z that were making too much money off the POL racket to even begin to shut the diversion off.
In passing he noted the incredible number of taxi cabs and civilian French motor vehicles that he regularly encountered on high ways and in Paris as a clear indication that POL diversion was real and significant. He opined that a lot of the transport being heavily negro did not help the situation at all.
everybody like you quickly claim “the western-supplied weapons are being stolen by Ukraine”
How much is being stolen? 1 %? 2 %?
that’s hardly newsworthy or unique
How much of this “aid” is making its way to the pockets of the swamp dwellers here?
I know you prefer the disinformation from Führer Zelensky.
Biden got diamonds from Moscow mayors wife.
Biden works for Putin.
And China.
He just does laundry in ukrain.
If Joe hated commies he wouldn’t be taking riches from them.
Ymmv.
Either of them
—”It’s like Bill Clinton liking pretty women. Well, so do I. I’m not going to stop liking pretty women because Bill Clinton likes them.”
A nice simile.
More than a few Ukraine thread posters apparently have intermittent internet connections and often do not receive the message.
“They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not...”
Psalm 115 KJV
i think it was CBS who said that 30% actually arrives, the truth is probably somewhere in between
Yep.
Ukraine is still a free democracy
Russia is a police-state dictatorship
so yes, I’ll trust news from Ukraine before I’ll trust news from Russia
Well, then, how about Soros, all the Dems, Hollywood, all the US media and all the UK media? At what point do you re-think your support?
Hush Hoser. And ask permission before posting to an American!
Watch the arms and other material shipments to Ukraine. The size and tempo of those will tell you what’s coming next. Ukraine will be in trouble quickly if those shipments drop in tempo and size.
To the press, Nazis were just dandy until Germany turned on the Soviets.
so you’re saying that the old, decrepit Ukrainian Army, plus just the small amount of Western-supplied arms that manage to make it to the front, are enough to repel the Russian encirclement of Kiev and keep Russia to within 100 miles of the border they started from 6 MONTHS ago?
Russia, the supposed superpower that was supposed to roll over Western Europe to the Atlantic in just weeks, is held in check by just this?
Wow, the Russian military really sucks the bag
In between spamming the site with their daily multiple propaganda articles from the Daily Mail and other tabloids.
Did you ever stop to think those hits on Russia were led by American and British SF? After all, that’s what they train all day 24/7 to do! That’s their whole F’ing purpose! And if you don’t think Boris Johnson and what ever unelected committee is running our show hasn’t been sending our special forces over to Ukraine for years, I don’t know what to tell you.
... CBS who said that 30% actually arrives,...
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If a major state legacy media outlet says 30%,it is higher.
In many types of medical studies, 1/3 is a default, as in ‘1/3 improved. 1/3 became worse. 1/3 remained the same’. It means they are citing _chance_ outcomes.
If everyone lies, what are the odds CBS is telling the truth?
Hmm, good but not as good as Giscard De’estaing personally receiving a pouch of hig caret, cut, but unmounted diamonds from Bedel Bokassa, the Cannibal king of the Central African Empire. Now that is real gall undivided.
Yeah I followed the only and the only source for this is a Russian site.
No mention of a raise anywhere else on the internet.
I’m skeptical.
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