Posted on 03/10/2022 12:56:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5
With 20,000 foreign volunteers probably ending up in Ukraine, they might have a hard time finding him, or identifying him unless they catch him in the act with a sniper rifle in his hand. Given the distances a good sniper can kill from, it might be hard to catch one. That is probably how the 2 generals were killed. At a long distance.
Silencers don't really "silence" the rifles, they just reduce the decibel level from between 4 - 43 decibels. An AR-15's decibel level is around 167. You can still hear them.
As for shooting all night, the muzzle flash will give you away......
On the other hand, he was recorded on video, available on both A7 and You Tube, so they have his face, and the fact that he has a French accent, probably Quebeck-ian.
That's sad. And now, the people who protested the war in Vietnam, and who dodged the draft, are war hawks urging Ukraine to fight Russia.
Nobody is anti-war, they just believe we’re fighting on the wrong side.
It appears that at least one of their idiot generals died from accurate artillery fire on the coordinates his unsecured cell phone were radiating.
That is an obtuse way of looking at it. Ukraine should learn from Mexico on how to survive a nuclear armed powerhouse next doors.
I think Ukraine was handling it reasonably well, but something has changed with Putin. Don’t know if it is because he is 69, or because he is ill, perhaps with cancer, but he seems to have decided it is time to push his dream about restoring the old Soviet boundaries. Aside from regaining the small Baltic states, he might even have his eyes on the Stans. Could his call to Syrian volunteers be a way to recruit Muslim sympathies so he can artfully coerce some of the Stans back into the fold? They do have quite a bit of oil, some of them.
A classic historic case I have researched is the last days of General Crassus who was in his late fifties. He was one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire, with Pompey who had the eastern Mediterranian, and Caesar who had the center with Rome. Crassus had the middlle east/Syria, etc. He decided that before he died he wanted to conquer the Parthian Empire (post Persian Empire). He had a disasterous campaign which killed thousands of Romans, his son and himself. A young officer named Cassius (he of the lean and hungry look) managed to get about 10,000 of the soldiers back home. Years later Caesar decided he should go fight the Parthians and recover the honor that Crassus had lost. Cassius helped organize Caesar’s death as he knew this was a fatal enterprise. Some years later Mark Anthony (Cleopatra’s lover) also marched unsuccessfully against the Parthians, although not quite so disastrously. That was the last effort of that kind for many years. Hopefully we have learned the same lessons in those lands.
https://www.historynet.com/roman-persian-wars-battle-of-carrhae/ [An interesting read for those interested in military or Roman history especially in the middle east.]
Ukraine would do well to learn from Mexico.
Living right next door to a powerful neighbor, and after watching what happened to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, Mexico has never tried to antagonize USA with enemy weapons.
Ukraine OTOH tried to join NATO living right smack next door to Russia. Not very smart. Innocent civilians are now paying the price for the bravado, selfishness and foolishness of their leadership.
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