Posted on 04/12/2023 3:57:04 PM PDT by JonPreston
Two Americans have been killed while fighting in Ukraine, the US State Department has confirmed.
The department didn’t reveal the identities of the US citizens fighting Russian forces but told The Daily Beast that they are in contact with their families.
No additional details on the deceased Americans were available as of Wednesday afternoon.
Military bloggers supporting Russia claimed on Wednesday in mocking tones that a US “mercenary” had recently been killed in the battle for the city of Bakhmut.
“We can confirm the death of a US citizen in Ukraine. We are in touch with the family and providing all possible consular assistance,” a spokesperson for the State Department told The Daily Beast when asked about the individual mentioned by the bloggers.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
I pray for all who die in this bloodbath. Ukraine 16 year olds pressed into the fight, Russians sent to fight for their “Motherland,” Mercenaries who hope to make a nest egg, Civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time, all who become part of the bloodletting that men call war. End the War NOW. Its not worth a single life—what flag fly’s over what piece of dirt! What flag floats over ruined buildings.
Not American soldiers. Mercenaries. Big difference.
Reportedly all StateDepartment/CIA/SpecialForces intel and targeting personnel are safe.
-fJRoberts-
He was a volunteer for the Ukrainian military, not a mercenary fighting for pay.
Games and prizes comes to mind
At the intersection of F-around and Find Out
That’s three I’ve read of, so far. Probably more. Agreed - clueless dopes.
If you support Ukraine you are supporting Biden. If you su]ort Biden you support global evil. Everything the democrats do is evil. No sacrifice is to great to overcome them. If the cost is the Ukraine then OK. If the cost is having the PRC or Russia turn DC, NYC, SF and several other major US cities into a nuclear wasteland that is OK too.
I must admit, I’m certainly intrigued by “Rear” Adm. Kirby. He is a curious admixture of the fountain of youth. He has to wear the magnifying readers and has that turkey neck thing going, but not one gray hair. How does he do that? The poop he spouts in these pressers is as fake as the hair.
“providing all possible consular assistance”
Why? Isn’t it illegal for US citizens to fight in a foreign army?
Were either of them Zeepers?
I think we have had active duty in Ukraine since the beginning.
Retarded ? Absolutely. But they’ve got more courage than the warmongering chickenhawk Zelensky/Soros/Schwarz worshippers on FR. They’re happy to send teenage boys thousands of miles away to fight for the globalist cause, but they won’t leave the safety of their basements, hiding behind their computer screens.
OMG! I’ve read several of the posts on this thread, and people cheering an American death and wanting US cities nuked.
The mental illness of the democrat party must be contagious.
May the Lord have mercy on us all.
Someone mentioned FR ain’t what it used to be. No kidding. I do not recall any other war or event where there has been soooooo much propaganda from all sides with tensions running so high.
They are our version of Antifa. They even call everyone who disagrees with them “Nazis”.
They hate America just as much as the Marxists. They are just too stupid to know it.
I think you’re probably right on.
I think there are outside forces doing their best efforts to divide and disrupt the FR community.
We have always had disagreements. I have witnessed many discussions about contentious issues, including debates along religious or theocratic subjects.
The Covid vax threads and these Russo-NATO war threads seem different in heat and quality. The FR community is a threat to the deep state and WEF’ers. It is not surprising that agents are here to disrupt the community.
Good! Any American dumb enough to fight in this proxy war on behalf of the liberal world order deserves to die.
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I recall the loss of Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey, vicinity of Saigon, Vietnam:
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/apdewey.htm
September 26, 1945
A. Peter Dewey - Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
INDO-CHINA REBELS KILL U.S. OFFICER
Slay Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey From Ambush
British Arrest Commander of Japanese
SAIGON, French Indo China, September 26, 1945 Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey of Washington, D.C. was killed and Captain Joseph Coolidge of New Hampshire was seriously wounded by Annamese [aka Vietminh] in disorders today.
Other American officers, defending United States headquarters from a siege of three hours, killed at least eight natives.
British, French and Japanese also suffered casualties in a series of incidents. As a result of the continued disorders, Field Marshall Count Juichi Terauchi, the Japanese commander, was placed under house arrest.
Colonel Dewey was the senior American officer for the Office of Strategic Services in Saigon and was returning from a visit to Captain Coolidge in a nearby hospital to his headquarters in a suburban mansion when he was killed.
He was driving a jeep with Major Herbert Bluechel, former movie chain operator of San Francisco and San Anselmo, California. Major Bluechel told of the tragedy:
“We were returning to the O.S.S. hostel when we passed through a partial double roadblock. As we drive through, Annamese in a ditch beside the road opened with a machine gun not ten yards away. The charge caught Peter in the head.”
[The remainder of the story, is at the website mentioned above.]
The above is from a recent article dated April 7, 2023, by Michael Robert Patterson. The story that I read decades ago, was in David Halberstam’s book, *The Best and the Brightest* (1972).
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