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Ohio Newspaper Reporter: ‘I'd Love' to See My Marine Son ‘Ship Out to Crimea'

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The former peaceniks are SO HUNGRY for a big shooting war with Russia. WTF?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-20 03:13|| 2018-07-20 03:13|| Front Page Top

#2 So, given the source, anybody checked if he actually has a son in USMC?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-20 04:04|| 2018-07-20 04:04|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 The former peaceniks are SO HUNGRY for a big shooting war with Russia. WTF?
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-20 03:13

...The reasoning seems to be this:

1. We get into a shooting war with Russia.

2. We get our asses handed to us because Trump.

3. Trump quits/is removed from office by the military.

4. Everybody else forgets how the Constitution works.

5. For reasons unknown and unexplainable, the nation turns to the Democrats and says, "Help us, you're our only hope."

6. The Democrats take over everything and all is well forever without the need for those icky elections.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-07-20 05:14|| 2018-07-20 05:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps as an addendum to #4.

'Everyone forgets about the criminal activity and espionage of the Clintons, Soetoro, Rice, Valjar, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and the others.'

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-20 06:49|| 2018-07-20 06:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently they never read up on the Crimean war.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-20 08:11|| 2018-07-20 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Apparently they have no memory of the Syrian proxy war.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-20 08:18|| 2018-07-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 From Mr. Ludlow's Facebook page:

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-07-20 09:16|| 2018-07-20 09:16|| Front Page Top

#8 They gave a hundred and fifty billion dollars to Iran to give to Russia to bomb Syria _after_ the invasion of Ukraine but they're pure patriots ready to send their kids to die in what to us is a strategic cul-de-sac.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-20 09:22|| 2018-07-20 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 So this Ohio presstitute would rather put his own son in harm's way than consider the possibility of solving the issue diplomatically between Trump and Putin. A new low.

Posted by warthogswife 2018-07-20 10:46|| 2018-07-20 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 @#7 - granted the photo could be dated but the Devil Dog is 2 bottom rockers shy of a MSgt.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2018-07-20 11:07|| 2018-07-20 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 My guess is the liberal dad and marine son are barely on speaking terms most of the time.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-20 11:21|| 2018-07-20 11:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Russians don't always fight very well outside of Russia but they have a long, long history of defending their own territory. Some of the more recent examples are Napoleon and Hitler who both thought Russia was weak but both ran into surprisingly stubborn resistance.

Russians have some valid arguments for their claim on Crimea of which most Americans seem totally ignorant. But it's for damn sure Ukrainians never fought for it and never settled in it like the Russians have.

Just for fun, I went to Wikipedia for its version of the Crimean War. According to Wikipedia, Britain and France could be said to have won this war but from a longer historical view it can be seen as nothing but a bloody exercise in futility that left the Russians in control of the Crimea.

It is chickenshit at best for this old man to commit his son to a war in which our country has no strategic interest. I don't know how he'd feel when his son comes back in a box but I'd have a lot more sympathy for his son than for him.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-20 12:22|| 2018-07-20 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 People use "Love/Hate" a lot these days, don't they? Everything has to have the Emotional Dial™ cranked all the way to 11 or higher.
I would be proud of a relative showing courage in doing their duty. For this jerk to "Love it" only seems to show that he is treating his son as an expendable prop in his own narcissistic drama.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-20 13:24|| 2018-07-20 13:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Proverb: You can never get enough of what you don't need.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-20 13:58|| 2018-07-20 13:58|| Front Page Top

#15 The left has always been in bed with the Communists. See Obama's mentor and influences and Bill and Hillary's influences (Alinsky). Didn't Slick travel from the UK to the USSR during his Oxford days? What was he said about the military: "I loathe the military." Now all these lefties are hawks and want a war. WTF? Crazy bastids.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-20 17:34|| 2018-07-20 17:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Volodya himself has stated on several occasions that he does not believe the Russian military can win against the American military.

So, he attacks asymmetrically. His words.

I agree that our forces can win tactically against the Russian military, unless we get into some sort of "knife fight" in which the Russians can take a chunk out of us and make any war politically unsavory.

Posted by badanov 2018-07-20 22:47|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2018-07-20 22:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Americans' problem is that no one is taking note of what is going on in Russia.

There are amazing things going on in that society, some frankness about their past, and so on.

There are lessons in the increasing nationalism in Russia we take learn for ourselves.

Posted by badanov 2018-07-20 22:49|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2018-07-20 22:49|| Front Page Top

#18 The thing about it is that the left believes nationalism is is dirty word. Many on the left have bought into the Soros and other's ideas concerning open borders, multiculturalism, NWO and giving up your national identity. They think we will all be one happy world. It seems that buying into their B.S. would result in disparate warring tribes, the very thing they say they are trying to avoid. The problem is they want to sit on top of the heap with all the money and power.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-20 23:36|| 2018-07-20 23:36|| Front Page Top

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