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Peacetrain

(22,873 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:10 AM Mar 2022

As France helped us during our Revolutionary War.. We are helping Ukraine!

Maybe someday we can give them a Lady Liberty to put in their port access.. Take that Vlad, these are freedom fighters.. the real deal.. not some goofball who plays at in in costume on the weekends..

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As France helped us during our Revolutionary War.. We are helping Ukraine! (Original Post) Peacetrain Mar 2022 OP
Lafayette we have returned. Freedom will always be our cause Walleye Mar 2022 #1
So true!! Peacetrain Mar 2022 #2
How does a ragtag volunteer army... nycbos Mar 2022 #3
Russia cannot hold Ukraine.. its too big.. Peacetrain Mar 2022 #4
Russia is not really a global superpower Happy Hoosier Mar 2022 #6
France provided direct military assistance samsingh Mar 2022 #5
Exactly. TomSlick Mar 2022 #7

Walleye

(30,996 posts)
1. Lafayette we have returned. Freedom will always be our cause
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:12 AM
Mar 2022

We got to deal with a strong anti-democratic element that’s popped up in this country thanks to the GOP and their lust for power

Peacetrain

(22,873 posts)
4. Russia cannot hold Ukraine.. its too big..
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:53 AM
Mar 2022

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. they (Russia) are no longer a global superpower, they are a terrorist unit .. and calling them a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower is pretty demeaning

Happy Hoosier

(7,248 posts)
6. Russia is not really a global superpower
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:10 PM
Mar 2022

Only nukes give it any swagger.

They have an economy smaller than Italy, and as we’ve seen, a second-rate, at best army.

TomSlick

(11,096 posts)
7. Exactly.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:56 PM
Mar 2022

There would have been no victory at Yorktown without the French navy. There were French army units fighting in the war.

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