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Kaleva

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35. That was years ago and we maintain a sizeable force their today

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:32 PM

Feb 2022

It's extremely rare to hear of an American killed or wounded in Iraq for sometime.. and let's not forget the Kurds, who are a sizeable minority in Iraq, want us there too.

Iraq is a nation created by Great Britain and France after WWII with no regard to the hodgepodge of clans, tribes, ethnic groups and religions of the people's who found themselves inside the newly drawn borders. Your average Iraqi is more likely to be loyal to his or her tribe or clan then to the nation of Iraq itself.

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Young Russian soldier cries as the local residents of Sumy tell him that he is not welcome in.... [View all] steve2470 Feb 2022 OP

Young kids sent to war while white tyrants use them as pawns. LakeArenal Feb 2022 #1

White tyrants using them as pawns? MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #6

"while" nt Carlitos Brigante Feb 2022 #11

Re-read the post. MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #16

Oh shit "while white". I read "white" and missed "while". So assumed typo. Or Carlitos Brigante Feb 2022 #20

See post #18, it's not a typo and it was explained by what was meant. MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #21

Just edited. And getting worried about my eye sight. So yeah. It Carlitos Brigante Feb 2022 #23

"White Tyrants" is apt. Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #14

Irrelevent, MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #15

Putin is a white supremacist, a genocidal mass murderer. Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #30

I'm associating with the white men right here in the US LakeArenal Feb 2022 #18

Ok, fair enough. MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #19

Thanks LakeArenal Feb 2022 #22

Given the history and many ethnicities of Russia, I think it's an accurate characterization. yardwork Feb 2022 #24

When this gets around BootinUp Feb 2022 #2

Russian citizens know. They have no reason to hate Ukrainians. Eyeball_Kid Feb 2022 #4

It probably won't 'get around' in Russia. 70sEraVet Feb 2022 #5

Don't count on it, the Russian people are resourceful, especially the younger generation, MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #7

Could someone translate? nt Carlitos Brigante Feb 2022 #3

Appears to be a lot of swearing. LisaL Feb 2022 #10

Comrade Cheney said to us, "my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." TheBlackAdder Feb 2022 #33

I couldn't make out all of it DFW Feb 2022 #47

It's not like we were any different. Aristus Feb 2022 #8

There are similarities and differences Tom Rinaldo Feb 2022 #12

I was thinking the same thing this morning. jeffreyi Feb 2022 #13

I took that as the point, actually. yardwork Feb 2022 #27

And today they still want us there Kaleva Feb 2022 #28

Roadside bombs are a rather odd way of saying Aristus Feb 2022 #31

That was years ago and we maintain a sizeable force their today Kaleva Feb 2022 #35

I agree. And I do have a great deal of sympathy for the Kurds. Aristus Feb 2022 #36

No one threw roses at him? He wasn't wlecomed as a liberator? FSogol Feb 2022 #9

Poor kid gay texan Feb 2022 #17

I agree. yardwork Feb 2022 #25

.... MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #26

Agreed. Delphinus Feb 2022 #34

This. crickets Feb 2022 #39

+1 betsuni Feb 2022 #42

Poor kid was my first thought too. 😣 nt Raine Feb 2022 #43

"But...but...I'm here to liberate you moondust Feb 2022 #29

could be staged propaganda, after all its on twitter nt msongs Feb 2022 #32

Shhh... lame54 Feb 2022 #37

Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 Feb 2022 #38

You can just imagine what this poor kid is thinking jmowreader Feb 2022 #40

apparently some of the troops are being told they are going to the Donbas region steve2470 Feb 2022 #41

That posture shows the scared, over-whelmed child he still very much is. alphafemale Feb 2022 #44

Brainwashed soldiers paying the price for Putin's megalomania n/t AntiFascist Feb 2022 #45

Interesting Deminpenn Feb 2022 #46

Not everything has to be about the US . The Russian soldier is a victim of Putin JI7 Feb 2022 #48