Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[SteelBlue]

Thanks for the updates/links, Wuap.

[wuapinmon]

Wuap, I’m glad you are posting in this thread. I don’t have the time to follow everything on this ear but I wish I did because I find it fascinating. You at least hit the high points and with good links.

Good to know. I wasn't sure if I was posting too often, as the board seems to move much slower than in years past. I'll keep curating for yall since I'm "retired."

[Pelado]

Good to know. I wasn't sure if I was posting too often, as the board seems to move much slower than in years past. I'll keep curating for yall since I'm "retired."

Gracias, señor.

[wuapinmon]

This has been my favorite quote of the war so far.

[wuapinmon]

Purportedly captured Russian MSTA-B with a truckload of shells in the Kherson Front
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[wuapinmon]

Have you heard about the miracles of St. Himars?

[wuapinmon]

[wuapinmon]

I'd buy a few of these if I knew where and how:

[wuapinmon]

I'm very impressed with the pitch-in, can-do attitude of the Baltic states as NATO members. They have been giving cash, gear, weapons, equipment, supplies, fuel, and other materiel to Ukraine, from the beginning. Aside from Poland, the US, Denmark, Turkey, and the UK, I don't this anyone, on a per capita basis, has come close to donating (never leasing) as much as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I went to Tallinn, Estonia in 2019, and it was an amazingly quaint and quiet Medieval city in the old part, but with modern luxuries. I've never been anywhere ever that loved American culture as much as Estonia. Levi's were everywhere, people drove American muscle cars around; the music was American, all the time. When we told people that we were American and just wanted to go there because it was somewhere we'd never been, they thought we were the coolest motherfunkers on the planet (MY MY). I think Poland and the Baltic states may save NATO from itself, because if there's anything a Pole hates more than a German, it's a Russian.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm very impressed with the pitch-in, can-do attitude of the Baltic states as NATO members. They have been giving cash, gear, weapons, equipment, supplies, fuel, and other materiel to Ukraine, from the beginning. Aside from Poland, the US, Denmark, Turkey, and the UK, I don't this anyone, on a per capita basis, has come close to donating (never leasing) as much as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I went to Tallinn, Estonia in 2019, and it was an amazingly quaint and quiet Medieval city in the old part, but with modern luxuries. I've never been anywhere ever that loved American culture as much as Estonia. Levi's were everywhere, people drove American muscle cars around; the music was American, all the time. When we told people that we were American and just wanted to go there because it was somewhere we'd never been, they thought we were the coolest motherfunkers on the planet (MY MY). I think Poland and the Baltic states may save NATO from itself, because if there's anything a Pole hates more than a German, it's a Russian.

Agreed. It has been inspiring.

[Pelado]

I'm very impressed with the pitch-in, can-do attitude of the Baltic states as NATO members. They have been giving cash, gear, weapons, equipment, supplies, fuel, and other materiel to Ukraine, from the beginning. Aside from Poland, the US, Denmark, Turkey, and the UK, I don't this anyone, on a per capita basis, has come close to donating (never leasing) as much as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I went to Tallinn, Estonia in 2019, and it was an amazingly quaint and quiet Medieval city in the old part, but with modern luxuries. I've never been anywhere ever that loved American culture as much as Estonia. Levi's were everywhere, people drove American muscle cars around; the music was American, all the time. When we told people that we were American and just wanted to go there because it was somewhere we'd never been, they thought we were the coolest motherfunkers on the planet (MY MY). I think Poland and the Baltic states may save NATO from itself, because if there's anything a Pole hates more than a German, it's a Russian.

I remember a missionary coming back from Estonia talking about how beautiful the language sounds. When she spoke Estonian, I kind of had to agree with her.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Listened to a good podcast with Luke Coffey, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute with special expertise on Ukraine. Among other things, he noted that the U.S. currently ranks tenth among nations on per capita contributions to Ukraine. I love the fact that among Putin's many blunders and miscalculations, he unified NATO and especially the former Warsaw Pact nations more successfully than anyone thought possible.

[Clark Addison]

When I was in BYU's MBA program, we were put in teams our first year, and these teams were across all classes. We had four people on our team, including one Estonian woman, who, to be frank, was a disaster. She was not smart, she was argumentative, and she was very dismissive of everyone else. Her main strength was that she united the three of us in a tight bond of hatred toward her. This was strengthened when we somehow learned second year that she had received the highest grades of any of the four of us.

So I am afraid I am going to abstain from the Estonian love-fest going on in this thread.

Lithuania is cool, though.

[Bo Diddley]

Good to know. I wasn't sure if I was posting too often, as the board seems to move much slower than in years past. I'll keep curating for yall since I'm "retired."

Yes, keep them coming. I love it.

[BigPiney]

Yes, keep them coming. I love it.

Agreed. It is appreciated