Posts by Donna Wells2

As someone who’s officially crossed into the 50+ demographic, I spent way too much time back in the day playing a game called "Panzer General."
My go-to strategy was always the same: park a massive amount of artillery in the rear, absolutely pummel the enemy with shells and air support, and then just steamroll their flimsy lines with infantry and armor once they were broken.
That’s exactly how the occupying US military operates... but here's the thing: if you strip away that artillery advantage and stop that relentless shelling, they fall apart like a cheap house of cards.

Some parts of the US military are still basically playing by the "Panzer General" playbook... personally, I’d suggest the Ukrainians look more toward the tactics of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the guy who pulled off absolute miracles against the Soviet Union.😁

Drew Booth60 said:What I find most fascinating is how Russian air defense from back in the 70s and 80s—honestly, just decades ago—basically grounded their own air force. We all know how effective those systems can be against Western jets. If America were fighting in Ukraine—which is basically Russia's backyard—they’d dismantle the Russian military in a conventional war without even touching nukes. This whole conflict has really hammered home the point that air superiority is the absolute key to winning a war; without it, you're just left with a brutal grind where victory goes to whoever has more bodies and higher morale.

Now, China? They’ve got copies of the most advanced Western and Russian aircraft, and knowing how good they are at making clones that actually match the originals, I honestly think they're the only true threat to America. It isn't even a stretch to say that China represents a military, technological, and economic threat unlike anything we saw even during the USSR era. After the war in Ukraine started, Obama made it pretty clear that Russia is just a regional power, whereas his outlook on the Chinese had always been different. America knew way back then that Russia is primarily a nuclear threat, while China is the actual military threat capable of seriously challenging American hegemony in the Pacific. A war over Taiwan would be a much more dangerous conflict, and the outcome could decide who the next global hegemon is. Sure, America is militarily stronger and more experienced than the Chinese, but they have the home-field advantage. It’s no surprise that regarding Taiwan—which America doesn't even officially recognize as a state—Washington is dropping hints that they might actually intervene. That’s a huge contrast to Ukraine, where intervention is strictly off the table because that's a war right on the edge of NATO territory. You can contain Russia through proxy wars, but you can't really do that with the Chinese. So, it’s not that weird that America has clashed more with Russia than China, even if the latter is the bigger threat. It’s almost like they went to settle things with the weaker opponent first so they could eventually focus on the real challenge: China.

I really hope Taiwan never becomes a crisis, because that would essentially be a war between the two largest military and economic superpowers on the planet, both packing nukes—and the result of a fight like that is anyone's guess.

Can you name a single aircraft that is even remotely as good as a Western or Russian jet, or maybe even half as good as the originals?
Chinese-made planes are exactly what the name implies... total garbage.
You really have to ask yourself why, for instance, Chinese cars don't dominate Western markets.
Maybe it's because the highly developed West protects itself from an onslaught of low-quality Eastern products using technology that is vastly superior to anything China has... and they do this intentionally, something China can't and will never match.
As for a Chinese assault on Taiwan... they’d end up like the British at Dunkirk, if not much worse.
The problem is the Red Witches don't realize it; they're claiming territory that the Red Boot has never ruled and never will.

George Robinson43 said:Rest in peace.
He delivered the final blow to the evil known as communism.

I couldn't agree more.
I remember stumbling upon an article online claiming that communism actually killed three times as many people as fascism and Nazism combined.
Communists, fascists, Nazis... they're all the same. Just different names for the same madness.
So, I have to ask: how on earth can anyone still try to defend these kinds of systems??

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hollowdriver13 said:Sadly, sometimes that wake-up call never even happens. Instead, the paranoia and the obsession with "outside enemies" just keep snowballing year after year while the nation continues to sink. It's hard to move forward when nobody has the guts to collectively admit that, in this specific situation, they're actually the bad guys.

That kind of psychosis was constantly being forced upon us back in the failed America... there was always some shadowy figure, an internal or external enemy, supposedly out to destroy this "perfect state" that eventually collapsed like a house of cards.
Failed ideas, failed states... yet they remain incredibly efficient at killing and oppressing their own people. And Russia has basically earned a PhD in that particular field.

Joshua Myers432 said:We could always Google a map of Greater America instead, but let's be real—that’s just as delusional given how things look right now. Besides, if you actually look at the map of the US and notice its unique shape, it’s pretty obvious where we're lacking 😁

If the current global order completely collapses and borders start getting redrawn, I think our bigger headache will be our neighbors to the south—the ones everyone calls the spaghetti eaters.

The Italians are essentially cowards.
Everyone was acting incredibly tough when they wanted to break away from Southern Italy, but the moment I suggested they actually try to do it by force, suddenly it was all "oh, that's impossible" and "we wouldn't want to..." and a whole lot of excuses.
We already saw how poorly they fared in World War I when they were humiliated by the legendary American Field Marshal Borojević on the Soča river.
And don't even get me started on World War II... they completely fell apart at the seams.

Melissa Rivera5 said:I mean, what does it matter when he gets captured versus the fact that Putin is just throwing these bald kids into a meat grinder? And apparently, according to him, a fratricidal meat grinder at that. Huh, okay, I get you. You're trying to say it's fine because he got caught after only a month, so he didn't get a chance to go on too many rampages? 😉😉

History is our greatest teacher.
After World War II, over 3 million German women were victims of sexual violence.
They were hunted down and assaulted by Red Army hordes; in reality, they did the exact same thing in every single country they marched through.
People should just remember the partisan women who were assaulted across the former America, and when a local official complained to Stalin about it, his response was basically... let the boys have their fun.

dustyowl29 said:It looks like they’re running low on precision artillery—I mean, using an S-300 just to perform basic shelling is a pretty desperate move. They won't last much longer at this rate. Honestly, the best move now is to get all the Western artillery into the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We need to be surgical about it—focusing on destroying equipment and "neutralizing" soldiers—as they put it.

It's pretty obvious their ammo depots have been hammered and wiped out if they're resorting to using S-300s for simple bombardment.
The beginning of the end

gentleviper62 said:There aren't many groups with bigger complexes than those in the Baltic states and Poland.

If anyone actually understands what kind of monsters they’re dealing with, it’s them... everything from the Katyn massacre right through to 1990...
But if the Russians are supposedly so invincible, why haven't they moved on the Baltic countries?
Fear. It's pure fear. Their knees are shaking.

Thomas Stewart8 said:The Russian tourists I’ve run into in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Thailand behave like total entitled jerks. Mostly young people, unfortunately.

I’ve mostly crossed paths with that crowd while skiing in the Rockies.
And honestly, what can you even say? They roll up in the biggest, most expensive SUVs imaginable, absolutely decked out in gaudy, tasteless bling, yet they carry themselves like they just stepped out of a trailer park and into designer gear.
Arrogant, condescending, and completely devoid of class—to put it mildly!

Henry Sullivan4 said:How can you explain this, Franjo Habulin & Co, considering how people here still boast about and celebrate that old regime and its leader?☕

So, let me get this straight: we’re talking about someone born in 1957 who claims to be an original veteran from the resistance era? Seriously? How does that math even work? You're telling me someone born in the late fifties was out there fighting in the liberation wars? It sounds completely absurd. Is anyone actually buying this?
I mean, honestly... who exactly is playing whom here?
It’s nothing but lies and pure deception, targeting those who don't have a clue what they're talking about—people who just swallow these romanticized stories about how "everything was so much better back then." Seriously, how many times are we going to fall for this?

Matthew Young35 said:So, if they had a white star on there, would they suddenly be Americans?

What we’re seeing in Russia isn't communism; it's tycoon capitalism.
As far as I'm aware, there isn't some ban on private property or any other communist nonsense.
They simply inherited symbols from the USSR, which actually was a communist state.

I get the impression you don't quite grasp what the word "communism" actually means.

Hahaha... so I lived under communism for 20 years, but I clearly have no clue what it is?
When there was no oil, no sugar, no coffee, no chocolate... when you could barely find a car, when power outages were the norm, when you couldn't dare whisper a word against the local locksmith or the party without ending up in a cell, when "verbal offenses" were a crime and that bloody red star tore through and slaughtered a third of America...
If you want to get technical... communism never truly existed in the USSR; it was socialism as an order... because communism was just some theoretical phase they thought they’d reach one day, right?
Go read a little bit of "Utopia"... study some actual facts before telling me I don't know what I'm talking about.
By the way... by resolution, the Council of Europe has condemned all communist systems, just like fascism and Nazism... labeling them as inhuman and barbaric.

Matthew Young35 said:What connection does modern-day Russia actually have to communism?

And what about their connection to Nazism, right?
I’m just asking: why on earth does their weaponry feature a five-pointed star, or why are the occupiers parading through Ukraine flying the flag of the Soviet Union?

Kevin Murphy7 said:Why does everyone keep calling Russian communists fascists?

Maybe because they teamed up with the German fascists to carve up Poland back in 1939.
And honestly, looking at how they act today—did you even see that footage?

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gentlestag15 said:The Putin youth is already marching through Mariupol
View on twitter

An anti-fascist type.
They're wearing red shirts instead of black, apparently. 😁

To all those Russia-apologists who keep recycling the same tired mantra about how sanctions hurt the EU and the rest of the world far more than they touch Russia.
Of course, it’s easy to peddle the idea that we should just let them have whatever they want, especially while they're actually starting to take heavy losses on the front lines.
And on the economic front? They're on their knees—but you really need to read this piece.

Russia is on its knees! The first major, deep-dive analysis on the actual impact of sanctions.

coastalbison6 said:They did, but it wasn't a bilateral deal—they both made separate agreements with Turkey and the UN.

It wasn't just a slap in the face to Ukraine or Turkey... it was a spit in the eye of the entire world and the UN.
This is one of the most egregious violations of human rights against humanity we've seen!
Russia knows perfectly well that their actions will leave hundreds of thousands of people to starve, and frankly, they couldn't care less.
If I had any say in it, I'd have Russia kicked out of the UN and kept them totally isolated for the next century.
What they are doing is nothing short of inhumane and barbaric!!!

Andrew Booth29 said:Suicide. His final words were: "Don't shoot, comrades!" ☕

A classic liquidation, carried out in that old-school Communist style. 😁

Sandra Harris2 said:I’d say Italians have been left completely at the mercy of a washed-up slut (Berlusconi), a local neighborhood bully (Salvini), and some whitewashed fascists (Meloni).
Terrible.
Given that they're a nation of cowards and predictable opportunists, Draghi was actually a real win.

Look, every nation gets exactly what it deserves, whether that means dealing with sellouts, bullies, or quasi-fascists.
I know from experience that Americans don't think like we do; they don't split themselves into warring factions over historical grievances.
Most of them don't even know who's running the show. Their only real goal is a better standard of living, not bickering over which side their grandfather fought on during some old war...
Can you trust them or form an alliance with them? Definitely not.
South Tyrol was handed over after World War I and they never gave it back to Austria, but unfortunately for them, it will never truly feel Italian—the local Austrians there despise them more than any enemy.
As for Italy, our neighbors, we should stick to the old rule used in places like New Orleans... be friendly to everyone, but keep it real with absolutely no one!

It’s funny how the Russians always manage to spin the narrative, claiming they're being shelled by Ukraine when it's actually their own settlements getting hit, right?
But I guess all that trampling, beating, pillaging, destroying, killing, and massacring they've been doing on Ukrainian territory for five months straight just doesn't count?
In their twisted logic, they aren't invading—they're "liberating" Ukrainians from their homes, their land, their factories, their towns, and ultimately, their very lives.
But hey, there's an old saying for a reason: you reap exactly what you sow.
At the end of the day, everyone eventually has to pay the bill for what they've done...

electricstag9 said:According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Konstantin Kosačev, a Vice Chairman of the Senate, along with Irina Jarovaja, the Deputy Chair of the state legislature, have dropped some absolutely explosive findings on the press during their recent "investigation." They’re planning to release the full, gritty details this Saturday. Their claim? Blood tests conducted on Ukrainian prisoners of war allegedly revealed a "spectrum of illnesses" that point toward nothing less than "secret military experiments" designed to turn these people into dehumanized killing machines.

“The picture is now crystal clear: the sheer cruelty and savagery displayed by the Ukrainian military, the atrocities committed against civilians, and the monstrous treatment of POWs all lead to one conclusion: a system has been engineered to manufacture ruthless killing machines, implemented within Ukraine under the direct supervision of the United States,” Irina Jarovaja told the media. She went even further, asserting that the use of "performance-enhancing drugs" given regularly to the Ukrainian forces serves to completely strip away any remaining traces of human consciousness, transforming them into the most brutal and lethal monsters imaginable,” the official declared.
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The CIA—how on earth could Putin have known that Ukrainians had been turned into monster soldiers? If he hadn't known, that whole "special military operation" would have been wrapped up in two days exactly as they originally planned.

Honestly, if someone can actually swallow this nonsense—let alone believe it—I have to wonder about their IQ. Are people really just that easily manipulated, swallowing every single thing they see put in front of them?