Quote of the Day: ‘The Fight is Here; I Need Ammunition, Not a Ride’

Doug Watt
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer.

Zelensky said in response: “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation, who described Zelensky as upbeat.

according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation, who described Zelensky as upbeat.

Germany has changed their policy of not sending military aid to Ukraine. Germany is now sending Stinger missiles, and anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.

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  1. No Caesar Thatcher
    No Caesar
    @NoCaesar
    2:35 PM EST ⋅ Feb 27, 2022

    MarciN (View Comment):

    I’m thinking, in terms of the massive global reaction against Putin I’m seeing, that this is a similar timeline to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. There were many escalating terrorist attacks in the years preceding that one, and the world kept ignoring them, just as the world pretty much ignored Putin’s two earlier incursions into Georgia. He’s getting a lot of pent up anger from every country in the world right now. He took the world’s earlier silence as a license to keep going. Little did he know, . . . :-)

    Also, he’s receiving the locked-down West’s pent-up anger at the two years (and counting) of lock downs.  China is lucky they didn’t go for Taiwan first.  

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  2. No Caesar Thatcher
    No Caesar
    @NoCaesar
    2:38 PM EST ⋅ Feb 27, 2022

    DrewInWisconsin, Oik (View Comment):

    No Caesar (View Comment):
    If Ukraine withstands the assault and does not agree to any territorial concessions, they will have won a better victory than if a foreign army had come to their rescue. The more nations can defend themselves (with help from friendly nations) the better.

    It will also be a symbol for all nations that “nationalism” is not some white supremacist thing as American leftists insist. It is, in fact, survival.

    Yes.  The best international order is that, an international order.  Not a “global” order, or “transnational”.  International.  Connections and cooperation between nations.  It’s the geo-strategic equivalent of free-market capitalism. 

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  3. No Caesar Thatcher
    No Caesar
    @NoCaesar
    2:39 PM EST ⋅ Feb 27, 2022

    Kozak (View Comment):

    MiMac (View Comment):

    Kozak (View Comment):

    MiMac (View Comment):

    For a comedy actor whose big role was in a TV series about an actor elected president, Zelensky has done a good job during the invasion. I wish our leaders were as impressive.

    Just goes to show what our pants crapping drooling “president” thinks is the response of a leader whose country is fighting for its life should do.

    For Anyone interested….

    I also ordered one of these.

    The joke is that the Javelin is the world’s leader in distributing T-72 tank parts……

    I have a decal of an F-4 Phantom ( the plane my squadron flew in the USAF) that says

    “Worlds Largest Distributor of MIG Parts”.

    I don’t think any Westerners will be confused about the difference between Russians and Ukrainians after this…

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  4. John Stanley Coolidge
    John Stanley
    @JohnStanley
    7:48 AM EST ⋅ Feb 28, 2022

    Colonel Gaston Bell : General McAuliffe refused a German surrender demand. You know what he said?

    Patton : What?

    Colonel Gaston Bell : “Nuts!”

    Patton : [laughing]  Keep them moving, colonel. A man that eloquent has to be saved.

     

    No politican is perfect, and all have flaws, but one who will fight, when it is his actual neck is on the line, is a rare thing.

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