Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "See what a city is offering people to fight in Putin's war" video.

  1. You are a gifted News Presenter Ellen, but one thing you cannot imagine is what it is to be a 17-, 18- or 19-year-old young man. Russia has got their own brand of urban legend. They've got a John Wayne sitting right in the Kremlin and when you haven't hit twenty-years old, a young man sees death as a joke and Putin as cool. Money is what runs the world and a young guy over there in Russia or bordering Kazakhstan could probably put a down-payment on a house and that would put him in the big league. He would also be known as a hero and someone fighting for the homeland. We mustn’t forget that in Russia, if Putin says white is black, white is black if you want to live and talk about it. What am I saying? Just look back in your country to the Vietnam war. The average age was 19 years old and just to compare it was 26 in WW II. Young guys were gung-ho to go and kill some gooks, and your government drafted the working-class heroes by the thousands. 55,000 young men fought in a war that turned out to be a farce and General Westmoreland was as incompetent as anything on the Russian side of the Ukraine war. Westmoreland would order a hill taken, lose dozens of men, and then abandon it only to take it again with heavy losses. When it's the Russians or another country throwing their young men to their early graves, it's easy to make light of it, but America sent young men to what the government knew was a meatgrinder war that could never be won. It's easy to criticize; I haven't been in the military, but I believe the Ukraine war will be over in 180 days more or less when the Ukrainians take back Crimea. Then and only then will President Putin be forced to throw in the towel... It's an opinion.
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