A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦

Proud Immigrant. Prouder father. Sucker for the American dream. Believer in the republic. A chief has no name.
US Navy (Retired)

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@DavidAFrench Listened to this author on the New Books Network. He's fantastic and why I'll be adding a JD to my MA in history. Attorneys present fantastic history analysis and arguments.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander Power and way of life will suffice as reasons for most conflicts. This one was no different. Who's economic system was more rightest? I suppose only the men who faced their maker on all those hallowed grounds will know for sure.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@69Ryxn @vtchakarova Hopefully so.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@DavidAFrench I would humbly suggest that you're missing a whole category of service members . I find it very credible both for myself and the junior enlisted that were once under me. I studied WW2 since childhood and I would have been hard pressed to identify that tattoo as being Nazi.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander Thank you, Sal. We're going to have to pour you a shot and make you an honorary Pole....how do you feel about suicidal charges to win desperate last stand military engagements? Is that something you think you can do with us? 😂

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander Maybe. I suppose we would have lock down the overland routes into Iran as well.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander @TBrit90 That others may live.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@DrRadchenko @nfergus So, did the United States, in fact, "stop fighting against European efforts to pool their defensive capabilities, include their nuclear ones."?

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander The kids thirst to know! I guess word is getting around that you are the People's Planner, Shipmate!

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander It's like the Bush maiden deployment all over again. That was a fun one. Memories I can't forget no matter how hard I try. You're right: the engineers didn't screw up anything. VCHT is bad generally, and not Sailor Proof specifically.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@BostonMaggie @cdrsalamander No, it's not like NH! 😂, although I did end up leaving and settled down on the VA coast post-retirement, but RI is always on my mind despite the lunacy of that state :) despite all that it has done to itself, it's always "home".

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@BostonMaggie @cdrsalamander Yes! That line right there is when I knew he was pouring his soul out.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@new_data_ @cdrsalamander You still have the same amount of required jobs chasing the shrinking demographic group. That's why at the end of this road you either accept a shrinking economy or find a way to raise your population levels.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander So does the entire Western world.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander It's like the late aughts early teens all over again. Seemed like nine months were the standard.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@cdrsalamander It's a zero sum game, out there. When nations threaten you, you have to believe them.

[A Smith 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Aurelius2024]

@BuchananLiz Loved your latest piece on Midrats with Sal. Just don't understand why your Doctonersess is surprised by a Canadian move towards China. It's the very first thing I might do when dealing with a powerful border country that ratched up economic hostilities. What am I missing?