Rick Holmes

Retired Comms tech Sgt 30 years. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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@FouthTimeLucky Timing is everything. USS Iowa sending a love tap.

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@FouthTimeLucky Jan 89 USS Iowa If you are going to show fire power this is one of the best pic's for it. P.S. It was loud even at this distance.

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@reshetz Another politician who spues garbage to attract attention! Read the recent world history of just last winter and stop terrorizing the people who are too lazy to read about anything other than how their sports team is doing.

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@sumlenny This is just the people expressing where their priorities are. Win first, then start the rebuild!

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@mil_in_ua Makes sense to me. Since Russia has made the same threat turn about is fair play and since Ukraine has shown that it can reach out and touch the bridge, that means they can reach out and touch the shipping that is passing under the bridge. Nice of Ukraine to give fair warning.

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@Gerashchenko_en Anton, you said yourself that he is a "military correspondent ". Don't blame the parrot for what comes out of its mouth. Blame the people that taught him.

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3. It has become a truly sad world where people are taking for gospel what is being spoon fed to them in the news (both written and broadcast) with out at least trying to check out and confirm whether it is fact based or opinion based. People have become too lazy to even check

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2. Reporters with few exceptions are writing their stories to slant the story to fit their political views or those of their employer. They use excerpts taken out of context, pictures that display content that fit their story but no one has talked to the individuals.

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In my trying to keep up with the events happening in eastern Europe, and western Europe. I have found the same thing that has happened in North America. Reporters are no longer reporting news in an unbiased way but they are editorializing their stories to get maximum attention.

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@med_goblin Question. Are they recycling uniforms for to kit out their new recruits or are there body parts being returned so that the families have something to claim?

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@ChuckPfarrer Russia probably hoped that Ukraine would crumble when faced by the Russian army. They got a big surprise, you fought and you fought them to a stand still. I wish that north American politicians would get their collective heads out of their @sses and understand why you fight.

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@ChuckPfarrer 3. Threat or nuclear war. Drills in grade and high schools, government buildings with warning sirens, people who could afford to built bomb shelters under their backyard. When you live in constant Threat or fear you learn to fight with everything you have or leave.

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@ChuckPfarrer 2. So that they could experience what the reality of life is like for the general population. When you live under the threat of invasion constantly, you tend to look at things differently. North America has forgotten what it was like back in the 50's and 60's and the constant

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@ChuckPfarrer I apologize to Ukraine for NATO countries lack of commitment in support of your fight. I have noted that the countries that have lived under Russian rule are the countries that are supporting you the most. I could only wish that the politicians could be sent to live in Russia

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@arestovych 8. But I think even now, in the midst of a war, their future looks far brighter than it did 30 years ago. So all in all I think that you are wrong about the future of Ukraine.

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@arestovych 7. That you speak a language does not make you a citizen of the language. It is a matter of where your loyalty lays. You have units within your military whose operational language is Russian but they are Ukrainian. The people will have times when they might wish for the past,

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@arestovych 6. Will be happy. There will always be someone that is not happy with the outcome. Then there is the south,southeastern and the Crimea peninsula. People have to remember that there are Ukrainian people whose mother tongue is Russian but think of themselves as Ukrainian. That you

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@arestovych 5. There are going to be people who will claim that they purchased property that belonged to persons who were forced to leave as well as those who fled ahead of the fighting. This will be a legal challenge and will require time and effort. As long as it stays honest most will be

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@arestovych 4. If the government can keep the grafting in check and get a reasonable return for their investment Ukraine will recover in less time than it took Germany. Ukraine has the potential to become a powerhouse economy in Eastern Europe. There is going to be a lot of finger pointing,