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| Soldiers boarding an Mi-17 Helicopter 144 piece jigsaw puzzle |
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| Mi-17 Helicopter - Veronica Aguila |
The USA is providing Soviet Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine. This strikes me as just a trifle absurd. I am not sure how we got them, probably something to do with Afghanistan.
I'm still waiting for an explanation of why our exit from Afghanistan appeared to be such debacle. I mean, the news reports I read about that event made it sound like our exit was done with little to no planning and even worse execution. But that's just what the media reports, and we know we can't trust anything that comes from the internet. Maybe for the people in charge it went exactly according to plan. Or maybe it was just done out of budgetary considerations. 'We've spent too much money on this project, it's time to cut our losses.' That seems unlikely since we had already spent a trillion dollars on that misadventure. What happened? Did we suddenly hit some magic number like a trillion and one dollars?
In any case, from where I sit, relatively safe and secure in my basement hidey-hole, it certainly made the US military look like a bunch of incompetent fools. Of course, that's been pretty much the way it's been ever since Eisenhower left office. Oh, for the glorious fifties when our news was sanitized for our protection and all our elected officials were paragons of virtue and competence.
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