Replies to post #398740 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[sortagreen]

You first there, Rambo.

[sortagreen]

I know. We can send your boy, Rittenhouse. He loves to shoot people.

[blackhawks]

How about this? Proxy war. Biden TELLS Putin: Look pal, let's cut out all the malarkey. Go into Ukraine and we will help the people that you claim are pro Russian. At least 80% aren't; plenty of sniping, IED placing, guerrillas. Got the picture?

* We will help them to bleed you the same way we did with the Mujahidin in Afghanistan. You remember, it led to the dissolution of your precious USSR.

What's left this time? That's right, Mother Russia, your failed, f'ing petrostate.

Tell that to your generals, they know full well WTF I'm talking about. And oh yeah, our Stinger missiles have advanced greatly in effectiveness over the past 35 years. Ask 'em about those too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

* Casualties and losses
Soviet forces:

14,453 killed (total) or
9,500 killed in combat[41]
4,000 died from wounds[41]
1,000 died from disease and accidents[41]
53,753 wounded[41]
264 missing[citation needed]
451 aircraft (including 333 helicopters)
147 tanks
1,314 IFV/APCs
433 artillery guns and mortars
11,369 cargo and fuel tanker trucks
(Soviet estimate)
26,000 killed including 3,000 officers[42] (other sources)
Afghan forces:
18,000 killed[43]

Mujahideen:
At least 90,000 casualties, including 56,000 killed and 17,000 wounded.[44][45]
150,000–180,000 casualties (other estimates)[45]
Pakistan:
5,775 killed[46]
6,804 wounded[46]
1 F-16 shot down due to friendly fire.[47]
Iran:
2 AH-1J helicopters shot down
Unknown nu

[brooklyn13]

I don't disagree with you about absolute Moral Authority, that's why we have laws. But my feeling is that we are prone to look at actual American history through rose tinted glasses.

I don't mean to be cliched, but who did we stop from enacting the Native American displacement and genocide? From what did this American Moral Authority arise?