The Day Trump Lost??- Part I

Trump lost the veterans- the front line troops.

A fellow vet recently posted a video gone viral. It can’t be posted on Linkedin because it is too irreverent and foul-mouthed. The lesson for veterans from videos gone viral is that if veterans post online that which displays the common sense, discipline and smarts they gained in the service of their country, the 1% who served, differentiate themselves from the BS artists and become...wait for it...Employable!

There is no BS and equivalent Fox Fake News on the frontline where it is;

or put on your masks;

and Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammo! 

This is not a drill! 

The Russian GRU, headed by General Gerasimov;

who reports directly to Putin, soon president for life, has used little green men;

to invade Crimea, once part of Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine and to attack our troops and our allies at a place called Deir-ez-Zor; 

Deir ez-Zor Governorate (Arabic: ??????? ??? ?????? / ALA-LC: Mu?āfa?at Dayr az-Zawr) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in eastern Syria, bordering Iraq. It has an area of 33,060 km2 (12,760 sq mi) and a population of 1,239,000 (2011 estimate).[1] The capital is Deir ez-Zor. 

The little green men got their asses handed to them by a few members of the Combined Arms Team and their Syrian allies who called in close-air support. Ass-kicking in the Middle East has precedents. The vaunted Republican Guard used Russian T-72 tanks to oppose our forces at 73 Easting and got their asses kicked when MacMaster, commander of tanks of a portion of the US VII Corps, clashed in armored combat with the vaunted Iraqi Republican Guard and its Tawakalna Division. 

MacMaster and his unit, destroyed 33 Republican Guard tanks in a half hour.

He wrote “Dereliction of Duty.” 

Mattis, the “warrior monk,” and Former Secretary of Defense, wrote the most consequential piece I’ve read, heard or seen since watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War and reading what Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee wrote. Mattis wrote that it is important to study history because it prevents leaders, troop leaders, from getting their men and women killed - in combat. 

He also wrote  “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens — much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander in chief, with military leadership standing alongside.” 

Thomas "Stonewall” Jackson

 wrote; “The rules of strategy are few and simple, they may be learned in a week. They may be taught by familiar illustrations or a dozen diagrams. But such knowledge will no more teach a man to lead an army like Napoleon than a knowledge of grammar will teach him to write like Gibbon."

At Fredericksburg, 

Robert E. Lee wrote; “It is well that war is so terrible - lest we grow too fond of it.

For whom the Bells Toll, for whom the flares are sent up and the trumpets sound;

No, not those Trumpets. "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will hasten to the battle?"

The call has gone out but many of us will choose to wait out the fray. The word apathy is from the Greek a pathos, "without soul."

But we are not among these! We, the 1% who have served and who serve, are made of sterner moral and physical stuff. 

We once again, hear the call - Liberty’s call:

Times of great moral conflict call to us now;

It has always been so;

We, do not hide our faces or hide in rectal defilade when the bugle calls;

We few, we proud, never have;

Nor have we always tilted at windmills;

or sought with sheer hubris to conquer the fictitious foe;

or slept on the sidelines of “battles;”

and waded in falsehood;

shrunk from disease;

abuse, overdose and suicide;

and commit obstruction of justice, the destruction of law for our own sakes;

Engaged in stupidity, posing as innovation;

Posing as healthcare;

as competent management;

as strategists;

as faith;

as patriotism;

and privilege posing as valor;

No, We have fought and continue to fight the good fight, with happy hearts; 

Like the Spartans, we do not ask how many the enemy are, but where the enemy are.

As we rebuilt our country;

Putin, Gerasimov, the GRU were are actively interfering in U.S. politics and other nations' elections. The GRU has recruited Rahmatullah Azizi;

NYTimes: KABUL, Afghanistan — He was a lowly drug smuggler, neighbors and relatives say, then ventured into contracting, seeking a slice of the billions of dollars the U.S.- led coalition was funneling into construction projects in Afghanistan. But he really began to show off his wealth in recent years, after establishing a base in Russia, though how he earned those riches remained mysterious. On his regular trips home to northern Afghanistan, he drove the latest model cars, protected by bodyguards, and his house was recently upgraded to a four-story villa.

Now Rahmatullah Azizi stands as a central piece of a puzzle rocking Washington, named in American intelligence reports and confirmed by Afghan officials as a key middleman who for years handed out money from a Russian military intelligence unit to reward Taliban-linked fighters for targeting American troops in Afghanistan, according to American and Afghan officials.

It’s Personal!

Now, it’s personal. It is also documented that the Taliban, paid bounties by Moscow, have killed US Marines. The GRU and Putin from whom the money comes, have invaded US social media and assumed that they have bought us, the veterans, the grandparents, the frontline workers, the educators

By the Grace of God, one of the troops, woke up, came to his senses and Fired for Effect by issuing the most viral assault on Trump yet.

We swore to uphold the Constitution and to defend our country against all enemies both foreign and domestic.

So now, vote! This is not a drill!

Today, such a lot is won when even a single woman gets to her feet and says No;

We stand with her as always;

Semper Fi!

Part II - The Torch Has Been Passed