Professionalism in two different situations. First, in resisting Trump demands to go to Capital riot , and second, Ukraine commandos in Russia
In both cases the emphasis should be in the self control exercised and necessary in the two wildly different situations.
The fragility of human circumstances and motives is in both cases, extreme. And in both cases, controlled responses in the face of extreme provocations, a must. In both cases, acting out would have catastrophic consequences
A. In January 6, 2021, according to rumors as to the incident (which I heard of too) , secret service members managed to resist very forceful demands by the POTUS to take him to the scene of the capital riot. Mercifully that was avoided, albeit with much invective and hurt feelings abounding. The professionalism needed in that situation would have been off the charts, as the POTUS was enraged and not taking no for an answer.
B. In the case of the Ukraine commandos, a squad of Ukraine commandos is finding ways to ascertain and deliver commensurate counter punch to devastating developments in Ukraine, as a way of reminding the Russian Federation that outright terrorism in Ukraine does not pay.
In a word, no acting out. Professionalism to a T
It is difficult for many to appreciate that in the case of extreme circumstances, the executors of push back, are NOT Rambos, but professionals doing their job in situations where less disciplined operatives would have lost their "shit"
Kudos to both, in all shapes and forms
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-secret-service-2657598738/
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July 01, 2022
According to sources speaking to?CNN, then-President Donald Trump demanded to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 ahead of the riot and berated Secret Service agents when they refused his request.
The sources say circulating rumors about the incident were similar to?the testimony?given to the Jan. 6 committee from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who said she heard a story about how Trump allegedly lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to grab hold the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle.
The details reportedly differ, but the sources say they were told that an angry confrontation did occur. The source, a longtime Secret Service employee, said the agents described Trump as "demanding" and that he said something similar to: "I'm the f**king President of the United States, you can't tell me what to do."
"He had sort of lunged forward -- it was unclear from the conversations I had that he actually made physical contact, but he might have. I don't know," the source said. "Nobody said Trump assaulted him; they said he tried to lunge over the seat -- for what reason, nobody had any idea."
The source says the story has been circulating since February of last year. Other stories about Trump breaking and throwing things during fits of anger circulated as well.
In a blockbuster appearance before the House committee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol, Hutchinson delivered what opponents hope will be the evidence needed to run Trump out of town.
"This is the smoking gun," Sol Wisenberg, a former deputy to Bill Clinton impeachment investigator Ken Starr, told The New York Times of Hutchinson's testimony.
"There isn't any question this establishes a prima facie case for his criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges."
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Contrast this with the matter of a shadow war from Ukraine into Russia due to Russian Federation aggression
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Meet The Shadowy Ukrainian Unit That Sabotages Targets Inside Russia
Known as the Shaman Battalion, these Ukraine special operations troops infiltrate into Russian territory to strike key targets.
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JUL 1, 2022 11:49 AM
Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
HOWARD ALTMAN
Sometimes they cross the border?by helicopter. Other times, by foot.
But the objective is always the same, says the head of a shadowy Ukraine special operations group known as the Shaman Battalion.
Give the Russians a taste of what Ukrainians have been experiencing since 2014. And especially since Feb. 24.
“You might have heard about the missiles?strike at the shopping mall?recently,” the man who goes by the callsign 'Shaman' told?The War Zone?in an exclusive interview Thursday morning. “You've definitely?heard about Bucha. You've heard about the missile?strike at the railway station?with refugees at Kramatorsk. I wish all these special ops actions would happen on Russian soil now. Because I want them to know the feeling that they give to the people of Ukraine.”
Speaking through an interpreter via Zoom, Shaman, the leader of the eponymous group, said the battalion is doing its part to make that happen.
Over the course of Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine, images of?attacks inside Russia?have appeared on social media. They've been carried out on a wide array of targets, including an ammunition storage facility, an airbase, and what appeared to be a daring raid by Ukrainian?Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters?in April that crossed low over the border into Russia and struck an oil storage facility in Belgorod.
While declining to offer details about specific locations of these clandestine missions, Shaman smiles when asked about that raid.
“You know that that explosion on the refinery in Belgorod is not the end,” he said. “It’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
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