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These are the Ukrainian soldiers America needs right now and doesn’t have.
They don’t flinch at drones. They don’t panic under artillery. They have spent four straight years learning every single thing that modern warfare can throw at a human being, and they are still standing. In the mud. Against Russia. Grinning.
If you are American and you care about American lives, and I mean actually care, not flag-on-the-bumper care, these are the men you want next to your sons and daughters when Iran stops being an air strike and starts being a street fight. Not because they’re brave. Brave is cheap. Because they know exactly how to bring people home alive. They’ve made every mistake so your kids won’t have to.
Nobody on earth does this better. Not the British. Not the Israelis. Nobody.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about air power. It doesn’t finish wars. It never has. Iran will absorb every strike, disperse into the population, and keep hitting targets across the region until someone, somewhere, has to put boots on actual ground. Urban warfare. Close quarters. The kind of fighting that fills coffins and ends political careers.
That is precisely the moment when having Ukrainians on your side stops being a foreign policy talking point and starts being the difference between a soldier coming home or a folded flag at an airport.
The most battle-hardened fighters on the planet are Ukrainian. They know every drone tactic, every ambush, every trick that this era of warfare has produced. They learned it all the hard way. And they were ready, genuinely ready, to share every last bit of it with America.
Instead, Washington spent a year publicly humiliating their president.
How many American lives is that decision actually worth?
Someone in the White House should probably do that maths.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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