Steve James wrote:NATO is a product of the Cold War. Sure, there should have been no NATO, just as there shouldn't have been a divided Germany. There were European countries that didn't want to belong to the USSR, just as Poland doesn't want to be a part of Russia. Still, as I said, the result is that NATO is now larger and has more members.
Afa how badly the war is going, in the end the Ukrainians are fighting at home. All the Russian soldiers want to go home.
"The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians. This represents the most military deaths of any nation by a large margin. Germany sustained 5.3 million military losses, mostly on the Eastern Front and during the final battles in Germany."
A little history as to why thing were done at the end....not wanting it to happen again...
The US "The total death count for all Americans amounted up to 420,000". over there...
During the Cold War, the unit I was in went to Luxembourg.... Participating in a celebration remembering their libration in the war.
Quite amazing as they had very distinct and recent memories of it at the time back in the 70s.
Some of us put on a martial arts demonstration that included bayonet disarming ....lucky me got to be one with
rifle...getting thrown in the process...
US needs another war,,,,not
Remote drone, or proxy war.....not exactly the same....just numbers....
Need to get some warm bodies in the party,,,helps people to remember why it may not be such a good thing...