{"id":123550,"date":"2022-03-05T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=123550"},"modified":"2022-03-05T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T16:48:32","slug":"russias-track-record-with-combat-engagements-suggests-their-being-in-ukraine-for-a-long-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=123550","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s track record with combat engagements suggests their being in Ukraine for a long fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unlike Afghanistan, where people are loyal to a tribe rather than to “Afghanistan”, Ukraine is a different story. The Ukrainians are determined to work with each other to push back against the Russian invaders. They also have more resources to utilize today than what was available in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“These cities are going to get overrun, and it’s going to be a long, long haul for the Russians,” Mann continued. “If they think because they occupy these cities, that they’re done — if you look at the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people — they are in for a nasty guerrilla warfare campaign that is going to bleed them dry.”<\/p>\n

The retired Green Beret commander told Fox News the situation in Ukraine is unfolding opposite to the way things played out in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got to think that the Taliban are not liking what’s going on in Ukraine right now,” Mann said. “People are watching that and it is inspiring, regardless of your politics, to see people make a stand like that.”<\/p>\n

Mann, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, founded Task Force Pineapple, a group that helped evacuate Afghan refugees after the country fell into the hands of the Taliban last year.<\/p>\n

The group is not involved in Ukraine because, according to Mann, the circumstances are different.<\/p>\n

“Even though it is horrific warfare, you have kind of a linear battlefield, and you have nation states,” said Mann. “I think volunteer groups, we have to be really careful about how we engage here and what we do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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