Comments on: In Kyiv, exactly the same thing happened, but in reverse

By: VXXC

VXXC — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:21:01 +0000

Longarch,

There’s plenty of sergeants and junior officers like that and a few even more than a few brilliant ones.

The problem being the dullards and the clever careerists weed them out.

As for the Generals: they’re alone.
That much is clear to all of us, they are of the elites and not of us. This is more than common knowledge it is the open consensus. [we've had it].

It is mad folly and their doom to take the above combination to war but the gods it seems have decreed the elites destruction and made them mad.

By: Longarch

Longarch — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:02:59 +0000

“The CIA, I’m sure, has competent people, just like the military does. None of them ever get near a decision-maker to tell them the truth.”

“Once Trump went out on a listening tour of the actual enlisted in the Army. When he came back he threatened to fire his Generals.”

Around 1992, I had the pleasure and privilege of studying foreign languages at a private university alongside a sergeant in the US Army. Whereas I was an excessively clever student who relied too much on talent and not enough on hard work, he was a model student and applied himself with diligence and good sense. He was a man of great wisdom and some cleverness. If the entire US government were composed of sergeants like that man, the USA truly would be a shining city on a hill, inspiring other nations to imitate its example. I do not know whether the US Army’s sergeants still hold that standard, but I am worried that the US military will not be able to fill its ranks with stable, hardworking, courageous men.

I have few pleasant things to say about US generals, but their enlisted men and some of their lieutenants really are God’s gift to civilization.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 21:16:56 +0000

No skin in the game.

We have elites that haven’t fought since 1945 and they were already hanging back in WW2.

As for the CIA, it’s run by Ivy Leaguers, and of course they get good press no matter what, except once in awhile when someone who actually leaves the office is working for a GOP president.

The CIA, I’m sure, has competent people, just like the military does. None of them ever get near a decision-maker to tell them the truth.

Once Trump went out on a listening tour of the actual enlisted in the Army. When he came back he threatened to fire his Generals.

By the way, they could speak 50 languages. If you don’t lie, you don’t get promoted.

It’s not language skills; it’s that they’re liars.

Multi-lingual liars will not save us.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:35:03 +0000

The DOD teaches the idea that a culture defines its world view by language. Therefore, to understand a country one is posted to we should understand it’s language. Nothing new here. The problem is getting language training in the troops. The military can train limited numbers at Monterey, but obviously the civilian agencies require their applicants to develop their own skills. Unfortunately, this is not happening. Unless there is positive support for language training, as well as STEM, the downhill slide will continue unabated.

By: A Wild Goose

A Wild Goose — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:23:03 +0000

The language skills of the modern US State Department are similarly embarrassing.

I speak from first-hand experience.