War Looms?

 

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

News of the digital version of the New York Post sent in my email showed the three thousand soldiers of the United States being flown by numbers of C-17 Globe Master III to Poland. The C-17 is a behemoth I’ve seen and entered when it was parked at Clark in Pampanga that could shame the C-130 Hercules I kept riding when I was a kid. These troops were of the 81st Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment - an active Stryker infantry of the eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles -based at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany.

Ukraine braces for an imminent invasion from her powerful neighbor’s Russia. The former Soviet country –just like Ukraine - deployed already 100, 000 armed –to- the- teeth soldiers near the border.

Some military experts said attack from Moscow could be possible.

ARMED TO THE TEETH Russian soldiers mass at the Russian-Ukrainian border.

The Yanks have been sending armaments like anti-tank weapons as part of their $200 million security support to the government of Kyiv.

Aside from the U.S, the British earlier have sent through transport military jets 2,000 anti-tank missile launchers

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said recently he authorized the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to send U.S.-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine.

The pugnaciousness of the allies we called North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) not only in deterring a Russian occupation (The Ivans in 2014 had already goose-stepped in Ukraine’s 2.4 million populated Crimea located in the North Sea) but showing their truculence through the free passage of their battleships and aircraft carriers to the saber rattling China who have been occupying islets and shoals in the South China Sea owned by smaller bullied Southeast Asian countries.

The tough stance of these democratic (capitalist is the appropriate word) countries has connection to the appeasement policies of previous leaders like Great Britain Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald (in office: 1929–1935), Stanley Baldwin (in office: 1935–1937) and (most notably) Neville Chamberlain (in office: 1937–1940) that caused World War-II - the deadliest (deadlier than the present pandemic Covid-19 son of a gun) war on earth that saw 70 to 85 million dead - a majority being civilians.

Their actuation in allowing German soldiers of Adolf Hitler marching into the Rhineland in March 7, 1936, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, and in March 12, 1938, October 1, 1939, March 16, 1939, March 23, 1939 annexations of Austria, Sudetenland and Bohemia in Czechoslovak Republic, and the entire Czechoslovakia, and Republic of Lithuania, respectively, did not prevent the mass invasion of Hitler and his treaty co-signatory (on the secretive Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) Soviet Union’s Strongman Josef Stalin  of Poland in September 1939.

Hitler then blitzkrieg Denmark (April 1940), Norway (April 1940), Belgium (May 1940), the Netherlands (May 1940), Luxembourg (May 1940), France (May 1940), Yugoslavia (April 1941), and Greece. Stalin – not to be outdone by the rapacity of the German Fuhrer - occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania, and attacked the tiny Finland. The gallantry of the Finns  - gezz I kept watching their war strategies there at Youtube - cost him a hundred of thousand dead Red soldiers that made Hitler to quip the Soviet army were a wimp.

After occupying much of Europe (British Prime Minister Winston Churchill frustrated him through the air war dubbed as the Battle of Britain fought by the Royal Air Force with conspicuous gallantry), Hitler sent 3.8 soldiers who sliced – like a knife to a butter – the Soviet’s occupied countries and Russia in the biggest land war theater in history primordially led by thousands of tanks and combat planes.

We called it Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) that eventually saw almost six million casualties (Germans more than 1, 000,000 and Soviets 4, 973, 820) and where winter helped the Red Russians defeat the weakened, hungry, and absconding Germans.

Among the NATO members, any act of any despots like Vladimir Putin should be acted immediately just like the 100,000 troops of Russia flexing their muscles near the Ukrainian border.

The incessant shows of force of the American, French, Britain, and Australian navies in the South China Sea – despite the repeated protestations of the Apparatchiks in Beijing - only show that aggression from the other side has no room in this era.

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