29/03/2023
Today is National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
My Godfather was a Vietnam Veteran. When he came home from that war, my Mother explained to me the PTSD he went through. He was never the same again.
Most of our Vietnam troops that died and fought were young conscripts. It breaks my heart that this is happening in Ukraine and Russia now to 100s of thousands of young men who have no desire to lose their lives in a war.
Since I was 3, I've been hanging out in Veterans clubs. We had one next door that would make me lunch and give me a Shirley temple on the weekends so my young, single mom, could get some rest on her day off.
Later on in life, I felt an acceptance there as somebody who has struggled and enjoyed listening to their stories and history.
My desire for Diplomacy is to avoid WWIII but also to avoid the tragedies I've seen among those drafted in other wars and the pain their families felt when they lost them.
I love you all who have served in Vietnam and other wars. I hope you have been able to find healing and friendships in the years past. Many did not. God Bless You all.
I think starting WWIII over a downed drone would be very foolish
but Putin knows by doing that he escalated the tension between Russia & the U.S.
We're watching a proxy war where those favoring more diplomacy are shouted down as "Putin Lovers"
- Kristi Talmadge, Citizen Journalist
Russian law mandates one year of military service for all male citizens aged 18–27. There are over 2 million in Reserves. At least 75K have fled to avoid conscript service which is too likely to lead to their deaths.
Although most Russians still support the war (Probably affected by false U.S. accusations they were smeared with along with Trump and Republicans for 6+ years) on top of Russia's real transnational Organized Crime and Global threats being outed, will easily believe Russian fed to them because now the U.S. has a recent bad history of lying about them.
While you and many others in the West fret only about WINNING & being tough, I have concerns about casualties on both sides consisting of a lot of young Soldiers that were forced into military service.
About 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers & "8,231 civilian men, women & children" have been murdered in this war by Russians. It's horrifying.
But Ukraine news brags about killing 162,560 of 's troops, a large number of them who are young, HS & College age, unwilling conscripts.
Russia has no legal claim to Crimea and they used the Russian Orthodox Church to try to brainwash people which is why Zelenskyy kicked them out. Russia has been fighting other nations over Crimea since the Crimean War fought from October 1853 - 1856 victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont kept Russia out of Crimea for a long time.
But it IS time for more DIPLOMACY because all I see is death and destruction.
Who wins WWIII?
Nobody because we'll all die.
