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Wes O'Donnell's avatar

A reminder to non-subscribers: This newsletter and I are biased and pro-Ukraine. I am not a journalist. I write my opinion. Trolls and Putin supporters get banned. Have a great day.

Hans Torvatn's avatar

Indeed. Go look for some ra ra Russian sites

Mike Bauer's avatar

Lot of us smoked pot in Vietnam, not during combat but since I was in an Aviation unit back at the base, beer too. Amphetamines were easy to get, because sleep was not.

Long flight hours, constant missions and no downtime meant speed was at times helpful. As a crew chief I rarely had downtime . Every 100 hours of Huey engine time, which was a major maintenance period, you got a little break, You helped on the 100 hour job but just regular hours, regular hours in the First Cav of course.

Wes O'Donnell's avatar

Hey Mike, slightly off topic here, but how was your homecoming experience from the war? We don’t have to talk about it in public. Just doing research for a documentary film I want to shoot.

Robert C Culwell's avatar

Lord, have mercy.

Pray for an end to this senseless killing and destruction.....

Craig Ewing's avatar

One of the most tragic human stories about this war I've read. How the Russian people will ever survive Putin is a mystery. It makes recovering from Trump seem easy.

pete gee's avatar

Outstanding, thoughtful analysis

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Can these phenomena dominate a failing, desperate regime?

Hans Torvatn's avatar

Given the famous triangle of sex, drugs and rockn roll we have drugs. In a bizarre way we could probably say the the war itself is rock roll. Now that substitutes sex here? Porn I assume? In copious volumes?