Russian aggression against brave Ukraine

AF6872 said:
I still have some Lao Kip which is now 11,400.00 to the dollar and Thai Baht that is 33.00 to the Dollar. I am making out like a bandit.:jump1: Only took Fifty Years.
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I can trade you some Filipino pesos issued by the Japanese Occupation Government my father collected when he was working for MacArthur. It's a good idea to diversify your assets.
 
EDelahanty said:
I can trade you some Filipino pesos issued by the Japanese Occupation Government my father collected when he was working for MacArthur. It's a good idea to diversify your assets.
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Ok… Bataan Death March…

In 2012 during a Joint Task Force Ops (JTF), we deployed to Mindoro Island after a devastating hurricane. The locals asked, “where have you been?”
What?

The old timers remembered the American Soldiers with General MacArthur who liberated the Philippines in 1945.
 
flieger83 said:
Ask yourself this question:

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the reinstitution of the Russian Federation, how many times has the Ruble been "switched/changed/adjusted?" You can buy bank-wrapped stacks of old rubles...non-convertible when they changed over except at the Central Bank in Russia. They're cute, look nice, and are worthless.

I think I'd look for a better investment.
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it was a thought. Dont follow the ruble to know its history. The thing is I have been right about several investments where i said, "Good time to buy as it has taken a dive" and of course i didn't. The best was Netflix where the stock price dropped a good percentage after they decided to raise the price and people were dropping their subscriptions left and right. My opinion was that they would all be back and more as at the point there were no competitors like HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the rest at the time and of course as predicted everyone did come back and the stock took off like a rocket. I am not buying the ruble, but i wont be surprised if the current ruble survives and at least doubles in price in the future..
 
My father in laws unit blew a bank after the Battle of the Bulge and used the Marks for toilet paper. Then the occupation forces made them good. Whoops. But I did get a huge Nazi banner like eight feet long that he gave me. Woman in our office that worked as a secretary for the Reich in Munich said it was the real thing.
 
Used Gold chain that I wore in SEA and took it to a jeweler and had Marine Wings of Gold made for my SIL for his flight school graduation, Both God and I are his copilots.
 
Yeah, but you can get island happy driving in Hawaii's many few miles north south east or west. But it is beautiful. If you did the Bansie Pipeline YOU ARE A BETTER MAN THAN ME.:cool:
 
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I loved my six years there over 2 Navy tours but was very grateful for military gas station, commissary and exchange. I recall one Thanksgiving I forgot to get celery, so I went to a regular grocery store. Wowzers, I paid $6.00 for a sad wilted bunch. And this was years ago. I did love seeing rainbows every day, sometimes double and triple, and going for an ocean swim whenever I felt like it. For someone who grew up in an island off Georgia, this was soul-renewing to body surf just like I did growing up.
 
Capt MJ said:
I loved my six years there over 2 Navy tours but was very grateful for military gas station, commissary and exchange. I recall one Thanksgiving I forgot to get celery, so I went to a regular grocery store. Wowzers, I paid $6.00 for a sad wilted bunch. And this was years ago. I did love seeing rainbows every day, sometimes double and triple, and going for an ocean swim whenever I felt like it. For someone who grew up in an island off Georgia, this was soul-renewing to body surf just like I did growing up.
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Ok… gallon of milk now is $5.85.
DS visited MD last July, gallon there is .99 cents.
And we went to Dennys for breakfast: three large pancakes, 2 strips of bacon, two eggs, toast, jelly, and refillable coffee—-> $6.00.

Easily, that breakfast 🥞 here is probably $24.00+
 
cb7893 said:
Can you be more specific?

Are you talking about the Ukrainian People’s Army or the Ukrainian National Army or the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The OUN was the only operating after Ukraine was reabsorbed into the USSR.


Who cares? I’m sure Mothers with their children in metro stations in Kyiv are asking themselves at this very moment. “So, what do you think? Is this worse than the Holodomor? Who was worse? Stalin or Putin? Well, I don’t know. What about the Tartars? They were pretty bad as well.”
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The UPA was the military faction of the the political OUN group. Not too different to the relationship between the IRA and Sein Fein in later decades.

I got acronym right (UPA) but the name wrong (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). They were not directly allied with Nazi Germany (like the Croatians or Slovakians), due to the Germans opposition to an independent Ukrainian state, but did cooperate against the common for, the communist Soviet Union.

They also engaged in murderous ethnic cleansingm of Poles from what they deemed to be Ukrainian lands during WW2 (a micro war fought inside Wehrmacht-controlled territory) and fought against the communist Polish People's Army as well as the Soviet Red Army in the years after WW2.
 
Ukraine is a home of the Cossack. Napoleon is credited as saying, "Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them."
 
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