Coffeeordie. Com says [1]:
“The story of the Ukrainian air force, once fully told, will undoubtedly influence the thinking of air power theorists and combat aviators for generations to come. Above all, in this age of advancing technologies, Ukraine’s fighter pilots have clearly demonstrated the enduring importance of the human element in aerial warfare.
‘Maybe it’s stupid, but we don’t give a s#!+ about technologies — we’re just trying to do everything with what we’ve got,’ Juice said. ‘It’s our land, it’s our families, it’s our cities. We are defending them. That’s the main motivation for us. And we succeed in this, because the Russians are surprised. They are ….ing surprised. Especially about our ground air defenses, and also about our fighters. Because they were not expecting resistance in the air at all.'”
One of the things that we keep hearing about the Russian troops in this little escapade is that a lot of them don’t even have a clue where they are much less what they’re fighting for. So, we’re dealing with a highly motivated Force, the Ukrainians against a force with very little if any motivation…. The Russian conscripts. And the ones that do understand the answer to that question, aren’t tremendously excited about it, either.
That was the difference in our own revolution. We were fighting for our homes. Our families. Personal motivation, indeed.
Whatever else this Russian attack on the Ukraine has done, it has ended for once and all, the arguments of the gun grabbers who have been telling us for generations now that the civilians don’t need”weapons of war” because they don’t stand a chance against the military anyway.
What’s going on there is the gun grabbers are definitely and correctly afraid of exactly the opposite being true. They’ve spend a lot of time the last hundred years or so trying to explain to us that the American revolution, we’re a bunch of farmers with pea shooters took down a supposedly massively Superior Force was nothing but a one-off. This conflict is one of many in history that exposes that argument for the garbage that it is.
The people making such arguments, never seem to take the human factor into consideration. Where leftist policies fail, that’s usually why. That’s why the Russian invasion is in the process of falling apart. Motivations on both sides of the DMZ. A massive amount of smug ineptitude on the part of the Kremlin is also present here and figures large in all of this, as it did with the British losses. But the human factor is the largest part of this…. The willingness to take advantage of that ineptitude.
The human factor, their motivations, the human ability when motivated… Both for good and for evil… our founders understood very well indeed and why they wrote the second amendment the way they did.