Comments by "Pantherparatrooper" (@506thparatrooper) on "DW News"
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@ValdeJorgensen No kidding! I'm an American Soldier with 29 years experience. I understand lethality as well as combat conditions and the skills necessary to survive. I worked with those supporting Soldiers, transportation, cooks and medics, that often found themselves in very serious combat conditions. While wise to do so, It is not true equality if men are expected to occupy those positions incurring 80% of the casualties, ie the infantry, Special Forces, combat engineers, etc, while "protecting" female Soldiers in much less lethal positions. Feminists have argued for years a woman can do everything a man can do. Now when that theory is put to the test requiring women to be conscripted for military service, women really can't. This is not an argument against women serving in the military but a reality check on the absurd claims advancing feminism.
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@dakaodo What personal experience with the military, combat support or logistics qualifies you to speak as an "expert" on "less physically imposing specimens", force multipliers and necessary skill requirements? Maybe personal experience with the "less physically imposing secimen"/ nerdly men. You are right there are many support personnel for the combat soldier. Many of those positions, helicopter mechanics, armor mechanics, ammunition loaders, construction, require total body strength and not just upper body strength to perform their tasks. Ironically, many of these supply and support, logistics, transportation, drone operators, counter battery etc positions are contracted out on the modern battlefield. Few of those contract positions are females.
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@mugin11223344 I would agree with you but then we would both be wrong. Based on your comments, you are obviously not watching videos provided by frontline Ukrainian or Israeli Soldiers in modern combat. Your certainly not watching combatives training videos between male or female Soldiers. There is a reason you served in Armored infantry which uses armor or trucks to carry your food, ammo, wet & cold weather gear, mortar rounds, mortar tubes, base plates and etc. Depending on the mission, weather and duration, those airborne and regular infantry your armored infantry supported depending on the mission, weather and duration, carry 45-100 plus pound combat loads. All professional armies train hand to hand and close quarters combat because it still happens regularly in urban and modern battlefields. Most of my 29 years in the US Army were with airborne and infantry units. The ratio in the American Army is 19% female to 81% male. In 2020, 84% of females failed the US Army's infantry fitness test compared to 30%. The US Army implemented a new Army wide Physical Fitness test that raised female standards closer to male standards, and over 70% of the females failed compared to 20%. The Army lowered the standards again to retain females.
Any professional and modern Army conducts hand to hand training because no matter how rare it is victory came down to savage hand to hand or bayonet fighting.
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@sodaaccount Exactly, equal work for equal pay. In the US military, women were always paid equal pay but have never had to provide equal work. Quickest way to get women' equal pay is fill the dangerous jobs, oil rigs, construction, and waste removal hence most of the highest paying jobs with 50% females. These dangerous jobs are why male deaths account for 90% of job related deaths. Like the combat arms in the military, it will never happen. As the egalitarian countries of Sweden and Finland demonstrate, when given a choice women choose nurturing jobs like nursing, childcare, and elder care jobs. Unless your proposing the government chooses peoples jobs like communism, it will never happen.
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@KURENANI After 31 years of marriage, three sisters, three daughters, mother, working for and with multiple women, I rarely found women pushed to do anything. There were certain obstacles to women historically enjoying equal opportunity. Much of what you call stereotypes are natural feminine and masculine traits. In the egalitarian Slavic countries, Sweden and Finland, women given maximum encouragement and opportunity to do whatever a man does, women eagerly gravitate toward more nurturing and caring professions like nursing, teaching, day care, etc and away from more dangerous professions filled with men. Also, in America women in their 30's, 40's and 50's lived "stereotype free lives" pursuing education and careers first for decades as feminism taught, who now express remorse at not prioritizing relationships, marriage and families. Many of these are highly successful women but they feel empty and unfulfilled. The number of women suffering depression and loneliness is spiking. Those feelings and desires are not imprinted by society but inscribed by the Creator in every cell in their bodies. Given another 10-20 years, I believe there will a resurgence of more feminine and masculine roles. No amount of time will enable women to fight in sustained combat like a man.
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As a recently retired American Soldier, 29 years of service, with two assignments in Germany 2013-2017, including on the Commanding General's U.S. Army Europe's staff officer's staff, I admire and honor Secretary General Stoltenberg's incredible diplomatic skills, intellect, integrity and personal sacrifice.
Ashamedly, DW's correspondent joins the majority in the western media trashing President Trump's justified criticism of most NATO countries lack of defense spending for decades. She implies President Trump is the source of almost every NATO issue from Stoltenberg's contract extensions to complicating the selection of a successor. In her outburst, ie sudden release of emotion, DW's NATO correspondent ignores decades of every American President since President Eisenhower berating the majority of European NATO nations for their consistently reckless cuts in defense spending and manufacturing capabilities. The EU gladly left it to the American taxpayer to make up the difference like America covering 70% of NATO's expenditures in 2022 according to NATO. Recent historical events vindciate President Trump for all his "outbursts". Rarely one to learn from their mistakes and heed any American President's warnings, Europe to this day sends millions of Euros in oil and LNG profits to Russia. Ignoring President Trump's valid criticism that Russia used those European Euros to ramp up its defense modernization & capabilities, most EU countries cut their military forces and capabilities for decades.
As Stoltenberg's stellar service demonstrates, as well as history, there is no room for EU politics nor identity politics to determine the best candidate to replace Stoltenberg. Determine the most qualified candidates and then select the best candidate. I favor Kaja Kallas not for her sex which should not matter. Instead, she brings a much neglected Baltic focus too often ignored because of Western Europe's indifference towards the all to real Russian threat. Like Stoltenberg, she has a proven depth of geopolitical knowledge and ability to work with other nations as demonstrated during her time as Estonia's MP in the EU parliament and as Estonia's current Prime Minister. Of all the Europeans, those NATO countries bordering Russia and once occupied by Russia have no illusions Russia's imperial plans. They also know from decades of experience the difference between wise prevention and provocation. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, is another wise choice. Candidates from nations whose defense spending does not fulfill NATO's agreed on 2% should be disqualified on principle.
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