Well, howdy there internet people, let's go again.

So today we are going to talk about the hard part because it's a phrase that I've said

a few times and somebody recently pointed out that while I have said Russia hasn't gotten to the hard part yet,

I haven't really explained what the hard part is or proven that the

hard part is actually harder than what they're dealing with right now.

And I thought about it and they're right.

I haven't. I've repeatedly said it, but I haven't really demonstrated in any way.

So today we're going to kind of go through the looking

glass on this one and we're going to talk about what happens when you hit the

hard part and we're going to use the US in Iraq as an example because it is it's a pretty comparable situation.

Okay, so, March 19th, 2003, the Coalition Air Game started.

March 20th, 2003. The ground game starts. May 1st, just a little more than a month later.

Mission accomplished.

Y'all remember that?

The banner on the U.S.S. Lincoln, Bush standing there, declaring an end to major combat operations in Iraq.

That was the invasion.

That was the invasion.

That's the part that Russia a year later is still in.

During this phase, the United States lost, I want to say 139 troops. The thousands of others were lost after the invasion. They were lost after the invasion, the war, quote,

and during the occupation, the hard part.

Rushes in a very, very similar situation.

The resolve of the people in Ukraine has steeled

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