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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2021, 09:19:07 PM »
The only downside to the US not getting involved is that if we don't China and/or Russia (or maybe Cuba) will.
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2021, 09:21:32 PM »
The only downside to the US not getting involved is that if we don't China and/or Russia (or maybe Cuba) will.

It appears Cuba is having some trouble of their own.
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2021, 09:22:46 PM »
The only downside to the US not getting involved is that if we don't China and/or Russia (or maybe Cuba) will.

I wonder if the Dominican Republic is doing anything, other than beefing up their border guards of course. ;)

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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2021, 09:57:37 PM »
I wonder if the Dominican Republic is doing anything, other than beefing up their border guards of course. ;)

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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2021, 10:28:45 PM »
Fuuuuuuuuck that.

I've been to Port-au-Prince once in uniform. There's nothing there we need, and nothing we can fix.

Did you get a ride from us? My last ship LHA-4 went down there to pick up a bunch of engineer types, SEABEEs and some Army. I had not enough shots to go ashore, didn't see anything from anchorage that made me want to go either.
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2021, 11:55:49 AM »
The only downside to the US not getting involved is that if we don't China and/or Russia (or maybe Cuba) will.

Used to be that the US would deploy troops in order to keep socialism from taking root, now it seems likely the opposite is true . . .
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2021, 12:18:12 PM »
Did you get a ride from us? My last ship LHA-4 went down there to pick up a bunch of engineer types, SEABEEs and some Army. I had not enough shots to go ashore, didn't see anything from anchorage that made me want to go either.

Nah, we took the Army boats over. Supposed to deliver humanitarian supplies, ended in a shitshow that had my HMMWV cursed with a chicken sacrifice.

Used to be that the US would deploy troops in order to keep socialism from taking root, now it seems likely the opposite is true . . .

And how'd those deployments work out for us?  Communism is the collective form of heroin: Doesn't matter how much outside help there is, until the addict wants to quit, they won't.

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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #32 on: July 12, 2021, 01:46:05 PM »
Nah, we took the Army boats over. Supposed to deliver humanitarian supplies, ended in a shitshow that had my HMMWV cursed with a chicken sacrifice.



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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #34 on: August 03, 2021, 08:49:08 AM »
Wait for it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBkGbMlXw0M
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #35 on: August 15, 2021, 08:29:34 AM »
And poor old Haiti gets sucker punched

More than 300 killed after 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Haiti
https://www.wlky.com/article/earthquake-strikes-near-haiti/37307781
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #36 on: August 15, 2021, 08:49:31 AM »
I'm sure the Clinton's will be along to save the day...
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #37 on: August 15, 2021, 07:38:11 PM »
The news tonight had the toll at over 700.
And with a tropical storm on its way too.
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #38 on: August 15, 2021, 08:43:57 PM »
The news tonight had the toll at over 700.
And with a tropical storm on its way too.
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man, talk about bad luck - what a bummer it must be to be trapped in that place
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #39 on: August 15, 2021, 09:30:48 PM »
And poor old Haiti gets sucker punched

More than 300 killed after 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Haiti
https://www.wlky.com/article/earthquake-strikes-near-haiti/37307781

How many die each day just from it being a *expletive deleted*it hole?

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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #40 on: August 16, 2021, 01:39:07 PM »
Nah, we took the Army boats over. Supposed to deliver humanitarian supplies, ended in a shitshow that had my HMMWV cursed with a chicken sacrifice.


Please, tell us more....   :O

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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #41 on: April 25, 2023, 08:56:52 AM »
Sounds like they're getting fed up

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This is the horrifying moment suspected Haitian gang members beg for mercy before a vigilante lynch mob stones and burns them alive.

The mob beat and burned 13 men to death with gasoline-soaked tyres on Monday after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince said.

Six more burned bodies were seen in a nearby neighbourhood later on in the day, and witnesses claimed to have seen police kill them before residents set them on fire. News agencies said this could not be verified.

Moment 'gang members' beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones them and burns them alive among petrol-soaked tyres in the streets in Haiti
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #42 on: April 25, 2023, 09:12:55 AM »
Sounds like they're getting fed up

Moment 'gang members' beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones them and burns them alive among petrol-soaked tyres in the streets in Haiti
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html


And the people of Democratically run cities across the United States start taking notes...
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #43 on: April 25, 2023, 04:21:23 PM »

And the people of Democratically run cities across the United States start taking notes...

Wouldn't be the first time Democrats got nervous about a Haitian-style revolt spreading to their own plantations.
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Re: Haiti asks for U.S. troops to help stabilize the country
« Reply #44 on: April 25, 2023, 04:47:41 PM »
I wonder if it was a better place when Papa Doc and then Baby Doc Duvalier ran it.
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