Originally Posted by
METO Guido
Let's compare. At the time of Country Joe's epic sing along, we were at it good with the PRC, N Koreans and KGB Russians. Moon rockets. Upheaval in the streets. Endemic racism, poverty, rising drug use. I don’t know, seems familiar. I do know the answer I’d give any attempt to involve me in this blood feud.
If memory serves the main theme line from the song was:
"1,2,3, what are we fightin for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn"
Any time a People doesn't believe in or know why they go to war, things probably won't go particularly well.
Medieval Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun identified the cohesion of a People (and hence its fighting effectiveness) as critical to the outcome of war. He labeled it asabiyyah.
Ukraine People know exactly what they are fighting for....and why.
They have asabiyyah.>>>The Russians don't..