Originally posted by
[email protected] 6 2003, 09:24 PM
Loknar if the situation was reversed and it was the USSR no I would not support the USSR, they would be wrong too. as for grenada and finland, im not shore what happened their (a bit of history im not up on) but I cannot speak for everyone just myself, and I base each act on its merits, if I think the US is in the right, I WILL say so.
Im not racist against the US, im just generally against its policies/actions.
P.S. if you have any links(as non biased in either direction) on Grenada and Finland id apreciate it.
Sure
I have found www.onwar.com to be unbiased source of information.
http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/index.htm (Index)
http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/fax/finla...ssofinn1939.htm (http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/fax/finland/frussofinn1939.htm) (The Winter war)
State Entry Exit Combat Forces Population Losses
Finnland 1939 1940 80000 4000000 40000
Russia 1939 1940 4000000 172000000 50000
Russo-Finnish War... also called WINTER WAR (Nov. 30, 1939-March 12, 1940), war waged by the Soviet Union against Finland at the beginning of World War II, following the conclusion of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Aug. 23, 1939). After Finland had refused to grant the Soviets a naval base and other concessions in the fall of 1939, Soviet troops totaling about one million men attacked Finland on several fronts. The heavily outnumbered Finns put up a skillful and effective defense that winter, and the Red Army made little progress. In February 1940, however, the Soviets used massive artillery bombardments to breach the Mannerheim Line (the Finns' southern defensive barrier stretching across the Karelian Isthmus), after which they streamed northward across the isthmus to the Finnish city of Viipuri (Vyborg). Unable to secure help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March 12, 1940, agreeing to the cession of western Karelia and to the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.
http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/gap/grena...grenada1983.htm (http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/gap/grenada/fgrenada1983.htm) (Grenada)
At dawn, on October 25, 1983, US Marines, Army Rangers, Navy SEal commandos and elements of the 82nd Airborne Division invaded Grenada, a member of the British Commonwealth. The announced mission of the American suprise attack, in which troops from a number of Caribbean nations took part, was to ensure the safety of some 1,000 Americans, whose presence on Grenada (most were medical students) was considered endangered by the new marxist military government that had seized power from and murdered Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (1944-83) six days earlier. The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and Grenada's Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon (1935-) had requested US help to combat the growing influence of Cuba and other communist countries on the island. The small Grenadian army, assisted by Cuban soldiers and workers who were constructing a large airport at Point Salines, put up fierce resistance for several days, but were eventually overwhelmed by the invasion force, which had grown from about 1,200 to over 7,000. Numerous rebles fled to the interior jungles and kept fighting; within a month the leaders of the military government were arrested, and Cubans, Russians, North Koreans, Libyans, East Germans, Bulgarians and suspected Grenadian communists had been rounded up and put in a detention camp. By mid-December 1983, all US combat forces had left Grenada, and Scoon had appointed a nine-member advisory council to govern until elections could be held.