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Confronting your enemy in anger feeds your ego, but diminishes your chance of success. – Shon Mehta	added by anonymous 21 days ago
The most powerful weapon a person possesses is forgiveness, for if your enemy has been forgiven, how can they lead you to sin against the Lord your God? – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 3 months ago
I rather have an honest enemy than a dishonest Friend – Christen Kuikoua	added by anonymous 4 months ago
If you have a high enough number of these kinds of asymmetrical weapon systems that survive the initial attack, you can keep most of your fighting capabilities intact and stop the enemy from conducting a landing operation. – Admiral Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He is an enemy of democracy, and he doesn’t deserve to be in that office of a speaker of the house any longer. – State Rep. Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery, in particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country. – Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I turned and just fell on my knees and I just screamed with the most agonizing cry, i didn’t know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy. – Valeria Ponomarova	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Kim Jong Un examined the actual war response posture of the 8th fire assault company under the unit charged with striking the enemy’s operation airport in the direction of the western front. – Rodong Sinmun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t believe China is an enemy of America. – Howard Schultz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens. – Madeline Hsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People have realized that the enemy’s problem is not woman, life, or freedom, rather, they want to take our independence. – Ebrahim Raisi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The real enemy is going to be that ice, this could potentially be a pretty dangerous situation. – Dave Parker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy. – Vadym Skibitsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Just look at the Russia-Ukraine war, there are so many types of weapons used. When does a soldier ever have to resort to a bayonet to attack their enemy ? I think that was really outdated. we were ordered to memorize a series of slogans. – Adam Yu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think bayonet training was just a waste of time, because I really could n’t think how we could put that into practice, just look at the Russia-Ukraine war, there are so many types of weapons used. When does a soldier ever have to resort to a bayonet to attack their enemy ? I think that was really outdated. – Frank Liu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s a matter of identity and self-preservation. We must identify our enemy too. – Parishioner Olha Mazurets	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Prospectively, as a key offensive weapon of our military forces, it will carry out its own combat mission to overwhelm the enemy. – Kim Jong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we believe their words, they really think that the CIA is trying to facilitate a revolution in Russia and that Alexey Navalny is an agent from the CIA, they deploy huge amounts of resources and effort not to let the revolution happen in Russia. They are looking for a foreign enemy. – Mikhail Sokolov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I imagine that we can do much more damage behind enemy lines than Ukraine has done, all the logistics, all the convoys, are going to be constantly under attack. – Rene Toomse	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don't want to poopoo them. Many of them made decisions before( Dobbs), but sometimes women can be their own worst enemy and not support each other. Nothing against the men candidates because they're great allies and we can't do it alone, but I think it's important to have women in leadership. For too long, we've had men making decisions about our bodies. – Kristen Arrington	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Confronting your enemy in anger feeds your ego, but diminishes your chance of success.

– Shon Mehta

added by anonymous
21 days ago

The most powerful weapon a person possesses is forgiveness, for if your enemy has been forgiven, how can they lead you to sin against the Lord your God?

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
3 months ago

I rather have an honest enemy than a dishonest Friend

– Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
4 months ago

If you have a high enough number of these kinds of asymmetrical weapon systems that survive the initial attack, you can keep most of your fighting capabilities intact and stop the enemy from conducting a landing operation.

– Admiral Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He is an enemy of democracy, and he doesn’t deserve to be in that office of a speaker of the house any longer.

– State Rep. Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery, in particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country.

– Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I turned and just fell on my knees and I just screamed with the most agonizing cry, i didn’t know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy.

– Valeria Ponomarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Kim Jong Un examined the actual war response posture of the 8th fire assault company under the unit charged with striking the enemy’s operation airport in the direction of the western front.

– Rodong Sinmun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t believe China is an enemy of America.

– Howard Schultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s definitely sort of reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering, there are ways in which it resonates with what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, where regardless of citizenship, regardless of nativity, they were racially categorized as enemy aliens.

– Madeline Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People have realized that the enemy’s problem is not woman, life, or freedom, rather, they want to take our independence.

– Ebrahim Raisi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The real enemy is going to be that ice, this could potentially be a pretty dangerous situation.

– Dave Parker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy.

– Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just look at the Russia-Ukraine war, there are so many types of weapons used. When does a soldier ever have to resort to a bayonet to attack their enemy ? I think that was really outdated. we were ordered to memorize a series of slogans.

– Adam Yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think bayonet training was just a waste of time, because I really could n’t think how we could put that into practice, just look at the Russia-Ukraine war, there are so many types of weapons used. When does a soldier ever have to resort to a bayonet to attack their enemy ? I think that was really outdated.

– Frank Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a matter of identity and self-preservation. We must identify our enemy too.

– Parishioner Olha Mazurets

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prospectively, as a key offensive weapon of our military forces, it will carry out its own combat mission to overwhelm the enemy.

– Kim Jong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we believe their words, they really think that the CIA is trying to facilitate a revolution in Russia and that Alexey Navalny is an agent from the CIA, they deploy huge amounts of resources and effort not to let the revolution happen in Russia. They are looking for a foreign enemy.

– Mikhail Sokolov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I imagine that we can do much more damage behind enemy lines than Ukraine has done, all the logistics, all the convoys, are going to be constantly under attack.

– Rene Toomse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't want to poopoo them. Many of them made decisions before( Dobbs), but sometimes women can be their own worst enemy and not support each other. Nothing against the men candidates because they're great allies and we can't do it alone, but I think it's important to have women in leadership. For too long, we've had men making decisions about our bodies.

– Kristen Arrington

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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