Funny enough the couple morons looking to get their name in the press are the ones taking pictures of a secure call with a president of a allied nation in a city that is surrounded by Putin's troops looking to kill him.
they do that shit, whether that is a real image or not...there are several "Persians" living in my area, i've talked to a lot of them, they seem surprised that we don't do shit like that here. If you are in Iran and you openly question the leadership, the Quran, or commit any of a myriad of moral "crimes" you get stoned, hung, burned alive....
Daines is just a fuckhead, but Rubio is vice chairman of the intelligence committee...a post he is clearly not qualified to fill, if this is how seriously he takes requests from foreign allies that are under attack...and no amount of rationalization is going to justify it
tactical implies close range weapons, "Strategic" is for long range
Very common expression here too. Usually in the form of “this happened/was said and now he’s (acting like he is) the bitten dog”. Good to know it’s used in US too, I avoid sayings in almost every post, nearly impossible in my own langauge. Makes it very hard for immigrants to understand for example covid press conferences from PM. Recently when I posted about Macron I was about to post “you can leave your children behind with him”
the russians have 11 subs equipped with nuclear missiles. we (NATO and the U.S.) have at least 22.I question does it really matter? Either way we’re fucked at the push of the first button.
as far as anyone knows, they only ever built the one they dropped as a test...it would indeed be bad if they had a stockpile of them
EVERY example he gives is a fallacy of some kind..
He must have been a lot of fun in debate club.
Believe it or not w/the folly the Russian military has shockingly shown the world,BUT I think the Russians have recently modernized their ICBM's think the NATO code word is SATAN and it's brand new,The US has come to terms w/the ridiculous use of nukes and has been trying to de-emphasize them in favor of precision conventional weaponry,thus we haven't been developing new nukes w/much emphasis until recently looking at our aging triad and deciding to modernize due to Russia's new deployed systems and intelligence indicating China is about to go in big on new nuke developement. Putin has been strutting like a proud rooster mentioning them several times even before this crisis.
The SSBN's are the most survivable aspect of nuclear deterence, a captain of a trident submarine can launch 24 missiles ,each missile w/MIRV carries up to 8 warheads each for a max of 192 nuclear warheads,each about 220 kilotons,ONE boat can pretty much end civilization. The game between detection by surface and hunter subs is basically a war up to the point where no one releases weapons and has been going on stealthily since the late 50's early 60's.,it's all about noise.One Russian sub,theoretically,can end life as we know it.
AS ICBM's have become more accurate,yield has gone down,the megaton yields are products of the 50's and 60's
I like it. "You said or did this and now YOU are acting like the bitten dog." I will use it. Thanks. Its a great response to jerks who cry grievance whenever they run into opposition to their jerk ways. "Acting like they were bitten".Very common expression here too. Usually in the form of “this happened/was said and now he’s (acting like he is) the bitten dog”. Good to know it’s used in US too, I avoid sayings in almost every post, nearly impossible in my own langauge. Makes it very hard for immigrants to understand for example covid press conferences from PM. Recently when I posted about Macron I was about to post “you can leave your children behind with him”
Anyway, I completely understand the reluctance and sensitivity of sending US troops or US going directly to war. I read several articles about how Biden administration was surprised to see the EU’s fast and united cooperation against Russia. Some explain it by the fact many countries here were occupied not that long ago and the US hasn’t experienced that. Sure, both my grandparents barely survived the last world war, I’m daily reminded by war memorials and series, movies, docus etc, but what we don‘t have recent experience with is soldiers returning in coffins or wheelchairs. When we think of “veterans”, we think of 80+ year old Canadians above all, not of hundreds of thousands of relatively young men and women with ptsd. They’re not wrong though, it’s like some people here see it a second chance to beat up Hitler.
They like many American billionaire's consider themselves global citizens and every country welcomes them and their money. Many of these Russians looked at these yachts as security and a portable home outside Russia incase of trouble with Vlad or other shit. They could live comfortably on their stashed money in the west cruising to friendly ports of call in nice places. All that turned to shit overnight, they lost their Yacht's (mansions) and their cash abroad and are now trapped with Putin in Russia and he will be bleed them white of any remaining money like an old fashioned commie. Life sucks sometimes, for the people in Ukraine too.
I wonder about unintended consequences. The Chinese act for their not-always-transparent reasons.Here is an idea that might be considered by the state department. A UN force of Chinese troops (peace keepers) would guarantee humanitarian corridors in Ukraine. This might appeal to China, they're always looking for good PR, would put the heat on Vlad, show case their military and there would be Chinese troops in a western country for a change! Why Xi could even get a Nobel peace prize out of the deal!