June 23, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: Still indulging fantasies about Russian failure? 1000 casualties per day now. The rate of attrition is unsustainable for both men and material. All this while Russia has committed no more than 15% of their forces. 200,000 allied forces (mainly Donetsk militia) has defeated 650,000 well dug-in, NATO trained and equipped army in 16 weeks. Astonishing! omfg these asinine sources you come up with armchair warlord makes alex jones look reputable. you truly are a weakling, betaboy.
June 23, 20223 yr So Germany is going to punish the Russians by shutting down their gas imports. They're going to show those damn Ruskies. As much as it might hurt, the greenie weenies will resort to firing up coal burning plants rather than continue funding the Russian war machine. There's just one problem. They get the bulk of their coal from...Russia! You can't make this crap up!
June 23, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: They get the bulk of their coal from...Russia! US coal mines will happily help our NATO allies.
June 23, 20223 yr Royal United Services Institute- The Return of Industrial Warfare Quote Conclusion The war in Ukraine demonstrates that war between peer or near-peer adversaries demands the existence of a technically advanced, mass scale, industrial-age production capability. The Russian onslaught consumes ammunition at rates that massively exceed US forecasts and ammunition production. For the US to act as the arsenal of democracy in defence of Ukraine, there must be a major look at the manner and the scale at which the US organises its industrial base. This situation is especially critical because behind the Russian invasion stands the world’s manufacturing capital – China. As the US begins to expend more and more of its stockpiles to keep Ukraine in the war, China has yet to provide any meaningful military assistance to Russia. The West must assume that China will not allow Russia to be defeated, especially due to a lack of ammunition. If competition between autocracies and democracies has really entered a military phase, then the arsenal of democracy must first radically improve its approach to the production of materiel in wartime. We're talking re-industrializing for massive armament production. An undertaking which requires at least 5-10 years to achieve. The U.S. military might to impose a uni-polar world is fiction and the Russian/Chinese know it.
June 23, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: US coal mines will happily help our NATO allies. Not enough. I'd love to see them try, though. Slash those regulations and pump out that dirty coal. Then tell us of the dangers of climate change.
June 23, 20223 yr 21 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: Not enough. I'd love to see them try, though. Slash those regulations and pump out that dirty coal. Then tell us of the dangers of climate change. We will burn whatever we need to burn over here. Get used to it.
June 23, 20223 yr 45 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: US coal mines will happily help our NATO allies. But the leftists won’t let that happen. Because it’s coal. And coal is on the neo-NSDAP white supremacy homophobic transphobic bigot naughty list.
June 23, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, TEW said: But the leftists won’t let that happen. Because it’s coal. And coal is on the neo-NSDAP white supremacy homophobic transphobic bigot naughty list. Coal was killed by cheap natural gas. Again: four years of deregulation under Trump did nothing to expand coal production despite campaign promises.
June 23, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Coal was killed by cheap natural gas. Again: four years of deregulation under Trump did nothing to expand coal production despite campaign promises. I’m not the one saying coal is going to be shipped to Europe. Even if coal miners wanted to, and Europe wanted the imports, and it was economically viable, leftist politics wouldn’t allow it.
June 23, 20223 yr NATO nations can always increase exports. Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of coal during 2021. Australia: US$43.9 billion (35.7% of total coal exports) Indonesia: $26.5 billion (21.6%) Russia: $17.6 billion (14.3%) United States: $9.7 billion (7.9%) South Africa: $6.08 billion (4.9%) Canada: $6.05 billion (4.9%) Colombia: $4.4 billion (3.6%) Mongolia: $1.9 billion (1.5%) Mozambique: $1.1 billion (0.9%) Kazakhstan: $929 million (0.8%) Netherlands: $882.5 million (0.7%) Poland: $828 million (0.7%) Philippines: $596.4 million (0.5%) Mainland China: $419.4 million (0.3%) Vietnam: $315.1 million (0.3%)
June 23, 20223 yr 19 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: We will burn whatever we need to burn over here. Get used to it. Knock yourself out, chief. Dust off these bad boys while you're at it.
June 24, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the guidance system of that particular missile was upside down. The Russians had an issue a few years ago on one of their rockets sending a GLONASS satellite to outer space. Two of the three gyroscopes were installed upside down. And by upside down I mean there's an arrow pointing up to tell you how to orient it and it was put in upside down. And by upside down I also mean it only was supposed to fit in one orientation and was oriented upside down. And by only one way to orient it I mean the engineer actually hammered it in so it would fit the incorrect orientation. And by hammered it in I mean applying repeated heavy strikes to a delicate navigational instrument designed to precisely calculate how to send a rocket into near earth orbit on a specific trajectory.
June 24, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Bill said: It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the guidance system of that particular missile was upside down. The Russians had an issue a few years ago on one of their rockets sending a GLONASS satellite to outer space. Two of the three gyroscopes were installed upside down. And by upside down I mean there's an arrow pointing up to tell you how to orient it and it was put in upside down. And by upside down I also mean it only was supposed to fit in one orientation and was oriented upside down. And by only one way to orient it I mean the engineer actually hammered it in so it would fit the incorrect orientation. And by hammered it in I mean applying repeated heavy strikes to a delicate navigational instrument designed to precisely calculate how to send a rocket into near earth orbit on a specific trajectory. By upside down do you mean the engineer did a keg stand before installing the gyroscope?
June 24, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, TEW said: By upside down do you mean the engineer did a keg stand before installing the gyroscope? I don't know but the rocket sure as hell did.
June 24, 20223 yr In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart After months of sanctions that have made critical repair parts difficult to access, aircraft operators are running out of options. https://www.wired.com/story/in-russia-western-planes-are-falling-apart/ Sucks to be Russia.
June 24, 20223 yr https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/article/anchorage-daily-news-an-alaskan-spent-2-months-training-troops-in-ukraine-now-hes-pushing-for-defense-policy-changes Interesting story, @Bill Former green beret from Alaska goes to Ukraine to help train. As an example of one of the challenges on the ground, javelin systems have disposable batteries that last only a few hours, and were not apparently being supplies with spares. Hayward identified substantial gaps between the foreign military equipment that is arriving in combat zones and Ukrainian soldiers’ abilities to use it effectively. Much of that disconnect, in Hayward’s experience, relates to training, logistics and tolerance for creative DIY solutions. As a prime example, one of Hayward’s main contributions to the Ukrainian cause may be tinkering together an alternate battery system for a complex missile launcher. His workaround involved wiring together spare motorcycle batteries into the kind of functional, jury-rigged configuration you might find in Bush Alaska. "Working with Ukrainians, I feel like I’m working with a nation of 42 million Alaskans,” Hayward said. ... What Hayward and Anton saw were expensive, powerful systems essentially sitting on shelves and in basements, with Ukrainian troops conserving them as a kind of Hail Mary tool soldiers might use as a desperate last resort if a tank approached, hoping they could figure out how to fire them in the moment of truth. "The team we were working with had one Javelin, and four more in storage,” Anton said of the first marine unit they linked up with. "They could have five, but only had one.” The two Americans viewed this as a logistics problem: They needed a surplus energy supply for Javelins that would allow soldiers to train on them before taking them into the field. Hayward figured out a workaround. He experimented with rigging together a locally ubiquitous energy source: rechargeable 12-volt motorcycle batteries. With some creative wiring and a plastic frame, he built a prototype that he then handed off to local engineers, who refined the model and made it scalable.
June 24, 20223 yr 15 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: US coal mines will happily help our NATO allies. Except we have a poitical war against the domestic coal industry. Well all domestic fossil fuels. But hey, we are very happy to support other countries Fossil fuel production.
June 24, 20223 yr 14 hours ago, DrPhilly said: We will burn whatever we need to burn over here. Get used to it. we are not there yet. The only way the left back tracks it's climate energy positions is if they come to the realization that they wont get elected pushing it, so far they are willing to die on that hill, with comments like "if you cant afford gas, buy an electric car" , playing the blame game - It's that Pesky Putins fault etc
June 24, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, Ipiggles said: we are not there yet. The only way the left back tracks it's climate energy positions is if they come to the realization that they wont get elected pushing it, so far they are willing to die on that hill, with comments like "if you cant afford gas, buy an electric car" , playing the blame game - It's that Pesky Putins fault etc Over here it is already a fact.
June 24, 20223 yr 15 hours ago, TEW said: I’m not the one saying coal is going to be shipped to Europe. Even if coal miners wanted to, and Europe wanted the imports, and it was economically viable, leftist politics wouldn’t allow it. WRONG! Its just not economically feasible source of energy anymore. If that changed, you can bet coal companies would be shipping it overseas.
June 24, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Ipiggles said: we are not there yet. The only way the left back tracks it's climate energy positions is if they come to the realization that they wont get elected pushing it, so far they are willing to die on that hill, with comments like "if you cant afford gas, buy an electric car" , playing the blame game - It's that Pesky Putins fault etc Coal companies can sell coal to whomever they want, and they will if it is economically feasible.
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