June 26, 2025Jun 26 14 hours ago, Mlodj said:Russian tanks and rocket launchers used to be the most highly valued target for Ukrainian drones — but no longer.The whole reason why they do that is that the units with the highest points get better equipment and they get it faster.I understand why they're doing it, but they're falling into the age old trap of not spreading the wealth. At the end of the day, you're only as fast as your slowest.
June 27, 2025Jun 27 A financial crisis and significant economic problems contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Could history be repeating itself?
June 28, 2025Jun 28 1 hour ago, Procus said:A financial crisis and significant economic problems contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Could history be repeating itself?Thank you Biden.
June 28, 2025Jun 28 Russia's finance minister is about the only competent figurehead in the Russian government and is the sole reason they've been able to stay as solvent as they have, but they're at the end of their rope.Of course, additional sanctions would complete demolish them to the point where we'd see Putin's body being drug through the street, but we have a POTUS who is advocating not doing that.If sanctions are reversed, you're looking at a Russian invasion of Estonia in a few years.
June 30, 2025Jun 30 well trump has to make up to putin somehow considering he just bombed his, i mean iran's nuke plants.
June 30, 2025Jun 30 1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:Nothing to see hereAbout a month or so ago, Trump and his sycophants said that they would know in two weeks if Putin’s Russia really wanted peace or not. The Russians have amped up their attacks against civilian targets with every stage of peace talks to show what the think about peace. Everyone needs to come to grips that Trump is a Putin boot licker. There is just no other logical way of seeing it differently. To lift sanctions after all of the rhetoric and getting nothing from Russia is laughable. This whole Trump ordeal is the greatest con-job in history. Gotta give him credit for pulling of the biggest heist ever… and some of his people still cheer him on while losing all kinds of benefits they needed to just make it through on a daily basis. 🤦🏻🤦🏻
June 30, 2025Jun 30 1 hour ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:About a month or so ago, Trump and his sycophants said that they would know in two weeks if Putin’s Russia really wanted peace or not. The Russians have amped up their attacks against civilian targets with every stage of peace talks to show what the think about peace. Everyone needs to come to grips that Trump is a Putin boot licker. There is just no other logical way of seeing it differently.To lift sanctions after all of the rhetoric and getting nothing from Russia is laughable. This whole Trump ordeal is the greatest con-job in history. Gotta give him credit for pulling of the biggest heist ever… and some of his people still cheer him on while losing all kinds of benefits they needed to just make it through on a daily basis. 🤦🏻🤦🏻It's like watching somebody rob a bank and you can't do a single thing about it.
June 30, 2025Jun 30 Even if you don't care for Russia, it's hard to dislike this decision - unless you're that 'genius' here who thinks the Satanic Temple isn't really satanic
June 30, 2025Jun 30 3 hours ago, DaEagles4Life said:Nothing to see hereYeah. The acting Treasury secretary signed it on 10 January. When did Trump take office again?
July 2, 2025Jul 2 Author North Korea to Reinforce Moscow With 30,000 Troops, Officials SayPyongyang is reportedly going to triple its troop deployments against Ukraine by sending another 25,000 to 30,000 troops to reinforce the 11,000 troops sent last year.https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55585
July 2, 2025Jul 2 7 hours ago, Mlodj said:They're an additional capability, but they're not the wonder weapon the tech bro class makes them out to be.They're used in Ukraine because both sides lack arty and mortar shells, and eastern Ukraine is wide open flat farmland (think sight lines of up to 4000m in some cases). So, while drones work there, they're not going to work in a place like SE Asia, where the terrain is mountainous, the vegetation is thick, and the weather is wet.The success rate of drone warfare is actually quite abysmal.2 hours ago, Mike030270 said:It's Elridge Colby who made the decision. Guy is a complete and total buffoon. He's a bizzaro version of Jake Sullivan.He whines about "our stockpiles", but anytime CENTCOM sees a terrorist driving a Toyota Hilux they launch a hundred TLAMs at it.He's the kind of intellectual who can read a spreadsheet, but can't understand the nuance between having a stockpile of weapons and what actual deterrence looks like.
July 2, 2025Jul 2 5 minutes ago, Bill said:It's Elridge Colby who made the decision. Guy is a complete and total buffoon. He's a bizzaro version of Jake Sullivan.He whines about "our stockpiles", but anytime CENTCOM sees a terrorist driving a Toyota Hilux they launch a hundred TLAMs at it.He's the kind of intellectual who can read a spreadsheet, but can't understand the nuance between having a stockpile of weapons and what actual deterrence looks like.so only the best, right?
July 2, 2025Jul 2 1 hour ago, Alpha_TATEr said:so only the best, right?Last year he got into a twitter pissing match with the NatSec community, particularly the pro-Ukraine factions, and got shown his a**. Guy doesn't comprehend how supporting one avenue can deter another. The problem is that even if we gave nothing at all to Ukraine, we'd still be in the hole when it comes to China. I'm curious about what morons used as a timeline benchmark before the life of Jesus, since it seems that they all like to think any war that has ever started will be over by the next Christmas.It's irritating because there's a lot of qualified voices on both sides of the aisle when it comes to defense policy, but outside of 2016-2018 when the republican establishment was propping up Trump, we haven't had any effective people leading foreign policy since we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
July 4, 2025Jul 4 On 7/2/2025 at 3:28 PM, Bill said:... we haven't had any effective people leading foreign policy since we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait.There is an an adage that American politicians run for, and win, presidential office based on domestic issues and then quickly get smacked in the face by international issues.
July 4, 2025Jul 4 1 hour ago, Mlodj said:There is an an adage that American politicians run for, and win, presidential office based on domestic issues and then quickly get smacked in the face by international issues.100%. In modern times domestic issues are mainly the legislature's problems to solve, but they're inept and people don't hold them accountable.GHWB the absolute best person we could have ever dreamed of to help shape things in a post Cold War world, and of course some a-hole Texan fractured the vote and we got stuck with Clinton.I'm pretty sure now though the Overton Window on effective US foreign policy has closed and we're going to be stuck with a 19th Century redux for the foreseeable future.
July 4, 2025Jul 4 Author Window safety in Russia should be a higher priority Top Russian Oil Executive Dies in Moscow Window Fall https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-oil-executive-dies-moscow-window-fall-2094669
July 4, 2025Jul 4 6 hours ago, Bill said:GHWB the absolute best person we could have ever dreamed of to help shape things in a post Cold War world, and of course some a-hole Texan fractured the vote and we got stuck with Clinton.Yet another reason Dallas sucks.
July 7, 2025Jul 7 On 6/30/2025 at 12:01 PM, Procus said:Even if you don't care for Russia, it's hard to dislike this decision - unless you're that 'genius' here who thinks the Satanic Temple isn't really satanic I'd be willing to bet rubles that there never was any temple.
July 7, 2025Jul 7 1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:Gutsy move, sitting next to a window in Putin's Russia.
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