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At the end of the day, yes. They aren't NATO. This was always about making Russia bleed to take Ukraine, and destroy as much of their shit as possible in the process. This is the spark that will re-arm Europe, and the wall will go back up. This war will be fought economically. Hopefully. I really really hope. Because all the politicians are in fact stupid children. EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm saying sending western troops to fight for Ukraine is dumb. Sending more money/equipment is par for the course. Also Moldovia is fucked too.

Well color me the asshole. I didn't put that together. Sheesh..... I'm blaming a lack of sleep and flying across the country very early in the morning. In any event, very much in agreement then. They may have bit off a bit too much, we'll see.

I suspect this is mainly a message to their own population. Secondarily could be about putting the rest of region between a rock and hard place when Israel goes asking for overflight.

The dumber point of this is that higher costs to oil and natural gas on federal land will predominantly affect offshore production. And the rapid expansion capability within the US system is private land fracking. So this move is really just incentivizing increased investment into/growth of fracking.

Your retards are more retarded than my retards!

State is completely incapable of competent operational planning.

Or it was just jihadis doing what they do. Good grief.

Surface level (and national) statistics like this are incredibly bad at telling a reader anything useful. Unless you're only interested in making a political point. For instance, what sectors are currently growth sectors that have shit loads of job openings? According to Marketwatch, almost 75% of job gains in the past year have been in government, healthcare and hotels/restaurants. At least some of that space is solid low skill/education opportunity. If you have been paying attention to the tech space, a LOT of jobs are being lost there. A laid off white collar tech firm worker is extremely unlikely to look for a job in hotels/restaurants space. Which is all to say, immigrants taking Americans' jobs may or may not be true in a given area, but to claim it on a national level is simply an unsupportable claim based on the data presented. So old Steven Camarota either doesn't understand math, or he's just beating a drum..... (headline google result:https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/opinion/job-gains-are-going-to-immigrants-and-keeping-young-us-born-men-out-of-the-workforce/)

Bravo sir, well said.

This is standard retired Army general nonsense. Translation: give the USAF's money to the Army. There is a cousin of this in each service's brand of retired general.

Contracting issues/protest. They got laid off because there is no contract in place.

Could just as easily be the shit on top burning (countermeasure dispensers, ammo cans, whatever else is strapped on top) I'm certainly no M-1 expert, but it doesn't look like flame/smoke pouring out of a critical opening in the hull.

There are two John Mayers. The one that makes a ton of money making teenage girls all mushy inside. And then there is the one that makes blues, and no one pays attention to that one. The second one is actually very good. The first one is kindy creepy and past his expiration date. Only Taylor Swift is capable of staying an angsty teenager well into the thirties.

The lawsuit is amusing. On ADA grounds it is claiming that "knowingly engaging in prostitution with HIV" as an aggravating factor (essentially bumping up to a sexual assault) is discriminatory against a person living with HIV. While side stepping that this particular disability is contagious. Regardless, an equivalence to sexual assault (what the Tennessee law does) is akin to attempted murder criminally.

My point is this isn't a political policy/economic wonk led ideological push. Bernie Sanders did not gain popularity because he really won people over on the logic of socialism. He gained popularity based on emotional sentiment of the people, "fuck those rich assholes." Let me re-phrase: The current descent into looney toons land is not because politicians are leading us there. The body of the people has divided into tribes, politicians want to get elected and playing to tribal sentiment and feeding the hate machine is a time tested method. For perspective: my view of our current insanity is heavily influenced by reading "The Revolt of the Public"