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Milton’s post is spot on. I don’t care how politically incorrect it is to say, the next war in Europe is more likely to be caused by Islam. Putin and Russia is a side show. A cultural civil war in Western Europe would be devastating but is absolutely a risk on the path they’re on. Islam is not compatible with western values. The sooner we realize that as a collective society, the better western society will be.

You are rationalizing an outcome you want while ignoring any counter points. You justify curtailing due process and habeas corpus, hand way away actual examples of government screw ups all around you. Bananas!

Hey y'all! If anyone was debating retaking the AFOQT, I highly-highly recommend. Last time I took the AFOQT, I had only a few hours and was in my Sophomore year of college. Retook it last Friday, and increased my pilot score to an 90 from a 47 originally. Bumped my PCSM with max hours (77) from a 64 to a 95! Definitely worth the couple months of studying (mostly for math, hah!). Excited to keep moving forward, now I just need to get my IFC finalized! Good luck everyone!

Don't conflate me with other people on this forum. I think that cop thread is a bunch of absolute nonsense. A few bad apples in an otherwise incredibly functioning system, but because the algorithm knows what makes you angry, once you go down that rabbit hole all you'll ever see are cops abusing people's rights. It's a waste of time, as are most exercises dystopian fantasy. I don't care about the school bombing either. Shit happens in war. If A single government official got on the news and high-fived each other and talked about how awesome it was to kill a bunch of little girls (you know, like the Palestinians do), then I'd have a problem. But since I'm a grown-up who served in the military, I know that collateral damage, even mistakenly, sometimes happens. Only children assume that you can build a system free from error or tragedy. Even more ironically, all this hand ringing over the girls school in a country that would happily slaughter my daughter as a heretic if they had half the chance. Don't forget if any of those girls had grown up to be raped in Iran, she'd have an honor killing to look forward to, if she was able to escape the Iranian justice system with proof that she wasn't a willing participant. Spare me. And as far as being disingenuous goes, that's pretty rich. Focusing on the negligible number of citizens who have been swept up in a solution (and not deported) that has been a long time coming is just a distraction. Just be honest, you don't want illegal aliens deported. That's fine, you are allowed a political opinion as much as anyone else, but trying to make it a morality play by over hyping the anomalies because you know that the core argument has no foundation in law, history, or morality, is weak tea.

we had FON in the strait before the war started our own DNI threat assessment said they weren’t pursuing a nuke before the war started It’s pretty wild to see some of you guys cheerlead the admin talking points verbatim and then say I’m the one blinded by political bias.. Two thirds of your list of “clear war objectives” are this admin claiming the win based on getting back to the status quo we already had. This is like intentionally starting a war with Cuba and then patting yourself on the back for achieving freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico.. like wtf are we even talking about. If I want to hear the admin party line bullshit I can just go listen to the press secretary, why not try presenting an independent thought that actually makes sense

Alots getting waived on the USAF side, atleast from what I've been told. My unit just sent a guy to UPT with partial color blindness and I met another guy going through IFF at 38. I say start working towards that goal now and in 3-5 years you could be in a prime spot to get picked up. If you can keep your record clean (both medically and judicially) with nothing new, start building hours and show leadership potential it could pan out. Nobody knows how the landscape will look by then but you can still stack the odds in your favor.

According to Google, Missouri's per capita income is $67,587 while GB's purchasing power parity (not exactly apples to apples, but pretty close) is $67,559. But however fast we are to throw rocks at Europe for their massive social welfare states, we need to be just as fast hitting ourselves over the nugget with those same rocks. GB spends an insane 22.1% of their GDP on social programs. By comparison, the United States only spends 22.7%. You read that right, the theoretical bastion of individual freedom and capitalism spends MORE on social spending per GDP than the UK, Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and New Zealand. Much of Europe spends more, like France at >30% and Germany at almost 27%. The west is taxing and nanny stating itself into irrelevance. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/social-expenditure-dashboard.html I think you're spot on with the rest of the social stuff, in which the EU leads the US by a good 6-9 years. Maybe beating the war drum might wake up the population to look around and wonder who would actually fight for the country. Walk down the streets of London and I don't see many eligible draftees, let alone ones that I would trust handing a gun and fighting next to me.

RIP Evil Him Him

No, it’s a link to one of the widow’s IG post about her husband.

In one sentence you go from shifting the goalpost to rationalizing eliminating all checks and balances on individual rights. You also keep talking about proving your citizenship, while defending eliminating the very forum where you would do that. On a board where there is an entire thread about cops being malicious screwups, in a world where the most technically advanced intelligence apparatus in history bombed a school, and you're ok with no built in check/balance? Bananas

Nice try. First two links have no deportations. Third link has no names, so the circumstances of the deportation cannot be determined, but every similar named case has been exactly the same. The illegal alien parents of a birthright citizen child(ren) elected to take their citizen children with them back to the country of their deportation. Not the same, and you know it. In fact there's already federal court precedence that removes qualified immunity from law enforcement officials that do not promptly release someone after proving their citizenship. Morales v. Chadbourne But it is a very compelling reason to join the rest of the world and the framers of the 14th amendment in abolishing the nonsense of birthright citizenship.

That's the 1994 Fairchild airshow crash.

The UK is having a special election, which could force out Starmer. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/most-important-election-since-1938-220311085.html

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_ICE-Report-revised-FINAL.pdf https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Groks answer attached.

Thank you so much. I'm pretty darn far within/underneath age 33, and ever further away from age 35; So I'm a little confused what @Blue and @brabus meant. I'm gonna give it a closer re-read. Really appreciate the help! Certainly, unless I either 1: get an FAA third class and/or 2: become an active duty USAF, USMC, USN, and/or USCG aviator first, they will probably never take me LOL. I never considered it until now and it would certainly be a last resort, but maybe they would take sport pilot? I kind of doubt it, and I'm sure someone here has asked before. I'll look around. Edit: https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23227-does-have-a-sports-pilot-license-help-or-is-it-ppl-or-nothing/

So from what I can read, this isn't a deal. This is a deal to make a deal. During the further deal making all sanctions (oil wise) are to be lifted and Iran is free to sell and receive funds from those sales. Ballistic missile capability isn't to be touched or discussed.

The reasoning behind Trump deciding not to drink is one of his few respectable qualities. The way he orders his steak (and choice of condiment) is added to his many unrespectable qualities.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-identifies-8-crew-members-killed-b-52-stratofortress-crash-edwards-air-force-base

that thread is helpful. No idea what my depth perception is. Remember when I said juveniel alcohol and marijuana use? The FAA requires months or year(s) of alcohol and drug testing to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for FAA class III or II or I, purportedly, allegedly. I was told to expect to spend at mininum $20,000 up to a ceiling of $100,000, and I could be denied. Google 'HIMS Program FAA AME' or something to that effect If I was a military pilot, I would have to get still do that if I wanted to convert to FAA ratings - I assume that entails asking your squadron commander if you can miss work to go to AA, pee in a cup, and get breathalyzers a couple times per month from a civilian facility. I thought the age ceiling for USAFR/AirNG was like ~40 or something absurd. I am in my mid 20s so maybe it is already too late! I was 22 when I started trying to do this, and I'm prior enlisted. I did not drag ass or take my time or procrastinate. I have been fighting BUMED (US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - they handle all of USN and USMC) to fix medical records, for over a year. Allegedly they finished last week but I haven't see the document yet Thank you for the information and your honest opinion! yup, might be a pipe dream but I'm not giving up anytime soon, but I'm happy to transparently get the information that it might be a pipe dream. I'm under zero illusions that I'm 'special'. Well, maybe special in how stubborn and/or how much of a pain in the ass and/or how ridiculous I am, but doubtful that I'm special in any other ways

I thought I got zero responses on my posts because I got no emails or notifications; I thought all I got was a laughing reaction. So happy I investigated further. Thanks for the comment! I'm a little younger than you're thinking but only by a smidgen. All your intuitions are right on the ball or just a hair off. I thought AirNG/USAFR is ~42 age limit? Even with prior service and a PPL, you think I'd have zero chance? I agree, even if I ever get granted a class 3 or class 2 or class 1, it could take year(s)!!! Might be a pipe dream! Won't stop me from at least trying, though! Correct, I haven't taken the AFOQT but I kicked ass at the USMC/USN/USCG test/their-equivalent-of-the-TBAS. I got a 95 ASVAB when I was 18. So maybe I have a shot... not sure. Thanks so much for your candor and not sugarcoating. very generous of you to comment. I may be biased and unrealistic with my advocating right now, but I will admit, it might be a bleak

it seems so bad that it doesn’t make sense. I’ll wait a little bit before screaming and panicking.

Nobody can say with a straight face that this deal is good. It’s essentially a reset back to before the conflict. Iran took heavy damage but is getting pumped a shit ton of cash in return. Vance is in a terrible spot if he’s looking to run.

I'm not sure if and whether Russia is interested or even capable of gaining territory further into the European continent, especially the UK and Western Europe. Surely they are a malign actor, and a persistent threat to the Baltics and Eastern Europe. But I dont know that they have their eyes set in any meaningful way on Germany, France, UK, etc. Happy to have my mind changed on that, Putin is a bad dude indeed. I do believe Europe is at a civilizational tipping point, and I dont think Russia is the cause. A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at populists and right-wingers who blamed "Globalism" and the uniparty/elites/NGO complex. The past year Ive changed my perspective. Broadly I think the dogma of liberal universalism, global movement of people/goods/money, and abstract ideas have been taken to their breaking point. Jd Vance and Marco Rubio's speeches to the Munich Conference and EU/NATO folks were also informative. I think they were on to something much deeper than just spending X% of GDP on defense. Yes, EU/NATO have sucked on the teet of the US defense arsenal for 30+ years and are woefully behind investing in their fleets, aircraft, technology, weapons, etc. And their ranks are thin. But even if they could magically flip the switch, crank up production, and field new weapons/platforms there are more substantial issues. Politically and econimically, Western Europe is a mess. They let go of manufacturing, built massive welfare states with dependent patronages, bought off on Net-Zero climate nonsense courtesy of a petulant swedish girl, and made housing and everyday living out of reach for working and middle class citizens. I beleive the recent quote I heard was that Mississippi (our poorest state) was wealthier per capita than the UK. On top of that, they thought-police their citizens, quash dissent, and subordinate national sovereignty to corrupt technocrats. Imagine youre a 25 year old Brit/Frenchman/German...cant afford a place to live or raise a family (while 3rd worlders live off the system). Would those young Europeans go fight the Ruskis on behalf of their political leaders? Take this one step further. The past 30 years has brought massive social, cultural, and demographic change to Western Europe. London is now ~30% white British, Viennas public schools are almost majority Muslim. Street violence, urban decay, capitulation to multiculturalism, DEI, etc at the cost of the native culture (psychologist Erik Kaufman calls this "asymmetric multiculturalism). Finally, the grooming gangs. If you are unaware, for the past 30+ years, groups of predominantly Pakistani muslim men groomed, r*ped, and abused thousands of white British girls, mostly lower/working class. They were subjected to the most heinous, gruesome abuse...and worse yet, British authorities knew and largely did nothing. The inquiry is slowly being made public, and IMO is shaping up to be the crime of the century. Some estimates say upwards of 250,000 girls were abused, some killed, many gang r*ped by groups of foreigners. They saw it as an act of conquest, the state covered it up as not to arouse "anger" or upset the multicultural experiment. The epitome of suicidal empathy and frankly a civilization-ending phenomena. https://spectator.com/article/why-liberals-ignored-the-grooming-gang-scandal/ A commentor above mentioned David Betz and his prediction of civil war. I read his papers a year ago and have listened to several of his interviews. He is a traditional academic, not an activist, mild mannered and level headed (from what I gather). Given the stabbings, violence, grooming/r*pe gangs across Europe, I cant help but agree completely. He has made his way into semi-mainstream podcasts and journalism, and I havent seen any substantive criticism of his claims. Just the grooming gangs alone are enough to convince me a civil war in the Uk is inevitable (if not already underway). And for that reason, I cant foresee those young Brits/Frenchmen/Germans/etc going to the eastern front to fight Vlad. Why would they? Their own nations have been hollowed out, made unafforable, and their leaders gleefully subordinate sovereign, native interests to hostile foreigners. And if all the fighting age men went East, who would guard their own cities and towns?? No, if anything, those young men will likely revolt against their own governments and attempt to restore what was once a good culture and civilization. Very concerning, but probable IMO. For those reasons, I dont believe Russia is Europe's number 1 threat. Putin is a bad dude, but whats happened in their own countries is far worse. Sorry for the rant. Brevity not my strong suit.