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A week ago the rat bastiges at DFW vectored us in right behind a RJ. "You have a 30 knot overtake on the traffic in front of you, slow to final approach airspeed." "We are at final approach airspeed." "American 37 go around." Morons.

People have been saying "sanctions don't work" as though anything in economics has a time-to-effect of a couple months. Now, did the West (mostly Europe) hilariously fail to predict that Russia would impose sanctions of their own? Yes. But if the Russian sanctions on Europe are having an effect, clearly the reverse is true.

Would you consider a national lockdown due to a virus a type of sanction?

I like Matt Yglesias mainly since he's 100% lefty but generally sees past the polemic BS that's ever present in our modern politics. He also just wrote an interesting piece on how badly Russia screwed this thing up. Most interesting to me was that I missed the impact of sanctions removing Russian access to intermediate production products (chips as an example). https://www.slowboring.com/p/russias-military-and-economic-strategy

Petition to rename thread “Tacti-cool Tanker”

Gotta get that hate out now while it’s still flying.

Oh good the Gucci boys finally get to call someone else a prima donna after holding that title for 40-something years!

Granted it's been a hot minute since I've been a tanker toad...but I'd imagine a low observable tanker is a much more survivable way to get gas closer to the fight than going the route of a jet powered H/M/KC-130. But with how much AMC is jerking itself off on the "ACE" acronym I guess it's hard to discount any idea, no matter how devoid of common sense, it appears.

Two of the acquired jets were involved in the Iraq nuclear raid. Those are legendary. Raid on the Sun, title of a good book about the mission.

He's just dropping a little acid.

This kind of weak equivocal language is at the heart of the our nation's communication problem. That's like saying it's safe to assume a rapist could do more to respect the rights of the woman he's actively raping. Or that Russia could do more to recognize the sanctity of international borders and human rights. Rape is Rape. An invasion is an invasion. Stop cowardice and have the balls to call spade a spade: Our country are being invaded through our southern border by a list of nationals and organizations so long we don't even know who they are. The administration who's PRIMARY JOB and who TOOK OATHS to "support and defend..." is actively supporting and empowering the invasion. How is that anywhere close to "could do more"?

I remember these in pretty much every guard unit that I visited on my numerous tweet cross countries around the country. Usually the oval ones.