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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    2 hours ago, Waingro said:

    Which policies, specifically? There are a shitload of oil leases that are unused, and a whole lot of wells that aren't producing. Which was the case both before the Biden administration, and now today. I'd be more eager to criticize any executive branch energy policy if we were actually operating anywhere near capacity, and were somehow hamstrung because of it.

    Keystone pipeline ring a bell? My grandfather used to own an oil well in Los Angeles. He sold it to the city for $1 because it wasn’t profitable due to production declines. Unused oil leases doesn’t equate to profitable production. However, with oil climbing this high I bet you start seeing some of those unused leases go back into production.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    10 minutes ago, HeloDude said:

    Give it a little time man. I remember when the vast majority were for invading Iraq, even after no WMDs were found (I was one of those back then btw).  I also remember when the vast majority were for forcing businesses to close 2 years ago due to a virus that the vast majority of people would survive without even needing hospital care.
     

    When the recession hits, the vast majority will not be ok with $6+ a gallon.      

    We could just tell Saudi to pump more or we’ll pull everyone out and they can deal with Iran.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    1 minute ago, HeloDude said:

    If that’s what you got out of my original post, then I have to explain it better…here it goes:

    If Ratner is going to say that his morality is superior to others because he is wants the US to do X to Russia and wants the American people to sacrifice Y due to economic sanctions (when others like me don’t desire these options), then I expect him to voluntarily sacrifice more than what is a minor inconvenience in his daily life.  Ratner says that we should stop doing business with countries (ie Mexico) who are still ops normal with Russia and yet Ratner himself is not willing to make such personal sacrifices on his own.  You can live a life in the US without ever purchasing anything from Mexico.

    If you disagree, then that’s fine…but this is the equivalent to those who want AR-15s banned in the US but is willing to get one themselves and/or hire someone with an AR-15 to provide their private security.  Another example are those who want SUVs using traditional gas engines banned, but who also continues to use them until there is such a ban.

    If Ratner wants to play the “moral superiority” game, then he has to be willing to accept the fact that he picks and chooses as well, and thus is not better than anyone else.

    Aushwitz is morally wrong regardless of your moral compass.  True evil should be abhorrent to everyone.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    13 hours ago, Danger41 said:

    Not that I want to engage with you but whenever I hear this type of attack I tell people to look up Chesty Puller and Tom Norris. Couple dudes that did alright even though they couldn’t hack it in pilot training.

    Apparently, I’m good at derailing threads. Again I poorly communicated my point via a personal attack, and that was wrong. I would happily buy flea or any who may not agree with me a beer. The US needs to be able to discuss differences without automatically assuming the other side is dumb or a Russian Plant.

    The air force in the 40’s, 50s and 60s was run by men with vast combat experience. Somewhere in there the notion that academics can solve everything with missiles became prevalent. We saw how that worked out. The hit rate of the Aim-7 in Vietnam was in the single digit percentiles. How was McNamara’s F-111. There is an F in front of it because it was supposed to do air to air. To sum it up, common sense combat experience is extremely valuable and can’t be bought via a degree.

    And no, I don’t need the standard O-6 speech of how would I fly my jet without AFE. Well, I’d probably inspect my own gear, but I sure as hell need MX and LRO. Finance questionable. Our recent awards ceremony only had one ops winner. We as a whole have lost sight in the value of guys hacking the mish. In my view it’s due to 60 years of domination.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    9 minutes ago, bfargin said:

    And on a side note, a couple of the smartest guys in my UPT class washed out. Intellectually they made the rest of us (including the IPs) seem like special ed students. So even if he had washed out, it doesn't mean he doesn't have the smarts to logically crush anybody else's arguments/thoughts.

    Who ran the AF in the af in the 40s, 50s and 60s?

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    5 minutes ago, brickhistory said:

    It's not taking disagreeing...

     

     

     

    G'night, folks.  I'll be here all week.  Tip your servers...

    You must have been in the 99th percentile on the AFOQT, flown the OV-105A and developed fusion reactors. Watch everyone Brickhistory the worlds smartest man is here.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    still muti-tasking

    As I said the world has decided the Ukraine is expendable. I hope you are all right and he stops there. He's 2 for 2 on invading non-nato members. What about Taiwan, what message are we sending? We won't sanction Russian oil, what about sanction chinese everything? Every American should want American Food, Energy, Resource (Particularly microchip) independence, or the economic part of the DIME model is pointless.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    1 minute ago, FLEA said:

    Look I know this is hard for you to fathom but at the end of the day, 1 pilot and 1 plane is not winning a war. A war is a statewide effort. That's what total war is, it's the whole country unifying as one apparatus to win. US industry and academia definitely won the war for us. There are not many serious thinkers who think otherwise. It was the first time in history we saw the advantage of literally just being able to throw money on a fire until the fire went out. It doesn't mean the people that actually fought aren't heroes or were valuable, but the strategy the US used to win WW2, and literally every conflict we've planned for after that, are heavily reliant on the capability to gen up industry to reconstitute losses. Why do you think we folded on the F-15EX? Did we really need it? Or did we recognize and industrial advantage to Boeing keeping additional fighter production lines open? 

    Academia fell out in Vietnam but came back after GWOT. Prior to Vietnam you use to no kidding be able to major in Military Science and Strategy at most US universities. The war/defense department were largely staffed by civilians and policy makers would get degrees in it. The military would pull key academics from universities to solve hard problems and the imbed them with industry to drive technological solutions. 

    This is the American way of war man. This is how we fight. Money and technology. I'm not sure how else I can explain it to you. 

     

     

    Flea, I agree with you in long protracted conflicts. There is a reason Yamamoto said they had awoken a sleeping giant.

    The error in your logic is discounting pitched battles which have the potential to end a war. Hastings 1066, Waterloo 1815 and the Battle of Britain are examples. Guess what, all of those battles outcomes were due to the individual fighting man. I guess youre just the type of McNamara commander that sees personnel as numbers in an actuaries math at checkmate.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    Really were you there in the silos with the Spetznatz watching the nukes? You're making a blanket statement upon which you have no basis to claim. 

    If we left nukes anywhere without US eyes on them 3 years I'm betting they could figure it out. Or at least remove the weapons grade plutonium and make their on bomb. As Flea said, anyone can figure out how to build a bomb these days. History lesson fall of the Soviet Union 1991, Minsk accords 1994. How exactly did the soviets have eyes on for 3 years?

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    You don't think the Ukrainians were smart enough to crack the codes of the nukes sitting in the Ukraine? We didn't guarantee that we'd come to their defense during the Minsk accords, but it still makes our leader of the free world standing highly questionable.

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    I’ve been giving historical examples to justify my argument. Which you dismiss as “not relevant”. I would argue thats typical academic hubris because it might derail your argument. Youre using youtube videos of academics to justify your own non-historical viewpoint. Its like a bunch of professors sitting in a circle smelling their own farts and telling each other how wonderful they are.

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