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8 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
This same logic got us involved in the Korean, Vietnam, and War on Terror (Iraq specifically).
“IF WE DONT STOP THE COMMIES IN KOREA/VIETNAM….”it’s flawed logic. Time to stop “what if-ing” our foreign policy decisions. Play the hand you’re dealt.
and yes Russia would stop at Ukraine.
What on earth makes you think Russia would stop at Ukraine?
And do you really think other adversaries aren't watching our response and gauging what they can get away with?
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8 hours ago, uhhello said:
Its inconvievable to me how this wouldn't force you to change your lifestyle. There have been multiple points in my life where I've looked in teh mirror or got a bit winded doing something routine that forced me to get after it again. I can't imagine literally squeezing my way down an aisle, looking another human in the eye and wedging my fat ass into a seat for at least an hour and thinking it's OKAY. I'll give the 5% of obese folks out there with actual medical conditions that make it REALLY hard to stay fit but the rest have issues.
It's a real shame the CDC didn't take the opportunity presented by Covid to message that being morbidly obese is a huge risk factor.
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7 hours ago, waveshaper said:
Something to think about, both Russia and the Ukraine can take some serious casualties. The top three countries with the most casualties during WW2 = China, Russia, and Ukraine. Note - broken down by country not USSR, etc/keep in mind all these countries had a much smaller population during WW2.
List of casualties from top 8 countries during WW2:
Country Tot. Deaths Military Deaths Civ. Deaths via Military Civ. Deaths via Famine/Disease China 20,000,000 3,750,000 8,191,000 10,000,000 Russia 13,950,000 6,750,000 4,100,000 3,100,000 Ukraine 6,850,000 1,650,000 3,700,000 1,500,000 Poland 6,000,000 240,000 5,820,000 Germany 5,700,000 4,456,000 2,135,000 Japan 3,100,000 2,300,000 800,000 India 3,087,000 87,000 3,000,000 Belarus 2,290,000 620,000 1,360,000 310,000 Complete list: World War II Casualties by Country 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)
Russia's demographic makeup in 2022 is very different than their demographic makeup in 1942. I think it's going to take a very long time for them to recover from the loss of this many people in prime working age.
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15 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
How many more BILLIONS are we gonna send our Ukrainian heroes?
A lot, I hope. As others have pointed out, I'm willing to spend a lot to destroy Russia's military with zero threat to American lives.
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1 minute ago, Biff_T said:
https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/2022/08/06/62edbebe46163f0d478b457e.html
This is what Google wants me to read.
Russia isn't woke. Lol. They don't give a about her skin color or her victimized status in the US. This is so funny. I guess it is America's fault she broke a Russian law and went to jail. Could this argument stand in court?
They also point out the white school teacher doing 14 years for the same crime?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/28/marc-fogel-teacher-russia-prison/
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1 minute ago, KWings06j said:
I know a unit that did this... twice. I have both watches to prove it. They didn't end up doing the "track workouts instead of PT test" thing and I never linked either of my watches to anything the unit had access to. Still, I have two very nice, very expensive garmin watches to go with my endless supply of knives and sunglasses/shooting glasses.
We got them at Dyess. Sold them as "personnel recovery devices" if we had to eject.
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5 hours ago, Boomer6 said:
Oh I know, but the level of unhinged trolling and thread hijacking seems familiar.
Random Guy is downright cordial and reasonable compared to the other guy.
Nutty, and with a singular focus, I'll grant you. But polite and knowledgeable.
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19 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
TLDR: author postulates current Chinese military maneuvers represent the start of a blockade (I don’t agree, just posting for discussion). Interesting tactic, would force US to appear the aggressor or let Taiwan starve. I don’t think we would do a damn thing.
Berlin Airlift II?
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2 hours ago, HeloDude said:
Not going to happen anytime soon…businesses are afraid to even call Taiwan a country for fear that they’ll upset the CCP and in turn could hurt their sales. Here’s one of the latest:
“Mars Wrigley apologizes to China over Snickers ad that called Taiwan a country”
Our economy is deeply enmeshed with China's, no doubt. The point is that covid, and CCP policies, are convincing US businesses that it's less and less profitable to do business there.
No one thinks that the two will be severed overnight. Rather, that we should be heartened by the gradual erosion of China's market power.
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16 hours ago, HeloDude said:
Ugh…I’d much rather just take a relatively easy fitness test once a year (worst case twice a year) than be required to wear an electronic device every day(?) for an entire year tracking what I am/am not doing according to the Air Force’s liking. But that’s just me.
It's not every day. It's 90 minutes a week.
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4 hours ago, Boomer6 said:
You mean the guy in the money and finance thread? 🤔
Different guy. He's got his own website where he chronicles his perceived slights against the system, individuals, organizations...he's the poor man's Mikey Weinstein.
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1 hour ago, Danger41 said:
Does this dude just sit around and do this shit all day every day?
He does, in fact.
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8 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Exactly - while I give credit to Biden for taking the shot, homeboy was taken out in downtown Kabul while standing on a balcony. It does show the Taliban were in violation of the agreement they made to not harbor terrorists. If you are a professional and invest time in reading the intel you will see there is a SERIOUS resurgence building since we left. It is time to test the "over the horizon interdiction CONOP this administration promised.
I don't think you need to be a professional or invest serious time to know this was what would happen after the US left.
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6 hours ago, heloboy said:
For the sake of equality, all butt stuff will be banned until further notice.
What if I wear a mask on my butt?
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1 hour ago, Random Guy said:
I think people misunderstand that CA natives don't want people moving there, and they use their legal system to intentionally restrict housing, driving up home prices to increase their own wealth, and make the people moving to the state miserable in the hopes they will some day go home. And it's working, inflow to CA was negative for the first time last year. Honestly, CA natives just want to go back to a state of 1900's rural beach property and empty land.
So it isn't just monetary policy making housing expensive there. It's deliberate refusal to build enough housing to meet demand, coupled with the insane notion that letting people live on a sidewalk is somehow more compassionate than getting them into a treatment program.
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15 hours ago, Random Guy said:
YES, homelessness in democratically controlled regions, such as California and Washington State, and large cities like SF, Portland, and Seattle have serious problems with inequality, employment, and asset prices. This is what [economic] liberalism produces. We are seeing the conclusion of 40 years of liberal [economic] policy pursued by both parties.
Surely it has nothing to do with California regulating building so tightly that a 1500 sqft home costs over a million dollars to build, right?
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9 hours ago, Random Guy said:
Ok, just to be clear, the listed policies that you disagree with do not have any personal impact on you. Do you want to prevent someone who lives at a distance from you from creating policies relevant to their community, in other words, impose your will upon them?
She's a US Congresswoman. Policies she puts forward affect me as a US citizen. I'm in the community she has influence over - the US.
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2 hours ago, Lawman said:
“Make them uncomfortable” is a ridiculous perversion of the point of civil disobedience by some Instagram level wanna be revolutionary.
It’s meant to mean force a society to be introspective in whether they really want to live “this way” because suddenly your employees stop showing up to work after they’ve been arrested doing things like sitting in a bus seat. Suddenly business owners and civic leaders with a voice from their position have skin in the game. Now you effect change.
It is not beating in the doors and windows of a law maker or judge’s home or chasing them out of stores like we live in some god damned banana republic.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkSomeone should let Maxine Waters and AOC know. Since apparently they think threatening Supreme Court Justices or shouting at GOP staffers having dinner is the path to change.
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41 minutes ago, nsplayr said:
Fair enough, I’m 100% sure that would happen.
I’m not so much ate up about civilians teaching at UPT, I could care less so long as they are qualified and good pilots & instructors and there are mil folks around to teach the officer ship and tactical mindset needed. Almost all the instructors at URT are civilians anyways, although that’s an all-sim syllabus already (🤬) and there were plenty of civilian INs at Nav school back in the day teaching the sims there, which were better training compared to the T-43 flights anyway IMHO.
Mostly this program seems dumb and poorly conceived in the specifics. Instead of paying good money and attracting separated or retired mil IPs or highly qualified civilians who aren’t approx. 14 years old puppy mill CFIs, they design this insane Rube Goldberg system that produces a young & dumb first-time IP way slower than OCS + UPT + FAIP PIT. I predict in the end they hire maybe 5 dudes, with 1-2 actually making it all the way through to being line IPs 6-9 months before the contract is terminated and they waltz off to the airlines anyways.
Agreed. I don't know why they narrowed the constraints so much. There are definitely CFIs who would jump at the chance to fly aerobatics in the T-6 out there.
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2 hours ago, nsplayr said:
There were 4 enlisted pilots in my URT class and they definitely got left hanging out to dry from the start. What a cursed program.The USAF should have done the right thing from the start and sent them to OCS with priory placement and then just had them be butter bar pilot trainees with the rest of the puppies from the academy, ROTC and off the street or other non-prior rates OCS folks. They were all high-speed NCOs who were ultimately getting paid less money to have the same level of responsibility as their officer pilot peers in the RQ-4 community. Had they commissioned from the start like they should have, they could have had parity from the start and now more easily flow into the MQ-9.
Not that it was a bad deal and they all volunteered, but it always struck me as unfair to pay them less when there’s an existing 6-9 week quick fix (OCS) for the handful of dudes the program entailed.
Same story with these civilian UPT IPs…just freaking commission them via OCS (because its 7 dudes lol), send them through regular UPT, potentially shortened due to significant prior pilot experience, with a guaranteed assignment as a FAIP. That certainly would be faster than the program as current written! No weird dynamics now, you’re a USAF officer, a full up mil pilot and a FAIP, just like many before them. Hell, you might even retain them beyond their commitments if you let them keep flying sexy military jets, who knows.
It should be freaking rocket science here. Offer quick OCS placement, guaranteed UPT slots with the ability to prof advance or TX through phases you can already pass from day 1, then homestead FAIP assignments, throw in some money as required and I’m sure you’d get “more than 15” applicants.
Seems to me the reason they're hiring civilians is so the functional can't deploy them, PCS them to staff, send them to a school, lose them to an MWS...
Your approach has merit, but in the end, it's only as stable as the support from the top. By the time they graduated UPT, the next CSAF could decide they have different priorities and now these folks who signed up to be FAIPs are heading to B-52s and C-130s, and UPT continues to be undermanned.
One wonders if there was this level of consternation when they first hired civilian academic and sim instructors...
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I'm kinda surprised it took this long.
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5 hours ago, Random Guy said:
I guess we have to ask ourselves if there is a difference between a protest and sexual harassment? And if sexual harassment, construed as protest, is protected under the first amendment, what other types of behaviour can protesters engage in, along the lines of that video?
Because it seemed like he wasn't actually protesting anything in particular? Or was the clip I saw too short, and his political argument was made earlier in the video?
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EDIT: To put it another way, if someone did that to your wife, for example, would you think that person was protesting your wife's politics?
Well, my wife isn't a public figure, so there is that.
Alex didn't go to AOC's home and didn't threaten her. As opposed to some of the protests she has supported. Was it all political? No, not really. He did call her dumb...is that a political argument? Because if it isn't, then a lot of Trump's critics should be making apologies as well.
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3 hours ago, nsplayr said:
It’s really not, it’s harassment. This guy is a prick who would get free facial reconstructive surgery if he talked like that in a setting where the subjects could respond appropriately.
Life pro-tip: don’t make your job filming videos of yourself harassing other people! Work a shift, buy a house, raise a family, die peacefully of old age with a reputation for being a good person.
Brain worms indeed.
She set the rules.
"Protesting should make you uncomfortable".
"Don't give them a moment of peace".
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New BUFF Engines (Finally)
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Been there with the B-1. Jets with and without Sniper pods. Jets with new and legacy radars. Jets with and without Link-16.