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I’ve been to Denver lately too; the border is an order of magnitude more chaotic. People in Democratic cities see only a fraction of the immigration problem and even that seems substantial; the border is where the entirety of the problem manifests. Perhaps if you saw it you would grasp the magnitude of the crime Biden is willfully committing. And anyway, precedent already exists for states to ignore parts of the constitution they don’t like: democrats initiated this “sanctuary city” thing which flat out ignores federal law. You can’t have it both ways, we either obey the law or we don’t. Currently in America, we don’t. This is what it looks like; prepare for more.

Have you been to the border recently? It’s unbelievable and obviously an invasion which must be stopped. You can’t see it and think the Biden administration has any legitimacy in their policy positions. It is a physical threat to residents.

Good comments, thanks for the thoughts. I disagree a bit: I don't think Nikki can beat Biden. Her numbers are artificially high because of democrat voters. Too many "NeverNikki" folks in the R party; even Ronna McDaniel has advised her to drop out. Also, I don't think they'll let Biden debate. He's too retarded. But I'm happy to bet a bottle of bourbon on my prediction!

You just found the problem with our whole thing. How do we fix it?

Agree, aside from a few speciality assignments an O-6 command at UPT would be awesome. Unless you're a political creature unable to leverage that assignment into someone's front office in NCR. But for a pilot, it's one of the best gigs for an O6.

Totally agree. I never WX cancelled for WX at mins. An approach to minimums is something aviators should be comfortable with, and you certainly don’t want your first time to be when it matters versus a training sortie. Now below mins is a different story, I’m not going to divert and buy a new toothbrush…

Fauci admits 6' social distancing rule was completely made up, no scientific basis.

A real OPSEC warrior wouldn’t even tell Russia we had bombers.

That's me after about half the threads I roll into 😂 and I'm usually right!

Yea, that's not an AFSOC thing.

I don't understand what these words mean.

Wow. Fuck yea.

I went to your link (which covered far more than 2015-2017, it was an exhaustive archive) and here is some of the hard hitting evidence provided that Trump is a Russian stooge and the pee tape might be real. This kind of stuff might be damming proof that Trump is a pro-Putin traitor to you, but I do not draw the same conclusions. Do you have anything post-Ukraine invasion, since that was the context of this discussion?

I didn't make an argument, I made an observation. Your entire post apparently was written on a presumption of what I said, versus the words I actually said. if you're going to defend USAFA based on the critical thinking it produces in graduates, I recommend using said critical thinking during dialogue; less irony that way. Or continue providing an emotional reply to things I didn't say, it's certainly amusing.

I was surprised the WG/CC wasn't fired in addition to the OG.

During the course of my military career, I saw zero evidence the academies are necessary or beneficial in any way. The same cannot be said for UPT.

I looked and cannot find a single "pro-Putin" quote from Trump. If you could provide something specific, I would possibly better understand your point. FYI, a world leader saying "hey I met this guy, he's not the devil, we can work together" is normal dialogue. Post UKR war Trump maturely stated (paraphrasing) "yes Putin is a killer, but there are lots of killers and I'll work with everyone to secure a peace deal." If you can find actual Putin knob gobbling please post, otherwise your point is disproven. For your second point, yes, I'm sure you would rephrase it to sound cleaner. However the coldhearted truth is we are sacrificing a generation of Ukrainian youth to attrit our historic geo-political foe. We are military professionals not politicians, I'm not being judgmental about the tactic. But speak plainly to me rather than disguise the action with flowery language. Yes, paying a UKR dictator to forcibly conscript his citizens to kill Russians, blow up their stuff at scale and ascertain which of our systems work best is effective. Let's sidestep the morality discussion. This tactic is an elegant solution for now, but I don't think we can afford it on the time scale UKR would require to eject all Russian forces from its territory (their definition of "win"). Starting from that assumption on my part (that our country is incapable of multibillion-dollar aid packages in perpetuity) I think it's strategically in our interest to find a new approach forward in UKR to secure our interests. To be clear, that likely involves accepting Russia holds portions of the Eastern territory and we cease NATO expansion eastward. I'm fine with both concessions, we have bigger concerns elsewhere. Korea? Not a single Korean War vet I've met thinks the effort was a "success" and worth watching their buddies freeze to death. And the unfavorable situation has continued to plague us. Libya? Last time I was there (post invasion) it was a total shit show that the world has forgotten but terrorist organizations have not. Our countries interests were much better served with Kadafi holding an iron grip on the country. If you know anything about the war or were involved in fighting it, you'll know that his massive arms stockpiles were stolen and proliferated both to Syria (throwing gasoline on that simmering Civil War) and also across the African continent resulting in the rise of leaders like MBM and organizations like AQIM & Boko Haram. Kosovo... curious why you think this is successful. Yes we stuck our fingers in a small scale regional conflict and ultimately got our way. But at what cost? I spent some time studying the rise of Jihadi culture in the 1990s, which academically I find an interesting time period for them as the movement rode success against Russia in the 80s with a season of self-discovery (was I merely a regional phenomenon whose time has passed, or do I have a broader, global future?). Lots of informative literature showing we would have been smarter to encourage a generation of Jihadis to spend themselves in the Serb meat grinder. For that matter, we should have encouraged both Chechen wars & used Russia to attrit our foe. We could have done to jihadis (for free) what you're desirous of doing to RUS in UKR. No, Kosovo is not a win. GW1? That definitely looked like a win in 1994, but once we got bogged down with ONW & OSW then everything post 2002 i'm wondering what about that conflict leads you to conclude it was decisively finalized the way World War II was? In hindsight it looks like a strategic failure to me, managed by weak-kneed leadership convinced of their own intelligence while lacking the fortitude to see enemies vanquished. A consistent theme of our recent history, resulting in consistent failures worldwide. i'll grant you Granada. Good job USA 🇺🇸

Can you point me to a pro-Putin stance articulated by a Republican? I am not a Republican, so I won’t defend what they say, just curious what you’re talking about because it does not check with counterpoints I’ve seen to the “cult of agreement without debate” that is our UKR policy. I personally think it unwise to pauper ourselves by enriching the corrupt dictatorship in Ukraine. I appreciate the coldhearted calculation of using Ukrainian people to degrade the Russian military, our historic strategic adversary. And I appreciate the Machiavellian political ruse of pretending this issue presents only the binary choice of supporting Putin or protecting democracy; it has worked on several dumb people and I do like effective TTPs. But ultimately I cannot support what we’re doing in UKR because I don’t believe we can afford it. And I don’t think the geniuses who oversaw 20 years of GWOT are capable of doing this one correctly. I hope you don’t mistake this viewpoint as pro-Russian aggression.

A milquetoast right candidate cannot beat Biden because they have no constituency. Look at polling in the Republican side right now, the milquetoast candidates have no chance. i'm not voting for Mitt Romney or any of that ilk, they cannot fix the problems that exist in this country. I know you don't think it's a smart thing for me to vote for people I want to vote for, but if you pretend to give a fuck about democracy you kinda have to accept the agree to disagree approach to life. But that is not the way with Democrats, it is obey or be punished.

Call me when the progressive left applies the same originalist tenacity to our second amendment as they're pretending to want for the 14th. These people are hypocrites and liars who claim to protect democracy without actually believing in it. I don't like the person of Donald Trump but clearly he's who these corrupt assholes fear, so chances are high he'll get my vote.

Agreed. ISIS & AQ were deeply depraved and it bothered me not all to collect scalps. But jerking off to pictures of dead Russian conscripts (If that’s even what we’re looking at)? Count me out bro.

I love this thread; we should have every UPT class patch up here. Wish I'd saved a copy of the 04-10 patch.

An argument I was replying to was essentially that we must protect Ukraine in order to defend NATO from follow on incursion. You're making an unrelated point, which although laudable, is not good enough reason for me to support continued un-audited spending on UKR while our border remains open. Sorry dude, US first then I'm open to your perspective.