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1. As a factual matter the statement from Tucker is correct. Ukraine is not a democracy, the central government does not respect or protect rights of cultural Russians living in the east, and free speech and freedom of the press do not exist. 2. that does not mean Russia is good by any means, just that reality is complicated. 3. Love or hate Fox, they are expressing what CNN/MSNBC are ignoring: the majority of our country opposes US participation in conflict with Russia over Ukraine.

CDC intentionally withholding COVAX data. I’m so confused why this would be. I thought vaccine efficacy and booster necessity was settled science. If there’s one thing I’m 100% certain of because I’ve been told by the establishment, it’s these vaccines are safe and effective. True you still get C19 after taking the vaccine even though they told us we wouldn’t, but I’m faithful the symptoms are more mild for vaccinated individuals. Given all that, why aren’t the experts being completely forthright with all the data collected? I want to prove these anti-vax science deniers wrong; if the CDC could be more open I’m sure it would reinforce their messaging.

It’s so fundamentally insulting to assume people with similar skin color think alike. People who say that are just idiots.

What’s the point of posting this year old declaration?

How dare they block roads. The business owners are mad! peaceful protesting is peaceful protesting; whether or not you support the cause it is our right and should be protected. I’m enjoying the irony watching the same people who supported “fiery but mostly peaceful“ BLM riots and the anarchy in Portland now saying we must slash tires and arrest people who are using the peaceful tactics of MLK and Ghandi. This is not necessarily aimed at you since I don’t know your opinion on what happened in the summer of 2020, but clearly the leftist news outlets are total hypocrites when it comes to protesting. And everything.

What in the absolute fuck am I looking at?

Well that’s just not true: Once reporters published a report on CURVEBALL the Bush administration released intelligence validating his role. True, many aspects of this remain classified to protect aspects of the intelligence apparatus, which makes sense. But it turns out you can release enough information about “sources and methods” to allow critical thought on the conclusions. For those who don’t know, intel from CURVEBALL was key in domestic legitimacy of the Iraq war and it was all made up by a guy who wanted us to start the Iraq war. Of note, German intel said exactly that and we all told them to shut up. Consider what a total disaster the Iraq war was for our nation. Think about how much it hurt international credibility, think about how Afghanistan could have been different had we focused there instead of had our bandwidth absorbed by Iraq, consider the rise of Isis, all the people killed there since 03. The magnitude of the terrible strategic decision to invade Iraq in 2003 using false assumptions about their WMD threat is almost incalculable. It was an intel fuck up of colossal proportions. And it could have been avoided had we exposed our sources and methods earlier…. because we ended up exposing them anyway. You are a smart dude but if you start with a false assumption you’ll arrive at a wrong conclusion. You assume the government never exposes sources and methods then follow that logic train to a place where society must remain ignorant of facts & trust experts running this process who are insulated from the consequences of their actions. False. That isn’t true and it doesn’t work. Fun and relevant Thomas Sowell quote: It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way to make decisions than leaving them to people who suffer no consequence for the results. Stop trusting people who aren’t accountable. The experts have lied and been wrong in the recent past. Before we order my kids to war (which is possible despite your protestations) I want some public QC on the intel.

You might be too young to remember how the Iraq war started, but Colin Powell provided the ultimate “trust us, we have rock solid intel” and we spent trillions and suffered ten of thousands of casualties for nothing. Had we exposed the “sources and methods” for some critical QC we likely would have avoided that debacle. Our government lacks the credibility to play this card, especially when the consequence is war with a nuclear capable country.

I don’t think it will be the AT-6. AO is a U-28 replacement so the advantage of “filling squadrons quickly” is negated by already having a designated manning source to draw from. Also the AT-6 looks like it sucks for this mission. Just my outside opinion, I’m not involved in AO.

You really can’t figure out how Keystone factors into this situation and how we shot ourselves in the foot? As for NS2, you seem quite confused: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57180674 Not trying to be a prick but your reply indicates you have opinions without knowledge. Hate Trump all you want, he kept Russia in check when they tested him.

100% valid. I knew & flew with all 3 when I was hercs. Embarrassments to our service. Self-centered, lacking empathy, contemptuous of new guys, but most importantly none were actual warriors who embraced risk and led from the front by example. The truth is no community has a monopoly on good or bad leadership. In my opinion the best leaders put outcome over process, and value their team mates who do the same. Assume the best about others, use subordinate mistakes as learning points, and ruthlessly close with and destroy the enemy… or execute their support mission with similar single mindedness. It’s not rocket science.

Me too. If I felt as if the bolded above were happening, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. And it’s not a discussion, it is a one-way issuing of orders to the populace by an unelected organization lacking oversight and motivated by profit.

Kept the Keystone pipeline and never have supported Nord Stream 2 in current form.

1. Have you actually seen the results of those trials or are we still waiting 75 years for the data to be released? 2. VAERS makes you more confident? Just because I’m dumb and I need help from young people with the Internet, could you please reassure me about the safety of these vaccines by comparing the number of C19 adverse reaction reports to vaccines of the past? I’m sure the numbers are extremely low and this vaccine tests favorably so if you could help me out with that I’d really appreciate it. 3. You trust the CDC, I assume because their guidance has been so consistent throughout this pandemic.except…. 4. The CDC is recommending masks but the UK (what I believe is part of your vaunted international community) just abolished mask mandates. The entities you report as trustworthy are in conflict with each other, which means you hold conflicting ideas simultaneously. “Double think” is the official parlance for the phenomenon you are experiencing. By the way Africa doesn’t give a fuck about the vaccine and seems to be doing about as well as anyone. 5. of note on those billions of “safe and effective” doses: in less than a year the definition of “effective” changed from preventing acquisition of Covid to maybe, hopefully lessening the symptoms of Covid (although even that claim is an article of faith) and doing nothing to stop the spread. Whatever your current definition of “safe,” be prepared for that to change. look I get it man, you are a believer. More power to you for being honest about your total indoctrination. However, the official narrative is crumbling whether you see it or not, so I wrote the above for those other people who might be lurkers wondering if the anecdotes they’ve seen are isolated incidents. To them I would say, believe your own experiences. This lie is falling apart, don’t give into the pressure of calling false things real and real things false. We all went along with the “experts” 1-2 years ago partly because we had to and partly because our default setting was trust the experts. But suddenly gathering in crowds was OK as long as you were protesting for BLM but not OK to attend church. Then the lab leak conspiracy grew into the most likely origin, and the people who seemed surprised by Covid and certain the origins were natural turned out to have illegally funded experimentation in a communist Chinese military hospital. Then you got the vaccine, and got Covid afterwards like I did and wondered what the hell? Then you saw healthy young people getting heart attacks and thought that seems weird but you were assured it had nothing to do with anything and is totally anomalous. Then we took our masks off for a few months then we put them back on and it made zero difference in terms of the trajectory of the virus. Now they are telling you to get a booster or a second booster and plan to get boosters forever and plan to wear masks forever and you probably don’t like this world of vaccine passports and stewardesses shouting at you and do not see how the actions we have taken have made things better but everything is quantifiably worse. When you speak up or mention it people shout you down, call you a Trumper or a science denier and you feel like something about this entire thing just isn’t right. If this is you, don’t worry bro, the tide is turning.

“The experimental vaccines are safe and effective” is an extraordinary claim that you accepted at face value. It’s so insane that your default is to believe big pharma. We’ll see how well that ages.

He’s saying if we attempt war again (which we should t on this issue for reasons above), we should have learned from AFG the dangers of fighting an enemy with self imposed ROE limitations.

Bashi— on your #4, Agree 100%. Not sure how many people, even in the military, have the appetite for what you’re talking about or even understand it. Weak leaders have tried to breed it out of us, but a willingness and desire to commit ultimate violence against other humans is a healthy thing for warriors to embrace. Instead they’re trying to make gunship pilots feel sad for the bodies they’ve smeared on mountainsides. a topic best discussed around a fire pit with bourbon & bros you trust.

Here are three lessons from AFG we should be smart enough to apply in UKR: 1. We should not attempt fighting a battle for those who don’t care enough to fight it themselves. The idea Prozac expressed, that we must stop tyranny here before it spreads everywhere, is undercut by the unwillingness of Europe to defend itself. If Germany isn’t worried about Russia threatening them, why are we? We aren’t isolationists; if Europe is banding together against an aggressive Russia I’m in. But the situation looks like we’re overly aggressive defending a continent who is apathetic about our noble notions. We should be smarter. Do not fight a war for Europe that Europe won’t fight itself. 2. This one is tough to articulate: There are boundaries that if adversaries cross we should fight. But we should not artificially move those boundaries, then fight over artificially made boundaries. In AFG we said “AQ attacked us, we have to crush them & their ability to do it again.” Yup, 100% right. I spent my adult life doing it. But then we foolishly transitioned into “we must spread democracy here, as a strategic hedge against AQ ever growing again . Now we’ll stay for decades forcing democracy.” Fighting to prop up GIRoA was dumb, even GIRoA didn’t believe in itself. We should have left after smashing the enemy, let grow whatever political system worked for the Afghans, and come back to smash them again if required. With Ukraine, the line we cannot allow to be crossed is a NATO member being attacked. “If they attack UKR they’ll attack Poland!” Maybe, we don’t know. But if that’s the case, we should fight when they attack Poland (Article 5), not at an artificially made assumption before the one we actually care about. It is hubris to assume you know what the future holds. 3. We should not commit troops to war unless our nation actually wants it and we authorize it correctly through Congress. This thing we’ve all done for the last 20 years was stupid, unpopular, devastating to our national credibility, national debt, and the lives of service members. And ultimately we gained nothing from it. Now the same people are telling us we have to do something similar in Ukraine, and we should trust them. But our countrymen don’t want it, so it will fail. In light of these three items, we should be clear eyed about our prospects for success on this misadventure in Ukraine. And although this final item might seem political, it is relevant: given the obvious and massive corrupt political connections between our presidents family and Ukrainian oligarchs, can any of us trust that the information we are receiving about the situation is correct?

Wilco. Unfortunately I’m a year out from being available, and do not have an ATP yet (although it’s scheduled). Thanks for all the advice.

Because they did. It’s the obvious answer.

That makes practical sense, I thought you were referencing some kind of formal categorization I wasn’t tracking. Lots of dumb questions as I try to get smart talking civilian flying 🍺 Do airlines take mission sets into account when assessing TPIC numbers?

Great posts, thank you. I’ll start churning out apps this summer. Appreciate the kind words Danger; I just tried to keep pace with the team.

What do you mean?

Maybe I could have phrased myself better, I’m probably missing something about the career if you assumed I was arrogant instead of curious. Four fans nailed it with the loyalty discussion. I didn’t realize how easy/normal it was to accept a job and then move along if a preferred option opens up.

Are you saying I should limit my applications to the big 6? I’m confused by this; I was planning to apply to multiple companies but rank ordered. copy all advice from others, thanks.