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tac airlifter

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  1. Fauci admits 6' social distancing rule was completely made up, no scientific basis.
  2. A real OPSEC warrior wouldn’t even tell Russia we had bombers.
  3. That's me after about half the threads I roll into 😂 and I'm usually right!
  4. I don't understand what these words mean.
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. I was surprised the WG/CC wasn't fired in addition to the OG.
  8. 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.
  9. 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 🇺🇸
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. I love this thread; we should have every UPT class patch up here. Wish I'd saved a copy of the 04-10 patch.
  15. 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.
  16. When Germany starts acting like they actually believe Russia might expand past UKR and fight NATO countries, and is willing to commit serious money to that problem, that's when you've got my interest. However the current situation is that we're rushing to rescue Western Europe who doesn't feel threatened or inclined to break the bank investing militarily due to ann imminent Russian invasion. At the same time we have ever more serious domestic issues. The reply always seems to be "it's not either or, we can secure our border and the borders of Ukraine" except we can't, or we already would have. No love for Russia here, but I 100% believe our over-investment in Ukraine is strategically foolish. CH, I get your point on pre-WW2 isolationists, but I am unconvinced Russia is analogous to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It looks like a regional dispute to me. And instead of engaging in thoughtful discussion to convince me, the prevailing approach is to bully me by claiming I'm parroting Putin talking points like a stooge. If Covid has taught us anything, it's that people yelling thoughtless demands and name-calling must be ignored.
  17. Well that's just absurd, you can't really mean that. Here's a short list of groups who disagree with you: the Taliban. The third Reich, the Japanese imperial army, general Ulysses Grant, the native American tribes, Cortez. GMAFB. I'm not sure what you were trying to say, but this is one of those squishy hearted axioms like "violence never solves anything" that we must reject as an outright falsehood. People win in war and people lose. More than any human endeavor war has very specific winners and losers. Your sentiments are a result of our soft and protected lives here in the modern west, a lifestyle made possible by wars we have won. And someone will win the war in Ukraine. Right now it appears Russia is winning, because they are not bothered by the people and material lost thus far provided they attain their objective which grows closer daily. I don't want them to win, but I am also unwilling to deplete our treasury in pursuit of stopping them. And what's more, I'm disgusted at people who cannot have a logical discussion about what actions the US should take in the Ukraine war to best serve our interests, people who claim anything but blind support to the Zielinski Dictatorship is somehow pro Russian.
  18. Prohibition doesn't work, and I'm sick of the knee jerk reaction to ban things for promises of safety. The same GO restricting booze sales to "keep Airmen safe" doesn't think twice about dropping a tasker at 1700 on Friday and sending those Airmen home to a furious wife after the kids are asleep. In my experience senior leadership should look in the mirror when trying to understand rising suicides in their force. Instead, they hit the easy button of restrictions & claim a halo for their duplicity.
  19. I'm not sure what you're saying "no" to since Trump gave no specifics; his manner of communication seems to be tossing out vague ideas and seeing how they play publicly. I don't necessarily like it, but it's better than whatever Biden is doing by operating in an echo chamber. Had I been POTUS (good thing I'm not) I would not have allowed WA to dither for weeks while CHAZ/CHOP stole territory, set up borders, and inflicted misery on citizens of that state. I haven't thought through specifically what I would've done, but certainly using the military in some capacity would've been on the table. The fundamental question is this: when elected state or city leadership completely fails their citizens, what is the national government to do? One could argue nothing since citizens voted those elected leaders into office, but one could also argue that outright insurrection is a federal crime and enforcement supersedes state authorities. Not being a lawyer I don't know what the right answer is, but ruling out potential COAs before they've been fleshed out seems like a recipe for more losing. Something our military leadership is unfortunately quite adept at.
  20. I took several of these tests with no prep and failed about half of them the first time. Probably because given the choices above, I'm always shooting the bus full of nuns.... it's more scalps and moving targets are fun. But they're looking for different priorities. The majors were a 6 month pause before reassessment, so I recommend being as honest as you are on the post deployment health survey when they ask if you have more than one to two drinks a month. Of course you don't.
  21. Good replies gents, thanks for the perspective.
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