BashiChuni
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this is my problem with the ukraine situation. if the US hadn't been messing around in Ukraine, destabilizing governments, running coups, establishing bio labs, putting the crack head son of the Vice President on a Ukranian gas company's BOD, having the Vice President blackmailing Ukraine with 1 billion of USAID money...
if all that wasn't happening and russia invaded...that's a clean kill...id be all for supporting them against russian "aggression".
but the same government fucks that lied to us during covid and trampled the constitution in unprecedented ways are the same government fucks who were playing around in ukraine.
i'm sorry but they burned ANY trust i have in them...they DO NOT get the benefit of the doubt. and i assume they have bad intentions. so when guys like chris murphy and other democrats cry wolf about protecting ukraine from the russians it rings on deaf ears.
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3 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
In addition to what @Biff_T said, they also got rid of those non-promotable majors...like 200 of them with like 90 days notice? I can't remember the timelines.
one of those was in my sq...got RIF'd, airline job, then a few years later came back under a bonus. or at least that's how my brain remembers it happening. anyway we were all pumped it worked out really well for him!
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3 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:
Sorry! If Big Blue offers a Voluntary Separation Program, be very very cautious. They flagged the “volunteers” last time, cancelled their VSP and targeted them for the RIF. The powers that be have altered the deal waaaay too many times for anyone to trust them.
THIS!!! proceed with caution...two of my friends "volunteered" under the "no harm VSP, see if you get picked if not no worries" promise.
be very fucking careful. and read any fine print. make sure you have multiple COAs lined up to execute if you get burned.
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4 hours ago, LiquidSky said:
The party of fiscal responsibility is too busy spending millions to own the liberals. "I PinKY pRoMIse It'S nOt AfTeR a CoNfEDeRaTe TrAiToR."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/politics/fort-moore-fort-benning-defense-secretary/index.html
But once they run out of obscure corporals to allegedly rename stuff after and civvies to fire a RIF would be right in line with the continued self destruction of our agencies.
maybe bragg and benning shouldn't have ever been "renamed" in the first place
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10 minutes ago, RASH said:
State quals, or STFU
Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile appare you nsplayr's sock!? 🫢
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7 minutes ago, icohftb said:
Or it might not be that farfetched that they all coordinated to send the same message...
reminds me of covid
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Edited by BashiChuni
Your dad and granddad fought the soviets. My grandfathers fought the Germans, Japanese and Koreans. My uncles fought the Vietnamese. Things change.
but I appreciate the acknowledgment that it isn’t black and white. I’m not a Putin fan. He’s a bad dude. But I don’t want US involvement…because as bad as Putin is WW3 is an order of magnitude worse.
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if you actually read what Putin writes you'd know that he's not another hitler and therefore the chamberlin analogy is incorrect.
"The Western authors of the anti-Russia project set up the Ukrainian political system in such a way that presidents, members of parliament and ministers would change but the attitude of separation from and enmity with Russia would remain. Reaching peace was the main election slogan of the incumbent president. He came to power with this. The promises turned out to be lies. Nothing has changed. And in some ways the situation in Ukraine and around Donbas has even degenerated.
In the anti-Russia project, there is no place either for a sovereign Ukraine or for the political forces that are trying to defend its real independence. Those who talk about reconciliation in Ukrainian society, about dialogue, about finding a way out of the current impasse are labelled as “pro-Russian” agents.
Again, for many people in Ukraine, the anti-Russia project is simply unacceptable. And there are millions of such people. But they are not allowed to raise their heads. They have had their legal opportunity to defend their point of view in fact taken away from them. They are intimidated, driven underground. Not only are they persecuted for their convictions, for the spoken word, for the open expression of their position, but they are also killed. Murderers, as a rule, go unpunished.
Today, the “right” patriot of Ukraine is only the one who hates Russia. Moreover, the entire Ukrainian statehood, as we understand it, is proposed to be further built exclusively on this idea. Hate and anger, as world history has repeatedly proved this, are a very shaky foundation for sovereignty, fraught with many serious risks and dire consequences.
All the subterfuges associated with the anti-Russia project are clear to us. And we will never allow our historical territories and people close to us living there to be used against Russia. And to those who will undertake such an attempt, I would like to say that this way they will destroy their own country.
The incumbent authorities in Ukraine like to refer to Western experience, seeing it as a model to follow. Just have a look at how Austria and Germany, the USA and Canada live next to each other. Close in ethnic composition, culture, in fact sharing one language, they remain sovereign states with their own interests, with their own foreign policy. But this does not prevent them from the closest integration or allied relations. They have very conditional, transparent borders. And when crossing them the citizens feel at home. They create families, study, work, do business. Incidentally, so do millions of those born in Ukraine who now live in Russia. We see them as our own close people.
Russia is open to dialogue with Ukraine and ready to discuss the most complex issues. But it is important for us to understand that our partner is defending its national interests but not serving someone else's, and is not a tool in someone else's hands to fight against us.
We respect the Ukrainian language and traditions. We respect Ukrainians' desire to see their country free, safe and prosperous."
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians
the bolded text is why he invaded.
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1 minute ago, SurelySerious said:
Well, the topic is appeasing authoritarian dictators in Europe who used mechanized armies to invade neighbors under false pretenses…so enlighten us how you would like to expand it further than someone who has done that in the last 150 years. I’d love it if you gave us relevant examples across history that aren’t Hitler. Hell, name a book. Need some new reading.you think putin wants to push all the way to paris? go with your assessment and logic. this will be good!
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look you guys can cry and bitch all you want, but the fact remains that the US is done with Project Ukraine.
there is no path forward for ukranian victory...other than a full blown WW3 with nato troops being committed. is that what you fools want?
i don't. and most americans don't want that either.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
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There are many questions to be answered on our involvement in Ukraine. It’s not black and white.
at first glance this seems good...securing biological agents...all for it.
but what's the "modern, safe (key word that triggers my interest) and secure diagnostic health labrotory and a national NETWORK of epidemiological monitoring stations" part about?
like @tac airlifter says sometimes the most lethal and dangerous programs are concealed with the most generic sounding names and labels.
what's that all about? knowing how devious some of the federal power players like Fauci turned out to be during covid, i have a hard time believing our intentions setting up labs in ukraine were all rainbows and sunshine.