Russian Ukraine shenanigans

[herkbier]

The next Top Gun poster is released:

[Swizzle]

4 hours ago, herkbier said:

The next Top Gun poster is released:

Don't forget about Charlie!

[ClearedHot]

 

[BFM this]

On 12/10/2024 at 3:42 PM, ClearedHot said:

Drone V Drone BFM...Crazy times!

 

Is it just me or was there no winner in that setup?

[FourFans]

5 hours ago, BFM this said:

Is it just me or was there no winner in that setup?

Whole new meaning to the Banzai call...or is it just a refreshed meaning?

Edited December 20, 2024 by FourFans

[SurelySerious]

Whole new meaning to the Banzai call...or is it just a refreshed meaning?

Banzai got weird with fifth gen, this is just a whole adulterated animal now.

[SurelySerious]

Tracking Putin’s Feared Secret Agency, From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/evan-gershkovich-russia-putin-arrests-spies-9a75e1c3?st=UujX3U&reflink=article_copyURL_share
The celebrated metric in the DKRO: number of spies captured. It is expected that each year they detain more spies and convict more people of treason, as the main focus of the administration. They seem to be getting what they reward.

“As the war supercharged the presidential appetite for spies and traitors-real or imagined- the job of satisfying it fell to DKRO. Putin’s invasion gave DKRO an ‘entirely new raison d’etre…”

[raimius]

Russia might have just splashed an airliner going to Grozny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

[Sua Sponte]

1 hour ago, raimius said:

Russia might have just splashed an airliner going to Grozny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

Might?!?

[Stoker]

1 hour ago, raimius said:

Russia might have just splashed an airliner going to Grozny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

Really, Azerbaijan Airlines backed Russia into this corner. They have no one but themselves to blame. If they weren't flying airplanes to Grozny, the Russians wouldn't have felt the need to defend themselves. /s

[Biff_T]

On 12/11/2024 at 8:20 AM, Swizzle said:

Don't forget about Charlie!

Dibs

[Biff_T]

4 hours ago, raimius said:

Russia might have just splashed an airliner going to Grozny.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

That elevator looks a little suspicious.   One hell of a bird strike.  

[Clayton Bigsby]

One of those 37mm/57mm birds 

or a shoulder-fired variety 

bird species was Pantsir S1 apparently 

Edited December 27, 2024 by Clayton Bigsby

[TreeA10]

Looked like the bird proximity fused on the tail.

[frog]

On 12/26/2024 at 8:10 PM, Stoker said:

Really, Azerbaijan Airlines backed Russia into this corner. They have no one but themselves to blame. If they weren't flying airplanes to Grozny, the Russians wouldn't have felt the need to defend themselves. /s

Clearly it is NATO’s fault.

[uhhello]

[uhhello]

[brabus]

Another $2.5B to UKR…totally nothing that needs money here in the US, this makes complete sense. 

[Majestik Møøse]

On 12/30/2024 at 7:40 AM, brabus said:

Another $2.5B to UKR…totally nothing that needs money here in the US, this makes complete sense. 

That’s $2.5B of weapons out of our stockpiles, not cash. The money goes to defense contractors.

[brabus]

11 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:

That’s $2.5B of weapons out of our stockpiles, not cash. The money goes to defense contractors.

I didn’t say it was cash. Also I need to correct my earlier statement, it’s actually $6B we just tacked onto our UKR bill (now a total of ~$175B over the last three years). We’ve achieved a lot, time to stop and focus a lot more on all the massive problems at home.

[Majestik Møøse]

20 hours ago, brabus said:

I didn’t say it was cash. Also I need to correct my earlier statement, it’s actually $6B we just tacked onto our UKR bill (now a total of ~$175B over the last three years). We’ve achieved a lot, time to stop and focus a lot more on all the massive problems at home.

$175B over 3 years to buy new munitions and send the old ones to a friendly democracy where they used them to dismantle the Russian military is the wisest use of treasury funds in decades. We spend trillions on nothing most of the time.

I’ll never understand how so many Americans have fallen for the line that we’re spending money on Ukraine that would otherwise go to Americans. That money literally goes to American companies.

The Russians sure are good at foolin people.

[Stoker]

28 minutes ago, Majestik Møøse said:

The Russians sure are good at foolin people.

They're not really that good, it's just that for a lot of people, it's more important to feel smart and correct than for their country to succeed.

[Boomer6]

31 minutes ago, Majestik Møøse said:

 I’ll never understand how so many Americans have fallen for the line that we’re spending money on Ukraine that would otherwise go to Americans. That money literally goes to American companies.

The Russians sure are good at foolin people.

Do you understand that the ppl you're engaging with on here actually have at a minimum a college education, decades of military service, and many with time at the Pentagon seeing behind the curtain?

In other words, these aren't the ppl of Walmart with a cart full of mtn dew and ding dongs questioning why the gubment' is spending money on things they don't understand.

This isn't a black and white issue. It's evolved since the start of the war and our policy needs to evolve as well. Just because it made sense to throw billions in resources/cash previously doesn't mean we're locked into that gameplan in perpetuity. People questioning the sense of continued support by us, especially when it exceeds those on the continent that are actually being threatened, have a valid concern.

Edited January 2 by Boomer6

[Clark Griswold]

$175B over 3 years to buy new munitions and send the old ones to a friendly democracy where they used them to dismantle the Russian military is the wisest use of treasury funds in decades. We spend trillions on nothing most of the time.
I’ll never understand how so many Americans have fallen for the line that we’re spending money on Ukraine that would otherwise go to Americans. That money literally goes to American companies.
The Russians sure are good at foolin people.

Because they could have been spending the same or even half for the actual country that generated the money to give to Ukraine to then give to the MIC to then fund the corporate, chattering and upper classes that seem to profit from every policy that screws over fly over country
I’m for a free Ukraine but more for a free, secure, sovereign and fair USA
We’re skeptical of power, aloof people who never feel the negative effects of policies they implement and while they tell us that events across the globe are more important than our borders, cities and towns
Yeah, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, we can have secure borders, intelligent interpretation of immigration, drug and crime policies at the same time but we actually don’t have that now, at least not for a few more weeks


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[BashiChuni]

57 minutes ago, Majestik Møøse said:

$175B over 3 years to buy new munitions and send the old ones to a friendly democracy

 

lol the same democracy that suspended elections? ok...

the same country where the then sitting vice president had his crack head son on the BoD of a major ukranian energy company.

same country which fired a prosecutor looking into crack head vice president son's company...fired after the US vice president threatened to withhold US government funding?

yeah nothing to see here