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I’m willing to send many more billions because A) it helps keep the Ukrainian people free from Russian tyranny, and B) it continues to bleed out one of our biggest geopolitical opponents without costing a single American life. Sounds like money well spent to me!

I’m in a few group chats with him and can confirm that he’s most certainly an extremist that also sucks at fantasy football.

Spending a few billion to kill Soviets is one of the best investments out government has made in a long time.

Is Bashi an extremist fringe, or is he simply like the “many” I described, who are calling bullshit on the climate change scam (e.g. as pushed by the green activists). I say the words “climate change is bullshit” all the time without adding the qualifier “as defined by dipshit greenies.” I bet Bashi does understand that humans do affect the planet, but also not remotely in the way the dipshits claim alongside their asinine agenda and policies.

Who knew?

Some hypocrisy In light of recent events.. The "lock her up" crowd suddenly not caring at all about mishandling of classified documents. The "but her emails" crowd suddenly caring so much about mishandling of classified documents. It's wild that people are so mentally broken by political polarization they can't even recognize a standard and apply it equally. Either classified documents matter or they don't.

Could your every post on this bro level chat board withstand the same level of scrutiny you’re applying to others? It is the hypocrisy thread after all… ETA: in addition to an obvious science denier and associate of Corn Pop (bad dude), I’ve heard Bashi is cranky if not allowed to fly

The interesting thing with Russian casualties in modern day is how janky their population distribution is and losing more young people further exacerbates their inevitable fall.

Maybe he didn't want to do SOS?

How he and Lloyd still have jobs after the global embarrassment that was our NEO of AFG is beyond me. If the 2024 Republican nominee doesn’t play reels of Afghans falling off the C-17, 24/7, they don’t deserve to be President.

I like the general premise of your post, but much in line with the theme, it’s notable to point out most, if not all of us, understand humans affect earth and the climate. Totally on board with working towards cleaner ______, in a honest, logical, and realistic manner. The “green energy” Karen’s and their overlords couldn’t be further from the italicized part. So when many people say “climate change is bullshit,” well it’s absolutely a misnomer, as literal climate impact is true, but the label “climate change” as described by “the green Karen’s” of society is a complete sham, and that’s the “their truth” that were all calling bullshit on.

Russia's demographic makeup in 2022 is very different than their demographic makeup in 1942. I think it's going to take a very long time for them to recover from the loss of this many people in prime working age.

That was probably the biggest shortcoming with Obama as far as foreign policy. Putin tested him, validated where and how quickly he would back off any demand, and the rest of the world knew it too. He was essentially sitting at the poker table with his cards backwards and everybody else knew dead to rights what he had to play. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The loss numbers for Russia are staggering. In my humble opinion as a knuckle dragging ham-fisted pilot we need to do the following: 1. Continue to enable Ukraine to punish Russia. 2. Provide Putin an off ramp. 3. Think about a post-conflict Ukraine and what happens to all these weapons we have provided.

Something to consider: -Would Russia stop with Ukraine? There are geographic reasons to suspect they would not. Namely that Russia has poor natural geographic borders without controlling the Baltics, Moldova and about half of Poland. There's a reason it ended up controlling those areas after WW2 (negotiated). -Based on what we've seen of their performance in Ukraine, I don't think anyone thinks the Russian military would stand a chance against NATO in a conventional war. I'm not sure US troops would even be needed; but if the US is involved, it is for sure a forgone conclusion that Russia loses badly. -If you grant me those two points for the sake of discussion, does that increase or decrease the threat of a nuclear weapon(s) being used on the European continent?

A lot, I hope. As others have pointed out, I'm willing to spend a lot to destroy Russia's military with zero threat to American lives.

Yeah I'm selling this one, beware it's appreciated since I bought it. I won't take a cent under $269,696. alternatively.. you could be more specific about what you're looking for

As a sexual tyrannosaurus superfan of the first Predator, I thought Prey was great. Loved it.

Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades.

Hey All--first timer here. Anyone on the upcoming major board and concerned with the new shit-show of my eval? My OPR from this year is in the new my eval system and no one knows to include the Wg execs know what is going on to push it up the chain and get it into PRDA. My concern is that I'll have a missing OPR with my best strats. I've seen good dudes get screwed over for missing an OPR or dec in the past.

Your position is reasonable except maybe the “most, if not all” part (otherwise I agree completely with your statement). Reference two posts later… Seems there is no shortage of citizens willing to flock to the fringes these days.

Wrong Choice!

KIKR does that to people. That dude is not going to recognize what the AF has become. He's like a time capsule.

Russia just keeps having trouble with their munitions dumps exploding.

Makes sense. I mean, since you can launch a Maverick on the ground, of course you could shoot a HARM.

I highly recommend this book to get an idea of what China has been doing for the last 23 years: unrestricted.pdf (oodaloop.com) Unrestricted Warfare, written by two Chinese Colonels back in 1999. I call this a "no respect bunt." After coaching youth baseball and softball for the last 10 years, I see two scenarios where teams bunt-- the classic move the runner into scoring position by sacrificing your batter, or the "no respect bunt." In other words, I know you can't defend this, so I'm going to keep doing it and putting my runners on. These two Colonels believe that it doesn't matter if they lay out their strategy-- we can't defend against it. The kicker is the date that this was published... realize that they've been executing this gameplan for two decades. "I'm going to TELL you that I'm going to bunt... and you still won't / cant stop it." Whether you agree with it or not, it's a very interesting read-- elements of Sun Tzu's "know your enemy..." They've done their homework on us for sure, and I would argue that they know us far better than we admit to knowing ourselves. For me, the most eye-opening part of this book is that they appear to have taken a strategy from our Cold War playbook, and I'm honestly afraid that we're unwittingly playing right into their hands-- spending ourselves into irrelevancy. They discuss the dependency on technology extensively, and that's coming from a late-90s perspective when we were still discussing Desert Storm as the game-changer of warfare. The argument can be made that one of the tactics we successfully employed in the Cold War was forcing the Soviet Union to collapse under the weight of its attempt to keep up with us militarily and economically. Trying to keep up with us militarily ultimately collapsed them because their economy could not keep pace with our ability to spend. The opposite perspective can come into play there as well in that we saw a perceived (or actual) advance in their capability, and we were able to out-produce them, which seems to be a common play today. We see China produce a handful of "fifth gen" airplanes (let's call it 7% the size of our 5th Gen fleet), and our military industrial complex spins into high PRF and proclaims that the sky is falling and we've lost our edge, leading for new calls to "outspend" our adversaries. That's not just the AF-- I've seen many articles detailing the "fact" that China has the largest navy in the world now. But when you look at those numbers, you see that they only have 3 carriers, none of which are nuclear powered and must be refueled every six days. I'm not discounting them outrightly, but I am contending that there's A LOT more than just numbers. But it depends on what your agenda is with respect to how you interpret those numbers. There are hints in this publication that this is a deliberate strategy on the part of Chinese to get us to succumb to our own tendencies. Remember that one of the tenants of Sun Tzu is to win without fighting. They don't NEED to beat us militarily, but if they can get us to collapse under the weight of our own natural tendencies, that's perfect for them. The CCP sits on a precarious perch of their own, as has been discussed extensively in this thread. Unrestricted Warfare shows that if they can engage across the spectrum, and you can take this battle plan and see that they've done just that for the last twenty years, then they can attain a significant advantage without competing toe to toe. China also has the advantage of playing the long game-- that's culturally significant throughout history. We update our approach every four years, and you can make the argument that we have a difficult time of seeing past the next election cycle, be that one or two years depending on the level of office.

This war and the number of casualties Russia is sustaining will change their society for years to come. Latest DoD estimates released yesterday and reported in the Washington Post suggest Russian has sustained 80,000 killed or wounded in just SIX MONTHS. As a frame of reference the United States suffered 160,000 casualties (58,000 deaths), over TEN years during the Vietnam War. Russian casualties from their invasion of Afghanistan were at 15,000 killed and 35,000 wounded, again over ten years. Afghanistan losses caused great debate in their society which ultimately caused them to quit and leave. It is important to keep in mind Russia's total population is about 1/3 of the United States and these losses will impact a far larger portion of the population...even as Putin tries to cover up those losses. More and more it looks like Putin has bet his future on the outcome which I hope we and others are using as we calculate and employ our strategy and response.

"you searched my safe? after I specifically asked you not to?" - Michael Scott - DJT

He’s an idiot Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

He can't have it both ways. He can't be "used" in something so egregious that it warrants him completing a resignation letter but then decide against but then leak it years later. So brave.

I think everyone would have been better off if he had resigned. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

It sure is possible. But if you can't see through the metric tons of propaganda being foisted upon the American people in regards to "climate change," then I can't help you.

The same elites who told us to double or triple mask are the same elites pushing climate change. One of the largest scams in human history.

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keep em coming, bro 🍻

Booze and dollar bills with tits, so offensive...

This should just become the entire hypocrisy thread... My favorite hypocrisy of the day from yesterday is the DUI arrest of Nancy Pelosi's husband. Despite lawyers and multiple freedom of information requests good ole California is refusing to release his booking photo, the bodycam video from the officers involved and any records whatsoever related to the arrest. If it was a member of the GOP it would have been pushed out to every network as breaking news.

TBNT

How many more BILLIONS are we gonna send our Ukrainian heroes?