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Thought experiment: If the cost of Ukraine assistance was a tenth of what it currently is but still as effective in pushing Russia’s shit in, would the same American commentators still be complaining? Of course they would, because it’s not really about the money, it’s about a combination of 1.) politically countering Democrat administration successes and 2.) actual sympathy towards Russian efforts.

Russian propaganda is directly influencing conservative media and indirectly influencing you if you think that specific 0.01% of the budget is the problem to focus on. Best ROR of any defense spending program ever. Because fuck Putin, that’s why.

The anti-Ukraine movement is Russian propaganda that MAGA has stupidly bitten off on because it’s a counter to a wildly successful venture by the current administration. For a pittance (<1% of our normal defense spending), we’ve enabled the Russian military to destroy itself by proving the overwhelming superiority of American weapons (very old ones, at that) in the hands of motivated locals. The effort has helped deter those who use FSU-derived weaponry while upending the idea that a modern Army can just steamroll a determined (and well-equipped) local populace at will. Taiwan would be wise to use the same posture to deter China. Putin is a shithead sacrificing Russian youth to overcompensate for his insecurities. He is a tiny-dicked fuck that deserves a horrible death, which he will eventually get because the oligarchs would rather make money than see it dissolve in a war.

The USG spent $6.13T in FY23. $69B of that went to Ukraine, sort of, because a significant portion went to our defense industry. If you think our budget problems are due to giving munitions to Ukraine, maybe you’ve been listening to too many clowns.

Ah fuck. Didn’t know Macho was Danger41. Fuck.

Just like the KC-767, the common wisdom was that buying something that already exists should’ve been a clean kill. Requirements creep destroyed that dream. FWIW, everyone wanted the T-50 because it was already in service, but our acquisitions process would’ve messed that up as much as the T-7.

This is actually a root cause for a lot of our problems. Our leaders are chastised by Army generals for thinking that pilots are special (because theirs aren’t). Kills bonuses and morale.

No no, SATCOM will always work. Do not be concerned. We will fight future wars completely from American soil. We need to fund those acquisitions now at the expense of all others.

A nation with technical enthusiast volunteers is a strong nation. Thanks for what you do.

Airlines don’t want you to grow goatees because they don’t want you mfs looking like these guys and taking truck selfies in the cockpit. And they’re right

Who knows if it was chance over deliberately planned, but it does look like there’s a tree that could be a factor. I also wouldn’t underestimate the shrewdness of even an below-average person that’s planning their final act.

Shooter picked a spot that looks like it might’ve given him a clear view of Trump while keeping the USSS snipers on the other side of a tree. Source: me on Google Earth

Root cause is Putin’s tiny dick and no one will convince me otherwise. Only Xi’s is maybe smaller

That’s a revisionist goal if I ever heard one. Putin wanted to take over Ukraine, made clear when he set his army off directly toward Kiev from the start. He got his shit pushed in and has gotten a quarter million Russian kids killed to save face. He’s a total shit head, probably because his dick is tiny.

But do you have a Daily Mail source?

Just move to Russia, dude.

Gets people to meetings on time and sets the tone. Meetings that ignore the hack and start by fading-in don’t usually go well.

Sounds like a security violation nightmare. “What’s this F-69 jet I saw on The Drive?” “Am I allowed to say I’m deployed to XXXX Air Base?” Not sure how you’d forbid it from talking about secrets unless you fed it a list of secrets to not talk about, which would be impossible. But what I do know is you’ll be flagged no matter what because you’ve logged in with your CAC.

Very clearly: Russia goes back to Russia and gets out of the Ukraine. Zelensky says this includes Crimea, so back to pre-2014. Perhaps pre-2022 will be the eventual agreement, maybe with a DMZ.

There’s a principle in car racing called “mechanical sympathy”. If you don’t have to lean hard on it to get a result, don’t. You’ll reap the rewards at the micro level and eventually at the acquisition level.

Not same guy, but for $400k married filing jointly with standard deduction and max trad 401k AGI deduction would be about a 18% effective fed tax rate. Maybe other tax reduction vehicles.

Tip: you can delete everything in these links after the “?” and it’ll still work. The fbclid (Instagram uses igshid, others use similar) ties the link you share back to your Facebook account, which is how you and the link clicker will eventually be suggested as friends, among other things.

The key to satisfaction in any job is work-life balance. You’ll go through periods in military flying where you get a lot of satisfaction from doing it all. You’ll want to double turn every day while instructing tactics, advising test/acquisitions projects, honchoing real/LFE deployments and spend all night in the bar talking about it afterwards. More more more. The key is to figure out how to keep that mental energy to a sustainable pace before you fall off a cliff without realizing it. Plenty of pilots surge 100% for years and suddenly burn out. Can happen in any job, try not to do that. If there’s so much going on that you can’t enjoy flying a military jet, you’re probably doing too much.

China needs oil a lot more than they need a rock with angry Taiwanese on it. WW3 was always going to start over Middle East oil. CENTCOM with Chinese characteristics.

We’re gonna need about 3000 fighters, 690 tankers, and 69B pounds of fuel flowing nonstop, so in no reasonable world should we be trading working airplanes for fictional ones just yet