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How convenient. And now that you have, still no reply. Because aggressors can always turn around and go home. Look at Afghanistan, we just quit. Look at Vietnam, same thing. Do I think Russia will? They did in their own Afghanistan. They can again. Strength through allies backing them with arms and Intel. Soldiers they have plenty of international volunteers. My entire squadron would fly in tomorrow if asked. We were ready on night 1 and we're still ready. Unfortunately we have ADSCs and the Ukrainian foreign legion isn't seeking pilots. If you stood up the modern equivalent of the flying Tigers you'd run out of positions before bodies.

Literally answered this the other day and y'all chose to ignore it. Secondly for this to end Russia could just leave. They're the aggressor and no one is forcing them to keep fighting until Ukraine sues for peace. They could turn around and leave. Finally, even if you want peace it's in our interest for Ukraine to negotiate from a position of strength. Which the current admin isn't doing.

The United States has banned Britain from sharing intelligence from Washington with Ukraine as part of its withdrawal of support for Volodymyr Zelensky. Continuing to hamstring Ukraine for no discernable reason. When did we decide Russia was our ally? Won't be shocked to read we pull sanctions or feed them Intel next. Hopefully the dailymail is a shitty enough non msm source for the trolls.

Everything else aside are y'all actually ok with the executive branch taking the power of the purse from congress? These are fund legally approved and allocated by congress whether you support the cause or not. The action of cutting them off goes against everything in the constitution regarding division of power and seperate but equal branches.

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.

Considering the sheer number of agencies reporting it and that our allies are commenting on it, I'm inclined to believe it over a random rep. Regarding POG, oops my bad. Actually confused him with our illustrious POG VP. Not to be confused with the newest Navy secretary who has 0 military or defense experience. Funny how everyone is an unqualified white male in this admin. Does that make them DEI hires?

Because some recalled the history of the past 100 years and have learned from it. 1940s appeasement directly led to the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Post-war iron curtian/Soviet appeasement led to the rise of the USSR. Russian Federation appeasement has led to: 1994: Chechen war 1999: Chechen war round 2 2008: Georgian Invasion 2014: Crimean & Donbas Occupation 2022: Full-scale invasion of Ukraine You think Putin is going to be content with what he has attained? You think Russians will forget the humiliation of a 3 day special operation against a weaker nation turning into a 3 year stalemate? They'll sue for peace, re-arm over the next few years, and then roll over Ukraine when everyone in the west has stopped caring again. They didn't abide by the Budapest memorandum or any other agreement they've made since conspiring with Germany to split up Poland. Why do you think they will now?

Meanwhile: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia Russia has intensified cyber operations against Ukraine and NATO countries, according to previous U.S. intelligence and private sector reports." Glad we have a washed up POG Major in charge. I'd rather have the ridiculousness of the red scare than this pathetic display.

Well at least some of the bobs are calling a Russian a Russian now. "Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly."

There's a reason why all of our allies are replacing their Hs and Js with them. Unfortunately it's a direct competitor with the million herks we've bought from Lockheed and is built outside the US so it will never happen. Doesn't matter that it's a clean sheet design which goes faster, further, higher, uses less gas, less mx, cheaper, and is more modernized than the J. We'd rather keep throwing money at a 70 year old design that's been Frankensteined into the 21st century.

Going to respond to the propaganda troll once. 1a. Strawman. But to answer your question at least 458. 1b. The Ukrainian people have decided that dying for their country is a better fate than losing their nation. 2. Why aren't you? We share many common values and the resulting geopolitics that come with mutual respect are extremely important to our nation's position on the world stage. The self harm we've already inflicted in those regards will directly negatively impact future generations of Americans. Our allies have become wary of us overnight and repairing that damage will take generations. 3a. No refutation of the primary point which is that we've quite handily put Russia on it's ass. I'll assume you concede the point by lack of response. 3b. Strawman. The argument you've made is that the war is costing America. The response I've provided is that it has been bloodless (excepting brave Foreign Legion volunteers) for us and monetarily a drop in the bucket. 4. Glad you agree. Saved money. Boosted our national defense industry. Sounds like a win to me. 5. Correct it is a gold mine. I'll assume that lack of critical response is directly stemming from the inability to produce a sound argument on why we should walk away from said gold mine. 6. Misrepresentation of the statements made. I've stated this war has been extremely cheap for us as a nation. I never stated I was concerned with the cost. As a tax payer I'd happily double our investment. 7. As much fraud, waste, and abuse there is in general this war has proven the importance of a strong home grown national defense industry. When you want to defend your country but can't because the Swiss makes the bullets your army uses and won't let others export to you that becomes a major issue. So yes I'm concerned with the stock prices of our defense industry as it's a direct representation of their relative health as companies. 8a. Strawman. The concern was our skyrocketing unemployment and the very real impact it's going to have on the American economy. 8b. But you're right, it is costing lives. And all of these are directly the fault of one nation. Appeasement was a hard lesson learned by our grandparents generation and it seems you skipped history class one too many times to learn from them. 9. Strawman. I never stated I wanted this war, as if I had choice. The reality is it is here and it is happening. And I'm here to stand on the side of democracy and a stable world order. 10a. You literally just described Putin. If you can't see that you're a willful idiot and a fool. 10b. Constitutionally Ukraine can't hold elections. Realistically they can't hold elections with a chunk of their citizens in occupied lands or shipped off to Russia. Or they could and you'd decry them as "illegitimate" as a significant portion of the population was unable to vote. Furthermore, this argument holds no weight as there is every indication elections will continue as normal the second this war ends. Similar to the UK during ww2 for example. Ukraine has had multiple elections and successful transitions of power unlike Putin. As for the conscription aspect, so did the US. Many nations have mandatory military service or a draft. It's a reality of war and I'll only fault it if it's being utilized to continue an unjust military action initiated by the conscripting nation such as the U.S. In Vietnam or Russia in a war of unprovoked aggression. 10c. My squadron mates were ready 2 years ago to go into Ukraine and are ready now if asked. Nuclear arsenals and geopolitics is what holds us back, and not our service member's willingness to fight for the cause. Which in my opinion says some of us have learned from history as our grandparents generation practiced isolatinism and only entered ww2 war to make sacrifices of their own when the war came to their doorstep at pearl harbor. You, on the other hand, would have decried lend-lease and said just let Hitler have Europe, Japan can have Asia, and we can keep our happy sphere of influence in the Americas. Good luck everyone else! 11. Not even worth responding to. I am currently ashamed by our leader's actions and will be eternally so if the end result of this is Ukraine crumbling. Our proud nation has the opportunity to stand up for democracy and is instead letting it die.

Shameful. Absolutely shameful. As a heavy Bubba the weapons lifts into Poland have been one of the highlights of my career. If not the highlight. I watched the live feeds of the Russians pouring across the border and next thing I knew I was in Poland. Watching pallets get moved off my planes onto trucks and knowing within the week it'd all be gone. Used to put a Russian into an early grave. It was an action that I can proudly share to any westerner. It was an action that put our country back into a well respected light with any European. We've nearly dismantled one of our two biggest geopolitical enemies of the last 80 years without costing a single American life. Spending a fraction of the snafu that was Afghanistan/Iraq. Boosting the American defense industry immensely both through our tax dollars being spent and through a massive influx of international sales. And now we're tossing it away? This war has been an Intel,strategy, and systems testing goldmine as well. A goldmine we're just going to walk away from. We're alienating ourselves from our closest allies. We're ceding soft power left and right all for what? A few billion in savings? Billions that were going to our own military industries. Check the stock market. LM, GD, etc. have all fallen 10% or more over the past month as a result while Rheinmetall, BAE, etc. are seeing 20% growth as Europe realizes they can't trust their oldest and strongest ally. Can't wait to see how many more skilled workers we add to the unemployed list next to the other 10s of thousands who've been fired recently. Don't even get me started on our brothers in arms that will die as a result. We've trained with many of those men and are abandoning them now for no reason. How we as a nation have come to the point where materially supporting a war against an undeniable tyrant is a bad thing astounds me. Can you imagine if we had stopped the lend-lease act and told the UK "good luck with the war buddy?" This is the nation that stuck with Afghanistan and Iraq for decades despite the lack of progress, yet we can't stomach 3 years of monetary support? Rant over. I'm off to go get drunk and pray that I don't have to explain to my grandkids one day why grandpa stopped helping. Why he stepped aside and let Russia walk across the fledgling democracy of Ukraine.

This is the important question. And I'm guessing the answer is no. Can you imagine calling your boss to get permission to do your job literally everytime you show up to work to do your job? I'd also be willing to bet there was no order to do so.

Unfortunately for you a jury of his peers found him guilty of seditious-conspiracy. Not msm nor a democratic agenda, nor a political hit squad, or whatever excuse you care to choose. It was a jury of his peers as laid out as one of the fundamental tenants of this country that decided he was in fact guilty. And that is a fact.

Can't wait to see the $ savings go up in flames as we add more FTU sim time & flight hours to get these dudes up to speed. Only gone cross country twice? Here's a c17 round the world fiesta. Never landed a multi engine aircraft? Here's an assault in the herk. Wonder many class As do we need before they realize the toner saved a lot of $ by breaking cheaper planes.