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[Wildebeest]

Something lighter

Couldn't tear himself away from Roblox long enough to go to the bunker.

 

[Wildebeest]

The real issue is the lack of replacement, as well as bureaucracy. Why does it take one month to make a single Patriot missile? why are Lockheed, Raytheon and the likes so slow? why did Biden not commission significant rearmament? Tons of jobs would have been created in factories to make 155mm artillery ammo, air defence missiles, HIMARS missiles and more ATACMS.

The saying is fast, good, cheap, you can only pick two. But manufacturing is so dominated by China now that if you want good it seems you can pretty much only pick one.

 

[LyricalShrike]

Giving Ukraine the weapons wasn't the problem. Most of those were made to destroy Russian tanks and airplanes and they've done the job quite well with zero American casualties.

it may well be the best investment the U.S. military has made in a long time.

The real issue is the lack of replacement, as well as bureaucracy. Why does it take one month to make a single Patriot missile? why are Lockheed, Raytheon and the likes so slow? why did Biden not commission significant rearmament? Tons of jobs would have been created in factories to make 155mm artillery ammo, air defence missiles, HIMARS missiles and more ATACMS.

Artillery and less complex equipment was ramped up fairly quickly. The US has a problem with high end manufacturing in general. It lacks the population willing/able to ramp up advanced supply chains. Taiwan semiconductor's fabs have been floundering because it's having trouble building up a local workforce. Neither party does much to address the growing skills gap.

 

[Critical Hit]

The person in the video is Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector.

Lol, the person accused of pedophilia who has been sucking up to the Kremlin for many years.

 

[StueyDuck]

Iran won on day 1... by setting a trap... where all their major leaders get wiped out, and 99% of their retaliatory strikes get shot down, and their people rejoice in the streets that the regime might come to an end.

because the 30-something % of Islamic believers in the country... Now have more faith?

What am I even listening to?

this is worse than Alex Jones

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Artillery and less complex equipment was ramped up fairly quickly. The US has a problem with high end manufacturing in general. It lacks the population willing/able to ramp up advanced supply chains. Taiwan semiconductor's fabs have been floundering because it's having trouble building up a local workforce. Neither party does much to address the growing skills gap.

I'd argue the recent push to build fabs in the U.S, in case of war and for "future proofing" is also a factor. There is also the administration's push for rare earth supply chain independence.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Iran won on day 1... by setting a trap... where all their major leaders get wiped out, and 99% of their retaliatory strikes get shot down, and their people rejoice in the streets that the regime might come to an end.

because the 30-something % of Islamic believers in the country... Now have more faith?

What am I even listening to?

this is worse than Alex Jones

Iran is waiting to recieve more damage before releasing super secret weapon.

Probably is trying to fill in EX bar or something

 

[StueyDuck]

Iran is waiting to recieve more damage before releasing super secret weapon.

Probably is trying to fill in EX bar or something

Apparently how the IRGC already won...

 

[MisterFalcon]

What am I even listening to?

this is worse than Alex Jones

Ritter's making some sweet bucks from being on a dozen Youtube channels every day for years now, stating how the US and its allies are being crushed.
If you look at his new vids, these hacked channels pop up with a dozen views on some niche local subject and suddenly post 10 videos per day on IT'S OVER FOR THE US

 

[AzullAbaddon]

Iran won on day 1... by setting a trap... where all their major leaders get wiped out, and 99% of their retaliatory strikes get shot down, and their people rejoice in the streets that the regime might come to an end.

because the 30-something % of Islamic believers in the country... Now have more faith?

What am I even listening to?

this is worse than Alex Jones

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

Apparently how the IRGC already won...

wrong form my man, this is the one Iran is using (ultra ego Vegeta):

The more damage he takes the stronger they get.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Just like their Hamas affiliates. I guess that's why Israel has started to use more special forces on the ground now. Plus with new bombers coming to Iran, they will need some forces to cleanup the terrorists and schools and such. Ideally the local iranian forces should do that. Like for example, why the reporters and others do not attack or expel the officials?

 

[winjer]

Just like their Hamas affiliates. I guess that's why Israel has started to use more special forces on the ground now. Plus with new bombers coming to Iran, they will need some forces to cleanup the terrorists and schools and such. Ideally the local iranian forces should do that. Like for example, why the reporters and others do not attack or expel the officials?

FFS, these Islamists are already hiding behind children.
Spineless cowards.

 

[Boo Who?]

FFS, these Islamists are already hiding behind children.
Spineless cowards.

To be fair, it is where their wives are at.

 

[Bojji]

Please feel free to tell me who the good guys are.

Good guys, similar ro Gondor from TLOTR? Nothing like that in the real world.

I guess good guys now are countries that fight back against totalitarian regimes that try to destroy them, same was true during WW2 and same is true now.

Russia was always on "totalitarian regime that try to destroy them" side.

 

[Mozza]

Good guys, similar ro Gondor from TLOTR? Nothing like that in the real world.

I guess good guys now are countries that fight back against totalitarian regimes that try to destroy them, same was true during WW2 and same is true now.

Russia was always on "totalitarian regime that try to destroy them" side.

I agree in the days of the first two world wars you could define good vs bad far easier. Now it's much more context and nuanced. There are more bad guys out there, it's just different perspectives. Same with countries, they don't have friends, they have interests.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Good read, it's not an exaggeration to say that the entire decade after Obama has been cleaning up the foreign policy disasters he created around the world

 

[nkarafo]

Please feel free to tell me who the good guys are.

Certainly not the ones who want to suppress freedom by forcing their cancer religious ideologies and laws to the world.

 

[AJUMP23]

This dude wants some smoke.

 

[Boo Who?]

This dude wants some smoke.

 

[Mozza]

Certainly not the ones who want to suppress freedom by forcing their cancer religious ideologies and laws to the world.

I agree, but I still feel defining good or bad gets more difficult as the years go on.

 

[nkarafo]

This dude wants some smoke.

It's like the bad guys from some 80's American action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

[Mozza]

For a second I thought the bad guys in the next Call Of Duty had been announced, or FarCry...

 

[nkarafo]

I agree, but I still feel defining good or bad gets more difficult as the years go on.

Maybe but what i described is definitely, objectively, unarguably bad in any context.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Taking over Venezuela was very smart. Plus kicking out China from Panama. Together with LNG exports and energy security - USA is the most energy secure country now and much less vulnerabilities.

 

[LordCBH]

This dude wants some smoke.

Oh nooo. Not a nation with a Star Wars name. I'm terrified now.

 

[AJUMP23]

Ausie Ausie Ausie

 

[Bojji]

Ausie Ausie Ausie

How someone this stupid was allowed to speak?

 

[AJUMP23]

How someone this stupid was allowed to speak?

Helps us know how foolish they are.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

How someone this stupid was allowed to speak?

And these people vote...

 

[Ipsi]

 

[vodka-bull]

Taking over Venezuela was very smart. Plus kicking out China from Panama. Together with LNG exports and energy security - USA is the most energy secure country now and much less vulnerabilities.

It'll take a few years to have full access to the Venezuelan oil though.

 

[LimanimaPT]

The more I see the rumour about defensive weapons being on low stock denied the more I believe it to be true.

Taking over Venezuela was very smart. Plus kicking out China from Panama. Together with LNG exports and energy security - USA is the most energy secure country now and much less vulnerabilities.

And fuck the others ain't it?

 

[Mozza]

Maybe but what i described is definitely, objectively, unarguably bad in any context.

I totally agree.

 

[jason10mm]

Sometimes I read stuff like this and wonder if I've slipped into an alternate world into something like The Sky Crawlers, where war is just staged for public entertainment.

 

[jason10mm]

France won the Hundred Years War though

Man, I never let facts stand in the way of a good joke

 

[Critical Hit]

Taking over Venezuela was very smart. Plus kicking out China from Panama.

Only this plays into Russia's hands, both the oil and gas and the delivery of weapons. On the other hand, Trump warned Zelensky to reach an agreement quickly before this all started.

 

[Ipsi]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Bojji]

Why aren't they doing this shit in bunkers? lol.

Nobody wants to be the next supreme leader, hahaha.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Only this plays into Russia's hands, both the oil and gas and the delivery of weapons. On the other hand, Trump warned Zelensky to reach an agreement quickly before this all started.

The problem is that Russia needs the weapons themselves. And pipelines and other stuff was destroyed too. Plus all the second order effects from the falling shipping routes. Russia is not a winner here at all. For Ukraine...Well they are in EU and UK camp so...Considering the conflict between Ukraine and Hungary/Slovakia over the gas. EU will also has to deal with their own sanctions on Russian gas and so on.

 

[Bojji]

Angry mob is very angry... They would probably kill him if wasn't able to prove them that he is not Iranian. And even if this was Iranian pilot he shouldn't be killed on the spot...

This only shows how different ME countries are to western countries. Why are those people allowed here?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Angry mob is very angry... They would probably kill him if wasn't able to prove them that he is not Iranian. And even if this was Iranian pilot he shouldn't be killed on the spot...

This only shows how different ME countries are to western countries. Why are those people allowed here?

Fighter pilots are armed with a combination of sidearms and compact rifles (in their flight seat kit) for ejection. Sidearms are hidden in the flight suit, but easy access. He would've taken them all out with their sticks if they didn't back down.

Good on him for deescalation.

 

[jason10mm]

Why aren't they doing this shit in bunkers? lol.

Nobody wants to be the next supreme leader, hahaha.

This is the issue with Iran though, I don't think there is ANY secular (or at least non-islamic hardliner) leadership there, AT ALL. So you have a bunch of true believers, only there because they ARE true believers, having to decide to abandon what they see as their core values in order to appease an attacker or just double down and pray their sky god saves them like he says he will in the book they have been reading for 1500 years.

So it's unlikely there is a senior General, cabinet minister, or viable opposition party leader that can step up and provide a clear path forward. Hell, I doubt they even have city mayors, state governors, or whatever their equivalent might be, to choose from in the way we have depth of field in America. The Shah's son seems like an extremely unlikely solution, has he's been here in America for 40 years and is really only mentioned as a relic of the ROYALTY system of rule Iran used to have, not exactly the sort of this we in America should be promoting

Though in reality, I suspect Iran is gonna have a military coup from a cadre of soldiers who understand the need to appease the US, will crush any opposition with merciless force, and will try to wait out the US's interest in them for a few years until a more capitulating POTUS comes in and then lets them go back. They know the US operates more like a wacky waving inflatable tube man and a new breeze will blow it in a new direction shortly.

 

[RCX]

They couldn't have set up a Discord for this?!

 

[Bojji]

They couldn't have set up a Discord for this?!

They turned off the internet.

 

[EviLore]

Please feel free to tell me who the good guys are.

Whoever's not on this team, it's safe to say:

 

[jason10mm]

Angry mob is very angry... They would probably kill him if wasn't able to prove them that he is not Iranian. And even if this was Iranian pilot he shouldn't be killed on the spot...

This only shows how different ME countries are to western countries. Why are those people allowed here?

I find it interesting that they would mistake a white american for an Iranian in the first place...which I think says a lot about how some ethnic Iranians look.

Some articles suggest the pilot was 'surrendering' when he took a knee, I kinda wonder if he was about ready to draw a sidearm and smoke some fools....

 

[Trunx81]

They couldn't have set up a Discord for this?!

Discord needs facial recognition now.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Whoever's not on this team, it's safe to say:

Sick fucks.

I still have nightmares of the children we found and the things that had been done to them. Trash ass humans to put millions of children through this.