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Navigator wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2024 11:16 pm

Guest Samsung phone wrote: ↑

Wed May 15, 2024 7:50 am

The Russians have broken through Ukrainian lines in several areas. Europe dithered and now they will have to fight the Russians in the streets of their own countries.

Question: what are the tens of millions of military age illegal migrants going to be doing while all of this is going on?

Yeah, you got it...

There are serious problems for the Ukrainians, but no real deep breakthroughs.

HOWEVER - Russia has reconstituted its Army and has seriously ramped up its military production. Russian troops are now "battle-hardened" and the pictures/ videos I have seen lately no longer show people with outdated equipment and ragged uniforms. Putin has moved someone into the defense ministry he considers his "Albert Speer" to continue to ramp up production.

Russia in 1939/40 looked like a bad joke. By 1942/3 it was a different story. We have just about given them the same amount of time. China, meanwhile, is giving them the financial means to not only survive, but to dramatically increase armament factory staffing and production.

Warfare today is a mixture of 1917 and modern drones. It does not look like anyone can make major breakthroughs, but Ukraine is being ground down. They are running short of ammunition, especially the artillery ammunition I have expounded upon in the past. They are also running short of manpower, and it seems that their 20 year olds are about as committed to national defense survival as those in the rest of Europe.

Nor has Chinese ambivalence about the wisdom of Putin’s Ukrainian adventure gone away. Last month, one of China’s most prominent Russia experts published an essay saying the Kremlin was almost certain to lose the war. Russian military-industrial backwardness, Ukrainian heroism, Western unity, and Vladimir Putin’s refusal to listen to accurate intelligence make Russia’s defeat all-but inevitable, argued Feng Yujun, a professor at Fudan University.

FullMoon wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2024 1:37 pm

Joe Biden is the worst US president since Jimmy Carter. He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South’s autocracies.

His underlying arrogance has been exacerbated by his deteriorating physical and mental condition. He acts like a blundering, interfering imperial overlord plagued by the shortest of attention spans. He sends out mixed signals, sucks up to random rogues, relentlessly bullies allies, micromanages complex conflicts from a distance and a position of ignorance, and inevitably angers both sides of every argument. Under his leadership, the world’s supreme economic, technological and military power exudes weakness, self-doubt and moral uncertainty.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/0 ... ess-biden/

Scathing and well deserved criticism. You could even make the argument that he's sailing the ship into the rocks for profit.

FullMoon wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2024 1:17 pm

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/us- ... indopacom/

If Beijing wants to execute a first strike and seize Taiwan, the ideal time might be right now, when INDOPACOM has no Standing Combined Joint Task Force (SCJTF) trained, poised, and ready to immediately employ the combat power of its Component Commands to defeat the PLA’s effort. Should this occur, INDOPACOM chief Adm. Samuel Paparo would have to form an ad hoc operational CJTF that would take weeks to assemble and prepare for combat.

In other words, INDOPACOM has no means of orchestrating a synchronized Joint All Domain campaign to absorb the blow, then launch a devastating counter-offensive operation against the PLA — which has to be so effective it keeps China from considering the nuclear option. We stand postured to lose our first large-scale conventional battle against the PLA.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Paparo just took over at the command this month, and with a new commander should come a new way of doing business. Specifically, Paparo should look to create a permanent SCJTF, specifically postured for a China scenario.

I wonder what our military expert members have to say about this. Seems like a reasonable argument.

Joe Biden is the worst US president since Jimmy Carter. He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South’s autocracies.

His underlying arrogance has been exacerbated by his deteriorating physical and mental condition. He acts like a blundering, interfering imperial overlord plagued by the shortest of attention spans. He sends out mixed signals, sucks up to random rogues, relentlessly bullies allies, micromanages complex conflicts from a distance and a position of ignorance, and inevitably angers both sides of every argument. Under his leadership, the world’s supreme economic, technological and military power exudes weakness, self-doubt and moral uncertainty.

If Beijing wants to execute a first strike and seize Taiwan, the ideal time might be right now, when INDOPACOM has no Standing Combined Joint Task Force (SCJTF) trained, poised, and ready to immediately employ the combat power of its Component Commands to defeat the PLA’s effort. Should this occur, INDOPACOM chief Adm. Samuel Paparo would have to form an ad hoc operational CJTF that would take weeks to assemble and prepare for combat.

In other words, INDOPACOM has no means of orchestrating a synchronized Joint All Domain campaign to absorb the blow, then launch a devastating counter-offensive operation against the PLA — which has to be so effective it keeps China from considering the nuclear option. We stand postured to lose our first large-scale conventional battle against the PLA.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Paparo just took over at the command this month, and with a new commander should come a new way of doing business. Specifically, Paparo should look to create a permanent SCJTF, specifically postured for a China scenario.

Any recommendations on which countries Americans can escape to?

Guest wrote: ↑

Sun May 19, 2024 8:20 am

Navigator wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2024 12:48 am

Just saw this great video on how the "Blue States", those completely controlled by the US Democratic party, utterly fail in all of the "liberal" theories that they espouse.

This video was actually made by the NY Times Editorial Dept.

It is actually liberals pointing out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites, and that when they have absolute power (as they do in the Blue states, as the republicans in those states are powerless to pass laws or veto bills), they actually make things WORSE.

Worth a look just so that you can laugh at them the next time they make one of their arguments about how they are prevented from establishing Utopia (as they see it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw

This is it. This is what Warren Pollock (the former Youtuber that led me here in 2010) called the "dirt nap". America is already in a breakdown crisis. In a fractured country like America, it will be every man for himself. Unless you can assemble your own "tribe". Choose its members carefully. (Avoid DEI)

Navigator wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2024 12:48 am

Just saw this great video on how the "Blue States", those completely controlled by the US Democratic party, utterly fail in all of the "liberal" theories that they espouse.

This video was actually made by the NY Times Editorial Dept.

It is actually liberals pointing out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites, and that when they have absolute power (as they do in the Blue states, as the republicans in those states are powerless to pass laws or veto bills), they actually make things WORSE.

Worth a look just so that you can laugh at them the next time they make one of their arguments about how they are prevented from establishing Utopia (as they see it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw