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  1. If the refs could I dunno throw a flag on some of these flagrant facemasks that would be great.
  2. Says who? Name me one on the bold part. The Nazi's, Communists, BLM, Kluckers, Antifa, American "Neo-Nazis", Al Queda, ISIS, love love love to put out their propaganda. I can't think of an organization of this sort that doesn't. Now let's get to my point about Nazis and my original post. We moderns seem to have little clue what the actual Nazis were about except for the hatred of Jews. I include the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis in this group. You have to be a special sort of ignoramus or stupid to be Ukrainian and claim to be an actual Nazi, obviously there are people that ignorant. A core component of the Nazi position was to kill/enslave people with Ukrainian heritage to make room for people with Germanic heritage. Also if you believe in any of the following things: Private property rights Right to form private education institutions with minimal government interference The good of the individual cannot be easily disguarded for a supposed common good The central government is not supreme and must be checked and balanced in power Being able to invest and earn interest War/defence contractors be allowed to make a profit To be able to make a profit And are against the following: Nationalizing private trusts, Forced formation of communal stores Profit sharing in large industries Abolition of rent Abolition of land speculation Waging war for the benefit and expansion of people with Germanic heritage That puts you at odds with the Nazi party. Nazis weren't simply white supremacists, they were Germanic supremacists with the goal of creating a collective, communal society with the collective being the German state. So you have Ukranians, Americans, etc that call themselves Nazis when in fact they often have little in common with the Nazi Party. That was my point to find out how close these Ukranian "Neo-Nazis" are to actual Nazis or if they are simply a bunch of ignoramus/idiots.
  3. Can you provide the literature of a Ukrainian faction that professes a platform that is similar to what the Nazi Party was pushing in the 1930's and 40's? I would very much like to see it. I mean this in the most sincere manner, but I want actual evidence and I want it referenced and compared to the actual 25 point Nazi platform.
  4. I would say it comes to walking the line of committing violence with the motive of stopping violence towards yourself and others compared to giving in to a wrathful attitude and bloodlust. Spend too much time in the latter and it is ones own being that is being changed, and I doubt for the better. I am a squishy civie, but walking that line is one thing I am glad my Grandfather (a Korean War vet) did talk to me about his experience before he passed. Another forum I read has a retired Canadian Colonel and he is convinced the Russians will be back and "KISS" advance. In other words advance until resistance is met, dig in, then let loose with mass arty, then advance and repeat. Not sure if he is right or not, but regardless the ugliness will continue.
  5. The moment NATO doesn't respond to the invasion of one member, NATO is dead, and if NATO is dead Europe will find itself subject to the same violence and horror as Ukraine is now. Also NATO is dead if enough people start thinking NATO won't respond if insert NATO nation here is invaded because nuclear war risk. NATO exists in order to make the line clear to those in Moscow that hey you mess with them you mess with us, so don't pull anything unless you want WW3. Reading about the atrocities happening in Ukraine now only strengthens my resolve that no other nation should find themselves subject to those atrocities, even more so if they are a member of NATO. Do I want WW3, no, but I also don't want these atrocities to spread, and that takes a firm resolve and commitment of all NATO members.
  6. Agree with your primary premises here I think, but who says you have to destroy the satellite to deny the data uplink? I think there are other ways (EW, signals/comms operations) to deny your opponent their data uplink. Agree with your first paragraph and good points. On the second I would emphasize you need to have ways to deny your opponent the use of their drones, whether that is physically destroying them or their operators or disrupting their data uplink. I am not putting down drones or their effectiveness. I find the whole tech fascinating and working and flying them is one of the favorite parts of my job. I just don't think they are making armor obsolete.
  7. Drones while being powerful assets, do have vulnerabilities and exploits. How would you rate Armenian electronic warfare, airpower, and communications? Are drones an important part, yes, are they part of the continuing evolution of combat, yes, but that isn't the same as making armor obsolete. Edit:. While drones are getting a lot of the attention, from another forum I peruse it seems it is Ukrainian artillery that is doing the lion share of the killing.
  8. Tanks since they first rolled out onto the battlefield in WW1 have always required proper employment or else you get a bunch of knocked out tanks and dead tankers. In WW2 you had man portable devices capable of knocking out tanks. Egypt schooled the Israelis decades ago with man portable anti-tank missiles. In the end combined arms is still the king. Properly utilized as part of a system the armor, mobility, firepower, and staying power of a modern tank is an important piece of combined arms. As far as unthinkable 10 years ago, the javelin saw original introduction in the 1990's. What you see here is what happens when your infantry support is a bunch of ill trained, poorly led conscripts.
  9. If things are looking like everything is going south and they are likely to die anyway, I could see motivation of well if we are going down, we will take you down with us. Not saying they will, but if conditions change I could see motivation. With this war, best for us to keep all eyes open not just for this, but just so we have some idea of what is actually going on so we can properly respond and learn. See above, things can change, and if they do change I could see potential motivation to do as such. Keep in mind we are not privy to logistics, so if things are going to change for the worse, Ukraine is likely to know before we do. I am not overly thinking Ukraine will do this now, just giving my opinion on one potential sensible reason for them to.
  10. I dunno I didn't follow the analogy. App St was the underdog, so would assume they were representing Ukraine, but the bit about the Michigan TV booth and 2nd quarter (Michigan was up early in the 2nd) has me thinking he has Michigan as Ukraine showing early hubris. Not sure.
  11. Disaster for Putin, the Russian soldiers, their families, absolutely. If this leads to the downfall of Putin and Russia is able to get leadership that can work with the west as more of a partner than an adversary, it may be a long term blessing for Russia.
  12. Ah, but that team did end up beating a top ten ranked Florida at Orlando (practical home game for Florida) in their bowl game.
  13. Agreed, now if all of a sudden some additional Migs show up in Ukraine, I dunno must be Russian defectors
  14. I am not going to tell the Ukrainians what they should hold out for as far as peace. That is up to them. If I am in their shoes, I might, might, consider letting the eastern regions become a part of Russia. There is some language in the Minsk Accords that gives some basis for it. Dream world I would have Swiss, Austrian, and other non-aligned troops and officials to oversee a vote by the populace in those regions. (No chance of that happening, but dream world) At this point I am inclined to tell Putin he lost any chance of Ukrainian promise to remain non-aligned the moment he ordered this iinvasion For all this crying about NATO expansion, sorry Russia those states are sovereign and can associate with who they want. That verbal agreement was said to the Soviets not the current Russian state. See Washington's and Hamilton's response to the French for America's established tradition on these sorts of things.
  15. Remember adding to the marble cake is it isn't just federal surface land, you also have huge expanses of federal mineral rights. Depends, States like Wyoming and Alaska that the Feds have a huge amount of control they are having a very big effect. Outside of that you are looking at the ESG nonsense and how much Biden and his admin is involved in that stuff behind the scenes. And yes there is stuff they need to be doing now to get the ball rolling domestically, but it won't happen. Sure $60 a barrel won't be anytime soon, but stopping the permit holdup, and actually announcing investigations into market collusion and manipulation going on with ESG, and giving energy companies some sense of ability to secure investments would all have immediate impacts on oil futures.
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