The war in Ukraine and Donbas

They mention long-term financial support as key!

*At least dude in the meme got some pussy before the ATM trip
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Ukraine: "I want to be modern and have luxury stores and E.U. stimulus packages".

Russia: "No, I need you for a buffer zone, farmland, and industry".

German AfD: "We are kicking the U.S. out of Ramstein Air Base, pulling out of the E.U. and re-arming".

USA: "No Germany, you are a vassal state".

Poland: "We want German money but no Immigrants, we need German and American money, we are the victims of Europe and a dumping ground for defeated Ottomans" ect ect".

Germany: "Yes Poland that's right. We are sealing our Borders and cutting you off, why don't you develop"?

China: "I am shipping you 4,500 THALES cloned FLIR units for the refurbished T54/55's and T72's".

Poland: "We are fucked".


I wonder if the U.S. can out supply China via sea and air versus Chinese by land, sea, air, and rail.
 
gee last year everyone was waving a uke flag and supporting those brave fighters who were bearing the brunt of those godless commies ....ya know the ones that every bomb/missile hit a baby milk factory/blind children hospital ,nuns retirement home ........what happened


The war videos are disgusting and people hate war and it's super expensive and political.

E.U. might dissolve anyhow. Russia IS advancing.

Ukraine is doing Bosnian Serb style revenge OP's in Kursk.

A huge disgusting mess.
 
Serious question here.

When would you send you son or daughter to fight in Europe?

At Poland?
At Western or Central Ukraine?
Baltics?
Germany?
Netherlands?


I wouldnt. The government would have to find my kids and throw them onto the old conscription bus and train. They would not find them.
 
71 and no children so i am off the hook

I try to stay moderately overweight and I have a large wolf pack of children...

Besides....to be fair...Canada has lots of New Canadians..lots..they have not proven themselves.

We have an inexhaustible supply of old colonial friends that we have segregated into enclaves in all of our cities.


I think they would be pERFECT!!!!!!
 
It's kind of funny...white people don't even go to the mall anymore.

You know if we had a Covid 21 pandemic and our population went down to 20 million from 42...that would actually be good for the housing prices.
 
It's kind of funny...white people don't even go to the mall anymore.

You know if we had a Covid 21 pandemic and our population went down to 20 million from 42...that would actually be good for the housing prices.
Its not that white people wont go to to the malls now its white people avoid going to the malls because they have been taken over as a hangout for the savages .....who spend little and steal much until the malls close forever
 
we gotta admit to ourselves that war spending puts food on a shitload of tables in america...and that's why there is always one going on.
i'd guess that is why trump spent a lot on the military, rather than start more shit abroad.

i wonder if zelensky is guilty of a fara violation. :p
 
we gotta admit to ourselves that war spending puts food on a shitload of tables in america...and that's why there is always one going on.
i wonder if zelensky is guilty of a fara violation.
War spending is about as inefficient as you get with spending tax payer $ , its just lots of $$ for an extremely narrow circle

Its kinda funny how ''Beacon of democracy'' wants aid locked in for perpetuity , would not want democracy to happen to it , you know like newly elected president

 
interesting...maybe some of the guys in the military don't want our kids to die for ukraine, or israel.


Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”

I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.

And so they’re now in charge.

I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
 
New 'plea' option for criminal prosecution 😅

'' The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on the right of defendants to enter into contracts for military service during mobilization, martial law and wartime.''
 
we gotta admit to ourselves that war spending puts food on a shitload of tables in america...and that's why there is always one going on.
i'd guess that is why trump spent a lot on the military, rather than start more shit abroad.

i wonder if zelensky is guilty of a fara violation. :p
Trump spent a lot on the military because 8 years under Obama damn near killed it. Depleted stocks, depleted ammo supplies, and money diverted to DES training instead of combat training. O killed the F22 production and damn near anything that was capable and top notch.
Just as the next president will have to spend $$ on stocking the oil reserve, (unless a dem wins, then they'll leave it empty).

As under Reagan, Carter tried to kill the B1, minute man, and numerous other top notch weapons; Reagan brought the B1 back and paid for it under a 1 year budget so the Dems couldn't kill it the next year.
 
As under Reagan, Carter tried to kill the B1, minute man, and numerous other top notch weapons; Reagan brought the B1 back and paid for it under a 1 year budget so the Dems couldn't kill it the next year.
Excerpt from Reagan's January 1987 radio address to the nation.

Think back just 6 years: Our Navy had dwindled from more than 1,000 ships to less than 500. Many of our planes couldn't fly for lack of spare parts. And our men and women in uniform were seeing their pay in real terms shrink while pay in the private sector rose.

Well, I believed on first taking office, as I do today, that the defense of this Republic is not just one of the duties of the Federal Government, it is the first duty.

So, with bipartisan congressional support, we took action at once on the rebuilding of our nation's defenses. Since 1980 we've increased the number of Army divisions from 16 to 18. We've reactivated 4 battleships and purchased 124 new ships for the Navy, including 2 new aircraft carriers and 21 high-technology Aegis-class cruisers and destroyers. We've purchased over 2,500 new tactical fighter aircraft. And just as important, we've more than doubled our vital stocks of spare parts and munitions, stocks that were dangerously low in 1981.

Pay and benefits for our Armed Forces has increased substantially. And perhaps most heartening, the proportion of recruits holding high school diplomas has risen from less than 70 percent in 1980 to more than 90 percent today.
 
O killed the F22 production and damn near anything that was capable and top notch.

That is going to be his biggest sin if we ever do end up at war with Russia or China.

The thinking during his administration (not just the administration, but Americans generally) was, hey, the Cold War is over, we do not need an air superiority fighter to fight with islamic fighters in plain clothes using AK-47s and IEDs.

It was a very short sighted decision, and now it is damn near impossible to appropriate the funding for a sufficient number of F22s.
 
Excerpt from Reagan's January 1987 radio address to the nation.

Think back just 6 years: Our Navy had dwindled from more than 1,000 ships to less than 500. Many of our planes couldn't fly for lack of spare parts. And our men and women in uniform were seeing their pay in real terms shrink while pay in the private sector rose.

Well, I believed on first taking office, as I do today, that the defense of this Republic is not just one of the duties of the Federal Government, it is the first duty.

So, with bipartisan congressional support, we took action at once on the rebuilding of our nation's defenses. Since 1980 we've increased the number of Army divisions from 16 to 18. We've reactivated 4 battleships and purchased 124 new ships for the Navy, including 2 new aircraft carriers and 21 high-technology Aegis-class cruisers and destroyers. We've purchased over 2,500 new tactical fighter aircraft. And just as important, we've more than doubled our vital stocks of spare parts and munitions, stocks that were dangerously low in 1981.

Pay and benefits for our Armed Forces has increased substantially. And perhaps most heartening, the proportion of recruits holding high school diplomas has risen from less than 70 percent in 1980 to more than 90 percent today.
I was a little over a year into my term of service when he made that address.
 
That is going to be his biggest sin if we ever do end up at war with Russia or China.

The thinking during his administration (not just the administration, but Americans generally) was, hey, the Cold War is over, we do not need an air superiority fighter to fight with islamic fighters in plain clothes using AK-47s and IEDs.

It was a very short sighted decision, and now it is damn near impossible to appropriate the funding for a sufficient number of F22s.
Especially when all the hard and expensive work was already complete and they just had to manufacture a heap of F-22s.
 
Excerpt from Reagan's January 1987 radio address to the nation.

Think back just 6 years: Our Navy had dwindled from more than 1,000 ships to less than 500. Many of our planes couldn't fly for lack of spare parts. And our men and women in uniform were seeing their pay in real terms shrink while pay in the private sector rose.

Well, I believed on first taking office, as I do today, that the defense of this Republic is not just one of the duties of the Federal Government, it is the first duty.

So, with bipartisan congressional support, we took action at once on the rebuilding of our nation's defenses. Since 1980 we've increased the number of Army divisions from 16 to 18. We've reactivated 4 battleships and purchased 124 new ships for the Navy, including 2 new aircraft carriers and 21 high-technology Aegis-class cruisers and destroyers. We've purchased over 2,500 new tactical fighter aircraft. And just as important, we've more than doubled our vital stocks of spare parts and munitions, stocks that were dangerously low in 1981.

Pay and benefits for our Armed Forces has increased substantially. And perhaps most heartening, the proportion of recruits holding high school diplomas has risen from less than 70 percent in 1980 to more than 90 percent today.
But here is the thing: back then the debt to GDP was MUCH MUCH lower. We could afford to do that. Now the interest on the debt is higher than most other expenditures. The only way to get the military back to something it needs to be will be to print a lot more money, which only accelerates the overall issue and continues to increase taxes and inflation. There are two things that need to occur: quit fighting needless wars and cut WAY back handouts in the US, which does include Social Security, medicare and welfare. That still won't touch the overall debt to GDP problem with respect to interest payments.

We are in a debt spiral. Spending will either get cut via austerity or bad things will happen. So eventually we will either cut back on military spending and reduce our empire or it will occur naturally (which will only be a symptom of the much bigger problem). This is why I keep saying that neither candidate can fix this problem. Its math. The rule of 72 trumps damn near everything eventually unless you go to a balanced budget which will never happen.
 
But here is the thing: back then the debt to GDP was MUCH MUCH lower. We could afford to do that. Now the interest on the debt is higher than most other expenditures. The only way to get the military back to something it needs to be will be to print a lot more money, which only accelerates the overall issue and continues to increase taxes and inflation. There are two things that need to occur: quit fighting needless wars and cut WAY back handouts in the US, which does include Social Security, medicare and welfare. That still won't touch the overall debt to GDP problem with respect to interest payments.

We are in a debt spiral. Spending will either get cut via austerity or bad things will happen. So eventually we will either cut back on military spending and reduce our empire or it will occur naturally (which will only be a symptom of the much bigger problem). This is why I keep saying that neither candidate can fix this problem. Its math. The rule of 72 trumps damn near everything eventually unless you go to a balanced budget which will never happen.

IMO, we are getting killed by the neocons on two fronts.

The first front, as you point out, is our tremendous spending on wars that we (or the rest of the world), doesn't need. We've spent trillions of dollars on wars that didn't need to be fought. We also have over 800 military bases worldwide - not only is that highly inflammatory to other nations, but its tremendously expensive.

The second front is deteriorated relations with other countries around the globe. With our neocon foreign policy, besides being an antagonist throughout the world with our military actions (or threads), we also have over one third of the worlds countries under sanctions. This is pushing countries to "sanction proof" their economies. If they don't trade in the US dollar, they can't be sanctioned. We've really overplayed our hand here.

I fully believe that the current neocon led foreign policy, guided by Kristol and Kagans 'A Project for a New American Century', is destroying our country. Our heavy handedness in foreign policy is going to drive countries to get off the US dollar (look at BRICS), and once we are no longer the worlds reserve currency our mountains of debt is going to absolutely drown us.
 
Thats why its a slow trainwreck for those of us who can use brains and calculus without emotional issues (such as lying to oneself to cope with reality).
Its not pain to not knowing history but knowing it and unable to change anything in the now… Thats a true and great upgrade to original quote and so true it actually hurts…

As to the Ukraine its pretty clear its collapsing and it will implode soon enough after it Europe and next is you guys. By the 2032 we are either dead and glowing, just dead or perhaps we turn this shit around through lots of pain…
 
Excerpt from Reagan's January 1987 radio address to the nation.

Think back just 6 years: Our Navy had dwindled from more than 1,000 ships to less than 500. Many of our planes couldn't fly for lack of spare parts. And our men and women in uniform were seeing their pay in real terms shrink while pay in the private sector rose.

Well, I believed on first taking office, as I do today, that the defense of this Republic is not just one of the duties of the Federal Government, it is the first duty.

So, with bipartisan congressional support, we took action at once on the rebuilding of our nation's defenses. Since 1980 we've increased the number of Army divisions from 16 to 18. We've reactivated 4 battleships and purchased 124 new ships for the Navy, including 2 new aircraft carriers and 21 high-technology Aegis-class cruisers and destroyers. We've purchased over 2,500 new tactical fighter aircraft. And just as important, we've more than doubled our vital stocks of spare parts and munitions, stocks that were dangerously low in 1981.

Pay and benefits for our Armed Forces has increased substantially. And perhaps most heartening, the proportion of recruits holding high school diplomas has risen from less than 70 percent in 1980 to more than 90 percent today.
Watch and learn why you can't have nice things .
USN ............... 💪 , 2-3 screw up ship project in a row , they are not even trying

 


7 SS-18s have failed to launch and crashed lately.
 
Interesting that the picture is all Specialists swearing an oath to Sgt, E-5. There are no "high level NCOs" in that picture.

But how would the "never served any where but McDonalds" main stream media even know enough to know that?
not uncommon for "news" outlets to use stock photos that have no real association to the article.
 
But here is the thing: back then the debt to GDP was MUCH MUCH lower. We could afford to do that. Now the interest on the debt is higher than most other expenditures. The only way to get the military back to something it needs to be will be to print a lot more money, which only accelerates the overall issue and continues to increase taxes and inflation. There are two things that need to occur: quit fighting needless wars and cut WAY back handouts in the US, which does include Social Security, medicare and welfare. That still won't touch the overall debt to GDP problem with respect to interest payments.

We are in a debt spiral. Spending will either get cut via austerity or bad things will happen. So eventually we will either cut back on military spending and reduce our empire or it will occur naturally (which will only be a symptom of the much bigger problem). This is why I keep saying that neither candidate can fix this problem. Its math. The rule of 72 trumps damn near everything eventually unless you go to a balanced budget which will never happen.
well, I know that the Dems are sitting on 42BILLION that was supposed to be for the internet, that STILL hasn't hooked up 1 person.
So, 8 BRAND new aircraft carries? how many F22's could that have purchased?

The average aircraft carrier costs between $5 billion to $10 billion to build.
 
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But here is the thing: back then the debt to GDP was MUCH MUCH lower. We could afford to do that. Now the interest on the debt is higher than most other expenditures. The only way to get the military back to something it needs to be will be to print a lot more money, which only accelerates the overall issue and continues to increase taxes and inflation. There are two things that need to occur: quit fighting needless wars and cut WAY back handouts in the US, which does include Social Security, medicare and welfare. That still won't touch the overall debt to GDP problem with respect to interest payments.

We are in a debt spiral. Spending will either get cut via austerity or bad things will happen. So eventually we will either cut back on military spending and reduce our empire or it will occur naturally (which will only be a symptom of the much bigger problem). This is why I keep saying that neither candidate can fix this problem. Its math. The rule of 72 trumps damn near everything eventually unless you go to a balanced budget which will never happen.
"This is why I keep saying that neither candidate can fix this problem."

You missed the real reason.

Americans. They love big government.

They picked two candidates who propose higher spending every year. They elect Senators and Representatives who pass more spending every year.

You mentioned social security and medicare (and medicaid) the three fastest growing government programs. If you try to touch them, your political career is over, period.

American voters are the problem.

They do not love liberty. They do not love small government. They love big government programs and want to feel safe and taken care of. Is there a problem? What is the government going to do to fix it? <--- These are the only considerations voters have today.


50% of the budget in a picture below, and that is 50% of a budget in which a third of the budget is borrowed. The percentage of revenue is more like 75%.


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source of the picture:
 

Ukraine discovers North Korean missiles in destroyed Russian base​


so, in that 230 foot deep crater in Russia.. Ukraine found stuff.
If there was Free Money in the crater, Z would have been there already