If it’s the belief that we have a “secret icbm defense” that’s causing so many people to be so cavalier about nuclear war then we need to get over that real quick because it isn’t true.
General Bricktop would just genocide you if are too fucking tedious. We've never had a race neutral genocide before. I'll need to read up on the pros and cons but I'm intrigued.
I just know I’ll die immediately if it comes to nukes. If I’m dead, I’m dead and I won’t be around to give a fuck so what’s the point in worrying about it?
The idea that we have a secret missile defense system that Donald didn’t immediately expose for political gain is absurd.
Well “defense” covers a wide swath. Our DoD budget is way too high, obviously, but there are so many culprits. The whole system is just too far gone to repair if I’m being pessimistic about it. It’s awful to experience first hand. MDA commands one of the larger budgets in DoD. I’m also biased because a lot of my career has been focused on MDA projects. They spend a ton of money, and are not immune to the budgetary criticisms by any stretch…but the problems they are trying to solve are fucking HARD. People shit on EKV’s flight test record, but most don’t understand the insanity of detecting, tracking, and intercepting an ICBM. The ranges and velocities would not even be comprehensible to many. Hypersonic defense is next. The Glide Phase Interceptor program is underway and I think will come under even more scrutiny than the new ICBM interceptor (Next Generation Interceptor). Both multi billion dollar programs running concurrently
The Mosin is one of the few guns I've shot at the range. I actually hit the target with the Mosin 3/5 times. It does have some kick. Bruised my shoulder pretty good. My friend had just bought an AR-15 type and he was into that. I just found it all very loud. I don't rate shooting ranges or have any interest in ever firing a gun ideally.
Holy crap, just noticed the worst part of i guess you can call it racism on my own side. I had cnn on mute for some ukraine coverage and there was a young woman in a headscarf being interviewed. It took me a full 5 seconds before i figured out it was a journalist doing her job. Was going over my head why a chechan woman or a bosnian could be interesting to interview before it even occured to me. Shame on me
Judging from a lot of the videos I've seen it's probably because there isn't much of a body left to recover once it takes a direct hit from an ATGM
I’m not sure on that. I have a buddy that works for a defense contractor and sends me videos and pics of this shit in use all the time. We’ve used this in highly populated areas to take out high level targets like the video said in Syria and other areas. Sometimes we just have the intel of they’re in this car or whatever and it takes the car out in the middle of a street. The pics are absolutely devastating and pretty gory.
Quick Google of the aftermath of a Syrian use. It’s amazing how precise and limited in collateral damage.
You could get them for $100 ~5 years ago but then they became the cheap gun to buy and now they’re not so cheap
It’s because whose your Vladdy isn’t reporting deaths to his people. Start shipping back thousands of dead bodies and questions start being asked.
I think his assumption that Russia is actively looking to engage against NATO countries is pushing it a bit but his overall premise that you dont want a country with nukes to outright lose a war is fair. At some point its even worth considering doing a regime change in the Ukraine where you actually flip to an even more pro-western regime if the russians are keeping up underperforming so that the Russians can spin that as a win, which is tougher to do with the exact same face there
Not necessarily. They could have just put that information on page 3 or beyond in his briefing reports and he never got that far.
Russia held a pro war rally to mark the anniversary of the Crimea Invasion. Should sanction all of these people.
OFCOM have revoked RT's license to broadcast here in the UK, as they're not considered "fit & proper", or a "responsible broadcaster". RT responded, without a hint of irony, that OFCOM has shown itself to be "nothing more than a tool of government, bending to its media-suppressing will"
he isn't saying that Russia is necessarily going to invade Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland he's saying that the Kremlin views those countries as being integral to the security of Russia, in the same way the U.S. might view Mexico, Canada, and Cuba.
well he did refer to the US troops kicking Russians booties if that were to happen straight afterwards, so it kinda felt that way to me
I took that as it meaning that Russia's only option would be Nuclear in that scenario because we assume a conventional battle between the 2 would be 1 sided.
yeah, the scenario he's outlining is the worst-case one where Russia achieves its goals in Ukraine. What would be next are a set of strategic goals against NATO countries that Russia knows it cannot fulfill with conventional weapons. That means, cynically, the best way to avoid nuclear war is to have the kremlin grind itself out indefinitely in Ukraine, which is obviously bad for the people living in Ukraine
So is it probable that he would still try and achieve these objectives because that just doesnt seem plausible to me. (im now speaking fully on a personal note) I do not think it is plausible that any party would go into a conflict assuming nukes are even in play, you need a kissinger level asshole to even think about normalizing nukes. They only come into play when things go absolutely sideways