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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. Second thought, emergency descent or in controlled dive, structural damage in the arrest thereof followed by structural failure and final plummet.
  2. Possible emergency descent, level off and pilots overcome by smoke, fumes or other issue?
  3. …real gangsta ass n****s can't run for shit, cause real gangsta ass n****s can't run fast.”
  4. I mean, how would we know if he hit it or not?
  5. This is what the majority of everyone’s armed forces looks like age wise. If there’s anything I hate about war movies it’s the preponderance of 30-40 year olds taking the place of the teenagers and early 20 somethings that actually did most of the fighting. My grandfather was 26 when WWII started and everyone in his Seabee unit referred to him as some derivative of grandpa. Also, you were right to fear the Soviets in the 80’s. The current Russian military is only a shadow of the Red Army.
  6. Crash our power grid? Shut down our pipelines? F with our banking system. There’s a lot of options on the table that don’t start with mushroom clouds. Russia’s conventional military is hurting. They are not toothless in non conventional ways.
  7. All relevant military objectives can be accomplished electronically these days. Other than China annexing Taiwan there really isn’t a case for securing land or resources in the immediate future that couldn’t be done through more subversive and less overt means. I’m not saying that major land or sea battles are no longer a thing, but they’re less of a thing than they used to be. Russia is spent. They will not be able to raise another effective fighting force for decades. Europe will not want to be under their thumb with regard to oil, gas and nuclear energy, but those aims can be handled by domestic policy or regime change. Destruction of the Russian state is about the surest way to start WWIII conventionally and end it in a nuclear fashion. Honestly, your passions are ahead of your reasoning in this matter imoho. There is no ideologically driven, genocidal horde hellbent on world domination romping around Europe. And the Empire in the East is well established with little thought of expansionism beyond that troublesome island. China might look West to a de-clawed Russian state, but there’s simply no need to start a global war. I think the desire to settle all accounts now while we have the wherewithal to do it has some merit, but it’s likely the end of all things if we pull that lever.
  8. That requires a leadership change and a few oligarchs deciding that they want their toys more than they want the west to have them. Not destruction of the state. BTW, I’m relatively sure that WWIII is already underway, and it largely won’t be a kinetic fight.
  9. Yeah, Russia isn’t giving up their nukes. Their conventional military is spent. They have nothing left to keep everyone i their respective lanes, and a s**t tone of land and resources to protect from anyone who might want them. They might trade in 1/2 the arsenal or something and still have a couple of two thousand warheads left, but they’re not drawing down to zero. Tradiational Russian paranoi probably has them looking at China’s arsenal and saying we need at least 5x that, and we’re not doing it unless the US draws down to that amount too. A significant win, but still enough end mankind several times over.
  10. An excellent point. I wonder if such weapons have fingerprints on them such that we could say that it was produced here or that we don’t use such chemicals etc.
  11. Unless the biomedical research lab is actually a chemical weapons facility. I don’t know either way, but for the pentagon to make such a stretch suggests to me that it’s more than just pathogen research.
  12. I would look a lot further East if I were you.
  13. I used to work with one of the weasel pilots who commanded a squadron heading into Desert Storm. They picked beer brands as squadron call signs, bribed the Air Force weather weenies to not forecast freezing water for the transatlantic crossing so they wouldn’t have to wear survival suits on the way over with cases of beer and serviced many SAM sites with some of their own medicine. Somewhere there’s video of CNN interviewing him after the first mission.
  14. If only there were lessons from history regarding winter invasions and poorly supplied troops for the Russians to draw from.
  15. Perhaps not, but they have a Triad much as we do, and their air portion of that nuclear triangle is minimal. They’re going to win the ground war in Ukraine if they want to, but grind down their forces in the process. I suspect they’ll want to maintain their nuclear shield and means to deliver it. Otherwise they risk becoming a….Bi….ad?
  16. Russia has something like 10,000 tanks, and plenty of conscripts. They don’t have a lot of front line aircraft, certainly not a lot of true bombers, and they probably aren’t just flush with cruise missiles anymore either. So they use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.
  17. They’d lose most of their bombers. And they only have 300 or so operable front line aircraft.
  18. Motivation and skillsets are not dependent on governmental competence. Sniping and SF is, of course, something learned in the military, but taking on disinterested conscripts in stalled columns doesn’t require military supermen.
  19. Yup. Especially the APC versions of crossovers running around with reindeer antlers at Christmas.
  20. Yes. But it seems the Russians were trying to communicate with modified phones that they cockblocked themselves by destroying the cellular network. So now those APCs with the antlers are doubly important.
  21. “Accio T-80!” Ukrainian farmer pulls up towing some armor. ”See, I told you this shit works.” ”
  22. So then you tell your troops to give any armored personnel carrier with an antenna farm on top extra attention. That’s probably a unit commander of some sort.
  23. I was making the obligatory reference. There’s also Zorro, the Gay Blade, and that might terrify the nazi elements or inflame them ( in more ways than one?), but that’s hardly the stuff to motivate most troops.
  24. Obligatory World War Z reference. Probably randomly chosen, but maybe a reference to the Ukrainian president as well.
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