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[freyguy 4272]

1 minute ago, rpspeed said:

 

 

[FartingMonk 3606]

2 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

Which do you think is harder:

Supplying the logistical train supporting 150,000 soldiers or employing a group of hackers to F up our wide ass open power grid? Already forgotten them shutting down a few pipelines on a whim?

Think it’s hard to lob a single high yield warhead high up into the atmosphere for an EMP attack? That’s a button push. I assure you they’ve got missiles and warheads dedicated to that very thing.  
 

You’re confusing general ineptitude of conventional forces with asymmetric warfare conducted by specialized units.  
 

 

Yeah.  The open comms thing has me laughing.  Just because they are running open comms with the ground units does not mean they are doing the same with their first strike units. 

[Hook1997 5354]

11 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Wtf is going on in the valley that we don’t know about to have 4 targets in the 500 senecio?

[Steel Shank 9425]

14 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Dang.

[BachelorTrek 2975]

16 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

I find it amusing that anything in Fayette County, Texas, is worth wasting a nuke warhead on, even its power plant next to La Grange.  I'd rather hit some place that I hated a 2nd time.  Lulz.

Edited March 2, 2022 by BachelorTrek

[Shaddie 1651]

I want to believe the lots troops not fighting but I don’t. 
 

Then hear stories of captured soldiers and local commanders not having been told of invasion. Maybe this is why?

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

https://nyti.ms/3tBtrMT

So this is how are intel has been so on point.

 

Fucking clippy is a spy

 

 

[Gatorubet 30238]

We don't even know if Dead Hand is truly offline. Dead Hand is the guaranteed "final strike" mechanism the Soviets had.

So - we need a Learned Hand?

[Deej 76791]

8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Rhetorically speaking.  You actually fly over Canada, Alaska , and Kamchatka if you are coming out of the NE. From LA  you fly across the the Northern Pacific. You don’t fly “horizontally” across the Pacific.

 

I know from experience that the flight from LA to Auckland is over a whole bunch of nothing. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

15 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Way to go Corpus! You even got one!

[Shaddie 1651]

1 minute ago, Doc Reeves said:

Way to go Corpus! You even got one!

So Putin is starting his own home improvement show?

Edited March 2, 2022 by Shaddie

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Just now, Deej said:

I know from experience that the flight from LA to Auckland is over a whole bunch of nothing. 

Oh yeah. 12 solid hrs of nothing. 

[The Ace of Aces 5183]

17 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

I live in a diamond, circle and red star. What do I win?

I know enough Russians to get a heads up at least. 

[Bateshorn 9927]

5 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Rhetorically speaking.  You actually fly over Canada, Alaska , and Kamchatka. You don’t fly “horizontally” across the Pacific.
 

Yeah the Kamchatka route is the one I'm familiar with since we're always leaving from the west coast. I believe the east coast direct routes actually do fly over the north pole.

Yeah dude. I’m a liberal arts major for a reason (I was told their’d be no math[Suck it Huckleberry]) but the level that people can’t rationalize we live on a ball and not a distorted 2d map still astounds me. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Just now, Shaddie said:

SonPutin is starting his own home improvement show?

I think he’s just into chubby Hispanic girls with a pretty face

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

1 hour ago, Nivek said:

I have two of those.  Well, rather my wife has 2 of those.  sigh..... 

Matches the number of your balls she has in her purse. I feel your pain.

[Deej 76791]

1 minute ago, Doc Reeves said:

Oh yeah. 12 solid hrs of nothing. 

When we were on final approach to Auckland, I wasn't sure if we were landing or had just run out of fuel. 

[Bateshorn 9927]

2 minutes ago, Deej said:

I know from experience that the flight from LA to Auckland is over a whole bunch of nothing. 

I survived LA to Sydney in 94 when you had what ever canned and edited movies Quantus played on the drop down screen. Dark times. 

['stache 21815]

4 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Wtf is going on in the valley that we don’t know about to have 4 targets in the 500 senecio?

Same with a random spot on the OK-AR border that might be Fort Smith? Looks like I need to move back to Stillwater. Rooskies don't fuck with Pistol Pete, lol.

[Gatorubet 30238]

North Central Nevada it is then….

[Deej 76791]

1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:

I survived LA to Sydney in 94 when you had what ever canned and edited movies Quantus played on the drop down screen. Dark times. 

I had to suffer through "I Love Trouble" and "The Little Rascals" on one of the NZ flights.

[BachelorTrek 2975]

1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

North Central Nevada it is then….

Austin, Nevada, seems safe. Been there.

[Hook1997 5354]

6 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

Way to go Corpus! You even got one!

3rd largest port in America and a Naval base, that was kinda a given…

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Someone needs to fill Putin in that that’s not the real army

[BrickTop 477]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiD3kJvjOe/?utm_medium=copy_link

Warning, not sure if 100 percent legit but a fairly reliable source, either way it’s upsetting when I think of my kids, both around this age.

[South Austin 52500]

25 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

But what about the force field?

[Nicole44 22060]

This is all so surreal with the SOTU going on simultaneously. Love seeing all the blue and yellow on both aisles though. Not a fleeting thought. I admit I got carried away a lot today. My apologies to all. This is very emotional for all of us. 

[FartingMonk 3606]

4 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

I survived LA to Sydney in 94 when you had what ever canned and edited movies Quantus played on the drop down screen. Dark times. 

Haha.  We flew an MD80 from Guam to Tacoma.  We were like uhh does that thing even have the distance?  Apparently it did

[Deej 76791]

1 minute ago, BrickTop said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiD3kJvjOe/?utm_medium=copy_link

Warning, not sure if 100 percent legit but a fairly reliable source, either way it’s upsetting when I think of my kids, both around this age.

I wouldn't send them to Ukraine, but that's just me. 

[Neonmoon 38129]

1 minute ago, BrickTop said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiD3kJvjOe/?utm_medium=copy_link

Warning, not sure if 100 percent legit but a fairly reliable source, either way it’s upsetting when I think of my kids, both around this age.

Definitely legit. Reported by various national media 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

1 minute ago, Hook1997 said:

3rd largest port in America and a Naval base, that was kinda a given…

Yeah, but you gotta point out stuff like that for them. It’s just so adorable how excited they get

[Buzzrock 14920]

 

Well that should help.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

1 hour ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

No, the kid is going. I ain't. I am too old and fat. 30 years ago I would have. But he is asking me to help him find someone who is willing to go, and I would be kind of thrust into the position of recruiter in that I would feel responsible for him while he is embedded over there. And there could be a day when I have grieving parents and siblings and girlfriends coming at me for hooking this kid up with this gig. 

So you hooked him up with the gig?

If the worst passes, this young man will have died doing what he loved.  I watched the alpinist this weekend and it really drove that point home and how much luckier they are than 99 percent of people who ever lived.

 

[BamaATL 16593]

6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

North Central Nevada it is then….

remember where did a lot of testing?  Yeah

[Gatorubet 30238]

If Russia were to launch 100 nuclear ICBMs at the USA, how many, realistically, could the USA intercept and destroy?

[Eastwood 4394]

26 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

One scenario I saw during some research I was doing for a paper on MAD that I had to write in college had the Russians lighting up I-35 between Dallas and DFW to catch any Army equipment and personnel that evacuated Ft. Hood. They also had the Valley lit up just in case the military was storing equipment and personnel there with the hopes it would be overlooked. Modern satellite technology removed all that guesswork, though, and now Russia could theoretically pick and choose their targets just before launch.

[Bobby_Batronic 1994]

11 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

Yeah.  The open comms thing has me laughing.  Just because they are running open comms with the ground units does not mean they are doing the same with their first strike units. 

Their conventional force has been an underfunded paper tiger for years. They were no more capable of driving on Paris prior to Ukraine than they were of swearing off Vodka for the year. 
 

I do fear their cyber abilities, and I’m sure they could get more than a few ICBM’s pickled off if need be. 
 

Take out our power grid for a month and the majority of the country dies of exposure, sickness and starvation. 

[Buzzrock 14920]

Yeah the US should do nothing unilaterally from a military perspective. Work within NATO.
The question is how hard to crush the Russian economy and Putin directly financially. Does Russia launch nukes over sanctions/embargo? 
Unfortunately the military play here for NATO is to sit back and let Putin hang himself in this quagmire while tip toeing the line  providing arms help to Ukraine extend him out as much as possible. The goal being Russia stalls out and eventually retreats back after horrifying all the countries around them to border them with NATO all on the sides. 
Millions of Ukrainians might have to die so billions of humans don't die in nuclear holocaust if we destroy Putin's forces head on and he launches. 

Isn’t the west still paying Russia $650M per day for oil and gas? I had a hella work day so I’m a thousand posts behind on this thread and haven’t caught up on the news, but as of yesterday the sanctions carved out energy.

[MillerEP 30455]

 

[Constant 6732]

7 minutes ago, BrickTop said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiD3kJvjOe/?utm_medium=copy_link

Warning, not sure if 100 percent legit but a fairly reliable source, either way it’s upsetting when I think of my kids, both around this age.

100% legit. I have a seven and four year old year old daughter, and I see them both laying on that table.

War is a terrible thing. If Putin wasn’t a monster, I’d say he should have to look at images like this one for the rest of his days. 

[Viper 12109]

29 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

So much for the next season of Yellowstone.

 

25 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

So it looks like after fallout southern Oregon is sort of safe, otherwise the rest of us are potentially fucked pretty good.  Please don't crash the southern Oregon zillow stuff.

So who's going to start the New California Republic?

[Eastwood 4394]

17 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

So - we need a Learned Hand?

Dead Hand came after Learned Hand died. Coincidence? I think not.

Also, I've felt like dying after reading some of his opinions, so this checks out.

[27-25 2047]

2 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

remember where did a lot of testing?  Yeah

That was more south in the state, right?  Stay north of Carson City and that should be OK.

[Bateshorn 9927]

5 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

Haha.  We flew an MD80 from Guam to Tacoma.  We were like uhh does that thing even have the distance?  Apparently it did

That’s balls.  I get nervous on a 757 ER. “Yo, you guys want me to hold a can of JP, just in case?”

[Guest Lobo]

1 minute ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

Their conventional force has been an underfunded paper tiger for years. They were no more capable of driving on Paris prior to Ukraine than they were of swearing off Vodka for the year. 
 

I do fear their cyber abilities, and I’m sure they could get more than a few ICBM’s pickled off if need be. 
 

Take out our power grid for a month and the majority of the country dies of exposure, sickness and starvation. 

The problem with compromising our power grid is not knowing how long it would take to restore.  If you told Texans up front, "It's gonna be down for four weeks, be safe, we'll have distribution centers, don't get crazy"...we'd come together and work it out.  If you only know it was a month in hindsight after 10,000 people got shot for no reason, well...that'd be a problem.  

[Telegraph_it 3357]

9 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

I survived LA to Sydney in 94 when you had what ever canned and edited movies Quantus played on the drop down screen. Dark times. 

My old man and I did IAH-SYD nonstop (17.5 hours) in November 19 for a long weekend to say that we did and to pub crawl with some coworkers from Melbourne and Sydney. 
 

Well timed because then Covid happened. 
 

For some reason I even decided to watch garbage football down there. 
 

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

Russia lost what 7-8 million soldiers in WW2? I think people are overhyping the 5,000 killed so far. 

Momma was pushing out 8-12 fuck trophies back then, while knowing half wouldn't make it to adulthood, and just one or two now. Greatly changes the PR math.

Edited March 2, 2022 by ShaggyBevo RIP

[pops 6985]

30 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

So much for the next season of Yellowstone.

Nah. Hamilton is a ways away from that. But I can't figure out what is up there that would warrant such a respond. I mean great falls is nice but wtf?

[BrickTop 477]

100% legit. I have a seven and four year old year old daughter, and I see them both laying on that table.
War is a terrible thing. If Putin wasn’t a monster, I’d say he should have to look at images like this one for the rest of his days. 

Yea, you and both are in Civil Service and I’ve been in for quite a long time, seen some pretty Horrific shit and thought I was pretty numb to it, that picture almost sent me into a panic.

[BamaATL 16593]

1 minute ago, 27-25 said:

That was more south in the state, right?  Stay north of Carson City and that should be OK.

There is also a little base to north there that does shit we don't talk about.  I'm betting there isn't much in the way of housing.