MikeyD

We're still in danger, as the old saying goes, of 'planning to fight the last war' (this war, in the future, being the last war). Insights we take away from this conflict are valuable but will those lessons be applicable to unimagined future war X versus opponent Y in country Z? 6-ish years ago there was a (perplexing) push, in some quarters, to have the US invade Venezuela(!), a country a third larger than Ukraine with a population of 30 million, two mountain ranges and a large portion covered in triple canopy rainforest. It would be difficult to imagine how Ukraine war 'lessons learned' would apply to such a conflict.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

The threatened government shutdown is a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't have a clue what their backmail demands actually are. Its a performative farce. If the House is going to put on an annual pantomime they should be obliged to dress up as Punch.

BBC News website has an overview of the current offensive. Its not as detailed as us but its better than the usual perfunctory media coverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66796358

BBC News website has an overview of the current offensive. Its not as detailed as us but its better than the usual perfunctory media coverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66796358

Its been a VERY long time since I visited the National Training Center. A QB rural village map converted to low Southwest scrub. It plays like an entirely different title. 

The word 'revenue' is misleading. Gross revenue, net revenue? Profits above operating costs? Profits before subtracting operating costs? Profits not counting debt burden? 

In the words of Maya Angelou, "When someone really shows you and tells you who they are, take them at their word."

In the words of Maya Angelou, "When someone really shows you and tells you who they are, take them at their word."

In the words of Maya Angelou, "When someone really shows you and tells you who they are, take them at their word."

In the words of Maya Angelou, "When someone really shows you and tells you who they are, take them at their word."

I like to think its at least partially due to their proximity to 'CM Pro' 

This is going to be very random, but last night I was watching a Korean pop music video that just released. It ends with someone driving to a secluded spot. Through the car windshield you can see a distant mountain ridgeline. Suddenly it dawned on me that's the same mountain that's in CMFI mainland Italy! Of all the random places in all the world that they could have filmed, they picked a mountain pass through the Apennines opposite our CMFI mountain! That really tickled me.
If you want to see the MV the title's at the bottom of the Youtube screenshot.
 

I like to think its at least partially due to their proximity to 'CM Pro' 

I like to think its at least partially due to their proximity to 'CM Pro' 

Antartica is Club Med if you compare it with Mars, How many colonies are there on Antartica? Even Australia to work in the arid regions you need a good AC 24/7 and top notch facilities for recreation. 

My assumption is that the global pandemic had delayed Putin's original war plan by about a year. Putin had plotted his war-of-plunder in Ukraine under the assumption that *someone else* would be in the US presidency at the time, would have pulled the US out of NATO by then and would have publicly backed him in his war. We were in fact just a few locked doors and a few alert Capitol security guards away from that happening, judging by the growing list of January 6 sedition convictions. A common meme at the start of the war was that Putin had invaded Ukraine on a whim because Biden had publicly said 'unkind things' about him (I recall one Youtube video actually used accompanying CM game footage). You can't have it both ways. You can't blame Biden because he too forcefully warned of the coming war and also because he didn't oppose it enough.

My assumption is that the global pandemic had delayed Putin's original war plan by about a year. Putin had plotted his war-of-plunder in Ukraine under the assumption that *someone else* would be in the US presidency at the time, would have pulled the US out of NATO by then and would have publicly backed him in his war. We were in fact just a few locked doors and a few alert Capitol security guards away from that happening, judging by the growing list of January 6 sedition convictions. A common meme at the start of the war was that Putin had invaded Ukraine on a whim because Biden had publicly said 'unkind things' about him (I recall one Youtube video actually used accompanying CM game footage). You can't have it both ways. You can't blame Biden because he too forcefully warned of the coming war and also because he didn't oppose it enough.

My assumption is that the global pandemic had delayed Putin's original war plan by about a year. Putin had plotted his war-of-plunder in Ukraine under the assumption that *someone else* would be in the US presidency at the time, would have pulled the US out of NATO by then and would have publicly backed him in his war. We were in fact just a few locked doors and a few alert Capitol security guards away from that happening, judging by the growing list of January 6 sedition convictions. A common meme at the start of the war was that Putin had invaded Ukraine on a whim because Biden had publicly said 'unkind things' about him (I recall one Youtube video actually used accompanying CM game footage). You can't have it both ways. You can't blame Biden because he too forcefully warned of the coming war and also because he didn't oppose it enough.