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LukeFF

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  1. Sure, but like @purpheart23 was pointing out, all I'd like to see is some oversight as well about where this money is going (as with any spending bill that comes up before Congress). It doesn't really matter to me in the long run if it was a conservative, liberal, or a senator of any other political stripe making the point. Politicians are going to be politicians and thus will always grandstand to one extent or the other, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the point they are making is a bad one.
  2. No, not really - all he was/is asking for is some proper oversight into how this money is going to be spent. Without going off into tangents, the U.S. has been spending a lot of money recently on weapons for Ukraine (while ignoring some other critical, domestic issues), so it's only rational that someone with some sense stood up and said, hold on, where exactly is this money going?
  3. ROFL, no, no one has the right to rape and pillage as retaliation. That's the same sort of effed up logic we are seeing the Russians use right now in Ukraine. C'mon, get your head on straight.
  4. Yep - they raped and pillaged the more and more as they moved westward into German territory. Sorry if that offends your sensibilities, but the Red Army of 1945 was hardly an army of saints on white horses spreading freedom and justice wherever it went.
  5. Pfft, whatever. It's a monument to one of the most genocidal regimes the world has seen. The sooner it's torn down the better.
  6. Yes, this is a textbook example of how casualties are to be treated and evacuated under fire - drag the casualty out of the danger zone and provide as much cover as possible, through the form of covering fire, smoke grenades, etc. Videos like this show that this unit isn't your typical group of cannon fodder shoved into the line with insufficient training - it's pretty much the same way a US military unit would perform a battlefield evacuation.
  7. The combined arms battalion I was in from 2007-08 in the California Army National Guard had M113s, but I don't know if they still have them. But yes, in general, the Army National Guard has a lot of really old equipment. Our trucks were from the late 70s/early 80s.
  8. What does this have to do with the CM games?
  9. Apologies if it's already been posted here (haven't had the chance to read all the new posts yet), but this a very good analysis about what happened to the Moskva. Basically, it came down to gross negligence and nothing to do with the drone distracting the ship's crew: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/analysis-chain-of-negligence-caused-the-loss-of-the-moskva-cruiser/
  10. I had a look at some of the last posts of members like @Sgt.Squarehead the other day - hoo boy, those didn't age well at all.
  11. That's a really good point - if major industrial corporations (say, auto manufacturers) had/have a hard time sourcing chips, then Russia is no exception. I know the company I used to work for that I referenced above can't build chips fast enough for their customers.
  12. As someone who worked for 3-plus years for a major semiconductor manufacturer and is friends with an engineer who's worked for said company for 20-plus years, I wholly concur.
  13. Yes, I like to call it the old "hey, look over here!" trick.
  14. @Battlefront.com, I wouldn't spend too much of your time debating Erwin. It's like talking to a wall.
  15. I'd love for this topic to be about the war and not a coffee house academic discussion about the differences between the political Left and Right.
  16. It just kills me seeing stuff like this. My son is but a year older than her.
  17. Just stay out of the topic if you're going to post something like that here.
  18. John, just stop it already. You've more than earned the right to be called out on your citing of dubious sources that are full of BS. If you don't appreciate the label, then slow down, step away from the keyboard, and CRITICALLY THINK about the information being presented. And, you want to know why you can't be taken seriously? Let's take a look at that page you just linked to, called "Moon of Alabama." At the top of the page it says it's the recipient of the "Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism." Okay, so what's this all about? Hmm... ...oh yeah, look another dubious news source: https://www.google.com/search?q=serena+shim+award&oq=serena+shim+award&aqs=chrome..69i57.3701j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 It looks like this illustrious Serena Shim Award is given to pro-Assad content creators and was created by a pro-Assad group in 2019. You do know about Assad, right? Surely you know about what he's done through the years, Mr. Threat Analyst? But hey, don't take my word for it - Bellingcat wrote a whole article about this dubious group: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/30/pro-assad-lobby-group-rewards-bloggers-on-both-the-left-and-the-right/ John, John, John, once again you've shown that the websites you quote from frankly suck.
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