Saturday, August 27, 2022

Always thought that candidates posting with weapons/gear was goofy but this Republican Congressional candidate pulls it off nicely!

The nods on that bump helmet cost 40K! That alone is impressive (assuming they're real). I've always thought candidates doing this was goffy as hell but she pulls it off nicely.



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How many of you are aware that India accidentally fired a Brahmos Supersonic attack missile into Pakistan?

Yeah boys and girls. Alot is going on in the world. Get your eyes off America and Europe and have a look around. We're all in the same storm, just in different boats. There is more to the world than just the West!!!!
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Open Comment Post. 27 Aug 22

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Russia's 3rd Army Corps is their "breakthrough" force?

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Friday, August 26, 2022

Pakistan is getting smashed by hellacious floods

Leave the politics at home on this one. These are everyday people getting hammered. The flooding is hellacious! Prayers up for these folks...
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Aim and approach – Tähtää ja toimi

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Late Open Comment Post. 26 Aug 22

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Kizilelma Fighting UAV

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It is in the best interests of Ukraine, and the west, to end this war as soon as possible

 via The Guardian

Ukraine wins by seizing the opportunity, while its still can, to immediately begin a massive, western-funded reconstruction effort that turbo-charges its political and economic integration into Europe, strengthens its security, and speeds it down the path toward a democratic future. Ukraine wins by demonstrating the extraordinary resilience of political and economic liberalism to the world and starting that process as soon as possible, not in five years when the country is destroyed and the world has moved on. Ukraine wins by stopping Russia from extinguishing its independence, which so far has been miraculously preserved, but remained at risk until the fighting stops. Ukraine wins by channeling the national energy that has been generated by the war into a better peace and a stronger, more prosperous nation.


Western support for Ukraine has so far been extraordinary, reaching levels that almost no one could have expected just days before the war began. But today’s high levels of support will not last forever. Food and fuel costs worldwide are spiking. Nato has been unified in the first 100 days of the war, but over time divisions will emerge. Ukraine’s cause is widely viewed as just today, but the longer the war drags on, the greater the risk that moral clarity will fade.


Ukraine should prefer to spend the goodwill it now enjoys on rebuilding its economy, infrastructure and democracy, instead of on more weapons. Reconstruction is already a massive undertaking, which under the best conditions will take a decade or more and require hundreds of billions of dollars in western aid. The longer the war goes on, the more Ukraine will be destroyed and the more expensive it will get. A protracted war meanwhile increases the risk of deepening corruption and greater centralization and personalization of power in Kiev, both of which plagued Ukraine in the past and work against the overarching goal of strengthening Ukrainian democracy.


To be sure, de facto acceptance of a divided Ukraine, even if not de jure, means a hostile, potentially disruptive Russia on the border. This obviously presents challenges to Ukraine’s reconstruction, especially if Russia controls Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea. But a Russian presence on Ukraine’s border is unavoidable without a coup in Moscow or a broader war; transitioning to reconstruction now presents fewer challenges than an endless war that sees many more cities in Ukraine flattened and millions of its citizens living as refugees abroad.


It will be hard to convince Ukraine’s leaders that this is their best option, now that their nation has suffered so grievously at Putin’s hands. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is unlikely to see his nation’s longer-term interest in a prosperous European future unless the United States and Europe use the influence they have as Ukraine’s economic and military lifeline to encourage him to do so.


Accepting a limited victory will also require diplomatic leadership from Washington to overcome resistance in some allied capitals, and from the commentators who badly want revenge on the Kremlin. Indeed, in the zero-sum logic that prevails in many quarters, Ukraine can only win if Russia is dealt a humiliating and decisive blow. Unquestionably, Putin should pay a dear price for the havoc that he has wreaked on Ukraine and the resulting damage to European and global security. Justice also calls for this. But sanctions, diplomatic ostracism, and heavy losses to the Russian military are real costs that will bite more over time. Russia’s elites, meanwhile, have had their assets seized and doors slammed in their faces around the world. These costs will afflict Russia and its leadership for years to come.


Perhaps the most famous dictum of strategy is that war ought to be a continuation of policy by other means. Western leaders should thus remember: Ukraine doesn’t win this war on the military battlefield. Nor does the west. It wins it when Ukraine becomes a healthy, prosperous democracy. 

Here 

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We do NOT have the industrial capacity to match the Chinese ship for ship!

God I hate to say it, but its all about missiles. We've got to build ship killing missiles and a whole shit load of them. We do NOT have the industrial capacity to match the Chinese ship for ship!

Drink it in boys and girls.

The Chinese are building 5 Burke equivalent destroyers at the same time!

Force Design 2030 got it wrong.  

Turning the Ground Side into a missile firing force is FOOLISH!  We need to be adding our planes to the carrier deck, getting those monsters back up to 100 planes plus and designing ship killer that can go far, fly fast, are stealthy and strike HARD!

Quite honestly the F-35B needs to be sliced and we need to match the carrier air by buying F/A-18's. Keep MAYBE two F-35B squadrons and put the rest of fast air on carriers!

That would make a difference (along with a much better UAV than Predators!).

The Chinese are gonna have superiority much sooner than 2030!
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Apparently Ukrainian and Russian Marines are engaged in fights over Snake Island!

If this is true then this is a fight worth watching. I would imagine its just a series of raids being conducted by both sides. Additionally I imagine that outposts are being setup and then expelled by the other side and so on and so forth.

Again.

If this is true.

Then its a goofy fight.

Why send a Marine (on either side) to do what a drone can? If the enemy sets up then bombard them with rockets and artillery.  Setup a IR Mast to keep track of things.  Why waste people on this stupid piece of rock.
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German power prices are spiking like crazy. European pain is just beginning....

Wow. That line practically goes straight up! Germans are about to feel pain. When Germany hurts the rest of the EU is in a pit of suffering!
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Soldiers of the Amphibious Corps "Amf 4" of the Swedish Navy

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The new Marine Corps. Everything else is just support!

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Drone dropped grenade

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Have you been keeping up with the reactor story in Ukraine?

Have you been keeping up with the reactor story in Ukraine?

I have an absolutely nothing makes sense about it.

The Russians have captured it but for some reason still power the Ukrainian side.  Additionally we had reports (that I didn't post because it looked like propaganda) that the Russians had wired the thing with explosives and were gonna blow it up.

As far as the Ukrainians go (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) they're shelling the fuck outta the place and having a good time while doing it!

This is not an ordinary war.

The Russians keep supplying power to their enemy.  The Ukrainians cry about Russians blowing up the place yet shell it on a daily.

I don't get it but it is the way it is.

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

US Dept Of Defense is going to give the assistance/training operation a "name" and pick a General Officer to lead it. We're tiptoeing to war!

So how will this go? European Assurance to Operation Democracy and finally (when we put boots on the ground early next year when Ukrainian positions get overran) Operation Restore Hope? Kidding but NOT kidding (hope you got the Star Wars reference)!
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Defense Priorities.Org's take on deterring Chinese action against Taiwan

 via DP

KEY POINTS

  1. 1. The U.S. has a goal to avoid a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, but the overriding U.S. interest is to avoid a ruinous war with China. The imperative to avoid a conflict with China should take priority for U.S. leaders.

  2. 2. Proposals to deter China by bolstering U.S. military deployments in the Western Pacific are unlikely to succeed and fraught with danger. China has advantages in terms of geographical proximity to Taiwan and superior commitment to resolving the issue on favorable terms. The United States should not commit to fighting a great-power war at a time of China’s choosing.

  3. 3. The Taiwanese obviously have the strongest interest in deterring a Chinese invasion of their island. Regional powers such as Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia have the next-strongest interests in preserving stability in East Asia. These actors should do the heavy lifting in deterring China.

  4. 4. The U.S. should encourage Taiwan and other regional actors to develop their own means of deterring a Chinese invasion. Working with others, Taiwan has the capacity to inflict severe costs upon Beijing in the event of an armed attack. If calibrated correctly, Taiwan and others might convince Beijing that the various costs of invasion—economic sanctions, opprobrium, military balancing—outweigh the benefits and thus deter China from invading.

  5. 5. America’s role should be to support Taiwanese-led efforts to deter China while working to convince all sides that the status quo is sustainable and the U.S. remains committed to its longstanding One China policy. This is the best chance of preventing a war in the Taiwan Strait.

This is a very interesting read. Not sure if I agree with all of it but it is NEW thinking and not the standard drivel we're seeing out of the DoD. Article here.
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Another delegation is enroute to Taiwan in a military plane...WTF is going on over there?

Let me get this straight. Pelosi went to Taiwan and China went batshit crazy and started massive military exercises. In the middle of that we got warnings that China could attack Taiwan sooner than 2030. Another delegation went and now we have a third? Wonder what info we're not getting. This could be considered to be provocative. I'm sure the Chinese see it that way but they still keep going. 

Has intel indicated that the threat of invasion is bigger than we thought and this is a show of political unity in the US over the Taiwan issue?
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US forces under the operational control of a foreign govt during war?

Why not admit that the S. Koreans are more than capable of defending themselves now? Did you know that S. Korean citizens recently held a large protest against US forces in their country? Policy makers and the elite might want our forces there but apparently the S. Korean people don't.
   
I don't know the situation on the ground but we've seen the same thing in S. Korea and Japan and the Philippines.

Forward presence is not the answer that many defense experts think it is.  We need a return to rapid deployment forces.  Frontier outposts didn't work for the Romans and won't work for us.

But back on task.

If we are assisting nations in their defense.  If we're assuming that we're there to defend democracy then why would we allow our forces to be under the operational control of those nations?

I understand that "trip wire" forces are all the rage but by setting up command structures in this way we're almost guaranteeing that American forces will be sacrificed to ensure that the full weight of US firepower is rushed forward to fight.
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