Friday, August 25, 2023

OPEC is now part of BRIC. The petro-dollar is dead

 

Stupid foreign policy leads to stupid results.

This mistake is one that could have easily been avoided.  Upon entering office the Biden admin made a huge show over the slain journalist in order to do the bidding of the MSM in the US.  Our displeasure over the killing should have been handled more diplomatically.

Additionally by taking other stances against Saudi Arabia this admin has basically ripped apart the budding alliance we had against Iran.

The idiocy is strong with these people.

They lost/are losing Africa for two reasons.  The first is that all we have to offer them is military aid while China is at least giving token nods to building their economies and second we went batshit stupid over the LGBTQ++ issue.

India has always gone its own way but the fact that Brazil joined the club should have been a flashing red light of doom for the entire country, not just the foreign policy wonks.

We fucked up and now we're faced with a chilling almost mind boggling situation.

Most of the world....not the West but the world...is uniting and we're not invited to the party.

Next thing to keep an eye on and if you see then its lights out we're uber fucked?

If they're able to rope in a few Asian nations.

For now?  The petro-dollar is dead.  A basket of currencies is on the table.  Which leads to the next unintended consequence.  In order to get continued buy in to the dollar we will have to create instability in the world.  Wars, revolutions and coups will be how we get funding to buy our debt.
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Open Comment Post. 25 Aug 23

 

I've always wondered why people run magnifiers on a setup like this.  I run the same length AR but have never found a need for that.

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Ukraine war will end up being the most costly and perhaps corrupt foreign operation ever carried out by the United States

 via Asia Times

The US and its allies will need to cough up $60 billion annually to support Ukraine, and expect that a lot of it will be stolen. It will have to keep the funding up for 10 years.

Consider that Germany has committed to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” at $5 billion annually. But the German government in power is likely to be replaced soon, and that pledge is about as worthless as the Weimar mark. 

Likewise, the UK economy is very dodgy, and finding serious money in future will prove a real challenge. The bottom line is that most of the money will have to come from Uncle Sam.  

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 When the “big” reconstruction money starts flowing, assuming that happens, political and military officials in Ukraine will enthusiastically help the United States line their pockets.

Ukraine’s corruption was highly visible this month as President Zelensky fired all the military recruiters in the country because they were selling recruitment passes to young men seeking to avoid the war.  

Ukraine will end up being the most costly operation ever carried out by the United States. The US Marshall Plan for European reconstruction after World War II cost the United States $13.3 billion. That amount, in 2023 dollars, would be $173 billion, roughly a third of what reconstruction would cost for Ukraine.

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

Just in time to kill more freedoms. This time its covid, the flu & strep....

 

Jesus! America needs to man the fuck up. Why are the healthy being held hostage by the needs of the sickly. If I fall under an at risk category then I've had two choices. Get in shape and make healthy choices so that I'm no longer vulnerable (did you know that being obese was a main risk factor for dying from covid?) OR stay at home to protect myself. That's an individual choice NOT A SOCIETAL DICTATE!

Fear is the most powerful weapon that is used against the populace by those that seek control.

I would think by now that the American people would be tired of being scared.
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How would you evaluate the performance of armored vehicles in the Ukraine-Russia war?

 


I just posted a few pics of Strykers in the previous post and it led me to ask.  How would we evaluate them?  What are the stars, the duds, the victims of bad tactics etc...?

Under victims of bad tactics I think EVERY vehicle falls under this umbrella.

Duds?

I think we knew what vehicles would suffer badly in a high intensity conflict before they got sent over.  


My belief in Mobile Gun Systems is gone.  I think the concept is as dead as disco. If you place a heavy gun on a vehicle other than a tank then its gonna take hits it wasn't designed for.  Perhaps this is also an issue of tactics but you can't provide fire support for infantry without getting into weapons range and anything short of tank armor means you won't stay in that fight for long.

Polaris light vehicles seem to be popular as hell.  I still lack faith in them.  They're quick.  They're relatively quiet.  But you will get smashed once detected.  Another instance of taking a low intensity warfare vehicle and trying to fit the box of high intensity combat.

Air Defense Vehicles.  Absolutely necessary!  BUT!  They appear to be vulnerable as hell.  Don't know a thing about how they're used but the radar on one vehicle, missiles on another seem to be asking to be detected and neutralized.  Missiles are bigger so you can't shrink this thing down and the same applies to radars that have distance.  How this one gets solved is beyond me but these rigs will be the first targeted in a big fight so that all those loitering munitions can kill everything else on the battlefield.

IFVs are a confusing beast.  The trend in the West is that they're getting bigger and we've seen an upgraded Bradley shrug off a hit from a Russian tank round.  The problem isn't direct fire, the problem is those damn drones.  The problem is avoiding detection in the first place.  Big IFVs are easy to spot.  I mean hell they're as big as a school bus riding around a battlefield!

The flip side is that Russian IFVs are much smaller and much lighter armored.  They've been getting crushed too.  The answer? I have no idea.

My biggest surprise is that the MRAPs have been performing in my opinion remarkably well.  They've done their main job of defeating mines but have flexed into the APC role well and protected their crews from direct fire remarkably well.

What are your stars, duds and surprises of this thing in the armored vehicle realm?

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1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (GHOST)

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DeSantis is ok but dude is so cringe worthy...that fucking smile is creepy as hell...

You see that and its ok, don't know what you did but you did something illegal!
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Ukraine’s army is running out of men to recruit, and time to win

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This Republican Presidential candidate states what many in the base believe....

 

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What do they do when the "defend democracy" line no longer works?

 How many saw the Republican debate last night?  I just saw snippets.  To be honest when the female candidate got on she just rubbed me wrong, tried to dominate the conversation when I was trying to hear answers to the questions and it turned into a moving sound bite of idiocy...except for one guy that continues to impress me.  More on him later.

But what did catch my attention is how we see clearly the gap between the swamp candidates and the new class.

The swamp creatures masquerading as Republicans kept pushing the "defend democracy" line when it came to supporting Ukraine.

If you look at polling of Republicans that line no longer works.

This spells doom for the globalist.

When the problems at home become so severe that people are no longer looking overseas then that automatically means a change in focus, NOT A RETREAT from global affairs.

If China was smart then they could easily exploit this opening.  Russia too.

The only way the American people can be motivated to future military action/intervention is IF a clear case can be made that it will affect our way of life.

That's why talking about defending Taiwan is so hard.  That's why continued obscene amounts of aid to Ukraine will become increasingly difficult.

Its hard to be generous when the problems at home are so daunting.

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Late Open Comment Post. 24 Aug 23

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Whether we like it or not, economic power is shifting to the BRIC nations...

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Ukraine on the verge of a breakthrough?

 

This would be music to many ears but I see nothing to indicate that this is true. I've been attempting to follow the battlefield and have only seen small advances (on both sides). Nothing to do except to stay tuned.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Open Comment Post. 23 Aug 23

 


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Monday, August 21, 2023

Tucker just said out loud what many are thinking. The Ukrainians are losing and NATO will have to intercede...

Wow.

Hate to say it but I've sorta been pushing this theory myself, except its the POLES that "create" a reason for NATO involvement.

Has anyone kept track of their defense spending?  Has anyone made note that every foreign weapons buy is on an expedited basis?

Just today they got approval for 96 Apache attack helicopters.

I'll say it again.  The POLES want this fight and want it bad.  The terrible thing for most of Europe is that our war/foreign policy hawks in the US along with MANY in the UK (not the people the globalist) also want the fight.

What actually worries me is how easily fooled the public is.  Remember the pipeline attack?  All the intel services remained silent BUT ALLOWED THE PERCEPTION that the Russians had attacked it.

Slowly we started getting the truth.  I don't remember the country but they analyzed the attack but kept its findings classified.

Next we got news of general confusion about who was responsible.

Only later did the Ukrainians take credit, but the puppet masters forgot that Biden stated that the pipeline would not be allowed.

I can see the same scenario playing out with NATO intervention.  Some type of incident happens and the news media/politicians start screaming that Article 5 is unquestionable.

We're hip deep into a European war and only later do we find out what we thought was the truth wasn't.

Of course the excuse will pivot to the idea that we can't question the fight while we have servicemen fighting and dying overseas so the war will roll on and after we're all dead and gone the real truth will come out but the damage will be done.

Foreign alliances with trip wire standards for entering a war is probably the most foolish thing (and we do stupid shit constantly) that our country has ever done.

NATO should have died when the USSR died.
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Chinese sub lost all hands?

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Chinese Sub in trouble?

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Invisible Elbow Strike...so cool!

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Open Comment Post. 21 Aug 23

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Interesting VTOL concept

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