This dude must be fucking high.NATO countries must give weapons to Ukraine, even if this comes at the expense of their own defense capabilities, Stoltenberg says.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 19, 2024
NATO defense ministers also agreed to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems, an announcement should be expected soon. pic.twitter.com/39UaQ6Ivpq
Friday, April 19, 2024
NATO countries must give weapons to Ukraine, even if this comes at the expense of their own defense capabilities....tell me you're smoking crack without telling me you're smoking crack!
Ukraine demands more Patriot Missile Systems. This "modern" war is simply a return to "industrial warfare"
Quantity has a quality all its own.#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday his country needs at least seven Patriot air defence systems and pressed NATO leaders to hurry the supply of arms to his struggling forces.
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 19, 2024
"We need seven more Patriots or similar air defence systems -- and it's a… pic.twitter.com/aooQPUD5EO
We need at least 7 air defense systems, a million shells and long-range weapons, Zelensky says. pic.twitter.com/7g7ipabrLY
— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 19, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The world is upside down. We're expecting Iran to be the rational actors and not strike back against Israel!
How fucked up have things become?
We're expecting IRAN to be the rational actors and not strike back against Israel after the strike tonight!
Do you get the irony of this shit?
Iran. The home of the motherfucking Ayatollah is our hope to prevent this shit from turning into a regional war.
Not Israel but fucking IRAN?????
I don't understand this shit anymore. Damn near the entire Western World to include SEVERAL ARAB states stepped up and shot down Iranian drones/cruise & ballistic missiles, we not only showed Israel that we had them but ACTED forcefully for them (and I don't doubt that there was back channel communications from the Iranians) and Israel still decided to launch a limited attack and now we're depending on the Persians to save the day.
Fuck me! Shit is all jacked up.
Israel or rather Bibi is making a huge mistake by conducting a retaliatory strike on Iran...
I don't get the Israeli rational on striking Iran.
They had European countries AND the US sending fighters and warships to knock down Iranian missiles.
The Iranians conducted what I consider a limited strike.
Bibi is stating that they have to retaliate because of (paraphrasing) that showing weakness by not striking would be provocative.
I disagree.
They've lost the public relations war. Correction, they lost the manufactured anti-Israel public relations war. Being pro Hamas is a new reason for being for the elite left and their camp followers.
A retaliatory strike risks expanding the war.
So why do it?
I think because Bibi needs the war to continue. The second there is a pause in fighting the Israeli public will return to investigating him. His govt will certainly fall. His return to power will be doubtful.
This is his legacy moment and he's in it to set his place in history.
Self over country is always dangerous. Israel is in danger right now with its current leadership...just like the US, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Brazil, and a few other modern societies I forget at the moment.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Amphibious Assault School hosts Amphibious Combat Vehicle Operator New Equipment Course 1-24....Video by Cpl. Hunter Wagner
The vids of this thing look awesome. The 30mm variant is gonna be nice. Still don't know how this fits in with Force Design 2030 (no rebranding for the FD freaks). Plus I remember the landing in Spain in that soft sand. Totally different than what you see at Pendleton. That soft, fluffy, get your ass stuck sand. Never forget seeing Marines trying to push a Humvee off the beach. Wonder if this vehicle will suffer the same fate. They claim it has the mobility to keep up with an M1 Abrams in broken terrain but I've never seen a video of it actually doing that. In short I have questions of its mobility in rough conditions. Video proof from BAE or the Marine Corps would be appreciated. Don't get me wrong. We won't see it but it would be nice. I wonder if I'm the only one that has doubts about this?
I am stunned and amazed (yeah I'm stupid) at how easily Washington, DC turned Louisiana native House Speaker Johnson into a puppet...
This fucker is a complete sellout. All the promises about securing the border are forgotten and its all about Ukraine with just a side mention about Israel to try and get the Bible Belt to support this bitch ass supplemental.
The two party system is a joke.
I never REALLY understood the power of the Military Industrial Complex.
They own our govt which is a major part of why the US is continuously at war.
Its bad enough that we have enemies trying to fuck us, but now we have to add the govt to that list?
Fuck!
We're in a hurt locker. We can't give up but FUCK!
To put it in street terms, how did the US go from being a certified, will fuck you up in a heartbeat shot caller to becoming the world's bitch? The pussification of America is accelerating.
The tide continues to turn against Biden...
Antonio Brown is batshit crazy. But even the crazy can get it right (having said that who is actually normal these days...we're all fucked up to a certain extent..).This is AB and I approve this message #CTESPN
— AB (@AB84) April 17, 2024
Trump x AB 2024 pic.twitter.com/EHtHXXATxd
The Draco Polaris XPEDITION
Just when you thought shit couldn't get any crazier...
🔥🚨BREAKING GRAPHIC: This woman wheeled a dead man into the bank and tried to get him to 'sign off' a loan in her name while holding his head up.
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) April 17, 2024
Footage showed the woman telling the dead man to grip hold of his pen hard as she placed it between his fingers and encouraged him… pic.twitter.com/72jo6JrwBC
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
PLAAF H-6N bomber carrying a YJ-21 air-launched ballistic missile.
Again after a longer break, a PLAAF H-6N bomber carrying a YJ-21 air-launched ballistic missile.
— @Rupprecht_A (@RupprechtDeino) April 16, 2024
Even if some still claim otherwise, this is NOT a PLAN bomber and therefore I‘m also not sure if the missile is indeed an anti-ship weapon or not just an air-launched BM. pic.twitter.com/MECgU1zEQL
Warship magazine management is gonna become a serious issue...
The drone/cruise missile/ballistic missile fight a day or so ago has me wondering.
At what point does warship magazine management become such a major issue that we dedicate Burkes only to the air defense mission?
I personally think we're already there.
I mean think about it. I the recent engagement you had tactical aircraft participate in the fight.
We all know the history of the US Navy when it comes to getting ships to sea. Gaps are gonna be there and carriers aren't gonna be everywhere we need them. The USAF might try hard but that forward deployed concept is dying a death. A nation already stated that we could not use their bases for operations. We were only engaging Iran. Imagine if its China! A whole slew of nations will bail out.
One Burke for simplicity sake has lets say 100 anti-air missiles. The Chinese could launch 200 drones (only drones) against every Burke we have. Add in the 5in gun and the CIWS and you get the point.
The Burke could easily run out of missile protecting itself much less the rest of the fleet.
Scale up the fight appropriately and before you start add in cruise /hypersonic and ballistic missiles and the point crystalizes.
Industrial warfare is here. Production is now king. Hyper precision was a luxury and its time is over.
So what happens if the Burkes become ONLY anti-air and lose their multi-mission capability?
If you demand to keep that multi-mission capability how do you manage the ships magazine of missiles?
Do arsenal ships finally make sense in this age of drone warfare?
One thing is certain. The type of warfare we're engaging in at the moment (things change rapidly) means that we need to get our industrial base up and at a wartime footing.
Open Comment Post. 16 Apr 24
Monday, April 15, 2024
Dear Republicans. What happened to securing the border before any more aid?
I can't believe this trash. The House Speaker is from my state and he's proven himself to be just another critter in the swamp. At least the one's we have in the real swamp can be deep fried. Can't do a thing with the one's in the DC swamp. I wonder what a politician that actually has some backbone and can't get bent over by the powers that be in Washington looks like. Apparently he/she would have a spine made of titanium and has the circutry of the terminator cause everyone we send there gets weak as hell. Rant over.Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden "will not accept a stand alone" Israel aid package.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 15, 2024
TRANSLATION: Joe Biden is going to use overwhelming support for Israel to extract $ billions more in taxpayer money for Ukraine.
You're being extorted, and Republicans in DC will fall for it. pic.twitter.com/trcL8gJYyz
Israel says it has no choice but to strike back....I get it but...
Damn.
I don't know the background on everything going on but I do know this.
The Biden Admin was caught engaging in back channel negotiations with Iran to get them to reel in the Houthis when they were striking civilian shipping.
Like I said (don't know who the talking head was but to think that Iran has expended its magazine in that paltry attack is laughable) the attack was magnitudes less than what I thought it would be.
Israel is in a tough neighborhood.
The Biden admin doesn't seem to realize it but in certain parts of the world, weakness is provocative. Words don't mean shit. Its the fist holding a weapon that have sway.
So I get the IDF saying it has no choice but to strike back.
My question is simple.
When is enough, enough? What will it take to keep this from turning into a full fledged regional war?
Once again Bibi gives me pause.
Right now they're fighting Hamas. If they add Iran to the mix then you're adding the Houthis and Hezbollah into the fight too.
WTF happened where we can't control the countries that we prop up?
First Ukraine got off the chain and crazy ass Zelensky started doing shit to expand the war in Europe, now we have crazy ass Bibi doing the same?
I'm a nobody and I can see that this is at the very least strategically stupid.
Why can't they?
Dude got these idiots to chant "death to America".....how brain dead do you have to be to chant death to yourself?
How brain dead do you have to be to chant death to yourself?At a leftist training event at the @Teamsters Union headquarters in Chicago, a Palestinian nationalist extremist teaches the attendees how to chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Persian to celebrate Iran’s missile attacks. pic.twitter.com/I2vefn1sik
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 15, 2024
PVC slingshot arrow...
With so many new immigrants coming to our shores we're about to see some different weapons come to the front. Not the usual pistol (majority of the time), rifle (very few), knife (damn near universal) but new shit like slingshots.Woowpic.twitter.com/KpKkdujkeX
— Figen (@TheFigen_) April 14, 2024
Ukrainian propaganda to counter the outrage (from only a few) about their women dying in combat..
UA POV: Yelyzaveta, callsign "Mala" ("Baby"), who recently turned 22, serves in Odesa border guard detachment at the front, Mykolaiv region. Baby came to serve as a cynologist. Now she is a shooter in a mobile firing team that hunts down Shahed drones to prevent them from reaching civilians
byu/FruitSila inUkraineRussiaReport
PIRANHA Heavy Mission Carrier (HMC)
Wow. Did they just bring back the old 10x10 from way back in the day? What's new is old yada yada yada....We saw images of it last week with a RCH155 turret on, GDLS has now officially announced its "PIRANHA Heavy Mission Carrier (HMC)”.
— Jon Hawkes (@JonHawkes275) April 15, 2024
GVW of up to 40 tons and a payload of 17 tons, 10x10 drive with 1st/2nd and 4th/5th axle steering, and a turning circle of "less than 18 metres" pic.twitter.com/JTPhCo1NZl