In My Defense

"Because this time we're going to win" I'm pretty sure would be their response.

Look, I'm just saying, if the CIA was balking at the legality of drone striking people overseas, maybe that should cause some reflection from leadership as to this course of action. But with this admin? Lol, no. Wonder who they found in SOCOM to say "good soldiers follow orders".

In a better timeline, we're discussing the strategic ramifications of the surrender of the Southern Military District in Rostov to the Ukrainian 7th Rapid Response Corps and 4th Infantry Division.

Can't blame you. You should all hate us for what we've done.

The historical reality is that the options to defeat fascist Japan were "nukes", "invasion", or "mass starvation". Yes, it's fucking terrible that 200,000 people died, but Japan quite literally started it and killed millions of people. They would have killed more if we hadn't stopped them.

Genuinely curious what your alternative to using the nukes was? Because the Japanese literally had a coup by part of the Army to continue the war *after* the nukes were dropped, and the other two options were "invade and kill a million people" or "starve the islands and kill millions".

@sharonk.bsky.social what are the odds Donnie pocket vetoes the Epstein files? Because they seem way too calm (relatively for them) about it which makes me think they're not expecting him to sign it.

Sounds like a good candidate for the next US Attorney General for DC.

If you've ever read any Russian Telegram channel after a particularly deadly Russian missile strike on Ukrainian civilians or after a new pic/video of Russian war crimes is posted, you'll very quickly come to the conclusion that the Russia people might be irredeemable for several generations.

Nonsense. Mostly because there will be plenty more days ahead where you may think that, but it will never actually be enough to address all the BS they'd said over the past decade or so

As much as I live Red Alert, World in Conflict remains my gold standard for this sort of thing. Partially because (especially in Soviet Assault) you fight everywhere. Not just West Germany, but in America, France, Norway, and Russia. I had Apaches fighting around the Statue of Liberty and loved it.

I genuinely don't know why they just haven't done a "Cold War gone hot" story yet. And no, CoD: Cold War does not count. Start as a defender of Berlin being overrun, and go from there. A million opportunities for literally every kind of fighting: conventional, spec ops, whatever.

Any thoughts on why it might have declined? As far as I'm aware, the KAB interceptor program hasn't reached anything close to this capability, and I don't think Ukrainian AD has the ability to deter the strikes at this rate. Saving up for the winter?

So they had time for this, but not a real honest discussion about their failings regarding Epstein and their own reporters? Honestly, at this point, that just tracks. What a pathetic fall of a valued source of news. "Democracy dies in the Darkness" was a mission statement, not a warning.

Do you think if (or at this rate, when) the government collapses in Mali, the Tuareg will fight JNIM at all once they consider the main threat in Bamako dealt with?

A theme I keep having pop up when I argue with people about this (mostly right-wingers, but 1 leftist too) is that "America has been the bad guy for decades now, this isn't anything different" and I'm trying very hard not to go insane as everyone just shrugs off open mass murder.

My issue remains with the Dem defectors because if they were always going to roll over for nothing, why did we go through this whole thing in the first place? People suffered because of this. If you're going to force that on people, it can't be for a pinky promise from pathological liars!

Yeah, and I know I limited myself with my stupid moral code of "I don't want a job directly with DHS" even under Biden, because I considered them the agency most likely to easily become the American Gestapo, and well...Morally, I was proven right, though it didn't help career prospects.

Personally, it feels like "didn't get a clearance? Sorry, no NatSec jobs available even with a masters". That could just be a failure on my end, but "entry level position with 3 years experience and a clearance" sure doesn't help.

How the hell was Fox News the closest?

Actually this reminds me of something I meant to ask @miyhnea.bsky.social forever ago.

What was the actual military unit that arrested Ceaușescu and the rest?

This would imply that anyone in this admin has ever heard of Ceaușescu or knows what happened to him. I will simply wait for the helicopter moment.

They won a while ago, but people were unwilling to admit that the GOP had been overrun with these freaks, so here we are.

From personal experience, I think they just assumed when people said "hey, you know you're working with a bunch of Nazis" they thought "oh those snowflakes call everyone who they disagree with Nazis". And just dismissed any concerns out of hand, until well, they started openly saying Nazi shit.

We've got ~15% of the fleet including a carrier group aimed at Venezuela. We're already sabotaging our fleet readiness for real threats. Though I still don't think this admin would actually defend Taiwan, so I guess it's a moot point.

I was arguing with someone back in '24 when they were hinting at this shit on the campaign trail. I was saying it'd be a massive commitment of troops and ships to lock down the border and waters that would leave places like Taiwan vulnerable. He said no it won't. Guess we'll see who was right

I am begging these people to explain how a country joins and stays in NATO. Because it's entirely voluntary! These people say "NATO expansion" like it means "paradrops on the capital" and not "boring referendums and negotiations with other members to let them in".

I really hope I'm not right with this...

There's a certain irony here that this is actually directly addressed in Sicario, but the people making these decisions only remember the shootout scenes.

What does it mean for the PRC to be "capable" of going across the Strait? Is there a number of amphibs, exercises, missiles, etc. that people hold as the benchmark for China to have before they feel confident enough to try?