Open Comment Post. 17 July 22

Ray Epps. The Jan 6 protester that led the entry but hasn't faced charges.

Have any of you followed the Ray Epps controversy?

I have and while the far left label the issues surrounding his lenient treatment and an inexplicably glowing puff piece by the MSM as a conspiracy theory, it just don't smell right.

If you haven't read the "issues" surrounding his non-arrest then check it out here, at Revolver News.

Side note.  I understand that DA's have the ability to decide who gets prosecuted for what.  No diggity, no doubt.  But they've gone after EVERYONE that even dropped a piece of chewed gum that day.  So why not this guy?

Ukrainian cargo plane crashes in Greece

BREAKING: Ukrainian cargo plane crashes near Kavala in northeast Greece pic.twitter.com/0tRcBsSXSC

— BNO News (@BNONews) July 16, 2022

Remember my complaint that the US wasn't meeting with Russian diplomats to try and solve this war? Many experts agree with me!

 At the height of the Cold War when we had thousands of troops in Germany reading to stop a Soviet push, we still talked to the Soviet Union.

Later when we had the war on terror we talked to the Russians. Now?  Now we don't and the world is suffering.  Why? Because of optics.  The powers that be have been so successful in stirring the non-thinking masses that they can't back away from this imaginary hardline position they've adopted.

Regardless even those that were beating the war drums are seeing the light.

DARPA Operational Fires (OpFires) Successful First Flight Test

Open Comment Post. 16 July 22

Aviation Combat Element, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct MV-22 Osprey night flight operations aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3)

Marines participate in MWX 3-22

Sink-Ex

#RIMPAC2022 military forces from 🇦🇺, 🇨🇦, 🇲🇾 & the 🇺🇸, fired upon and sunk the decommissioned ex-USS Rodney M. Davis, July 12, during a sinking exercise #SINKEX. 26 nations, 38 ships, 4 submarines, > 170 a/c & 25K personnel are participating in RIMPAC 2022. (📹US NAVY) pic.twitter.com/XQ01xeZqy0

— Air Power (@MIL_STD) July 16, 2022

Wow. I count three hits and while it would probably be combat incapable, it was still afloat. That's long been a complaint of Western missiles vs Russian ones. Their anti-ship missiles are monsters by comparison while ours are relatively light.

Forget China's aircraft carrier, do we have missiles capable of knocking out that 13K ton monster in the form of the Type 055?

America’s representatives at the French Ambassador’s residence this week.

America’s representatives at the French Ambassador’s residence this week. pic.twitter.com/4QpjSiuMBw

— R.J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) July 15, 2022

Meanwhile the Chinese are calling the Russians...