Saturday, August 27, 2022
Always thought that candidates posting with weapons/gear was goofy but this Republican Congressional candidate pulls it off nicely!
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!!!!Just In: #Pakistan rejects India’s purported closure of the incident of the firing of a supersonic Missile into Pakistani territory on 9 March, 2022 and reiterates demand for joint probe, says @ForeignOfficePk https://t.co/asdupq3zwI
— Ghulam Abbas Shah (@ghulamabbasshah) August 24, 2022
Russia's 3rd Army Corps is their "breakthrough" force?
At this point I’d say it’s fairly clear that Russia’s leadership intends for the 3rd Army Corps (3AC) to be used offensively. Russia has held back a lot of high end kit including BMP-3, T-80BVM, T-90M, and even the latest AK-12 models (h/t @JakOSpades) https://t.co/8stomM0yYM
— tom (@tom_bullock_) August 27, 2022
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...
Horrifying footage from S. #Pakistan today of entire building washed away by floods. Over 935 people killed, more than 33 million affected, worst natural disaster for country in decades: pic.twitter.com/aO6ZMlQycf
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) August 26, 2022
Extreme floods continue this morning in Malakand division of #Swat, #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/JBPDZDcqmT
— Intel Consortium (HADR-FLOODS) (@INTELPSF) August 26, 2022
Kizilelma Fighting UAV
Turkish company BAYKAR has finished assembling the second prototype of Kizilelma Fighting UAV. Maiden flight is expected next year. [album] from /u/Prudent-Confusion343 at #WarplanePorn ➡ https://t.co/TcllCNjQRP pic.twitter.com/RDb8obyQwE
— WarplanePorn (@warplane_porn) August 26, 2022
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.
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!Five 052D destroyers 驱逐舰 under construction...下饺子 #解放军 海军 #PLAN pic.twitter.com/Fak5cvsiui
— China Made 中国制造 (@Anthony01375841) August 21, 2022
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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