Posted on 10/20/2025 4:51:40 AM PDT by marktwain
Strong nations can keep the peace; weak nations invite war.
The left, in its usual conterfactual way, has maintained it is preparation for war which causes war.
Me, personally?
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I’m good on bullets and guns, not sure about acquiring bombs?
The article makes clear Chairman and CEO Dimon is talking about maintaining military arsenals, by the government.
The article says an armed population supplements the government’s military.
Our invaders have arrived.
Taiwan’s haven’t. Taiwan needs to buy defensive means.
Major weapons systems need major revamps.
The weapons have become very accurate. They are often stealthy and can get through defenses.
Things like armored vehicles and ships need to be able to take hits.
Distribution and redundancy of functionality will have to be the norm.
Being able to put Humpty-Dumpty back into service cheaply and quickly will become important. Radar arrays might be assembled with plastic screws.
Most parts of most systems should be salvageable.
Small and cheap has to be the new goal.
Being able to make really cheap dummies of things has to be a design consideration.
Befriend a farmer.
I guess it’s now ok to open carry in your banks? Right Jamie?
As for command & control:
The virtual meeting of the 83rd Division command team is now in session....
I do most of my banking online.
I still have to go into a branch for a CD.
Buy 10 acres off a farmer, lease back 9 and build your house on one acre.
With ironstone, one could live in an Oxfordshire village replica.
My DVD collection includes Time Bandits, Rocketman, Baron von Munchausen, Jupiter Ascending, the Lost in Space movie...
I guess it’s now ok to open carry in your banks? Right Jamie?
https://www.oakpark.com/2015/01/27/guns-in-the-bank/
I routinely have open carried in my bank in Arizona. That policy was one of the reasons I chose that bank.
This country has become so dysfunctional that we can’t even pay the military.
Your local town of 10,000 could buy 1,000 submachine guns for its police force and persons trained for service as deputies and invader fighters.
Yes, it has. A lot of feckless CEOs who get paid bonuses even after running companies into the ground have contributed to this (among many other factors).
I use trip flares around my perimeter; there’s just too much wildlife around here and I wouldn’t want to harm anything outside of a legal hunting season. :)
“stockpiling crypto”. That made me laugh.
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