Modern day Reichstag Fire turns into Night of Long Knives?
REICHSTAG FIRE (1933):
NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES (1934): 
Posted on 07/15/2016 9:43:18 PM PDT by Innovative
NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES (1934):
Reportedly at least 6,000 rounded up now by Erdogan, 2700+ in judiciary and thousands more in military.
The tips on these gadgets do not light up until the last microsecond.
340 kt each.
Reportedly, about 50 of them are stored at Incirlik AFB, within reach of Zero's buddy Erdogan.
> [I am] an American who is a professional in this area
Darth, don’t be offended, but you posted this:
“The Rand Corp just put out a study which showed that Russia can destroy NATO on the Eurasian continent in 60 hours.”
If you really do defense as your job then you are really really bad at it as anyone even casually following defense issues as a hobby can see how that statement is bullshit.
Shape up and try to suck less in the future!
It’s called funding a$$hole! If you don’t have it you cannot build an effective force. Go blow it out your ass.
Darth!
You said “The Rand Corp just put out a study which showed that Russia can destroy NATO on the Eurasian continent in 60 hours.”
This is defeatist bullshit! You’re a freeper. There are plenty military freepers whom you can ask if what you said is true and they’ll say it is bullshit.
You got the reaction you got, young Anakin, because of a group of alleged "FReepers" who claim to admire Vladimir because he embodies "true Western values." Meaning -- I guess, because there isn't much historically to go on that would support that -- that he hates homos. Now that is strange because this group: tcrlaf, Trumpinator, goldstategop, DTA, varmintman, LTEP are all queer for Putin. One of them even claims to be (or have once been, it's unclear) Spetsnaz.
Vladimir Putin is a worthless POS, KGB murderer, and all-around thug. That's all he is. Luckily -- unlike you -- he understands his limitations.
"Gondor wanes, you say. But Gondor stands, and even the end of its strength is very strong."
Yes, we're diminished. Yes, we need to do something about that. But encouraging a tinpot dictator who's already revealed his larger ambitions to violence by pretending that he's big enough to take us on is a mistake. He isn't.
Sorry to bust your bubble Fred but Putin has threatened war against us a few years ago when we backed down in Syria over the chemical attack incident and over the Ukraine. Obama is not worth squat as POTUS as he weakened the military in several ways and on purpose. We can be number one again but it is going to take leadership and lots of $$$ which is all tied up in give away welfare programs.
If you think Russia -- or even China -- has overtaken us, you are delusional.
Fred they are precipitously close to overtaking us and have certain critical advantages now. There are facts you just don’t know and that’s what makes your opinion delusional based upon your information availability and that is not your fault. Go and look up some of Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA 4th District) articles who has done excellent work on our current defense posture and condition. If you read it carefully you should be able to extrapolate.
“If you think Russia — or even China — has overtaken us, you are delusional.”
Our defense experts in Congress, the DoD civilian work force and the military will beg to differ with you.
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