April 2024 is coming. tick-tock.
Posted on 03/25/2023 12:02:33 PM PDT by JonPreston
I mean, we put troops in Syria (and elsewhere) to secure the oil, as Trump admitted (the only one who will), plus we are waging war there (per the ongoing Project for a New American Century), and Russia is stationing troops in Ukraine and waging war there.
Not surprising at all.
The Russians are protecting themselves from the overwhelming offensive NATO conventional behemoth stationed in Poland. This is the EXCACT same move, under the EXACT same conditions, that Reagan and Thatcher made when they deployed the Pershing IIs in West Germany. Of course, the Russians are doing this. This counter escalation was predicted by me and probably you back when this quagmire began.
There's a blast from the past
I wonder how many of our young Neocons, and their foreign imports, know what the PNAC documents are.
you forgot to mention that Russia was already “waging war” in Syria long before the US got there
It isn’t my war.
Ukraine vs Russia should not affect me but our neocon government believes otherwise.
They should go ahead and tell us why.
It sure as hell has nothing to do with saving lives of the Ukranians, that is obvious.
“are there any American nukes stored in countries next to Russia?
guess that will have to change, given Russia’s reckless escalation”
Yeah, they should have waited until NATO nuked Moscow and St. Petersburg.
You’re right, and I’m certain most of us who opposed this war from the start saw this escalation as inevitable. Unless we can get a significant majority of the American public fully aware of the danger we are in, the trouble will grow.
Russia used to keep nukes there.
Why don't you go petition your useless Canadian government to do something constructive, and stay the hell out of American foreign policy.
Hi.
“Joe Vodka sitting in Minsk watching hockey on TV probably wants no part of this.”
And neither do I.
5.56mm
I also wonder.
It’s there for anyone to research.
To summarize it, per John McCain, it’s “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” (and Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, etc.).
McCain Responds to “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” video
[I bet John Bolton loved it]
Neocons and Neoliberals like Biden wanting to wage war on Iran is ramping up, Syria is ongoing, Iraq is done, Yemen is ongoing, Libya is already done, and Biden put troops in Somalia pretty quickly after being elected.
Time for peace agreement, right now. Halt this madness.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! You are correct! The billions in NATO armaments committed plus Uke cannon fodder (I rather doubt the tens of thousands of dead Uke boys would be seen as tiny in Ukraine) roughly equate the forces the Russians have committed. A quagmire! What line of disinfo were you peddling when you had this epiphany about the multi trillion dollar, generational quagmire I’ve told you about for 13 months?
The US was waging a proxy war there in Syria before putting troops there, but I bet you like the securing the oil part with our troops as you avoided talking about that and you avoided talking about Project for a New American Century.
And the U S. was waging war in Libya (per Obama’s oroven alkegation that Gaddafi was going to kill 10k of his own people and with NATO helping via breaking its charter) and in Yemen, etc, long before Iran or other countries showed up in them.
so what?
April 2024 is coming. tick-tock.
I don’t believe the leverage of hypersonic missiles is widely understood yet in changing war.
Concur. Consider hypersonic carrier missiles for other “smart weapons”. A missile that carries 6 air to air missiles for example could target a bomber formation or transport formation with a high probability of success from a 1000 miles away. Detect a group of bombers forming up after take-off and launch and within a few minutes you have destroyed most of them or cluster bombs and you get them on the taxi or roll-out on an airfield. They are that fast and you have no real defense against them.
I was an Army officer (in the 90’s) and its hard for me to wrap my head around what the future battlefield will look like. What we are witnessing in the Ukraine is only giving us a glimpse of the future even as it devolves into trench type warfare. This is why I feel strongly that we should NOT invest so heavily in large items such as aircraft carriers. I love the history and I am a nerd/fan, but its not wise to concentrate tens of billions worth of stuff into a single target that is vulnerable to a missile that costs a few million or smart long-range drone torpedoes that can sit on the bottom of the ocean waiting for a signal.
The Army knows that deploying company or battalion sized units of paratroopers using transport aircraft in a modern conflict against a near-peer adversary is too risky but our Navy still wants to put 80 plus 100-million dollar aircraft and thousands of personnel in a single hull that has little defense against such weapons. I love the force projection and they are cool, but too much risk. Perhaps we would be better off with Jeep carriers or smaller multi-use aerial platforms using drones?
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