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romad1

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  1. Arch is really aping the Tucker Carlson line which is really the Vlad Putin line, isn't he?
  2. Frankly, anyone who thinks we are saber rattling if we back up our allies missed the period 1945-1989.
  3. Maybe China and Russia shouldn't start wars then.
  4. Apparently we need a new Mike Macdonald because ours is the new DC of the Baltimore Ravens.
  5. its not insane to help Taiwan. Its very sane. Its called collective security.
  6. Good point. Also, Japan is very, very salty about the island chain that Taiwan is part of. They are building ships and buying F-35s like hotcakes.
  7. There is no navy that is stronger than ours. China does have some other advantages though. I think it would be insane to go up against the United States for them. But, Xi isn't a rational actor.
  8. Either we have collective security relationships or we don’t. Taiwan is within that umbrella
  9. This is your wake-up call for Taiwan
  10. They did a bunch of those raids for classified materials like heavy water, radars and enigma machines without sacrificing as much as they did in Dieppe. I understand that Ian Flemming's job in Navy intelligence was based around one of those units. Someone should do a children's book on all the British intelligence agents who have written children's books btw (e.g., Roald Dahl, Ian Flemming)
  11. The Dieppe raid was prior to Stalingrad, the Torch landings, the large-scale arrival us US strategic bombers to the UK, and the battle of Guadalcanal. I'm consider myself a very well-read person about WWII and didn't internalize any of that until I started watching the Youtube series World War II week by week. 1942 was the final year of muddling through for the Commonwealth. Part of the muddling through were Churchill's cigar stabs at the maps where he would ask for this or that "master stroke" which were possibly strategically smart but Commonwealth forces lacked the capabilities to actually make them work. Dieppe did provide a lot of positive lessons. One being that you needed port facilities and two that landing at a major port was likely too difficult. Hence development of the mulberry harbors. Another lesson was that the allies needed air superiority for the landings. Mountbatten was an upper class twit as portrayed in the infamous Monty Python sketches but not much could have helped Dieppe...in August 1942...when Germany still had an unbeaten army.
  12. Except for the death threats from the Caesar Seyocks of the World, journalism is a never ending avenue of green lights.
  13. W Bush and Dick Cheney called that NYT reporter a bad name and it wasn’t that bad. It’s fake decorum pearl clutching. Trump always did something worse.
  14. He can’t set foot in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand or Australia for a reason but he’d be given laurels in Russia
  15. Carlson aka Fishsticks should not be on the air
  16. Use the classified weather machines?
  17. so stupid I don't mind posting this. I will say that we do need to start mobilization of US heavy divisions for Poland.
  18. The UVA student body won't mind this one bit.
  19. Yeah you can’t run a state on wishful thinking
  20. The VA car tax has survived several GOP and DEM governors. i can’t think of a less popular tax for the average voter and this damn thing just won’t die.
  21. and remember this https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/20/media/robert-lemke-sentence-threatening-journalists/index.html
  22. Put him on the radar of federal agencies for sure
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