Young_patty
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14387798:Lonely said:It's not "war crimes" it's called being a "girl boss" okay becky?
D-day but it’s just 200,000 women pulling each others hair and shit
14387798:Lonely said:It's not "war crimes" it's called being a "girl boss" okay becky?
14387843:Young_patty said:D-day but it’s just 200,000 women pulling each others hair and shit
14387843:Young_patty said:D-day but it’s just 200,000 women pulling each others hair and shit
14387259:Session said:Basic Training (Boot camp) teaches you how to be in the military.
AIT (Advanced Individual Training) teaches you what you job is.
Your permanent duty station teaches you how to do your job for real.
14388022:.frenchy said:although plenty have gone to war straight from basic
14388023:Session said:Absolutely. I think you would know as well as anyone.
14389541:TheMoostafian said:
14389559:hdubs said:The likelihood we actually go to war with Russia is fairly low imo. With both of us having nukes and our experience in the cold war I think both sides can agree that a hot war is pretty out of the question. Another real cold war is definitely likely tho
14390754:CrunnchyPissFart said:this is facts but IMO the Cold War never really ended and this is just the further continuation of it, we have had incredibly tight tensions with Russia even since the fall of the USSR and I feel like every like 5 or 10 years there is a flare up with Russia that scares us all for a lil bit and pipes down after a while. Mutually assured destruction is probably gonna save this from becoming WW3. Putin, as much as I hate the guy he is a very intelligent person, he wouldn't simply destroy the resources he wants to acquire. Honestly the only distrust I have in this is with Biden, if anybody is gonna make a meat-brained and shitty move to endanger the world it will be him
I am just very anti- "America as the world police" ideology cuz I think its just a sham for us to get our grubby hands in other countries resources by playing the nice helpful guy to get our feet in the door to exploit more resources
**This post was edited on Feb 3rd 2022 at 12:57:52pm
14390812:r00kie said:100% on that last bit. Interventionalist foreign policy needs to go.
14390815:CrunnchyPissFart said:It’s outdated as hell, imperialist shit tbh. Like I understand foreign aid in like the sense of like natural disaster situations and alike, but getting involved in military standoffs with other nations that the US wasn’t originally involved in simply because they are happening is irresponsible, unsafe, and stupid
14390820:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:I would fight a war to defend the US from an existential threat, or to defend Israel from a true existential threat. I would not fight a war to save Ukraine from Russian annexation. I don't care if you draft me, you can't force me to fight a war I will not fight in, toss me in prison instead, my life goes on.
14390819:Biffbarf said:If/when this bubble pops, a proxy war with unclear objectives will be eminent to stimulate the economy. A tale as old time, buckle up folks it's gonna be a fun next couple of decades
14390754:CrunnchyPissFart said:this is facts but IMO the Cold War never really ended and this is just the further continuation of it, we have had incredibly tight tensions with Russia even since the fall of the USSR and I feel like every like 5 or 10 years there is a flare up with Russia that scares us all for a lil bit and pipes down after a while. Mutually assured destruction is probably gonna save this from becoming WW3. Putin, as much as I hate the guy he is a very intelligent person, he wouldn't simply destroy the resources he wants to acquire. Honestly the only distrust I have in this is with Biden, if anybody is gonna make a meat-brained and shitty move to endanger the world it will be him
I am just very anti- "America as the world police" ideology cuz I think its just a sham for us to get our grubby hands in other countries resources by playing the nice helpful guy to get our feet in the door to exploit more resources
**This post was edited on Feb 3rd 2022 at 12:57:52pm
14390820:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:I would fight a war to defend the US from an existential threat, or to defend Israel from a true existential threat.
14390923:Young_patty said:![]()
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14390900:hdubs said:Yeah it just took a nice 20 year hiatus from 91 to around 2012.But that also depends if you consider tensions with china to have continued the cold war. Regardless MAD seems to have worked and nuclear strategy has come a little bit farther since the end of the cold war
14390994:CrunnchyPissFart said:yea I'd add china in there, kinda forgot about that lol. but yea I think we have definitely come a long way, I really dont think that nukes would even really be on the table for something like the Ukraine situation either
14390998:hdubs said:They're either on the table or off, its pretty binary. If there's one thing I've learned from my nuclear revolution class its that if one nuke is used, nuclear holocaust is soon to follow.
14391001:CrunnchyPissFart said:yea makes sense, I feel like the only reason the world didn't end in 1945 was because nobody else had nukes at that time when the us dropped a couple on Japan
14391045:Thegenericskier said:
14391309:T.L. said:I've never seen anything like this in my life. They will never stop with 'muhh russia' nonsense.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489399806409822212
We have no business interfering in Ukraine. We have no business speed walking Ukraine through the admission process to NATO. We have no business filling C-17's with small arms and M141 BDM's and gifting them to Ukraine.
Clown world.
14391312:Craw_Daddy said:Gotta keep the execs at Boeing and Ratheon paid bro.
14391309:T.L. said:I've never seen anything like this in my life. They will never stop with 'muhh russia' nonsense.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489399806409822212
We have no business interfering in Ukraine. We have no business speed walking Ukraine through the admission process to NATO. We have no business filling C-17's with small arms and M141 BDM's and gifting them to Ukraine.
Clown world.
14391336:DingoSean said:First of all, that reporter is a jackass... It's known far and wide that Russia consistently uses misinformation campaigns both at home and abroad during times when they rattle the sabre. They did it during the Syrian civil war, and they've done it plenty of other times in the past. The information is declassified. The source is not.
The whole point of making it public was to tell Russia 'hey, we see what you're doing - we aren't going to tell everyone how we know, but we know... don't do it' This isn't to appease some jerk curmudgeon who's trying to make it about himself just because he can't easily write a story on it.
Like, what does he want, the Cuban missile crisis photographs? Cmon dude. Get over yourself.
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As for not having business interfering in Ukraine... dude, neither does Russia. It's a sovereign nation... and Putin/Russia is acting like an abusive ex towards it. They're doing this simply because they know, that if the EU and possibly NATO get another nation on their border, particularly one that takes up a lot of Black Sea coastline, it will put them in a strategic bind as far as defence, and widen the amount of border that they will need to defend on the European plain.
To understand why Russia is doing this, you gotta understand Russian history... especially going back to Peter the great who championed the idea that Russia absolutely needed a warm water port... Almost every single war Russia has fought and lost is in an attempt to gain access to warm water ports or to expand its territory to its west or in central Asia.. It's part of why Afghanistan exists, it's why they went to war with Japan (which then gave Japan the naval doctrine of defeating an enemy in large decisive battles) It's why they were so adamant about securing buffer states between them and Western Europe for so long. It's why they signed onto Ribbentrop-Molotov.
They know their strategic disadvantage of having a wide flat western border to defend is why Napoleon and Hitler were able to march their armies right through their territory, and they need to secure as much territory or friends as far west as they can in order to limit the amount of territory they must defend.
Russia is doing this simply because Putin sees everything west of Slavic territory as an enemy, or at least untrustworthy, and he's trying to limit the damage that has occurred to Russia's western defensive capabilities, as well as its access to warm water ports on the black sea. He sees the fall of the USSR as more catastrophic than WW2 itself, and he romanticizes the shared history of Ukraine and Russia. His ultimate dream is to bring back everything the USSR had back into the fold, but he's on full-alert damage control in regards to Ukraine. He's seen the baltic states go to NATO, he's seen much of eastern Europe join the EU and NATO. He doesn't want to lose the influence Russia has over its Slavic neighbourhood, and he sees Ukraine as integral to sustaining whatever he has left.
...and ultimately, the reason he's doing this is that it would not only be a blow to his ego to lose Ukraine to Europe, but also it would blow his pocketbook, because he'd have Nato all over his ass, and he'd need to spend national expenditures towards maintaining stronger defences in case Europe gets a little aggressive over Russia's petrochemical reserves... which also means less money for him to spend on elaborate palaces, and keeping his oligarch pals happy enough to not attempt to oust him from power.
This is all about Putin trying not to lose face or money, and Russia trying not to lose more of what it's already lost since the fall of the wall... and it's not considering for a second what the people of Ukraine want.
14391341:skierman said:YOU JUST CHANGED THE WORLD BY WASTING YOUR TIME POSTING THIS
14390851:r00kie said:The concept of the draft is one of the most anti-freedom things ever. If there are not enough volunteers that means the populace does not believe in the war effort.
14391309:T.L. said:I've never seen anything like this in my life. They will never stop with 'muhh russia' nonsense.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489399806409822212
We have no business interfering in Ukraine. We have no business speed walking Ukraine through the admission process to NATO. We have no business filling C-17's with small arms and M141 BDM's and gifting them to Ukraine.
Clown world.
14391336:DingoSean said:First of all, that reporter is a jackass... It's known far and wide that Russia consistently uses misinformation campaigns both at home and abroad during times when they rattle the sabre. They did it during the Syrian civil war, and they've done it plenty of other times in the past. The information is declassified. The source is not.
The whole point of making it public was to tell Russia 'hey, we see what you're doing - we aren't going to tell everyone how we know, but we know... don't do it' This isn't to appease some jerk curmudgeon who's trying to make it about himself just because he can't easily write a story on it.
Like, what does he want, the Cuban missile crisis photographs? Cmon dude. Get over yourself.
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As for not having business interfering in Ukraine... dude, neither does Russia. It's a sovereign nation... and Putin/Russia is acting like an abusive ex towards it. They're doing this simply because they know, that if the EU and possibly NATO get another nation on their border, particularly one that takes up a lot of Black Sea coastline, it will put them in a strategic bind as far as defence, and widen the amount of border that they will need to defend on the European plain.
To understand why Russia is doing this, you gotta understand Russian history... especially going back to Peter the great who championed the idea that Russia absolutely needed a warm water port... Almost every single war Russia has fought and lost is in an attempt to gain access to warm water ports or to expand its territory to its west or in central Asia.. It's part of why Afghanistan exists, it's why they went to war with Japan (which then gave Japan the naval doctrine of defeating an enemy in large decisive battles) It's why they were so adamant about securing buffer states between them and Western Europe for so long. It's why they signed onto Ribbentrop-Molotov.
They know their strategic disadvantage of having a wide flat western border to defend is why Napoleon and Hitler were able to march their armies right through their territory, and they need to secure as much territory or friends as far west as they can in order to limit the amount of territory they must defend.
Russia is doing this simply because Putin sees everything west of Slavic territory as an enemy, or at least untrustworthy, and he's trying to limit the damage that has occurred to Russia's western defensive capabilities, as well as its access to warm water ports on the black sea. He sees the fall of the USSR as more catastrophic than WW2 itself, and he romanticizes the shared history of Ukraine and Russia. His ultimate dream is to bring back everything the USSR had back into the fold, but he's on full-alert damage control in regards to Ukraine. He's seen the baltic states go to NATO, he's seen much of eastern Europe join the EU and NATO. He doesn't want to lose the influence Russia has over its Slavic neighbourhood, and he sees Ukraine as integral to sustaining whatever he has left.
...and ultimately, the reason he's doing this is that it would not only be a blow to his ego to lose Ukraine to Europe, but also it would blow his pocketbook, because he'd have Nato all over his ass, and he'd need to spend national expenditures towards maintaining stronger defences in case Europe gets a little aggressive over Russia's petrochemical reserves... which also means less money for him to spend on elaborate palaces, and keeping his oligarch pals happy enough to not attempt to oust him from power.
This is all about Putin trying not to lose face or money, and Russia trying not to lose more of what it's already lost since the fall of the wall... and it's not considering for a second what the people of Ukraine want.
14391485:SofaKingSick said:"we" aren't doing anything aggressive here whatsoever. we have every right to supply arms to an ally of ours, especially when russia, who officially considers us an adversary, has already invaded that ally's country and could be prepping to invade further now
your post is trump-world wacko shit and you've managed to spin it in your head that we're the aggressors here and not russia... even though the US and allies have shown no interest in going to fight this head-on and very clearly don't want war. this thing you're whining about is one of the steps we're taking to AVOID war
(i don't expect to convince you, you're clearly way down the rabbit hole, i just respond to shit like this sometimes so that the naive reader might do some reading and realize how out to lunch your post is. so spare me the conspiracy theories from ""alternative"" sources that would make up your reply here)
14403609:FruitBootPro said:So, uh, about that…
14403612:Coleg55 said:I got asthma sorry biden
14403614:Mackaroni_space said:I have autism and multiple concussions does that count
14403614:Mackaroni_space said:I have autism and multiple concussions does that count