And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That is a Russian ship. Are we concerned about Russian state finances now? If that is the case then I would guess several billion dollars. A few hundred to pay for the equipment and the rest to line Putin's and his friends pockets. You know, the usual dictator fee.
I am sad that you are correct. The machine that is the US military/political defense system is propped up on toothpicks, a lot of them to be sure, but we are on very unsteady stilts.
Isn't it funny when you see American offended by the notion that there may be corruption in Russia? Someone sees a picture of a Russian ship, points out the likely Russian corruption tied to it and somehow an American is offended and feels the need to attack America... Interesting times we live in.
A giant segment of our population views the words "provide for the common defense" as a free pass for the Pentagon/DOD to spend whatever it wants on whatever its friends in the MIC want to sell them. Maybe at some point these folks will finally wake up and realize that virtually NOTHING since 1941 (and even that is questionable since FDR actively provoked and allowed Pearl Harbor) has been about actually defending the US. But all the fancy air shows, flyovers, etc. give all these folks giant hard ons instead because they don't even want to truly face just how many hundreds of billions if not trillions have been STOLEN and WASTED on things that have NOTHING to do with actually defending this country. Nor do they want to face the truth that the greatest enemy of the American people has always been under the domes of the capital buildings of DC and the state capitals (and city halls).
I am a military veteran and I agree with you 110%. I also have many veteran family members going back to Gettysburg, where my GGF was injured. My oldest brother did 2 tours in Nam; my niece recently retired from the AF; my nephew served in the Navy, as did another of my brothers. Both my birth and adopted Fathers served in WWII - and they would agree with you, too! We should NOT be the world's police force! BRING THEM ALL HOME!!!!
I agree that the US needs to cease being the "Policeman of the World" but denigrating the warrior because of the war (any war) is something that the anti-war weenies did to us Vietnam veterans.
The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war. Being prepared for war is far more important than the "bean counters" checking invoices and the price of war material.
It cost us the whole of the cold war buildup, the lives of our youth sent overseas to defend the spineless Europeans. It cost the Soviet taxpayer his country.
We didn’t pay a dime. It’s Russian and they don’t care what their taxpayers think -complain to much you go on a list. Bad to be on a government list over there.
nothing its a russian lcac
ReplyDeleteThe title didn't say "American" taxpayers....
DeleteThat is a Russian ship.
ReplyDeleteAre we concerned about Russian state finances now? If that is the case then I would guess several billion dollars. A few hundred to pay for the equipment and the rest to line Putin's and his friends pockets. You know, the usual dictator fee.
LOL Russia's CORRUPT. OK
DeleteF35 Thunder turkey vs Russian Sukhoi stealth fighter
Ours cost 120 Million BASE COST
Theirs cost 30 Million Standard configuration.
Oh yeah, theirs has been unsuccessfully shot at by several anti-aircraft systems in Ukraine. Ours?
Oh, sorry IDF lost two or more (questions) by "Bird Strikes" over Syria against "unsuccessful S300 missile attacks".
Oddly the IDF STOPPED Flying within the range of S300's because of hazardous Muslim Birds.
I am sad that you are correct.
DeleteThe machine that is the US military/political defense system is propped up on toothpicks, a lot of them to be sure, but we are on very unsteady stilts.
Isn't it funny when you see American offended by the notion that there may be corruption in Russia?
DeleteSomeone sees a picture of a Russian ship, points out the likely Russian corruption tied to it and somehow an American is offended and feels the need to attack America... Interesting times we live in.
Zubr-class LCAC landing what looks like a BTR-82A APC.
ReplyDeleteFor sale, cheap.
DeleteNever been fired, only dropped off once.
I see you still believe in Biden's talking points about Russia in Ukraine. Reliable source of info, Biden sure is
DeleteAt first glance, I thought it was a UN Navy airboat. Silly me. Yes, Russian Zuber-class landing craft.
ReplyDeleteCORRECTION: That should read: "US Navy" airboat.
DeleteNot sure the correction is necessary. The US, UN, and NATO are becoming more and more the same thing.
DeleteWhat we should be concerned about is how much we are spending on illegals rather then our own people
ReplyDeletePretty cool. It comes with two Dales.
ReplyDeleteA giant segment of our population views the words "provide for the common defense" as a free pass for the Pentagon/DOD to spend whatever it wants on whatever its friends in the MIC want to sell them. Maybe at some point these folks will finally wake up and realize that virtually NOTHING since 1941 (and even that is questionable since FDR actively provoked and allowed Pearl Harbor) has been about actually defending the US. But all the fancy air shows, flyovers, etc. give all these folks giant hard ons instead because they don't even want to truly face just how many hundreds of billions if not trillions have been STOLEN and WASTED on things that have NOTHING to do with actually defending this country. Nor do they want to face the truth that the greatest enemy of the American people has always been under the domes of the capital buildings of DC and the state capitals (and city halls).
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that you, Sir, are not a US military veteran. At least, your tone and content indicate a bit of dismay, sarcasm and disgust.
DeleteSo you'd rather have no military? That's what Europe has...nothing worth talking about..., and the only thing stopping Russia is the US.
DeleteAnd then we'd be next, chopped up between the Chinese and the Russians. if we had no military.
Whine like an 8th grade girl all you want, the US military has more or less been a deterrent force for over 60 years.
I am a military veteran and I agree with you 110%. I also have many veteran family members going back to Gettysburg, where my GGF was injured. My oldest brother did 2 tours in Nam; my niece recently retired from the AF; my nephew served in the Navy, as did another of my brothers. Both my birth and adopted Fathers served in WWII - and they would agree with you, too! We should NOT be the world's police force! BRING THEM ALL HOME!!!!
DeleteI'll just leave this here without comment one way or the other: War is a Racket by Smedley Butler. Compare and discuss.
DeleteI agree that the US needs to cease being the "Policeman of the World" but denigrating the warrior because of the war (any war) is something that the anti-war weenies did to us Vietnam veterans.
DeleteThe more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war. Being prepared for war is far more important than the "bean counters" checking invoices and the price of war material.
If that were full of eels, it would be a goodly number of them.
ReplyDeleteI see a Monty Python skit in that statement.
DeleteDoes that make me a bad person?
It cost us the whole of the cold war buildup, the lives of our youth sent overseas to defend the spineless Europeans. It cost the Soviet taxpayer his country.
ReplyDeleteWe didn’t pay a dime. It’s Russian and they don’t care what their taxpayers think -complain to much you go on a list. Bad to be on a government list over there.
ReplyDeleteHeh, as if you don't get put on a list here for merely going to a school board meeting. Or church during a scamdemic.
DeleteWTF soy boy WTF??
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