“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
No. Okay, maybe. In 1940: Japan’s population was 73 million. The US’s population was 133 million. Japan’s GDP was ~$10 billion (including plunder wealth) The US’s GDP was ~$100 billion. (BTW — that was 1940, by 1945, the US’s GDP was $230 billion.) Japan produced 18 aircraft carriers during the War. The US produced 124 aircraft carriers during the War. Japan produced a pittance in fossil fuels during the War. The US produced 60% of the world’s petroleum (and around 75% of the refined petroleum fuels).
Should we now review Russia vs Ukraine statistics?
Ukraine is the "underdog". As the underdog, it needs to think "out of the box" to win. If it acts "conventionally" it will almost certainly lose. And I hate to tell you this, the Americans are not going to allow you to act "unconventionally". So unless you dump them and do some unconventional things, you will almost certainly lose.
\\that was 1940, by 1945, the US’s GDP was $230 billion.)
And NO inflation? ;-P
\\The US produced 124 aircraft carriers during the War.
Most of em escort quicky trash... because somebody was whooping your ass.
Japanese... obviously didn't have such problem.
\\Should we now review Russia vs Ukraine statistics?
So???
Why they NOT conquered Kyiv "in 3 days"???
Your version? ;-P
And that is NOT "great help from USA"... cause you know that even TWO year since... it is laughable. To call THAT... "big help".
\\Predestined? No. Just "highly likely" to win.
And how that relates to that POWs in Japanese possession?
\\Ukraine is the "underdog". As the underdog, it needs to think "out of the box" to win. If it acts "conventionally" it will almost certainly lose. And I hate to tell you this, the Americans are not going to allow you to act "unconventionally". So unless you dump them and do some unconventional things, you will almost certainly lose.
Absolutely DUNNO what you talking about here...
Sending drones on Mother Russia -- is it... conventional???
Sunking ships with other drones?
Making big bums all around?
On the contrary -- it looks more like Pentagon LIKED it very much... and trying to force Ukraine to do MORE of such "conventionally" unconventional acts...
as that is something, what CIA and Pentagon WOULD LIKE... but never would be allowed to do. ;-)
/Why they NOT conquered Kyiv "in 3 days"??? Your version? ;-P
A feint does not aim for achieving victory. It aims at diversion. Like "Fortitude" and Patton's "inflatable army" (Quicksilver) on D-Day.
And how that relates to that POWs in Japanese possession?
Knowing the truth, and not being decived by enemy propaganda.
Sending drones on Mother Russia -- is it... conventional???
It won't win the war, either. Air power may help, but victory requires boots on the ground. You're not Curtis LeMay and you don't have enough drones to create a bomber mafia.
/It... historical experience of TWO world wars... is not in your genes.
No? My Uncle Hank was a US Marine who died at Iwo Jima. My father then joined the US Army Air Corp (USAF) and was part of US Occupation Forced, Japan. He was a career military enlisted man. I spent 7 1/2 years of my young life in Spain in Venezuela. It's not in MY genes? I went to a US Service Academy.
Boots on the ground are the precursor to victory...
The average Ukrainian soldier is 43-years-old, according to Time Magazine. When the war began in February 2022, the average Ukrainian soldier was between 30 and 35 years old. Ukraine is battling mounting manpower problems more than 20 months into the war.
To proper organise their logistics, modern armies seek to maintain a ratio between combat units and support units, or the so-called tooth-to-tail ratio, of up to 1:10 or 1:15. In other words, an army requires 10-15 support personnel for every soldier fighting the enemy.
With the current emphasis on “empathy” as the foundation of ethics, (Lem's) Aspernicus’ insight, correct as it is, is shocking precisely because it points out that emotions are easily numbed by the scale of the atrocity. It is easy to empathize with a single victim; six million is just a number. But if empathy fails, says Aspernicus, we need to appeal to intellect. We have to understand the Holocaust “not for the sake of the dead but for the sake of the living”.
Well... that about "power without ideology"... is total BS.
And what was, and still doing shamans in some primordial/foster tribes???
Not scaring people with "if you'd not give me some donation -- famines and diseases will be-sage you".
Or... how they collude with that tribe chiefs... with proclaiming their power to rule as holy. In exchange for support. From those who have rule of fist.
Look, we don't want to, or have to, conquer and then have to "manage" the World. Yes, our strategists all love the "hard kill". All need to put themselves in "control".
As it says in the coins, "In G_d we Trust!" It doesn't say, "In Deep State Bureaucracies we trust".
That that while your enemies are in most vulnerable position (RFia's propaganda NOW chanting about "we cannot allow revolution(s)... as in 1917 and 1991"),
And you still have your trump cards (pun intended ;-)).
You proposing to waste this historical chance? What for???
That allegory with casino... is not exactly right.
Not casino. But hidden and shady club of high stakes poker players ("Molly's game", watched?)...
Club that existed... since primordial times.
And you was playing there. With roughly good results. Somewhat above average. But far from being unbeatable.
But.
In result of your last bluff. Suddenly TOO successful, even to your own expectations.
You gained something like position of honorary president of that club -- one, who do not need to play anymore. As your last stake was too high and unbeatable.
But... your rivals NOT stopped desiring your demise.
So, now they just in one step from starting colluding against you.
Through.
As you are unbeatable -- nobody will dare to challenge your last bet.
They started... not, they was doing that all of the time.
But now.
They found your ally. No, not ally even. Just feint acquaitant.
But one, you made mistake to show your interest in. And even claimed to protect.
So.
Now they started their attacks on you. Through that loser. More and more.
To make you "wink". To THEIR bluff.
Mere "wink" that will cost you immensely -- if you'll do.
Because they will start challenging you more, MORE and MOARRRR!
You're funny. NK Doesn't have a preemptive first strike capability. Neither does Russia, China, and/or any combination of players. It's launch and die for all of them. MAD.
Now if they nuke Ukraine, they'll probably get away with it.
Russia is not a threat to the US today, tomorrow, or any day of the week.
In all scenarios, we own the high ground. If Russia wants to put nukes in Space and wipe out our satellites? Let them try. Oedipus at Colonus. We'll meet them in the Grove of the Erinyes
\\You're funny. NK Doesn't have a preemptive first strike capability. Neither does Russia, China, and/or any combination of players. It's launch and die for all of them. MAD.
You don't get it...
Rulez of that game chaged. in 9/11.
NK, China, RFia... can give nuke to some "terrorists".
That either would smaggle it on your territory. Or create some delivery device. Like Palestinians make rockets. Or... take some drone off the shelf.
WHOM you'd be attacking???
If... most clever... is to make that terrorists from name of Americans.
Yeah. Your deep state will know... or just will "know", who.
But... would your POTUS. ANY OF EM. Have enough balls... to start a war with China??? RFia???
THAT is that bluff I mentioned higher.
And for now... you look like blinking non-stop.
Instead of dealing decisive blow.
\\In all scenarios, we own the high ground.
Yeah. That is that trump cards I mentioned.
But... using em, needs balls. And USA looks more and more like not having em.
Or... where I am wrong???
\\ ...and if they want to play with us with conventional weapons?
For now...
but, in progress you are the same as Ukraine in compare with RFia. 1/5 in population.
And if you'd lose your allies... that, what your dRump propose -- betray Europe.
I would not give a damn about you.
\\Now if they nuke Ukraine, they'll probably get away with it.
Yeah. That too.
Thing you, as USA, CANNOT allow.
But... they trying to bluff you into showing that YOU'LL DO.
Make you blink.
\\Russia is not a threat to the US today, tomorrow, or any day of the week.
Discounting enemy -- is most stupid idea.
Confirmed many-many-MANY times in History.
Practically HALF of defeats in History -- is because of that.
And nearly ALL of USA defeats.
(shaking head in dismy)
PS Well... you are not strategy analist. And not history or military expert.
And probably, you trying to make me emoutional, like trolling? Yawn.
YOU don't get it. It won't be about "truth". It will be about "operational success". Countries like NK, with only small nuclear arsenals will be the first to go. And you don't think that we can't "foresnsically" determine a bombs origins? Please.
"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?" - Archilochus
At BethShip in San Francisco, we used to launch barges sideways... but while the barge was still incomplete (entire water-facing side not yet installed because there wasn't enough room (width on slipway) to install it. In the bulkheads place, a very short temporary "splash bulkhead" was installed. After launch, we'd tow the barge to a drydock, remove the splash bulkhead, and install the permanent side bulkhead. The first time we did it, I was very nervous that the temporary "splash bulkhead" wasn't tall enough and that the 282' grain-oil barge would flood on launch.
That's because it wasn't a war. It was a slaughter not worthy of the name "war". Only one side died, and those deaths went largely un-observed and in a technical hyper-reality of video images.
Back in the 80's I used to spend Armed Forces Day watching the weapons demonstrations and live fire exercises at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Bradleys, M1-A1s, 155 Howitzers. Their historical tank collection was also quite impressive, their atomic canons were cool, too. The MD NG pilots used to fly over the museum in their A-10s and have orgasms seeing such a target rich environment.
The M1-A1s used to fire at far downrange static targets while moving themselves... the Bradleys used to fire while moving at dynamic targets moving but nearer...the tracers on the 20mm guns would light up the steel plates on the target vehicles. The only difference from live hunting was that the targets didn't fire back. :)
h/t - Woodsterman
Oh... I played that game.
ReplyDeleteGot even whole bunch of em... to suit to any post.
But... found it's useless. In the end. ;-P
Avatars -- most useless waste of creativity. :-(((
;-P
ReplyDeleteYep.
ReplyDelete"Always On Watch" Who's that?
ReplyDeleteA blogging friend of many years. Why do you ask? She doesn't blog herself anymore, but does occasionally show up and say "hi".
ReplyDeleteShe's a former teacher of mostly "home-schooled" students.
Well... rare occurrence... to see new face here.
ReplyDeleteNo offense.
Watched your movie. "Unbroken".
About prisoners of war in Japan camps. Struggling. Withstanding beating and etc.
Why they not "negotiated"?
Because they are from "great" country... I mean, big one, which predestined to win?
That is your idea behind all your attempts?
No offense.
I just trying to make a clue.
I just dunno how people from "great countries" thinking.
Why?
ReplyDeleteNo. Okay, maybe. In 1940:
Japan’s population was 73 million.
The US’s population was 133 million.
Japan’s GDP was ~$10 billion (including plunder wealth)
The US’s GDP was ~$100 billion. (BTW — that was 1940, by 1945, the US’s GDP was $230 billion.)
Japan produced 18 aircraft carriers during the War.
The US produced 124 aircraft carriers during the War.
Japan produced a pittance in fossil fuels during the War.
The US produced 60% of the world’s petroleum (and around 75% of the refined petroleum fuels).
Should we now review Russia vs Ukraine statistics?
Predestined? No. Just "highly likely" to win.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is the "underdog". As the underdog, it needs to think "out of the box" to win. If it acts "conventionally" it will almost certainly lose. And I hate to tell you this, the Americans are not going to allow you to act "unconventionally". So unless you dump them and do some unconventional things, you will almost certainly lose.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the betting line in Las Vegas?
ReplyDeleteIf there were one, I'd say that these odds aren't even close. I'd put Ukraine winning @ 1:100
\\that was 1940, by 1945, the US’s GDP was $230 billion.)
ReplyDeleteAnd NO inflation? ;-P
\\The US produced 124 aircraft carriers during the War.
Most of em escort quicky trash... because somebody was whooping your ass.
Japanese... obviously didn't have such problem.
\\Should we now review Russia vs Ukraine statistics?
So???
Why they NOT conquered Kyiv "in 3 days"???
Your version? ;-P
And that is NOT "great help from USA"... cause you know that even TWO year since... it is laughable. To call THAT... "big help".
\\Predestined? No. Just "highly likely" to win.
And how that relates to that POWs in Japanese possession?
\\Ukraine is the "underdog". As the underdog, it needs to think "out of the box" to win. If it acts "conventionally" it will almost certainly lose. And I hate to tell you this, the Americans are not going to allow you to act "unconventionally". So unless you dump them and do some unconventional things, you will almost certainly lose.
Absolutely DUNNO what you talking about here...
Sending drones on Mother Russia -- is it... conventional???
Sunking ships with other drones?
Making big bums all around?
On the contrary -- it looks more like Pentagon LIKED it very much... and trying to force Ukraine to do MORE of such "conventionally" unconventional acts...
as that is something, what CIA and Pentagon WOULD LIKE... but never would be allowed to do. ;-)
Hah.
ReplyDeletePost eaten by spamfilter. AGAIN!
And I know why.
Used YET ONE "magic word".
e S cort.
\\If there were one, I'd say that these odds aren't even close. I'd put Ukraine winning @ 1:100
ReplyDeleteYou do not see all picture.
And all picture is this -- if Ukraine WILL NOT win... damn casino will be blown UP. Beyond repair possible.
Return to 1939.
ReplyDeleteSo what if Poland would not win??? -- asked smag Brits.
And received bombs on their dumb heads... how long after?
Ah, yes. Less then in a year.
Well... I understand why you do not understand.
ReplyDeleteIt... historical experience of TWO world wars... is not in your genes.
But it is IN genes of Europeans -- and look how much their overview changed, lately.
/Why they NOT conquered Kyiv "in 3 days"???
ReplyDeleteYour version? ;-P
A feint does not aim for achieving victory. It aims at diversion. Like "Fortitude" and Patton's "inflatable army" (Quicksilver) on D-Day.
And how that relates to that POWs in Japanese possession?
Knowing the truth, and not being decived by enemy propaganda.
Sending drones on Mother Russia -- is it... conventional???
It won't win the war, either. Air power may help, but victory requires boots on the ground. You're not Curtis LeMay and you don't have enough drones to create a bomber mafia.
/It... historical experience of TWO world wars... is not in your genes.
No? My Uncle Hank was a US Marine who died at Iwo Jima. My father then joined the US Army Air Corp (USAF) and was part of US Occupation Forced, Japan. He was a career military enlisted man. I spent 7 1/2 years of my young life in Spain in Venezuela. It's not in MY genes? I went to a US Service Academy.
:P
ReplyDeleteIn WWII the NAZI's always had the better tech. But Jets and V1/V2 rockets didn't win the war for them.
ReplyDeleteThey... would not win... even if they'd win.
ReplyDeleteThey was PREDESTINED to fail.
Because of caveat in their core ideation.
What Hitler wanted? European Empire under rule of Germans?
But rule needs troops to control over conquered.
And he PROMISED to his troop that he will demilitarize em, after Great Victory.
By making each of em... a landlord. :-)))))))))))))))))
\\A feint does not aim for achieving victory. It aims at diversion. Like "Fortitude" and Patton's "inflatable army" (Quicksilver) on D-Day.
ReplyDelete:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))000
\\Knowing the truth, and not being decived by enemy propaganda.
They could be killed on a whim. What more deceiving there can be?
\\Sending drones on Mother Russia -- is it... conventional???
\\It won't win the war, either.
Yeah.
Let liliPut think that way... till too late. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))
\\/It... historical experience of TWO world wars... is not in your genes.
\\No?
Yes.
Ask Jews. Ask Poles. Ask... that same Ukrainians. And many-many other nations and ethnicities.
That same Germans.
\\My Uncle Hank was a US Marine who died at Iwo Jima.
My sincere condolences.
But... do your grand-mother have had experience being under nazi occupation? Survived through bombing raids? Gave birth to a Russian bastard?
\\ I spent 7 1/2 years of my young life in Spain in Venezuela. It's not in MY genes?
Being on a side of victorious military?
Well... probably.
Same as what liliPut pounding at.
As most of Russians was NEVER under occupation. And even did not saw a war. (like Putin himself) Same as USA.
While all other people -- just look at map of German WW2 conquest -- from white rocks of England... and till the white-topped mountains of Caucasus...
That is space where NOT soldiers ONLY struggled and suffered, and died.
But women and children, and elderly... met their bitter end.
And those who survived -- transferred it into their progeny.
Even without their will and want.
Epigenetics.
Victory??? ;-P
ReplyDeleteAnd he PROMISED to his troop that he will demilitarize em, after Great Victory.
ReplyDeleteBy making each of em... a landlord
The Continental Army in the Revolutionary War... Officers got 1,000 acres, Enlisted 500. That what the State of Ohio was for.
Tank in battle flying a flag? LOL!
ReplyDelete...Oh wait, the flag deploys automatically when hit with an anti-tank missile. @@
ReplyDeleteLike I said before, the NATO lifeboat's full. You need to either swim or find another flotation device. :(
ReplyDeletebtw - Every regime is predestined to fail, usually as a result of its' own first principles.
ReplyDeleteMeden agan!
ReplyDelete\\The Continental Army in the Revolutionary War... Officers got 1,000 acres, Enlisted 500. That what the State of Ohio was for.
ReplyDeleteYeah... in times of tanks, planes and A-bombs...
\\Tank in battle flying a flag? LOL!
I know. %-)
That is the enemy we all have to dealt with.
\\Like I said before, the NATO lifeboat's full. You need to either swim or find another flotation device. :(
What is your news sources?
Europe already all hands up.
For more then a year...
And now they seeking for weapon for Ukraine.
Boots on the ground are the precursor to victory...
ReplyDeleteThe average Ukrainian soldier is 43-years-old, according to Time Magazine. When the war began in February 2022, the average Ukrainian soldier was between 30 and 35 years old. Ukraine is battling mounting manpower problems more than 20 months into the war.
Ukraine = empty boots.
...and that doesn't consider the T3R:
ReplyDeleteTo proper organise their logistics, modern armies seek to maintain a ratio between combat units and support units, or the so-called tooth-to-tail ratio, of up to 1:10 or 1:15. In other words, an army requires 10-15 support personnel for every soldier fighting the enemy.
btw - You need to turn down the gas... it just makes you look desperate.
ReplyDeleteaka: "Hitler in the bunker" desperate.
ReplyDeleteWith the current emphasis on “empathy” as the foundation of ethics, (Lem's) Aspernicus’ insight, correct as it is, is shocking precisely because it points out that emotions are easily numbed by the scale of the atrocity. It is easy to empathize with a single victim; six million is just a number. But if empathy fails, says Aspernicus, we need to appeal to intellect. We have to understand the Holocaust “not for the sake of the dead but for the sake of the living”.
ReplyDelete\\Boots on the ground are the precursor to victory...
ReplyDeleteOld time wisdoms tend to grow inaccurate or even outdated... with time.
\\aka: "Hitler in the bunker" desperate.
liliPut? ;-P
He really looking desperate... for help from USA.
Help from Bi-den. ;-P
And what about what that A. said about philosophers? ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd why you omitting LOGIC described there??? Logic perfectly the same I refer too -- that USA CANNOT allow liliPut to win.
ReplyDeleteNot for the sake of Ukraine or Europe.
Or some ethereal "values".
For OWN sake.
For OWN survival even.
Because to rising in power RFia and China... elimination of USA... is TOO DAMN obvious solution.
Because WITHOUT USA... they can do with this whole World whatever they like.
And MOST DAMNING.
That that "final solution"... seems like have virtually no drawbacks and backbites.
Whole North America becoming radioactive waste dump?
But... hardly it'll come to Eurasia... soon.
While living you in place... well, go ask Japanese -- WHY they attacked your Pearl Harbor.
Saw funny picture in Captcha.
ReplyDeleteBlakk boy on a pink bike... with USA flag. While on the background... totally not USA. ;-P
Well... and how resounding there Derpy's "government/state have right to kill"...
ReplyDeleteWell... NOT surprising -- low intellectual proves precludes low moral values.
Yawn.
Well... that about "power without ideology"... is total BS.
ReplyDeleteAnd what was, and still doing shamans in some primordial/foster tribes???
Not scaring people with "if you'd not give me some donation -- famines and diseases will be-sage you".
Or... how they collude with that tribe chiefs... with proclaiming their power to rule as holy. In exchange for support. From those who have rule of fist.
And well... I mentioned it here.
ReplyDeleteBut you ignored/forgot it?
That that is NOT Germans that come to that idea of "jews are pests".
That is war-time propaganda of ENDEMIC for Russia/RFia idea of antisemitism.
As summary.
ReplyDeleteLem as always concise and to the point. Confirmed having clear mind of a true philosopher. ;-)
Or... you still not read that text yourself? And just commentaries to it?
USA CANNOT allow liliPut to win.
ReplyDeleteWe let Vietnam win. We let the taliban win. I worry more about Iran than Russia.
Not scaring people with "if you'd not give me some donation -- famines and diseases will be-sage you".
ReplyDelete...climate change. Boo!
....Russia. Boo!
Scaring people is what govt. bureaucrats DO.
Commentaries.
ReplyDeleteI did fall asleep to "His Master's Voice" on YouTube two nights in a row, though.
\\...climate change. Boo!
ReplyDelete\\....Russia. Boo!
\\Scaring people is what govt. bureaucrats DO.
Do Climate Change have nukes directed at you?
Well... sometime banana is REAL. ;-P
Well... that is NOT Russia you should be aware of... but of China.
To use RFia as BIG North Korea against you.
Do you, your POTUSes, your deep state, your government devised a good plan... or ANY plan at all -- how to solve North Korea Problem???
Do you think you'd be ANY CLOSER to solving BIG North Korea Problem?
I... don't think so.
PS Well... except, you know... technology. ;-)
\\I did fall asleep to "His Master's Voice" on YouTube two nights in a row, though.
ReplyDeleteYeah.
It unparallelly gloomy-doomy. :-)
\\We let Vietnam win.
Not without good fight.
And sometimes... standing your ground is more important, than to win.
"Unbroken" again.
And well, that famous boxers your Ams like so much. Why they stand 12 rounds? When everything is obvious even before first one?
\\We let the taliban win.
Ehm???
\\I worry more about Iran than Russia.
Iran... is a minion of RFia.
And RFia... is just a miserly minion of Big Yellow. ;-P
Look, we don't want to, or have to, conquer and then have to "manage" the World. Yes, our strategists all love the "hard kill". All need to put themselves in "control".
ReplyDeleteAs it says in the coins, "In G_d we Trust!" It doesn't say, "In Deep State Bureaucracies we trust".
Short of that, "Molon Labe!"
Here's the message you should realize by now...
ReplyDeleteYou should be rooting for the Democrats and Biden. :(
ReplyDeleteThey'll destroy your economy and turn you all into slaves. But maybe it won't be as "harsh" as what Putin is offering you?
ReplyDelete\\Short of that, "Molon Labe!"
ReplyDeleteMolon will not help against poisons and lies...
\\You should be rooting for the Democrats and Biden. :(
Why???
I looking and talking from perspective of History... not my personal.
\\They'll destroy your economy and turn you all into slaves. But maybe it won't be as "harsh" as what Putin is offering you?
Sending millions to build cities up to the North Pole?
No. Probably. That is not that much "harsh" as starving to death... probably.
Yawn.
Do you know that shady stories... about Germans making planes/rockets... that could rich New York.
Today. With modern techs. Such rockets is just off the shelf things.
As well as heads for em... with much more "interesting" content than TNT.
Just that same scenario.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea... or even better, just some unknown ship/sub launches rocket with nuklear head... onto your mainland.
There... where are NO coverage of anything anti-air/anti-missile (checked by Chinese spy balloons previously).
Big mushroom growing.
A-a-a-and???
Reaction of your Pentagon? WH? MSM?
Nuke out NK? China and RFia will sworn "support and protect" it.
Or even better... whom you unleash your wrath at... for an UNKNOWN origin ship???
Just bomb out some random country???
As you did with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Or... maybe start negotiations???
With whom? About what?
PS And that... is just simplest scenario... that grow more and more possible, in our current Brave New World.
And what is totally avoids my understanding.
ReplyDeleteThat that while your enemies are in most vulnerable position (RFia's propaganda NOW chanting about "we cannot allow revolution(s)... as in 1917 and 1991"),
And you still have your trump cards (pun intended ;-)).
You proposing to waste this historical chance? What for???
That allegory with casino... is not exactly right.
ReplyDeleteNot casino. But hidden and shady club of high stakes poker players ("Molly's game", watched?)...
Club that existed... since primordial times.
And you was playing there. With roughly good results. Somewhat above average. But far from being unbeatable.
But.
In result of your last bluff. Suddenly TOO successful, even to your own expectations.
You gained something like position of honorary president of that club -- one, who do not need to play anymore. As your last stake was too high and unbeatable.
But... your rivals NOT stopped desiring your demise.
So, now they just in one step from starting colluding against you.
Through.
As you are unbeatable -- nobody will dare to challenge your last bet.
They started... not, they was doing that all of the time.
But now.
They found your ally. No, not ally even. Just feint acquaitant.
But one, you made mistake to show your interest in. And even claimed to protect.
So.
Now they started their attacks on you. Through that loser. More and more.
To make you "wink". To THEIR bluff.
Mere "wink" that will cost you immensely -- if you'll do.
Because they will start challenging you more, MORE and MOARRRR!
And you.
Say frankly -- not ready to such challenges.
You're funny. NK Doesn't have a preemptive first strike capability. Neither does Russia, China, and/or any combination of players. It's launch and die for all of them. MAD.
ReplyDeleteNow if they nuke Ukraine, they'll probably get away with it.
Russia is not a threat to the US today, tomorrow, or any day of the week.
...and if they want to play with us with conventional weapons? China's the only threat. And frankly, they're not much of one.
ReplyDeleteIn all scenarios, we own the high ground. If Russia wants to put nukes in Space and wipe out our satellites? Let them try. Oedipus at Colonus. We'll meet them in the Grove of the Erinyes
ReplyDelete...and then bury them with Oedipus.
ReplyDeletebtw - Ever hear of J. G. Ballard (Super-Cannes) in your Sci-Fi world?
ReplyDelete\\You're funny. NK Doesn't have a preemptive first strike capability. Neither does Russia, China, and/or any combination of players. It's launch and die for all of them. MAD.
ReplyDeleteYou don't get it...
Rulez of that game chaged. in 9/11.
NK, China, RFia... can give nuke to some "terrorists".
That either would smaggle it on your territory. Or create some delivery device. Like Palestinians make rockets.
Or... take some drone off the shelf.
WHOM you'd be attacking???
If... most clever... is to make that terrorists from name of Americans.
Yeah. Your deep state will know... or just will "know", who.
But... would your POTUS. ANY OF EM. Have enough balls... to start a war with China??? RFia???
THAT is that bluff I mentioned higher.
And for now... you look like blinking non-stop.
Instead of dealing decisive blow.
\\In all scenarios, we own the high ground.
Yeah. That is that trump cards I mentioned.
But... using em, needs balls. And USA looks more and more like not having em.
Or... where I am wrong???
\\ ...and if they want to play with us with conventional weapons?
For now...
but, in progress you are the same as Ukraine in compare with RFia. 1/5 in population.
And if you'd lose your allies... that, what your dRump propose -- betray Europe.
I would not give a damn about you.
\\Now if they nuke Ukraine, they'll probably get away with it.
Yeah. That too.
Thing you, as USA, CANNOT allow.
But... they trying to bluff you into showing that YOU'LL DO.
Make you blink.
\\Russia is not a threat to the US today, tomorrow, or any day of the week.
Discounting enemy -- is most stupid idea.
Confirmed many-many-MANY times in History.
Practically HALF of defeats in History -- is because of that.
And nearly ALL of USA defeats.
(shaking head in dismy)
PS Well... you are not strategy analist. And not history or military expert.
And probably, you trying to make me emoutional, like trolling? Yawn.
WHOM you'd be attacking???
ReplyDeleteThat makes it even easier. Whomever we don't like.
Or... where I am wrong???
ReplyDeleteYOU don't get it. It won't be about "truth". It will be about "operational success". Countries like NK, with only small nuclear arsenals will be the first to go. And you don't think that we can't "foresnsically" determine a bombs origins? Please.
ps - You speak of a "decisive blow". THAT is your fantasy.
ReplyDeleteAs mr. ducky used to always remind me, "the struggle is eternal".
"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?" - Archilochus
ReplyDeleteAmerica's defeats? Intervals of rest and a return to the "fantasy of peace" within the perpetual struggle.
ReplyDelete\\That makes it even easier. Whomever we don't like.
ReplyDeleteYeah... someone safe. Without nukes. ;-P
Another word... became China's bitch. Willfully.
\\ And you don't think that we can't "foresnsically" determine a bombs origins? Please.
You think it would matter? While in socnets there'd be ton of versions. And it will became matter of political fight.
As I said... poison and lies.
\\ps - You speak of a "decisive blow". THAT is your fantasy.
Oh, yes. Break up of USSR didn't happened. Its all my fantasy.
Well... ;-P
ReplyDeleteAnd... ;-P
ReplyDelete;-P
ReplyDeleteYep. That's where aesthetics go during wartime.
ReplyDeleteThat's you about last two moonfaced? ;-P
ReplyDeleteHah... spam filter eradicated that link. :-(((
ReplyDeleteYet one. Well... :-/
ReplyDelete...spoken like Marat...
ReplyDeleteWell... I think I got it.
ReplyDeleteUSA want Big War.
Boredom induced psychopathy in USIC bureaucrats...
ReplyDeleteThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
ReplyDeleteOver-competent! ;-P
ReplyDelete...sometime by design
ReplyDeleteAt BethShip in San Francisco, we used to launch barges sideways... but while the barge was still incomplete (entire water-facing side not yet installed because there wasn't enough room (width on slipway) to install it. In the bulkheads place, a very short temporary "splash bulkhead" was installed. After launch, we'd tow the barge to a drydock, remove the splash bulkhead, and install the permanent side bulkhead. The first time we did it, I was very nervous that the temporary "splash bulkhead" wasn't tall enough and that the 282' grain-oil barge would flood on launch.
We built 400' barges the same way, same problem.
ReplyDeleteHao! ;-p
ReplyDeleteHigh quality. ;-P
ReplyDeleteYou ever hear of Baudrillard's "The Gulf War did not take place?"
ReplyDeleteThat's because it wasn't a war. It was a slaughter not worthy of the name "war". Only one side died, and those deaths went largely un-observed and in a technical hyper-reality of video images.
Like you care.
ReplyDeleteAnd well... why Saddam was not dead, in result?
That's USA problem -- you not ready to deal finishing blow.
ReplyDeleteHeh. :-/
Well.
ReplyDeleteToo late.
liliPut calling out reservists.
All jokes ended. Third World War started.
short translation -- very "extatic" to be there ;-P
ReplyDeleteYou're missing the point. It's an "Achievement Society" now. Discipline and Punishment are passe, last generation.
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
ReplyDeleteNew wars need new approaches anyway...
ReplyDeleteNo, THIS is the new battlefield.
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
ReplyDeleteYou have not read enough Lem. ;-)
Yep.
ReplyDeleteFuturological Congress exactly.
ReplyDeleteWhere in his ingenuity he devised that wars of future will be not about moving troops on a battlefield -- but on changing ideas in heads of people.
Just implant there idea that they lost war... and you won. And Viola!
...but much like Inception (the movie), the ideas must be in the form of "dreams".
ReplyDelete"To put it as pithily as possibly—and as accurately—the unconscious is a machine for operating an animal." - Cormac McCarthy
ReplyDeleteHaving a Neuralink with which to implant and repeat it... might help. ;)
ReplyDeleteMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." - Arthur Schopenhauer
ReplyDelete...until now.
Ever wonder what kind of dreams advertising implant? PornHub?
ReplyDeleteIt might be nice to have a feedback loop for control, though...
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDelete:P
ReplyDelete:]
ReplyDeleteYET ONE ;-P
ReplyDeleteNICE. Love the "Sea Shanty" / "Irish Pub Song" stylings. :)
ReplyDeleteHave you tried the Wellerman Song?
ReplyDeleteMaybe lyrics aren't required...
Prefer ballads
ReplyDeleteAhhh Annie Haslan...
ReplyDelete...and her tribute to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn! One of my faves. Although my absolute fave is: this one... it has a nice change of pace.
ReplyDeleteNice. Isn't it? ;-)
ReplyDelete...there could be YOUR heros and YOUR wins, USA... ;-p
Back in the 80's I used to spend Armed Forces Day watching the weapons demonstrations and live fire exercises at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Bradleys, M1-A1s, 155 Howitzers. Their historical tank collection was also quite impressive, their atomic canons were cool, too. The MD NG pilots used to fly over the museum in their A-10s and have orgasms seeing such a target rich environment.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Lame target practicing... instead of live hunting. ;-P
ReplyDeleteAnd hero themself. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe M1-A1s used to fire at far downrange static targets while moving themselves... the Bradleys used to fire while moving at dynamic targets moving but nearer...the tracers on the 20mm guns would light up the steel plates on the target vehicles. The only difference from live hunting was that the targets didn't fire back. :)
ReplyDeleteHah.
ReplyDeleteWell ;-)
ReplyDeleteOr... https://youtu.be/voit9Y1vaGc
ReplyDeleteSorry, don't want to lose my Guard in the snows outside Moscow.
ReplyDelete:(
ReplyDeleteMake new tech... to send robots-terminators there. ;-P
ReplyDeleteLike Switchblade 300 at work ;-)
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