Behold the strategic genius of Donald Trump:
Trump mused to donors that we should take our F-22 planes, "put the Chinese flag on them and bomb the shit out" out of Russia. "And then we say, China did it, we didn't do, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch."
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 6, 2022
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that this man used to be president of the United States. For four years. And there are many people who would like him to be president for another four. We cannot allow this to happen.
Not to worry, Trump is God's tool whether he knows it or not. Must be true, I read it on the internet.
That is exactly what Trump is.
Heh. Tool.
Now I am imagining Glemm Greemwald, Michael Tracey, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Katie Halper, & the rest of the Unusual Gang of Idiots in vigil outside Maralago singing "Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace".
What? God ran out of locusts?
Lol!
Locusts are so yesterday. If you want to stay on top as a divine being, you’ve got to keep upping your game. Trump is today’s punishment for humanity’s sins.
every time i hear a christian righty say that god chose trump to be our president, i agree and add, as our punishment.
Yes, it’s often occurred to me that if pharaoh hadn’t folded, the next plague on the Egyptians after death of their firstborn would’ve been Trump.
Had to laugh at WaPo's Josh Daswey's take as summarized on their web page:
"The Fix: Trump floats a really bad - and quite possible illegal - idea to bomb Russia using Chinese flags."
Bombing a country we aren't officially at war with while flying a false flag? Quite possible illegal? Gee, do ya really think so, or are you out over your skis?
when was the law ever a barrier to trump?
God, he's a tool
He's bomb the shit out like a Fox.
It seems like only last week that Trump was telling us how savvy Putin was, being able to walk into Ukraine for the price of some $2 sanctions.
One could almost think he knew even less about the world when he left office than he did going in.
I do hope that his opponents hold nothing back in digging up his Putin statements and rubbing his nose in it and in lack of wealth. Trump reacts poorly to challenges to his core sense of self.
Trump can see as far ahead as his eyelids, so he's better off leaving the judgement calls to all those "experts" he's so good at hiring.
Oh, God, that sounds like a Henry James' quote.
The man who throw a temper tantrum when Denmark refused to sell Greenland..
This planet barley dodged a bullet in your last election, 37 000 votes in three states saved us .
Next time?
Right wing extremists are given the right to turn elections into a joke, no water in six hour long queues is just one example from Georgia, one can find similar abominations being implemented in Texas , Arizona… you name it
…. but those laws is just meant to deceive, they are like the right hand of the magician catching our attention while he is hiding the cards with his left hand. The important part is the one when the Republican legislature in Georgia are allowed to nullify the election if the result still doesn’t pleases them. The important part is the successful campaign in turning “the big lie “ into a truth in the minds of the hard core of Republican voters
The important part is to turn the officers who defended the Capitol into villains and the attackers into victims preparing for a Congress, dominated by the Republicans after a midterm sabotaged by the new laws , to reject a democratic winner in the next presidential election and to once again install Donald J Trump (or a Donald J Trump clone).
All attempts to fight it in court will fail since your Supreme Court is crowded with right wing politicians dressed up in black robes impersonating justices
… and it’s nothing the sane majority can do about it
A comment from a Swedish troll
Good rundown! The US is in a deep ditch, democratically speaking, and much of is own Constitution and laws make digging out even harder.
* An unrepresentative Senate, where minority rule is built in? Check.
* Presidential elections by a non-proportional "vote" of the states? Check.
* Partisan court system, from municipal and state judges who are elected, to the partisan-selected federal judiciary? Check and check.
* Districted eleciions where the districts are created by the partisan legislature? Check.
* And let's not forget the near-impossibility of modifying the Constitution -- or even laws -- under the current minority rule regime.
At first glance, we're hosed.
We need a Clint and Stacy to tell us what not to do when it comes to writing a constitution for a polity of the size and diversity of the United States.
Of course, the original constitution was all about the deluded belief that putting the Slavers inside the tent would keep them from pissing it, so maybe the original guys were well aware of the defects baked into their document.
Sadly, you are correct in almost every part.
I wonder if, with the GOP's comments about how state law rules over federal laws, if, say, Georgia were to experience an insurrection at their state house(s), would the federals be moved to intervene?
Putin is scared shitless. He's claiming that the sanctions are an act of war. Boy does he miss Trump.
As politics is war by other means, & the sanctions result from political acts, POLITIFACT rates Vladimir Putin's claim that the western sanctions on Russian oligarchs are an act of war: TRUE.
Have seen a number of comments explaining that the sanctions are actually just ‘special financial operations’. Heh.
The Orange Slug says/does anything to stay in the spotlight .
With the Batman in theatres & Kristen Stewart nominated for an Oscar for Spencer, I am surprised El Jefe hasn't played his greatest hits of Twitter, from when he was Robert Pattinson's relationship counselor.
Translation is rough, but this supposedly comes from an FSB insider: https://pastebin.com/2agMRGmd
Then there's this tweet thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1499822066098655234
Finally, this NEXTA tweet was confirmed and clarified by Grozev himself, of Bellingcat: https://mobile.twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499807262084325379
High level commanders are being KIA, confirmed. The resupply of lethal weapons, specifically Turkey's TB2 drones (but also US Stingers), appears to have resulted in a surge of downing of Russian aircraft. Ukraine says it has killed or captured roughly 11,000 Russians, which is more than 1000 a day.
So, next week might be highly consequential. Russia has to figure out if it's going to open MOEX or keep it closed indefinitely. The Ruble won't stop falling. More sanctions are coming (oil bans and others). Ukraine is close to getting even more MiG fighters, from former Soviet republics who are negotiating for F-22s from the US in return. Does Russia's forces run out of weapons, people, food, and fuel in Ukraine? Will Belarus end up coerced into fighting for Putin but end up deposing Lukashenko?
Ukraine is very close to having the capacity to gain air superiority and thus the ability to pick off supply convoys. Perhaps in a bid for historical irony, on the Ides of March Putin will be removed and the threatened iron curtain will collapse for all of Russians to see the war crimes they blindly supported.
Ukraine is not close to being able to gain air superiority, this is War boosterism and delusion.
They may be able to get close to the denial of the same to Russia, which has great value, and if they can run the clock on the Russian army for a couple weeks may be able to reverse losses. But they are not going to get air superiority that's not a credible goal.
Repeating Ukranian clams on KIA of Russians is also rather engaging in simple minded war boosterism, repeating Agitprop...
Ukraine is doing brilliantly as it can in the face of the Putin onslaught but engaging in self-delusion about Ukranian position is just that, self-delusion. Understandable for Ukranians to engage in, not useful for outsiders.
History is repeating itself.
Back in 1939 did Russia (at that time named Soviet Union) launch a vicious attack on it’s peaceful and democratic neighbor Finland under the leadership of a cruel dictator named Stalin.The attack was motivated by a pack of lies and Russia’s “legitimate security needs”.
Prior to the attack on Finland had Russia (Soviet) done the same to four other independent countries in just a couple of weeks.
My Sweden supplied Finland with as much weapons and ammunition we could spare in those dangerous times together with 10 000 volunteers and 1/3 of our best (but still outdated) fighter aircrafts .
Since then has Sweden honored a strict policy of never sending military equipment to a war zone.
… until today!
Russia has once again cowardly assaulted a peaceful and democratic neighbor and motivated it with a pack of lies under the leadership of a Stalin wannabe.
My Sweden has no other option this time also than to provide Russia’s victims with what we can spare in these dangerous times (remember the strategic Swedish island of Gotland is situated just 200 miles from the Russian naval base of Kaliningrad)
PS. Remember, Russia didn’t succeed in subduing tiny Finland (population 2m ) back in 1939-40 due to the Finns determination to protect their freedom and democracy. They paid dearly but they kept their independence
Finland is today, one of the most successful and prosperous nations on this planet. Compare Finland to all the nations that was subdued by the brutal dictators in The Kremlin, all attempts to progress suffocated by a merciless mob … a mob that even today still isn’t accepting any progress in neighboring nations
Your summary is rather incomplete: Finland lost territory in the Winter Wars and only barely kept independence. Not a terrible outcome given what they faced but not so glowing as your presentation.
You didn’t get the important part of it…
Compare Finland to the situation after the war in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria Romania and also compare the situation today
….well I guess you get my point
The outcome was incredible!
Tiny Finland with a nonexistent military defense up against Stalin and the Red Army
Tiny Finland with limited economic value to a Soviet Union essentially focused on the much more interesting and fundamentally strategic Eastern European efforts barely survived.
Analysing the Ukraine via the Winter War is myopic and ill-informed.
Stalin was using the same paranoid “logic” as Putin is doing today. Russia (Soviet) needed to have a protective sphere of interest
Before WWII, Stalin considered Finland,the Baltics and Poland as the primary springboard for the next Imperialist attack on the USSR. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact eliminated the last two, at the expense of getting the border to Germany.
But Finland remained and Finland wasn’t complying . Leningrad, with all its military industry, was situated just 20 miles from the Finnish border
…. and Stalin gave them an offer that basically meant they should give up their independence, accused them of having bad intentions.
It’s exactly the same game both Stalin and Putin is playing
Logic besides the point. The Winter War(s) and their actual deroulement. First phase pre-Nazi invasion of Russian, second phase post-Nazi invasion are not wonderful models here.
In both instances the Finns lost militarily although certainly out performed what one could have expected normally from their limited numbers. LOST. And ended up ceding territory permanently to Russia.
There's no very encouraging model here. Although certainly better than getting re absorbed in the Russian empire (aka Soviet empire in its Soviet phase).
What I am writing about is the Russian way of handling its neighbors… and that was the problem in those days and still is the problem since Russia has failed to make any progress.
If Finland lost territory or not is beside the point
Hey, don't we all know by now th llhat the condescending Scandinavian know all, tells all? Tempted to tell him "tell us something we don't know" about the FG, but can't agree with all of his tiresome, predictable schadenfreude.
"Scandinavian".
Remember, I am a troll and this is what trolls do…
Have a nice day
Ugh yet another “Scandinavian countries do everything awesomely” comment.
If I lived in such a paradise as apparently Sweden is, I don’t know that I would spend any time reading - much less commenting - on the affairs of other, lesser countries as our Swedish troll does. I’d be too busy out enjoying all that paradise.
Finland lost that war. They had to concede territory and their foreign policy to the SU and the SU had a veto over their government.
In this case I think both Lounsbury and D_Ohrk make great points.
The Russians have put only minimal effort into this invasion. They could over whelm Ukraine if they knew before hand what type of resistance and foreign aid Ukraine would get. They grossly under estimated both Ukraines desire to fight, and the world's reaction. ALL of this is pointing to a severe lack of "good" intelligence that Putin has at his disposal. For a former KGB guy this makes the Ukraine situation even more of an embarrassment - which, unfortunately, may make his response even worse when he finally does re-take the parts of Ukraine that he lays claim to.
BUT, on the other hand, this shows that UNLESS it's a total nuclear war that the face of war fare is changing. Stinger portable missile launchers, even in the hands of a barely trained militia, can bring down Russian helicopters. That moves troop and supply movement back to the ground where they can be observed by both satellite and drones.
This is a surprising war but also shows that we (the world) are moving on from the militarily ignorant bravado of Trump. This is a good thing
On one hand, it's important to give credit to the Ukrainians, they are to use that otherwise rather tedious phrase "punching well above their weight." On other hand one should not be deluded by emotional response and solidarity (justifiable) with Ukraine into making the same error as Putin did - believing his own propaganda.
The Ukraine can't achieve air superiority, that is fantasy. Barring NATO intervention which would lead to a very real chance of WW III and strategic nuclear exchanges. Putin may be bluffing or maybe the Russian military would stop short, but a cornered set of old men seeing their cherished dreams burn .... no I don't want to bet on a bluff.
Lots of proper military analysts I have been reading suggest that the Russians since they did not plan well actually only have about 3 weeks of operational capacity and then become at least temporarily "force ineffective" (see https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1499967950975115269 but similar from UK RUSI).
For our Swede above: The Finns in their Winter War(s) with the Sovs did not win. They avoided catastrophic defeat, but they did not win militarily (and were forced to give up (modest) territory to the Russians [excuse me, Sovs]). They denied total victory to Stalin and in that sense in the long run they won. This is probably the best outcome the Ukraine can bank on, and it would not be a trivial one.
But people need to keep their emotions in check and keep a realistic eye on the achievable, lest we walk blind into nuclear exchange and then we all live Threads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
Already we face a global food catastrophe due to Putin's neo-hitlerian (worth of Hitler in 41) idiocy given Ukraine's huge place in the global wheat market.
the US, Canada and other producers need to look at strategic government driven intervention in the wheat market from production to distribution on an emergency war basis. Fuck no fly zones. North America must be thinking about Maximimum Wheat or this spills over in catastrophic ways globally and gives Putin a potential out.
Lounsbury
You said
"Fuck no fly zones. North America must be thinking about Maximimum Wheat or this spills over in catastrophic ways globally and gives Putin a potential out."
If as we agree Ukraine does not and cannot achieve air superiority wouldn't this then play into Zelenski's and Putins hands? Say Putin just shoots down an airlift plane or two. He shows NATO that they cannot fly into Ukraine.
Zelenski, who is stating that the west's response is anemic could shoot one down in the hopes the west replies with more vigor.
I'm all for sending large amounts of supplies at the current level of this conflict but I don't want to put a lumbering slow cargo plane in the air above Ukraine.
If Putin is only "good" for 3 weeks of operations wouldn't Belarus be hesitant to rely on Moscow for mutual aid should it be needed?
I can’t see Putin authorizing the shooting down of a NATO country’s aircraft. The West has a lot of options short of declaring a no-fly zone. We can make it clear that the oligarchs aren’t getting their stuff back. We can further tighten sanctions and do real damage to the Russian economy.
And, in a sense, Trump is both right and a moron. Obviously, at some point in his presidency he was briefed on Putin’s “little green men” which probably inspired his idiotic comments. But, as a practical matter, the West has the potential for “little green men” of our own to bolster the Ukrainians.
If the other countries who fly compatible aircraft send them to replenish Ukrainian losses, there’s really nothing stopping them from sending “little green pilots”, too. And “little green SAMs”. And “little green” special forces to hunt Russian officers. And so on.
I think that’s the percentage move right now. Low Rick, high reward.
Really? A NATO-enforced no-fly-zone would be only as good as NATO's willingness to shoot-down Russian aircraft operating within it, and once NATO is willing to shoot-down Russian aircraft I fail to see where Russia wouldn't be willing to shoot-down NATO aircraft.
That’s circular. My point is that NATO resupply planes won’t be targeted by Russia because Putin will not want to provoke an escalated response from the west. And it’s worth noting that there are a lot of things that the west could do which would be extremely damaging to the Russians inside Ukraine such as increasing their resupply and providing the Ukrainians with large numbers of aircraft which would potentially make them competitive with the Russian Air Force.
Putin himself has shown the way with his implausibly deniable “little green men”.
"My point is that NATO resupply planes won’t be targeted by Russia because Putin will not want to provoke an escalated response from the west." Any western aircraft in Ukrainian air space are toast.
So far as I’m aware, not a single NATO aircraft has been targeted. Shooting down a NATO aircraft would very likely provoke an immediate response. Probably not a military one but Russia has a million points of vulnerability; looking at sanctions alone, the west has imposed pretty mild ones. A sizable percentage of Russia’s total wealth is kept in NATO countries and a stroke of the pen could convert the inconvenience of having assets frozen to the devastation of confiscation. And the possibilities for “little green men” are limitless and would be very bad for an already overstretched and inept Russian military.
almost all military observers and Putin observers disagree, back to the wall he might.
I don’t think anyone really knows. I don’t think he would because I don’t think he’s crazy.
I wouldn't be willing to risk that kind of escalatory step on the basis of "I don't think anyone really knows." And it WOULD be an escalatory step. One might even call it "crazy."
But if that’s the guiding principle then NATO might as well disband. If the opponent is recklessly aggressive but there’s no circumstances under which your alliance will confront him, then you’re finished. There’s no line Putin can’t cross and nothing that the west can do to dissuade him or punish him since he can always threaten a nuclear war if you refuse to obey him. That way lies absolute disaster.
(Reply to Mitch) Nonsense. There is not "nothing" that would trigger a NATO response. An attack on NATO would do so. Indeed that's part of the point; what would happen if Russian AA took out a NATO aircraft? Would we escalate further or back down? And where would it stop? An airlift -- much less actual combat air support -- would be disastrously reckless.
I’m not sure that I understand the principles about what would trigger a response from NATO. The implication of your comments suggests that since Putin is an unpredictable madman it would be folly to take even the slightest risk of trigger a nuclear strike. But it seems to me that if the question is “is this worth Armageddon” the answer would be the same “absolutely not” regardless of what Putin did or who he did it too.
I do agree that the no fly zone would be a terrible idea. But it does seem to me that turnabout is fair play so we should send aircraft in copious amounts to the Ukrainians and, if necessary, some little green pilots, some little green SAMs, and some little green special forces to kill Russian officers and officials.
I was not referring to Ukraine getting wheat for God's sake. I was referring to Ukraine's place in the global wheat export markets and the disastrous gap globally for developing countries that lack of Ukranian wheat will make.
This is leverage for the Russians unless North America fills the gap.
Global food catastrophe, 10 million refugees, millions more starved or murdered. But we can’t help too much or something really bad will happen. If we collapse the Russian economy completely by cutting off energy then western Europeans will suffer.
Well I sure don’t have any answers. Maybe we’re fated to have that food crisis along with an energy crisis and worldwide depression. Russia is a small population. Their main exports are raw materials and this wheat. We ought to be able to isolate them and live on without their crap. That’s what we need to do… what I would like to do.
And if a bunch of innocent Russians have to die, well, I hope they die trying to kill Putin and his military / police.
Humanity sucks.
‘Minimal effort’? I don’t think so. Yes, it is clear that Russia underestimated the Ukrainian military. But 200,000 troops represent a pretty large commitment. It seems more likely that Russia’s best are not as good as experts thought, than that they sent in the JV. The experts also have thought that Russia doesn’t do logistics well, and that has proved to be the case. Makes me wonder - if they can’t get a convoy unstuck, are they at some point going to have difficulty getting ammunition to the front? Russia didn’t even plan well for a short war. Plus Russian forces obviously don’t have precision weaponry in the quantity that the US and NATO have, so they are resorting to nonprecision conventional and rocket artillery, unfortunately for Ukrainian civilians.
Traditionally, the US has always overrated the SU/Russia's conventionally capabilities by an order of magnitude. Remember,, all of this talk about how things aren't going as well as predicted is based on American predictions rather than Russian predictions. And the Americans have proven always to be grossly incompetent in this reagrd.
Mentioning the deposing of Lukashenka, I am reminded that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya would have been a better choice for TIME Person of the Year than Elon Musk.
Certainly this year she & Zelenskyy are in the lead two months in.
Desperate times notwithstanding we aren’t sending F-22s. Perhaps F-16s or F-15s or even F-35s.
Eg: https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-weighs-three-way-000147123.html
(URL double entendre intended?)
I think the idea is that there are former Warsaw Pact countries that are either already in NATO or will soon be applying to join. They still fly the same Russian built or designed aircraft as does Ukraine. The swap would be they send their existing fleet (with or without “little green pilots’) to the Ukrainians and, in return, we supply them with US aircraft.
So we'll be sending our allies planes that fly--good.
It would do no good to send Ukraine our fighter aircraft -- they have no training whatsoever on them.
This is why the 3-way (US F22s ---> Poland / Poland MiGs --> Ukraine) makes sense, as Ukrainian air force is trained on MiGs.
Once Ukraine gets the remainder of the MiGs from former Soviet republics (and a few others), they will have the capacity to regain air superiority.
We aren’t going to be sending any F-22s to Poland. F-16s and/or F-35s. Not F-22s.
Oh, true.
We are not sending f-35s to poland. We are sending F-16a/bs.
That's not what is being considered to be sent to Poland.
The plan is to send the poles obsolete versions of f-16s and have them send obsolete Mig -29s to ukraine.
The former Warsaw Pact countries are being offered F-16s to replace MiGs and Sukhois that they transfer to Ukraine, not F-22s.
Russian air capability is unknown. We know that they have hundreds of fighters that haven't entered the fight, but we don't know their maintenance state or operational readiness. There is strong evidence that the Russian Army is bad at maintenance and so has unreliable vehicles. Fighters are VERY maintenance intensive; if the Russian Air Force is anywhere near as sloppy about maintenance as the army appears to be, the odds are that most of those unused fighters simply are not combat capable.
The TB2 is not an air to air combat vehicle. It is air to ground. As such it is unlikely to have “downed” any aircraft. Destroyed on the ground perhaps. But not downed.
"Ukraine is very close to having the capacity to gain air superiority and thus the ability to pick off supply convoys. " That's delusional. I'd like Ukraine to win as much a the next guy, but let's keep our feet on the ground and continue to exist on the planet earth. There is a reason they want a no fly zone.
On the Post: this is delicious, it's inject bleach level of thinking....
That’s hilarious. No, what we should do is something really crazy like just bomb maralago during on of these parties. And blame it on Russia!
This isn’t funny.
Israeli officials said it was essential to preserve good relations with Russia in order to be able to continue Israel’s military campaign against Iranian and Hezbollah entrenchment in Syria, where Russia maintains a significant presence. Israel said it was also loath to take a clear side out of concern for the large Jewish communities in both Russia and Ukraine.
The Israeli government are despicable pigs.
Millions of Palestinians could have told you that. In fact, they've been saying that for decades.
I assume the cartels are still active in Miami. Have one pull a carbomb attack on Maralago.
I was just kidding. I was being sarcastic. If you can't see that, you're the stupid one. You libs have no sense of humor.
You also subscribe to Matt Taibbi's Substack?
Ouch!
Haven't read Taibbi in a long time, but after the multiple references in this thread I might take a look, at least to get the joke....
You talking about bombing Russia while under a Chinese flag, or shinning a UV light up your ass, or huffing disinfecting, or grabbing women by the pussy? So many bad jokes I can't keep them straight.
Oh, but they are wonderful jokes, unbelievably funny, the best, most smartest jokes invented on the spot by the biggest, mostest brilliant brain ever, it's the hair, the hair amplifies the already most outstanding overwhelmingly amazing fantastic intelligence in the history of the universe, but Trump's not bragging because he's also the humblest human who's inhabited the Earth, ever.
The best part? Trump didn't have to invent anything. He just took the Republican playbook and turned it up to eleven. Easy peasy.
Then never underestimate the value of /s or …
So....did they give him a standing ovation?
Many people were in tears. Big, strong people, enjoying dinner in the dining room at the club, putting down their silverware, blubbering.
+1
Maybe we can get Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson, using Hollywood props, to counter attack. lol
On talking head shows...
Chuck Todd and Nikki Haley were nuts. Marco Rubio reasonable (I know!).
Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield did a good job explaining the administration's positions.
and why is Christie allowed on TV?
ok....just saw that Rubio was tweeting out pictures of Zelenskyy during meeting with Senate.
Rubio knows if he helps Putin takeout Zelenskyy, the foam party photos go away.
Why the hell was Manchin the choice for Democrat representation on Browbeat the Dems with Chode Todd, during a week when foreign policy is issue?
Mark Warner -- from one state over -- is actually chair of Intelligence. Jamie Raskin is from Maryland. Adam Schiff was lead manager for El Jefe's impeachment stemming from dereliction of duty in denying Ukraine armaments authorized by Congress & signed into law by El Jefe.
Because it is Chode Toddler, and because foreign affairs is one area where Manchin won't try to stab Dems in the back.
Allegedly.
Oh grow up, you whinging Lefty gits.
Manchin did not stab you in the back. He riposted right in front of you in the domestic budget, if the Left had not over-reached...
"and why is Christie allowed on TV?"
Given the prevalence of 80in to 96in TV screens he finally found a venue that "fits" him......./s
The pilots should pull back their eyes and yell “we make chop suey!” as they go in just to make sure.
The sad thing is that many of his supporters will actually think this is a good idea.
Heck, they thought mob-rushing the Congress and hanging the leaders was a good idea. And PATRIOTIC, too!
Red Dawn is why. Or at least, is indicative of the sickness.
Fun fact: the original script for "Red Dawn" had younger children and an anti-war message. All that changed when director John Milius was brought in. He and MGM Board member Alexander Haig rewrote the script, and Milius went on to direct for $1.25 million and a gun of his choice.
There's only one serious use Milius could have had for that gun and he hasn't done it yet.
Trump has always played the drunk at the bar spouting nonsense and his voters played the drunken idiots who agreed with him. And this is no different than nuking hurricanes or drinking bleach.
More civilian trucks heading to Ukraine,
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/t7zdoe/it_appears_the_invading_russian_force_in_ukraine/
omg, it's Word War Z!
Exit Sean Penn.
Enter Brad Pitt.
I presume someone mentioned to Trump at some point that the F-22 is flown only by the US, thus simply sticking a Chinese flag on it would be, shall we say, less than convincing. And it's not a bomber. And if one gets shot down, how do we explain why there was an American pilot in it? And...oh, never mind.
Trump was a lot of things, but the main thing he was was just really, really stupid.
Trump was the dumbass at the end of the bar who could solve everything.
Everyone ignored him but the voters.
As my very weary wife says,
"For far too many Americans, listening to Trump is like hearing themselves..."
The thing is, these are the same people who launch into jeering diatribes when, say someone in a gun control debate mixes up "magazine" vs. "clip" or something, claiming their utter ignorance about basic gun technology completely negates anything they have to say on the topic.
But their former President displaying a lack of knowledge so jaw dropping that it's not even wrong? Oh, sure, whatever. He was just kidding or something.
All that matters is that he hates who they hate. He could claim the earth was flat for all they care. It wouldjust become a new plank in the GOP party platform.
Be honest, this has happened to you, hasn't it?
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1498578656611946496
Trump was joking, you nitwits.
omg, the comedy!
You're right! His whole life is like that!
Uh huh.
It’s not a good sign when it’s almost impossible to tell if Trump’s joking or really think he’s come up with a brilliant deception. I think the smart money would be one Trump being a moron who really doesn’t know about radar or that we fly different planes than does the Chinese military.
I guess the question for you is how could you tell he was joking? I can always tell when Trump’s lying because his lips are moving but joking seems really hard to tell
Actually it's easy to tell. he wasn't joking.
I don’t think he was joking either. But it’s hard to tell when he thinks he’s being witty and when he thinks he a brilliant thinker who sees think that nobody except the drunk at the end of the bar can see. Sometimes you can see him working to show how smart he is when he talks about things that he’s been briefed about and thinks he knows better than anyone but when he opens his mouth it’s clear he doesn’t understand anything.
The rom-com that I just keep watching, over and over,
https://twitter.com/Mario85462000/status/1500641533917380608
I hate being right all the time. Not really.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500575619381399557
General Shoigu is probably going to be targeted shortly for a show trial prior to his execution.
This seems like it's trying to sow dissension. Shoigu's biography doesn't make him sound like somebody who would take such an initiative, and I can't imagine US officials would leak it if they thought it would happen.
But Shoigu might be executed anyway because that's just how paranoid Putin might be becoming.
It’s interesting. There was a very similar situation in the Gambino Family when John Gotti and his crew wacked Big Paulie Castellano no small part because Gotti was into drug dealing, a lucrative trade Castellano had banned, and for which Gotti feared that his crew might be disbanded and he himself murdered. So he struck first.
Surely there’s a lesson in the for Gen. Shoigu. He’s got nothing to lose so why not give it a go? Lotta people would be rooting for him.
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70% of that $350M tranche from the US was delivered within 5 days from approval on Feb 26. We're seeing the effects with ramped up destruction of Russian hardware. Even if they wanted to, it takes a long time for Russia to resupply w/ additional hardware using rail.
This is an unsustainable war for Russia. Granted, they have a lot more resources sitting on the sidelines, but, so does the west. Congress is willing to add a billion or two more dollars to support Ukraine just in the immediate horizon. Meanwhile, Russia is constricted by the shutoff of access to global supply chains and it has stiffer logistical hurdles to overcome than the west, on account that they're needing to transport heavy equipment and the west is mostly just transporting shoulder-held rocket launchers and the accompanying missiles.
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Energy independence means transporting of equipment is no problem for Russia.
But as you said no matter which way you slice it - moving shoulder fired missiles or Turkish drones is a lot easier than moving tonnes of supplies.
Those Bayraktar drones are surprisingly effective. This makes me wonder if in fact THIS is the reason for Russia NOT deploying Top of the Line fighters to the area. They do have to land making them prone to air to surface attack
Ukraine WILL lose this fight - I am still convinced of that.
The "cost" of that victory will impact Russia for quite some time
At least Trump did not recommend using white phosphorus bombs against a civilian population like was used against the people of Fallujah.
Which makes Trump some kind of paragon of virtue? The same Trump who separated families and caged little children at the US border? That Trump?
The American strategists and commanders who authorized the use of white phosphorus bombs on the families and children of Falluja are the examples of excellence Democratic liberals rely upon to identify enemies.
Here at least we see Trump is capable of at least a little learning - he could have repeated his previous mention of our still-super-secret F-52s...
Trump made the F22 comment to stop people talking about the way he encouraged Putin before the invasion.
Judging by the comments until now, it almost worked (except kenalovel and Lounsbury).
When discussion Ukraine, every occurence of "Trump" should be followed by ", who encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine,".