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  1. 11 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    We vastly overstate the readiness and capabilities of the Chinese military or any foe really.  I heard about how battle hardened the Iraqi's were when I was in High School from my history teacher.   His comments later were about how he didn't know about the new equipment the military had but really he didn't understand the reliance upon conscripts by the Iraqi's vs. our volunteer military who were professionals and better equipped.

    Don't fall for the propaganda like Ted Cruz did when comparing a fake russian military video with ours where we celebrated the military as a diverse career building organization.   China engaged in skirmishes with India where they were clubbing each other.   India isn't exactly our ally, but they are definitely not China's.  

     

    I ease wrong and I’m gonna retract my comments some.  China does have stealth fighters.  Yeah Pete Mitchell shot 3 of them down, but that was with and F14.  And we don’t have F14’s anymore.

    Joking aside, we have a decided advantage in tech, but not necessarily a numeric advantage in tech.  We can shoot down Chinese cruise missiles until we run out of Patriots and then what?

    China’s biggest advantage is the same as Russia’s: brutality.  Especially brutality towards their own people.  Just send wave after wave after wave of all those extra <40 yo men they have.  There are lots of reasons they could swamp Taiwan with that.

  2. 32 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    I don't think so. I think they were waiting for us to make up our minds and lead. Remember when we promised the first aid package and started backfilling equipment to NATO allies? Ukraine got a lot of equipment the knew how to use, old USSR stuff from Eastern Europe.

    I’m joking.  That that $200B and buy weapons.  Do it now.

  3. It isn’t an action movie of course, but the action sure is good.  Especially the end part.

    Just a well made movie in general.  Writing, characters, cinematography, sound.  

    Its message reminds me of “The Day After” from the 1980’s. It says, gratuitously, “Don’t do this.”

    When is Jesse Plemons gonna get his own movie?

    And is there any role Nick Offerman hasn’t killed?  He had 90 seconds in this movie and you know exactly what his character is about.

    I’m surprised there isn’t a CR thread on this movie.  Guess Garland managed to split the middle perfectly.

  4. 8 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

    Exactly. The only argument I see being made against it is it sets a bad precedent, as in another sovereign nation could do the same to us. First of all, we would never have significant assets parked in a country who would do that to us on a whim. And if some nation did it because we unlawfully invaded a third party sovereign nation they would be justified in doing so. 

    I also worry about the precedent, but we’re at the stage the risk is worth it.  We did things in WW2 that were dangerous precedents; some of which were still dealing with.  But it was worth it.  Same here I think.

    34 minutes ago, B00M said:

    Regardless, from a purely selfish perspective (Murica!), we need as much Russian meat to grind in Ukraine as possible. The alternative to supporting Ukraine is only worse for America. 

    So again.  Many of us are old enough to have been raised to hate the Russians.  Is seeing out the dreams or Truman, Goldwater, Regan, John Rambo, enough reason to kill ‘em all, reason enough?  It is for me.  Let’s take their $300M and buy first-line weapons.  And go kill Russians.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    The multiverse is simply too confusing and not compelling when it seems there's no stakes. People have revisionist memories with the whole infinity saga. Not every movie was a banger that everyone says, Iron Man 2 and 3 were mostly forgettable, they made a hulk movie I guess, Thor didn't work until the 3rd movie, Ant Man 1 was a tonal mess, Avengers 2 was a letdown, no one liked Hawkeye or Black Widow at first and Civil War was just OK. RDJ, Brolin and Chris Evans made Endgame work

    Sir, I kindly disagree.  

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