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FartingMonk

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  1. And yes I am a bit drunk right now. But I think it maybe Russian propaganda. I was trying.to track the source and it went back to Pravda.
  2. https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/ukrainian-special-forces-will-no-longer-capture-russian-artillerymen/
  3. Ukraine just announced they are no longer taking POWs. No quarters given. Black flag has been raised
  4. The rotation is more like 3 and 3. 3 east coast subs. 3 west coast subs. 2 on standby rotation and 4 in some sort of long term maintenance. 24 ICBMs but it's more like 200 per submarine with the MIRVS. The actual number I don't even know even though right outside our bunk room is a nuclear missile tube. As far as why we can't shoot the missiles down is because of ABM, SALT, and START treaties. We aren't allowed to shoot them out of orbit when it goes into space. It was a MAD thing. Although we have gotten further and further away from it. The Chinese have shot satellites out of the sky. So have the Russians. We do too so while we can do it. It's sort of illega
  5. I'm a huge fan of the BUFFs. It's just a solid ass airframe. Rip out the guts and put better electronics on it and a bunch of missiles. Its payload is unbelievable. But you're absolutely right. It ain't the plane that was out in the 60s. The most modern variant can take out a lot of random things. Their standoff missiles have enough range to take almost any fighter jet out of the sky.
  6. My Chinese policy professor at UT said something that kind of stuck with me. I started out pretty left leaning with grand ideas. He said it's with the left that comes up with the good ideas. It's the guys on the right that is able to make it work. And I decided that's where I rather be. You can tell me if we make unicorn farts produce electricity it would work. But when you ask how a unicorn fart produces electricity. No one has a clue. I rather be the guy who is more realistic.
  7. Yeah I think I'm a reactor guy and not weapons but when everything started getting hardened with bunkers and everything. There is always some sort of penetrator now
  8. Yep. So growing up and we call our uncle 1st uncle second uncle 3rd uncle and so on and so forth. But what happens when you get curious and say hey That's uncle or aunt 1,2,3. That's 7,8,9. Where is 4,5, and 6. And you get met with silence.
  9. Yeah. We talk about radical islam. Radical Christians are happening. I see it amongst my friends and my co workers. When you are told some foreigner is going to steal your job they start believing it. Or if their friends didn't get hired but a minority got hired and it trickles into their mindset. It's scary as hell. Eventually some bad shit will happen but one of my good friends works for Boeing and he's on their helicopter project. When I first met him he was really apolitical. Just some random nerd. He is off the wall crazy now when it comes to white is right. Hell even one of my good friends I went to nuke school with and was on the submarine with. I was a groomsmen in his wedding. We have a core group of 9 of us that go vacation every year with or were groomsmen best man in each other's wedding. Our buddy got married last year and said man I cant invite him he hates Mexicans and I don't want my family to whip his ass.
  10. There is a whole generation of Chinese that can't swim because our parents were so traumatized by water. Think mine were stranded in the ocean for 10 days in an overcrowded boat until the US Navy happened to pass by. Kids starved to death. There are some things they refuse to say to this day about what happened and how they survived. I'm not even sure I want to ask.
  11. That's the funny thing. I'm pretty far right on the conservative type of thinking. But I'm pretty sure this is what their preachers are telling them
  12. Fuck you and the high horse you rode on.
  13. My parents told me of a story after they escaped the Vietnam war and were in the refugee camp in the Philippines. When it first started out they were getting a whole chicken and a bag of rice a day. After a few weeks it became half a chicken and half a bag of rice and kept getting smaller. I asked if it was because the donations kept getting smaller. She said no, it was because the people running the supply routes were getting paid to sell the supplies. I asked why they didn't say anything. She said who can we complain to. They would probably just kill us.
  14. Thats what I keep trying to tell people. We have food that rots away in silos and warehouses. We don't have the transportation
  15. Yeah one of my really good friends who I fish with and shoot the shit with all the time said Putin is a god fearing Christian and is doing God's work. I sat there and asked him if he believes it was the truth and he said Judgement day is coming and God will prove Vladimir right.
  16. That shockwave is going to be insane. Growing season is just about to start.
  17. Exactly. It used to be where media doesn't print a story until they can confirm it. Now everyone wants to break the story. But even if they are wrong they just put the redaction on page 8. But in that mean time everyone already has their mindset that what they said was true.
  18. Yep. I was out at steak night with a group. 4-5 ex military. But various backgrounds. I was kind of appalled at some of the thinking. A few of them are convinced this is a Biden conspiracy and Putin is the victim. It's just weird all around and there was no changing their thought.
  19. And that's the thing. War is hell. I talk to my marine friends and they will readily admit they did some really fucked up shit in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like really bad stuff war crime type stuff. They aren't proud of it now but they said man we were taught that those people were sub human.
  20. I keep thinking this. The moderators are cunts. Move the thread and it kills it. They don't have anything good to add so STFU
  21. Half of America doesn't even know where Ukraine is. We all tend to believe we give a shit but just wait for the next news story to dominate the headline. And for as much as we want to believe everything. The news is being awfully vague about what is happening
  22. The length of this invasion solely depends on how long Putin is alive. I don't believe anyone in his inner circle thinks this is a good idea but him. He dies. The war dies
  23. So my brother works for an alphabet soup agency and he won't ever go into details but he said the scariest thing about Russia right now is we don't know a fucking thing about Russia. Everything we thought to be true is wrong. So that makes them even scarier.
  24. We don't need light sweet crude. For the most part we are using "opportunity" crude which is just another name for the heavy sour stuff. It's cheaper and we've adapted to it. It is a pipe killer and that's some of the shit we've learned. I was part of an inspection team in Garyville LA and we wrote a white paper on T9 after our findings because the nerds claimed that it was indestructible but sulfidation wasn't accounted for. The sour gas is heavy as shit on sulfur content but the industry doesn't want to admit they were wrong. I think the problem is we view Ukraine as this great country but it honestly was a piece of shit and corrupt as hell. We didn't try to build bigger bombs we started to build one big ass warhead that can strike several targets. MiRVs are great because we know if I can get one missile into orbit then I can crash 8 different targets. SALT and START kinda forced is into that mindset. For example an SSBN has 24 missiles. But it actually has 120 if you count how many targets it can hit. Each missile can split. That's the danger
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