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  1. Looks like this just got passed. Aid to Ukraine will start rolling as soon as POTUS signs. 
     

    Arms to Ukraine, Taiwan. TikTok has to be sold out from under PRC. We’re so back. 

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  2. I’ve lived and worked for the last six years in Europe. Nations that have some of the very best maternity and paternity benefits also have some of the lowest birth rates.  We should do that stuff because it’s good for existing moms and babies and not in a bid to boost birth rates.

    Birth rates have been declining since I’ve been officially off the market and all the ladies just keep hoping that will change. I don’t blame them for not wanting to settle for less. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    China has the next best stealth aircraft after the US and its allies. I would not underestimate that portion of their military. 

    And the current plan isn’t to send them (Taiwan) F-35s.  F-16Vs. 

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  4. 7 hours ago, Smax said:

    Drop the condescension 

    The hold up, at least what was said initially by us /nato would training pilots, Ukraine sent over a number of pilots to retrain on the F16. That first class is set to graduate from Morris Air Force base here in the next week or 2. 

    It doesn't take a year to get 10 F16s up and running, not exactly sure what the hold up is. but sure seems weird to me.

    Not trying to condescend to you man. Just pointing out that in addition to all the things that @atomheartbevo points out, they will need to probably do some work on runways, build shelters, redeploy air defenses and figure out a solution for the places they got left behind, etc. The planes are coming from Denmark and other divesting partners are are not new. Ordinarily any nation transiting to the F-16 would get legions of American advisors on site and would have to do extensive facility upgrades. The pilots need more than just proficiency on the jet for air policing missions, they will be doing combat missions almost immediately. 
     

    It took Slovakia well over a year to get their infrastructure in place for the 14 jets they bought. Ordinarily you’d even have the new crews take a full English course.  A lot has been compressed for Ukraine. 

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  5. 4 hours ago, Smax said:

     

     

    Speaking of F16s, they still haven't been delivered and its been about year since they were promised

    F-16s aren’t quite F1 cars (that’s the F-35), but they’re for sure sports cars. Ukraine hasn’t had the infrastructure in place to keep them flying. It’s a multi year process to move to American fast jets for nations that aren’t at war. 

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  6. 54 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    How did you get that from this?

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    I think I'm watching Anastasis Derangement Syndrome (ADS).

    @Anastasis is an able debater who needs no aid from me, but I honestly mostly see some really smart posters here projecting all kinds of shit onto what he/she actually says. I don't get it. I've agreed and disagreed with Anastasis over the years particularly when there was still more than a vestigial meaning to Republican.

    This is an observation rather than a defense. I've agreed with the meat of all of his posts over the last few pages.

    Being nuanced on Ukraine is a sign of an intelligent person trying desperately to muddy the waters to conceal their actual aims.  It’s not derangement syndrome, consider it IFF.  

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  7. 1 hour ago, The Dog said:

    NAFO fella chiming in. This tracks with what others have indicated:

    SBC and AIPAC teamed up to get those members to commit to the DP and then used that to bully Johnson into moving forward. 

    “AIPAC and the Southern Baptist Convention teamed up to push guns to Ukraine” is a sentence that never before has been contemplated and will make all the worst heads explode. 

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  8. I will again draw attention to the Dreher-American Conservative/European Conservative-Vance-Orban nexus.  These people are being handled.

     

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  9. Quincy Institute produces poll that aligns with Quincy Institute. 
     

    The thing is that Anastasis knows enough on how this works. From polling to marketing, offering a choice of extremes and a vaguely worded Goldilocks middle will reliably get you the middle.
     

    He’s a bad-faith poster on this issue that realizes he can’t just pump pure uncut agitprop, you have to embed it in seemingly reasonable stuff.  The nonsense about insufficient controls over weapons and just asking where they are going is a good example, the question is loaded and contains the disinformation. 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Because he would have helped Russia. Hell, we would probably have participated in the invasion. 

    This is as good as it gets from him. It’s actually cover to allow people to vote for it and then make angry noises at Europe.  He doesn’t say “this aid package is bad” and in fact he says Ukraine survival is important to us. 
     

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s terrible but it’s not as terrible as it could be and gives just enough to Johnson. 

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  11. 8 hours ago, Rockwell Torrey said:

    The War Zone (sponsored by Boeing)

    Hold the Fort! Defense focused media gets ad revenue from defense industry? 
     

    What’s next, GM advertises in Car and Driver? 

    2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    All about pride.

    Ballistic missiles are not slow-moving drones. 

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  12. 4 hours ago, B00M said:

    It’s better than nothing but it’s annoying as fuck that Ukraine asks for 7 patriots from the EU and receives 6. This sort of nickle and dime fuckery forces Zelenskyy to over ask. 

    Those are systems that are in short supply and even Ukraine’s best friends don’t want to pull one out to send to Ukraine.  They are in demand on the eastern flank. I see their point.  Do we want to lose the Patriot in Rzeszow that guards the lines into Ukraine? 
     

    Our problem is that we let our production atrophy by believing in the peace dividend. 

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  13. 10 minutes ago, troph said:

    you won't really see me defend much about the evangelicals, but I don't have a problem with religious groups speaking with their first amendment rights about politics, especially when their position is not a violation of law or the constitution). even if you put a "stay in your lane" requirement, SBC has a humanitarian angle here too. while they can burn in hell for many of their positions, I still support their right to be in this arena speaking their mind. and on this one, I just so happen to not have to hold my nose at it.

    Yeah, religious groups have an absolute first amendment right to do this just like all associations of citizens.  They can’t directly endorse candidates but they can argue all they want for changes in law of policy. 
     

    Whether they should or not is a theological debate. It is interesting that they didn’t get the memo that Ukraine is anti-Christian. But they do know what happened with the Baptists in Russia. 

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  14. 13 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    It’s NEVER happening

    The cult states have too many electoral votes 

    Purple states are the bigger blocker. “Ok, let’s do this and then my state becomes irrelevant and my special interests less compelling and national leaders stop coming to court me and my voters.” 

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