Michael van der Riet: And the pretence that the Ukrainians are the authors of this technology continues.
Allen: Man, think of all the trouble that could have been avoided if certain people either got a record deal, or accepted at art school.
T. Beholder: Jim says: Yes, drones are more accurately modeled as short-lived, vastly more capable mines than as fighters, bombers, artillery, or rifles. Or just better infantry ATGM. In many cases, yes — slow, but good and inexpensive guided munitions. Still, drones and responses to them seem to resurrect on a smaller scope some capabilities that grew expensive. In that they create possibility of aerial reconnaissance working for just a company or platoon, demand for widely distributed low grade air...
Jon Thomas: Lu An Li says: Consider Musk to be the most remarkable human since the time of Leonardo [Da Vinci] I pose that question to everyone. That is not a question
Michael van der Riet: Ukraine stopped the first Russian blitzkrieg with anti tank missiles that struck from above. It didn’t take very long for the Russians to copy that. As Bob Sykes said, military technology is evolving very fast there. Ukraine with the full military resources of the West maintains a lead, but the advantages don’t last.
Bruce: D Pat Moynihan mentioned being one of the first to spread conspiracy theories about the assassination. Partly as a courtier for Jackie ‘if only it had been for something like civil rights and not just some communist’. But Moynihan was always hard left.
T. Beholder: Ozornik says: These days, anything with “told by Forbes” (substitute any old media name) should be the reason to stop wasting time reading. Why? It’s there for a reason. Bob Sykes says: The Ukrainian war has caused an extremely rapid evolution in weaponry and tactics, Yes, but not all groundbreaking. UAV continue what started in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. https://www.isegoria.net /2024/10/the-armenians-b asked-in-the-glories-of- their-past-victories-and -prepared-for-a-repea...
T. Beholder: The hocus pocus here is starting with “KGB encouraged something that happens to align with their interests” (which is all that actual quotes claim, and obvious anyway) and then pulling it toward “it’s something KGB made up” («routinely plant misinformation»). Replace in the above sentences “KGB” with “Big Oil”, and what do you see? And now a little exercise for the fake opposition detector: https://web.archive.org/ web/20190926195138/twitt er.com/Monsantobuster/st atus/1171507313045209088
Bob Sykes: The Ukrainian war has caused an extremely rapid evolution in weaponry and tactics, and America’s military is decidedly obsolete. By now Russia probably has a three or four generation lead in all weapons categories. We still have successfully tested a hypersonic weapon, while Russia and China, and possibly Iran, have. Our MIC is simply too corrupt, too incompetent, and too disloyal to be of any use.
Ozornik: These days, anything with “told by Forbes” (substitute any old media name) should be the reason to stop wasting time reading.
T. Beholder: …largely failed to accomplish with its expensive, vulnerable S-300, Patriot and SAMP/T surface-to-air missile batteries, which can hit Russian jets from scores of miles away but were always too few in number to fully protect the front line and safeguard Ukrainian cities And now are fewer due to being indeed vulnerable to missile strikes and/or not having the right ammunition. https://simplicius76.sub stack.com/p/anatomy-of-m im-104-patriot-destructi on Speaking of which, those direct hit AA...
Jim: When can we stop pretending that the Rona existed in the real world?
bob sykes: The US funded the Wuhan project. It has a long history of funding foreign laboratories to do biowarfare research that is illegal in the US. Much of the illegal research is done on former Warsaw Pact countries. Also, Ron Unz has long argued that the virus was developed at US AMRIID in Ft. Detrck, Maryland.
T. Beholder: Welllll… https://web.archive.org/ web/20210627221310/www.b loomberg.com/news/featur es/2021-06-27/did-covid- come-from-a-lab-scientis t-at-wuhan-institute-spe aks-out And then there were mysterious outbreaks far from Wuhan before the thing spread elsewhere.
Bruce: Keynes said the British were bankrupt by 1915. If they’d found mercenaries to feed German artillery they’d have been better off even if they’d paid high dollars (thanks John) for the meat.
Natureboi: Or maybe they referred to “the moon” as the Nevada test site because that’s where they really are? Crazy how in MASH Korea looks so much like California, right?
John L. McCormack: That 12.5 pounds the British paid for each Russian soldier was significantly more than the seven pounds and six shillings the British paid annually to the Grand Duke of Hesse for each of his soldiers during the American War of Independence.
Jim: A Clockwork Orange (1971) is, of course, the story of an aspirational band of piratical perverts being cruelly suppressed by the evil chthonian longhouse.
Grasspunk: “It was completely besmeared with blood” This reminds me of Peter Bogdanovich’s story about riding in an elevator with Alfred Hitchcock. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PqXFtWSBBd4
His Doc Sidhe stories were good. I guess by 2014 those of us who stuck with the Doritos and Mountain Dew diet are going.