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It makes absolutely no sense to build ludicrously expensive assets like aircraft carriers that take ages to build and that can’t be replaced if lost or misson-killed in a war. And the same goes for all the stuff that goes along with aircraft carriers...
by Jim Carner
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:24 AM PDT
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At its root, war is very simple. To destroy the enemy, you need two things: knowing where to shoot, and being able to shoot at it. When Russia began its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, one of the few advantages that Ukraine enjoyed from...
by RO37
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:19 AM PDT
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I am not going to pretend the military is my lane, especially as the founder of this site is a veteran with gobs of expertise. However if it will help to tamp down rumors of WWIII, I would like to interject a few thoughts on the situation- 1. We are...
by Rule of Claw
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on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 02:04 PM PST
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The Ukranians have stood up to Russia valiantly. But even if the Ukraine fights Russia to a draw or is winning, the problem is Vladimir Putin is backed into a corner. He cannot end this war looking weak to the Russian people. So he’ll never stop. He’ll...
by TheMFer
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on Sun Mar 13, 2022 at 01:01 PM PDT
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UPDATE: It looks as though Iran fired 5-6 ground-to-ground missiles from a base in Tabriz in retaliation for the deaths of two Iranian miltary leaders in Syria. The Israeli airforce reportedly killed the two last week. Sources in Iran are saying it was...
by Mote Dai
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on Sat Mar 12, 2022 at 03:33 PM PST
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The public impeachment inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee last week gave better exposure to Trump’s questionable actions related to Ukraine – firing Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch without any justification and asking President Zelensky to...
by melshim
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on Wed Nov 27, 2019 at 06:41 AM PST
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Donald Trump supposedly made a deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that was to stop the development and launch of strategic missiles. But almost from the moment that Trump and Kim shook hands, missiles have been launching from North Korea....
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 06:00 AM PDT
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When intelligence sources indicate that last week’s attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities “originated” in Iran, there’s a good reason to believe they’re correct—from a certain point of view. The Houthi militia in Yemen, which has claimed...
by Mark Sumner
422 comments
on Tue Sep 17, 2019 at 06:02 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s theory of international relations is that he doesn’t need a theory of international relations. He just needs relationships. Close, personal relationships forged over chocolate cake and love letters. What autocrats around the world...
by Mark Sumner
24 comments
on Thu Aug 01, 2019 at 11:04 AM PDT
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A Reuters Report from Andrew Osborn has some unsettling news:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 11:46 AM PST
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Trump's tactical exits from the INF and JCPA so deeply flawed they pose a real threat of nuclear war Never mind why he’s even doing it. Never mind that it’s helping Russia, which is probably a priority client of his (far more so than the American people, as a preponderance of evidence suggests). It’s how and when The Donald has chosen to leave these...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Sun Feb 03, 2019 at 04:49 PM PST
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Sergei Lavrov is reported to have said that Washington was contacted before last weekend's strikes by the US, UK and France. He says that he instructed his president where not to strike. From Sky News:
Mr Lavrov said: "There were military...
by kharma
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on Fri Apr 20, 2018 at 07:51 AM PDT
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UQ* has a number of questions about the missile attack on Friday, April 13, 2018 on a suburb of Damascas, Syria and Homs, Syria where chemical weapons were allegedly manufactured, stored, or deployed.
Accepted facts and...
by Robertkroll
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on Mon Apr 16, 2018 at 01:11 PM PDT
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As Robert Mueller’s investigation continues to close in on Donald Trump, Trump will take increasingly desperate action.
He tried to fire Robert Mueller last June and was stopped only because White House counsel refused. Mueller is pressing to...
by bmethven
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on Sun Feb 04, 2018 at 01:10 PM PST
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… my wife drives up screeching that there’s an alert on her iWatch saying there’s a ballistic missile heading our way.
“Why aren’t the sirens going off?” I ask.
We get home and I get on the web. Nothing. No news. Just more Trumpy crap. Her...
by hobie1616
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on Sat Jan 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM PST
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People in Hawaii just got phone alerts that there was a missile inbound to Hawaii. Complete with “This is not a drill!” banners. My dogwalker showed it to me because I didn’t have my hearing aids in so didn’t hear my phone.
Thankfully it was a...
by HiVoter
30 comments
on Sat Jan 13, 2018 at 10:50 AM PST
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Here we go again.
North Korea fired another missile over Japan on Friday morning, a fresh provocation that comes shortly after the United Nations approved harsher sanctions against Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Japan didn’t attempt to shoot down...
by lordnaarghul
26 comments
on Thu Sep 14, 2017 at 03:50 PM PDT
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North Korea fired a medium-range missile that passed through Japanese airspace, crossing over Hokkaido before coming down in the Pacific Ocean at around 6 AM local time. Emergency sirens sounded in the area as the Japanese government issued a “take...
by Mark Sumner
111 comments
on Mon Aug 28, 2017 at 02:50 PM PDT
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When a neo-Nazi drives a car into a crowd of counter-protestors, kills a young woman and injures 34 others, you’d think it would be easy for any President to condemn the neo-Nazi, KKK, white supremacist protestors. Not so for President Trump.
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by bmethven
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on Sun Aug 13, 2017 at 01:07 PM PDT
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China’s government news agency, Xinhua, today came out with a terse report that contains only one sentence:
新华社快讯：朝鲜军方１０日表示，有关使用中程弹道导弹打击关岛美军基地的计划将于８月中旬前递交朝最高领导人。
Translation:
Breaking by Xinhua: North Korean military said on August 10,...
by xgz
28 comments
on Thu Aug 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM PDT
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