April 18, 2022

Short of a nuclear weapon, what can Putin do to us??? He's got nuthin' right?

Some people seem to think it's a black and white situation. We fly CAP over Ukraine and launch cruise missiles targeting Russian supply routes.

"What's Putin going to do, nuke us?"

The moment the US starts killing Russian soldiers... the floodgates open.

Remember the Moskva? And those Neptune missiles that struck it going around 650mph?

Well the Russians have Anti-ship missiles that travel Mach 10. They're barely detectable and certainly unstoppable.

Some Russian subs are equipped with them right now. As in... RIGHT NOW.

It doesn't take a military genius to acknowledge that RIGHT NOW there are Russian subs shadowing US carrier groups around the world.

That's a given. There are Zircon hypersonic ASM's in firing range (1000km) of the USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean RIGHT NOW.

So when the US launches attacks... 5000 US sailors die.

Think long and hard when your heart and emotions get out in front of your head.

April 16, 2022

Brookings (not Breitbart) "The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows racism has no boundaries"

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/03/03/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-shows-racism-has-no-boundaries/

There are many reports of Black people being refused at border crossings in favor of white Ukrainians, leaving them stuck at borders for days in brutal conditions. Ukraine stated they would first allow women and children on trains and transport out of the country to flee the Russian invasion. However, it seems they meant Ukrainian and European women and children. Videos show Black people being pushed off trains and Black drivers being reprimanded and stalled by Ukrainians as they try to flee. There are even reports of animals being allowed on trains before Africans.

And that's not even talking about the MSM bias

https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1497974245737050120?s=20&t=GCKwx4aGnovjYYggPQaOeA

April 15, 2022

Sinking of the Moskva is a game changer. My updated thoughts on the war.

This is all opinion.

All hopes for an early end to the Ukraine War are finished.

Ironically... the very success of the Ukrainians will prolong the destruction and killing.

The Russians will NEVER and let me repeat... NEVER walk away from this as the loser.

As the young people say, Ukraine has been "clowning" Russia.

Humiliation, embarrassment, ridicule.. all well deserved. But the Russians take it personally and will turn the Moskva into a rallying cry.

The Russians will send 500k... maybe 1m to the meat grinder but they won't stop.

And for those who think the Ukrainians are indestructible, they're not. Read an interview with a Ukrainian fighter jet pilot who said "We're losing planes daily, they don't talk about it publicly but we are". 1000 Ukrainian Marines surrendered in Mariupol this week including a UK citizen.

The atrocities will be amped up. The bombing of residential areas will be intensified under the pretense that since the gov't handed out weapons to civilians, "there are no non-combatants in the cities".

I think this thing will go WW2 style and they'll just turn cities to rubble. There won't BE a Ukraine when it's all over.

Anyone who asks "Then what do we do?"

I don't have an answer. If pushed I guess I'll say, keep supplying the Ukrainians and if the price in human capital gets too high... maybe there will be a Russian coup??

April 13, 2022

So call it a Terrorist Attack... Feds charge Subway shooter with terrorism charges.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-13/frank-james-to-be-arraigned-in-federal-court-peace-says

The man arrested in connection with Tuesday’s subway shooting in Brooklyn is facing a federal terrorism charge.

Frank James will be arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on charges that he intended “to cause death and serious bodily injury to one or more persons” on the New York City subway, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said at a news conference on Wednesday.

James, 62, was arrested on Wednesday in Manhattan’s East Village after a day-long manhunt.

April 13, 2022

Heavy.com delivers details about the subway shooter

Reads like a very mentally ill person...

This guy was even interviewed by the FBI multiple times.

https://heavy.com/news/frank-r-james/

Frank R James

Heavy has confirmed that Frank James had a Facebook page in the name Frank Whitaker. The page contains images of guns and describes Black nationalism as “black unity,” in addition to criticizing former President Donald Trump and posting about racism.

In October 2021, he wrote on Facebook, “I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.” The Facebook page, which is in another name, but contains photos and YouTube video frames linked to him by NYPD, also contains a photo of a body bag. He shared that body bag photo several other times with different captions, including, “Better late than never – payback” and “hurt people kill people – please don’t hurt me” and “it’s never to late to say I love you – only death could stop me.”

In 2014, he wrote, Just cuckoo…no cocoa puffs.” He shared posts about gas prices and the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of his posts was anti-gay. He wrote, “love thy neighbor. He’s gay, nevermind.”

April 12, 2022

Well... an oligarch's gotta' get his money somewhere. Why the T-14 tank hasn't been seen in Ukraine

Really a funny story...

So the Russians FINALLY design a new Main Battle Tank as a LONG delayed competitor to the US M1 Abrams.

It's shown in 2015 at their Victory Day parade...

It's thoroughly modern, copies lots of M1 Abrams features, has an armored crew compartment, an autonomous turret, armored ammo storage, advanced armor, fires several different armament... low silhouette...

And 7 years after it was displayed, they may only have between 9-20 T-14's...

Look to the owner of the tank factory and count how many yachts he has.



https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/we-might-know-why-russias-new-armata-tank-is-missing-from-ukraine/

April 9, 2022

Going to take a few days away... have a good weekend everyone

Too much Ukraine War news for me... need a break.

Dealt with anxiety issues to varying degrees much of my life and now I'm feeling "edgy"...

At one time dealt with a decade long benzo-fog situation...

My sister in law just had a baby... and is pregnant again. Then I see the stroller at the Train Station massacre today.

Yeah, need some time off. Take care everyone. Be safe and healthy.

April 9, 2022

Something I don't understand about the Train Station rocket attack.

We all saw the pics and it's horrific.

Most of the pictures were pixelated to cover their gruesome nature.

In all of them I noticed, next to the dead bodies were suitcases and personal effects that appeared to be untouched, completely unscathed by any blast.

No, I'm not going "Conspiracy Theorist" or anything like that... it's just the Engineer in me asking "What happened"??

If it weren't for the blood, I'd think they were poisoned, like a chemical attack.

Ideas?

April 8, 2022

First NATO Air Losses... a Mystery. YouTube-Mark Felton.

2 Romanian aircraft mysteriously go down with 8 KIA.

April 3, 2022

History doesn't repeat... but it rhymes. (Ukraine 2022, Europe 1945)

Widely known as "The lost German girl"

Obviously concussed and in shock.

She would be identified as Lore Bauer, a young German girl who had been assigned as a Luftwaffenhelferin to operate anti-aircraft guns, as Germany was experiencing massive losses of male soldiers.

Stationed in Czechoslovakia when the war ended, she and her other german and austrian female were brutally beaten and raped.
When she ran into an American unit on the road, you can see her bury her face into a small notebook. It turns out that she had hidden about 100 Czech crowns (currency) which she did not realize was worthless at the end of the conflict.

She flashed the currency to bribe the soldiers into allowing her to pass. To let her know that the unit was American, cameraman Haglund handed her a US penny.

Over time she made her way back to Germany and married after the war. She gave birth to two children, and it was her granddaughter, Emi, who would visit Haglund’s grave in San Bernardino, California and leave a penny–the very same penny given to her grandmother in 1945–on his headstone.