The Struggle For Ukraine

[Trenchcoat]

A good run down of the situation at present in Ukraine:

http://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-zelenskyy-latest-12541713

Basically Ukraine needs more help from wherever it can get it.

Charity donations are down, assuming that got where it was supposed to go. Ben Wallace expresses doubt over whether Labour are giving Ukraine much in the way of help other than supportive words.

Potentially Russia might be trying to crack Ukraine with the help of extra Korean troops & Armaments before their Soviet stockpiles run out next year. This is the point where Ukraine needs to find extra help from wherever it can get it from.

[krimster2]

this time next year, every western country will be working on an austerity budget due to slowdown

Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other officials. after a 2 hour private meeting with Putin

no one other than Trump and Putin, know what they talk about
sports?
fishing?
how to phuque up Trench's life?

[Trenchcoat]

Unless Ukraine has no other choice than to sign a peace treaty due to it's lines cracking too badly, and/or lack of Armaments, Munitions I think it would be a grave mistake for Ukraine to strike a peace deal with Russia that gave away any Ukrainian land.

This year is nearing its end, next year Russia will only have a number of months left before its Artillery & Tanks start to run out. In theory Russia won't have been defeated but in practice it will mean it all but has. So Ukraine is just a number of months away from that situation, throwing in the towel just before then will be an action of weakness. Ukraine's best chance of victory lie in perseverance and enduring until Russia is exhausted and falling apart.

[ML]

Sounds sort of naive.  Russia isn't running out of anything.  As I understand it, their factories are on war footing and are turning out increasing supplies of war materials.

I think it is the USA that is running short of war materials as we haven't yet geared up very much.  China might have an easy time against us.

[krimster2]

ukraine will run out of air defense first

then russia will focus on blockading energy and food
surrender or starve

Trump Jr. is already laughing at Zelensky's fate on Twutter/X
it's all about REVENGE for the pefect call with Zelensky and Trump will do WTF Putin will be paying Trump to do
which is to be a broker for Putin's acquisition of an additional 1/5 of Ukraine after Crimea

Russians can return to leasing Ukrainian farmland to Chinese for $$$ and Russian oligarchs get it instead of Ukrainian ones
is about the only change

other than the complete and total destruction of every major structure in Novo Russiya

total win for Putin

Putin HAD to destroy Novo Russiya in order to save Novo Russiya
same thing Trump is gonna do to America

[2tallbill]

I think it is the USA that is running short of war materials as we haven't yet geared
up very much.  China might have an easy time against us.

China can't even get to the USA unless they arrive in container ships. China couldn't
make it to Hawaii, we would have to rescue them long before they arrived.

Trump isn't going to start a war with China.

You were in the Navy. How many blue water Navies exist in the world today?

[ML]

Trump isn't going to start a war with China.

I don't understand your comment.

Did I suggest USA would start a war with  any country?

But we don't have to start a war to be involved in a war if attacked.

[ML]

How many blue water Navies exist in the world today?

From AI

As of recent assessments, there are approximately 10 to 13 countries with full "blue-water" navies, meaning they have the capacity to operate globally and maintain a sustained presence in open oceans. These countries have significant capabilities for power projection and can operate far from their home shores. Here are some of the prominent blue-water navies:

    United States – The U.S. Navy is considered the most capable and largest blue-water navy, with a significant number of aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and other surface vessels.
    China – The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has rapidly expanded, with carriers, advanced destroyers, and submarines.
    Russia – Russia retains blue-water capabilities with its nuclear submarines and limited power projection with surface vessels.
    United Kingdom – The Royal Navy has significant blue-water capabilities, especially with its Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
    France – France maintains a blue-water navy through its Charles de Gaulle carrier, nuclear submarines, and global bases.
    India – India's navy has been enhancing its blue-water capabilities with carriers and submarines.
    Japan – Though limited by its constitution, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has extensive ocean-going capabilities.
    Italy, Spain, and Australia – These countries maintain smaller blue-water capabilities, often relying on alliances to project power.
    South Korea – South Korea’s navy has growing blue-water capabilities with recent developments in its surface fleet and submarine forces.

The classification can vary depending on the specific criteria, such as the ability to operate across oceans, conduct amphibious assaults, or maintain supply lines far from home, but the above countries generally qualify by contemporary standards.

[2tallbill]

China – The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has rapidly expanded, with carriers, advanced destroyers, and submarines.

ML, you were in the Navy. You've been on a "cruise"

Currently the Chinese have 12 nuke boats, total in their entire Navy, all the rest are diesel. They can't steam
to the USA. They wouldn't make it even if we didn't try to stop them. Calling it a blue water Navy is a joke.
They aren't going to have a blue water Navy some day in the future either (in my opinion). The Chinese can
attack one of their close neighbors, but they can't get here from there.   


From CNN
China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/politics/chinese-nuclear-powered-submarine-sank/index.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20China,48%20diesel%2Dpowered%20attack%20submarines.



From Google

"The Chinese Blue Water Navy is not fully mature, but considering their constant growth, China may achieve this status by 2049 , which is a deadline set by President Xi for his military to become a “World-Class Force”. Aug 18, 2023"

Bold by me

[krimster2]

the war with China will be a ROCKET War and an economic war, the USA dreams it will run a naval blockade on China
but an hour after the war starts, it won't have any ships to do that with, no blockade, no DooLittle Attack, No Midway either

only unopposed Chinese missile submarines off California and Washington
ergo, washington surrenders when they're put in "check"
otherwise we're gonna straight off trade a Trident II for a Kung POW!!!
and, aint't NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!

China will want the USA to stop the economic war and close all military bases in Asia
meanwhile, a new multi-billion dollar Chinese Religious Organisation has become established in Houston, Texas...
straight from the Main Land

The Chinese Communist Party is running the biggest, wealthiest church in Texas!!!!
WTF?

Russians are gonna use Trump to steer the USA and China into an economic conflict
which will bring Russia and China closer together...and when you remove Russian sanctions....
it means Putin is gonna change his relationship with China, to be more on Russia's terms and less on China's

later, when the REAL conflict COMES between the USA and China
the Chinese are ALREADY WAY, WAY ahead of usa with DF-21 to DF-41 missiles, later DF-51, + adding AI ship tracking radar and manueverable ICBMS to make interception more difficult
they can be kept in caves, old warehouses, anywhere, then secretly moved and fired, cuz these are MOBILE ICBMs, something the USA doesn't even have ONE of
China doesn't have much of a Navy, cuz they have NOWHERE to put it, that's one of the things that makes Taiwan so attractive to them + TSMC, etc

while the USA sits there with 50+ year old MinuteMan IIIs and 60+ year old B-52s
they will launch brand new state-of-art,  DF-41s by the THOUSANDS at usa bases and ships in the Pacific

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-41

the USA already has incorporated Israeli Iron Dome into SM-3 ABM
they even have a special feature to use them with Israeli Radars I can't talk about
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=sm-3+missile

these will be easily overwhelmed by MASSIVE numbers of Chinese rockets
which they can make more of and cheaper than the USA
how did the USA win WWII?
same way is how China will beat the USA

China can make HUGE NUMBERS of missiles
cuz they don't buy them for a "CRAZY" price from Defense Contractors
no...the government makes them theirselves, and pays "cost"
and they're about 20 times cheaper than what the USA pays

the numbers are how they plan on winning

China has almost no bases for a Blue Water Navy
while the USA has China surrounded by bases

all these bases will BELONG TO US, say the Chinese

the USA is an old power like Spain
that'll lose it like they did

in 2050 rich Chinese dewds will be driving EVs through derelict America hustling red neck girls in dilapidated trailer parks
and this board will be AWD - American Women Discussion - but in Mandarin

you can buy a a stock chinese "agricultural" drone for crop spraying for between $2,500 to $5,000
and modify and upgrade it to become a small long range military cruise missile
smuggle hundreds into your enemies territory
and wreck havoc on the whole economy with a couple of dozen people
who are all undercover with day jobs

r/c model planes can be transformed into V-1 Buzz Bombs with pinpoint accuracy
thanks to a combination of low cost, readily available, micro-computer, video and radio technology you can buy off ebay

authorities would NEVER find ya
who do you think's doing all the "UFOs"
 
you think they're all Chinese weather balloons, high school science fair experiments, etc

no, they're Experimental "FOO" Drones

China owns the largest Private Airport in America North of Houston
it's all gated off
cuz it's a FOO Drone Factory

PS
Good thing America now has a stable genuis to guide it!!!!
Bone Spurs be damned
Trump will be well paid for the services he renders to all oligarchs both foreign and domestic
so he can donate his presidential salary for the PR to show how caring he is
and Fox will do a 1 hour show about it

the planation masters have talked the barefoot white farmers into attacking Fort Sumpter for them
so the federal govt don't tell states what to do

what a bunch of illiterate dumb phuque imbeciles

mah name is Billy Bob
and I can write mah name....
Billy Bob scratches an X on the ground, and looks up with a toothless grin wearing a red MAGA Hat
vrs a People's Liberation Army Billion Dollar Drone Factory with Thousands of Asian Women using sophisticated machines making gazillions of drones 24/7

who ya think's gonna win that? Billy Bob? LOL!!!!


Ukraine is gone...
what kinda deal did Trump make with Putin?
if it didn't include Iran
then Putin is just gonna pay Trump for the favor of handing him Ukraine on a sterling silver platter and keep the platter to
and NOT pay America anything
so Trump is doing this just to enrich  himself

Israel will be pissed if this is how it "goes down"
so that's why Trump gave them Mike Huckabee as US ambassador, a far right, Christian Wack-a-doon who sells Christian coloring books to the masses
who's one of them rather rare Evengelical Jew Lovers, instead of raging anti-semite

good thing, I'm retired, and can laugh at EVERYTHING!!!
cuz if I were younger, I already would've been "called up" into the IDF
giving me a week to decide to either report in or flee to America
and i'd have to go through all that shit, yet again

well now, that tide has turned more to Israel's favor
with the exception of the Iranian question
which, I'd listen to what Putin says about it...
when the war with Ukraine is over with, he doesn't need Iran any more
and he wouldn't mind their oil and gas being temporarily disrupted by a war
the only reason he WOULDN'T give it to Trump
as becuz Trump didn't ask for it, just a square block in city center, and 10% ownership of Rosneft
and nothin for the USA

as the brokerage fee for Ukraine

[ML]

ML, you were in the Navy. You've been on a "cruise"

Currently the Chinese have 12 nuke boats, total in their entire Navy, all the rest are diesel. They can't steam to the USA. They wouldn't make it even if we didn't try to stop them. Calling it a blue water Navy is a joke.
They aren't going to have a blue water Navy some day in the future either (in my opinion). The Chinese can attack one of their close neighbors, but they can't get here from there.   

Bill, I never meant to imply that China might attack mainland USA or even Hawaii, etc.

The war with China will start with attacks on USA military assets in the areas around China.

[krimster2]

"Bill, I never meant to imply that China might attack mainland USA or even Hawaii, etc."

YES HE DID BEEL!!!!
he's tryin to trick you!
but you are SMART and STRONG
he can't trick YOU!!!

only I am yur friend
is that...the precious...????

yessssss...
the precious!!!!!
schmegle knows!!!

[2tallbill]

Bill, I never meant to imply that China might attack mainland USA or even Hawaii, etc.

The war with China will start with attacks on USA military assets in the areas around China.

China might invade an ally like Taiwan. They aren't going to attack Americans. 

In the case with Taiwan, I think China can ONLY destroy the place. It would look like the
areas that Russia fought in. They would send in 80,000 missiles then bombard it from the
sea and the air, then invade it amphibiously. It would look like the surface of the moon.

Europe would be more than happy to stop buying Chinese goods once they saw the human
carnage that came with the attack. China isn't nice enough to anyone to have any goodwill.

If China lost the American markets and EU markets, they might have several million deaths
from starvation. They can't feed themselves, they import most of their inputs for manufacturing.
The Chinese aren't dumb, they know all of this.
 

[ML]

Xi Jinping has ordered the People’s Liberation Army to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027. Whether he launches an invasion may depend on President Trump’s defense secretary. If confirmed by the Senate, Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Mr. Trump’s nominee, will have to confront the collapse of deterrence in Europe and the Middle East, resource constraints on Capitol Hill, recruitment challenges, and a deteriorating balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. The only way to promote peace is to go to war on day one—not with China, Russia or Iran but with the Pentagon bureaucracy.

The first task is to fix the U.S. Navy. America needs a maritime industrial base that can counter China’s. Pentagon requirements for building maritime assets involve too many uncoordinated stakeholders. The Pentagon establishes war-fighting requirements—such as the number of missiles on a ship—without regard to interdependent technical specifications such as that ship’s center of gravity. When those technical specifications aren’t tightly linked to war-fighting requirements, the mismatch can cause underperformance or unplanned costs and time. The Defense Department should return to the board model that served the Navy well until the 1960s. The Navy would have a forum of senior stakeholders with a chairman empowered to decide both requirements and specifications, ensuring that these work in harmony.

The Navy should also create an office focused on expediting the development and deployment of certain war-fighting technologies, similar to the Rapid Capabilities Office at the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. The next secretary should insist on more flexible processes to deliver unmanned surface, aerial and underwater vehicles with speed and at scale. He must also work with Congress to help shipyards attract and retain talent.

Rebuilding the maritime industrial base can also help save Aukus—the security partnership between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.—which is in danger of stalling. Under the Aukus agreement, the U.S. Navy intends to sell Australia at least three Virginia-class attack submarines by the early 2030s. To realize this goal, the Navy needs to build more than today’s 1.2 hulls a year and shrink maintenance backlogs that have sidelined nearly 40% of the fleet. Addressing these challenges will demand consistent funding, which will come only if the defense secretary articulates the importance of sea power and presents a coherent shipbuilding plan. The secretary can get Aukus off life support by accelerating U.S. submarine deployments to western Australia, bringing more Australian sailors onto U.S. boats, and establishing a naval reactors organization in Canberra.

The secretary must also confront the West’s depleted arsenal of critical munitions, especially air-defense missiles. In a conflict with China, the U.S. could run out of some munitions within a week. The next secretary must rebuild America’s arsenal by moving to maximum production rates of the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (Extended Range), Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, Harpoon, Standard Missile 6 and other munitions. Wherever possible, these systems should be equipped with advanced energetic materials to extend their range and destructive power.

Ships, submarines and missiles are all expensive. To save money, the next secretary must enforce fixed-price contracting and force private-sector contractors to acquire products and services that are researched and developed on their dime, not the U.S. taxpayer’s. The Defense Department’s cost-plus contracting model has destroyed competition and innovation while exploding costs. Sen. John McCain mandated fixed-price commercial contracts in 2016, but Congress repealed that mandate five years later, after his death. Lawmakers should rectify this mistake by re-establishing fixed-price contracting and requiring the defense secretary to sign off on any cost-plus contract.

To free up more money, the secretary can reduce the civilian workforce, the Joint Staff, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the general and flag officer corps, and the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy. He can sell non-war-fighting assets such as golf courses and resurrect a 2015 Pentagon study that outlined a path to save $125 billion over five years.

Congress can help by ensuring the Defense Department complies with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994. This statute, which the Pentagon violates frequently, aims to prevent the government from wasting money on developing capabilities that can be purchased from the commercial sector. NASA predicted it would have cost $4 billion to build the Falcon 9 rocket, much more than the $400 million it cost Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build it. It stands to reason, then, that by adhering to the law’s commercial-preference provision, the Defense Department can save tens of billions annually. Additionally, Congress can give the Pentagon authority to use appropriated but unspent funds of between $10 billion and $15 billion per year.

Assuming China sticks to its Taiwan timeline, the next secretary has two years to prevent World War III. To do so, he must put the Pentagon on a war footing, firing any bureaucrat unable or unwilling to work at a wartime pace. The lack of accountability at the Defense Department—after the shameful Afghanistan withdrawal, the failure to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, and the current secretary’s disappearance without informing the White House—has undermined confidence in military leadership. Armed with a bold agenda, the next secretary can regain the trust of the American people and the fear of America’s enemies.

Mr. Gallagher, a Journal contributor, is head of defense for Palantir Technologies and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. He represented Wisconsin’s Eighth Congressional District (2017-24) and was chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

[ML]

China might invade an ally like Taiwan. They aren't going to attack Americans. 

The war could start as the result of some 'accidents' in the area around Taiwan or elsewhere.

A Chinese ship rams a USA ship, or vice versa . . . and the 'victim' must retaliate.

USA ship commanders get tired of Chinese planes buzzing their ship, and shoot one of them down.  China must retaliate.

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin . . . whether fake or not.

[2tallbill]

Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other officials. after a 2 hour private meeting with Putin

You don't even know if they've talked, does that means we should read your speculation about it? 

Post a link about what's been discussed or speculate on whether the payola has stopped flowing to
Joe Biden now that he is wearing diapers.


Joe picks a dead dandelion for Jill, she tosses it before getting on the plane.

[krimster2]

BEEL
have another glass of "SO WHAT"?

A Honkin Tonkin sweetheart? Viet Minh Cong Ho!
On the next exit on the Ho Chi Minh trail

I was always afraid of Asian women
they love you long time at Long Bình
these thin, teenaged tiny brown-skinned girls with long dark hair
their age didn't matter, ciz I was 18, and NOBODY cared or even knew how old they were!

the way they stared at my willy up close, for such a long time, scrutinizing it made me feel uncomfortable (like they were thinkin they were gonna MAKE somethin from it...

could they be thinkin of makin a coin purse from my scrotum,
was that WHY they were "checkin it out"
that's WHAT my Willy started thinkin!!!!

what were they thinking...???
I couldn't tell, at all from their facial expression, which seemed intensely serious,  so I naturally began to assume it WAS BAD!!!!
and as my thinking grew darker
the more aroused I became from the intense scrutiny not to even mention the firm grip that was also applied

PS
BEEL, I am just a paper boy and  not the freaking senior newspaper editor....
he's right over here....
can ya give that link to BEEL

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/13/trump-putin-meetings-interpreter-notes/2565471002/

THAT would be GREAT!!!

I hope you all can come in this Saturday...that would be great...

http://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/60065-us-electronic-prices-to-increase-by-357

so buy yur PCs in January!!!  that would be great!

once more, I would just like to take a little time
and thank each and every one of you for reading my posts!!!!

I really feel like we share a special bond
that you are my "special" friend

no...I mean it...really...

if I was gonna share my last box of Powder Milk Biscuits with somebody, it would be YOU!!!

I like you JUST THE WAY YOU ARE!!!
we can go to Mr Roger's Neighborhood and be Crack Dealers in Mr Roger's Neighborhood

yo' wussup  FRED!!!

a nickle bag, a nickle bag
a nickle bag of DOPE
a nickle bag, a nickle bag
a nickle bag of HOPE

America's Gen-Z
land of Grozny
from sea to micro-plastic filled sea
to be, or not to be

Krim Dawg-Dawg Rap-Apocalypse - Original 'Gangsta Media LLC Detroit, MI MOTOWN RECORDS BLDG

BOP! Turn me loose!
where's you get that FUNK from?
gotta shoot them with my BOP Gun!!!

In the city, in the town
don't let yur guard down

come all the people get the funk
en garde!!!
protect yo' self
Get Down! Get Down! Baby!!!


play that funky music White Boy!!!



BEEL,
please stay on topic, and find out wha it is and then TELL ME, cuz I FORGOT!!!!
if you could do that...

THAT would be great!!!!

[2tallbill]

BEEL
have another glass of "SO WHAT"?

BEEL,
please stay on topic, and find out wha it is and then TELL ME, cuz I FORGOT!!!!
if you could do that...

THAT would be great!!!!

You were making up stories about
1. Putin tells Trump what to do about Ukraine as if Putin, not Trump decides what the USA does.
2. You are making up that Trump and Putin are having phone conversations AND
3. You are making up the content of the phone calls AND
4. If in fact if they were having phone calls, the content would be top secret. So you won't be privy to them
5. You have your own rant thread for when you want to sputter around making stuff up. 

If you could stop making things up, then stating them as fact in this thread that would be great.

[krimster2]

WOT?
you think I'm FOX News making up stuff!!!
we'll get back to that - but first a message from our sponsor

NEIN! ich bin ein "Visionary"
I haz... visions

show me Trump's translator notes to Putin from 2 HOUR Helsinki meeting - ya can't! cuz Trump took em for "safe keeping" and she signed an NDA that will send her to JAIL
Translator to Zelensky got him impeached

I, um, guess ya forgot

as one of the world's leading Visionaries
let me tells ya

that the first lemonade stand that sells grape juice will be the Market Leader

see, it's this kinda visionary visions that sets me apart from ordinary men
who end up being salesman of one kind or another
hey! ya wanna buy this stuff I'm sellin - if ya do, that would be great...

now ya unnerstand?

I ain't like you a'tall
i'm a completely DIFFERENT kinda creature

who sees the world through his mind
and not his eyes


homeland security and tarriffs coming,
poor won't be able to get a  loan
gotta get down baby
homeland security's coming
shoulda been gone long ago

I don't like killing the poison dart frogs in Costa Rica, cuz they're so pretty
but it's just so darned easy making top quality neurotoxin this way
I guess it's good I have no  conscience
that's why the Rabbi picked me in the first place
he could tell just from my eyes

later, I could see that same look in others in the IDF and Arabs we fought and Russians to
the look of a natural born killer
who are set apart from normal people

becuz we used to kill people for MONEY$$
and it was LEGAL (sorta)

you become branded by all the fires you've been in
at least I ain't a gentile Russki
which means not only do I have a much more ESTHÉTIQUE Willy
but I don't have to get all them Russian tattoos to cover up the scars

an old bare chested dewd with a LOT of scars including starfish puckered bullet holes
always throws off the young dewds
and as soon as you see the expression change in their eyes
is the moment you jab yur fist into their throat
or yur hidden knife into their liver

The Legend of "The Krimster Kid" who ran rampant over Crimea, Tel Aviv, and Texan Swamps
a minor Folk Legend attributed to a bad batch of Skooma that caused mass hallucinations throughout those regions

from The Encyclopedia of Human History - Before the First AI War and The Fall of Man

Volume 2 of Anne Frank's Diaries
is my only holy text

I used the same tricks I read from her diary when I lived in a military barracks
ever find something directly useful you read in torah? or the bible?
Anne Franks' 2nd Diary even has a section on trouble shooting broken electrical appliances
which is highly advanced considering that it was written in 1945 expecially the part about Computers

Anne Franks Diarry Volume #2 even showed me how to cheat on my taxes
betacha never read that in no bible!!!!

ha! making stuff up!!!!
kids today...

[2tallbill]

WOT?

Breath in, breath out.
You are going to blow a head gasket, been there done that, got the brain surgery done
and have the scars to prove it.

Shalom
 

[krimster2]

I liked old american cars from the 1950s and early 60s because of how danged simple the engines were...
back in the late 70s, 1 had a towed 67 Ford Fairlane that I bought for $100
and managed to charge the battery and get it to turn over
and saw I had a head gasket leak on the engine block

went to the auto-parts store bought the Ford Gasket Head kit for $14.95
unbolted the top of the 289 V-8 engine and got a paint scraper and scraped off the old gasket
and polished the surface with emory
then put on the new gasket
bolted the top of the engine block back on
changed the oil and filters, borrowed a friend's timing light and he showed me how to use it
put new plugs in

and the $100 car ran smooth as silk with about $50 parts and fluids and all day Saturday

these skills were useful in Russia with old Ladas
no auto-parts store
you go to outdoor kiosk market, and walk around until you see auto-parts
they'll all be clustered together
and ya talk to some old starik about what kinda lada part yur lookin for

except ladas have a weird manual transmission and the Italian/Russian engine is teeny tiny 4 cylinder small enuff you can pick up!!!!
which reminded me a lot of a Vespa Scooter engine
but cast from Russian Steel, very unique!
only thing smaller is that new Ford 3 Cylinder "Econo" engine or a Mazda Rx-7 Wankel which was the ccolest car I ever owed or drove

man, if Iwere a young dewd, the stuff I could hack out of those little engines
when I was a kid, I woulda made go-carts
but now I'd make drones

when trump tarriffs cause retail sales to drop
corporations will protect their profits and bonuses by doing mass lay-offs
that'll start in 2025
which will cause sales to drop more...which will cause even more layoffs....

and trump will lay-off hundreds of thousands from the federal government

by stopping the Ukraine military hardware transfer from US stocks, we stop the upgrading of US forces with newer replacements
another win for Putin
totally worth the 10% of Rosneft to Trump, won't be surprised he wants more + the Trump Tower land in Moscva


all of this will be Hunter Biden's fault, according to Fox

Trump's first "State of the Union" address will be Trump doing Aerobics in a Captain America Costume singing limmericks live on National TV
followed by 2 hours of applause from the audience until people start passing out and Trump tells them to "stop already..."

betcha ain't laughin NOW

[krimster2]

i've been hit by BM21 Grad Rockets
they're used for pretty much for EVERY POSSIBLE MILITARY PURPOSE!
and have been around since Vietnam
and are still used in Gaza and by Hebollah
this has been the AK-47 of Russian Artillery for the last 60 years
sooner or later, it shows up everywhere

they roar when they take off, you can hear them miles away
but...
they fly faster than sound
you hear the incoming a second before they hit
then if yur hearing is still intact, you'll hear them bing launched from far away

you can have single barrel launchers that look they're old rain gutters that fell off an old building
to a convoy of 40 barrel mobile launchers that drive up from nowhere, fire off hundreds of rocksts in a salvo and be gone 5 minutes later




from the UXO duds I've seen, they are super easy to make in Pakistan or China or North Korea or even some place primitive like Russia
on a sheet metal bending pipe making machine to make welded steel pipes for the rocket body with welded sheet metal fins
pour molten propellant - cap the nozzle - screw in the electric ignitor
point them at a 45 degree angle and they'll fly over 20 miles
and when they go off they generate a lot more shrapnel than an artillery or mortar shell

to launch these things
what really helps is to have a cell phone with yr GPS
and the GPS coords of yur target

calculate the Azimuth and angle?
there's an app for that
just type yur coords ind press Enter

a medium sized factory in poland should be able to make 1,000/day of 122mm rockets
they've made them there the last 60 years, and they can easy ship them across the border

Russian casualties have been accelerating
it looks like Ukraine intends to use up their AMMO by Jan 21, as fast as they can

I'm guessing, one way or another Zelensky will make a national broadcast by the end of February
to starve and keep fighting
or surrender
and Putin pays Trump
for buying 20 % of Ukraine

Putin and Trump already know what the deal is and for how much
 

[2tallbill]

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin . . . whether fake or not.

I was still in my terrible two's. So all I know is what I read later. But yes I know
a quick escalation can happen. Nobody knows who shot the first shot that started
the Battles of Lexington and Concord, but it sort of started something bigger.

We aren't going to get sucked into a war with China especially not in China.

China gets pretty belligerent when they have a president (Biden) on their payroll
vs Trump who they know can charge them a billion dollars with a stroke of a pen.

   

[krimster2]

when Trump destroys the US Economy AGAIN
The Chinese will care...because....??????

was their EVER A SINLE CRIMINAL REFERRAL against Joe Biden for Corrution
based on any false or made-up right wing media fairy tale

The answer is NO!!!!

Tarriffs paid for by US economy
Government Layoffs paid for by US economy
austerity budget paid for by US economy

ergo
Trump's policies have nothing to do with China
it's a class war of the billionaires against the poor and middle class

China doesn't give a flyin phuque
Trump Bibles are made in freakin China - get a clue
Jarred sold real estate investor visas bundled with his real estate direct to Chinese
Chinese invested in Trump's Asia properties
Saudis bougt out Jarred's

Trump's only purpose is self-enrichment at YOUR EXPENSE
but you're too much of a STABLE GENUIS to see that
I tremble at the thought of yur mighty brain power

[2tallbill]

when Trump destroys the US Economy AGAIN
The Chinese will care...because....??????

I am sorry you don't understand how economics or history works. Neither did Kammie, that's why she
isn't president. Lying about the past to people who know better will not further your cause. Go look at
how the left did in the recent elections. Everyone knew they were lying about what happened in the
past. Nobody believed their predictions for the future and now you should know that you can't rely
on PMSNBC for your news, information and analysis. Their words and predictions are your words
and predictions. You've been wrong about everything for at least the last couple years. That
should humble you, but like the rest of the far left you are incapable of self reflection.