Did you see that story of the old guy taking on tanks alone with a grenade launcher?
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The dude I was paired with on my last trip flew both A-10s and F-15s.
He had some interesting stories about the Warthog and losing a squadron mate who didn’t secure his parachute harness- dude was ejected into the air having ejected from an A-10. Ugh.
His stories of being in the same squadron as martha mcsally and how much she fucking sucked reaffirmed my previously held beliefs about her being worthless.
His F-15 stories of being stationed in Lakenheath and flying over Kosovo in the ‘90s were fascinating- apparently the allies shot down a shit ton of russkie supplied MiGs and other things, with one of his squadron mates bagging 2 MiGs with 1 AMRAAM.
He was also fun to drink with and not the typical former fighter jock I’m used to flying with- i.e., wasn’t a fox news sipper, praise be.
Slava Ukraini!
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Yikes.
Something…out of control…something something…live through it.
Pretty sure Russia doesn’t want to tangle with the big boys at this point.
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Looks like the Russians took a page out of the PRC Hainan playbook from 2001. [Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia](Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia)
It’s not all right wing dumbasses who parrot Russian propaganda.
In an echo of the scuttled letter from the Progressive Caucus opposing more aid to Ukraine, we have a Ben and Jerry’s bigwig forming a group designed to undercut US support of Ukraine.
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Some people resent the profitable US arms industries involvement too.
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To some people “anti-imperialism” just means “anti–anything the US does abroad,” to the point where the US helping one country fight off an invader seeking to rebuild its fallen empire is itself the “imperialist” thing.
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In other words, opposing the second Iraq war doesn’t mean you should oppose the first Iraq war.
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Same brand of lefty dipshits that excused Russian tanks rolling in the streets of Prague in 1968.
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Putin made a surprise visit to Mariupol this weekend.
How many layers of kevlar is he wearing under that coat?
And shit, you can at least see why a lefty would side with the USSR back then, ass-wrong as they were. Now they’re just siding with an avowed right-winger.
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That coat… It’s literally in the 50’s during the day and in the 40’s at night in Mariupol right now. And, to a Muscovite coming out of winter, it feels like early summer.
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A good sniper makes a head shot.
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I find it impossible to understand why progressives of any flavor would oppose an international effort of democratic nations that seeks to protect a fellow democratic nation from a neighboring totalitarian regime led by a psychopathic autocrat. You want to point out American hypocrisy? Fine, you do that. We’re aware. In the mean time let’s send Zelensky some more tanks.
If the west had simply let this happen, let Russia invade Ukraine with impunity, where do these people imagine Putin would stop? What sort of signal do they think that would send to Xi? The fuck is wrong with these people.
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No way that’s Putin. The real Putin would be bare-chested astride a bear. Probably with two or three bare-chested women alongside.
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Marjorie Taylor-Green recently poo-pooed the threat of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine because no one had shown her Putin’s plans to invade Europe. Ignoring the fact that Putin isn’t like her Dear Orange Lord, randomly blurting out secrets in meetings, press conferences and Tweets, she seems to be unaware that Ukraine is in Europe.
The reason we need to support Ukraine is so that we don’t have to party like it’s 1939.
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I’m a simple-minded fellow, but this doesn’t seem all that complicated to me.
The pro-Putin nonsense from a lot of these morons certainly echoes American Nazi apologists in the 30’s.
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…ord…Paging Henry F…
…Charles Lindberg-white courtesy phone…
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