[1healthytips]Following the publication of a video of a collision between an American F-35 fighter and the deck of an aircraft carrier, it became known that the world’s first female F-35 pilot was behind the wheel of a fifth-generation US Navy fighter. This, according to American sources, was her first flight from the deck of the aircraft carrier, which turned out to be enough to destroy a fighter worth more than $ 100 million.
Carl Vinson, a member of the American aircraft carrier crew, told the media that the fighter was piloted by a woman, noting that despite the fact that the woman had completed a full training course and successfully completed a takeoff and landing training program on the aircraft carrier deck, for her, the current flight was the first from the deck of a real warship.
It is noteworthy that in the video you can hear the crew furiously giving instructions to the F-35 pilot, probably realizing that the crash of the fighter will be virtually inevitable, and literally in a few moments the woman tries to align the fighter relative to the deck, but without success.
The US Navy Command has not yet commented on such information.
The world’s first female pilot of an F-35 fighter crashed in the first flight.
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This source uses the carrier's name as the name of a sailor that's supposedly their source. While I could see the Navy assigning Carl Vinson to sail on the USS Carl Vinson, I think it's much more likely the articles source is profoundly ignorant.
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Something is off... Lt. Col. Christine Mau is the pilot shown in the article, but she is in the Air Force. There are other women F-35 pilots, including one in the Marines that have flown off ships and aircraft carriers. Why was Lt Col. Mau doing her very first landing on a real ship when she is in the Air Force?
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. We need more information.
#7
Sounds like the article is bunk -- can't tell the ship from a sailor, and blames a pilot in the wrong service.
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Just a dumb Army (54A,12A,35D) combat arms guy question, but the two grainy video images I have seen seem to suggest the landing gear was not down. Did I miss something
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Cell phone video shows landing gear down. Carrier center line camera shows pilot went well below landing glide slope. Can't tell from video whether under pilot control or by insufficient speed. 2-3 seconds from LSO telling pilot to wave off and ramp strike.
Article is crap. Not first female F-35 pilot and probably not first F-35C pilot, if the article even got the female pilot right. USAF F-35A demonstration pilot is female.
#11
Something seemed hinky when the first reports of the accident lacked information about the pilot. I figured it was because she was a girl.
The article is certainly a hot mess, with the wrong pic and 'Carl Vinson' as the source. Using "Carl Vinson" to anonymize a source is lame. My guess is a combination of bad reporting/worse editing. Internally, I believe the Navy refers to the Vinson as CARL VINSON. It is not a great leap to go from "a source on Carl Vinson" to "a source, Carl Vinson".
#12
the avionics on the F-35 are supposed to make landing the F-35 on a carrier much easier than landing the previous generation of fighters
but 'much easier' is still not 'easy'
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...The info in the article is dubious at best. Add that to it coming from a website called 1healthytips.co.uk, instead of anything resembling a trusted news or defense site, and this would be an entrant for The World's Most Dubious Story Award as presented at the World Dubious Story Festival on World's Most Dubious Story Day.
Mike
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^ So, you're saying it's possibly dubious?
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Jeez, you effin guys... I for one make million rubble by disable adblock and assimilate strategic healthy investment cerebellum!
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Less dubious if it said parking instead of landing?
#19
I read on the burg the pilot was recently vaxed and had a heart issue in flight. This is the first mention of a female pilot. Hard to get the truth sometimes.
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[NewsFrontInfo] People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Palitsa urges Ukrainians to stop panicking about the mythical "Russian invasion" in Ukraine.
According to him, one should, first of all, take care of economic security, and one must be constantly ready for war.
“I would not pay attention now to the threat of a military invasion. We need to work to keep people alive. To optimize housing costs, on tariffs. Combat injustice in the allocation of land. So that in the current difficult economic situation, business can survive and develop,” the Ukrainian deputy explains.
He assured that while Ukrainian foreign "partners" talk about the need to run, leave, take out the families of diplomats, the financial markets are very sensitive to this. A country may find itself in a situation where the threat of financial ruin is much more real than the threat that someone will attack it.
[NewsFrontInfo] The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that the Republic did not ask Moscow to supply weapons to the DPR.
He also noted that the Republic is counting on its own forces, but did not rule out that the DPR would be forced to turn to Russia for help if Ukraine, with the support of Western countries, passes a certain line.
In addition, the head of the DPR emphasized that the People's Militia is in need of electronic warfare, air defense, including to counter Turkish drones.
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NATO and the idiot Ukrainians brought this on themselves -- with us egging on the latter.
Remember: GHW Bush, the most intelligent and least damaging of our 6 post-Cold War presidents, was mocked for telling the Ukrainian Rada not to provoke the Russians.
James Baker famously encouraged Gorbachev to support German reunification -- Thatcher and Mitterrand were both opposed, as were many of the Russians -- with his promise that NATO would "not expand one inch eastward." That was a fvcking lie. We humiliated the Russians and they're determined to pay us back for it.
Ukrainian fascists tortured and burned alive dozens of Russian-speaking fellow citizens in Odessa. Ukraine shut off Crimea's H2O supply etc etc
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"The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that the Republic did not ask Moscow to supply weapons to the DPR."
Somehow they got there anyway. Moscow was misinformed.
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Definitely some dog wagging is being done by an administration that is in deep doggy doo at home.
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"The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that the Republic did not ask Moscow to supply weapons to the DPR."
Somehow they got there anyway. Moscow was misinformed.
The article meant in the current context.
In 2014, weapons such as tanks and BMP-2s did filter in to Lugansk and Donetsk from Russia, albeit not the latest iterations. At that time the separatists said that they had taken over a factory to rebuild damaged combat vehicles left in the field by the Ukrainians, seemingly a propaganda coup, save for the fact that someone had to tow those vehicles in, and someone had to apply for and receive spares, follow Russian schematics, etc....
And to be fair the separatists did dust off some actual museum pieces, such as the PDRD anti-tank rifle reconfigured with a rifle scope as an anti materiel rifle ( used at the Donetsk airport.)
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NATO and the idiot Ukrainians brought this on themselves -- with us egging on the latter.
Bullshit. The excuse of a wife beater.
James Baker famously encouraged Gorbachev to support German reunification -- Thatcher and Mitterrand were both opposed, as were many of the Russians -- with his promise that NATO would "not expand one inch eastward." That was a fvcking lie. We humiliated the Russians and they're determined to pay us back for it.
You and I already had this conversation. Gorbachev himself admitted there was no "no expansion" clause. The promise was not to station foreign troops in the former East Germany. It was the east Europeans who insisted on NATO membership because they understood the Russians.
Ukrainian fascists tortured and burned alive dozens of Russian-speaking fellow citizens in Odessa. Ukraine shut off Crimea's H2O supply etc etc
They took by force Odessa trade union building with the intention of handing the city to Russia. But unlike Donetsk and Lugansk w/o the numerous Little Green Men to support them. Odessa citizens fought back and Mototov cocktailed the the building. That's a real insurrection and real consequences.
Now, do you want to talk about massacres, mass deportations and extrajudicial killings committed in Russian occupied Ukraine where Russian power is asserted by Russian mercenaries who murder Russian ethnic natives (even the leaders of the putsch) who dare say a contrary word?
Poor Crimea. Russians invade and take it over and Ukrainians won't provide the Russians with goodies. How barbaric!
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The Donetsk rebels didn't capture many Ukrainian army heavy weapons. That was revealed when the Ukrainians fought back and the rebels collapsed and Donetsk almost retaken before the Russian Army invaded. After that, for deniability, Russians tried to supply Donetsk with weapons the Ukrainians had, but often not in the Ukrainian model/configuration. (For example the T-72B3 tanks and SA-6 that shot down the Dutch airliner.) Later new weapons like the Tornado and TOS-1 MLRS and T-90 tanks manned by Russian "mercenaries".
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"Poroshenko and Putin constantly raised their voices with each other. The Russian president was so worked up, that he started threatening to decisively crush his counterpart's forces," an excerpt from Hollande's 2018 book, "The Lessons of Power," says, according to a translation by UAWire.org, which writes about Russia and Ukraine.
"This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Putin suddenly realized, and got a grip on himself,” Hollande wrote, according to UAWire.org."
#13
What's your excuse for being Putin's sock puppet?
The American and European vital interest is not seeing Ukraine absorbed into Russia. That increases Kremin controlled population, industry, food production (hard power) by at least 30% and increases the threat to Europe and to NATO members in the Baltics in particular.
What's your interest in seeing Ukraine taken over by Russia?
If you think that shithole is worth spilling American blood and killing off any hope of getting our economy back on track, then go grab a blanket and ship off to Odessa yourself.
We Americans have had enough of pointless overseas wars that have achieved little more than killing and maiming and otherwise tearing apart the lives of our young men.
ENOUGH. Go raise your own brigade and fight your own idiotic wars.
#17
Ukraine is not worth shedding American blood. Especially if the Europeans aren't in the front line. However,the US should make is as nasty as they can for the Russians to invade. A lot can be done without US troops.
I personally believe this is a media driven event to make Biden look strong.
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As long as it's a free-for-all on the US's southern border, it's somewhere between difficult and impossible for a legitimate US citizen here in America to take the current regime's concerns about other countries' borders halfway around the world seriously, regardless of the nuanced geopolitical mental gymnastics anyone wants to throw at it.
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Oh? With 3,000 troops you're going to deter a force that's already more than 30x larger and that's orders of magnitude more lethal?
The Cold War deterrent was tactical nukes (plus the French force de frappe). McNamara, Kissinger, Brzezinski all made clear we'd use them if the Soviets invaded W. Germany. THAT was a credible deterrent.
Now we're threatening to unleash ... blankets? Helmets?
And more bullshit about big bad sanctions sanctions sanctions. Right: that foolish and useless policy that has never deterred anyone and that invariably succeeds only in punishing ordinary people and rallying their support for the regime.
And which Russia has already insulated itself against by
1) piling up the world's 4th-largest hard currency reserves --$630 BILLION, and
2) driving deals prices not in dollars but in euros with China: $117 BILLION in Russian oil and gas purchases.
Brilliant.
Aside from a brief moment of realist lucidity thanks to the previous administration, the last 29 years of globalist liberal interventionism is the most incompetent foreign policy we've ever seen.
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You've already succeeded in pushing Russia and China together. Now you're about to crush any hope of avoiding stagflation in the next several years. For what?
What, realistically, do you expect to achieve? There is ZERO chance of succeeding in pushing Russia out of Sevastopol. (THAT'S a true vital interest btw -- one which that nation will do anything, pay any price, bear any burden, to secure).
You won't bring this conflict of "two weasels fighting in a hole" to any kind of conclusion through military intervention. In fact, you're ensuring it will drag on for another decade at least.
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"This is my last territorial demand in Europe" (Hitler, September 26, 1938 at Berlin, referring to his demands for the Sudeten territories of Czechoslovakia)
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I personally believe this is a media driven event to make Biden look strong.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised. But for all that, the Biden administration is not sending over enough troops and matériel to accomplish anything. Nor is all the tough talk helping his poll numbers, given all the other things they’re getting wrong.
Hupavish Speaking for Boskone8393, there is a huge gap between wanting Russia to take over the Ukraine and being willing to go to war for to protect the Biden family’s dirty money flow. Ukraine has been royally screwed by Russia since the Communist Revolution a century ago, but they misunderstood the payoff for playing Joe Biden’s game, and how unwilling that would make us to support them, even if they did impressively confound all the stereotypes by electing a Jewish comedian as their chief executive instead of any of the usual corrupt crowd.
So please stop being unpleasantly simplistic and up your game to useful analysis.
#24
I have no more "interest in seeing Ukraine taken over by Russia" than Eisenhower had in seeing Hungary crushed by the USSR. Or Johnson had in seeing the Lrague Spring extinguished twelve years later.
We did nothing in both cases because we had NO VITAL INTEREST in either Hungary or Czechoslovakia. We have no interest now in intervening in a filthy and brutal quarrel that is even closer to Russia -- that is clearly viewed by their leaders and their people as existential for Russia -- than those distant west European nations' rebellions were in 1956 and 1968.
And we are far weaker today, socially and politically, than we we were at the height of the Cold War.
Our democratic republic's institutions are collapsing. Over half the public now thinks our government is borderline illegitimate.
And we now face a truly menacing global rival, China, which our corrupt and incompetent leaders have made us dependent on and vulnerable to, in ways and to a degree unimaginable during the rivalry with the USSR.
And your panties are in a bunch about... fvcking Ukraine. Are you mad?
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Oh look, Commies and Fascists in bed together. That has never happened before. Must be America's fault. Will be interesting when China comes for their lost (real and imagined) territories.
Stagflation? Blame that on the Obama-Biden regimes. Russia has nothing to do with it except be a beneficiary of US Marxist economic practice of scarcity.
We're not talking about Sevastopol? I think even most Ukrainians have written it off. We are talking about Russia trying to absorb Ukraine proper.
You won't bring this conflict of "two weasels fighting in a hole" to any kind of conclusion through military intervention. In fact, you're ensuring it will drag on for another decade at least.
The only party that can bring "any kind of conclusion" is Russia. The 135,000 troop buildup also drains Russian coffers. Too bad we don't have Trump oil at 30-40/bbl to drain Russian coffers faster.
Better to fight a cold war for 10 or 45 years than surrender to the loving arms of Mother Russia. Very bad things happened the last time Ukraine lost their independence.
"Hupavish Speaking for Boskone8393, there is a huge gap between wanting Russia to take over the Ukraine and being willing to go to war for to protect the Biden family’s dirty money flow."
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I have no more "interest in seeing Ukraine taken over by Russia" than Eisenhower had in seeing Hungary crushed by the USSR. Or Johnson had in seeing the Lrague Spring extinguished twelve years later.
Then say what Russia is doing is evil. Your defense of their actions makes one believe you are on their side.
#30
The Biden family’s dirty money flow came from the Russian puppet Yanukovitch faction. The principles are either hiding in Russia (Yanukovitch and underlings) or Europe (Zlochevsky).
#31
EC, I don't believe the US should go to war over Ukraine. I do believe in arming the Ukrainians to bleed the invaders white, whether the Russian try to take over all or part of Ukraine. The Russians don't have the manpower to pacify a nation of 40 million if there is outside support. But I believe it is better to deter an invasion in the first place.
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Hupavish
I think a full blown invasion is unlikely. Certainly not with 130.000 troops.
And occupying Ukraine is extremely risky for Putin.
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I don't believe a full invasion will succeed at current troop levels. But it is more than enough the take away the Donbas and probably Kharkov and Mariupol (land bridge to Crimea). Keeping it is another matter.
Whether they're from Scranton or St Petersburg, Pyongyang or Punxsutawney, ambitious men who seek enormous power and wealth are no better than they ought to be.
The only thing that should matter here is our national interest, defined in terms of power. Ukraine's fate has next to no bearing on American freedom or prosperity -- no more so than Mali's or Myanmar's fate affects us.
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EC, I'm a little confused about the position you are taking. Are you for US intervention in Ukraine with Russia? NATO intervention? The west supplying Ukraine to defend itself? Or this is much ado about nothing?
Not critical, just wondering.
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Hupavish Speaking for Boskone8393, there is a huge gap between wanting Russia to take over the Ukraine and being willing to go to war for to protect the Biden family’s dirty money flow.
And as I keep trying to point out, that dirty money flow actually came via intermediaties from Vladimir Putin. The only people who think that Biden isn't compromised by Putin are the pretend-paleoconservatives here and Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro Vt.
And the Shanghai Pact is about 21 years old already, with de facto cooperation that's older than that.
I'm tired of all this Brand New Day noise where history keeps rebooting and all of y'all don't remember the last twenty five years.
#38
All this stuff is just controlled opposition bullshit where the ignorant or lying pretend to be fighting Brandon by advocating giving his foreign sponsors what they want.
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Whether they're from Scranton or St Petersburg, Pyongyang or Punxsutawney, ambitious men who seek enormous power and wealth are no better than they ought to be.
The only thing that should matter here is our national interest, defined in terms of power. Ukraine's fate has next to no bearing on American freedom or prosperity -- no more so than Mali's or Myanmar's fate affects us.
Wow, you just argued to invalidate nearly 80 years of US foreign policy. Genius! Why rehabilitate and make friends of Germany and Japan when we had the power to turn them into subsistence agriculture territories (as advocated by Treasury Sec Morganthau). After all, it's about power and one can't have more power than over poor farmers. Ask the NKVD how. Or saving that shitty little country of South Korea when we could have had on unified, starving and weak Korea. No economic competition there.
Or those shitty little, ungrateful NATO nations where America spend so much wealth and some blood. Yes, the new members are grateful now, but that will change one day. Too risky to take a chance.
Or why isn't Mexico the 51-55th states? The US had the power. Or Canada, the 56-65th states? And South America could be sending us all the bananas and maids we could stomach for free. What a wonderful world of ruthless men beaming with absolute power.
And alas, poor Russia. Would have gotten nuked to oblivion in 1946.
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[REGNUM] The issue of organizing an online broadcast of the meeting on the recognition of the genocide of the civilian population of the Rostov region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War is being resolved. This was reported to IA REGNUM in the Don government.
“The Don media have applied to the Rostov Regional Court to allow a live broadcast of the court session,” the report says.
If the application is granted, the broadcast will be available on the website of the government of the Rostov region, the local Don 24 TV channel, and the Youtube channel.
IA REGNUM recalls that the start of the trial is scheduled for 10:00 Moscow time on February 10.
[REGNUM] The State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy is ready to discuss the initiative of former juvenile prisoners of fascism to establish the Day of the Genocide of the Soviet People. This was stated to a REGNUM correspondent on January 27 by the head of the State Duma committee, Yaroslav Nilov (LDPR).
"I believe that any initiative that comes from them should be treated with respect. The initiative comes from the living witnesses of those terrible events, those who found themselves behind the walls of the concentration camps, and for them this is not just history, not just theory, it is personal hard participation. I believe that the initiative should be discussed, and the implementation format should be jointly searched for and analyzed the consequences so that the good idea is not discredited and does not turn out only worse. We in the committee are ready to discuss this initiative of theirs," Nilov said.
He also drew attention to the fact that the presence of such a date in the law "On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia" makes it possible to additionally discuss problems, hold events and meetings.
"We will discuss, I believe that we must remember all these sad pages of history, know and draw the attention of the younger generation to them," the parliamentarian noted.
The head of the committee said that the committee is actively working with public organizations of former juvenile prisoners of fascism.
"They are asking for amendments to the law on veterans, secondly, the housing issue, the problem with the provision of housing, they are equated with benefits to participants in the war, and when solving the housing issue, they are on a first-come-first-served basis that does not move. And there are amendments in the committee," Nilov added.
The Moscow regional public organization of former juvenile prisoners of fascism asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.
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[REGNUM] The leadership of the Russian Federation must make it clear that it will respond harshly to any pressure. This was announced on February 7 to a REGNUM correspondent by a leading expert of the MGIMO Center for Military-Political Research, Doctor of Political Sciences Mikhail Alexandrov .
"Macron's visit to Russia takes place in the context of the general line of the West to put pressure on the Russian leadership in connection with the situation around Ukraine," the expert said.
Similar goals will be pursued by the visit of the German Chancellor and the British Foreign Secretary. At the same time, Macron will try, through empty promises on the Ukrainian issue, to obtain specific obligations from Russia to curtail the activity of Russian PMCs in the former French colonies in Africa, the expert is sure.
The line of Russia in negotiations with Macron should consist in the well-known formula: "Money in the morning, chairs in the evening," the political scientist believes. Moscow should not assume any obligations towards France until the latter takes real steps to force Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreements.
"Macron’s threats to impose some kind of additional sanctions against Russia should be defiantly ignored. He needs to be made clear that Moscow’s response actions will be much more painful for France (or the EU as a whole), since they will not be limited to the economic sphere and will move into the political and military-political area,” concluded Aleksandrov.
Recall that French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Russia on a visit .
One of the 'Stories of Us' from Prager U: Watch it all - she has a lot to say about her experience and what she see us doing here in America. Inspiring and Scary as hell.
Born in North Korea, Yeonmi Park shares her harrowing journey to escape the hunger, thought control, and violence she experienced living under authoritarian regimes. Grateful to have found acceptance and justice in the United States, she cautions Americans to see the early warning signs—here in America—of the communist nightmares she fled in North Korea and China.
[JPost] Also among the tests was the first firing since 2017 of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile, capable of striking US territories in the Pacific Ocean.
North Korea boasted on Tuesday that it is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and the only one standing up to the United States by "shaking the world" with missile tests.
International tension has been rising over a recent series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, actions long banned by the UN Security Council. January was a record month of such tests, with at least seven launches, including a new type of "hypersonic missile" able to maneuver at high speed.
Also among the tests was the first firing since 2017 of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile, capable of striking US territories in the Pacific Ocean.
A statement from North Korea's Foreign Ministry said a series of tests since New Year represented "remarkable achievements" that strengthened North Korea's "war deterrence."
It also cited the Hwasong-15, the longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ever launched by North Korea, which hasn't been fired since its first test in 2017, and is believed to have the range to deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere in the United States.
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Startin to sound like it's time to make south Korea an island.
#2
....All we need to do is shoot one of the damned things down with no warning, explanation, or apology, and I suspect this might stop right quickly.
On the other hand, Kim Il Round Boy would simply claim the missile had been carrying a hundred nuns and orphans on a sightseeing tour, and the rest of the world would believe him.
Mike
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Just give the SKoreans and Japanese nukes with delivery systems that can reach, say, Hong Kong. Draw that circle.
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So NK is bragging it only took them 50+ years to do something that any country willing to strave its people, instead using the $$$$ to feed them could do?
If they would just fully staff their fighting battalion, they’d be ahead for whatever comes down the pike. If they also invested in replacement F-16s so their air force could meet its commitments, that would be even better. Last I heard, they promised to increase military spending from 1.17% of GDP to 1.3% by next year, but absolutely not to the 2.0% required by the treaty they originally signed and never felt the need to meet.
[AlAhram] Denmark said Tuesday it was boosting its military preparedness in response to Russia's "unacceptable military pressure" on Ukraine, putting a mobile NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -operational battalion on alert.
The Danish military "will boost the readiness of the combat battalion at NATO's disposal so that it will be available within one to five days", compared to the usual 30 days, the defence ministry said.
The battalion of 700-800 troops will be located in Slagelse, around 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of Copenhagen, it added.
"The security situation in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... has intensified as a result of unacceptable Russian military pressure on Ukraine", Denmark's defence ministry said.
Amid Western nations' fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Denmark said it would also be ready to send two F-16 fighter jets to its Baltic island of Bornholm "if judged necessary".
Danish F-16s were already mobilised to the island last summer after Russia violated Danish airspace on several occasions.
"For the moment there is no increased threat to Denmark or Bornholm", Danish defence chief Flemming Lentfer told news agency Ritzau.
"We are strengthening our military capabilities in order to be able to respond more quickly if the situation requires it," he said.
In order to bolster NATO's presence in eastern Europe, Denmark in January sent a frigate to the Baltic Sea and four F-16 jets to Lithuania.
Last week, the Scandinavian country, which is also a member of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , said it was ready to send military equipment to Ukraine and committed to granting Kyiv around 80 million euros in annual aid.
The money is in addition to a support programme worth 22 million euros announced in mid-January by Denmark's foreign minister.
[Toronto Star] EDMONTON—Alberta’s vaccine passport program ends at midnight on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney has announced.
The passport system — formally the Restrictions Exemption Program, requiring people prove they’ve been vaccinated before they can go to restaurants or attend events — is the first of the province’s current public health restrictions to go, in a phased approach Kenney laid out in a news conference on Tuesday.
"Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID," said Kenney. "These restrictions have led to terrible division.
"We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal."
Kenney announced a three-stage approach for further loosening of public health restrictions.
First, the province will remove nearly all restrictions for children, including the mask mandate in schools (kindergarten to Grade 12) over the coming weekend. Kids aged 12 and under also won’t have to abide by the general mask mandate in Alberta, though the general mandate will still apply for everyone else.
NOT JUST CANADA
It seems the Leftists Control Freaks have figured out they'll need back off due to a growing citizenry increasingly fed up with overreaching dictatorial efforts.
However, while Premier Kenny said the vaccine passports called ‘Restriction Exemption Program’ (REP) would be eliminated at midnight tonight, the QR codes check-in gates would continue; vaccine requirements will remain; vaccine discrimination can continue by private businesses with government support; govt healthcare workers must still be vaccinated or get fired; entertainment venues would be allowed to sell food & drinks again (but customers must be seated); and rules on closing times, alcohol service times, table capacity in restaurants, and social distancing would remain in place.
Most importantly, the trucker vaccine mandate is a federal mandate, and that will still apply to cross-border truckers. Put simply, a majority of the mandates would still continue through to March 1st, then even after March 1st, a lot of the mandates will remain.
After quietly and patiently listening to the entire statement from Jason Kenney until he was finished, the Alberta truck drivers responded immediately:
The Alberta farmers moved their tractors back into front line status to position against any effort by RCMP to engage. The truckers moved the convoy back into full blockade position, and the Coutts border crossing was completely shut down.
The blockade will continue until the mandates are removed.
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When truckers everywhere stand down, how will the COVIDian fascists receive their shipments of food fuel and bottled H2O -- via gummint drones?
The Berlinrandon Airlift?
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Reports from Ottawa are that city-contracted towing companies are refusing to tow any of the protestors’ rigs. City not sure what to do next.
Q:will the military get called, despite pledges not to, to use the armed forces’ tow rigs?
#9
...probably not enough of them. IIRC they have three active ready brigades and the rest is composed of reserves (you know, composed of every day people).
Iranian man beheaded his 17-year-old wife Mona Heydari in the city of Ahvaz ...that’s the Sunni Arab corner of Iran, which has its own terrorist group whose members are forever being arrested in Europe: Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) ...
He carried her severed head around streets on Saturday, local media reported
Young wife was understood to have fled to Turkey before being brought back
Gruesome video footage showed the husband holding her head and a knife
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
DoD WOKE headline grabber gone terribly bad.
[JPost] Also among the tests was the first firing since 2017 of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile, capable of striking US territories in the Pacific Ocean.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Toronto Star] EDMONTON—Alberta’s vaccine passport program ends at midnight on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney has announced.
