Article

2018-07-11 Home Front: Politix

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-11 09:03|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 They need us. We don't need them.

Our people are hurting. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-11 09:18|| 2018-07-11 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 G T F O

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-11 09:25|| 2018-07-11 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Make everything a contractor arrangement. Cash. Up. Front.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-11 09:28|| 2018-07-11 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Make everything a contractor arrangement. Cash. Up. Front.

Nothing personal, it's just business.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-11 09:30|| 2018-07-11 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Charge them protection money. Well NATO, it would be a shame if some of these nice shiny things got broken now wouldn't it?

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-07-11 10:02|| 2018-07-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 It's time for anachronistic institutions like NATO and the UN to be dissolved. Maybe Congress too.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-11 10:05|| 2018-07-11 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 When the wall came down, the purpose of NATO ended. They just can't kick the drug of military welfare and the pols in Washington signal their virtue with American taxpayers money and the 'deplorables' lives*.

* death through training and traffic accidents seem to get buried along with the service members over there.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-11 10:13|| 2018-07-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 By the way.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-11 10:14|| 2018-07-11 10:14|| Front Page Top

#9 But if Europe is to take its destiny into its own hands any time soon, Germany has a lot of work to do—the Bundeswehr, Germany's defense ministry, is suffering from multiple readiness crises in a culmination of years of cost-shaving and poor management decisions. And the latest symptom to emerge of that crisis is the dwindling number of actually functional fighter jets that the Luftwaffe, Germany's air force, can actually call combat ready. For the Eurofighter Typhoon, Germany's main fighter aircraft, that number is four—out of a total of 128.

Posted by Beavis 2018-07-11 10:23|| 2018-07-11 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 All those aircraft and U-boats are out of service due to lack of spare parts.

Spare parts which Germany could easily purchase, but declines to do so. Hell, why should they when they have an idiot to pay for their defense?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-11 10:37|| 2018-07-11 10:37|| Front Page Top

#11 A concept well past its shelf life.

The UN building would make a nice condo conversion and parking would improve. Might even be able to get a lunch reservation at some of the nicer places to eat with the UN gone.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-07-11 11:02|| 2018-07-11 11:02|| Front Page Top

#12 If the EU wants to be a Pan-European Nation State then why the pretense of asking the USA's opinion in this so-called alliance? Ah, Other People's Money? Ah, Fight To The Last Colonial? Where have we heard these before...?

Posted by magpie 2018-07-11 11:03|| 2018-07-11 11:03|| Front Page Top

#13 The UN is a place for third world dictators to send their most serious rivals to get them out of the country. It's a safety valve for people we should not care about the safety of...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-11 12:58|| 2018-07-11 12:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Well NATO, it would be a shame if some of these nice shiny things got broken now wouldn't it?

The problem is those nice shiny things are already broken.

Posted by Frozen Al 2018-07-11 15:43|| 2018-07-11 15:43|| Front Page Top

#15 The problem is those nice shiny things are already broken.

All that stuff is rusting when delivered and breaks almost immediately. A huge racket.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-11 15:59|| 2018-07-11 15:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Re #8's pic: Golly, those Norsemen sure got around!

Posted by Shinenter Splat1698 2018-07-11 16:33|| 2018-07-11 16:33|| Front Page Top

#17 The UN building would make a nice condo conversion

I was thinking a multi-storied pig farm... but the pigs would never put up with the stench.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-07-11 19:34|| 2018-07-11 19:34|| Front Page Top

21:43 Regular joe
21:40 magpie
21:30 Frank G
21:25 charger
21:20 Bugs Thud4877
21:06 gorb
20:15 Frank G
20:14 Frank G
20:09 Frank G
19:50 Anomalous Sources
19:45 Anomalous Sources
19:38 Anomalous Sources
19:34 Anomalous Sources
19:34 CrazyFool
19:21 USN, Ret.
18:40 JohnQC
18:30 Anguper Hupomosing9418
18:29 Rob Crawford
18:27 Anguper Hupomosing9418
17:30 jpal
17:21 Whiskey Mike
17:20 jpal
16:49 Tom
16:41 AlanC