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2022-03-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by 3dc 2022-03-10 06:14|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 Now tell me again the joke about Trump being the Russian asset. As they say - follow the money.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-10 08:05|| 2022-03-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Giving MIGS to Ukraine would have been foolish. I suspect politicians in the US couldn't make enough money off the transfer to make it worth their time. The $10-16 Billion McConnell wants to hand to them is is just as bad. A good sized chunk of it will end up in a democrat bank account.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-03-10 08:09|| 2022-03-10 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The tweet in the posting doesn't render. In case the link doesn't work for you it reads:

USA now says that donating Poland’s 27 MiG-29 to Ukraine wouldn’t strengthen the Ukrainian Air Force.

USA also says the transfer “may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction”. The plan is officially dead.

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 08:32|| 2022-03-10 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 A good sized chunk will end up in a democrat bank account.

Likely Nancy and Paul Pelosi's bank account. Nancy's channeling her inner Herve Villechaize now:

Pelosi Says Zelensky Wants ‘the Planes, the Planes, the Planes’

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 08:40|| 2022-03-10 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 there were a lot of problems with this idea

getting planes to places where UK pilots were trained, then training, then getting O&M in place

all this time the planes would be targets

in fact as soon as the transfer papers were complete, the planes sitting on the ground in Poland would be legitimate targets

the anti tank stuff we are (I hope) sending them is easier to use and, while only able to hit one vehicle at a time - still pretty effective

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-10 10:32|| 2022-03-10 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Do we have Kamela to thank for this policy fail...because that would be The Weird for the day.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 10:38|| 2022-03-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL I guess Sean Penn was part of the negotiating effort too.

The Serious People, y'all.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 10:44|| 2022-03-10 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 It is interesting, that this is now Poland's idea.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 11:10|| 2022-03-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Gotta wonder if Ukranians are beginning to understand that they've been played. Played and betrayed. I'd put this down as one of the most shameful chapters in US history.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-10 11:27|| 2022-03-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#10 They've been played since 2014

We told them they could join NATO. The whole point of NATO is to create a tripwire that brings the US into a war on behalf of its allies. No one is going to trust us again.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 11:30|| 2022-03-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I would think a handful of A-10s might be very useful in the short term. Paint them in the colors of the GI Joe action figure team so that even Putin doesn't believe reports of what happened to his columns.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-10 11:38|| 2022-03-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#12 A handful of A-10s painted in GI Joe colors? I'm in! Let's start a GoFundMe. Let's turn this war into a game of Calvinball where anyone can play. Precedent? The Flying Tigers in China in '42.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-10 11:45|| 2022-03-10 11:45|| Front Page Top

#13 The Tiger Rat

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 11:57|| 2022-03-10 11:57|| Front Page Top

#14 They way this war is going Poland may need them.

Posted by Airandee 2022-03-10 12:00|| 2022-03-10 12:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Gotta wonder if Ukranians are beginning to understand that they've been played. Played and betrayed.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-10 12:00|| 2022-03-10 12:00|| Front Page Top

#16 ^Double post. Sorry.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-10 12:02|| 2022-03-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Not sure we could embarrass the USA brand worse than the evacuation of Afghanistan.

-Team Brandon pours vodka shots-

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 12:05|| 2022-03-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Team Brandon pours vodka shots
Is that what they drink in China?
How much are they getting paid by the ChiComs? A gift like us ought to be worth many billions in baksheesh

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 14:33|| 2022-03-10 14:33|| Front Page Top

#19 "a gift like this"

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 14:34|| 2022-03-10 14:34|| Front Page Top

#20 Ah, the Chinese working with Russia to coordinate the offensive until after the Olympics while calling in a favor from Team Brandon to instigate a regional shooting war theory.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 14:54|| 2022-03-10 14:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Team Bi-Den

Hawks, Or Pigeons In A Bad Mood?
from The American Conservative | REALISM & RESTRAINT
March 10, 2022
American elites have squandered our technological and manufacturing advantage over both Russia and China.

Few dispute that the Ukraine crisis brings with it the risk of nuclear escalation. The reverse also might be true: The Ukraine crisis may be the result of a shift in the world’s nuclear balance...

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-10 15:04|| 2022-03-10 15:04|| Front Page Top

#22 ...FWIW, before America entered WWII, at one point Congress passed a law that forbade US-built aircraft from being flown to Canada for delivery to the UK.

The aircraft were then partially dismantled, driven to an isolated spot on the Canadian border, then pushed across.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-10 15:44|| 2022-03-10 15:44|| Front Page Top

#23 Something like that could have happened, and may have been in the works, except a couple days after kickoff it got talked about Flying Tiger Club.

It was about the same time The Ghost of Keev storied got circulated, which looking back is...odd.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 17:28|| 2022-03-10 17:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Nice try there, A. Blinken, but the Polish jokes you have (undoubtedly) heard and told do not reflect reality.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-03-10 19:01|| 2022-03-10 19:01|| Front Page Top

#25 Now the Rainbow Warrior DefSec is begging Lockheed et al. to help the US catch up with China and Russia in hypersonics.

How many Americans are aware that we're failing and have fallen behind in hypersonics?

Was it that shithead Obama who put us in this position?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 19:15|| 2022-03-10 19:15|| Front Page Top

#26 [Freedom Frogfeet in fresh Ruritanian paint roar past in "floppin' five" formation, shedding parts and laying down a smokescreen]

Posted by Squinty Snease2901 2022-03-10 20:31|| 2022-03-10 20:31|| Front Page Top

#27 Another Rainbow Warrior - Youth Grooming Division (PS: "Chasten"? Clearly not chaste, or chastened):

Video has emerged of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Buttigieg, speaking at a camp for kids while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned, “Not Your Typical Gay Camp,” as he led the children in a mock version of the Pledge of Allegiance in which they pledged their “heart to the rainbow.”

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 21:38|| 2022-03-10 21:38|| Front Page Top

#28 When do they go back to Police bad, to deflect attention from the war.

Posted by Slappy 2022-03-10 21:39|| 2022-03-10 21:39|| Front Page Top

#29 Leading From The Rear

Posted by 21st Century Person 2022-03-10 22:39|| 2022-03-10 22:39|| Front Page Top

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