Comments by "M Shepard" (@mshepard2264) on "Combat Veteran Reacts" channel.

  1. The abandonment of the Kurds was unforgivable.
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  2. I would bet the UK is correct and it is politically inconvenient for the US to have the chinese called out about it at this moment.
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  3.  @5tre55full  parroting Russian propaganda doesn’t make it more true. Russian soldiers were shooting selfies in front of the Russian missile launcher. Also like it or not we have these reconnaissance satellites and radars and such.
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  4. ⁠​⁠ @mando102 So are the Russians about to take Kiev ? A billion in missiles wont get it done just like carpet bombing Cambodia didn’t cause the USA to suddenly win in the 70s. keep in mind 7 million tons of bombs were dropped during the Vietnam war. Also the USA had air superiority and still lost. a couple hundred cruise missile is roundoff error compared to that.
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  5. I think Paul is right. There needs to be a real security check. Like Ukraine becomes full nato member.
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  6.  @mando102  Right now Russia is just insuring that no one wins. The stupid thing about that is Russia still looses even if Ukraine is destroyed.
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  7. Its hard enough to make the Euro work a Bricks currency would just reduce the versatility of the individual countries central banks.
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  8. When trump was president it was always a race to see if his experienced cabinet members could save the country from some giant international blunder before trump fired them for “disloyalty”. No one anywhere can afford to go back to that precarious situation.
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  9.  @aSpaghettiMan Ok you mean a career politician that has been a senator of a massive state and vice president VS a game show host that has gone bankrupt multiple times and obviously is senile that somehow became president.
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  10. i really hope they don’t spend a dollar trying to get him back. They should just put out a warrant for his arrest then see if he turns up ever. Ideally they keep him.
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  11. Also that guy is never going to make his tiktok videos anywhere near the front line.
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  12. So I was thinking lets say a guy owned a bunch of failing casinos and golf courses. Maybe he needs a loan to get back to profitability. I mean he has expenses to cover like orange spray tan for example. He might take some loans from some eastern europeans that don’t care about his credit score.
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  13. The stuff that people actually need , the stuff that is too expensive isn’t really the stuff that comes from china. The stuff that break peoples budget is: Rent , education, Healthcare , food. none of that comes from china. The food problem is mostly a price-fixing by US companies problem. Real-estate prices are being driven up by wall-street investors. Health care is expensive because of a bunch of reasons. We can address these problems right here. We should keep trading with china but there needs to be some rules and some reasonable tariffs. If we stop trading we will have no leverage. Also dishwashers and tvs will be super expensive if we stop.
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  14. yea after trump undermines the Ukrainians he will have to do a podcast about little green men in Poland or some other former soviet border countries.
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  15. because ukraine is defending against attack. Not dropping 1000lb jdams on civilians
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  16.  @ВалентинПузыня its not that hard to stop a navy from landing troops across a sea. Taking a beach and landing troops and equipment is much harder then defending a beach. Especially if the sea is fill of attack subs.
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  17. That aid would count for a-lot more if it was on time. The house of representatives probably wasted many Ukrainian soldiers lives waiting for anti missile systems and ammunition.
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  18. The US still benefits from international trade especially since most of those transactions are in dollars and we print dollars. Its why we can run deficits without economic disaster. The taxes in the US are lower than they would otherwise be because of this situation.
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  19. Did you actually watch the debate or is it that you just cant vote for a woman. It was pretty clear who was the better choice.
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  20. Id like to see russia try to take back Manchuria. After a short bit of unpleasantness They would find that their new national language in Moscow is actually mandarin.
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  21. When we accept federal contracts we pretty much have to prepare for an audit right off the bat. why don’t congress members get audited more often?
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  22. i would say just dont buy one in iran or lebanon and you will probably be fine.
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  23. Its like buying a one way ticket you can do it but it invites extra scrutiny.
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  24. well yea china needs raw materials but not as much as russia needs to sell so good luck with that.
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  25. I think it depends on which syrian government you ask.
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  26. Watching republican politicians repeat Russian propaganda just drives me nuts. Acting like traitors just to “Own the libs” and win a primary.
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  27. They are usually housed in super rugged containers probably could survive re-entry
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  28. I think one problem with the culture in the Chinese government and military is the penalty for failure is so high it encourages asscovering at all cost. Its hard to fix problems when officers are terrified of finding problems.
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  29. it does seem like the pagers are for giving Iranian orders
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  30. Harris won that debate easily. She baited him into spouting nonsense then let him dig himself into a hole. I cant think of anyone who has done better against him in a debate.
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  31. how is that? corruption is pretty bipartisan and court cases take forever.
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  32. The dude that took his work laptop to russia to see his fiancé! What the heck. I remember friends of mine not getting clearance for some pot smoking in college. People even loose their CDL for failing a pee test for pot. Kinda looks like a giant double standard. Sure go visit your shady russian ‘fiancée’ with classified documentation but oh man don’t fail that stupid pee test!
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  33.  @robbiekop7 India doesn’t want rubles either
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  34. how will trump end it by going to suck up to putin?
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  35. How what did she say that was crazy?
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  36. Would be better if trump hadnt killed that border bill.
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  37. He pulled apart trumps statements because they were garbage. Harris kept it together trump just blew it.
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  38. What because they said the Haitians are not eating cats? give me a break.
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  39. How is the weather in russia?
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  40.  @icarussisyphus  Really what country is doing better? The US prints the world reserve currency. China has its own financial problems. Russia is cut off financially. Inflation is higher everywhere outside of the US. You are either a depressed old man or a foreign propagandist.
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  41. What are you even talking about. Do you just spend all day on 4chan and pop in to Youtube occasionally?
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  42. trump just makes up numbers the are different from one speech to the next.
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  43. How is that? It has been the Biden administration that has transferred the most wepons to Taiwan. It has also been the biden administration that basically ended that ambiguity and Stated that we would intervene on Taiwans behalf. Do some research.
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  44. Was it the democrats blocking those aid bills?
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  45. I think he freely mixes fact and fiction in his mind a vomits out whatever he thinks will benefit him the most in that moment.
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  46. Dmitry Medvedev did
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  47. Trump just yells random numbers
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  48. Yea she did It was all over the news. Even on fox. There were pictures of her there.
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  49. Like any reasonably centrist republican would be winning right now because of inflation. Not trump though I takes talent to blow something like this just like it take special talent to bankrupt a casino.
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  50. Ukraine requested assistance from an Alliance While it was being invaded.
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  51. You think putin doesn’t hear Trump constantly praising him a and calling him smart. Yea im sure trump has putin shaking in his boots!
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  52. Tucker is a Putin sympathizer. So i was surprised he asked any adversarial questions at all. If he asks truly hostile question he would end up with poison underpants.
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  53. yea your not a trump fan just spouting his garbage talking points…
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  54. I think you have been in a bubble. No one cares about VPs until they are needed thats the job. Most of the country wasn’t thinking about her being a “bad vp” because why would they bother. Now though she is kicking trumps ass in debates and you are sore about it.
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  55.  @alfalayer76 only trolls and 13 year olds say “cope”
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  56. Why?
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  57. no you were not voting for harris
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  58. Go talk to the republican controlled house about it
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  59. She kicked his ass in the debate . Trump almost did as bad as Biden in the last one.
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  60. Do you remember how crazy he was and bad at most things?
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  61. Trump DID try to stop aid to Ukraine and got impeached over it.
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  62. He only stopped trying to undermine Ukraine because it was too much political effort and he lost the election.
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  63. sounds like you are trying to make yourself feel better. Trump lost that debate because he is old and did a bad job and didn’t prepare. Biden lost the last one because he was just too old.
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  64. yea maybe russia shouldnt have invaded twice
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  65. No one is saying anything remotely communist. None of this is about communism. Its about honoring international treatys.
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  66. The initial invasion of Crimea did happened under Obama not biden. Also he was talking about the debates and Trump was the only one making huge mistakes. Also trump was the one blocking wepons shipments to the ukraine. Harris wasn’t going on about Haitians eating pets.
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  67. Putin wants to re- build the soviet empire of his youth. From his point of view morality, borders and lives don’t matter.
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  68. I don’t he will Invade Poland directly But he might run a lot of deniable little green men shenanigans and assassinations. Also other russian leaders have said they might attack Poland.
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  69. Why which policy of harris is bad ?
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  70. I agree It was completely chaotic. There has to have been a better way to do that. Trump probably shouldn’t have had the Taliban at camp dvid. Also biden seemed out of touch with the details.
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  71. Trump has NO idea how tariffs work. China does not pay the tariffs on Chinese goods imported to united states. The importer like some times me pays that. The importer then passes the increased cost on to the consumer. If it is a low profit product no US company is going to bother making it. Only if it is highly profitable would a US industry start up around that product.
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  72. how
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  73. All one sentence nice!
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  74. she did fine. Trump needs to retire.
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  75. No Its actually not. When we spend money on buying new military equipment for the US to replace older stuff we have given to the Ukraine it gives skilled workers in the US good jobs. If you upset about the deficit maybe raise takes to the level Regan had them and there wouldn’t be a deficit. Also WE print the world reserve currency its not like home economics.
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  76. yea by not being old and senile. also i distinctly remember trump selling out the Kurds.
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  77. Ok dont then seeya!
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  78. Trump did an awful job and sounded senile. Even fox thinks he did a bad job.
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  79. Yeaaaa but if its hard enough then business just goes the easier route.
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  80. Im not sure about rickshaws but it would be terrible for their economy. It would also crash the US economy inflation would be bananas and there would be a supply chain crisis.
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  81. How would Trump Magically end the war in a day?
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  82. what system Swift is blocked. Also Biden doesn’t have his own special financial system.
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  83. been on 4chan much?
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  84. I guess every one should just bow to your superior experience and world view
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  85. Now Uranium from Niger. Imagine if you were in Niger and now your Paid in rubles. That isnt going to go well.
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  86. how long before someone in russia decides he is too clever and maybe he is a spy.
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  87. whoever is protecting Zelensky is doing an awesome job. I cant believe he is still alive being only a couple hundred miles from russia.
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  88. Russian assassination plots are always so convoluted.
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  89. so i wonder what percentage of smart phones in russia are running android hmmm…..
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  90. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both sort of nightmare allies. Unfortunately its hard to get out of it because they have massive strategic value.
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  91.  @edwardfletcher7790 not anymore they have got alot better lately.
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  92. im sure his bunker has a bunker no one will capture that guy. but they don’t need to.
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  93. members of the US government was too busy covering their own butts to do anything about it. I mean its hard to get fired from government if you never do anything that you are not told to do. Procuring and distributing microwave detectors could show initiative which might get some one in trouble.
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  94. Major news agencies have run this story also it probably not a coincidence that this started happening after the Obama crashed the value of the ruble after Crimea.
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  95. I dont know why the CIA is trying to say its not happening. A weapon like this is completely believable.
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  96. well i mean i can guess they will not admit that anything is happening because if they did admit it they would then be pressure to do something about it. And its just so much easier for politicians to do nothing about it as its lower risk to their careers.
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  97. why are people treating this microwave thing as outlandish. it is not a difficult machine to make. and the effects would be similar to standing in-front of a high power radar.
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  98. Like he said brain scans don’t show many kinds of brain damage or cognitive decline. all they really show is tumers and aneurysms ect.
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  99. Paul is right. This is a distraction. For one thing the US regularly powers deep space mission with a plutonium powered RTG. So Russia has not necessarily violated the outer space treaty. Also the US India and China have anti-satellite weapons. So on the same exact topic does anyone remember the launch of the classified X37. That thing is not just up there studying the effect of zero gravity on ant farms…….so…. this is a bunch of nothing.
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  100. Also let’s just say that russia did violate the outer space treaty and parked nukes in space hypothetically. This is actually less effective then their MRV ballistic missile. For one thing the US is tracking stuff already in space. for another eliminating the boost phase of the ICBM only shaves minutes off the delivery time. A submarine launched ICBM is a better first strike weapon and the Russians, French, British, Americans and Chinese all-ready have those.
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  101. I think there is a software update that can make it not suck off-road. however if he lets it update tesla can turn the car off.
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  102. no the democrats did not support the USSR watch charlie wilson’s war or read about Kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. read about all the cold war politics history.
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  103. Hey is only pandering to russia because he went nuts during covid. He has so many star-link satellites he has nothing to worry about. Additionally the star link satellites have ion engines and can change their orbits allot. Honestly the starlink network is the safest.
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  104.  @ponetastic yea but the ICBMs are sub orbital. That said I’m sure that the the Soyuz could put some kind of big nuke in space. Its just that its kinda dumb.
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  105.  @yellowtunes2756 yea ok somehow russian industry will outproduce the rest of the world. Also you may have noticed even the Chinese dont want russian money anymore.
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  106. I think the US govt hiring process handicaps its ability to hire the types of people that are good at human intelligence. Also part of what make the US govt less corrupt and more transparent than others makes it terrible at this kind of intelligence. I mean Im not complaining I would prefer the the US govt over the russian govt one million percent of the time.
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  107. they take a-lot of vacation.
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  108.  @Patriotswelcome  So you want across the board 20% tariff. Even my company that makes everything in america buy foreign parts. everything will just be more expensive.
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  109. ⁠ @GM-cq6ez yea probably just Deutsche bank but nothing would surprise me and its a bank that has done some pretty shady stuff in the past.
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  110. he does mention that he was coo in there
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  111.  @johnmahutga4478  The US has lower inflation than any other major economy right now. Also the VP is not the president. Did anyone ever ask trumps vp what his fiscal policy was? Also trumps plan is an absolute disaster that will make inflation much worse.
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  112. also you basically cant rent a car without a credit card unless you deal with the extra shady rental places which looks weir when you are supposed to be a business professional
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  113.  @ladyalexandra2980  ok so last time you took a flight you had a giant fist full of euros and took that to the ticket counter? Half the time i fly there isn’t even a real person at the ticket counter.
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  114. He is supposedly hiding in Russia so its not very likely any European security is likely to get their hands on him.
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  115. definitely but the Biden family already got a ton of attention and they didn’t find that joe was involved in his adult sons business dealings or profits. This guy is screwed because he and his wife were receiving the actual money. they also have emails were he details doing favors for foreign nations. I think menedez had actual gold bars in his house!!
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  116. more likely Russia gets so weak by fighting a war they didn’t need that China starts taking parts of eastern Russia.
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  117. any one would be better than tulsi
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  118. they wont
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  119. There are plenty of board houses in the US Rockwell could have used. The chinese board houses are super cheap but I mean come on!
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  120. honestly though the electricity part is not necessarily bad. There would be almost no heat signature to mask and you don’t have to charge it that often. The problem is every thing else its not a Bradley its not armored.
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  121. So the reason that the Bradley is useful and the Abrams is not is the battle taxi role?
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  122. he isnt half as skilled as Pelosi he can’t seem to count votes so he keeps loosing
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  123. yea but 70 - 80 come on. That said Biden is doing really much better than I expected. The problem is they are all really really old. Trump is almost just as old too! McCarthy Pelosi they are all ancient. A 60 year old has plenty of experience most people don’t even live to 80.
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  124. maybe the house should have voted on that border bill they themselves negotiated then ran away from as soon as trump told them too.
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  125. if it was about the border the republicans wouldn’t abandon their own border deal so easily. They are tryin NOT to fix it so it can be a campaign issue.
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  126. Trump is going Sh!t bricks if the price of gas goes down.
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  127. i don’t think he is a soldier anymore. Also he never said anything bad about china. all he really said was that urban combat in the russian army is terrible.
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  128. i think it makes it more authentic
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  129. um the Ukraine is a much smaller country and also took heavy losses also. Every one knows that. Its not some coverup.
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  130. he is not saying anything bad about china so i bet he will be fine
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  131. a lot of that money is spent in the US paying for Americans to make the weapons and ammunition. It funds manufacturing in the US.
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  132. If I was to make a super secret new sub. I would first build a covered dock so no one could get sat photos.
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  133. I wish Elon hadn’t gone nuts during the pandemic.
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  134. We need to make sure our courts dont become like russia’s courts
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  135. first of all most of that money gets spent in the US which is the main supplier of most of the weapons which sustains jobs all over the US. Also the house republicans are trying really hard to NOT solve the border issue so trump can campaign on it. Think hard about why you want to leave a US ally high and dry when they need it the most. Maybe it’s just because trump hates the Ukraine and zelensky for purely personal political reasons.
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  136. The other thing they could have wanted was the signals intelligence that would be gleaned from the targeting radar of a F22. We should have shot it down with a museum piece like a f104. I would have done nothing then floated a balloon over China.
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  137. Thats why trump shot the previous ones down right. Oh wait he didnt…
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  138. Its easy to detect and a terrible platform for a weapon.
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  139. I think they were trying to see what we would move. They already have a bunch of spy satellites they can use to read the reaction to the balloon.
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  140. You know China has a modern airforce. Also they could have just used on of their airbus or a 737 or something. Also they had almost half of the orbital rocket launches last year. So i think they have planes that can get anywhere.
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  141. Its a psychological op by some country. they are giving the US govt the finger. I would bet its being done by Americans that are being paid.
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  142. I bet someone is paying people in the US to screw with us. I bet people are flying their stupid quad copters near bases and airports. Also plenty of people were flying quad copters around before even restate agents such.
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  143. yea but at the moment it would break the whole supply chain. The US cant afford to stop trading with china at the moment. Maybe in the future but not yet.
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  144. we probably dont want all those jobs here. for example there isnt much money in plastic forks. But maybe move to factories in central and south america. If there were better jobs there there would be less problems at our borders.
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  145. People seem to forget how trump tried to cripple Ukraine’s defense before russia invaded. Every one should remember trump was getting those briefs about the buildup for the war.
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  146. The thing about military procurement is its hard to be flexible and innovative while fighting waste and fraud. Also its really hard to sell the military something that isn’t all ready on a procurement spreadsheet like bullets and helmets. Like just try to sell some innovative remote sensor if you don’t have lobbyists like Lockheed.
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  147. If he is we are screwed he controls one of the largest defense contractors to the US govt.
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  148. Putin has Tools and enemies. I wonder which one Elon is?
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  149. Even if Elon was a perfect brilliant and morally virtuous person there is a problem with one person having this much power. It is easy for bad actors to threaten one man. It is easy to manipulate one guy. The reason a government has institutions and vice presidents is its harder to effectively coerce a large group of people with different lives and interests.
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  150. I went to school for aerospace engineering. SpaceX has done things that I was sure were impossible. That is why Elon going nuts has me terrified. He needs to pay grimes his child support or whatever make up and go smoke a joint or whatever he needs to do to get it together.
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  151. Its so much worse than just human space exploration. The starlink system is of MASSIVE strategic importance. Im not sure anyone except the Chinese govt realizes the potential. The Chinese govt is terrified.
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  152. Its so much worse than just human space exploration. The starlink system is of MASSIVE strategic importance. Im not sure anyone except the Chinese govt realizes the potential. The Chinese govt is terrified.
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  153. What would happen to that drone swarm once you aim a jammer at it. What would happen once the drone swarm gets hacked.
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  154. The f35 is reusable it might cost 50k an hour but it comes back. If you have to send 50 x 50k drones to do what two f35s can do it’s not necessarily cheaper. I do agree that the Swiss army knife aspect is a problem.
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  155. Elon is full of crap. How does a drone swarm have anything to do with a supersonic strike fighter. You cant use them for the similar things.
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  156. the F35 is really 3 planes.
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  157. How much would you trust fully autonomous AI powered supersonic stealth strike fighter. Are you 100 percent sure it doesn’t have any backdoors in the code. What if it hallucinates!
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  158. I think its brain drain. If you were an aerospace engineer capable of doing bleeding edge research. Would you stay in russia? It looks like no one wanted to admit it wasn’t ready and they flew it anyway.
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