Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "CBS Sunday Morning" channel.

  1. As a former US Army Artillery Forward Observer, 13F40, I can tell you we do NOT consider HIMARS or MLRS 'largely unnoticed' Getting priority to request fires from that asset is like asking to shoot Dad's .22 and being handed an elephant gun
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  2. You really have to admire the irony of the Russians getting wrecked by a converted cargo truck that lobs rockets with comparitive impunity. That was their hallmark on the Eastern Front. One might almost call it cultural appropriation.
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  3. I love how you think having an ordinary sense of Right and Wrong or deciding to go with the laws is a 'political opinion'
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  4. I mean, while I do love their hashbrowns, they need to keep their filthy potato grubbing hands off my home.
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  5.  @RManFlint  That's incredibly important. We see-saw back and forth with Russia over who exports more arms, with France in the #3 slot. But where Arms exports is like our 52nd largest industry, it's Russia's 3rd.
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  6. Waaaaaaaaaah.....does baby need a baba and a binky before taking a nap?
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  7. Well, the Russians also captured dozens of Javelins and MLAWs as trophies, and those are going straight to Russian defense labs for reverse engineering. That's not a good thing. Maybe if there is a successor already on the way from US and British defense developers, but that still means they will have their own versions in a few years. And that's mucho not good-o.
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  8.  @travel.guide_tobaoni  NATO doctrine has always been to hold the European line at the Rhine (Russian doctrine was built to reach it in 7 days behind the initial nuclear & chemical strikes, known as Iron Fist doctrine), and NATO have made quite a point about not having a doctrine for invading Russia (which is why we lack in the amphibious vehicles department). That sort of enabling/appeasement has led to the situation we have now, Russia feeling untouchable, a "you wouldn't dare, neiner-neiner" free-to-conquer attitude, coupled with their belief that russian winter would still protect them in the 21st century. They are very, very wrong, and have lost their advantage in winter warfare in the modern age. Nor would they try limited nuclear strikes, because that's automatic suicide. But if a reactor melts down in Ukraine and destroys the country from the Dniepr to the Black Sea....they see that as deniable/not suicide/still got away with destroying Ukraine. Those reactor captures aren't about cutting off power, they're hostages that don't come with the same consequences as a nuclear launch if they execute one.
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  9. When a sitting President speaks, he speaks for the United States Government and American People. I reject the argument that the Defendant had a right 'like every American' to speak publicly and claim falsely that there had been fraud. HE wasn't speaking for Donald Trump. HE was putting words in OUR Mouths.
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  10. The smell of a little spilled premix gas gets me misty eyed and makes me feel like a 12 year old all over again.
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  11. Amazing that people who weren't alive during Reaganomics believe he made the US great again. They didn't grow up going from stable middle class single income earner families that suddenly had to become struggling two-job, two income earner families as the early 80's hit, and watch all the GDP go from people who did actual work to marketing hacks and investment bankers. That was the rise of the modern Wall Street coke head.
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  12. Cool. So then I guess we get part of Idaho? Fair's fair. You can keep Boise, but the residents of Coeur d'Alene and everything north of Hwy 12 won't be too thrilled at the trade. At least it will put us in a good strategic position to surround & isolate Washington.
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  13. Elon has no foibles I can't forgive or tolerate, and no gifts to the human race I can't thank him for. Let me know when any of you are the next Bodhisattva who also is moving us forward at great personal expense.
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  14. Well, I didn't vote for him... Maybe when he can yoink this sword from that stone.
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  15. That they're old, pathetic, and didn't amount to much
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  16. Right now, there's an editor at the Onion wondering if they're being mocked.....by CBS
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