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@EmperorLionflame The Ford class was designed with the F-35C in mind -- and rather obviously -- any carrier can operate the F-35B. The F-35 has already been tested on the Nimitz class CVNs. Sheesh.
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Actually, Moscow didn't really anticipate flying against its own SAM systems. If they did, it didn't translate into (electronic) hardware or training for SEAD. Further, SEAD demands the latest micro-chips. But Russia has to import ALL of the latest stuff. They are two-decades behind Taiwan's stuff !
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@HingerlAlois BTW, by charter, any nation with a border dispute CAN'T be a successful candidate. This provision makes Georgia a non-candidate, too. Putin triggered their exclusion by his invasions. He KNEW that NATO would never accept them -- all this time. Berlin and Paris have been puzzled: why is Vlad even pitching this beef ?
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@Handle0108 Sevastopol is TOO small, and has been for decades. It was perfect for wooden ships with white sails, though. The main Black Sea fleet moved over to Novorossiysk when the USSR collapsed. Now it's located just up the coast from Russia's Black Sea oil export terminals -- and Sochi -- Putin's paradise. Even so, Sevastopol was rented by Ukraine to Moscow for ONE Ruble per year. Ukraine never built up a navy, just a coast guard. (Anti-smuggling is its function.)
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@Handle0108 No way could Kiev pressure Moscow to leave. What leverage? None! The lease was long term, IIRC, 99-years -- same as the old Hong Kong lease with China by Britain. Since Kiev had no navy, still doesn't -- it's a coast guard to stop smugglers -- Kiev found Moscow's usage wholly compatible with its own goals. Sevastopol is a legacy. Russia really doesn't want to operate from it. It's too small. It's also in the wrong place for current requirements. Putin did like it as a pretext for snagging the Crimea, as a whole. FYI: Crimea was used as a horse farm by the Tsars. It's too dry for any crops. Its great utility has been for sunbathing -- in the right season. It can't support any major cities, so it has none and never did. Economically -- it's a money pit.
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@feliscorax In what world do you live? The Democrat Party is THE party of: Wall Street Big Banking Big Pharma Big Academe Big Tech -- Silicon Valley -- NSA contractors Bill Gates Warren Buffett Zuck Twitter The CIA -- Leftist from its origins The FBI -- it's all political, now Most recent arrivals// immigrants Blacks, Mexicans, Everyone southwards On and on it goes Washington, Oregon, California, New York, Hawaii, New England These are all one-party states... and that party is the Democrat Party The Federal bureaucracy -- all of them: EPA, DoS, Social Security, The Federal Reserve Bank, too The Quangos: US AID ( It's a CIA front ) AND Ford Foundation -- and every other foundation nationally active. The GOP solely draws from small businessmen. Since Evangelicals are rejected by the Democrat Party -- they swing to the GOP. The GOP also gets a plurality from Indians and Cubans. That's some under-dog you're posting about.
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@feliscorax You're close, but no cigar. The US dollar and British pound are ALREADY digital currencies. Bitcoin is actually totally retro. It's an attempt to bring back gold or silver specie as real money -- only now shifting everything into cyberspace. Bitcoin -- in intent -- is EXATLY like gold. The mounting electrical cost of its block-chain computations mates PERFECTLY with declining ore quality as ever more gold is extracted. In both cases, the tempo of production is hugely determined by the cost of energy. It's ironic. Bitcoin advocates don't comprehend that it is gold -- revisited. Its essence being that you can't just crank out Bitcoin. You just can't crank out gold. You can 'mint' digital pounds and dollars and yen and yuan to suit the powers that be. Bitcoin = tulips. It's an ultra-fad, but still a fad. Since it can NEVER attract sovereign support, it must rely upon fad and emotion. Check out the price action of Dutch tulips back in the day. No nation -- EVER -- rose to eminence on the gold standard. Every Empire ran on SILVER, which is why Argent is the name of money AND silver in so many languages and lands. London shifted to gold to wrong-foot Paris. That happened in the echo of Napoleon. Decades later, America adopted London's gold standard. Her gold strikes finally permitted her to join that club. { Until 1853 -- ANY specie was legal tender in America. This legislation occurred only four years after Polk announced "California gold." [ His last Big Speech. It traveled the nation by telegraph, a first.] } My final point: Reserve Currencies are established by NAVIES not Armies -- Because international trade is by ship -- the stuff you REALLY need is typically across the ocean -- not just across the border to the nation next-door. (Think major commodities -- not manufactures -- the latter are items that most mercantilists wish never entered their borders.)
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@feliscorax No problem. All my life I've had to extend help -- not receiving much.
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@feliscorax I distinguish between digital money and block-chain assets. In today's world virtually every nation is dominated by digital money - not specie/coin - not paper currency. It's all debit cards, credit cards and pre-paid asset cards. Block-chain = tulips. The problem with block-chain assets is that they have no floor when emotions head the other way -- and there is NO LIMIT to how many block-chain assets can be created. THAT'S the problem for holders of block-chain assets. Further, we've seen that hackers have been able to get away with stealing staggering sums of Bitcoin -- WITHOUT repercussion -- over and over again. So, expect further repeats. The very nature of block-chain assets makes it essentially impossible to prosecute such thefts. BTW, it's Red China that's driving Bitcoin demand. For the Chinese prisoners, Bitcoin is currently the most viable way of getting Big Money out of Red China. The CCP is now focused on trapping that wealth back in Red China.
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@ayymao1017 You live an alternate history. Gaddaffy threatened the solvency of London and Paris. THAT'S what triggered their war declarations. The USA was dragged in via its NATO obligations. Gaddaffy's crazed blabber about gold didn't raise an eyebrow. BTW, over the years most oil exporters have rambled on about getting paid in gold. The problem is that no counter-parties want the oil exporter to pay THEM in gold. It's a hassle. They want SWIFT payments -- every time. The Petro Dollar is a MYTH. What's keeping the US dollar as International Money is the DoD and especially its navy. This entire system was set up in 1944 at Bretton Woods. Boy, do you ever need to study up. We live in a time of fiat -- globally. There is no nation-state that issues a gold-backed currency. Indeed, no nation-state issues anything that backs their currency -- other than the US dollar. Yeah, that's the system. It's so extreme that Liberia and Panama don't even print their currencies. They just use the stuff printed by the USA. Consequently, those nations NEVER have a currency crisis. Other nations merely peg their currency to the US dollar. Hong Kong operated that way -- right up until the CCP crushed Hong Kong. Now, no-one knows what the Hong Kong currency even means. ALL currencies trade versus their US dollar price. They don't trade versus each other in a direct manner. When the market closes, traders don't want any non-hard currency assets in their accounts. Only US dollar, Euro, Yen and SDRs are to be held -- in size -- overnight. That's the system. You might note that the yuan is not in the list.
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@orlock20 Smart ATGMs have ruined WWII combat thinking. Infantry CAN'T protect tanks. The kill zone of the Javelin is > 2,000 meters. The Mark I human eyeball can't spot where the Javelin was even fired from. Tanks are big. So, the optics of the Javelin system can certainly see them -- even in poor light. The Russians are being tank-sniped to death.
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@Heroesflorian Kiev has been waiting for MUD. It has finally arrived -- in spots -- in a week, deep mud will be all over the place. Mud paralyzed Napoleon (canons) and Adolf. (trucks) Putin's war is lost. There are over 10,000 Anti-Tank Missiles in Ukraine -- and much more on the way. The only questions left: length and war fatalities.
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@alexdunphy3716 No, it was dumb. Putin was getting all of his desires via his diplomats. That's why even the Russian Army was (largely) caught off guard. They thought, like everyone else, that the romping around was a psychological operation during diplomacy. Oops.
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@andreksjour Nope. NATO can see a time when Minsk, Kiev and Moscow all join as members. Red China is the real threat to Russia.
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@Handle0108 Not quite. Ukraine leased the Sevastopol naval base to Moscow for one ruble per year. So, Russia didn't own their naval base -- but the Ukrainian government never funded a navy -- didn't need the base.
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@sys3248 ManPADs have been around for years. The gangster/ terrorist risk is with us even now. They have never proved prolific on the black market. But, for fiction writers, they are a great plot device. Stingers work fine for low and slow jets, too. The US has kept making them smarter all the time, too.
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@jonathanpfeffer3716 Actually, America was howling about German purchases of Russian gas -- right from the start, long before 2014.
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@-Ultranoobgaming- The missile deal was and remains between Moscow and Washington. Cuban 'rights' were not at issue. BTW, Nikita knew that Fidel was insane when the latter told the former, go ahead, start a global atomic war. Such talk reinforced Nikita's resolution to take the toys away.
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@-Ultranoobgaming- But, NATO has nothing in Ukraine... and never figured to. Ukraine can't become a NATO member. Putin knows this, has always known this. By charter, no NATO candidate nation can have any open border disputes -- of any kind. Yet, Putin, himself, created border disputes for both Ukraine and Georgia. The above provision is exactly WHY Putin created both border disputes. Both Berlin and Paris were against allowing Ukraine into NATO. They have veto power in this regard. Putin knew this too. Yes, he's a world scale liar -- but he's well informed, too... well, usually. NATO // USA was open to a START type treaty restricting deployment of missiles. Putin walked away from such diplomacy. He always wanted his war of conquest. He's put it out: he wants to bring back the USSR. That's what he told the world right before his troops opened fire. Didn't you read the Big Speech?
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@andypozuelos1204 FYI, one of the reasons US weapons programs are so expensive is that -- behind the scenes -- tooling is purchased and put in mothballs so that production can be wildly ramped up should things really go wrong. You might read up on "Rainbow 5." This was the most important document of its time. It consisted of an ultra-secret internal appraisal of how rapidly the War Department and Navy Department could ramp up production so as to respond to war needs. It was BLEAK, particularly WRT aircraft. The Luftwaffe was deemed to have a virtually insurmountable lead. So, FDR leaked it -- via Hap Arnold -- using his personal aide. Hoover was tasked with finding out how such a secret got out. It took him about two-months to finally trace it back to Hap Arnold's personal aide. Hoover then entirely wrapped up his investigation for he knew that the leaker was FDR, himself. FDR leaked Rainbow 5 precisely to induce Adolf to declare war on the US. Most modern readers STILL don't know why Hitler thought he could get away with declaring war -- the leak was why. FDR roped the dope. After Adolf declared war, 12-11-41, the American production miracle started. Items that were assumed to be 18-months out proved to be in hand in only four-months. The impossible stuff arrived 13-months out -- and so forth. When Foreign Armies West laid out American production numbers to his inner circle, Hitler had him shot on the spot -- for demoralizing his HQ. (And himself.) After WWII, the Pentagon has made sure to make ramping up to hot war production even quicker than WWII. At the top of the list; the Pentagon has established a permanent stash of fundamental materials -- namely the metals, oil in massive amounts, even rare earths -- which are metals, also. Red China is going down the same path, too. The CCP has built truly massive crude oil tank farms around its refineries. And so forth.
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@mustangsally5426 Not really. There was a super-secret merger between Britain and the USA because of ULTRA and Magic -- and because the British GCHQ and NSA's predecessors were reading each other's mail. It got so out of hand -- as each power was using tremendous resources (genius level talent) to read each others cyphers that it soon proved to be futile. Neither the British nor the Americans could craft cyphers that the other could not read. Why? They had way to much access to each others plain texts. They could even force plain text into transmission via social techniques. "Send this to your superiors in London/Washington." Heh. So... they established Echelon// Five Eyes and many another front-name for their un-ending collaboration on signals intelligence. This had two immediate results: the extra data feeds created by joining each others interception stations drastically improved de-coding of Axis signals, world-wide. For with the technology of the time, signals would drop out all the time. (Ionosphere) Now the duo could patch in the missing cybertext... and generate plain text. Next, the additional stations drastically improved U-boat detection by triangulation AND de-crypts. {Ditto for anti-U-boat oceanic tactics as America, Britain and Canada all tossed in their best anti-sub tactics.} The agreement was penned in late 1942. Less than six-months later the U-boat fleet was gutted. It had to retreat from the Atlantic. Donitz even lost his son at that time... the hard way. The GCHQ-NSA duo then went on to win WWIII, aka the Cold War. We're in WWIV RIGHT NOW. Red China is spooling up for WWV... which is going to be an even weirder war than the Cold War... being a Global Digital-Economic War... with bio-warfare tossed in for bad measure.
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@canzuk6621 The Queen knighted a professor of history. His thesis: England was BROKE by June 1940. It took American money and American oil to bail Britain out. England could NOT pay for her national defense at that point. She could not pay for the gasoline required for the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Yup. It was THAT BAD. The USA began propping up the English out of her own purse. By March 1941, this propping up took formal shape as Lend-Lease. You are thinking emotionally. The financial facts don't support your narrative. Without American resources -- England was done for -- in 1940. With this in mind, you can see why Adolf just was frustrated as can be that Britain had a patron with a bottomless purse... and unending foodstuffs, to boot.
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@kms_scharnhorst The USN pulled a U-boat war against Japan. They were STARVING within eighteen months. All of Japan was on starvation rations -- including their military. Civilians got 700 Calories per day. That's what the Nazis gave Concentration Kamp victims. When the USN cut off Japan's Korean imports (rice) the end was nigh. Britain imported half of its Calories. Food rationing stayed with the British well after the war. The damage to French farming was VAST. French tax law gave staggering compensation to Norman farmers for years after the war. This damage impacted Britain as England was a serious market for French foodstuffs. (France is still a major food exporter -- as in selling food to the Common Market and the USA. She can't sell her food to the poor. Check out her prices!)
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@mustangsally5426 The USA and UK are joined at the hip in intelligence matters. As the Falklands frickas showed, the USA will bail out Britain (behind the curtain) at the drop of a hat. (Latest generation AA missiles for Thatcher.) As for basing -- it was established by Churchill that the USA does NOT pay rent to the Crown for military bases on British soil. (America was only funding the entire British nation at the time.) There is NO LEASE AGREEMENT -- never was. The flip side is that Britain has veto power over USAF missions flown from Britain. ( Kaddaffy )
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@kms_scharnhorst I bring up FOOD as it is rather essential and Hitler was engaging in a FOOD WAR to defeat Britain. It would've worked -- except that the Americans bailed the British out. Japan showed that even Britain could not endure a decade long sea war if food supplies were taken down to starvation levels. That's why I brought the matter up. You'd ALWAYS better think about food for the greater population if you're a national leader -- in peace or war. When the food runs out ( France, Russia) the government collapses -- in the blink of an eye. Germans usually mention starvation as the reason THEY lost WWI. Outside of Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the USA, most citizens spend a ferocious amount of their budget on FOOD. The connection to their war power and military effectiveness should be apparent. There is a fascinating YT post on D-Day through German Eyes (book one) that lays out from a soldier's perspective the universal astonishment that the Americans brought NO HORSES with them -- and that they brought their own food in tins. They simply never ate off the land, Napoleon-style. (Though a few fresh eggs were certainly eaten.) Upon this sight, the morale of the German trooper evaporated. He deemed the US Army entirely unstoppable... which it was.
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You missed it. These were conceived as South China Sea vessels. When the Philippines 'went the other way' the USN lost its primary stationing nation. The original concept was to deny the South China Sea -- and keep Manilla out of Red China's clutches -- same as the strategy of 1941 -- versus the IJN. The PLAN trumped this strategy by building their own 'Philippines' atop reefs in the South China Sea. Cute. Of course, all of Red China's reef bases will come to grief when the next typhoon comes rolling on in... as it always has. One typhoon is enough to drop their base down below the water line. Tropical typhoons have storm surges that are higher than any of the bases. When they do so, the engineers geniuses involved will be stood tall -- and shot.
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A complex overhaul is actually a re-build -- as virtually every system is rebuilt -- stem to stern.
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You missed it: The PRIMARY original intention was to use the Zumwalt destroyers in and around the South China Sea... and the First Island Chain. The PLAN's leaping technology caused the Zumwalt's to be redesigned even while on the ways. That's why the Zumwalt, itself, spent so much time there. The funding was going down the Electronics Rat Hole. Also, ultra-high power electronics were being used for the first time for propulsion and projected weaponry. So the lead ship in the class was a full-scale concept design. It even got tripped up in Panama. (!) The USN brass finally self-admitted that the entire concept was flawed -- because no matter what was done, the PLAN was going to saturate the Zumwalt's position if it ever strayed into the First Island Chain. Only submarines can ever operate there -- same as during the Great Pacific War. (1941-45) BUT, the Zumwalts were ideal for the Persian Gulf. Realistically, only one would be needed. (+ two spares in training) Its role would be to force Tehran to spend LARGE to find or counter it. This is military-economic war -- a concept first used during the Cold War. That war was decided by the USSR when they contemplated spending LARGE to counter Star Wars -- you know -- Reagan's Folly. Yeah, he did the impossible, ending the Cold War with the national wallet. Today's warships are crafted specifically for this or that tactic against this or that adversary... same as aircraft -- all along. The changing nature of the PLAN risk killed the Zumwalts. Forget the money. If the Zumwalts would've caused the Reds to spend ultra-LARGE, the Americans would've hatched them by the dozen. Remember, the Vast, Vast bulk of US DoD spending is on WAGES within the US economy. It's not spent on profits for defense contractors. Doing so is flatly illegal -- and if discovered -- the funds have to be kicked back to the DoD. That's why Google, Apple and Facebook draw huge from Wall Street - whereas no defense contractor ever does. They are allowed to make whatever profits they may.
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Money is irrelevant. The reason that the USN has CVNs is that it needs to swim the world ocean. The RN needs to swim the North Atlantic -- and only occasionally head to the South Atlantic. The other fact is that the CVNs have a much higher top speed -- which the USN will never admit to. BTW, the CVN is admitted to be capable of 32 knots. The RN claims 25 knots. Both are lying. The true top military speed of a capital ship is always classified for any nation.
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@Benjd0 The voyage to the SCS is political theatre. It can be done, but the QE is in no position to conduct combat operations there. ( Neither is a USN CVN. ) The SCS is a SUBMARINE'S fighting patch. If you're unaware, the USN found that the SCS was quite the fighting zone in WWII. It has ONE overwhelming negative for subs: it's TOO SHALLOW. The Red Chinese want political theatre, too. They also need a 'lake' so as to train the up and coming PLAN. Yes, it's navy is as green as grass. It will take a DECADE before the PLAN is a viable player, is a modern navy. As the RN showed the French two-centuries ago, MEN are the dominant factor in naval warfare. Nelson gutted the French with -- essentially -- inferior ships. Inferior? They were older and at sea much longer. This meant that the RN had slower ships -- as barnacles are the fate of active ships in the age of sail. The net effect: Trafalgar! Napoleon should've thrown in the towel after that fiasco. Losing two fleets, there was no way that he could threaten Britain. Whereas Britain could dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee. It's rather like Teddy's Great White Fleet. (The American public back then did not realize that a white ship = non-combatant status. This convention is still observed as the US maintains a fleet of white hospital ships AND treaty observation ships. Duty on the latter is boring beyond belief. (My old buddy was so stationed -- and was such an introvert he could tolerate such duty. Most found that despite the money, they just couldn't handle it.)
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@Benjd0 There was another reason: cruisers would need their own reactor design. Such beasts only pencil out for the largest combatant ships in the world. The USN found out that ganged submarine reactors are a PITA. The Enterprise had a huge engine crew: eight-reactors to drive four-props. It was the fastest CVN in the fleet, though. I saw that puppy flee Pearl Harbor to catch the fleet during RimPac. Wow. What a rooster-tail! Yeah, it reached the flight deck. If you turn your head, it's gone. USN sailors have asserted to me that 40-knots was no problem for the Enterprise. They ought to have known since they served on her. They further informed me that such antics are normally not permitted in observable space -- i.e. near any shore. So, what I'd seen was the Big E doing the naughty.
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@coolcattle5221 In its original conception// dream, the Zumwalt was supposed to operate in tight, shallow waters -- where nuclear submarines are loathe to go. {Think South China Sea.} Red China showed that their rearby waters would suffer from missile-rain. So the Zumwalts were slotted for the Persian Gulf. Only one at a time would suffice. By being there, it'd draw Tehran's gaze -- and could pull double duty as an intelligence gathering ship. Only there such ships would be needed to keep one on station. Unlike most destroyers, the Zumwalts were designed from the keel up to survive without an air umbrella. Stealth, spoofing, jamming and CWIS were supposed to turn the trick. That seems very doubtful, now. While in the Gulf, such ships will be right close to 5th Fleet HQ -- and can draw upon allied air cover// racing to safety.
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@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 You don't understand. No nation now uses a gold standard. So gold is priced emotionally -- in multiple markets -- Bitcoin is emotionally priced too -- just like the ol' tulip. The problem is that Bitcoin is gold-like -- but there is only gold that is gold. Whereas block-chain assets can be cranked out without limit. So then, it's not like an elemental metal with ten-millennia of human desire and legacy. Ultimately block-chain assets are TULIPS. BTW, did you know that the most outrageous prices were being paid for INFECTED tulips. Yes, plant infections -- usually some fungus -- were causing the beautiful patterns that investors/ speculators were paying up for. That latter fact was not known until centuries passed.
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@feliscorax The real key to a government backed trading asset (money) is that they can manipulate the laws of trade to FORCE acceptance of said asset -- within its borders. Block-chain assets, IMO, have great value in destroying tyranny. In fact, that's exactly what the CCP sees. It's WHY Jack Ma is in hot water. While not a Block-Chain boy, his financial empire was dramatically eroding the ability of the CCP to manipulate financial markets -- because his trades were done via e-commerce and were DIGITAL MONIES -- as defined above. E-Commerce was finally realized by the CCP to be the doorway to Block-Chain Asset trading. Ma was creating a system that allowed the average Wong to buy fractional Bitcoin -- with their digital Yuan! Then said Bitcoin could be converted back to digital money -- outside the control of the CCP... untraceable in every way. Xi was tossing his cookies. I do see a future for Bitcoin -- but it's as a flipping asset -- as something that is best used by holding it for mere minutes or seconds. Buy this mechanism, tyrannies lose auditing control. THEY HATE THAT. Famously, a CCP member was sentenced to death for holding bribes in epic amounts. He did not have the brains to convert his Yuan to Bitcoin. You might notice that after his conviction Bitcoin's value EXPLODED. It went crazy BECAUSE his grafting peers got the message: "Bitcoin is your only way out from under the CCP." Forget Musk. The bulk of Bitcoin action is in Red China. They are coining most of it, and they are holding most of it. But block-chain assets are not a store of value. Everyone loves the up-drafts -- but no-one can stomach the down-drafts. While the US Dollar and other national currencies are being debased -- said ruination is proceeding slow enough that holding cash for a few months is not the end of the world. Seeing your block-chain asset fall 10% over night is just too much. Holding them is like investing on the Vancouver Stock Exchange in start up miners.
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@fritzfxx Found it ? You've scoped the whole Internet ? Self-discovery; a witty self-reference ? A woke bloke ?
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@orlock20 Stingers are wiping out Putin's helicopter fleet. Chopper crews can't spot two-man missile crews. Savvy infantry skills are not to be found in a conscript army. When you spread conscripts out -- they evaporate -- into deserters. Putin lied to everybody -- to include his FSB/SVR and military. The only reason why the boys were sent in with three-days rations: Putin even lied to his own top brass. Now he's going after them -- he's launched a purge, Stalin style 2.0. I see Putin on the cusp of losing entire brigades. Deep mud is the death of heavy equipment.
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@andrewmoore7022 Putin is going to use artillery -- not missiles. He has no end of gun tubes, and shells are dirt cheap vs missiles.
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@Handle0108 But the Ukrainians now have a unified government. Zelenskyy even has his rivals pulling for him. It's really too late to revisit 2014. BTW, the West didn't fund the Orange Revolution. George Soros did. He's a kook -- but a billionaire. Wherever he funds -- it's chaos. He's behind the mass migration into Europe. He uses fronts/ NGOs -- and they operate illegally -- but yet, they are not stopped. So, it's not as if Soros is strictly against Putin/ Russia or Red China. He's against all current governments -- except that of Israel. (Don't expect consistency from Soros.) His highest dream is to destroy the US dollar and the United States, itself. And that's no secret. He can't quite shut-up.
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@sys3248 So, what you're telling the world is that ManPADs are already all over the place. Obviously, fanatics are showing remarkable restraint. But that's out of character. I'm forced to question your assertion.
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Putin has Biden's number: Zero. He has no fear of NATO involvement unless he, Putin, attacks it.
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@theunholycrusader517 He's also not cornered. As best I hear, no-one gives him bad news. They don't dare.
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@-Ultranoobgaming- The US was in diplomatic talks with Putin to restrict atomic weapons locations -- to never permit them east of Germany -- for example. Vlad walked away from such diplomacy. Russia is THE deciding nation WRT its own military hardware. Moscow and Washington cut a deal. Both still stick to it. One aspect of that deal was that no American atomic missiles would remain in Turkey. (They were already scheduled for removal -- already made obsolete by technical advances by 1962.) (Jupiter) Vlad was offered a similar deal WRT missile locations, as noted above.
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@-Ultranoobgaming- BTW, the reason the US backed out of older treaties: Red China. She is deploying, en masse, exactly those missiles restricted by the Russian - American missile treaty. America backed out so as to match Red China... not to target Russia. Beijing had a deaf ear when the US asked Red China to join the existing Russian-American compact. THAT'S why the US had to back out.
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@-Ultranoobgaming- Let me bring you up to speed. ICBMs entirely eliminated the value of buffer states and all that sixty-years ago. Consequently, the USSR/Russia has ringed the USA with missiles all that time. It's ironic, the USSR led the way with ICBMs. Now, by treaty, both great atomic powers have parity. Everything Putin has shoved forth is nonsense. It's no wonder he has lied to his troops, his nation... and still does. Putin walked away from diplomatic efforts to craft a START type treaty covering cruise missiles. And that's a fact, Jack. The US backed out of the old cruise missile treaty -- with all due notice -- because of Red China -- not Russia. The CCP started to build out cruise missiles banned by the Russian-American compact. The CCP simply refused to join Russia and America. Consequently, the US was compelled to field a new generation of cruise missiles -- to counter Red China. This is still under way. Putin needs to thank his Big Pal in Beijing. Of course 'NATO cruise missiles in Ukraine' is a totally bogus issue. Putin told the whole planet: he wants to re-establish the USSR. All this other clap-trap was missing from his 'sales pitch' for war.
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@tenbelow9617 Putin OWNED the Clintons. Vlad is delighted to be rid of Donald, who he regarded as a loose canon. Biden is entirely predictable. That's why Putin decided to finally invade Ukraine... all the way. Yes, Obama was predictable, too. Tyrants love to be unpredictable. They hate it when their targets are unpredictable. They love reasonable (calculating) politicians. And Biden is certainly that. What's corn fusing Putin: Biden is abandoning America's long-time allies: Israel, KSA, UAE in favor of Iran. Biden is even using Putin as his intermediary in his negotiations with the mullahs. (!!!) The deal awaiting Biden's signature would permit Moscow to use Tehran as a cut-out -- entirely defeating all of the sanctions that the West has imposed against Putin. America's Leftist Media is pretty successfully keeping this bizarre scheme out of the public eye. It's only now making the rounds inside the Beltway.
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@andypozuelos1204 WWIII has come and gone. It was the most expensive war in history. We're in WWIV right now, it's a money spinner, too. You're thinking of WWV. Please keep up. What's going to happen is that the CVNs run away like Sir Robin -- as the sharks of the sea are cut loose. Subs crippled Japan's war economy. In WWV, subs will cripple the PLAN. CVNs -- from a far remove -- will utterly shut down all seaborne commerce in no-time-flat. Even a radio signal -- to turn around -- will suffice. The PLAN will never have that power. Red China's oil thirst will be overwhelming. Her food deficit will cause an uproar all across the nation. This above reality is so obvious that Beijing has turned to bio-warfare, deniable bio-warfare. The CCP virus just got loose before Wuhan was finished with the CCP project. So the CCP simply fell back to blanket denial and pay-offs, and threats to the Western, duplicitous, MSM.
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You've got it backwards, our NATO allies, and the rest of the planet, subsidize the Pentagon's budget. That's why it's so huge.
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Such bases are totally inadequate for the QE. The play will be at-sea resupply. The RN will be shuttling materials to the fleet, picking up what ever is needed from civilian facilities, planet wide. Critical items will be simply flow on board the QE.
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@blueboltstrike6705 Slow-Rev Diesel engines have supplanted steam-turbine engines world-wide. So it's only natural that the RN finally transition to them. They are VERY cost-effective. The RN then topped of its speed requirement with twin (open Brayton cycle) gas turbines. These can run on the same fuel as the slo-rev Diesels... so I presume that's the case for the Eliz class CVs. The fuel required for these ships is available just EVERYWHERE you want to float. Navies, world-wide, are going to entirely move to slo-rev Diesels. The engines may be slo-reving -- but the ships are able to CRUISE at 32 knots! That's in commercial service -- not test or glamor speed runs. Walmart bought a fleet of such container ships.
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@himbisaquatics The USA was ALWAYS oriented against Hitler -- as this was a decision made by FDR based on Adolf's politics -- and his manifesto: Mein Kampf. You're just making stuff up.
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