Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. Yes he will. They just like to play political theatre to the last minute.
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  2. Well, technically they would have lost WW II if not for America. So there is that. ;-)
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  3. If a kid wants to spend his entire life hating... how can you stop him? You can't.
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  4. Putin won't be alive in five to eight years. That is why it had to be now or never. ;-)
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  5. Little correction. The book ain't that old. It is not as old as Homer's works. It's not as old as the official founding date of the Roman Republic. Some of it is not even as old as Plato or the Greek's measurement of Earth's circumference. It's a rather young piece of religious crap.
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  6.  @JohnSkeel  No harm no foul. I used to call it a bronze age religion myself... until I looked up the timeline for metal cultures. To my surprise the first confirmed dates of OT texts barely fell into the last century of the iron age... which tells us that people were far better with metal working than with their belief systems. I think we should give them that much credit. The smart ones were smarter earlier than the dumb ones were really dumb. ;-)
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  7. So Russia's wealthiest oligarch is producing the next generation of rockets (including most likely ICBMs) for the US? You aren't making any sense there, kid. ;-)
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  8. Please explain in detail. ;-)
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  9. Russia has clearly stated that they aren't fighting Ukraine. They are fighting NATO. NATO has a total population of almost one billion people and the attrition rate in a fight against the US air force will be on the order of a few ten soldiers per day. No big deal. ;-)
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  10. Money does not kill Russians. Old military equipment (at any price) does. ;-)
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  11. Not if you were drafted against your will.
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  12.  @bujinkanatori  No, it is certainly not.
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  13. Yes, it's amazing that everybody on Earth now has a smartphone, isn't it? Who would have thought just 20 years ago? ;-)
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  14.  @1whazzoo  You can see the plane being blown to pieces? I only saw a cloud of debris and then a tumbling plane. I am not aware of a video of the actual 'splosion. ;-)
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  15. Even F-16s can't fly into Russian air defense systems. Ukraine will have to deplete Russia's air defense system to the point that it doesn't pose any threat to bombing runs, first.
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  16. Is hate the only emotion you are capable off? How about THINKING without emotion for a moment? Would that be too hard? ;-)
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  17. That would be technically impossible and a criminal act for which the FBI would arrest him immediately. ;-)
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  18. Under Reagan? That was possibly the last time that an old actor with Alzheimer's was a rational republican politician. ;-)
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  19. What's with the anger? :-)
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  20. Says the guy who doesn't even have a microphone. Look here, folks, a Russian keyboard warrior wants your attention. ;-)
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  21.  @MANNY33100  You are a good troll. Let me give you some attention in return. ;-)
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  22. What is "forced conscription" supposed to be??? Military service is mandatory in many (if not most) countries. I have been in the military myself. Was it fun? No, of course not, but it was a necessary civic duty. Today I am looking back at the experience as something useful. It gave me an idea of "the other side of life". Even though the "fighting experience" was only simulated, sitting in the forest for hours waiting for a potential "attack" was nerve wrecking. I knew that had it been real, my life would have been on the line. A single shot by a sniper could have meant the end. Once you have that experience, paying taxes for an effective military feels a lot less of a waste than it might otherwise. The state and the men and women who are choosing to be in the military are putting their lives on the line so that everybody else can live in peace. They deserve the best weapons, the best protection, the best intelligence money can buy. Speak softly and carry a big stick is now more important than ever. We will need a much bigger stick in the future and many more soldiers. OK, champ?
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  23. I am sure you have proof for that. Any day now. ;-)
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  24. The problem with China is that even a soft landing leaves an entire generation of young people (which also happens to be China's last) economically stranded. The government has nothing to offer to these people except for ideological bullshit by crazy uncle Xi.
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  25. Syria is playing turtle and has retreated into its shell. Nobody in the region wants to give Israel any reason to act, right now. Netanyahu has proven that he has a big stick and he is hell bent on using it. I think what the world should also realize that the stick the US carries is approx. 20 times more capable than Israel's. So if anybody thinks that they want to mess with us, then they are miscalculating.
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  26. Conservatives need to get a life and vote these clowns out. If whoever is running in your district is anything but an up-right adult, sit out the election. Just don't vote for a person who hates their country. It's that simple. Until you do that, the GOP will never change.
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  27. Talent is nice and well... but if the man it's attached to is burned out, then the talent usually goes away rather quickly and is replaced with increasingly more bizarre decision making processes. One has to accept that Musk's flame, which shone oh so brightly, might be coming to an end.
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  28. Dude, there are no bright people for Trump. There are only people who consider themselves bright for Trump. That's called Dunning-Krueger. ;-)
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  29. The real aim of Russia is to force Ukraine to spread their air defense systems out, which are mostly protecting their military and war production facilities. Ukraine is not taking the bait.
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  30. Nothing. You can ask the children of German Nazis. A whole generation had lost all respect for their parents.
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  31. Cue "Every Sperm is Sacred". The Irish overpopulation problem was created in Irish bedrooms. :-)
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  32. The Twitter acquisition was certainly a grand mistake. I am pretty sure even Musk feels that way by now. Based on the news he was actually trying to wiggle out of it, in the end, but he had signed the contract, already. That's a real problem if you are operating under American laws. Unless you can prove that you were under the influence when you signed a US contract is like god and it shows no mercy. With regards to Ukraine... I kind of doubt that SpaceX does anything without the direct support/supervision of the State Department and the Pentagon. Again... the US has a very strong legal regime in place for the kinds of assets that SpaceX has.
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  33. Well, at least in their own minds they were... that phantasy shattered ten miles from Kiev... which is pretty far East, even in Europe. ;-)
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  34. Russia has nothing to do with it. SpaceX is legally forbidden from supporting foreign governments without explicit permission of the US government. What Elon Musk wants or doesn't want is completely irrelevant here. What they can and can not do is all covered by US laws.
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  35. Depleting Wagner is a necessity for Putin, otherwise Wagner will deplete him sooner or later. :-)
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  36. Russia can't be anything. It was always a nation of brutes who were subjugating most other people as serfs.
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  37. Depends on the altitude. One can get continent wide effects with hundreds of miles of nearly assured destruction of commercial electronics if the bombs are set off above the atmosphere. The more important effects would be to satellites. We would lose hundreds, if not thousands of communications and research satellites. I assume that GPS is EMP hardened, though.
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  38. In that case the US military will simply actively interfere in the war. I kind of doubt that that will work better for Russia. ;-)
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  39. It's so bizarre that righties have stopped defending liberty and have become the next Neville Chamberlains. ;-)
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  40. No, not really, but maybe it should be. ;-)
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  41. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers KIA and WIA by cheap drones want you to hold their beers, I think. The personal aerial mine is a horrific weapon.
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  42. Putin's reactions are those of a psychopath. He's the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
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  43. Only on the outside. Inside she might be closer related to the reptilians.
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  44. Actually, some NATO members like the Poles are. I wouldn't worry too much about that. NATO is catering to the party, right now, it provides the music and fireworks display and it will participate on the dance floor, if necessary. ;-)
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  45. Well, you seem to know a lot about Asperger's. Are you personally on the spectrum? ;-)
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  46. What makes you think that this is up to Germany in the first place? Germany is, for all practical purposes, Europe's demilitarized zone. The Bundeswehr is more of a moral support system than an army. And that is how it should be. The last time Germany was strong it didn't end well for anybody.
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  47.  @Andreas-d7d  I didn't say that Germany isn't supporting Ukraine. It certainly is, but people who expect Germany to take an active military role in Europe similar to the role of the US at the worldwide stage are painfully unaware of the historical context. Germany still has the military industrial might and the necessary population size to dominate locally, but that does not mean that it will or that it should.
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  48. We haven't seen all that much new equipment on the Russian side, though... so something isn't working on the Russian supply side. ;-)
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  49. If he swears that, then it must be true... or it's just another day on the internet and a contrarian wants attention because he only gets left swipes on Tinder. ;-)
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  50.  @mindman1234  The Russian bot programmers are getting desperate. As if publishing bullshit on social media is going to change the direction of Ukrainian artillery projectiles... ;-)
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