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Not possible, and not a good idea. The simple reality is that they have absolutely no way of utilizing such systems. Total waste of effort.

They have no way of using any of these aircraft effectively, on so many levels Giving them those airplanes would be a big mistake

Absolutely not. The Ukrainians have come to the conclusion that airplanes are not the answer. The A-10 proposal was a really bad idea.

I think this is one of the issues that people who live in the west will never comprehend. Afghanistan is not a country in the manner of how we view countries. It is a tribal, nomadic group of clans with no common purpose other than survival. It was that way when the Russians invaded in 1980 and it is that way now. There is no way that any optimistic, come to the 21th century influence from the west was going to change that. Never has. The only way it can be dealt with is to eliminate the threats that occasionally emerge from there. Still, the "withdrawal" of our forces from there should have cost the SecDef his job. Just a total debacle by any objective measure.

I'm not sure of your logic here. Getting Zarqawi, and the weapons used, was a vastly different circumstance and operation. Regarding 9/11, I think you should remain "comfortable" about the conclusions.

On the other hand a reasonable corollary is that it takes a responsible gov/military to spend the money to get this to production. It is basically an airborne assassin aimed to get one person. Far more humanitarian than lobbing artillery shells or cluster bombs, which would kill everything within a football field area.

Charlottesville, VA. Four seasons with lengthy spring and fall. Premier university town Mountains nearby.

Prior to retirement, I worked in an industry where people could live or retire anywhere they wanted. Many "offshore" places, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Panama, many places in Europe and the Caribbean, and all over the US. We went through the same process, and decided to live where we do now. My only contribution,, having listened to hundreds of stories, is to rent for a month, at minimum, at anyplace you are seriously considering,

What "subsonic warheads capable of long distances that cannot be intercepted" do they have? I'm not aware that anybody knows what can or cannot be intercepted. Anyway, modern warfare is an extremely complicated and detailed issue, and capability is far more determined in command and control capability, and integration of coordinated many forces operating together. If you look at the US deployment during Iraq wars, you see that capability. The Chinese don't have that command and control integration, or at least have never demonstrated it. They operate on the standard centralized command, inflexible model, which is not responsive and ineffective. Again, they have no real force projection. I'd never add nuc warheads to the discussion. When that is added, nobody knows how things head.

I fully agree and think they are way overrated militarily. They really have almost no offensive force projection. Their newest aircraft carrier is quite small, conventionally powered and requires underway replenishment very often. They are developing a nuc powered one, but we shall see. I have spent a fair amount of time there, at least in Beijing and Shanghai, and I was always surprised at the absolute lack of creativity in problem solving. They also have a demographic problem which is getting worse and limited resources. They need the rest of the world, not the other way around.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

It wasn't Trump that was leading us, it was a number of developments in extraction and finding new sources of methods to economically "find," extract and refine fuel. We have far more natural gas available than we need. Fundamentally, it had nothing to do with politics until the Biden group got in and slammed the brakes on it. The Saudis were universally known as trying to stomp out the emerging US energy industry as they saw it coming. They were flooding the market and depressing the price to the point of making it impossible for the US to allow its organic industry to grow and compete. Then you get COVID and the market tanks with storage facilities full to the brim and tankers dead in the water off shore holding supply that was not needed and could not be delivered. Biden has a unique ability to be wrong at the wrong time, and this is a perfect example. Taking what had existed and getting to the point of ever talking to Venezuela or the Saudis is a totally unforced error.

Howie Long.

Can you not do this work yourself? The Trump negotiated cut in OPEC production was negotiated on or around April 13, 2020. Crude was $53 in Feb of 2030, and $23 in March. Extraction and refinement costs get US fossil, much cleaner burning by the way, at a cost in the barrel more than Saudi oil. Always has. Biden comes in an arbitrarily handcuffs US production to some degree. There is simply no valid, rational disagreement of this. None. Oil is about $105/barrel now, and he goes on a begging trip to Saudi Arabia. The man has simply never gotten anything right. But to the point, the Trump negotiated decrease in OPEC oil production was at a time when the pandemic tanked demand and prices; there were no available storage facilities, tankers were off shore awaiting ports, and the US production was at a severe disadvantage. Late edit, I'm not sure where you get information that Trump "almost went to war with Iran," but that's an entirely different subject.

A uniquely specious argument, devoid of factual context. The US energy complex was becoming completely independent. The course we were on would have made us completely independent of OPEC supply. The "pandemic" you mention trashed energy demand, and resulted in a situation where there was virtually no storage capability as demand dropped so significantly. Trump negotiated OPEC production declines to protect the US energy complex, while prices were tanking. Biden did exactly the opposite. He enacted an executive order that cancelled the Keystone pipeline and enacted a moratorium on drilling on federal land. Two completely different situations. One attempts to enable and support US production while asking foreign producers to slow production during a price crash. One, through US federal gov action, eliminates domestic production and jobs, horribly timed just before a nut from Russia cuts off a good deal of EU supply, spiking the world market. Two completely different situations. Biden has incredible timing

I broke 21 of the 24 in one event. Five needed titanium joints. He'll be OK. Just don't sneeze.

The weird thing about that hit was that everybody saw it coming a second or two before impact, and I think that's what caused the silence, which I remember as well. When Lincoln extended his arms to catch the high throw and Stratton was going near full speed about seven feet away, you knew it was going to be awful. The "crack." Thankfully he rolled fairly quickly after going down so you knew he wasn't dead.

TV. Secretariat in the Belmont. Live. The Stratton hot on Keith Lincoln in the 64 championship. Though just a kid, with the sound of it I thought he was dead until he moved.

A small point, but maybe illustrative. Webb is an IR telescope. The raw data that it transmits to earth is in pure IR form. It is then "adjusted" to make it make sense to people. That takes time. In no way that that make it less accurate or suggest that the data is doctored. It is simply adjusting colors wo show various IR strength returns. Again, that takes a bit of time.

There is no elephant in the room. There is Jefferson DNA in Sally Hemmings descendants. There is no conclusive evidence that it was his, as there were a couple of Jeffersons around. Either way, there is absolutely no evidence of anything untoward or non conceptual. Jefferson's wife died at an early age. Anybody who suggests anything inappropriate or unwanted needs to be in the early 1800's or shut up. To suggest that one of the most brilliant men of his time, and a priceless contributor to our's and the world's political philosophy is somehow sullied by suggestions two hundred years later is foolish, but inevitable on this forum. It always amazes me how people can display their hate.

Monticello is an architectural and agronomic masterpiece. Many items invented by Jefferson are still in place and working well. The new focus is on slavery.

Oh contraire. History makes me quite comfortable. Know why?' I've been a student of this, and I've done the work. When you have done the same, we can have a conversation. Till then, I am not going to waste my time with someone who continues bring up "cult" crap, as if that has anything to do with me or this subject. Jefferson was a brilliant jurist. A brilliant political philosopher who wrote a document that changed the relationship between the governed and the governors forever. An accomplished astronomer, agronomist, inventor and the best architect in the colonies. He wasn't perfect, but his many writings on the issue of slavery were prescient and illuminating, and though he had slaves, he hated the practice. People in those times cannot be judged by folks two centuries later, anymore than people who practiced medicine in those times can. In our current situation, we would be blessed by people of the Washington, Jefferson, Madison group. Late edit: If anyone is interested in this, read "The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson." The book includes a number of the personal letters between Jefferson and John Adams as they aged and repaired their political differences, each man expressing ultimate respect for the other, as well as correspondence with his daughter while he was Minister to France. I'm as certain that anyone who reads the book will be better for it, just as sure as no one will. Got a place on the top shelf of my library.

Nonsense. The fact is, not that you would know, is that there has been a massive change in the focus of that tour. If you are not familiar with that issue, don't claim it doesn't exist because of your ignorance of it.

Couldn't agree more. Some things make too much sense.

Lost you? The point I have made over quite a few posts is that the Sunday Super Bowl has a massive economic impact to the league, the media, the host city, even as far downstream economically as local restaurants and national charcoal companies. Moving it to Saturday diminishes that.