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Who in their right mind gives a rat's about John Bolton. The single worst Trump appointee, and there were many. Some people have a "to do" list. Bolton has always had a "to invade" list and it is very long. The guy has never met a country he didn't want to go to war with, and I for one, have no interest in any of his speculations.

That may be true, but the reality is that there are many other considerations. Where do we "annihilate the Russian forces in a matter of weeks," and it wouldn't be "days." How do we get our forces to this battle? How do we house them, feed them, supply them? Make no mistake, there would be huge losses in such a conflict, and it if ever got nuclear, well, use your imagination. While you are not one who has done so, a few here who have recommended direct US involvement don't seem to have ever considered the how and where, and it is much more complicated than the uniformed view that you simply sterilize the airspace. Anyone who suggest that has never operated a tactical airplane under a significant SAM umbrella, which is what the Ukraine is.

It is just contrails from an airplane whose course is perpendicular to the person recording it.

I cannot imagine any scenario other than life threatening that would justify blowing a slide on an airplane, then running around on the ramp. Not excusable in any reasonable judgement. She is about to find out how unreasonable and expensive her actions were. American Eagle, (not American Airlines by the way), will seek some kind of financial settlement which she will no doubt not pay.

Waiting, or at least not using the direct military option worked pretty well against this same adversary during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

They can certainly do that now, and decide for themselves. The issue with the now defunct proposal was that the gov would manage the list. Given the significant screw ups with the no fly list instituted after 9/11, which they put together and included some airline employees and politicians, there is little appetite to give them another bite at the apple.

It isn't that simple. The Russians have a lot of very capable military equipment. Their weapons are first tier in almost every area. Intel only gets you so far. You have little information on their command and control and how they integrate forces until you see those in action, and that has been pathetic. The problem is that incompetence cannot be assumed. There have always been hints of it. For example, when the then Soviets shot down KAL 007 in 1983, we had the audio of the entire operation from monitoring assets. I remember listening to the translation within a few days and was shocked at how incompetent it sounded. Absolutely nothing like our integration. Of course they lied about the entire thing, but that's the way that country has always done things. Still, their "stuff," always stolen from our designs, is first rate in almost every area, carrier aviation being the one true exception. They have no professional enlisted group, unlike our NCO personnel. They clearly do not train for damage control. Because of money constraints, their pilots fly way less than ours do, to the point of really not being able to be mission effective. It seems they have very few precision guided munitions. No ground to air coordination. Nonetheless, you can't assume incapability.

That is the way it is done by all companies. The regulation states that they must be armed at that point, so they are armed either prior to the push back or during.

The rest of your post is correct, but tis is not. Closing a door does not arm the slide. The slide must be armed (and disarmed on arrival), intentionally. Your comments on the calls that flight attendants make are true, but the slides are not armed until they do that. There are many times that the doors are closed and the doors not armed, ie if the bridge is still hooked up and there is a delay.

They still have lot of really lethal stuff.

Nope. The door doesn't "blow off." It depends on which door slide is activated. First, the main entry must be armed. On the ground, prior to movement, they are not armed. Once the airplane moves, the flight attendants arm their doors for automatic deployment. Once armed, the slides will deploy if the door is opened. On main entry doors, the door stays where it is. On over wing hatches, which are not "armed," the hatch is pulled in and must be thrown out. The slide will deploy once the hatch is pulled.

It wasn't a "smart arse response." When an emergency slide is activated, it triggers a pneumatic inflation system that gets the slide from packed and stored to its evacuation position. Kind of like a very large scale airbag. You don't just deflate it and re-pack it in the storage bustle. It must be removed and replaced and that takes a good deal of time and a lot of expense.

No offense, but your description of what is required is not accurate.

A very big and very expensive process.

Not to quibble, but that is absolutely not true. Other than the need for major Naval bases to be located in deep water ports, the location of military bases is largely a jobs program to patronize senators in the states they are located. They are often quid pro quo rewards for votes on various issues. Obviously the availability of reasonably priced land is a consideration, but there is almost no strategic value in their location.

At the risk of thread creep.... This is wrong on two levels. First, CDL requires legal status, I believe, so illegals are not going to be players. Second, what this country does not need, and I'm certain there is near universal agreement on this, is recent immigrants driving 18 wheelers on our interstates and city streets. Anyone who has witnessed what goes on on the roads in Central/South America would most likely agree.

And nobody that I'm aware of is opposed to legal immigration. We are so far away from addressing illegal immigration that it equates to gross negligence.

It's not a sophomoric insult. It's a sincere insult. There are many laws and guidelines that could be ignored that would discourage inflation. Immigration laws are just one. Certainly child labor laws, OSHA rules and guidelines and restrictive environmental rules could be disregarded and would result in cheaper production costs. It's simply not a good idea at all.

I think there is too great a gap to respond to. I really wonder how old you are.

I honestly cannot believe what you post. In taking those jobs they artificially reduce wage growth. Realistic wage growth is essential in realistically pricing goods. What you are not addressing is the cost of all this, and it is massive. Jeesh. Lets just introduce slavery and we can really get price inflation down.

They're spreading nothing except disdain and repulsion for their gov and their military. The world's desire to embrace Russian style communism is about as popular as covid. They are being publicly humiliated across international borders. This disgraceful exercise is going to cost them dearly.

The issue with the exocet that hit Stark and the warhead didn't detonate was that unburned rocket fuel ignited and formed a huge fire. The other exocet's warhead exploded. It's not "change reaction," it's chain reaction, which are explosions caused by other explosions/fires. "Change reaction" is a medical term describing aberrant behavior by individuals that is exhibited after gender reassignment procedures.

I'm not ready to believe they lost this many men yet. Such a number seems almost impossible. Still, the Russian Navy has never been a good deal. Their single aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kusnetsov is a piece or trash. So bad that is considered punishment to be assigned to her. The Kursk, a Soviet sub sank killing all crewmen when help was available and declined by the leadership, and now this. When we were on cruise in the northern Indian Ocean, their intel ship was constantly trailing us picking up trash etc. Every day at dawn we'd launch a SSSC mission. (Surface Search Surveillance and Control). Each airplane was assigned a sector to search, just to make sure the carrier task force had an accurate picture of the players in the area. The Soviet Intel ship would always trail us overnight about 15 miles away. It had inadequate or no air conditioning in its berthing areas, so there would always be about twenty sailors sleeping outside, on deck. Before we'd head to search our specific sectors, we would get about ten miles behind her, push it up to mach and fly by them at deck level. We'd then climb and do a low speed pass and they all be "gesturing" to us.

I sure did. It is burned in my memory.

Could it be that someone saw that horrible Utica Club commercial he did in the 60's? Sent from my rotary phone using my right index finger.