The Russian military was actually there since 1783. It’s never been authentically independent.

Not what I said. It’s up to the government in control to allow referendums according to the Constitution. Not by force from an external military.

I have nothing against self-determination. The troops arrived before the referendum was undertaken, so the vote is void. And now Crimea doesn’t have power or water. How’s Russian rule working out?

The agreement is with the government, not specific officers of said government. And this isn’t even the best argument the Putinbots put forth. You need to brush up on your propaganda recitations.

I disagree with the OP, but you’re 10 kinds of wrong.

They had a status of forces agreement with the Ukrainian government to not exceed a certain number of troops on the Crimean peninsula without adequate notice. When the Naval Infantry troops took over the government building in Simferopol, there were helicopters and ships on their way from Russia carrying the rest of…

The last time Russia signed a lease for an overseas naval base... they invaded Crimea.

I like you. You’re a nice change from the old guy.

I was at this game! It was my first NFL game, I went with my dad and uncle, it was cold and rainy, the Steelers lost 6-16, and I never wanted to go to another one.

There is. It’s the F-35.

No, he writes biased content when it comes to the F-35. Biased to the extent that is degrades the argument and muddles the facts.

Then if that’s the assumption coming out of the gate, your reaction shouldn’t be “look at how bad this thing is.” It should be “This all makes sense given the bad idea it was based on. It is as expected.”

Tyler has (and continues to) misrepresent the problems of the F-35 since before he was a Jalopnik writer, and after having this platform ramped things up considerably in the “let’s shit on the F-35" department. Couple that with exaggerating Russian military capabilities and otherwise not having a full grasp of facts…

No it doesn’t. He’s bad.

Yeah. How about that scrapped F-22 carrier variant.

Solution:

Is being a Rockette a job?

I know more than you.

Silent Eagle =/= Silent Hornet.

Right. We don’t need to spend $10 billion on a supercarrier with 72 planes on it, because we can spend $3.5 billion on an AAS with 6 F-35s. And then deploy them both to the same theater anyway.