Ehh. As someone trained as an economist, that usually isn’t the case. In war, you make products that can’t be used for any sort of useful work. In the case of missiles, you make a million dollar unmanned airplane and crash it into the ground. Economically, you would be better off paying people to dig holes and fill…

Putinbots have gotten so brazen that they now actively advertise their purpose in their usernames. So meta.

So legitimate that he leveled AAA on his own people. Then bombed them. Then gassed them.

But that’s their whole schtick!

Their “paranoia” these days are mostly a construct of Putin to rouse the people. No one is actively a big threat to Russia.

It’s funny how Russia acts like a jealous, abusive ex to bordering countries like Finland and former Warsaw Pact allies like Estonia. They realized that life with the USSR/Russia as a primary ally was terrible, and now they are cozying up with a newer and nicer NATO allies.

Which of Russia’s “neighbors” are threatened by “team ISIS”?

As much as Russia likes to have a ring of client states around them (and given historical events, it’s understandable), their increasing meddling under Putin is going to drive nations that have been traditionally neutral into the arms of Western alliances. Even if they don’t join up with NATO, I’d expect much cozier…

When I was in the USAF in the mid-1990s, we had a couple of F-111Fs on our flightline, and one of our 111 drivers was telling me of a mission over Baghdad in the opening hours of ODS, and he was getting shot at with AAA. He quickly tired of it, executed a dump and burn, and got the hell out of dodge as a bunch of…

You think that’s what they would charge the USAF? And don’t forget the crew training and maintenance costs.

They tested high enough on the ASVAB to score slippers.

I guess you joined the wrong service.

And fuck Kinja with all of its errors over the last month. Where is the goddamned edit button!?

Let’s see if I can make a summary of some of the repetitive (and completely unrelated to the article) comments on the recent Foxtrot Alpha articles.

They’re all actually Strom Thurmond. He never died. Just kept sloughing off bits of himself to create new senators.

Tyler, take a little criticism now and then.

Congress restricted the F-22 from export. I think the Israelis have said they would have been a buyer if it hit the open market.

A boy-heir taking over his dad’s empire...no wonder he’s a fan of the Kims.