No tires - more like solid machined aluminum disks

We complain about China establishing airstrips a few hundred miles off their mainland while we maintain dozens of bases which are thousands of miles away from ours!

Misrepresentation. A casino couldn’t get away with calling itself as a “second income stream for Mom” or whatever. Everyone knows that you don’t take money to the casino that you can’t afford to lose. But these “daily fantasy” leagues represent themselves as something between a pastime and a newspaper route and fail…

To me the difference is official vs. unofficial gambling. A fantasy league where you and your buddies each kick in an ante is unofficial. There’s also no vig (unless you’re an idiot) — each dollar put in is paid out.

The trouble is that the people inventing these daily games have chosen the name “fantasy”.

This is more barely relevant “whataboutism” bull. With a moronic isolationist twist.

I do rather like the Chinese president shows up in the US in an American-built plane...

The X-32 was far more broken than the X-35. Maybe they would have managed the project better than Lockheed, but they had a lot more ground to cover. The good thing would have been that the F-22 would not have been cancelled, because unlike the F-35, Boeing’s offering does not look like an air superiority fighter, so…

Holy shit.

“Putin is an extremely pragmatic politician; a complete realist as a diplomat.”

and if you talk to any Georgian military, its WAY more than the reported 70 Russian losses.

1. That’s true, if you’re watching RT. If you paid attention to any reputable news source, you’d have heard of stunning Russian defeats during the first 48 hours of the invasion, and significant tactical failures during the first five days.

You can win every battle, and still lose the war. That was the lesson we (America) learned in Vietnam. Georgian forces could not sustain the fight for the long term, but you can look granularly at how they conducted the war, and it was shaping up poorly for the Russians. Russia had to commit overwhelming resources to…

Answer: not enough. Russian economy has contracted nearly 5% this year, and no likelihood of positive growth through 2016. The only positive on the whole Russian balance sheet is they’ve reduced foreign borrowing significantly, but even that is at the expense of their reserves (which they’re chewing through rather…

Well, absent a UN mandate to the contrary, yes they do have a right to fire on foreign jets flying about Syrian airspace if they’re acting at the behest of the Syrian government. It would be monumentally stupid, but they wouldn’t be breaking any laws.

He was president for 8 months. That’s not a way to divert the responsibility onto his predecessor (though it wouldn’t be unfair), but the planning likely didn’t commence on Inauguration day.

Everyone in the Pentagon must be salivating at the chance to see what kind of expeditionary force capability the modern Russian military is actually capable of fielding. We must be deploying every snooping asset in our arsenal to the Mediterranean right now.

I hate to be that guy, but 2nd paragraph, “Russia’s A-10 Warthog”?