Kinda hard to rev up the outrage machine when the Chinese are deploying a bunch of unarmed planes in their own airbase.

Exactly. This stuff has beeen going on since Alexander the Great’s first campaign. The use of contractors in war zones just further guarantees it will happen.

I scrolled through that whole link of four Ethiopian women working as prostitutes, and there was not a picture of any of them. Damn waste of my time.

At least in Utah, alcohol is definitely a greater sin than sexual deviancy.

In Saudi, we made our own.

Bringing back Cuban cigars was my thing.

Heh, and I felt ballsy every time I smuggled a fifth of tequila into Al Udeid.

You’re probably confused because it’s a terrible, incomplete article that seems to be written only to make fun of Samsung and vaping.

I don’t understand why seals need a submarine anyway . They can swim fine.

I consider the effect of many MIRVs on a small area when thinking of my end-times scenarios.

Actually from my time in USN, most of the “FTO (For Training Only)“ gear was legit gear. The only difference was that because it was used and reused for training purposes the effectiveness in an actual emergency was debatable. so it is labeled FTO or Training so that in a real emergency you don’t accidentally grab the…

How can anything the guards do be considered excessive? They are about to be boarded by armed pirates who will kill if they feel it is necessary. Pretty sure ‘about to be boarded by pirates with rifles who are going to kidnap and take us hostage and all of our cargo’ justifies deadly force.

I’m sure someone, someplace, somehow, thinks that spending $60 million to shut down an airfield for a couple dozen hours seems like a good idea.

Russia: Silly Americans! We have low-frequency L-band radars which can see your vaunted stealth aircraft, and we can direct our fighters and missiles against them with ease!

You were komrade..... you mentioned China’s “second strike capability”.

Considering the size of China, I highly doubt they would deploy their ICBMs that close to S. Korea or Japan anyway.

Target it with what?

They’re a naive minority who doesn’t understand geopolitics or history.

Yes of course.