Navy just can’t let Air Force have a headline.

But they pressed on! Because how humiliating would it be if they gave up in front of the French?

Historically it’s been war-torn throughout most of history, especially over religion, only settling down when ruled by an empire, and most of the territorial disputes today can be laid at the feet of the British. But sure, blame the US, which has mostly focused on anti-communism, preservation of Israel, and…

It’s the same sort of noise you’d hear from either a bunch of small desert creatures eking out a new home under your basement

The fact that Russia is using few precision guided weapons in its air war over Syria, and largely lacks modern targeting pod technology, is their Achilles heal. If they want to be even close to being accurate when attempting to strike small targets, their fixed-wing aircraft have to attack at lower altitudes.

Not really. America gets most of its oil from Canada, and we’ve made ridiculous gains in developing domestic oil sources. Saudi oil represents less than 10% of the imported oil per year and it’s falling as the price of oil keeps tanking.

Equally important question - would you say that Russia lost sixteen Frogfoots last week, or Frogfeet?

The hole in your logic is that you assume that when one side or the other gets the upper hand the “civilian” tragedy will cease.

This kind of idea never went wrong before...

The Cold War started again when the Russians annihilated the Georgian Military in two weeks when the US and Israel were training and arming Georgia to be a Vietnam for the Russians.