Did the people get to vote on those EU aspirations? No, we accepted the mob as a surrogate which is a dangerous precedent. Did the new government let the people vote on that? Of course not.

So all Ukrainians know 100% of the truth and no one else does? Everyone knows that if the eastern Ukraine conflict wasn't going on, NATO membership would have been a slam dunk.

Remember that their military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, is disbanded. So why is ours still in existence when the reason for its existence is completed? We claimed we wanted to be friends with Russia, but only if we could make insane amounts of money off of them.

We most certainly did exactly that. John McCain went there and backed the mob.

Of course they do. They can then divert their defense spending into economic development and let us spend and be committed to thermonuclear war to rescue them. What possible downside could there be for them?

I have seen the Nazi-inspired militias blamed for the shootings and with good reason, given their tendency to violence. Remember, Ukraine sent them to east Ukraine to fight the separatists, so they must have made themselves useful to the mob-installed government. So this government is somehow better because it has no…

Not an official enemy. There's been no declaration of war. Intervention, yes, Declaration, no.

I find it hilarious that we easily mock the Russians for dropping dumb bombs in Syria, yet we fly one of the most ancient planes in anyone's air force and act all proud about it. Go figure.

Yes, let's revive up Cold War II. The military-industrial complex will be happy you drank the Kool-Aid. If Europe can't defend themselves by now, they never will and deserve anything they get. As for Putin, go back and check and you will see that WE were the ones backing a MOB to overthrow a PROPERLY ELECTED Ukrainian…

I'm sure the Chinese can see what's on them!

Not to mention that they are computers made in China. What could possibly go wrong?

Since when has the Constitution mattered lately? Congress and the President violate it on a regular basis.

Meanwhile, the Chinese are hacking the Pentagon, along with the rest of DoD and the entire U.S. military industry.

The Marines version of the F-35 is why the Navy and Air Force versions don't have the range that they need. The wide fuselage for the ducted fan leaves a less than ideal aerodynamic airframe for the rest.

Our military continues to suffer due to our new American doctrine of perpetual war. You cannot keep man and machine running full tilt without paying the price.

We are going to replace the B-52 with this? I suspect that by the time we see the real price, we'll only be able to afford 2, judging by the B-2 example.

“Expected to cost approximately $564 million apiece” I almost laughed out loud at this one. Is that why it is going to be a Cost Plus contract?

The real question is why didn't the Air Force plan on a replacement close air support aircraft to replace the A-10? The F-35 is obviously not an appropriate replacement. Time to clean out the Air Force's planning department because they certainly aren't doing much planning. It's hard to look like a world-class…

Why? We started the whole mess by backing an Ukrainian mob over a properly elected government in order to try to get Ukraine into NATO. We were determined to have a pro-Western government and if the current government would not, we simply endorsed their overthrow. Only then did Russia see a danger to the naval base…

The Soviet generals were all yes-men and they beat Germany. Put a gun behind the generals and guns behind the troops and that will give them plenty of initiative. After all, they might survive the assault; they won't survive the retreat.