True. Russian soldiers on exercises have often ended up in Ukraine by mistake.

It’s not Japan ramping up the tensions in the region, but China by its extra territorial actions that are illegal under international law. Japan is reacting to those actions and also its need to protect its SLOC especially the ones through the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the seas surrounding the home…

This is largely due to Japanese corporate culture against American corporate culture.

Not gonna happen. Not in my lifetime. Japan has almost nothing to gain and any gains by China would be completely offset by the problems it would create. The Chinese like money. They aren’t gonna get into a fight just to shoot themselves in the foot. Sanctions would be so damning it would set China back generations.

The genocide isn’t necessarily the main problem, it’s that 70 years later,(thanks to Shinzo Abe) Japan is only beginning to acknowledge what happened. They are our allies, but they need to grow up and face their past (talking about WWII is very unpopular in Japan).

FYI, the main reason why the F-22 is banned from export is the software. Put simply, it has zero security. You can dump the whole system simply by walking up and plugging a laptop into it (it uses FireWire, so cables are cheap and plentiful) and running the right commands. It’s inherently permissive, because it was…

Lol. This dude sounds like a prick.

Hmmmm, seems like it prohibits a clear view of ones surroundings IMO.

He punched a 70 year old man. That is like punching a woman. Plus, he did it in front of his granddaughters.

You’d think that the VAG Group would have the technology to adjust engine settings when the car senses that it’s being run in a static environment and not moving . . . . .

Spend some time in Japan and these questions become “oh, that’s why.”

Looks like the wifi at Malheur Refuge is working fine

American pickups are most distinctly characterized by extravagantly inefficient use of the footprint, because when it came time for them to evolve past the 1950's everyone was in love with the American Trucker Folk Hero who drove a Rig with a big chrome schnozz. European forms were attempted, but ultimately lost out…

Given that Keurigs brew a fluid not too far from Syntec Blend, putting Castrol livery decals could only help.

The Chinese have been "innovating" in that space as well:

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