By proxy, Russia is going to control Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Oil, strategic ports, trade, and global influence. You know, all the things we used to care about before Obama took us into the postmodern era, in which all we need are good feelings and a sense that we’re ‘on the right side of history’, whatever that means.

Vacate the rings. Contract the Pats. Bulldoze Foxboro.

Wehraboos always like to credit Germans with doing everything first and best. While portraying the Americans, British and Russians as being far behind. When there are many many instances of this just not being the case.

No, they have built weapons to take pot shots from long ranges at key C2 and enabler targets and they have adapted them to fit in an aircraft that is suitable for that role. They have not built a fighter for wining 5th gen fighter vs fighter BVR engagements.

The North is a massive military threat, albeit an apocalyptic one for itself. A couple barrages of artillery and Seoul is gone, SF causing chaos deep inside the country etc. It’s like MAD with conventional weapons, now nuclear. As far as a sustained conventional threat, no, but like I said the damage will already be…

Try working with millenials. “I know I didn’t have a great year, but I still deserve a raise because....”

I’m enjoying these shorts so much that I kind of wish these were the new versions of the characters in the actual comics as well...

Gezz your full of sunshine :-p

I know a lot of people are really butthurt about what they see as forced diversity but I for one am happy to see a comics publisher attack one of the biggest complaints of comics in general: stagnation. I hate that comics have spent years maintaining the status quo—a status quo that is very politically arcane in this…

“Every X-Men Fan I’ve spoken to”

No, I’m not. I’ve been reading X-Men comics for over 20 years and I’m not sitting here tearing my hair out, screaming to the heavens that they’re being marginalized and that there’s some great conspiracy to sweep them under the rug. I choose to use my brain and see that there are something like 6 X-ongoings (or were,…

This Iron Man seems really youthful - which I know sounds silly, but that armor is a far cry from the recent designs. It could just be Marquez’s art, but it makes me think it’s someone like Iron Lad in the armor, or one of the many teen geniuses in the MU (Amadeus Cho would be great).

Symbols, ceremony, standards and tradition are also parts of a military. They mean something. These are not empty gestures on a barren stage.

So, almost all evidence on Putins motiviation is based on the expressions of a man renown for having an expressionless face. Putin has extremely high approval ratings at home, he doesn’t have to invade half a continent to get what he already has.

Yes, we have all heard the grand old story of Evil Putin marching into Eastern Europe to rebuild the USSR. The only issue is that that story lacks a lot of detail and is told by countries with an agenda.

Possibly but I doubt it. Any attempt to join NATO would be fiercely opposed by the population there. In the population’s eyes, being neutral means you can’t be attacked, which is not really the case if you are hosting NATO troops but you know...

Well, not sure exactly, but I am sure Russia does not appreciate how such a “Neutral” country is so friendly to NATO forces. They are pretty much a NATO member in every way except on paper. If it ever came down to a shooting war, I am sure NATO planes would operate from Swedish bases and then Sweden would go wailing…

Western Naval Theory Throughout the Years

Ur right. I sit at my computer with my pants around my ankles looking at IAF videos on YouTube with “rocked you like a hurricane” on.

I lived In Israel from 2000 through mid 2002 in a small kibbutz right out side Tel Nof. Every day multiple times a day in fact the bases F15, F16 and F4 fighters would fly at mack over the kibbutz on thier way to the Mediterranean Sea. Depending on where one was on the grounds you could see the windows and doors…