Umm...what? The US uses local forces because the US doesn’t want to be a colonial power in permanent occupation of a country. So you NEED domestic allies who will run the country after the dictator is toppled. Otherwise you’ve just get another Somalia or Libya: countries run by warlords with an impotent, nominal…

Ehh...that’s a bit dramatic. The USSR had big strategic goals and would spend decades building up communist allies. Putin is, perhaps deliberately, random and fleeting. Georgia and Ukraine were over in weeks.

No, the US doesn’t assassinate leaders. At least not since the comedicly incompetent attempts to off Castro. It wasn’t American soldiers literally shoving bayonets up Ghadifi’s ass. That was the Libyans.

Eh...US doesn’t have single payer because insurance/healthcare lobbyists and conservative orthodoxy. The US spends far more than Europe on healthcare. In theory, the US could have a far bigger military if it went single-payer and stuffed even a fraction of the savings into the Pentagon.

Maybe. But it’s arguable the Arab Spring wouldn’t have happened without Iraq and it’s dysfunctional but still freely elected democracy. Not that Iraq wasn’t a clusterfuck, point is: butterfly effect.

The F-117 was a really, really primitive stealth aircraft. Not only was its shape a result of 70’s era computers being unable to handle curves, but the faceted design was optimized for specific frequency ranges, and was markedly less effective against other frequencies. As a result, they liberally slathered a heavy,…

If killing Assad was the goal, he’d be dead. You could park a B-2 or F-22 30 minutes away from Damascus without anyone knowing and drop a JDAM on the first building the embedded spotters watch him go into. They could also just bomb every government building in Damascus and the military and civilian commands…

The aggressor in what? A shooting war? Haha. No. Putin is a thug, not an idiot. He can’t win a shooting war. His conventional forces are paltry and nobody wins a nuclear war. He knows this.

France has been extremely expeditionary lately. Syria, Libya, central Africa...

This isn’t stated enough. If the goal of Israel OR America was really overthrow, it would be done already. The USAF could have parked a B-2 or F-22 in orbit over the med or Iraq and be within 30 minutes of removing Assad immediately and no one would even know until after the bombs hit. He’d walk into a building and…

Russia has laser guided bombs and missiles, which are still the gold standard for accuracy. No one doubts they could match the capabilities of the US Paveway series, which reliest on decades old tech. Pretty sure they even used them in Georgia.

And how is that not STILL a true statement? They don’t object to Russia helping with Daesh. It’s a blanket statement that excludes any one of a million possible caveats for the sake of brevity.

This is an amazing remix of that gif. You don’t have nearly enough stars.

Pretty sure any of the MS Flight Simulators would have this beat by 10 times. That sim had “paid DLC” a decade before that acronym was ever invented. $70 addons are not unheard of. In fact, some of them are quite popular. But they have so much functionality (and accuracy) that you’d need to build one of those insane…

Did you even bother to do any research before throwing your brain feces at me? Tyler sure didn’t before posting. Go click the link. They cite a figure of $87 million (2007 dollars, also rounded down from $87.7)for an F-22. That buys you one empty airframe. No engines (10 million apiece), no avionics ($29 million), and…

First, the F-35 carries AIM-120s internally. Not AIM-9s. Your grasp of the obvious facts remains consistent. I mean, they’re wrong, but they’re consistently so.

I’d be wary of getting to know her. Being superficially charismatic, lying and being unwilling to admit to mistakes in the face of facts are textbook examples of narcissistic personalities.

You’re sounding desperate. Also, really fucking ignorant. None of the things you said are remotely true. For someone who posts on a car site, I LAUGHED at your suggestion that highways are the same thing as your fucking driveway. You know nothing Joest Snow.

I’m getting my info FROM earth. You seem to be pulling figures from your ass.

Why do you feel entitled to be a freeloader on the rest of society? The roads you drive on would not exist without public support. The internet you read this on would not exist without decades of government research grants and subsidies.