No way, the A-10 is bad-ass as they come. Somebody fly at me in one of those and then that nose starts spitting a supersonic buzz saw, and I am likely to soil my underthings. Ugly? No way - she’s a beastie.

Why would people think that his WH would be any different from his campaign? He consistently staffs his team with evil alt-righters and sycophants. Anyone who actually has a brain and enough cajones to tell Trump he’s wrong ends up like Tillerson.

“The only reason a coal miner would listen to President Trump is because he (the miner) is stupid and led astray by a charlatan whom YOU are so clever as to recognise.”

*snort*

Hilarious. RT is as close to a direct press office of the Kremlin as they could be without actually being inside the Kremlin itself.

I read RT about once a week. But only because I’m curious what Putin’s party line is this week.

I hope the F-35 is as effective as it is aesthetic. For the price, we better be getting the best freaking airplane ever conceived, and a complimentary free happy ending. It sure is a nice looking plane. F-22 still looks more wicked to me, though.

Trump is disavowing responsibility for the botched raid. He cannot simultaneously engage in milking sympathy for that woman’s terrible loss. One or the other.

Politically impossible for there to be no deferments or legal dodging. By the same logic, one would expect the wealthy to pay the same effective tax rate as the poor. They don’t, and they won’t.

A great question. The problem is that there is no good answer. My take is that Syria is an immense cluster, and there is no clear “good guy” to back. I have grave doubts about whether America should be engaged there at all.

If anti-satellite missiles can work, why not?

Have to disagree with you TeslaLover. As citizens of the world, we all have the right to criticize any government that we think does wrong, whether it is our own or not.

While I agree with the article, I do think it’s fair to say the Minuteman III is getting long in the tooth. It’s time for a technology refresh. My dad worked on it when I was a child, for crying out loud. However, this is not to say it is ineffective or inaccurate or unreliable. I would not want to be sitting at…

Trump’s ignorance of anything technical is well documented. It’s not biased to point it out. If you are looking for Trump-worshiping web sites, there are plenty of alternatives out there.

My father asserted to me recently that any capital ships like these would be the first things to be sunk if a major war broke out. Basically, that the concentric circles of defense nowadays are no match for the missiles and subs that would take them out. Is he right? If so why do we continue to invest hundreds of…

I wonder how often this happens and it goes unreported.

The 2% of GDP standard was a fair one. I think it’s reasonable for nations to live up to the commitment they already made.

What else would we expect Russia to do, given the US Commander in Chief doesn’t even know what the treaties are, much less care about enforcing them?

I’m tired of hearing the names “Clinton” and “Obama”. The election is over. The previous administration is history. The bozo in office today is responsible for everything that happens now. Thus far, it has been predictably bad.

The taxpayer should not reward shipbuilders, or indeed any government contractor, who has consistent safety issues.