When I challenged other people in another thread, it became very much clear: the belief that Russia is a podunk, 2-bit has been that needs to be put in it’s place.

How bellicose even liberal democrats (typical of the leanings here) are towards those that interfere with The Anointed One’s coronation to POTUS. ;)

But…

Counter argument:

The rest of the world doesn’t roll out a red carpet for immigrants like the Western world. And those nukes will never be used.

That determination is up to his superiors, not the public.

Our guidelines do spell out the black and white areas.

What these Seals did was inappropriate but hilarious.

Municipal fiber initiatives are the initial way forward.

Put it up to ballot, have a city lay down fiber, and have the city rent out the cables to anyone as a utility. Po-dunk, 2nd-tier ISP companies will instantly compete with Time Warner (aka “Spectrum”), Comcast, et. al. As was done in Sweden.

People actually have…

Brazil besides not having a nuclear deterrent, neither is in any position to politically effect the West. That nuclear arsenal has also been upgraded substantially, though far from completely. I have reservations about some of it, but a significant-enough fraction of it has been modernized and is completely relevant.

I…

Talk is cheap, but with both Bush and Obama there were veritable handfuls of people who refused deployment orders. It ended poorly for them, invariably.

At least that made the news. To be clear: less than 10 that I can recall in Army Times / Military Times. (which is the type of paper which SEEKS those stories)

Permanent sanctions will lead to permanent hacking and political unrest stirred by the Kremlin, along her periphery, or, perhaps the collapse of Putin’s Russia, which is many things if not unpredictable.

But I can guarantee you this: a new Russian leader will still lead a country where the ports freeze in Winter, the…

I wish him the best because if he doesn’t succeed we will all pay the price.

An unstable ally is one which isn’t cleanly allied with the Kremlin or the West. From the Russian point of view, this is quite often a net positive, though not always.

It’s not then logical to insist on all of Ukraine falling. Russia doesn’t need that to have her security enhanced. In fact, aggressively and openly…

I had a great thought: in the same vein as this picture (which is great) I wonder if someone could exercise sufficient Google-Fu & No-Lifing and come up with a similar chart using circles, and add off-colored rings to other countries NOT the USA, to represent the proportional amount of American military investment,…

What I’m gleaming from this is that someone in the Extended Gawker Verse agreed immigration is an existential security threat for the Western World. After all, it’s contributing to nativism which is helping to undermine Western security alliances & the EU, which Putin wants.

REALLY FUCKING SHORT VERSION: Putin wants…

You’re right, as of 2015:

Ah, FA’s bellicose Mr. Hyde. Beating those war drums loud & proud.

There is not a lot to divine from the tea leaves that China is particular disposed to a kind of Pearl Harbour-esque attack which would bring about a proper shooting war.

And much ado is made in this piece that Trump would be the instigator, though it’s frankly not persuasive. You’re appealing largely to built-in…

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere the SEQUAL: China 

They’re just smart enough not to directly attack America while doing so, and, seem quite content to go about it slowly. Unlike Imperial Japan.

Whatever else you think of them, they’re not idiots, and they can see beyond the lengths of their own time in political…

^ A POTUS is gonna watch literally the WORLD’S MOST WANTED MAN, Osama, certainly, be taken out.
This was 1 raid; 1 operation of thousands which will take place this calendar year. No POTUS SHOULD be living up to this insane, idealized standard of micromanagement people here evidently think is normal.

This is a more-reasonable hot take than the original article, which is needless over-politicization — par for FA’s course.