Bay of Pigs still happened 18 months before Cuban Missile Crisis. Not a chicken or egg scenario.
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No, Cuba, the one that we took from Spain after the USS Maine’s boiler blew up in Havana’s harbor. The one that Teddy Roosevelt stormed up San Juan hill killing Cuban soliders that sided with Spain. That same Cuba we put a permanent Marine base on because they were a US colony and we feel entitled to continue that…
Those “murdered thousands” included thousands of CIA trained Cuban nationals we inserted in an invasion we promised to support with naval power to overthrow their government. That naval power never came.
He’s the most moderate and the most extreme. He’s taken both sides on immigrant visas and on torture in under 14 hours since the last debate. And that sir, is what makes him spectacularly dangerous. We’re almost a year into his presidential run and he doesn’t have a clue what his policies are or will be. You’ve…
Never underestimate a meglomaniac.
America has been invaded, see: War of 1812 (White House sacked and burned), the Mexican American Wars, Attu Island in Alaska during WWII and Pearl Harbor. Yet America doesn’t hold grudges against any of these invaders like Russia does to every minor transgression that has occurred since Hanibal.
Two ANG bases in Oregon: the 142nd in Portland and the 173rd in Klamath Falls—the conversation training squadron for the entire US F-15 force. This is the only fighter force on the West Coast, South of Alaska and North of San Francisco.
It’s easier to do when you have a smaller, more homogeneous population, and when you have socialized welfare, and mandatory one year maternity leave plus one year paternity leave (so the kids are well adjusted when they leave home), and childcare centers are preschools, and free higher education, and mandatory bi-…
I was on a Delta L-1011 flight from PDX to Nagoya, Japan and the gear wouldn’t retract. An Oregon ANG F-15A came off our wing to visually inspect the gear. Alas, I was on the wrong side of the widebody to see anything.
More than decades. More than half a century even.
South Korea requires American stealth technology to build their aircraft that has been refused. That a/c is dead in the water.
Let’s remember the Mitsubishi F-2 which was essentially a re-winged F-16 that went way behind schedule and way over budget (each copy was 4 times the cost of an F-16) with early wing cracking issues. Lets also remember the in-development Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) that is now delayed by at least a year, announced…
The R-77 IOC is a total sham, though.
You are aware that Gitmo is US soil, aren’t you? The US retains complete ownership and control of all its military bases and US law applies.
You forgot to include the firebombing of Japanese cities. I assume you preferred for the US to sign a peace treaties with Japan and Germany and let them assume all of Europe and SE Asian and all of the European colonial nations (or about 70% of the world).
A prediction: Around the time that the F-35B order is filled, the USAF and USN will start making noise about the unreplaced loss of capability of the A-6 and about how our old worn-out F-15E’s need a $200 million upgrade. Then Lockheed will helpfully offer the F-22B that is filled with the latest avionics from the…
I’m not all the way through the report, but pg 96 (using the .pdf pg, not the pg at the bottom) gives a break-down. IIRC, the AV-8 was more vulnerable, but isn’t in the statistics (its an other). Also, IIRC, the 9 GR.1 loses were due to them flying a low level profile to bomb airfields that wasn’t as well suited to…
You can keep decrying the free market of insurance which has priced you out of the market, but you are barking up the wrong tree blaming the ACA. ACA kept the insurance market in place with but was intended to fix coverage for about 30 million Americans, which it did. Another 60 million wouldn’t be helped (sounds like…
Regan. Debt increased 400% under his presidency. A 500 ship Navy, space-defense initiative (Star Wars), the MX missile, propping up the aristocracy in a pointless civil war in El Salvidaor through millions in military aid, and secret wars in Nicaragua (selling F-14 parts and other weapons to Iran to free Iranian held…