Meanwhile in England

Eh, as strange as it seems, perhaps Putin never was considering a long-term Russian military presence in Syria. If I remember correctly, when Russian forces started arriving in Syria he specifically mentioned the fact that it would not be a long-term deployment. Maybe he literally decided to commit until the…

That’s what I’ve been thinking as well, kind of the idea that ‘look, we’ll come in and help you focus on the rebels and get you in a stronger bargaining position for peace talks, but you have got to cut out all of the other crazy shit your government is involved in.’

“Through-decked cruiser”, I believe you mean. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles approves.

The honesty is refreshing from the Kremlin....

I don’t know how “impressive” that was. They moved onto an existing piece of tarmac, with some existing structures, and ultimately prosecuted an air campaign at something well below the tempo and efficiency of even the smallest aircraft carrier.

I don’t understand. Do you have an example of when Russia has been bogged down in a war of choice since Afghanistan?

Russia’s not Iran. They do have a real carrier:

Every time I see Putin in the headlines I get hungry. There is this weird local Italian restaurant owned by Russians that have this Putanesca Pizza that is really good. Dammit it is too early for dinner and too late for lunch.

And once again Vlad leaves egg on America’s face as we look with much envy on his Syrian power gains and we shake our heads on the lack of an exit strategy. Putin 1- Berry 0.

That’s what Putin wants you to think...

Check the header. You’re on Foxtrot Alpha.

Those silly Russians. If they were a proper superpower like the U.S., they would never learn anything from past mistakes and would jump at the chance to get bogged down in a protracted and unwinnable war of choice.

Well this is 9 kinds of shady. Still, it would have been hilarious if they had made it to Portland.

No, it would have likely freed up money. Buying a couple hundred light attack aircraft at the cost of a few billion dollars would likely have saved much more money by offsetting a portion of the many billions in fuel, operational and lifecycle costs inflicted by using America’s now run-down fast jet fleet in the same…

No i will just not read jalopnik or kinja anymore

Nope. There used to be a special url (had “pure” in it IIRC) that would disable shared posts, but I think it died in one of the upgrades. You’ll just have to live with cool planes :P

masses of retiring Pentagon officials could not get cush carriers in the defense sector because of it.

Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.