The US Navy deployed Dolphins as underwater sentinels for Navy vessels in port. The idea was to have them swim around and detect approaching hostiles looking to mine ports, or sabotage ships from underwater.

You mean this?

Would you like Hellfires with that?

Propaganda designed solely to obfuscate issues, and push an agenda— is not a “good look at another side of an argument.” It’s propaganda.

And Great Britain controlled the SCS for a considerable period of time, and Hong Kong up until the 1990s. Does that give the current UK government the right to return, build stupid islands on reefs in other nation’s legitimately claimed territory, and start bullying those other nations?

I doubt the Russian Federation wants to start giving back the land they’ve illegally seized— both historically, and presently...

“Just like the US siezed California and many other parts of the world.”

“Do you really think that China is being purely aggressive for the sake of being purely aggressive ?”

Seriously, RT is your source?

“...we are economically fucked when China calls in the debt to pay for wiping NK off the face of the earth. Russia, who knows.”

Oh, I agree. It’s just hard to resist making fun of the world’s most bizarre state.

“Hory Marx! Yes! That’s it! The good of all man kind... Let the KCNA propaganda flow through you like undercooked Korean BBQ...”

Tubby Despot III has watched wayyyyyy too many Bond movies if THAT thing is his nuclear bomb.

Art History majors probably make for nice cannon fodder...

Oh yeah, that deal made for some very strange bedfellows. The Hardliners in Iran were doing just about everything in their power to scuttle the talks led by the civilian government, and their moderate President. Iranians understand US politics better than most Americans do. They knew what the process was for approving…

Looks like the hardliners are acting out again. This time probably due to their fairly significant election loss 1 week ago...

You know, that’s the EXACT same thing I heard from some of the Navy brass at the Pentagon. They said the F-35 was going along pretty nicely until the Marines requested a VTOL variant, and the USAF began making pretty significant change orders to add capabilities (which were unrelated to the VTOL). SECNAV tried to talk…

The problem is when the F-22 was canceled by SECDEF Gates, that program, too, was facing a myriad of issues. In fact, I distinctly remember the sentiment being almost as negative towards the F-22 platform at the time because of these continuing issues.