Excellent choice, RoK.

Really? It looks like one of those exotic planes that don’t really need wings to me.

Targets can exist within a wide region (Washington, Baltimore, New York, Boston all exist within a potential arc) but my point still stands, we would not retaliate with nuclear weapons on Chinese soil for the lose of a carrier, thats absurd.

Definitely looks like a video game. In fact, that’s what I thought it was. The image of the fleet shows a carrier in the distance. American carriers don’t have an opening under the bow catapult.

Except when they are. Who funded the America’s Army franchise, again?

Actually, I’m reasonably sure that America would never try to retaliate with nuclear weapons until detonations were found, unless they found the American Mainland on the receiving end of a massive-scale first strike. The potential for apocalypse is just too large.

Not exactly; nuclear retaliation is something that is regarded with extraordinary caution. As a rule, until a detonation’s occurred, nobody’s going to be shooting back.

We would never go nuclear in response to a conventional attack. This scenario does not mesh with our nuclear doctrine.

Yes, but one important problem in Ukraine is that Ukraine brought all of the current political and ethnic conflicts upon itself on its own. Ever since independence from USSR. the Ukrainian nationalists who were often in control of government had stauchingly refused to acknowledge the fact that Ukraine is a…

Not really. China supports them, but it is as much because they don’t want millions of North Korean refugees pouring into the country if North Korea collapses. There’s no love there. Indeed there’s significant popular resentment in the parts of China due to cheap North Korean labor being used there (what’s Mandarin…

It’s just a peace at all costs group. The sort that believe there is nothing worth fighting for.

It is a pretty common myth that North Korea has the artillery capability to destroy Seoul. It’s simply not true. Their artillery would need to be exposed on the DMZ to be within effective range. The M-1978 170mm howitzer has a range of 40 to 60km. 60km is with rocket assisted rounds. Seoul is located 55km away at its…

This is outdated by about 5 years but it seems to contradict that statement a bit.

Which happens to many male candidates as well. Re-cycling the phases is gender-neutral in this case, and these two officers happen to have succeeded in passing them all. Brava to them!

Your tears are delicious.

You’re not pitching a fit for not being put in a female gender role because those roles are not as valued... and your gender roles are. This is because you are a man (or at least are writing as one). As a White male I see the institutional sexism around me all the time. It even trickles down to fandom (see Gamergate…

Only women are susceptible to brainwashing/being forced to worship something they don’t believe in?

Individual variation in both sexes vastly outstrips the differences between the “average” male and the “average” female. Therefore, it’s lunacy to set the rules based on which gender’s average is closer to what you’re looking for. Just set the standards that you want and take whoever can meet them.

In the weightlifting world, there’s a saying I like:

Any time I meet a woman who believe in strict gender roles I take her across my knee until she changes her mind.