Good Times in Ukraine and Russia

[Sully151]

4 hours ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

I guess we finally know the plot of Top Gun 2

[St1ck]

5 hours ago, Blarg said:

Then take all of that old shit and make one run at the convoy and straff the living hell out of them. It might be a Midway moment where the best of their force stay above to pick off the Soviet response and hope they do some damage to the sitting ducks on the ground. 

If they can successfully plow the fields with the old Migs, even if they lose them it cripples the supply line. But it has to happen before that convoy can get out of their own way otherwise there is less damage that can be done and losses would be primarily Ukrainian. 

Killing the convoy could be equivalent of sinking Yamamotos carriers. It buys time, lots of time and forces the ground troops to pull back to resupply. Otherwise they are running on empty tanks and rationing bullets and food. 

General Blarg 

[Blarg]

Plan would have worked if it was still 1941.

[Jay]

I'm not an expert on the Polish Air Force but the old jets are usually updated with new electronics over the years. You keep the old planes flying and update them with new technology whenever possible.

I saw this when I was in the Air Force in the 80's. The planes I worked on were from the 60's and early 70's but they were constantly being updated. For example the original F4-E fighters had analog computers for the radar missile systems, because there were no digital computers. Later the analog computers were retrofitted with digital computers which calculated the same number but were more reliable. Same goes for other systems that were originally analog but later upgraded to digital.

Besides that there were advancements in electronic countermeasures that were added.

That's not to say that the old planes are a match for the latest fighters but they do have some capability, and with the right tactics should be able to do some damage against ground targets.

[gotbeer]

2 hours ago, Sully151 said:

I guess we finally know the plot of Top Gun 2

It would be awesome if they redid Top Gun 2 to make the villains the Russians again.  

[Blarg]

Putin can't push the button for launch, that is the Militaries responsibility. He can tell them to and they can shoot him in the head and move on from his administration. A scaling down of the war on the Ukraine would immediately take place and we all go back to hating China. Because their heads of the military and ours both understand there would be a net zero survival for any nation that opens the doors of their silos. 

It's a game of chicken and the first to call for a first strike gets their heads cut off. We would do the same with Biden if he were to call for a first strike. Granted they would simply call for his removal from office due to metal incompetency but he would be removed all the same. 

 

 

[Lou]

Hi @Adam

[Redondo]

Volunteers turned away as more than 100K Ukrainians return to fight for their homeland

 

Even while 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country amid the Russian invasion in the past two weeks, more than 100,000 Ukrainians and others have flocked to Ukraine in order to fight Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces, according to Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Ukrainians on the ground tell Fox News Digital that volunteers have been turned away from the army because it lacks weapons.

"More than 140,000 Ukrainians, mostly men, have returned from Europe," Reznikov wrote in a Facebook post Monday. "Tens of thousands joined the Territorial Defense Forces. Of course, there are those who run away. But the whole world sees the Ukrainian people fighting for their country."

[Redondo]

Experts point to next countries Putin might invade after Ukraine

Many are keeping one eye on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as Putin wages his war on Ukraine. That's because the three Baltic States sit sandwiched between Russia, its close ally Belarus, the Baltic Sea and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. 

Because all three countries are NATO members, it's not expected that Putin would take physically aggressive action against them, according Penn State professor emerita of political science Donna Bahry. 

"The Baltics are vulnerable, but a direct Russian military strike against NATO countries seems unlikely for now," Bahry told Fox News Digital. "That doesn’t rule out Russian efforts such as cyberattacks and other covert actions. In fact, all three Baltic countries have experienced cyberattacks from Russia for some years."

 

[Redondo]

ABC's Jonathan Karl baffled by Biden sanctioning 'everything but' Russian oil: 'Extraordinary'

ABC News' Jonathan Karl said on "This Week" Sunday that it was "extraordinary" the Biden administration was sanctioning everything but Russian oil, "the thing that drives their economy." 

"The question of banning the import of oil and gas from Russia," Karl said. "It is not insignificant. We actually take in more petroleum from Russia then we do from Saudi Arabia. It's extraordinary, George, for all the sanctions that have been imposed, and they have been unprecedented on Russia, to sanction everything but the thing that drives our economy." 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abcs-jonathan-karl-baffled-biden-sanctioning-everything-but-russian-oil-extraordinary

[Amazing Larry]

WTI is at $118 and Brent is at $122 a barrel. Enjoy $6 gas this week. 

[Jason]

26 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

WTI is at $118 and Brent is at $122 a barrel. Enjoy $6 gas this week. 

We really need to start drilling more oil here domestically. It’s stupid that they haven’t already done that 

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

We really need to start drilling more oil here domestically. It’s stupid that they haven’t already done that 

Biden and his incompetent crew want to outlaw fossil fuels eventually and run the country on solar and wind power. Out of touch with reality. 

[Kotchman]

Gas prices are simply classic dem strategy of never let a crisis go to waste. We have the means of energy independence yet we tax the people under the ruse of international crisis. This is a shell game to shift blame and focus away from the dems horseshit covid and economic crisis to the situation in Russia. A smart leader would use these sanctions as a means to further expand our own world dominance. 

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Biden and his incompetent crew want to outlaw fossil fuels eventually and run the country on solar and wind power. Out of touch with reality. 

I get the need to move towards green energy and we will someday but reality says we aren’t there yet. 

[Jay]

According to this:

Imports from Russia are only a few percent of the total. I don't see what the big deal is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independence

 

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

We really need to start drilling more oil here domestically. It’s stupid that they haven’t already done that 

And yet, Calolfornia and Lol Angeles is trying to ban most drilling.  

[Amazing Larry]

We should be building nuclear power plants. It’s the cleanest type of energy we can use at a massive scale. Solar and wind are a joke. We should also be producing as much domestic oil as humanly possible. 

[gotbeer]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

According to this:

Imports from Russia are only a few percent of the total. I don't see what the big deal is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independence

 

 

We need to invade Canada so our imports go down.

[gotbeer]

Just now, Lhalo said:

We should be building nuclear power plants. It’s the cleanest type of energy we can use at a massive scale. Solar and wind are a joke. We should also be producing as much domestic oil as humanly possible. 

Closing those nuclear plants down in Calolfornia too.  We are so advanced, that we have to conserve energy at the peak 5-9 pm time like some third world country.

[Redondo]

• Netflix suspends service in Russia amid Ukraine invasion

 

This should get Putin to stop

[fan_since79]

14 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Closing those nuclear plants down in Calolfornia too.  We are so advanced, that we have to conserve energy at the peak 5-9 pm time like some third world country.

SCE moved me into a TOU (Time of Use) plan and my electricity rate skyrockets between 5-8 pm. 

It was really the best of some very bad plans as I'm often out of the house during those hours.

[Jason]

32 minutes ago, Jay said:

According to this:

Imports from Russia are only a few percent of the total. I don't see what the big deal is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independence

 

They should not be getting a penny from us to fund their war 

[Jay]

How much oil does the US get from Russia?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/3/how-much-oil-does-the-us-import-from-russia
 

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In 2021, the US imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) trade association.

This represented three percent of US crude oil imports and one percent of the total crude oil processed by US refineries. By contrast, the US imported 61 percent of its crude oil from Canada, 10 percent from Mexico, and six percent from Saudi Arabia in the same year.

 

I'm just saying if only 1 percent of the U.S. oil is from Russia it shouldn't be hard to find it somewhere else.

However:

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Russian exports account for eight percent of the global oil supply

Which is a pretty good chunk so if everyone stops taking Russian oil it will drive up the price.

 

[Jay]

Funny how it's always about the oil.