US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[mookie1995]

mookie asked about the US capability to shoot down icbms.
do none of the rocket scientist here know?

surely the number of armchair variety have an answer to share from their thesis!!

[LynahFan]

1. We have the capability.

2. The capability is unproven.

3. Therefore, we must act as if we don't have the capability.

(4. Why the @#$%@$@ did we spend our treasure on that crap?)

[rufus]

I guess we can chalk Handy up as in favor of killing 9 million.

[bronconick]

mookie asked about the US capability to shoot down icbms.
do none of the rocket scientist here know?

surely the number of armchair variety have an answer to share from their thesis!!

They've only had limited success with tests.

[Russell Jaslow]

Israel as mediator? This is very interesting.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/202...newday-vpx.cnn

[Wayuphere]

I guess we can chalk Handy up as in favor of killing 9 million.

NFZ=A show of force and the start of WW3. What is the purpose, to prevent what? This is a ground war with most of the damage/casualties a result of artillery and ground based missile launches(to include cluster bombs). If Russia starts an Air campaign, then a NFZ should be considered. Let’s be real, if they wanted, Russia could turn Ukraine into a wasteland using air power only. Right now, the only result of a NFZ would be the vaporizing of all of Ukrainians and millions of others. Seems quite counter productive….

[aparch]

A long and interesting read translated (allegedly) from an FSB agent.

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/statu...01348780199937

[Drew S.]

I guess we can chalk Handy up as in favor of killing 9 million.

If we appease Putin enough he will eventually back down.

[rufus]

If we appease Putin enough he will eventually back down.

Yeah, we're appeasing him.

****ing moron.

[rufus]

NFZ=A show of force and the start of WW3. What is the purpose, to prevent what? This is a ground war with most of the damage/casualties a result of artillery and ground based missile launches(to include cluster bombs). If Russia starts an Air campaign, then a NFZ should be considered. Let’s be real, if they wanted, Russia could turn Ukraine into a wasteland using air power only. Right now, the only result of a NFZ would be the vaporizing of all of Ukrainians and millions of others. Seems quite counter productive….

Yeah. Why do you need a no fly zone when so far, the Russian air power is nowhere to be seen? And when they do show up, they're getting shot down.

This levelling of cities isn't from air attacks, its long and short range artillery, missiles. A no fly zone does nothing to change that, and instead, just escalates an already bad situation.

But the dumb****s like Drew are all for it. Who cares what the consequences might be? You're showing STRENGTH!!!!!

[ScoobyDoo]

Chuck Todd does it again. Manchin and Haley on this morning. He may as well hand the midterms to the Republicans.

[bronconick]

Chuck Todd does it again. Manchin and Haley on this morning. He may as well hand the midterms to the Republicans.

Ex-Trump official Nikki Haley on Putin: 'You never sleep with the devil because then the devil owns you'

Who wants to tell her?

[Wayuphere]

Well, at least with a NFZ we will literally have a birds eye view of the destruction happening thousands of feet below. Russian troops can wave to our NATO jets from below as they fire off their ground based missiles and cluster bombs and all our pilots can do is a wing wave implying “that’s a no-no”.
Seriously, be it Trump, Putin, or any oligarch, their wallets are the weak link. It’s working and let it continue to work, until it doesn’t work. Then, we can all crawl under our desks and kiss our asses goodbye…..

[rufus]

Russian supply and logistics problems are so bad that they're shipping up any and all available civilian trucks they can find to the front lines. Twitter footage of a train in Russia loaded with them.

They say an army travels on its stomach. Or in this case, on its fuel. Ukrainian forces are targeting every Russian supply truck convoy they can find, preventing that fuel and resupply from getting to the front lines.

That 40 mile long convoy? Undoubtedly out of gas by now, and probably with dead batteries too. Russia supply trucks were in short supply before the invasion, and they've suffered devastating losses amongst them since. If they can't get fuel to those convoys, they're just useless.

Pretty much all they can do now is lob artillery, and they may even be beginning to run short on that. The longer Ukraine forces can continue to hold the major cities, the worse this will get for Russia.

[dxmnkd316]

One of the people at Bellingcat, who I'd never heard of previously, but are an independent group of citizen journalists, investigators, and researchers, is saying that the Russian army doesn't have the material or financing to continue functioning beyond Sunday.

We'll see.

Bellingcat is great. Do a search for the posts on here that I've mentioned before. The stories they do are kind of beyond belief in content and how thorough they are. They've been able to track down IDs of FSB agents and how they poisoned Navalny then had Navalny call these guys. Just incredible stuff. I