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I mean I've done a lot of research into this topic for past few years, so unfortunately lotta sources just melt together in my brain after a while. In regards to the RAND stuff, most of that comes from here, a airdefense evaluation and recommendation study from 2016 or so.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1051.html
And then other biggest source is Ian Eastons "Chinese invasion threat" which provides a lot of information about the situation militarily for both sides.
https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Invasion-Threat-American-Strategy/dp/1546353259
> "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner"
By Daniel Fucking Ellsberg, AKA OG Snowden. Basically the Pentagon Papers weren't the only crazy shit he saw back in the day. In 2017 he published a book describing all the rest, arguing enough time had passed that he felt comfortable disclosing assorted highly classified info.
Clean Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704
While not exactly the same book, there's another book where they turned dictators into anime girls
Get him a book called Poilu. It’s the memoir of a French reservist corporal in his late 30s who was called up to fight in WW1. He fought on the Western Front from late 1914 to the spring of 1918 and saw action at Verdun, the Somme, Champagne, etc… It’s one of the best war memoirs I’ve ever read.
According to the phenomenal book "Ignition!", that's pretty much how modern rocket propellant came about. They did some theoretical work, but most of it was just "This might make a good combination, or it might blow up. Let's try it!"
Seems like he should've used a secure connection away from peering eyes.
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Check out Donald Kagan's "On the origins of War". He draws parallels between the outbreaks of the peloponesian war, punic wars and the two world wars.
Oh Ive read much. I know a book youd probably love. "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" by Omar Ashour. Absolutely PHENOMENAL BOOK. Pretty much a must read for anyone seriously interested in the ISIS war.
https://www.amazon.com/How-ISIS-Fights-Military-Tactics/dp/1474438210
Required reading for all credible history buffs.
From the author:
>It is the most dense history of the world ever read this book times and become smarter than a Harvard PHD in History. It is 210 History books that i read Paraphrased into 1 book since 2013 i have read 210 History books. Refer to the Notes to see the books that i read. I wanted to prove i had read the books. I would read 8 hours a day every day for years. It's as big as profiles in courage but objectively is the better book. Unlike a yale book which is 500 pages but has maybe 10 facts ( of course 500 page books from yale are good books though; I am not criticizing) in it and are mostly analysis and filler my book is all fact and is more similar to a 500 page college text book in quality. It has 3 pages on the nazis. It's is mostly on ancient greece ancient rome the middle ages and elightenment
Attaches to instrument, holds sheet music.
Did not recognize it instantly, probably because I played the flute though.
I want to see Nazis rocking liebermuster camo and rockin out with StG 50s.
I give you Invasion, a little-known British thriller that relies on the bizarre premise that Turkey would be absorbed by ISIS, that it would nevertheless still be able to join the EU, and that ISIS would be able to raise twenty-two armoured divisions to invade Europe with nobody noticing. They somehow manage to get as far as the UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/INVASION-Military-Thriller-Invasion-Book-ebook/dp/B004I438XA
While this was released in 2013, it appears to be a re-write of an older novel published in 2006 and setting its action in 2019 (which obviously did not age poorly at all), with the framing device of Britain being under a caliphate:
There's a full book on the fiasco
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weapon-Choice-Culture-Military-Innovation/dp/1849046506
Ultimately came down to Enfield being given the job, but hadn't built a rifle in close on 30 years and definitely not mass produced one for even longer, most of the old engineers had retired and as HK's assessment a lot of the problems came down to lack of experience
Plugging this book: 1001 Nights in Iraq
It's a true story about an Iraqi-American teenager who goes to Baghdad to visit family in 1980, then gets conscripted into the Iraqi army during the Iran-Iraq War. Later, still stuck in the Iraqi army, he fights against the Americans during Desert Storm, immediately surrenders to the US Army, gets put in a POW camp, has an affair with a US soldier, and after 15+ years, finally makes it back to the US.
If the price of Democracy is nuclear winter, i got an extra coat.
That pretty much sums it up. Personally i think objectivly and utterly evil nations have shown themselfs to always fall. Russia, China, Switzerland. All of them will end one day, one way or the other.
I think it is our responsibility as the mostly kinda Free part of the World to ensure that either Freedome win´s, or everyone loses.
That may sound harsh but for all i am concerned, living in a frustraiting democracy with real change beat´s living under a dictator with no accountability. And i am not ready and will never be to sacrifice that freendome under any situation.
As for Russia VS Ukraine. Well i have donated 1000€ at this point to Ukraine and have drivin down Food and drones with a few Friends. So it is clear to say that i want them to win.
This is on amazon for under $200.
Let me teach anyone not disabled for an afternoon and that someone will be able to kill.
DARPA dusting off Project Orion
NASA and DoD making about UFOs.
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Sounds like Footfall is perhaps not so sci-fi as advertised?
(For the uninitiated: https://www.amazon.com/Footfall-Larry-Niven/dp/0345323475/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1666752938&sr=8-1 )
#Remember_the_Jayhawks
It is often referred to as The land untouched by modern dentistry
I’ll never understand why these don’t include something like this in the ejector seat assembly to protect the pilot’s spine in case of ejection: https://www.amazon.com/Zento-Deals-Beaded-Comfort-Cushion/dp/B017WFF1OA
I think this is from Deconstructing Reagan.
https://www.amazon.com/Deconstructing-Reagan-Conservative-Mythology-President/dp/0765615908
It can also affect the hip and a leg-length discrepancy of 7mm or greater will cause sclerosis on the knee of the shorter leg (source: my giga-chad geneticist). I'm a genetic lottery loser and one component of that is my left leg being 14mm shorter than my right.
This is the go-to heel lift I've used for years and always recommend to people. You can peel the extra layers off and put them back on as is comfortable. The tapered design also does a great job of keeping excess strain off the ankle.
So no more flakage! :)
I need to make a macro for this.
In part, of course, it was intentional (to bolster the Reagan-era MIC financial firehose), but some in the larger public spheres wholeheartedly believed in it.
Some things never change, apparently.
Or, and hear me out here, its just modifies its response.
my favorite addition to this is the "standard LEGO:tm: long blaster rifle" attached to the top, which I always thought was the second most badass LEGO weapon had, right after the LEGO:tm: revolver.
I've decided that my take on the next phase of the conflict, which I'm basing on all of my vast OSINT experience (gained entirely here on Reddit and in my childhood copy of the Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War, is this: Putin's plan is to foment internal disorder that necessitates a withdrawal from Ukraine. He will stage the middle-managers and a few high-level enemies as scapegoats, blame the entire war, its incredible failure, and the "disastrous" mobilization on them, and claim that, once again, the tsar has simply been misled by his viziers. He will take credit for ending the unpopular war, and use the opportunity to knock a few enemy's hands off the levers of power.
> It’s true that democratic systems have led to the rise of awful things in the past, but do you seriously wish to compare the rap sheets of those, in your words I imagine, “sacrificed at the altar of mob rule”, to the laundry list of crimes against humanity committed in the name of kings, queens, emperors, chairmen, general secretaries, supreme leaders, Duces, and Fuhrers? Because if so, be my guest. You’ll find the numbers do not fall on your side.
The fact is the world's self-proclaimed greatest democracy, the US, has killed far more civilians than all the dictatorships combined.
You should read the book Democracy: The God That Failed and educate yourself a bit more.
Well the article is: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/world/2022/9/22/23366499/putin-russia-ukraine-war-nuclear-threat-expert
But this section is discussing a scenario written about by Fred Kaplan in his book “The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War” (link: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Fred-Kaplan/dp/1982107294?ascsubtag=[]vx[p]23130540[t]a)
Add a cheap photoshop of a soldier doing a pog face & a generic picture of a crip with clipart tears. Then have the video start with random Youtube ad like:
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Well, then you just add a drop or two of good old western (Kansas made) Da Bomb Ground Zero and your spiciness problems are solved.
Both of the linked chili crunches are good for flavor, but neither of those are trying to be spicy.
Even my college’s hallway medkit has more good quality amenities than this!, any expirations? Rot/moisture resistant in a good container bag/package?
I don’t know 🤷♀️ stuff but my bets of kits like this Emergency Survival bag and this on a community campus medkit very small yet portable
I found the gas stove that was used:
https://www.amazon.com/Yinsold-LIN-Windproof-Burner-Ultralight-Backpacking/dp/B082Q1S6BR
The pot stand on that stove is 32 cm across, the pan seemed to be wider than the pot stand. The average human head is 20-23 cm high, yet this skull fit pretty snugly in there. So my guess is photoshop.
Now this wouldn't be the first propaganda photoshop. Now this wouldn't be the first skull cooked clean for a trophy. Now this wouldn't be the first false flag with a stolen uniform. We'll see what floats to the top.
When I served I bought some from our tool shop. They were green and meant for gardening Just googled… they Write „Improved ripping strength“… used them and they just tore apart when I pulled on them
those should work on this set up.
I've been recommended to read Armies of Sand to explain how Arab militaries consistently go to shit and lose wars they have no right losing; so maybe I'll be able to get some answers from that, since it takes a deep look into Arabic culture and the background of the various countries in the region.
Book doesn't come until Saturday though and it'll probably take me a few weeks to get through it if work is busy.
Lol dude as someone who has written about it let me (a) break it down for you and (b) a good book to read on it.
First of all no, india and the USSR were not "effectively allies since the 1950s", in the 50s India mostly carried out trade with the UK, recieved aid from the US and bought UK/French equipment. Their shift towards the USSR did not take place for another generation after the war with China, when they needed a nuclear power who could constantly be a credible threat against the PLA. At the same time Truman basically sat in the oval office schizoposting about how Nehru was a "commie" because of... well because of nothing other than he didn't know how to react to a brown person who went to one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. Under Ike and JFK things got better but Nehru died and JFK died. Then things went back to being generally muted, then Nixon got elected and India began drifting closer to the USSR. That went into overdrive after the Bangladesh Genocide.
Secondly a good book to read on the subject would be A Matter Of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump by Meenakshi Ahamed, basically a lot of the breakdown is due to the fact that a lot of US presidents were either racist, had a strained relationship with Indian leaders, or didn't attempt to understand Indias position for dumb reasons.
I would strongly suggest picking up Michael Beschloss' <em>Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair</em> for further reading on the subject of just how badly Dulles' insistence on more U-2 flights ruined literally everything. It paints a picture of a strongly thawing Cold War and heady diplomatic optimism neatly decapitated by the U-2 program, and the blame falls squarely on Dulles.
If you have not seen the Amazon Prime comedy series on US covert activities Luxembourg, stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now
Ok, I will admit, my knowledge about German politics are limited to memes and some youtube videos, so I googled "Germany solar panel frogs" and I found this on the internet. Was this the reason why Germany was set back, or is there something else I need to know?
I don't pay close attention to contemporary Chinese politics, but the last time I looked he was taking a slightly different path than Mao, in the sense that although Mao fancied himself a classically educated literatus, Xi was really pushing for vulgar
imperialist "Confucianism" (I use the term as loosely as I would "Christianity" in the context of modern Western politics) as an ideological underpinning of his regime. The funniest byproduct of this is stuff like this. I don't know who Zhang Fenzhi is and what this book's relationship is to 习近平用典, the haphazard Chinese-language collection of the various classical allusions that were inserted into his speeches, but the general levels of analytical sophistication and familiarity with the claimed canons and traditions are roughly what you'd find in books like this.
https://www.amazon.de/LiYiAT-Bettw%C3%A4sche-Atmungsaktiv-Rei%C3%9Fverschluss-Kissenbez%C3%BCge/dp/B08GK8G2VL/ in case you didn't get those socks
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Yeah I agree. I highly recommend This book it isn’t just a great read about the Lavi, but about 70s and 80s IAF planning in general
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Step 1: Get brown-coloured laxative.
Step 2: Grind it into a fine powder.
Step 3: Pour ground laxative into empty Espresso coffee tins
Step 4: Leave them in areas likely to be discovered by Russian troops.
Step 5: Laugh as the Russians become unable to control what appears to be an incurable cholera outbreak among their forces.
*Paramedic to the Prince" is also illuminating.
https://www.amazon.com/Paramedic-Prince-American-Paramedics-Mysterious-ebook/dp/B004H8G5FA
"Let's say," I suggest to him, "that it's like in Afghanistan when you were fighting the Russians, and you run up and fight and you're killed, and it was a jihad so you go to heaven, like the best place, the best level of heaven?"
"Right," he says, "yes."
"And," I say, "you get 72 virgins."
"Yes."
"You really believe that?"
"Of course," he says, "if it is in the Quran, it is so."
"So what do the girls get?"
"What?" He looks bewildered.
"Just last week, that 28-year-old Palestinian girl blew herself up in Nablus, on the west bank of Israel. What will she get? Will she get the best place?"
"I suppose so."
"What about the virgins? Does she get 72 husbands?"
"No!"
"Well, she's getting ripped off, then."
If they had just stared at jokes just a little bit harder, we could all be flying around shooting mind bullets at each other right about now.
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"All is fair in love and the Pear Pie Wars."
Tori Bevan must have heard her grandmother say that phrase more times than she could count growing up on Bevan Pear Farms. Every year Grandma Bevan went for the coveted Clarksville Pear Festival Best Pear Pie award. And every year she’d lose to Ben Holden—the owner of Holden Acres, another pear farm and her enemy for over seventy years. Tori believes this year she has the blue ribbon in the bag. Only one problem stands in her way . . . Dane Holden, Ben’s grandson, waltzing back in town, much to Tori’s disliking.
Dane Holden never had an interest in his grandparent’s pear farm. He moved away a long time ago with no plans to ever go back to his small hometown. However, after a couple of poor business deals leave the young entrepreneur jobless and homeless, he has no choice but to say yes when his grandpa asks him to come home for the festival.
Just when the sparks begin to fly between Tori and Dane, Dane’s past comes back to haunt him, throwing a curve ball in Tori’s plans for the festival and contest. Will the Holden’s claim another coveted blue ribbon, or will a new champion reign over this year’s festival?
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Pear-Wars-Orchard-Brides-ebook/dp/B09RKSFRD7
I don't endorse Thierry's lying and make-believe but this is probably along the lines of what you're looking for: SNAFU Military Anthology
China has much higher debt than the US even adjusting for factors such as how behind they are development wise. After the great financial crisis China couldnt afford to buy time to tame its housing market, improve its demographics etc, since the CCP is unable to handle a recession, so they unleashed giant state sponsored spending in the hundreds of billions, urged state owned banks to over invest in infrastructure and other areas to keep GDP growth at very high levels of ~10% at the time.
What this created is huge debt increase, not by the central government (who mind you gets most of the tax revenue and isnt responsible for most of the expenses, that liability falls onto the local governments) but by local governments, state owned enterprises and "favored" industry sectors such as real estate. What is worse is that productivity of this debt plumeted, aka takes more deb to generate the same amount of economic activity, more than in the developed world.
there are a plethora of other issues in China that can really fuck them up if they dont solve them.
Cracking the China Conundrum is a good read imo, it came out in 2017 so some things in it are outdated a bit.
Council on Foreign Relation tackles this subject sometimes as well video link
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You may enjoy this book then. I was talking about that movie with someone recently and he highly recommend the book about the "crazy Katangan pilot".
https://www.amazon.com/Katanga-1960-63-Mercenaries-African-Nation/dp/0750962887
> Ok. If someone asks you what time it is, and it’s 2 hours past noon. Do you say 14:00 (like fourteen hundred) or 14 o’clock? Or just 2pm or 2 o’clock?
It depends. For approximate times in my native language, I usually use the 12h format ("We'll have dinner at 6 o'clock). But when I speak High German and/or when I talk about precise times, for example to confirm an appointment, I always use the 24h format ("See you on Friday on 15:30"). 24h is just less ambiguous.
Also, it's a lot easier to do math with 24h. And if you ever have to deal with time in programming, heaven help you, using 24h will turn it from an experience similar to Satan shoving his trident up your ass while you're boiling alive in molten sulphur to an experience similar to Satan shoving his trident up your ass while you're boiling alive in molten sulphur but at least he's using lube.
>So if you are doing the math already, why not just use the AM/PM format time?
You don't have to do any math if you're used to it. It's hardwired.
>I mean do you make special 24 hours analog clocks as well, just to be consistent?
Who the fuck still uses analog clocks?
Seriously though, most of the clocks I use are digital anyway (and set to 24h). But there absolute are 24h analog clocks.
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London was making billions off of Russian oligarchs laundering and spending money in the city. Combined with hopes of a new Russia in the early 2000's, the authorities weren't too keen on investigating the deaths when they could be blamed on suicide or whatnot if you looked only surface deep.
It doesn't take pro spies to kill people in a city that doesn't want to look into the deaths, and still have a considerable amount of suspicion generated. If they were really that good, would we know about it? No.
From Russia With Blood is a pretty good book on the topic.
The exact text from above is from Rick Atkinson's excellent The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, which is the third book in his trilogy following primarily the US Army from Operation Torch through the end of the war in Europe. Would highly recommend the whole trilogy.
That book and Blind Man's Bluff made me realize how much crazier real life could be than fiction. And the fact that it's real just makes it so much crazier.
Pretty much had already stopped reading fiction, but now I read non-fiction books slowly when I have time.
Reporter: Michael Hastings
Book: "The Operators" https://www.amazon.com/Operators-Terrifying-Inside-Americas-Afghanistan/dp/0452298962
Article: "The Runaway General" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-runaway-general-the-profile-that-brought-down-mcchrystal-192609/
Not really. The entirety of the CIA's budget was bankrolled by the perception of deep infiltration by the KGB in all facets of the American society. In reality post WW2 they were never able to repeat their spy-ring coup d'etat, and many of their operations were hilariously bad bordering on pure farcical comedy.
An M67 plus this
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I remember reading a collection of U.S. helicopter pilots' recollections from Vietnam called Snake Driver and one of the AH-1 pilots recalled a mission where they took the entire squadron up, put 4x 2.75" pods on each Cobra, and just unleashed a broadside on some troublesome mountain.
There's some pretty banger quotes from a book bout Syria that speaks to the incident: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5dqEykX0AA6FFu?format=jpg&name=large
"At that point, a radio call went out: 'Cleared hot' and everything started just to evaporate."
"The robots were Winchestered."
"The controlling JTAC was out of breath from doing so many 9 lines."
The book if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/US-War-Against-ISIS-Caliphate/dp/0755634802
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Has nothing to do with crimea, its related to Russia's oil.
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=RUB&view=5Y
This is what actually matters and what causes a lot of pain to the Russian people.
Source: i have family over there and they can barely vacation outside russia/buy international products because they have to pay twice more for everything
The maps of balkanized China is copium and will never happen. The book "The Coming Collapse Of China" was first published in 2001.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-China-Gordon-Chang/dp/0812977564
But the decades ahead in the future is impossible to tell how the world will look like. This is pure speculation, but personally I believe the US will stay as the most powerful country as China will inevitably go through economic Japanification and looking at other social and environmental challenges makes me believe that the US is here to stay. But on the other hand claiming that China is collapsing and will lose it's status and power on the world stage is unfaithful. China is likely only to get more powerful relatively at least into the foreseeable future.
It's hard for both Americans and Chinese people to look at this from an objective neutral point of view.
He didn’t invent the rotating bolt, just as Americans didn’t invent gas operated weaponry.
And he didn’t steal any information from the Americans as Mikhail kalashnikov had correspondence with American engineers. He also has openly listed a fondness for some of his designs.
unironically there's a theory with real followers who say it wasn't a nuke.
a guy on youtube tryed to convince people that Japan just put lots of explosives underground and that the B-29 just used a fake bomb, all for having a justification to surrender. when asked about "where's the crater" he said that "but tests in the us left no craters" lmao
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Object-Exploding-Nuclear-Weapons-ebook/dp/B071NGKY17