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Das Boot

A sub attack? I've seen Run Silent, Run Deep.

"Firing solutions" were not in the WWII Submariners' vocabulary, Allied or Axis...

"Firing solutions" were not in the WWII Submariners' vocabulary, Allied or Axis...

Down Persicope?

caravans sneak in ?

Oh, they all come in caravans? Didn't know there was a rule.

Speaking of Nordstream 1 & 2

For those military buffs, specifically aviation, take a look at this. Watch from the 11min - 18min mark (i think I looped it at the right time...might have to skip an ad) It shows some interesting flight details P-8 Poseidon Sub hunter and comm plane over site the morning of the sabotage.

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It’s a HBAL600 carrying a ADS-B receiver. It makes it visible on his Flightradar24. ?
Love to ask him his idea of this. It’s a crappy pic but it is what it is. It showed up last week in Kansas while the kids were running radar tests and showed up on zero.

It’s a HBAL600 carrying a ADS-B receiver. It makes it visible on his Flightradar24. ?
Love to ask him his idea of this. It’s a crappy pic but it is what it is. It showed up last week in Kansas while the kids were running radar tests and showed up on zero.

cool. he mentions hbal600 at the 3:50 mark in the video

[HEADING=2]Expert: If Putin uses nukes, U.S. could wipe out Russian forces in Ukraine[/HEADING]
[Michael Isikoff]('https://www.yahoo.com/author/michael-isikoff')
·Chief Investigative Correspondent
Mon, October 3, 2022 at 2:16 PM

WASHINGTON — If Russian President Vladimir Putin makes good on [his threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-ukraine-kremlin-speech-west-195603211.html'), the United States would likely respond with a sweeping economic embargo combined with a massive conventional attack on Russian military positions that could quickly wipe out the Russian president’s invading military forces, said Joseph Cirincione, a national security analyst and leading expert on nuclear warfare.

The U.S. and NATO “could destroy the Russian forces in Ukraine in a matter of days,” said Cirincione, author of the book “[Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late]('https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Nightmares-Securing-World-Before/dp/023116405X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28D1NRENWFWW6&keywords=joseph+cirincione&qid=1664821372&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjQwIiwicXNhIjoiMS45MiIsInFzcCI6IjEuNTAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=Joseph+Cirin%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-2'),” in an interview on the [Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast]('https://art19.com/shows/skullduggery'). “That would be the end of the Russian army in this.”
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President Vladimir Putin speaking at the Kremlin about Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Sept. 30. (Contributor/Getty Images)

But Cirincione also acknowledged that such a direct U.S. or NATO military strike against the Russian military — even in response to the Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield — could also spiral out of control. “There are no good responses once you start down the nuclear path,” he said. “It’s extremely difficult to terminate it for the same reason that a poker player losing a hand is hesitant to fold. They keep thinking there’s one more move they could make, one more bet they could raise to try to cause the other side to fold. So there’s no good responses.”

Cirincione said that if Putin were to actually make good on his threat to go nuclear, it would not be a large-scale thermonuclear bomb attack, but a more limited deployment of tactical weapons — far more limited in scope but still a major and unprecedented escalation. And Cirincione said that the U.S. military response would not be limited to the battlefield. There would also likely be a sharp escalation in psychological warfare such as was used to unnerve Iraqi generals on the eve of the U.S. invasion of that country. “The U.S. was calling Iraqi generals in their home and telling them to stand down. And they did that for two reasons. One, to let them know we know where you live, right? Two, we can reach out and touch you,” said Cirincione, predicting that the U.S. might well adopt such a tactic in the Ukraine crisis.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that U.S. officials have warned that the Russians there would suffer “catastrophic consequences” if they used nuclear weapons, though he did not without specify what those were.
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this is getting really really scary

Will electric cars make it rain?

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A Monday Bloomberg TV segment on the Ukraine war with an expert who has in the recent past advised three UN Secretaries-General didn't go the way the Bloomberg hosts thought it would. Jeffrey Sachs, who is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, posited the United States was likely behind the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines when asked about it.

The top UN adviser said during the live interview, "The main fact is that the European economy is getting hammered by this, by the sudden cut-off of energy. And now to make it definitive - the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which I would bet was a US action, perhaps US and Poland." Sachs added: "That is speculation" - before being cut-off mid sentence by show host Tom Keene, who looked a bit flabbergasted and frustrated over the perhaps unexpected turn in the interview...

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Will electric cars make it rain?

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Solve one problem, create 5 more!

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A Monday Bloomberg TV segment on the Ukraine war with an expert who has in the recent past advised three UN Secretaries-General didn't go the way the Bloomberg hosts thought it would. Jeffrey Sachs, who is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, posited the United States was likely behind the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines when asked about it.

The top UN adviser said during the live interview, "The main fact is that the European economy is getting hammered by this, by the sudden cut-off of energy. And now to make it definitive - the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which I would bet was a US action, perhaps US and Poland." Sachs added: "That is speculation" - before being cut-off mid sentence by show host Tom Keene, who looked a bit flabbergasted and frustrated over the perhaps unexpected turn in the interview...

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WHACKO!

would have been some logic to it if we hadn't become, once again, dependent on foreign oil

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Yeah, its a well know fact not a single native born american citizen has ever committed a crime :rolleyes:

nope

What country exports the most oil 2022?

Saudi Arabia is the top country by exports of crude oil in the world. As of June 2022, exports of crude oil in Saudi Arabia was 7,196 thousand barrels per day. The top 5 countries also includes Iraq, Canada, the United States of America, and Norway. The description is composed by our digital data assistant.

ironically though we export we also import...but far from "dependent" on anyone....but we are tied into the global market

would have been some logic to it if we hadn't become, once again, dependent on foreign oil

nope

What country exports the most oil 2022?

Saudi Arabia is the top country by exports of crude oil in the world. As of June 2022, exports of crude oil in Saudi Arabia was 7,196 thousand barrels per day. The top 5 countries also includes Iraq, Canada, the United States of America, and Norway. The description is composed by our digital data assistant.

ironically though we export we also import...but far from "dependent" on anyone....but we are tied into the global market

So why import ? And why draw down the strategic national reserve with China and Russia more of a threat than anytime since the mid 80s? Political move domestically?

Yeah, its a well know fact not a single native born american citizen has ever committed a crime :rolleyes:

Apparently, not enough of them do. Seems some people want to import more to "do the jobs American's don't want to do."

I mow my own lawn and shovel my own snow. Self-reliance is so passe’

Apparently, not enough of them do. Seems some people want to import more to "do the jobs American's don't want to do."

The country has always relied on a fresh influx of workers to fill low level jobs that established residents won't do. Not to say they can be illegal but go thru the process one of which is asylum.