magnkarl

'Oh la la laah' does it for me. **** French.

World's best keeper. Hands down. Or up, or wherever the hell Emi wants to put them.

If only Ukraine got 1/10th of the reporting and mass frenzy that Gaza gets in the West the war would be over in summer last year.. But I guess that was Putin's plan all along when he invited Hamas to the Kremlin. Someone else took the spotlight and appear to be outplaying the West at their own propaganda-game.

He forgot the last 6 months where he's blocked this. Idiot.

Doesn't appear to be, none of the content creators can get through to google, they're being stonewalled by AI-chatbots. The Russian Dude (pro Ukraine Russian dissident) was also taken down. It appears that Google have just let it slip, a bit like twitter. It's now just a place where bad-faith regimes can play the rules to their advantage and try to force the conversation away from their own horrible conduct. Expect that the bots went into overdrive now that the US are about to give Ukraine massive capability. Yesterday Russia bombed the Chernihiv hospital, killing at least 10. The usual suspects who are extremely vocal on Palestine are deathly silent on Russia.

So Russia has found a way to strangle pro-Ukrainian channels on youtube by spamming the report buttons with bots. Reporting From Ukraine has been taken down, so has Arthur Rehi, Combat Veteran Reacts, Denys Davidov+++. The biggest tech company in the world can't spot a bot attack? Jesus Christ on a bike. I think both the EU and US need to seriously look into how autocratic regimes are playing big techs' algorithms.

France and Poland maybe. The US just briefed our MOD that our armed forces will take 10 years to get to where they're in good working order again. We've cut our tank, ship and airframe fleet since like forever. Spain and Portugal? Maybe.. The Nordics are capable too, especially with Finland and Sweden joining NATO and the money they're putting into their air fleet and armament.

It appears like Mike Johnson has caved. He's going to split the aid bill into 4 different bits to try to allow his loonies to show their 'conscience' when voting on aid for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel separately, and then he's somehow linking banning TikTok with the border bill. I don't see how most republicans won't vote yes for the aid for Ukraine unless Trump has a bigger hold than I thought. It would only need 4 republican votes to pass. It would then need to go back to the Senate where it'll pass too. At least there's a glimmer. The guy is off his nuts.

If only we had a pre-Iraq Blair to go to the Yanks and get them to wake up like he did with Bosnia. It's up to EU\UK\Norway to keep Ukraine in this until the U.S election. The US will be forever stained for this. From listening to various podcasts on this people in the DOD in US predicted this war years ago, and have been trying to get US politicians to arm Ukraine ever since to no avail. Must be the most depressing job in the world.

What do you think is the chance of the discharge petition going through? How long can Maga-Mike keep up this idiocy? Does it take another Iranian attack for him to buckle?

The US did eventually step in against Milosevic though. There's still hope. I'm not saying that the US should defend Ukraine like they did Israel (though it would likely save tonnes more lives than what Iran's barrage would kill), I'm saying that they should get some of the thousands of tanks\ifv's\apc\airframes and other military kit going to Ukraine even if it is lend lease or via loans. It just makes the US look silly when they have 400 bradleys and 200 abrams mk1 rusting to hell in a desert while Ukraine have shown extremely capable with both. The US is turning a blind eye to their traditional enemy commiting genocide, kidnap, torture and extreme breaches of rules of war when they could even turn a profit on just helping Ukraine with 80-90's kit they don't use. It's sad as hell. It's even more sad that the US public have let itself slip to a place where they believe in the disinformation Russia is spreading via the MAGA-crew.

Hopefully Iran attacking Israel means that the vote in congress will go through. The take away from recent conflicts is that everyone needs a nuke. Thanks Russia.

Biden has backed Israel to the hilt, even with their clear war crimes, lastly with intercepting lots of drones for them. Did that need to go through congress? If you’re Ukraine you can’t but help feel like the US aren’t even out of first gear with their aid, and recently back to park.

They went to great lengths for Israel. For Ukraine they’re leisurely walking at a pace akin to that of the US while England was being terror bombed and Hitler was killing 2 million people from minorities a year before they were attacked themselves. FDR wanted to help but was hamstrung by the same clownery we now see in congress. To think that one orange clown and his tiny minority of under-clowns in congress can let a horrible dictatorship do whatever they please with a European ally, just goes to show that the US aren’t reliable anymore.

It's weird to me how Biden (and allies) can be so up for defending the country with the most advanced air defense shield in the world from the same volumes of drones and missiles which Ukraine gets lobbed at it in a week, but yet refuses to go to the same steps for Ukraine. The drones are made by the same people, Russia and Iran are intertwined at this point yet Biden can only defend the country that is being attacked by the country without nukes. I feel like his foreign policy is slipping all over the place (not that the republicans are any better). He's letting Putin show China and any other country that if you just get a nuke you can do whatever you want. It's a dangerous foreign policy from the world's largest and most powerful military. We could in example extend the black sea patrol corridor and shoot down Russian ballistic missiles with a trajectory towards Poland/Romania or other allies. That would alleviate the pressure on Lviv and many of the Western cities. We could do it without killing any Russian soldiers and we'd only be shooting down metal and chips.

That's an insult to hippos!

Loving the gunners forum.

What's with the horrid commentary? Can they at least try to get someone in the studio who doesn't polish 'top 4' rockets all night?

Should have been 0-4, that is all.

I think we're on the same wavelength. If I was the US secretary of defence I'd have my aircraft carrier camped outside Odessa. I agree that Israel in its current form isn't a great ally, neither is UAE or Saudi Arabia. Iran hasn't just attacked Israel though, they've gone for US troops, Pakistan, civilian shipping and essentially everyone not male or Shia inside their own country. Why can we intercept missiles and drones heading for Israel while Russian missiles are allowed to plow into Ukrainian nurseries, pharmacies, hotels and schools? I don't think we should send Western troops. I think we should fund the forces that are for democracy, like Ukraine, the Yemeni opposition, Iran's student organisations, women and minorities and so forth. But the cynic in me knows that people who haven't experienced war or the military doesn't really know that our liberal values stop the moment our own soldiers put on their combat load out. War is hell, and Iran knows that our way is weak as we're squabbling in congress about supporting countries who want to be democratic but are bombed to hell by their autocratic neighbours.

No no, let's keep letting a regime that hangs people in the market square for being gay, beats women to death for dancing and hunts down minorities with absolute scrutiny keep on keeping on. What's your solution? Biden's solution with Iran makes him look weak, and makes US allies doubt their ability to be supportive. The battlefield isn't liberal, so if we want to preserve our liberal way of life something's got to be done about Russia and Iran. Stern words don't work. The three last years are proof to that.

You've listed three nation states, Iran's proxies are not the countries they inhabit. In all cases there's viable groups that oppose them which the US could use to kick them out. Hezbollah are actually not very popular in Lebanon, and Islamic Jihad (who would've thought), isn't very popular in Syria and Iraq. For all of Trump's faults the IRGC were on the back foot outside of Iran when he was in the office (largely due to the people at the MOD), as soon as Biden took over the stance towards Iran became how to integrate them in the international system again and now we see the effects of that.

I agree, I just don't think it would even need to be a war. The US could bomb Iran's proxies to pieces and dismantle them with ease. A bully thinks you being in pain is funny, someone needs to make sure the bully feels the pain it is causing. It brings us back to the point about NATO needing Europe to step up. The US are proving an unstable, fascist-infested (maga) mess. It doesn't feel like Uncle Sam cares about democracy and freedom anymore. If China is so dangerous to the US, the US sure isn't giving China many reasons not to invade Taiwan. Biden might trot out his stern language. Scary.

I don't get Washington's stance here. Iran is the US' enemy, Israel is essentially willing to do the US' dirty work here, yet the US are holding them back? If this is how much chaos America is going to tolerate Iran causing (boarding ships, stopping shipping, bombing US allies using proxies ++) then what will they allow when or if Iran gets the bomb? It all feels a bit like the US isn't sure what to do. Iran is essentially getting rewarded by being a massive bully, they've orchestrated the Hamas attack, fed weapons to proxies which have been used to bomb US troops and ships abroad. What more do Iran need to do before the US knocks them properly on the nose? I presume this all leads back to the US election and Biden being afraid of being seen as too close to Israel. I can't remember a US president more afraid of putting a nation like Iran in its place than Biden. If China wants to emulate how to break apart US resolve they just need to get enough pro-Chinese groups to cause havoc to international shipping, attack a US ally causing war and then just keep stepping over red lines. The US appears weak over Ukraine and Israel. Both could cause real damage to US enemies but with Ukraine they won't even give old weapons anymore and with Israel they seem to care more about optics than a fundamentalist Muslim dictatorship causing havoc in the ME.

Several Iranian missiles got through. I don't see how Israel aren't going to go after the launch sites. Civilian housing hit in particular outside Ramon air base. Iran just launched around 1000 missiles and UAVs at Israel for a strike in another country by 1 missile. 'This is a response to your missile! Here, have 1000!'. Israel has an excuse to go after production facilities for shaheds, launch sites, and anything related to the attack in Iran. Judging by how many of the other neighbours of Iran that tried to shoot their stuff down I'd likely argue that the ME would be better if Iran was put properly in its place.