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Why is it that you insist on knee-jerk responses when people have already posted relevant facts that directly and absolutely refute your claims? Ritter was in fact charged, convicted, and served prison time.

Actually freer to express it in certain red states where child molestation becomes totally legal if you bribe the parents to sign off on a sham marriage. The United States is bizarrely stubborn about this particular loophole, and it's actually heavily conservatives who stan for it. That said...

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese road maintenance teams could often clear and re-open a road within minutes of American air strikes. And they wrote songs about it:

The USN was able to hit Thanh Hoa just fine with crude "zeroth generation" joystick-guided AGM-12 Bullpups; the problem was that the Bullpups were just too small. Satellite communications are relatively low-powered systems so jamming them is relatively easy. The idea that GLONASS can't be...

I didn't say their positions were morally equal, simply that there's no point in holding diplomatic negotiations when compromise isn't actually on the table. The Russians aren't willing to pull back their invasion "empty handed" and the Ukranians will not surrender any portion of their homeland...

Which is absolutely true. Even if you're pro-Russia, there's simply no point in negotiating when both sides' current position is that they're not backing down and both sides deem their current military losses not sufficiently severe to cause them to rethink that hardline position.

SCALP-EG is the French designation for the full version -- Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général. It's more accurate to use the French designation because while technically a joint development, British contribution is pretty much just nominal for PR purposes -- it's a...

SCALP-EGs are a big freaking deal. If Ukraine is getting significant numbers of those, Russia could potentially lose its entire navy in theater.

Broadly speaking, withdrawal of all civil nuclear aid, withdrawal of military aid, loss of treaty protections, general economic sanctions. Any country is "relatively stable" compared to North Korea, but that doesn't change the fact that the more two-bit nations have nukes, the more inherently...

If push comes to shove, imperialism by the major nuclear powers is infinitely better than every single two-bit nation throwing around nuclear weapons. We already have one North Korea; we do not need a world full of them.

Hint: half the countries you listed were already nuclear powers on their own before the non-proliferation treaty was signed., and the other half were borderline-nuclear and again, achieved it on their own. Poland has nuclear technology because the United States *gave* them civilian nuclear...

Under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the United States and other existing nuclear powers share civilian nuclear technology specifically to stem the proliferation of military nuclear technology. Poland and other non-nuclear powers should be stopped from developing any military...

That's quite ridiculous. I see no reason the United States should even remotely entertain permitting you to become a nuclear power.

Wrong on both counts. The RIM-8 carried a five kiloton W30 warhead, and sustained flight speed over Mach 3.0. It's comparable in performance to the modern Standard missile that replaced it; the Standard's primary advantage is achieving Talos-tier range and performance with a Terrier-sized...

For that matter, we used to have nuclear-tipped versions of our high performance SAMs since the 1950s; the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-8 Talos both had nuclear warhead options. This was eliminated in the 1980s when the Navy officially canceled its requirement for a nuclear version of the RIM-67...

The territorial ambitions of the current Russian regime appear to be similar to those of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- they believe they are entitled to claim perpetual sovereignty over any and all territory that was claimed by all historical regimes that they consider themselves a successor...

Ehhh, it's a little off topic, but was responding to a post in this thread. TL;DR: Bolters are semi-plausible in 40K, but there's not really a *reason* to make them IRL because the kind of targets that make them useful don't exist.

Well, the thing is gyrojet guns firing micro-rocket rounds were able to pack impressive punch into a compact, lightweight firearm, but they proved to have a serious achilles heel in being inherently inaccurate. The muzzle velocity achieved by the rocket propulsion during the in-barrel part of...

Well, we can start at the beginning. . . First Lithuanian-Muscovite War: Russian aggression, in pursuit of Ivan III's self-proclaimed claim to the entire territory of the fallen Byzantine Empire. Second Lithuanian-Muscovite War: Russian aggression, Ivan III again. Third Lithuanian-Muscovite...

How naive do you think people are? Russia has wanted to conquer Poland since the late Middle Ages and has literally not been willing to leave Poland in peace at any point in the centuries since then. Just last month, Medvedev was openly declaring that Russia's goal in the present war is "To...