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  1. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Camp Lejeune had water contamination issues from the late-50s to the late-80s. When watching TV I regularly get ads from lawyers saying "if you have one of these health problems and were stationed at Camp Lejeune, please call us."
  2. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    "That gun has one bullet. You know what to do."
  3. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    I'm pretty sure the US wasn't responsible for that one because the US gov't isn't that precise when throwing a temper tantrum.
  4. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    He did the SAM equivalent of finding a "silent hole in the water" and targeting that.
  5. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Nice appeal to authority there but it won't hold up. They actually could and did detect, target, and hit a "supposedly" undetectable stealth aircraft after sunset when you were - according to your profile - less than two weeks old.
  6. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Um ... The USAF thought that radar could not detect an F117. Colonel Zoltán Dani completely disabused the USAF of that belief with extreme prejudice.
  7. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Never underestimate an antique. The US lost an F-117 to a SAM system designed in the 1950s, fr'ex.
  8. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    That, or be picky based on what you need when selecting from the pool of volunteers. There's also the half-assed approach to too many volunteers: "The books are full, no more men." - Lt. Bush, Hornblower: Loyalty
  9. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Are you not familar with the concept of "rape, pillage, and burn"? That's what we do when we aren't being civilzed and telling the laws of war to go fuck themselves when we're being nice and polite about "Oh no, you just didn't".
  10. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    That's rich. Chamberlain bowing to Hitler was basically an "everything got chopped off" eunuch letting a spoiled brat who isn't and can't be his run amok while he's babysitting. Were the UK and France ready? No. Was Germany prepared at the time? You must be joking. You do not go to war with...
  11. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    My great-great-great grandfather was part of the 17th Indiana. They had breech-loading magazine-fed repeating rifles. 20 aimed shots per minute? That was "Tuesday".
  12. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    46th Tennessee? That's where we think it came from but aren't sure.
  13. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    My big sis Euphie has an actual Confederate battle flag which was captured in 1864 and mailed to our great-great-great grandmother. The "Lightning Brigade" did not fuck around.
  14. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    I recall a short story titled The Princess and the Pedestrian. The princess bumps a pedestrian in a crosswalk while making a turn at a stoplight after sunset. It is unclear to the responding cop who goofed but it is clear that one or both of them did, is guilty of a minor offense worthy of a...
  15. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Tried in absentia only makes sense when a) the court actually has jurisdiction and b) the defendant can't or won't show up for the trial or otherwise provide a defense.
  16. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Chinese attitudes favoring ethnic han males can also get so racist and sexist that the KKK would go "Hold on a sec, you really need to tone that down."
  17. bintananth

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    That's the same convention as in English ... just phrased differently. In English it's based on the direction of the river's flow when you're looking downstream.
  18. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Local convention, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-bank_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-bank_Ukraine
  19. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    Sorta like the like the Straights of Hormuz, Turkey, and Gibraltar or some of the larger navigable rivers: if the locals object to the presence of a hostile foreign warship, said warship is going down.
  20. bintananth

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion

    "It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenier Just to prove the world was here" - Nena, 99 Red Balloons
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