Looks like some “independent” corporations will need to make some rare earth pizza ovens then, since they applied them to corporations, and not the US as a whole. As I said, performative. Looks like China is trying to get trump to apply a ton of tarrifs, so that they have cassus belli, or reasons to continue the trade war.

The they I was referring to are the defence manufacturers that China just slapped with tariffs. Seems to be performative.

Considering they are weapons manufacturers, were they likely to be selling anything to China? I know we spread the weapons around, but I thought we specifically don’t sell to China, Russia, Iran, and some others.

They had restrictions on their military, which were recently (in the last decade or so) lifted.

We probably won’t ever hit 11 billion contiguous humans. At least not without colonizing Venus. The birthrates worldwide are dropping quickly, and every time another country passes through the Industrial Age, into the Modern Age, their birthrates fall off a cliff. I suspect we will eventually stabilize around 9 billion people, which is a few billion lower than the maximum projected sustainable population of The Earth.

We didn’t lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy… I also wouldn’t call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn’t lose it.

Beyond that, the sun has about 5 billion years before we might not be able to starlift it back to a “younger” state, so The Earth and Venus may not exist at all if we don’t get our asses in gear for sustainable intragalactic life in the next century or so.

It’s not just US aircraft. Most military aircraft have the ability to turn off their transponders. That’s kinda SOP when flying a mission.

The main difference with many US military aircraft is that they have a tiny radar cross sections, so ATC can’t “see” them, not just can’t “hear” them. That refuling plane should have shown on radar, transponder or not. That thing is literally about the size of three barns, not the nuclear physics kind, and literally can’t have much in the way of radar stealth the way the plane it was refueling probably had.

The other main difference here is that normally our joint chiefs, and secretary of defense war don’t have their head up their asses about OPSEC. Normally such an operation would have not come anywhere near civilian flight paths, but these assholes literally said that the troops should be “drawing fire.”

That’s a regressive way of thinking. Revenge doesn’t actually feel good once you are done, it feels wrong. Put them in a rehabilitative program so that they will learn why what they did was wrong, and how much harm they did to themselves and others.

He was able to do what he could do. Believe me when I say that there’s absolutely a wall that most people never hit when it comes to shooting a living being, human or not. Most people never hit that wall, because they never seek out the activities that would cause you to hit that wall. I couldn’t shoot my first deer. Shooting my first human was a bit easier, as I actually shot them, but still caused hesitation. I don’t know about the second human or second animal, and I hope I never find out. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, I suspect I will have to shoot more people to survive.

More like chained, thrown into concentration camps, and forgotten about/ lost/ killed. Travelling to this country is an existential threat.

And that’s ignoring the state of LA.

Is this the start of Red Alert Ukraine: Yuri’s Revenge?

That’s disrespectful to Butthead

G.I. Joe is gonna change the environment they are fighting in, again.

Ahh, you’re correct. I forgot the Muthafuckin in the middle

Mount Quarter Pounder? Sounds suspiciously English to me…

Edit: Also wouldn’t Mount Royale with Cheese be Montreal avec fromage?

The Royal Air Force is getting funding from the USSR/Russia?

More like we don’t have a choice, and the math wasn’t done to prove that we wouldn’t have a choice for another 65-75 years after we set up the first modern democracy based on 6 Nations philosophy, but go ahead, go off.

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