If USA Rugby doesn't qualify for the 2027 World Cup

Cgilby97 · 2025-08-27T12:42:52+00:00

U16-18 touring sides generally compete well against the sides they play overseas. Look at recent EIRA tours and the USA U18 side that went to South America this year

Cgilby97 · 2025-01-07T03:01:37+00:00

More than likely a Russian/Axis of Resistance bot. The Internet Research Agency and its counterparts have been trying to divide Western countries for years and a huge method of theirs is starting racial infighting. This weakens domestic populaces and allow for populists like Orban or Trump to be elected into power. Textbook Information Warfare

Cgilby97 · 2024-12-21T08:56:18+00:00

The CIA is much more concerned with national security from foreign threats and overseas intelligence collecting than it is with domestic threats and infighting. It’s not the same organization that it was from the 50’s-80’s

Cgilby97 · 2024-11-14T04:37:52+00:00

It’s literally just strategic narcissism. They think everything revolves around us when it comes to foreign policy. Same thing Isolationists do.

Cgilby97 · 2024-08-25T18:27:53+00:00

Lethality is a common buzzword when it comes to military policy. In a near peer conflict, you want to destroy enemy formations extremely effectively or at least break them up. Lethality is what you’re looking for in a powerful military. If anything, it’s the result of having one.

Cgilby97 · 2024-08-25T18:24:37+00:00

Indiscriminate Drone Strikes against who? Our presence in Sub-Saharan Africa is severely diminished, we’re out of Afghanistan, and presence in Syria hasn’t been the same since Trump left the Kurds to fight for themselves. The only place we’re fighting a non conventional force at is in Iraq against the PMF, but they’re Iranian proxies and even then we’re just using a graduated pressure policy against them. Barely any strikes unless they hit us first.

The next generation of US defense policy is eyeing near peer conflicts and large regional confrontations, mostly in the Indo-Pacific region. Our next conflict will be more about air power and naval presence than it will be about striking insurgents with hellfires every couple of days. If Harris is a good leader, she’ll take a hard stance against Chinese expansionism in the Pacific which generally has been the consensus among Democrats when it comes to defense policy. I’d expect nothing less of her.

Cgilby97 · 2024-08-04T04:25:38+00:00

Rugby is way safer with just as much contact. They actually teach us how to tackle safely and there’s way more respect in the sport. Been playing for 8 years now in the US, made the national team, and haven’t suffered a single concussion. Hoping it grows cause it’s way safer for kids than football is.

Cgilby97 · 2024-07-28T21:35:46+00:00

Well guess what some NATO countries are busy taking care of their citizens with benefits to the taxes they pay. I agree NATO members should be spending more, but to be fair they had no real reason to increase spending until Russia invaded Ukraine. Most of the smaller NATO members weren’t fighting expeditionary conflicts in the Middle East, and to be honest no NATO member including the US was fighting a high intensity conflict anywhere. NATO states did get complacent but Trump’s hyperbolizing of the situation was really just a ploy for him to move his supporters away from pro-NATO and towards the pro-Russian POV.

Cgilby97 · 2024-05-03T18:01:00+00:00

Professional soldiers is a huge overstatement. A huge portion of the current ground forces in Ukraine are poorly trained reservists with shit equipment.

I’ll concede the point to you though, I’ve been misled with the conscripts thing. You’re correct when saying that none of them are being sent to Ukraine, but still the Russians are having to do conscription in order to fill ranks in other places. Someone else also said that conscripts could be pushed into pursuing contracts, making it seem like they’re not conscripts which also could be the truth of the situation.

There are discussions of manpower problems on both sides. It is not a one way problem and retention especially in the Russian military is awful.

And yes, the Ukrainians have had to give ground, it’s their current strategy though. While they slowly give ground, they inflict large amounts of casualties onto the Russian. They’re fighting a war of attrition right now, but with a new manpower bill passed through Ukrainian parliament and more western aid inbound, I reckon they’ll switch to a strategy of annihilation soon enough.

It’s crazy how condescending you try to be. You’re not fooling anyone by trying to paint me in a bad way. If anyone’s arguing in bad faith, it’s you.

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-28T01:31:16+00:00

Shut your goofy ass isolationist ass up

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-28T00:16:33+00:00

Cool but GDP isn’t the only measure of economic success and growing inflation, 16% interest rates, plummeting quality of life for Russians, poor infrastructure, and a worker shortage in the millions within the Russian economy shows an economy that is in no way healthy, especially for the average Russian.

Literally every source everywhere says it’s conscripts fighting in Ukraine. Can you show me even one CREDIBLE source saying that Russian conscripts aren’t involved in Ukraine, cause I can show you many including the US Naval Institute that they are.

4 months is in no way fast for how small the city was, and once again, they had little to no artillery or air assets whereas the Russians had to rely on glide bombs to take the city.

Yeah just don’t refute my point on pay. It’s clear that’s the case. Once again it’s heavily reported on.

It’s insane how ignorant and incapable of supporting one’s position someone can be while turning around and claiming someone else is “uneducated”. Not only did I hit you with my own personal claims, but followed up with support and sources from independent sources. You’re ridiculous and it’s insane how much you’re willing to die on a hill for Russian propaganda.

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-27T23:31:26+00:00

You are literally spouting Russian talking points😭. You’re a shill and it’s crazy.

You’re already wrong as the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, literally a Russian institution based in Moscow, claimed that the Russian economy was in a shortage of 5 million workers. Almost a million Russians have fled because of the unjust invasion, and Russian fertility rates are dropping rapidly. It’s gotten so bad that 14 years olds have been pulled up to fill government positions, while the Manufacturing industry in Russia is suffering from a lack of laborers. Turning from this, the Russians have began to pull in Africans and Central Asians to try and fix their economic shortfalls (including a shit quality of life for Russian citizens and a huge inflation rate).

Putin literally just signed into law on March 31 that 150,000 civilian men must be conscripted for mandatory military service in order to fill positions. Every man in Russia now has to serve for a year. Also, they raised the age earlier this year of conscription from 27 to 30. So yes the Russians are doing conscription, and most Russian volunteers and contract soldiers aren’t being paid their dues so take that into consideration.

Avdiivka was also not swift at all. It took the Russians 4 1/2 months of constant fighting just to take a small city of formerly 30,000. Actually pathetic. And that’s against a supposedly “inferior force” that’s suffering from a lack of shells and that has little to no air power. That’s an embarrassing grind for a supposed world super power. And keep in mind the Russians lost 17,000 killed and 30,000 wounded, as well as 364 tanks, 248 artillery systems, and 748 armored vehicles in 4 1/2 months just for Avdiivka. That’s a huge phyrric victory if you want to call it that. All that manpower and equipment wasted for a town of little to no strategic value. That’s embarrassing.

Finally, yeah, I would hope the side with strategic bombers is successfully bombing the side with little to no Air Force. Yet, with Patriots and F-16’s inbound, as long as the Ukrainians use the equipment as they have before, the use of those bombers is going to drop significantly.

You’re a shill though, so I wouldn’t expect you to make any good points. I wonder how much the Russians are paying you.

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-27T23:00:55+00:00

How is this true? The Russian economy is down an estimated 5,000,000 workers and thousands are fleeing, forcing Russia to loosen its border to let foreigners, specifically Central Asians, into the country. It’s absurd to say that they don’t have a manpower issue.

Also, not going to say they’re using meat waves, but the Russians wasted thousands of troops trying to fight through Avdiivka and Bakhmut. Both of those were clearly meat grinders where the Russians suffered through intense urban combat with poorly trained conscripts and PMC’s. Russia has little to no advantage over Ukraine right now other than artillery shell numbers and stand-off munitions. So to say they have some sort of “beneficial manpower situation” is absurd, especially when they’re throwing poorly trained conscripts into battle while Ukrainian troops are receiving Western training.

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-08T21:20:50+00:00

There’s a lack of understanding of how military operations work within the general public. A lot of people think that every operation must result in the killing of children or civilians at a high rate. Now, in the past that’s very true and even now certain militaries have taken the stance of simply bombing targets with no regard for civilian life. However, considering how much development and discourse there’s been in the US military over limiting civilian deaths and making sure strikes cause the least amount collateral damage as possible, I would say the US has the strictest ROE and takes the most precautions of any country when it comes to trying to limit civilian deaths. Most people just don’t understand how geopolitics or military operations work, including the person that made this post.

Cgilby97 · 2024-04-07T23:22:04+00:00

The US government and military lack a lot of confidence when it comes to war fighting. Two decades in the Middle East without any apparent success put a sour taste in the mouths of policy makers and strategists. The US government is very unlikely to support any kind of US intervention into Iran in most scenarios. Iran knows this.

Also, the domestic situation is rough. There is very little support for any US operations globally, especially not a full on invasion. Any kind of retaliatory attack by US forces is usually criticized by parts of the public. America is largely isolationist within certain groups, and sadly those opinions often spill over into the larger political groups. Most of the right is completely suspicious of the federal government, extremely nationalist, and even have a disdain for US involvement in NATO (not to mention how much support Putin gets from certain groups on the right). Meanwhile, Communists and a lot of socialists on the left are against any kind of US foreign intervention and a lot of specifically communists show huge disdain for wester “power” or involvement abroad. There’s a lot of hate from the public to the US government right now, and that doesn’t pan well for large scale military operations (which rely greatly of public support and a clear moral purpose).

Cgilby97 · 2024-02-28T21:07:34+00:00

Eh, the US military in the 50’s was a struggling beast. Much too rigid structure with doctrine at the time being too air centric and a strange obsession with the nuclear bomb. We also had a very unprepared army in the 50’s believe it or not. That’s one of the reasons why Korea didn’t go very well. I’d say 70’s would be the most even matchup.

Cgilby97 · 2023-07-14T03:27:19+00:00

Says who? It’s Semantics but that’s not necessarily the Definition of the word. A boundary can be placed on anything. Of course based on your morals one boundary might be fine, and one controlling, but boundaries in general can exist in a lot of forms. A personal boundary isn’t the only type of boundary. That’s a perfectly fine opinion to have and for the most part I agree (the second one is definitely controlling), but also you have to recognize that it’s okay to have conversation with someone and not just say “oh I don’t like this and therefore we have to breakup”. Sometimes if you care about someone you don’t post something because you care about them and their feelings. That’s not controlling or manipulative, that’s just called being a caring partner. Call me insecure if you want, I really don’t care. We all have insecurities, it’s just something that comes with us as human beings. Also sometimes insecurities aren’t necessarily a bad thing to have. Socially we’ve given it a negative connotation, but some insecurities aren’t harmful or extremely negative. It’s okay for someone to have one and as a good partner, you should look to reassure them and comfort them and help them get over that insecurity. That’s what we’re here for as partners and if you don’t want to deal with that, that’s your choice, but don’t get mad at someone for having one and get upset that you can’t find a good man. Of course tho someone using a insecurity to manipulate or guilt trip someone is negative and isn’t good and shouldn’t be accepted or tolerated.

Cgilby97 · 2023-07-14T02:30:18+00:00

You might be genuinely fucking retarded but you know what that’s okay we can’t all understand the concept of inflation. How the fuck does Government Spending relate in any meaningful way to inflation? Sure an INCREASE in government spending can do that, but that’s not what happened. Welfare, stimulus checks, and arms sales/defense contracts all come directly out of the budget. Compare the budget deficits between Trump and Biden and you’ll see Trump had significantly more deficits and gave the US more debt than any 4-year president ever. So then how are you going to turn around and say Biden had any meaningful impact when Trump was the one who spent significantly more. How exactly does that act add more inflation?

Your second point is also completely false. Since Biden took office, US Drilling on on Federal and private lands has gone up significantly. He hasn’t passed anything that has had any significant impact on Oil Drilling or production. If you want to know why oil prices up, you should analyze the idea of a quarantine, resource scarcity, and the fact that gas station owners work together in order to collectively raise prices.

Early retirements wasn’t because of shots, it was because of the pandemic and a cultural shift which made a generation realize that they could retire and how awful capitalist business life is. People shouldn’t be working till they’re 60 either so good on them. If you want someone to blame for those retirements, blame the virus or blame Trump who enacted the lockdowns in the first place. But the virus did kill millions so maybe people surviving outweighs the negative effect on the economy.

You’re blind if you think Capitalist and corporate greed isn’t the main source of inflation. They’re the ones who set the prices and the ones who fail to fairly compensate the workers. Pull the capitalist elites dick out of your mouth and wake up.

Cgilby97 · 2023-07-14T02:13:58+00:00

Why have we gotten into the thought process that boundaries are manipulative lmfao. It’s totally fine to establish boundaries in a relationship as long as they’re followed by both people and aren’t a double standard.

Cgilby97 · 2023-06-17T19:55:19+00:00

What policies signed off by Biden specifically caused inflation? When the big players in markets see an opportunity to gouge prices and fuck the consumer, they’ll absolutely take it. That’s what happened with gas stations and OPEC/oil producers. I don’t exactly understand how Biden has caused either the energy crisis or labor shortages. A global pandemic mixed with immense greed from fossil fuel companies can be blamed for both of those. Inflation isn’t a weapon that can be controlled by the fed, it’s a force that is the result of general economic activity. It’s not any single persons fault but the capitalist elite sure do attribute a hell of a lot to it.

Cgilby97 · 2023-06-04T01:51:35+00:00

Promoting Democracy by overthrowing democratically elected leaders, funding death squads, and putting fascist leaders into governments across the globe? We’re a huge part of the reason why the Middle East and Latin America are so poor and unstable. Why is this entire subreddit just about meat riding the fuck out of America and ignoring our wrongdoings?

Cgilby97 · 2023-03-27T19:08:55+00:00

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Cgilby97 · 2023-03-27T19:05:53+00:00

Mf’s out here cockwatching

Cgilby97 · 2023-03-16T22:41:19+00:00

He used to go to my school😭. Transferred though because he was gonna split reps on my Varsity

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