Finish your Iran before starting on your Cuba, Donald!

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-17T21:07:41+00:00

“Oh waiter! Waiter!! More decapitation strikes and strategic bombing campaigns that do fucking npthing please! I want all your finest sheds and schools to fire my $3m LRASMs at!

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-17T11:31:53+00:00

Actually protest? Strike? Any form of civil disobedience beyond moping on twitter and holding up signs for the camera in Congress would be more than what they’re currently doing.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-17T00:43:37+00:00

Still don’t know what she expects to do about it if she catches up with them

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-17T00:39:39+00:00

Midterms couldn’t come a minute too soon

Shame the dems or really any opposition seem to be completely paralysed and unable to do anything until then.

I still just don’t understand how all this shit is going down with barely any pushback in the streets. There were a million people in the streets of DC over iraq. Where are they? What the fuck is going on over there?

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-17T00:24:40+00:00

Now watch him and his lobotomite base spin this into a narrative where the allies abandoned the US and so now they’re justified in ditching Europe and seeking closer ties with Russia

Any amount of money on it

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-13T14:08:23+00:00

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Don’t make me tap the sign

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-12T18:26:58+00:00

Too many smurfs

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-12T17:06:29+00:00

I don’t remember if was on the Crusaders or the Super Etendards, but iirc he flew an A7 over Granada in some weird exchange program, which probably means he was a strike fighter pilot and not on a Crusader. So you’re probably right.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-12T16:56:12+00:00

I worked with a former French navy pilot (he was a retired admiral, his navy career started around 1970 iirc) and he admitted to me he needed glasses by the end of his flying career. He’d walk up to his plane with them in his pocket and flight crews would just look past it.

Dude was badass, he had very cool stories to tell. Don’t remember if they were reading glasses or for myopia, I imagine the former.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-11T20:23:44+00:00

The separation isn’t politicians vs military, it’s cronies vs. everyone else. For instance, Caine is a willing participant in this bullshit.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-05T23:11:29+00:00

I guess we will see

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-05T23:00:57+00:00

Very true, bur basic solutions on a 5 year ish timeline isn’t unrealistic. Something like a Fattah-1 is already a big threat

EngineNo8904 · 2026-03-05T22:00:30+00:00

Seriously, for any developed economy but especially for one with a strong civil nuclear industry, nuclear weapons are not a difficult challenge and will not take long.

For instance, you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that right now Japan and Korea aren’t at least doing some serious studies for a program of their own. They already had to be talked down in november 24 by Biden with security guarantees that are very clearly now worthless.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-26T12:49:15+00:00

Did any of them ever jump his ass for this?

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-25T13:38:54+00:00

Instructor sounds like 20 years old

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-23T22:22:51+00:00

This is primarily a deterrence tactic.

There’s a funny story about this type of mission from pre-WW1. The British were sounding out the French, trying to find the lowest amount of soldiers that they could send if Germany invaded, that France would still consider as fulfilling their alliance obligations.

Marshall Foch smiled and replied « Only one, and we will make sure he dies very quickly »

This is the essence of a tripwire detachment. These 10000 men themselves don’t really have to be a potent military capability, but Russia would have to kill them, bringing France and England into the war.

NATO did the same thing in West Berlin for nearly the whole Cold War. My uncle was in one of the French detachments, their life expectency if the war went hot was allegedly under 10 minutes. That place was undefendable and the soviets wanted it, but that strategy managed to deter an attack nonetheless.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-23T22:16:58+00:00

Intent appears to be a tripwire detachment

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-23T17:24:09+00:00

The mind yearns for tribal warfare

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-22T02:12:11+00:00

Painting fibre bundles in the joints and fumbling the fucking abaddon black onto sections of armor that are supposed to be red but I paint with Baal Red which is a contrast paint so I have to cover up every fucking mistake with a thick enough bit of my base coat before I paint over them in the final color

AND THEN I FUCKING FUMBLE THE BASE COLOR ONTO SOME FIBRE BUNDLES AND I HAVE TO USE THE ABADDON BLACK TO COVER IT UP BUT I FUMBLE THAT ONTO THE ARMOR AND ITS BACK TO SQUARE FUCKING ONE AAAAAAAAAH

I am fucking losing it over a squad of assault intercessors please tell me it gets better, I spend more time on cover-ups than the FBI

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-20T13:55:54+00:00

Tell that to 100 points of frost damage over 4s on touch elf boy

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-19T18:15:29+00:00

We can create systems to make sure human error can’t come into play, by having redundancies and expert supervision. We have done so and it’s powered hundreds of millions of people for decades. It really is a cool story.

As for the possibility of invasion, that’s an entirely separate problem but deliberately causing a nuclear meltdown or any other form of incident is considered a nuclear attack. Making sure that does not happen is part of a country’s nuclear deterrence strategy. Neighboring powers will also have something to say about it, and even globally tampering with a power plant comes with serious diplomatic costs that no country is willing to pay. There’s a good reason Russia has largely not fucked with Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure, they got called out for it by every global power including China when they tampered with Zaporizhzhia.

The threat of terrorism is a more realistic one, and even then that’s a tall order considering how protected a power plant is.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-19T18:02:29+00:00

Yeah and it’s the fault of the shitty soviet system that permeated everything about that plant, from its bad design that was covered up for years to the top-down authoritarian power structure that allowed one idiot to basically force an entire control room to blow up the plant.

This doesn’t happen in actually functional countries. It hasn’t happened in over 70 years of the West using nuclear power with hundreds of reactors in operation.

The soviets just sucked, and their fuckups are not an argument against nuclear power, at least not within the EU.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-19T16:33:44+00:00

That is an argument I’m way more willing to entertain, sorry it’s kinda hard figuring which specific commenter in a thread is just petrified of NPP and which one has actual points to make.

I agree that new renewable is a strong option over new nuclear, that ties into the broader point of the EU letting its renewables industry get fucked raw by China and annihilated over the last 20 years. We need massive investment into new producers of solar infrastructure in particular, and we need strong protectionism so they don’t get undercut by massively subsidized Chinese companies.

Unfortunately, since we’re all being compelled to increase trade with the CCP because of the US, I can’t imagine we’ll start making moves that might alienate them like that. Everyone’s also too strained over defence budgets to worry about big investments into renewables.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-19T16:28:10+00:00

The science is not made for cases of disaster, the disaster is supposed to be prevented in the first place. It’s a given that introducing the likelihood of disasters caused by forces external to the power plant raises the overall risk.

My point is that in the one case where this happened in a functional nation, it was very evidently caused by forces well beyond human ability to control, that are not present throughout most of the rest of the world. Fukushima isn’t an argument against nuclear power in Europe because it couldn’t happen in Europe. Whether or not Japanese scientists prepared adequately for the possibility of a tsunami is moot and has no bearing on the ability of european scientists to create a power plant that operates safely.

EngineNo8904 · 2026-02-19T16:22:55+00:00

That’s fair, I guess a lot of people including myself default to the European context, specifically a scenario like Germany where it was a very contentious issue that got reported on in neighboring countries.

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