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delta9nxs said:
for sure the air war against the nazis stopped Hitler from invading Britain and without using the British isles as a staging area d-day would not have happened as soon as it did. maybe not at all.

Churchill was a rallying point for the people during the "blitz".

the advancement of propeller-driven warplanes reached it's peak in ww2. it's my favorite part of ww2 history. and great naval battles.

my favorite plane of the era is the Supermarine Spitfire. in my opinion one of the most beautiful shapes ever made to fly.

the American p-51 mustang was perhaps the single most capable design to come out of the war.

it used the same Rolls Royce Merlin engine that was in the spitfire but got a greater airspeed because of the design. long-range so it could accompany bombers on long missions.

Another notable aircraft is the DeHavilland Mosquito, a twin-engine fighter bomber made with a plywood frame to save on metals for the war.

some versions were fitted with radar for night interception. the Luftwaffe feared these things.

they also used two of the merlin engines and were very fast for the day.
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One of my buddies 'Spitfire Man' an ace at Malta
 
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Roms said:
Lol you forgot my big balls, maybe because you can't see or touch yours under your rican big belly!?

Anyway glad to educate another little grandpa and his kids around, in Roms we trust! :bongsmi:
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that's a mare, mares are female horses, roms!

i'm not puerto rican and you must have missed my pic above.

btw, i haven't seen yours, or are you too afraid where you live to show one?
 
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you must think it bothers me somehow to be my age.

really, it doesn't bother me at all. aging is part of life. you can't change it.

have you considered that by calling me old you are calling your future self old as well? do you respect yourself?

while there's absolutely nothing wrong with being elderly, there is something wrong and broken inside of you for trying to make me feel bad about myself because of age.

it's something that shows your true character.

i would think a guy trying to portray himself as a peace and love seed seller would be more careful about this kind of thing.

but the question remains as to why you would try to make someone feel bad because of age.

could it be because that's all you got left after all your bullshit was shot down?
 
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The Last Crusade, Part One​

There is a marked difference of opinion on how to characterize the military action currently taking place in what remains of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: is it a special Russian military operation aimed at demilitarize and denazify the old Ukraine, or an unprovoked Russian invasion leading to World War III, a nuclear exchange and the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAKI for short)? It may be a bit of all of this, or it may be none of this…

Does Russia win or Ukraine lose? On the one hand, Russia has just officially extended its sovereign territory by a hundred thousand square kilometers and a few million citizens, and it has embarked on a vast construction campaign, rehabilitating its new territories , which are a bit dilapidated after decades of Soviet and post-Soviet neglect, followed by nine years of Ukrainian bombardment. This would indicate that Russia is winning.

On the other hand, the United States has just promised to give the Ukrainians Patriot air defense batteries (or not, details vary…). Are these the same Patriot batteries that had such an embarrassing failure over Saudi Arabia, when they were unable to shoot down former Yemeni-fired Soviet SCUD missiles? And are these the same Patriot batteries whose operators in Poland recently did not see the approaching Ukrainian missiles (which were also venerable Soviet missiles) and learned of their existence only later, in the media? Never mind ! They cost $1 billion per launcher and $3 million per rocket, so they have to be good for Raytheon, and what's good for Raytheon is good for America, or something like that. What if they had no chance against advanced Russian weapons? Don't be negative!

As the arguments erupt, Henry Kissinger, the veteran of Western geopolitics, pokes his head out of the dinosaur egg he's been hiding in for 70 million years and declares that the Ukrainian conflict must be settled at the negotiating table . Never mind that everything he came up with was gibberish and a failure; what is important is that for him to express that opinion at this precise moment, his delicately quivering geopolitical nose hairs must have told him that the United States is not going to prevail in this conflict, no matter what. it's coming, so it's time for them to stop fighting and start talking. Clearly no one, especially not the Ukrainian regime, cared whether Ukraine itself was going to succeed or fail, it had been doomed since at least the Orange Revolution of 2004, or, rather, to be sacrificed on the altar of American hegemony by being fed to Russia.

If we ignore everything worth ignoring in Kissinger's words of infinite wisdom, all that remains is to say that the Ukrainian conflict "must be concluded" and that it must be concluded "at the table of negotiations”. But it turns out that these two nuggets of deep thinking are also very questionable. First, why would Russia rush to conclude the conflict? It established a pattern of favorable expectation and escalation dominance in all possible parameters: military, economic, political, and cultural. Second, with whom can Russia negotiate? The same people who promised that NATO would not expand an inch to the east if Russia allowed German reunification? Well, do it, and then we'll talk!

Militarily, Russia has established defensible borders in the former Ukraine and is slowly advancing towards the borders of what it now considers its own sovereign territory. It has established pipelines for men and weapons that can allow it to simultaneously sustain multiple conflicts the size of Ukraine virtually endlessly. It can inflict precise damage to Ukraine's energy supply and other infrastructure at will and without risk to itself, gradually reducing Ukraine's ability to sustain any kind of military campaign and ultimately leading to demilitarization. complete (no industry, no war potential) and denazification (all Nazis died or fled to Europe or America). Meanwhile, the West's ability and willingness to continue supplying arms to the Ukrainian army (two-thirds of which are disappearing along the way due to corruption) is dwindling. And then there are Russia's new toys: the latest generation of its strategic weapons, against which the United States has no countermeasures, are beginning to be deployed, and if Russia's nuclear no-first-strike doctrine remains in place, it is understood that it could be reviewed if the situation justifies it: " Children, be good! »

Economically, the Russian economy was hit by 2,5% in the year 2022, but most of this loss was recorded in the first two quarters, with a steady recovery thereafter. With many of its international competitors having rudely apologized for the sanctions, Russia's domestic industry, from automobiles to airspace to shipbuilding, is set to flourish. Energy exports, which are very important to fill federal coffers, have been redirected from hostile EU and G7 nations to friendly nations in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Export volumes have remained stable, but revenues have improved due to higher prices, allowing Russia to maintain a very low debt-to-GDP ratio and a healthy trade surplus, and to invest heavily in infrastructure projects without going into debt. As the planet heads into the next ice age (it's too soon to tell if it will be a mini ice age of a century or a true ice age of a hundred thousand years ), Russia stands to benefit greatly from its huge hydrocarbon reserves and healthy nuclear industry.

Politically, Russia is finally able to shake off the hangover of late Soviet weariness, the dissipation and corruption of the 1990s, and the consumerist abandonment of the 2000s, and return to its normal communitarianism, namely one for all and all for one. She is quickly rediscovering her millennial history of heroic homeland defense on the battlefield. The demons of emasculation and feminism are exorcised; the men are once again warriors and the women guardians of the family hearth. For men, there are two honorable options – victory and death, both heroic – and several dishonorable options: cowardice, betrayal… The national character of Russia is determined by the nature of Russia: the vast landscape and inhospitable, the huge and vulnerable frontier, the multitude of tribes, distinct but fractally combined – but what keeps it going is a periodic bout of warfare. Normally, a would-be world hegemon, be it Pope Urban II, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Napoleon or (don't laugh!) Joe Biden, fights Russia, sometimes as a last resort .

On the social level, since the Russian revolution of 1917 (and well before in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and in several large provincial towns), Russia leans towards the West. Russia was the first country to introduce equal rights for women and minorities. During the XNUMXth century, Russia liberalized divorce and remarriage laws and eventually decriminalized homosexuality and abortion. Along the way, Russia embraced many modernist and post-modernist trends, sometimes going too far, too fast, and then recoiling in horror. And, perhaps worst of all, Russia has been infected with the most pernicious Western ideology, Marxism. Marx offered a valid critique of capitalism as it existed at the time, but beyond that, his theorizing is perhaps the most egregious example of large-scale intellectual failure that has ever existed.

Meanwhile, in the West, the trend toward individual rights has gone to extremes, not only condoning but approving and celebrating homosexuality and other types of aberrant (non-reproductive) sexual behavior, and now insisting on the chemical and surgical castration of children. A distinct but related transhumanist current seeks to erase the boundary between man and machine. The West is also moving towards the legalization of pedophilia; euthanasia is already legal in many countries and actively promoted as a solution to elderly poverty in Canada. All that remains is to legalize cannibalism and human sacrifice. What has been lost among all these individual rights is the right of communities to make these individuals listen to reason.

In a sense, legalizing cannibalism would make a difference in degree, not in kind. During World War II, the Nazis locked up Russian children in concentration camps and bled them to death to provide transfusions to wounded German soldiers. Even today, privileged geriatricians in the United States and Britain live to an obscene age thanks to secret transfusions of children's blood. And the constant and abundant flow of mortally wounded Ukrainian soldiers provides an abundant resource of donor organs to clinics in Europe and Israel. This kind of practice is an integral part of Western humanism.

As these developments have become more extreme, the demands for universal acceptance of these "Western values" have become more strident and damning – and increasingly offensive to the 85% of the world's population, inside and outside the West, who are socially conservative. In much of the world, sex before and after marriage is a crime and children born out of wedlock are still called "bastards", marriage is still "until death do us part", respect for his elders is unconditional and "death before dishonor" is the unwritten law. These are all evolved universals of human culture, and any deviation from these principles is temporary and results in biological extinction. This lesson was formalized in Romans 6:32: “ For the wages of sin is death ". But death is sometimes slow in coming and people tend to get impatient waiting for the paint of the writing on the wall to dry and take matters into their own hands.

This is where Russia plays a key role: it has thrown down the gauntlet to the collective West, essentially telling it that it can become as degenerate as it wants, but it has no right to impose his strange and twisted new rules on others. In this process, Russia has become the global champion and defender of conservative society and culture. Some other countries, especially Islamic countries, have been just as inflexible; for example, Indonesia has just criminalized adultery: do not go to Bali without your legally married opposite-sex partner, or you risk being locked up! But the Islamic approach lacks universality, as it is based on what is defined as "haram" within Islam, while Russia claims universal sovereignty and freedom from oppression. Western culture.

It is clear that this is not a dispute over Ukraine, which is only the last, and perhaps the last, pawn in a much larger game. It certainly started long before February 22, 2022, when Russia announced the start of its special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Nor did it begin on February 22, 2014, when Ukrainian President Yanukovych was forced to flee Ukraine to take refuge in Russia following a violent and illegal coup plotted and encouraged by the department of American state. By then, as Victoria Nuland boasted at the time, the United States had already spent $5 billion to politically destabilize Ukraine and turn it into an anti-Russian country. It is impossible to pinpoint the date, but the process may have begun as early as 1945, when Ukrainian Nazis, along with other Nazis, were taken and found refuge and support in the United States and Canada.

It can be argued that the conflict between Russia and the West goes back further than can be seen in history, with minor interruptions. There was a brief interbellum between VE Day, May 9, 1945, and Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech, March 5, 1946 – less than a year! Another, longer interbellum existed after the (illegal) dissolution of the Soviet Union by Yeltsin and his henchmen in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on December 8, 1991 (President George Bush Senior was the first to be informed of this fact by a phone call from Yeltsin) and the start of the global war on terror, which began with great fanfare on September 11, 2001 with the destruction of three heavily over-insured New York skyscrapers with the help of two Boeings.

Nor is it clear how far into the future one has to look to understand how the current phase of the conflict might end. Certainly Kissinger's suggestion that the conflict can simply be negotiated is nothing but a decoy, especially after former Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel revealed that the Minsk agreements between Kyiv and Donetsk/Lugansk were merely a ploy to give kyiv time to regroup and rearm so that it would be better able to attack Donetsk and Lugansk. Why would Russia want to negotiate if the stated purpose of the negotiation is a tactic of delay – and a tactic that has failed, since the Russians have seen through this ruse and have used the past eight years to… regroup and rearm in order to better demilitarize and denazify Ukraine when the time comes.

It is clear that the delay in question should extend well beyond the time when Eastern Ukraine will again be part of Russia (well, part of it already is!) while the rest will be turned into a harmless wasteland, largely depopulated, strewn with the rotting corpses of Polish mercenaries and patrolled by Russian combat robots. Something more important is happening: America is hungry and needs to eat someone right away or its financial house of cards will collapse.
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The United States is constitutionally incapable of living within its means, but with the petrodollar wealth pump no longer working and much of the rest of the world already bled dry by vampiric capitalism, what is left? there to eat in the United States? The European Union, of course! The basis of European prosperity has been the steady supply of relatively cheap energy from Russia, and by cutting it off, the United States has rendered Europe's economy non-functional and ready to be plundered at leisure. Now, should Russia want to interfere with this process? Of course not ! If the collective West wishes to eat away at its own limbs, why would that be a problem for Russia? "Never interrupt your enemy when he makes a mistake, it's bad manners", Napoleon said at the Battle of Waterloo.
If we go back far enough in time, we find that the very first Drang nach Osten was launched by Pope Urban II on November 27, 1095, paving the way for the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against the Muslims in order to reconquer the Holy Land, with the cry of “Deus vult! or "God wills it!" ". It was pretty much a bombastic way for him to say "I'm hungry!" Bring me someone to eat! Of course, in 1147 the Germans attacked the Slavs, who were far from the Holy Land but must have looked tasty at the time, and they continued to attack them for over two centuries!

The Swedes didn't give up until Peter the Great defeated them at Poltava (now Ukraine) on June 27, 1709. They've been quiet as mice for the last three centuries, but now they're making noise to join NATO (the current crusader alliance) and maybe it's time to send them back to 1709 with the help of a few rockets, ridding them of extravagances such as electricity, central heating, running water and automobile transport. As we write these lines, the Swedes still have time to make up their minds. The same goes for the Finns who, over the centuries, have been conditioned to do whatever the Swedes tell them to do, except slowly.

It's been six centuries of intermittent crusades! There are monasteries in Russia that have been looted and burned to the ground by these raging “Christians” four or five times. And then Napoleon attacked a hundred years later, and Hitler a little over a century later... and now this... But we don't need to look that far back to predict with reasonable certainty that this almost millennium of Western Crusades is coming to an end. To do this, just go back to September 11, 2021 and the launch of the global war on terror. To date, every ploy and maneuver the United States has tried in this war has failed, with Ukraine as its last bulwark. These failures are little known or understood in the West, where the mass media are adept at covering up anything that doesn't fit the winning narrative.

Next week we will review the developments of the last ten years. It's only the blink of an eye in the sweep of history, but sometimes the collapse happens quite suddenly, and we should feel privileged to witness such a momentous series of events.
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Russia to bring military capacity to 1.5 million soldiers​

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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Wednesday unveiled a plan to increase the size of Russia’s military to 1.5 million troops, an initiative backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia had about 1 million troops in its army at the beginning of the year, and the number was supposed...
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