Growing number of Pentagon officials signal they are not opposed to giving Ukraine F-16s | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77450519 United States 01/30/2023 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Michael Anton remarks that the United States ‘is no longer a republic, much less a democracy, but rather a kind of hybrid corporate-administrative oligarchy’. Cycle theory predicts that every more or less good regime – whether monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy – falls when it inevitably becomes overbearing and odious. Thus do monarchies degenerate into tyrannies, which are replaced by aristocracies that decay into oligarchies, which are overthrown by democracies that descend into mob-rule or even anarchy. He also notes that around a hundred million immigrants, from many different countries, have arrived in the United States since 1965, accounting for at least two-thirds of its population growth. This is unprecedented in human history, as is the fact that these migrants ‘are exhorted to embrace their native cultures and taught that the country to which they’ve chosen to immigrate is the worst in world history’. The most common (one may say only) way that multi-ethnic societies have been successfully governed is centrally, from the top, by some form of one-man rule, whether monarchical, Caesarist, or tyrannical. This, ultimately, is how Rome ‘solved’ the problem of admitting so many foreigners to citizenship, to say nothing of its far-flung conquest of peoples whom it never made citizens. In more recent times, one may think of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tito’s Yugoslavia. He also observes that the ruling elites ‘seem determined to make the American population fat, weak, ugly, lethargic, drug-addled, screen-addicted, and hyper-sexualized, the men effeminate and the women masculine’. He expects the US to undergo either imminent collapse or drawn-out decline. Chris Hedges points out that fading empires often indulge in ill-considered military adventures in a desperate attempt to recover lost power and prestige. He sees this as the reason for the United States’ decades-long military fiascos and the increase in tensions with Russia and China – and it makes little difference whether Republican imperialists or Democrat ‘liberal interventionists’ are in power. He draws parallels with the Roman empire, which created a military machine that – like the Pentagon – was a state within a state: ‘Rome’s military rulers, led by Augustus, snuffed out the remnants of Rome’s anemic democracy and ushered in a period of despotism that saw the empire disintegrate under the weight of extravagant military expenditures and corruption.’ He believes that the loss of the dollar as the global reserve currency will usher in a severe economic depression and will ‘probably mark the final chapter of the American empire’. He foresees a bleak future: The mechanisms, already in place, for total social control, militarized police, a suspension of civil liberties, wholesale government surveillance, enhanced ‘terrorism’ laws that railroad people into the world’s largest prison system and censorship overseen by the digital media monopolies will seamlessly cement into place a police state. [link to davidpratt.info (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 82416638 Germany 01/30/2023 02:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Michael Anton remarks that the United States ‘is no longer a republic, much less a democracy, but rather a kind of hybrid corporate-administrative oligarchy’. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77450519 Cycle theory predicts that every more or less good regime – whether monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy – falls when it inevitably becomes overbearing and odious. Thus do monarchies degenerate into tyrannies, which are replaced by aristocracies that decay into oligarchies, which are overthrown by democracies that descend into mob-rule or even anarchy. He also notes that around a hundred million immigrants, from many different countries, have arrived in the United States since 1965, accounting for at least two-thirds of its population growth. This is unprecedented in human history, as is the fact that these migrants ‘are exhorted to embrace their native cultures and taught that the country to which they’ve chosen to immigrate is the worst in world history’. The most common (one may say only) way that multi-ethnic societies have been successfully governed is centrally, from the top, by some form of one-man rule, whether monarchical, Caesarist, or tyrannical. This, ultimately, is how Rome ‘solved’ the problem of admitting so many foreigners to citizenship, to say nothing of its far-flung conquest of peoples whom it never made citizens. In more recent times, one may think of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tito’s Yugoslavia. He also observes that the ruling elites ‘seem determined to make the American population fat, weak, ugly, lethargic, drug-addled, screen-addicted, and hyper-sexualized, the men effeminate and the women masculine’. He expects the US to undergo either imminent collapse or drawn-out decline. Chris Hedges points out that fading empires often indulge in ill-considered military adventures in a desperate attempt to recover lost power and prestige. He sees this as the reason for the United States’ decades-long military fiascos and the increase in tensions with Russia and China – and it makes little difference whether Republican imperialists or Democrat ‘liberal interventionists’ are in power. He draws parallels with the Roman empire, which created a military machine that – like the Pentagon – was a state within a state: ‘Rome’s military rulers, led by Augustus, snuffed out the remnants of Rome’s anemic democracy and ushered in a period of despotism that saw the empire disintegrate under the weight of extravagant military expenditures and corruption.’ He believes that the loss of the dollar as the global reserve currency will usher in a severe economic depression and will ‘probably mark the final chapter of the American empire’. He foresees a bleak future: The mechanisms, already in place, for total social control, militarized police, a suspension of civil liberties, wholesale government surveillance, enhanced ‘terrorism’ laws that railroad people into the world’s largest prison system and censorship overseen by the digital media monopolies will seamlessly cement into place a police state. [link to davidpratt.info (secure)] And there is the spiritual end of it, the bible talks about that very same thing. A nation that once new God and had all its blessings will be destroyed by the Hand of God if they do not repent. Its in the bible and its happening just like the bible says but its global not just the USA. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81138858 United States 01/30/2023 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good. That is really what they need. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85140861 Take away russia's air superiority and they will lose badly. F-16 is not a good match for the russians 4th and 5th gen fighters, they would be blown out of the skies the first day The F16 is as good as its weapons systems and radar. That ranges from antiquated to as modern as anything out there on any aircraft. It's a very sound plane,Cheap and easy to maintain. It flies very well. It's biggest drawback is that you have to choose between range, weapons load out, and agility. For area defense where range doesn't matter you throw 2 sparrows and 2 Aim120s on it and that bird can fly. |
Scorched
User ID: 80365094 United States 01/30/2023 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tanks Money Fighter Jets Small arms Ammo They are depleting our gear They are setting up the few obedient soldiers like pawns on a shitty chess game They are trying to get off the genocide vaccine hook They have us completely surrounded...those poor bastards |
Chief Heyoka Glory Cl®wn User ID: 85171986 United Kingdom 01/30/2023 02:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: Pentagon Won’t Rule Out F-16s for Ukraine: ‘We’re Not Going to Take Anything Off the Table An enemy is known by his lips, though it is from his heart [spirit] that he draws out deceit. When he will have lowered his voice, do not believe him, for there are seven vices in his heart. - Proverbs 26:24-25 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 85140861 United States 01/30/2023 03:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tanks Quoting: Scorched Money Fighter Jets Small arms Ammo They are depleting our gear They are setting up the few obedient soldiers like pawns on a shitty chess game They are trying to get off the genocide vaccine hook Those weapons were created to defeat russia and china. Doesnt matter is it is an american or an eastern european pulling the trigger. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52708022 United States 01/30/2023 03:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good. That is really what they need. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 85140861 Take away russia's air superiority and they will lose badly. F-16 is not a good match for the russians 4th and 5th gen fighters, they would be blown out of the skies the first day Russia is barely flying their own planes and losing many they do fly. |
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(OP) User ID: 80692948 United States 01/30/2023 04:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tanks Quoting: Scorched Money Fighter Jets Small arms Ammo They are depleting our gear They are setting up the few obedient soldiers like pawns on a shitty chess game They are trying to get off the genocide vaccine hook PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |