@Sombra He is probably going to hold press conferences until Russia is forced into submission

I wanna ask, why would someone wanna poke a damn bear?

Also in other news, apparently the EU is trying to build an army

Ha! They have been trying that for a long time.

Russian boys are being trained to maintain weapons and basic infantry tactics from elementary grades nowadays, meanwhile Obama is feeding his young ADHD pills

we dropped to 31st out of 35th place in test scores

If F-35's and Drones were enough to conquer a nation, Taliban would have fallen by now

I agree, anyone who thinks dominating the air also means dominating the ground shouldn't be taken seriously. You need infantrymen for anything to be a success

Domination of the air certainly helps

Combined Arms and all that

ofc it does

but

look at the battle of Torabora (Spelling might be off)

Technically, air could get you domination, if you didnt sabotage yourself with humanitarianism for example

we had no ground presence and they escaped

many years ago I wrote a paper on Opreation Rolling Thunder, the air bombing campaing the US undertook in Vietnam, and I made the case that control of the air isn't a significant factor in conquest. you need to control the ground, which I don't think the US ever tried in afghanistan

But that's Russia, and it's not going to be defeated in air

Ha! If Humanitarianism wasn't an issue we could have carved a swath of destructiona cross the middle east with enough blood spilled to wet the sands for years to come!

not only that, but the Russian answer to the F-35 is like a third of the price

Apart from air force which is quite agile, there's a huge network of anti-aircraft defences which would make any substantial penetration and air supremacy quite a task even for superior western air arsenal

@Austin I agree

and no one has successfully invaded Russia for over 500 years. It's not going to happen. It's all just posturing at this point. at least that's my 2c

People expect conquest to happen over a single generation.

Somtimes it's wiser to bide time and conquer, remove, replace with your own people.

which is why this Islam bullshit is going to be winning, they're playing long term

It's not really an issue at all, stories about major war are just BS for usurping markets and stuff

yep, they are playing demographic game, something shitlibs wont even admit

they are conciouslly replacing us, not merely following their sexual urge

Nationhood was birthed over the unification of like-tribes...

If Nationhood is turned into somthing it's not, if its culture is betrayed and lost, that nation ceases to exist.

(In Europe at Least)

I have always sort of criticized tribalism in favor of high civilization, but honestl, what tribalists talk today is increasingly making sense

We have to make full circle it seems, instead of trying to restore what is gone for good

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Globalism is faltering... and Nationalism will falter and fall as well if you don't have cultural homogamy.

faltering? Try crashing harder than the Hindenburg. Trump's election was the power lines that snagged it

When nationalism falls.. it's all tribes..

I think Austin mean more like this petty nationalism and chauvinism

"America, fuck yeah!" and this stuff we have in Europe, that promotes infighting and pettiness

I like the thought of nationalism because it gives us all an identity and to be proud of where we come from, as opposed to what we're expected to accept today

Yes true, many smaller nations won't have problems staying togheter, like Poles for example, or Slovaks