Yellowtail

Are you talking about the ethnic cleansing of 900,000 Jews from the Arab countries in the last 100 years or the 400 years of Ottoman imperialism before that? Where do you want to start?

I think the US Navy is down less than 300 active-duty ships, and they are having trouble staffing those. Navy Raises Battle Force Goal to 381 Ships in Classified Report to Congress - USNI News The bigger issue is how fast can they be replaced. During WW2 Kaiser could build a Liberty ship (about the size of a Zumwalt Class Destroyer) in as little as five days, and at Willow Run, Ford could produce a B-24 heavy bomber every 63 minutes.

We had customers in Taiwan and plants in China I visited now and then, and I much preferred Taiwan.

So, we're just going to forget about the prior 400 years of Ottoman imperialism in the Middle East and pretend it never occurred? That's convenient.

Do you not use a spreadsheet? If you're going to calculate your saving on every trip you would just have to set it up once and just plug and chug.

Yes, but I think the current argument from the anti-Israel camp is that because Israel is a country with an actual military, they have to abide by the rules, but because hamas is a terrorist organization, the rules do not apply to them.

What negotiations have ended in failure? Is the ground offensive not ongoing?

On Netflix also...

Yes, "...I think most people can agree that overt racism, homophobia and direct threats to life are generally not acceptable..." but overt racism, homophobia and direct threats to life are all subjection. If guy calls a someone a drama queen, it's generally no big deal, but if a guy calls a homosexual male a drama queen it may be a big deal, particularly is they are in fact a drama queen.

My comment was in regard to the portion of the post that I bolded in the post, and that I have copied here: "And it was a good plan, but what they failed to to consider was the cultural differences between asean populations and western ones. The individuality that is ingrained in the western ethos is not a big part of Chinese culture." Is it your position "...the cultural differences between middle eastern populations and western ones..." is not significant and that the "...individuality that is ingrained in the western ethos is a..." big part of Middle Eastern culture?

Why?

What is the status of the Chinese navy compared to the US navy?

"Dude, hold my beer..."

That's hilarious. Another sexual intellectual.

I think a minimum time between posts from a single member in a single thread would help.

Why?

You could say the same thing about the middle east, yes?

And the idiots meeting with Xi Jinping for a butt-licking session in San Francisco today.

Watched the first episode last night and enjoyed it, thanks. Have you seen the whole thing?

You know nothing of my work experience but you are claiming it does not come close. Pretty typical. What are you claiming my work experience does not come close to? I do not for a second think managing the military was simple, nor do I think anything I said would lead any honest person to believe that. I think the Afghanistan debacle bears out that it's too complicated for the current administration, which incidentally lacks military experience. The only people that believe the left is not ruining the country are on the left. Okay, so Ron DeSantis has military experience, graduated Harvard law school cum laude, and is a popular governor of the third most populated state in the union. So, is that who you're supporting in '24? No. You'll support whatever the left-most candidate is, regardless of their experience.

You took one poster to task for claiming you did not hate Ramaswamy, and when I asked you if you did hate Ramaswamy you dodge the question three times. Strange.

Indeed. It has been my experience that Thais are generally a happy, friendly, honest, fun-loving people.

I worked on the first "Grease" movie and we all got a signed poster.

But that is pretty subjective, and a mountain of work. I can think of morons hat go back forth for pages that add nothing to the topic. The off-topic call gets pretty narrow sometimes, and it's supposed to be a friendly discussion. If the topic is cheap hotels in Pattaya, who's to say what's cheap?

I think the hostages are too valuable for hamas to kill them intentionally.