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https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/destroyed-russian-military-vehicles-in-u-idUSRTS64ON0

Last time I got my hair cut on soi buakhao I met a particularly nice girl in the shop waiting to have her hair cut. I got her number and she came by the next day...

I'm guessing you're not an expert on leasing aircraft or running an airline.

The MiG-29s also are inferior to more sophisticated Russian aircraft and could be easy prey for Russian pilots and Russian missiles. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2038906/world Some of the new, sensitive technologies installed on the MiGs would likely have to be pulled out before transferring to the Ukrainians. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/poland-transfers-mig-fighters-to-the-us-as-ukraine-asks-for-help-00015259

The US is not in a position to replace the MIGs to Poland with F16s because the pilots will need extensive training and the aircraft are not available anyway as the next shipments are going to Taiwan. There is also a fear that Russian aircraft will overwhelm the old MIGs due to being much superior and AA being very effective. So, long story short, this isn't a political issue even tough you'd like to make it one.

Mothballed aircraft are neither neglected or unmaintained and will have to undergo regular and routine overhauls and checks before they can fly again. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/01/there-could-be-snakes-planes-mothballed-by-covid-prepare-to-fly-again

why bash the RTAF?

Putin can't afford to lose this war otherwise he's a dead man walking so obviously they won't compromise.

Did you lookup the number of F16s which have crashed in the US before hitting the keyboard?

It's like Texas wanting to secede from the US. The argument is just as meaningless.

evidence? it's just lies without it.

Nor should they. He died on his first day in the country. One doesn't suddenly die of either covid or the vaccine.

Tucker Carlson's new argument is that NATO (and Kamala Harris) tricked Putin into war https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/8/2084737/-Tucker-Carlson-s-new-argument-is-that-NATO-and-Kamala-Harris-tricked-Putin-into-war

There was no phased withdrawal proposed by Trump, he had set a short deadline which Biden extended. Most of the equipment left behind was unusable anyway.

Trump ordered the pullout before the election. Biden decided not to reverse it. Maybe some people should read more fact based media. The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

complete rubbish. Trump did everything in his power and then some to appease Putin and harm NATO.

It looks like they are buying bitcoin to stash their money. BTC normally follows the NASDAQ and inversely correlated with the DXY but lately it has decoupled.

There's plenty of BM's here do as well and they aren't Chinese.

Should the US have surrendered when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? It would have saved a lot of deaths.

irrelevant again, irrelevant He said there was. Until the death and case rate actual declines the answer has to be yes.

You appeared to be justifying it by ranting about the US

so whataboutism makes it ok for Russia to bomb civilians in Ukraine?

Your predicate that they waited so long is false. The US has always searched for their MIA's.

Homo Arion

The real reason Russia is invading the Ukraine. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region — known as the “breadbasket of the world.” https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-africa-lifestyle-middle-east-1b41faaa7ac0984d0673023b68d39a70