thaibeachlovers

You appear to have combined your reply with J T's post.

You are welcome. While I may disagree with you, at least you do more than copy paste and write interesting posts.

Without getting into Russian vehicle identification which can even confuse me, I wonder how many commenting on the use of supplementary protection even know the difference between an APC and an MBT, without googling it, or have even driven one. PS re your avatar that was a great movie series.

The entire point of vehicles like APCs is that they were designed for a fast moving mobile war, and traded off protection for speed. In a close battle conflict like Ukraine more protection is an acceptable compromise. Given that I doubt Russia has loads of spare reactive armour, wood is entirely appropriate. Good protection against small arms. Spare track is also used where it is available.

Biden being generous with other people's money. The poor people of Louisiana could have done with Biden being in charge when they had a bit of a problem. BTW, if it is found that the government of California is culpable in the lack of preparation, will they still get other people's money?

Tad far to export water from the Great Lakes to California, and a problem with a few hills in the way. You do know this is a thread about California, I hope.

In a contest between 2 idiots, the one with a known track record won. The people of the US are sick to the eyeballs with warmongers in Washington getting them into stupid wars. IMO. Posters of your ilk keep wondering why Trump was elected, when they only have to look at Harris in full cackle to know the answer

You must have missed the bit about the US navy. Nothing to do with "shipping. As for your claim that the Chinese can't stop the US shipping ( navy ) it only takes a few guys with anti ship missiles to do that, and if they are already in Panama with a load of containers, how can you say they ain't a threat?

From you I take that as a compliment.

Seems we have a few posters that get their info off biased sites.

Unable to open your link. Keep getting spam which I can't delete. Anything on a normal web site without spam?

Do you even know what an APC is?

Anyone that lost to the worst man on the planet has to be seriously bad to be a looser. From bigging up a mental midget and then a mental idiot pre election, I see that the Trump haters are changing tack to "she almost won so she is really really good but it's just those stupid voters that didn't recognise how great she is" to blame. After all, the best woman in America couldn't have lost to the worst man on the planet, unless the voters were stupid, could she?

When she should have won by a landslide against the worst man on the planet, failing by even 1 vote is failing miserably. I agree that had the Dems not lost their minds and imposed Harris ( a woman that never won a primary ) into the campaign, they would have won. Sooooo, what does that make the Democrat elites? They've tried twice to get a terrible female candidate elected and failed miserably both times. Will third time be lucky?

Chinese container ports in the US are not in a position to close the Panama canal to US shipping.

They do want a serious president, but when the only 2 viable candidates are a braggart and a gibbering idiot, might as well go with the entertaining one.

Another one that ignores that Trump only won because his opponent was too bad to vote for. He was only the winning candidate because the GOP couldn't find anyone better to stand in the primaries. The US is clearly lacking in anyone with a brain cell willing to be POTUS. America didn't need Trump to tear itself apart- it's been doing that long before Trump became POTUS first time, IMO.

They are. They had to wait for the wind to drop before the planes could fly.

As seen on the news, the wind has died down and the planes are using sea water to "bomb" the fires and create a containment area. Sea water is itself going to create a problem with salt in the soil. Perhaps some better ( ? any ) ) vegetation management would have been in order pre fire season. Allowing undergrowth in a fire zone is always going to present a problem. It's not as though the residents of that Palisades area were not able to pay for it. This is the problem with most of the major wild fires I've seen recently- management of the undergrowth was cut back or ended. Fires are inevitable, and part of the natural cycle. It's only when people want to live in a fire zone that it becomes a problem.

Amazing how many people can only pick up on the negative when it comes to Biden Simples- Trump doesn't hide what he is, and he's out there warts and all. Biden pretends to be a good guy, but it's obvious to some of us that he's just another corrupt Washington swamp creature. The USA is in the best position it has been in years due largely to Bidens actions .

That is something I'd love to see. It's not as if he tries to hide his bias.

You do understand that the US is a capitalist country, don't you? If you want a more socialist country you will need to change the government to those that support socialism. Anyway, it's not as though socialist countries are any better, in reality- huge inequality.

In NATO we are peace loving people. I missed that first time, but thanks for the .

Proof?

and your military qualifications to say that are? Even been in the military?