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#21

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by DGuller - Today at 01:28:17 PM

Yi, that's a bit of a 'cop out' reply, JR's made the effort to write a several paragraph reply; you could try addressing the key issues he's highlighted.

Mongers, I'll listen to lectures from a couple people. You're not one.

Am I one of those people?  If so, I had the same reaction as mongers.  Minsky started a conversation and you appeared to brush it off.

#22

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Syt - Today at 12:38:40 PM

Watching Olympics coverage exposes me to ad blocks on German TV for the first time in years. It's the usual. Travel ads, supermarket ads, over the counter medication ads, Trivago and Airbnb ads ... and an ad for investing in industries in Ontario, Canada.   

#23

Off the Record / Re: Aukus

Last post by Jacob - Today at 12:27:06 PM

Are the "Trump Class" battleships a real thing?

#24

Off the Record / Re: Aukus

Last post by Threviel - Today at 12:10:16 PM

Interesting and makes sense. I would imagine that the US still has the edge at sea and with the new Trump class battleships entering service I expect that to change. Sane procurement strategy and an efficient ship building industry will make a huge dent in US superiority.

#25

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 11:38:58 AM

The Balts were very upset with the wargame.   

German wargame simulating Baltic attack dismissed as 'insulting' and 'nonsense'

A German exercise simulating a Russian incursion into the Baltic states that found Moscow could destroy NATO's credibility and "establish domination over the Baltics" in a "couple of days" has been dismissed as "frankly insulting" by the Estonian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

The exercise was organized in December by Germany's Die Welt newspaper with the German Wargaming Center of the Helmut-Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Sixteen former senior German and NATO officials, lawmakers and prominent security experts role-played a scenario set in October 2026.

The game's results showed that with "absent American leadership, Russia managed within a couple of days to destroy the credibility of NATO and establish domination over the Baltics, by deploying an initial force of only some 15,000 troops."

The scenario imagined that Russia used the pretext of a humanitarian crisis in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to seize the Lithuanian city of Marijampole.

https://news.err.ee/1609935392/german-wargame-simulating-baltic-attack-dismissed-as-insulting-and-nonsense









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#26

Off the Record / Re: Climate Change/Mass Extinc...

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:28:33 AM

Somewhat concerning, this is the crypt of Winchester cathedral, a stones throw from the river Itchen.




Central Southern England is Waterworld at the moment, coming home through the floods last night, I had to go through one place that I'd never seen flooding in before then.

#27

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:24:59 AM

Yi, that's a bit of a 'cop out' reply, JR's made the effort to write a several paragraph reply; you could try addressing the key issues he's highlighted.

Mongers, I'll listen to lectures from a couple people. You're not one.

Doubling down on the cop-out I see.

#28

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 11:24:16 AM

Yi, that's a bit of a 'cop out' reply, JR's made the effort to write a several paragraph reply; you could try addressing the key issues he's highlighted.

Mongers, I'll listen to lectures from a couple people. You're not one.

#29

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:20:40 AM

I don't know Joan.

Yi, that's a bit of a 'cop out' reply, JR's made the effort to write a several paragraph reply; you could try addressing the key issues he's highlighted.

#30

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 11:16:57 AM

I don't know Joan.