And
Fat Henry Knox, who was, to quote Maldron the Assassin's avatar, a Professional Street Nigga. That fool Big Ounce has nothing on his nigga. The only non-nigga things he did were working his ass off to support his family after his father died, and then opening a successful bookstore prior to shit getting real. Everything else in life from being the toughest kid in Boston's street gangs, to blowing off three of his fingers fucking around with a musket to impress the girls, to seducing away a woman from her proper Loyalist family, to going "fuck da redbacks" and joining the revolution, to liking big guns during the war and he could not lie, to squandering all his fame and money post-war with terrible business decisions, all the way to dying as a result of loving his chicken so much he swallowed a bone while eating dinner that got stuck in his throat and killed him.
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Dat nigga so strapped they had to paint him with one of his pieces.
@Vyse Inglebard will probably love this man.
You're right. I got my demented old witches from California confused.
It is unfortunately quite easy to do that. Same with the fat fucks of Swalwell and Nadler.
The Army had a lot of tactical nukes in the Cold War years. Pershings and GLCMs were the backbone of the Army's nuclear force (and caused a LOT of yuroseethe when they were deployed) but they were all decommissioned in the years of the peace dividend.
Funnily enough the German Defense Minister in the early 50's, Franz Josef Strauss wanted
more of those, especially the Davy Crockett Why? Well, if the border with the East was covered entirely with tac nukes, nobody needed a whole bunch of expensive foot soldiers and artillery pieces doing constant drills and bleeding money, right? The US had to remind the bastard that doing that was simultaneously the easiest way to convince the USSR to attack as well as force things to go nuclear due to the lack of conventional response.
Man, those Psi Corps looking bastards at Duty to Warn:
Same. Fucking. Energy.
So why hasn't China just gone and attacked Taiwan yet? The U.S. government & military are cucks who will hold the CCP's balls for them while the CCP fucks their wife.
Physically impossible. They lack the transport ships and ability to secure total, uncontested control of the sea and air around Taiwan. Or in other words, they're missing literally every single thing you need before you can even think about planning an amphibious assault. Even if they possessed those their chances would be 50/50 due to how dicey those assaults in general are, plus that strait is a bitch to navigate, plus Taiwan is a mountain fortress in the shape of an island. If it isn't urban combat in an Asian bughive, its jungles, and if it isn't jungles, its volcanic mountain. It is unironically an Asian supervillain's hidden, impenetrable lair in terms of the terrain you'd encounter. There is zero way the CCP can secure a quick, bloodless victory, even if they can successfully land their forces on the coast.
Cutting NZ and Canada make some degree of sense but Japan? What on Earth would possess him to do that? Other than Xi's hand up his ass puppeteering him but then why cut out CANNZ?
Why? Common language, common principles, and it looks to be a potential replacement to Five Eyes. The geopolitical situation with Japan is also dicey thanks to that Article IV thing going on in their Constitution. This looks to be a
very heavy and deep deal if the Aussies are going for a nuclear navy, since nuclear secrets like that are the sort of thing you either don't fucking share with anyone you don't trust 110%. If you read between the lines on the announcement it is definitely not your typical mutual defense treaty, especially given the French seething over how brutally they got kicked out of their sub deal with the Aussies. The boilerplate is a lot less noncommittal than you think, and the fact Australia is proclaiming it totally, 100% has absolutely zero desire for nuclear armament should be raising your eyebrows a little since A. they have extensive uranium reserves and B. the latest production block of Virginia-class subs that are currently being laid down have substantial SRBM capability thanks to Tomahawks. A weapon which like everything else in US Navy service, is neither confirmed nor denied as to its nuclear capability.
That's the thing, there pretty much is nothing they offer strategically that Australia doesn't already and why Reagan had no trouble just cutting them off when they did it, Clinton only let them back in to be nice essentially. There's a reason NZ is forgotten on maps half the time. Hell, I'm sure the reason liberals almost never brought them up as a country we should be like is because they straight up forgot they exist or thought they were just a province of Australia.
Not even Kiwis want to try and be like Kiwis. Just look at how Russel Crowe does absolutely nothing to disprove any popular yet incorrect notions he's Australian.
Yeah, that's more or less how businesses dodged their duty to Obamacare.
My old man was a GM of a small machine shop before California's bullshit forced it to close its doors, and he
hated Obamacare since the financial burdens of it made any expansion beyond 49 employees utterly impossible. Margins are razor thin for small businesses, never mind anything industrial in California, and hiring 50 employees would have put them so far in the red from the added costs its not even funny.
China has another flaw of the old USSR now that I think about it. A sense of historical permenance. That they will last forever regardless of whatever will come.
America suffers from it too, don't get me wrong. But not to the sheer narcissistic degree brought on by a history going back millennia.
Indeed. Someone needs to hold a seance with Khrushchev to let him know how well history helped bury the USA.