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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 20:51:51 GMT 10
I wonder what the US would do if Canada signed a mutual defence agreement with Russia, and Russia put a base in Canada. Yep. Remember the Cuban crisis? All the @#$%ing and moaning about nukes being a few minutes flight from US cities. very similar to what russia is experiencing now. And chinese incursions into south sea islands… |
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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 20:41:40 GMT 10
Hungary is in nato and denmark does not have to worry about getting arms to the ukraine front as poland appears quite willing.
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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 20:31:52 GMT 10
yeah i’m talking a different sort of power. Power of nuclear persuasion and labor seems to be onboard so far.
Nuclear power production is a white elephant. It may have been good to have experienced(or not, Fukushima, chernobyl, 3mile island) but i’m not paying more for my power, peaking gas to fill gaps will do thanks.
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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 11:05:40 GMT 10
I mean the 'oppose us and we will nuke everybody' statements Poutine has made. It's straight out of the north korea playbook. Sorry but i’m so cynical atm that i don’t believe anything. i don’t speak russian so can’t verify what he said. But yeah the classic nuke deterrent. That’s what they have em for. |
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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 9:16:01 GMT 10
Putin is starting to sound a lot like Kim Jong Un. So they say. I don’t think poo-tin is crazy he is taking an opportunity to push back while the west is weak. He is Chinas sounding board. |
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Post by Beno on Mar 1, 2022 9:04:33 GMT 10
What unfolded in Lismore area yesterday was a complete disaster with very marginal assistance being rendered by the Orthowitees! MsM have reverted to blatant lies now. Every rescue is supposedly been by the SES which is total BS. SES didn’t substantially turn up until lunchtime yesterday after all their BS paperwork and briefings. They left hundreds of people unaccounted for overnight. Worse than a 3rd world response. Actually we could learn from the 3rd world, they get stuck in and have a go. Their HQ is underwater. That facility was abandoned by the westpac heliservice due to frequent flooding years ago and some numpty in SES thought it a great idea to make it their shed. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 28, 2022 20:32:24 GMT 10
Lismore, Wilsons river peaked at 16.2 meters, previous peak was in 1877 at 13.4 meters. Massive flooding, most of Lismore damaged, main street 4 meters deep, most shops under water to roof tops, caravans floating down river, people crying out for rescue from rooftops. See link www.facebook.com/groups/LismoreInformationExchange/10 people missing in floodwaters, water up to Hospital car park, power turned off as power lines at boat level, SES calling for anyone with a tinny and experience/gear to help. Army mobilized. Casino dodged the bullet, minor flooding, some shops damaged and some low lying houses with water in them. Main CBD just escaped, Coles/Wollies and Aldies shut. Had over 600 mm rain, Richmond river 3 meters below flood peak at Casino, flooding caused by blocked drains. All of Lismore and Casino, boiled water alert, do not drink tap water as the water treatment plants are under water. Likewise, dont flush the toilet as there is no where for it to go and it will come back at u. Out our way, minor road flooding,the usual suspects, will be probably OK by tomorrow, although some roads closed due to landslides and debris. I think Councils are going to be busy ! Likewise insurance companies. No tagline as its a serious situation. Interesting about the blocked drains. in my area usual maintenance hasn’t happed due to all the wet weather for the past 3 months leaving them full of growth that slows down water and causes backup. Take care if you purchase fuel, most of the stations around are in the flood zone making the risk of sludge being pumped into your tanks a strong possibility. The Lismore situation is a shocker. The alarm was not raised until an hour before the levee broke at 2am. Similar situation to SEQ. These so called “professional” emergency services staff that coordinate this stuff should be sacked. They are worse than useless, they are dangerous. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 28, 2022 20:19:57 GMT 10
Turkey has threatened to close the waterway through Istanbul as well as Dardanelles invoking some treaty from 1934. What a strategic point for NATO to potentially exploit to escalate their part in all this. they will find a loophole like this to justify sending advisors to help train the locals on how to use their box of goodies.
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Post by Beno on Feb 28, 2022 20:07:40 GMT 10
We need some too. Might be wise to procure one or two SSBNs loaded with a few nukes for advanced negotiation with dodgy neighbours.
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Post by Beno on Feb 28, 2022 17:29:09 GMT 10
These areas either need to see people move out of the worst affected areas, or some serious flood mitigations put in place. Either dams, permanent levies/whatever. Insurance companies will probably do that job for us I think... They already have in some areas. South lismore houses are mostly uninsurable and businesses in CBD have $50k plus annual insurance costs. Many coastal properties built on raised pads on floodplains have very high annual costs. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 25, 2022 16:20:42 GMT 10
Yeah like a totally dominated airspace facilitating company sized lifts at the drop of a hat to take out individuals found using state of the art intel, hard cash and equipment. Air support able to pretty much do whatever they want without sweet FA chance of being knocked out. top of the range equipment like comms, weapons, body armour and amazing medical support is not an advantage?an ambush is an ambush, look at the result of those. Read the ROE. I'll give you one example: joint US/ADF/ANA patrol ambushed on 3 sides, pinned down, taking casualties. Dutch Apache gunship overhead unable to engage because the ROE forbid the pilot to unless he was under direct fire. All that high tech air support is useless when a politician on the other side of the planet determines when you can use it. Even an armchair expert understands this concept. Mate those rules of engagement are for a high tech army specifically fighting goat herders to avoid unacceptable political outcomes. The US cannot engage with impunity in this circumstance. Taking casualties does not mean defeat it means you are in a fukking war!. When facing Russians they’d be free to use more discretion to avoid annihilation as the russians will bring equivalent or better high tech shit to the battlefield and it will be a much more even fight. even an armchair expert understands this concept. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 25, 2022 13:07:55 GMT 10
And if this war expands we won’t be shooting goat herders and farmers with long range high tech advantage, we’d be lucky to get ships and aircraft to the region without large losses let alone to the battlefront. Totally different scenarios. Anyone jockeying for this war is a nobjockey. You have no concept of what happened in Afghan. There is no long range high tech advantage when you're ambushed in a village. Yeah like a totally dominated airspace facilitating company sized lifts at the drop of a hat to take out individuals found using state of the art intel, hard cash and equipment. Air support able to pretty much do whatever they want without sweet FA chance of being knocked out. top of the range equipment like comms, weapons, body armour and amazing medical support is not an advantage?an ambush is an ambush, look at the result of those. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 25, 2022 10:38:29 GMT 10
And if this war expands we won’t be shooting goat herders and farmers with long range high tech advantage, we’d be lucky to get ships and aircraft to the region without large losses let alone to the battlefront. Totally different scenarios. Anyone jockeying for this war is a nobjockey.
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Post by Beno on Feb 25, 2022 10:34:35 GMT 10
Ukraine is the false flag event China was waiting for.. I think that is why the world police (us) is not responding militarily to ukraine. NATO knew they pushed Russia too far and are willing to concede ukraine to take the focus of their expansion program over the past 30yrs.
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Post by Beno on Feb 24, 2022 20:15:41 GMT 10
It is hard going but can be done. Check out some of malcolm douglas documentaries. He was a bit of a dude and spent a lot of time in the bush.
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Post by Beno on Feb 24, 2022 16:05:59 GMT 10
Finally,something other than MAFS or reruns of Third Rock from The Sun to watch on the telly. China might just invade Taiwan, were making serous threats yesterday.. Time for major Popcorn stockpiling it is going to be a long drama.   Not sure if we’ll be eating popcorn if China makes a move. After all the rhetoric from our government we’d be one of the first countries called upon to bolster the regions security to stop further expansion. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 24, 2022 14:40:50 GMT 10
The civvies in Ukraine are tooling up. Sales of guns, real guns like ARs and ammo are going up big time. Local militas are forming. Ukraine militia  Australian militia.  Actually that knife is probably illegal so the best we could do is put thumb tacks on the end of the nerf bullets. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 24, 2022 6:11:19 GMT 10
It should be done In very south. I looks like the producers are very first nations indigenous persons woke. So most likely desert, There is more food in the dessert than anywhere else in Australia. I have seen the Danish and US version, will have to look up the Swiss and other they mention I dont know much about our dessert, but what sort of food is abundant there? Meat. You’d go on a paleo diet as mixed grills would be the main part of what you eat. I used to catch goats by hand for sharts and giggles. The desert is awesome, you can see too the horizon in many places and can pick out game from kilometres away. |
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Post by Beno on Feb 23, 2022 13:04:27 GMT 10
The nord stream 2 sanction is being applauded. wow wee! It’s not commissioned yet and guess where the gas comes from? germany is basically saying we don’t need your nord stream pipe but reality shows that there is an energy crunch in Europe and they darn well need that gas. How dumb do they think we are?. I can see Vlads hand on the gas tap already and it’s not being opened further.
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Post by Beno on Feb 23, 2022 3:20:36 GMT 10
I think it will end up a flop unless they can get around certain legislation that prevents eating certain animals and using certain techniques to capture them. We are more pu$$yfied than we’d care to admit.
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