Moonbox

"Me smart. You a dumb." is your argument. Got it. Your eloquence and reasoning is just...beyond words. ? He's not a self-made billionaire. He inherited money from daddy and would be far wealthier now if he'd just invested it in a US index. The fruits of his innumerable business ventures have been far below market average. As for his spray tan, look at the pictures. If he can afford the best treatments, why does he look like this? This is, of course, ignoring the absurd vanity of a 70-year old blob opting for tanning treatments. ?

Ah yes, the fabled General Winter, who's decimated so many invading armies on the Eastern Steppes. The difference this time? Russia is the one doing the invading, with the longer (and more stressed) supply lines. Russia is the one in hostile territory with unmotivated, poorly trained and poorly equipped troops trying to invade a country that's already very well acquainted with Russian Ukrainian Winter.

Whether intentional or not, I'll give you points for this great troll. Only Id Yuts use spray-tan on their wrinkled, obese faces into their 70's.

I still don’t really understand why. What is tone deaf about it? I’m not so sure. That Trudeau is a frivolous lightweight is firmly established by now. For clueless and tone-deaf we have his trip to India, which I’d say was far more embarrassing to this. I don’t see how this is any different than showing up to a Pride Parade, or getting photographed at a Church Picnic (which you know the same folk would not have complained about). Yes, Canada has problems, but the idea that our leaders are sitting in the war room with advisors 24/7 coming up with solutions to complicated problems like inflation or Ukraine is not the reality.

Sort of like this entire thread, right?! ??

Even...*shudder*....Liberals?

What offends you about this, precisely? My reaction? Nothing. I saw this and literally didn't spare it a single thought until people started raging about it. What did this cost Trudeau? How did this harm you, or anyone, anywhere, ever?

You asked me to provide a list of sacked Russian generals to support my thesis of widespread Russian failure. I did so, but you unsurprisingly had no comment on it. Why? Because you know it's true. As a response, you launched into a boring broken-record ramble of conspiracy slogans. Care to comment on Kharkiv Oblast? How's the Bakhmut offensive going? What's the word on Kherson city? Russia has lost or fired how many generals so far? How's the War in Ukraine going???

Gosh, now there's some infallible logic. Smurt people voted for orange-man. The dumbs voted for Joe. and yet your education comes into question here, with logic like this. ?

According to newspapers in Republican Florida counties even: https://archive.tcpalm.com/news/more-florida-adults-lack-basic-reading-skills-than-national-average-study-shows-ep-400673372-347830961.html/ Just saying it ain't true doesn't change anything, friend. The same intellects who voted for: You rest your case, indeed. ?

but 20% of Floridians can't even read. ? The voting doesn't prove anything, lol. Full disclosure: I love Florida and have spent years of my life in a gated community 15 minutes from Mar-a-Lago, but I love it for what it is and would never in a million years pretend it was a bastion of literacy and/or intellect. Drive 30 minutes inland almost anywhere in the State and you're in certified Bubba country.

Yes but the point stands, and you're much more likely to be able to recruit sailors when they'll crew state-of-the-art warships vs old barnacle tubs from 40-50 years ago. They'll find a way to increase recruitment, but that's a mostly separate problem from procurement.

I see your Governor DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio, and raise you "Florida Man". https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Florida-man-throws-samurai-sword-at-sheriffs-deputies-485751211.html This is a good one too: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-irma-gun-owners-florida-shoot-down-storm-a7937546.html Florida gun owners shooting their guns at the hurricane. What a special place - America's glory-hole.

Except it doesn't ?. With the third-highest percentage of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills, Florida’s population has a literacy rate of just 80.3%. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

Why do you keep saying, "you Americans"? Russian Tsars paved the way for the Bolshevik revolution. Life in Russia was pretty tough/cheap before the revolution, and it remained so after. What are you even talking about here? This whole thread makes little/no sense to me.

This sort of delusional coping is certain to reverse Russia's fortunes in Ukraine...r-r-right!?? ?

What's Florida's literacy rate? Just curious...?

Kiev in a few days!, oops we mean months isn't gonna happen. Hopefully we can hang on at least to Crimea ?!

What part of it signals that he's winning? Is it the first Russian draft since WW2? The loss of total loss of Kharkiv oblast and the ongoing retreat from Kherson? Does the importing of Iranian garbage-tech paint an encouraging picture of Russian weapon stockpiles, or their ability to manufacture replacements? Being able to show you what I'm saying is true is all that matters. Your impotent rhetoric is irrelevant. ? I don't know how many have been sacked. I do know of the following, which includes 8 top generals and the the overall commander of the Ukrainian theatre being replaced...TWICE. 1. Gen. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov - overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine - replaced by: 2. Gennady Zhidko - who was subsequently replaced by Sergey Surovkin (place your bets on how long he lasts everyone) 3. Lieutenant General Serhiy Kisel, commander of the 1st guards tank army - replaced for failure at Kharkiv 4. Igor Vladimirovich Osipov - Admiral of the Black Sea fleet, replaced following the sinking of the Moskva 5. Aleksandr Chaiko - commander of the eastern military district - replaced by Rustam Muradov 6. Andrey Serdyukov, commander of Russia's airborne forces - stripped of posts following the faceplant at the Hostomel airfield early in the war 7. Dmitry Bulgakov - Deputy Minister of Defense and head of Russian army logistics, replaced by Mikhail Misintsev 8. Alexander Lapin - commander of central military district - replaced ? If your world-view is based on the delusion that everything the MSM says is a lie, what you've convinced yourself of is that anything you don't want to hear isn't true. You don't have to believe the MSM on the above though. You can get this info from you're super-reliable Russian sources! Unless you're prepared to argue that Russia hasn't replaced its top commander in Ukraine twice (along with heavy turnover elsewhere), why don't you tell us how this sort of leadership turnover is a sign of Russian military success? ?

I think given how long they're going to take to build, there's time to train the sailors needed.

True enough, but if there's one thing that our armed forces generally don't lack it's the quality and training of our soldiers/sailors. Folks have been talking about cruise missiles making navies obsolete for probably 40 years now, and the Americans (who I'd say are probably the best judges of weapon system efficacy) are still building super carriers and forming their battlegroups around them and have yet to lose a major asset.

We can only speculate, but I don't think it's a stretch to assume their navy is as neglected as their army considering they lost their flagship to a couple of Ukrainian cruise missiles. They are more like small destroyers, yes, but they're still quite a bit smaller than a cruiser, or the Moskva in particular. Hitting a moving ship from far away isn't as easy as you'd think, but it definitely helps to have 50% less mass and volume.

It won't be, because it's a modern frigate, small and fast, with modern defenses. People pointing to the Moskva as a parallel to battleships becoming obsolete are ignoring the fact that the pride of the Russian Black Sea fleet was a 45 years old with presumably lower-end or outdated countermeasures, operated irresponsibly within range of Ukrainian coastal defenses they arrogantly assumed did not exist, and likely crewed by poorly trained sailors.

That your first reflex was to proclaim the forum was "compromised" because your post didn't go through is...telling.

Russia is apparently retreating from Kherson now, tails tucked and fleeing to the other side of the Dnipro. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63573387 The only regional capital they managed to capture since February and part of the announced "annexation". Oof.