Malcador

You don't honestly think debates online are 'constructive' do you ?

Yep, am aware they do it, was just a joke on the brevity of the incursion, no need to get snarky.

Well yes, it doesn't always matter, as I wrote - it helps, in terms of getting quality staff and facilities and size helps for talent pool. Smaller, poorer nations have to wait for a good generation.

Yep, but in terms of qualifying the US has a fair amount of leeway in terms how far they can let their quality dip before it becomes an issue. And with the country's size and wealth, that helps as well. All the irritating homerism has started here, the WC draw is a Big Deal here in Canada complete with moronic promos

Wonder what the rest of their flight path was, maybe they intimidated Sweden by chance Would have thought this would have provoked more immediate attention, though.

Yes, but have to admit reading "US official says.." with some of the claims should arouse some skepticism in you.

Why ? It's CONCACAF, need to be pretty poor to not qualify.

It is funny how everything they say remains gospel Ah ok, was searching at 0100 without my glasses for the Russian equivalent of the B61 but nothing came to mind.

Was that confirmed? Article I saw earlier said Swedish military hadn't yet. - https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgifter-ryska-planen-var-karnvapenbestyckade Granted, had to rely on translation site. Honestly surprised an Su-24 would be kitted out with a nuclear weapon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv-russia-civilians/ Think there was a discussion (well or whatever passes for it here) on civilian structures being targeted, came to mind.

Almost done Darkside Detective, the humour is decent enough, I laughed once or twice. I do enjoy the music as well.

But sadly there is no justice in the world.

New scene group called FSBros to be created soon.

Had thought they could give Patriots at a discount or something, but had no idea those things cost that much - $1B.

Well not for infinite years, but will be an easy sell to the public (if any care in a couple of months.) - and helps the US economy out, sort of. Useful to check Russia and doesn't hold the US' attention too much.

For some reason this came to mind

Well, not perfect, for sure. But end result may be no invasion as Ukraine's well armed and has experienced fighters (Adeptus Astartes grade if you believe what I see in the news daily :P). US populace will happily pay for their weaponry for a couple years ahead, at least.

Those clear visors seem to have no practical purpose. Good to have pointless melodrama with Gosling

Sorry, I meant in terms of how they operate with other nations, was the context of this. Externally, all situations they have to have self interest as their highest goal and they're likely to do whatever they want regardless of if it's "immoral" or not to the average person. Churchill (ok, pardon the source...) has a good quote on that - "The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong." . In any event not much harm done being cynical towards a state's motivations, heh. I didn't say Trudaeu was silly or misinformed, though, why do you say he is ?

Just make it Open Carry and Mic night

Well to conclude it perhaps, but is reasonable to assume it. States are run like and by sociopaths. The US' "failures" and "dark side" as you put it is the reason people distrust their involvement in things (more so if their nation was receipt of US actions, I've experienced) and it depends on who the potential target is - if they are involved with Russian affairs it's going to be different than their involvement with Canadian ones (where they just **** us over ). But yes, anti-American, etc. etc. Not even sure what the outcome of WW1 would have been had the "bad guys" won, well other than a different kind of WW2 later I will hazard a WAG at.

Doesn't really seem that unreasonable, if you look at the country's track record. Also the US is a superpower, the game demands it screw with strategic rivals as they do to it, no ?