wanderingmagus @ wanderingmagus @lemmy.world

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So leak it on the darknet under a throwaway name on a burner phone on a random open wifi network, then toss the phone in a woodchipper.

Spoke for a solid hour with Peter Zeihan, author of The Accidental Superpower, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Very knowledgeable, and much taller in real life than I expected. I highly recommend his books.

In Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, we crippled ourselves trying to protect civilians and establish a local government while fighting an "insurgency". With Russia, per instruction, we will emphatically not be doing so. A war with Russia will be a concerted effort to fundamentally destroy and erase the current power structure and completely demilitarize the country, as we did in WWII. With thermonuclear weapons, if necessary. The unclassified nuclear doctrine is available for your perusal online.

A troll? Interesting. I'll let my chief and division know. I'd invite you to visit NSB Kings Bay sometime, but you'd get denied at the front gate, let alone the marines at Checkpoint Charlie and the waterfront gate. And I'm a sailor, not a soldier. Soldiers are Army only.

It's how villages worked for thousands of years, isn't it? Open to correction by any historian.

Thoughts on Russian and Chinese demographic trends over the last decade?

Got my first explicit scatological DM from someone with no fewer than three actual slurs (n-word included) in their username yesterday, from the lemmy.world instance (yes, my instance), so that was "fun". I've also seen the same sort of posts, from the same sorts of users, elsewhere in comment sections. Fun times.

Financial? Perhaps. Demographically, however, I believe Russia and Europe have entered a terminal demographic decline, only accelerated in Russia's case by the war. America, on the other hand, has not lost any soldiers or any significant resources and has increased the industrial capacity of the military-industrial complex. Strategically, from a cold, hard, pragmatic point of view, that counts as a win for my superiors, in the long term. Financial ups and downs are temporary and manageable. Demographic collapses are not.

Sister's in the marine corps and so is her husband. They can take care of themselves.

I'll take your advice into consideration. Still, you have again reminded me why I don't feel the burden of my duty too much. The existence of such organizations only hardens my resolve to flip the switch when the time comes.

Okay then, I was just wondering if this was the right time to point out that the home addresses of Netflix board members are publicly available information.

I do not advocate violent or illegal activities. I encourage readers to utilize critical thinking and sound judgement.

Because it did work. It worked well enough that January 6th happened, and the 2016 election. It worked well enough that Florida consistently looks like Florida and votes like Florida, generation after generation.

Yes. Look at the 2008 housing crash, and tell me average investors are intelligent.

I'd give the solution, but I'd be put on multiple lists.

Sort by top 6 hour and in settings hide read, and mark seen as read. Also try a third party app like Connect. That should help your All.

Welcome!

Both of those are also true. Add in one with Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Threads...

And for the record, best of luck in your studies. I hold no personal animosity, and a great deal of professional respect, for my counterparts in other militaries. We all have a job to do. If that means one of us has to shoot torpedoes at the other, we'll cross that bridge when the time comes. I do think, however, that you should never underestimate the willingness of the US to go to great lengths to do what it thinks is necessary.

Shipmate, if you look in my post history I literally did an AMA about my profession about a month ago, and a Machinists Mate Chief even jumped in to contribute. I haven't disclosed any ships movement, naval nuclear propulsion information or even controlled unclassified information. I keep my personal electronic devices physically far, far away from any work device, and we never cross the streams, as the saying goes.

Thanks. And yeah, they're probably just trying the tried and true War Thunder and Discord method. Or they're not taking lessons from the same people, they are the same people. Who knows?