Comments on: Open thread 4/27/24 https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:22:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: rom https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736908 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:22:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736908 It was used, they don’t have a lot of MIG-29s. The Ukrainians are using a French glide bomb as well as JDAMS. Just because you haven’t heard …..

Here is a link:

https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/18/french-aasm-hammer-bomb-spotted-on-ukrainian-mig-29/

There is also video of the French glide bomb strike in Ukraine on the web.

]]> By: Brian E https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736903 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:33:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736903 mkent, at the beginning of the war the US contracted with Boeing to make an adapter to use our JDAMS on Ukraine’s MIG-29s. I never heard or saw anything since about that.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736880 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:38:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736880 https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/28/a-shockingly-inept-report-from-the-iea-on-battery-storage-of-energy/

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736868 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:08:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736868 Yes that evangelism was tiredsome

Well back to the malabar front

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736865 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:51:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736865 mkent:

Brain E presents the isolationist position again, here regarding unrestricted Russian attack on Ukraine; Russia can attack with whatever means and Ukrainuan ordnance will be hobbled until Russia wins. Reasons.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736864 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:46:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736864 Don’t care for Zappa retrospectively. Vociferous atheists are tiresome. By some accounts, he was cold and contemptuous to his employees. And why would you name your children ‘Moon Unit’ and ‘Dweezil’?
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As for his music, he could be amusing on occasion. (“I’m here to talk about an important social problem in America, and it’s called “Disco”).

]]> By: mkent https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736859 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:06:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736859 More later once I’ve watched the videos posted above, but I wanted to comment on this:

”…Russia probably still wins, since with their increased use of glide bombs, more of their missiles can be directed at targets in western and southern Ukraine, and we still have a limit on how many we can/will send Ukraine.”

If it comes down to a contest of glide bombs, Ukraine wins. We can build 50,000 JDAMs a year and have a stockpile of half a million of them. Russia has just about maxed out the domestic materiel they can send to Ukraine. The West has a looooong way to go in that regard.

]]> By: SteveS https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736857 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:44:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736857 Watching that video it’s easy to see why everyone in the 60’s assumed Frank was raging on psychedelics. He didn’t need them!
Truly a unique, original genius and great guitarist. Were he still alive I’m sure he’d be leading the charge against woke cancel culture and censorship.

]]> By: Banned Lizard https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736854 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:54:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736854 Brian E:
Maybe Ukraine can help us defeat Biden.

Although your suggested scenario would be unhealthy for the world, nothing but nothing is as bad as having Team Joe in power. I don’t root for the calamities and inflation eroding our quality of life, but Team Joe is aggressively pursuing them anyway. It’s as if (as Joe said in 2020) they don’t need our votes. In case they don’t get 4 more years, they are inflicting maximum destruction now in every way they can.

Lord help us.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/27/open-thread-4-27-24-2/#comment-2736843 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:18:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=134020#comment-2736843 Brain E:

Why don’t you cite Vlad directly regarding Ukraine being a failed state instead of leaning on his little man in NATO, Orban? Not that Vlad has anything to do with the state of Ukraine since 2008, 2014, 2022-2024, you know actively trying to dismember and destroy it as a nation? Or Vlad claiming that Ukraine actually isn’t a nation at all. Is that your position now? Don’t be shy.

“Realists” and isolationists are something indeed.

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