I banned one dude from there, but anyone from Ljubljana who is active? I admire Melania, who is a class act, unlike her husband. Evidently Nutcracker in Slovenia is performed by a rather ... grounded dude))
... otherwise astute observation is that you cannot explain some "historian" or dude from CIA what the cultural incoherence is. USSR collapsed because of Russians trying to get all those fringes out of the middle ages, with the exception of Baltics who understood that their whores are cheaper than whores from Poland let alone Germany. Other than that--good luck to France, Germany and Belgium resisting Sharia--most Euro "intellectuals" will convert to Islam anyway, because the only thing they dream about is a young pussy. Don't look at me, here is the guy who nailed it (after stealing the plot from Elena Chudinova).
... goes with this, but as I stated many times before--Colonel Douglas Macgregor should go to Podolsk to see the real archives on WW II and not propaganda he was fed by his Bundeswehr curators who committed unspeakable crimes and then hid them behind propaganda. If his son, to his greatest credit, can grasp it--good.
This is the picture of the deficit of power generation in 404. It is for today. Currently the average time any 404 resident remains without power is around 16.5 hours. That's average.
Many begin to grasp the situation, Trump's escapades notwithstanding.
... is a sentence to US military. In general, and it is one of many--the pattern is the same. Always the same.
Patriot PAC3 deploys. It is detected, taken on by RUK (Recon-Strike Complex), Iskander arrives. Not a single movement, not a single launch of AD missile. Not because it is inactive, because it is the system (the best NATO has) for the war of 1980s and 1990s against backward countries with military technology of 1960s.
Ramifications are enormous for the US, including the US Navy which always prided itself on Aegis and SM-6 missile as the best AD in the world--it is not even close. Salvo Model is cruel, you can cheat it on paper, in real life--you are dead. I speak about it in my today's video, especially against the background of Defiant-class "battleship" which became now a butt of the jokes even among US professionals. The critical admission by the US Navy that this white elephant will be using "existing systems" is everything you need to know about historic shift in naval war paradigm and, as the result, in the global balance of power.
... yesterday and didn't have time to read about this loser. But lo and behold, the moment I got up in the morning--here it is, a typical French hot air.
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed a “united and coordinated” response after his US counterpart Donald Trump threatened eight European NATO nations with tariffs for opposing his campaign to acquire Greenland. The tariffs, announced by Trump on Saturday, target Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland. They are set to take effect on February 1 at 10% and rise to 25% in June, remaining in place until a “complete and total purchase” of the Danish autonomous territory is achieved. “France is committed to the sovereignty and independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere,” Macron wrote on X. “No intimidation or threat will influence us – neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.”
Putting aside Trump's intentions (and there is a lot to be said about those, read Larry's latest on Trump) and main engine behind his policy formulations, Stephen Miller, one thing remains absolutely clear. Europe is impotent and for anyone who thinks that France or anyone else in Europe will not be influenced by intimidation--I have a bridge to sell you. Cash only. Hearing this protestations from cowardly European vassals whose modus of existence was very simple in the last 60 years--milk the US for the "defense" from the ephemeral Soviet military threat, while milking USSR for energy, the main foundation of the vaunted European prosperity and "socialism" is rich--the time is up.
It is a karmic historical justice here--the continent which gave us, apart from incredible achievements in culture, sciences, arts, industry and even humanism, evidently forgot that if not for its ambition and pugnacity mixed with imperialism, we may not have had, among recent events, two world wars which slaughtered in excess of 80 million people and spread misery globally. Rephrasing Huntington--West (original West) forgets it, the rest of the world does not. For French, moreover, the bright historic spots of Charles de Gaulle, Free French or Normandie Niemen, are just that--a two century long slide into infamy and national oblivion. So, when some pervert who French elected twice talks about not "being intimidated", I have news for French people as well as Europeans in general--you wanted it, you voted for that, because you cannot teach the old dog new tricks. Europe will surrender with the same speed it did when Hitler decided that it is time. Britain loved "peace in our time" show, while it lasted for a very short time.
The 1st Infantry Regiment of the French Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine) in a joint exercise with the 1st Infantry Battalion (1er BCP) and the 12th Cuirassier Regiment (12e RC) of the French Armed Forces, 2026. Don't show this to US Marines or any serious US Army formation. Per Russians, they sustained losses due to hernias after Homeric laughter while observing this "joint exercise". French, evidently, have a penchant for self-humiliation. So, they WILL be intimidated together with the rest of Europe because it is only natural for civilization which committed an act of self-immolation while laughing doing it. Good riddance.
I use the reference to Tarantino's disgusting movie excrement. But it applies to Oreshnik nonetheless. I also explain, again, Putin's caveats.
... a snowcalypse, not that it is something new)) But suddenly, a new species of Shai-hulud started appearing all over the place.
... French military just shared with me exclusive video 2 days ago in relation to this Macron's statement.
... about that. To those who still believe in Europe's "military-industrial might", so far Euro-NATO sent ... 15 military personnel to Greenland.
Why are EU leaders suddenly being nice to Russia? The German chancellor, French president and Italian prime minister appear to have seen reason in making up with Moscow. But is it genuine?
The question asked is legitimate and the answer is very simple--of course it is not genuine. For those in discussion boards here who will rush with warnings to Russia not to trust the West, don't worry--Russians are not as dumb as you might think. Speaking of which--sadly only in Russian--Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Petr Tolstoy delivers a doze of Russian geopolitical realism on one of the talk shows in Russia.
Russia's military is suffering heavy losses fighting in Ukraine, with up to 25,000 soldiers killed a month, NATO's top civilian official said this week, calling the carnage "unsustainable" for Moscow. "The Russians, at the moment, are losing massive amounts of their soldiers thanks to the Ukrainian defense," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told European lawmakers at a forum in Brussels on Tuesday. He said that 20,000 to 25,000 troops are dying each month as the war drags on. "I'm not talking seriously wounded. Killed." Rutte clarified. He compared the incredibly high losses to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, where an estimated 15,000 of its soldiers were killed over a period of more than nine years.
No, Mark, they gave you a very low number, real number of Russians killed a months is 100500 (Russians will know this number)). Europe is over, period. For people who still miss the most important part in Vladimir Putin's statement during the ceremony of receiving new ambassadors in Kremlin--it wasn't just about "cooperation in Europe", the most important part was what Russia preached since 1990s--ONLY on the mutually respectful bases, with Russia viewed as equal. All of Russia, Putin included, knows that this is impossible due to factors I speak about non-stop: majority of Europeans (I stress it--majority but not all) view and will continue to view Russians as subhumans. Russia can live without Europe.
Speaking about "massive Russian losses", here is video evidence of 404 terrorists enjoying realities of the war with Russia. At Slavyansk-Kramatorsk operational direction--like rats, filthy, demoralized, hiding in dugouts in fear of encounter with Russian standoff weapons, artillery, UAVs and, most terrifying, Russian Army's storm groups. NATO--that's you.
... the intensity of daily clusterfuck)) Not easy to fit events into 35 minute video-segment. I try, though. Greenland in focus, as is death of NATO.
... and never was "political adviser" to Vladimir Putin. He is mentally deranged boy from Soviet nomenklatura with zero military experience, let alone in nuclear weapons and everything he spews is the result of his deranged mind. Utterly militarily incompetent. He is a sort of a demagogue akin to Dugin--same origin in privileged Soviet nomenklatura class, same useless "edukeishn" in bullshit such as "political science" et al, same set of connections in Moscow's "elite". I have news--Russia IS NOT going to be using nuclear weapons on anyone unless it meets criteria prescribed in Russian Military Doctrine and Nuclear Policy. Karaganov knows NOTHING about military but he rubs shoulders with some generals and admirals. He mistook it for professionalism.
. . . the complexity of modern life has steadily whittled away the functions the ordinary citizen can intelligently and comprehendingly perform for himself. In the original American populistic dream, the omnicompetence of the common man was fundamental and indispensable. It was believed that he could, without much special preparation, pursue the professions and run the government. Today he knows that he cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal; and when he sits down to breakfast and looks at his morning newspaper, he reads about a whole range of vital and intricate issues and acknowledges, if he is candid with himself, that he has not acquired competence to judge most of them.
The whole class of journos, political "scientists", sociologists, historians and "economists" has been exposed as people with primarily fraudulent backgrounds who cannot grasp the events of today and nutjobs like Karaganov are driven by ambition and ... ignorance aptly mixed with lies. But then again, every village needs its own corps of idiots.
... about Colonel Jacques Baud. Switzerland finally stopped scratching her ass and started doing something. This is from January 11.
Yesterday evening, we received news that the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) had lodged an official protest in Brussels 26 days after Jacques Baud was sanctioned by the EU, arguing that the sanctions imposed on Jacques Baud had not been preceded by due process and that freedom of expression had not been respected.
At least some actions are being taken, finally.
Just to indicate that I am around, just cooking today what I love--so, busy I am.
... US view on ground or, for that matter, any combat, including air one is one huge myth rooted in facing (and still losing) weak enemies and learning about WW II from ... losers. Well, some people are beginning to suspect something. Too little, too late, though, because it cannot be fixed. They should have listened to me in 2014. The myth has been utterly destroyed.
The caption reads: meanwhile somebody studies international law in universities))
But then, of course, he "forgot".
That is not what's going to happen.
The EU will have to resume dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine conflict, the European Commission’s chief spokesperson has said.
Who continue to exhibit a hysterical behavior of a bipolar woman with PMS--you chose a wrong blog. Pathetic attempts to pin labels such as "Nazism" or "totalitarian" to feeble attempts of current administration to arrest sedition and outright destruction of the country by primarily DNC operatives and their networks which have been at it since 2000s will result in my banning all this hysterical BS outright. As much as some actions of ICE could be questionable, as totally drowned in crime and corruption, including ethnic organized crime groups, Minnesota demonstrated--the trajectory of the country is very dangerous. But local alleged "freedom fighters" should be provided experience for them living without police, without control of immigration and without any semblance of order--I have this experience, they don't.
Now, to clarify even more--with primitive hysterical Manichean minds of commentators it is difficult to understand by them that utter corruption of Trump's Admin and him being Israel's puppet, in no way nullifies a crime by Democratic Party against majority of Americans, and, as correctly stated by Space Cowboy:
Ok but it’s worth noting that both the American left and right condone extrajudicial killings as long as it is against their political enemies.
So, anyone trying to accuse me of "fascism:", "Nazism" et al, I have news for you--none of you have any idea what REAL fascism and Nazim are, period. The rest is up for discussion--such as why ICE agent did this or that. In related news--and you know who I am talking about--none of you ever faced real danger. I hope I made myself clear. This blog's focus is primarily geopolitics and military affairs, not the playground for hysterical lefties or Zionists. You are on notice now.
... when you never studied physics and some other things which are related to advanced weaponry. Difficult to explain to these "experts" that using 404 BS about "Oreshnik" has nothing to do with Oreshnik or, for that matter, any kind of modern hypersonic weapons at M=10+ while flying IN the atmosphere.
But that's the "level" of this kind of bullshitters who browse internet, collect all kinds of rumors and fake "docs" and then pass it for "analysis".Meanwhile))
Comment: You should baptize your child.
I like mom's detached look and resignation to her fate, LOL))
... British missile. Isn't it an oxymoron?
Britain is set to 'put leading edge weapons into the hands of Ukrainians' with powerful long-range ballistic missiles that can destroy Russian targets more than 300 miles away. Nightfall rockets - which are packed with 200kg warheads, can be fired in quick succession and reach as far as Moscow - could prove a valuable asset in Volodymyr Zelensky's ongoing fight against Vladimir Putin's forces. Now British firms are being sought by the Ministry of Defence to design, develop and deliver the first three test missiles in a contract worth £9million. Hailing the potential of the new weapon, Defence Secretary John Healey told The Sun: 'You defend your cities by having layers of defence and you partly defend by being able to attack.'
Let me get it straight--9 million pounds, missile with the range of 300 miles, ballistic, by British ... LOL)) Next thing you know, London will develop a Death Star for 404 for "1 million Dollars"(c)
This brings us to this. Paris. Even five years ago that could have been a reason for pride among Russians--the most Russian piece of music ever, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1.
... combined West, and especially Europe, understand. Dmitry Medvedev knows it well.
The ruling European dimwits want a war in Europe after all. It’s been said a thousand times: Russia won’t accept any European or NATO troops in Ukraine, but no, Micron keeps peddling this pathetic bullshit. Well, come on then. This is what you’ll get:
Meanwhile, about REAL military education:
The Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School will resume its operations after a 19-year hiatus and will be one of the three military universities planned to be reopened in 2026. Alongside it, the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots and the Novocherkassk Higher Military Command School of Communications will also begin operations. The revival of the educational institution is part of a large-scale program of the Ministry of Defense to expand the military education system until 2034, according to media reports citing sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Yep, 6 academic years, heavy STEM, engineering schools with young officers who are graduated with a specialist degree in STEM (from system integration to weapon systems design) and an equivalent of Bachelor of Science in Military Sciences. This list is just the beginning of a return to Soviet system of military education of officer corps. Larch sent me today an article in Izvestiya. And here is an advertising for legendary Moscow Higher Military Combined Arms Command School (MVVOKU), aka Kremlin Cadets.
... where you hide. Bilche-Volitsko-Uhersky underground gas storage is no more. Europe now wants to talk? Too late for that.
... Colonel Vladimir Trukhan explains (in Russian) about all this "Russia must help" BS propagated by all kinds of "do gooders", who still do not realize that this is NOT the world of 1960s and Russia IS NOT Soviet Union. Far from it.
I know there are means on internet, using neural networks, to translate it in English, but importance of Vladimir's 5-minute talk is not just in what he says--I was saying the same thing for years now--it is in the fact of what he represents--a serious level of people who think exactly like him in Russia. Obviously, neural network will not be able to properly translate a number of Vladimir's idiomatic expressions, LOL)) "Pickled cocks" is one of them)). And against the background of the events of the last week and, especially, of the last 48 hours it should be understood very clearly--404 is but a nuisance in a larger scheme of things, especially with clear indications today of Europe (Macron, Meloni et al) being scared shitless. Good. I speak about this and more in my today's video which should be up shortly.
... with what looks like Oreshnik.
Famous Lenin's dictum that Communism is the Soviet Political Power Plus Electrification of the Whole Country is being put in practice in 404 but in reverse. De-communization is the lack of the Soviet political power minus electrification of the whole country. What is happening right now across whole of 404 is unprecedented--the whole power generation and industrial capacity is being wiped out. Not only Dnepropetrovsk is dark, the other major industrial city and the main steel producing center Krivoi Rog is being de-communized with catastrophic consequences for not only power plant but steel foundries.
Now about this.
Politico's EU version is trying to find "responses" to a likely US "acquiring" of Greenland. I want to stress WHY the US really needs Greenland, apart from obvious military utility, it is all about Arctic and its immensely rich continental shelf.
BRUSSELS — If European governments didn't realize before that Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland were serious, they do now. Policymakers are no longer ignoring the U.S. president's ramped-up rhetoric — and are desperately searching for a plan to stop him. “We must be ready for a direct confrontation with Trump,” said an EU diplomat briefed on ongoing discussions. “He is in an aggressive mode, and we need to be geared up.”
Here comes this critical issue--gear up with what? As much as I am critical of the US military, but Europe is a military midget)) Yet, they still consider:
Option 4: Boots on the ground. ... Legally speaking, it’s possible Denmark would be forced to respond militarily. Under a 1952 standing order, troops should “immediately take up the fight without waiting for, or seeking orders” in “the event of an attack on Danish territory.” European countries should weigh the possibility of deploying troops to Greenland — if Denmark requests it — to increase the potential cost of U.S. military action, an EU diplomat said, echoing suggestions that Berlin and Paris could send forces to deter any incursion. While those forces are unlikely to be able to withstand a U.S. invasion, they would act as a deterrent. “You could have a tripwire effect where you have some groups of people who are physically in the way, like a Tiananmen Square-type situation, which would potentially force the [U.S.] military to use violence” or to back down, said Crosbie. But that strategy comes at a high cost, he said. “This is completely unexplored territory, but it is quite possible that people's lives will be lost in the attempt to reject the American claim over Greenland.”
... a REAL Army (57th Brigade) in REAL war, not Hollywood BS or some Iraq "experience". In this instance 11 VSU are KIAs.
... disarray, there are lines of people to the grocery stores and shelves are being emptied because of ...
Vladimir Putin does not “know what to do” after Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron pinned down new security guarantees for Ukraine, according to a former Russian prime minister. The UK and France agreed to put troops on the ground in the war-torn country if a peace deal with Russia is reached after a pivotal Coalition of the Willing meeting on Tuesday.
Mighty British and French Armies are gathering in Europe. At this stage Putin is isolated and Gerasimov with Bortnikov are in constant contact with CIA, MI6, Mossad, Kenyan and Lesotho intels, and SAS with Delta Force arranging kidnapping of Putin and then getting themselves some nice retirement somewhere in Gary, Indiana (it is so nice and peaceful in Winter). So, any moment now. I guess the US should prepare Gary Kasparov to be flown into Moscow and take Putin's post of President of Russia. There are also reports of Russian troops staging mutinies and deserting once the news of Starmer and Macron giving "guarantees" to Ukraine hit the frontlines.
... if Raytheon is not going to be doing "bizniz" with the US government.
... and much more. But before--for hysterical schoolgirls with male genitalia, attentively United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea:
Article 92 Status of ships 1. Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only and, save inexceptional cases expressly provided for in international treaties or in this Convention, shall be subject to its exclusive jurisdiction on the high seas. A ship may not change its flag during a voyage or while in a port of call, save in the case of a real transfer of ownership or change of registry.2. A ship which sails under the flags of two or more States, using them according to convenience, may not claim any of the nationalities in question with respect to any other State, and may be assimilated to a ship without nationality
Capisce?
... Army in operational sense. What it has is a couple of units with weapons which are combat capable.
The British Army is not strong enough to defend Ukraine in the long term, Sir Ben Wallace has said. The former defence secretary said he believed the country could only “sustain” boots on the ground for a short time in the event of a peace deal. Sir Ben said only Germany was properly investing in defence spending and Vladimir Putin would not be “fooled” by assurances British troops could safeguard a ceasefire.
Bundeswehr is also a joke, as is Germany. But I see a lot of hysteria on discussion of Venezuela with people who visit this blog not to educate themselves--and, boy, do I try to educate--but to vent their kindergarten frustrations. I have a statement for them--if you cannot learn basic things about military-political analysis and cannot take reality for what it is, why are you here? There are many forums for people who instead of learning are into business of repeating same thing over and over again as if anything is going to change in their little fake universes.
Here is an example about Venezuela. You want the truth? Many of you, and you know who you are, can't handle the truth(c).
It would seem that after the criminal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Madur by the United States, all Latin American countries should feel vulnerable – and unite against American imperialism. Some people do say so. But others not only do not want to help Venezuela, but even rejoice at the actions of the United States. Why? For many years, it was believed that Latin America was a kind of unified bastion of anti-Americanism. Experts argued that Latin American countries value sovereignty, security and leftist ideas, that they are extremely negative about any manifestations of American interventionism, especially such as the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "This attack is not only directed against Venezuela; it is an attack on Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, it could be Venezuela; tomorrow it could be any other country that decides to exercise its sovereignty," says Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil. However, the kidnapping demonstrated that there is no single Latin American choir. "We are at the lowest level of inter-American diplomacy because all countries have turned inward and developed pragmatic approaches to their relationship with this administration," said Arturo Saruhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States.
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... when considering the key candidates for traitors of Maduro.
... any proof of it, mostly the ability to buy out traitors, which, as it turned out most of Venezuela military-political top is, but it is difficult to explain people with "military" background of Trump or Hegseth that there was no any real military operation in Venezuela. But that's Donny for you.
Per lament of a well-known contingent who continues to view Russia as somehow the power responsible for liberating the combined West, including the US, from a collection of nutjobs by means of defeat of this said West. Nope, I have bad news for you--Russia, unlike the Soviet Union (and even then), will not waste her resources on anyone, unless she sees a real use for her own national interests. For the 12th year I repeat ad nauseam in this blog, that if need be Russia will "negotiate" with the Devil, e.g. Syria, where Russia still maintains her military bases. But now it is the time to openly state what Russian military-intel professionals knew for a very long time--Latin America is essentially a Western Hemisphere's Arab World, all of it is about the price tag. Africa, and some of her leaders have more integrity and principles than what we observed in Venezuela, which is now covered in national shame, they may never recover.
All that being said, nothing has changed factually on the ground: the US military remains obsolete, it cannot plan, let alone conduct real massive combined arms operations, it is only capable of psyops and raids similar to Venezuelan against backward enemies who do not shoot back. So, what's left then? Greenland, where the US will send a military police squad to "regime change" and that will be it. It will also be touted as a great victory. When you lose all your wars, this will do. As per SMO, here is another demonstration to all those UAVs fanboys who still think that UAVs can win war.
Here is Akatsia:
... corroborates additionally the betrayal at the very top of Venezuela's political power.
I learned today from a reliable source that a member of Maduro’s inner circle betrayed him and facilitated the US military operation that led to the abduction of Nicholas Maduro and his wife… It was not Delcy Rodriguez.
Was it Venezuela's intel who worked with the CIA? Not only it is possible but fairly probable. But in the end, it doesn't matter anymore because it doesn't change the power of a donkey loaded with gold which works in this kind of localities.
... who forget constantly that this blog exists since ... 2014. Here is a bit of a "down the memory lane" to those who still perceive me as a guy who doesn't understand what is going on in the world geopolitically, I am not claiming to know it all, never did, actually. So, here is a reminder. From 11 months ago:
But they are not "harmful", they are great because any pretense of morality, "democracy" and "human rights" has been finally dropped. All this nauseating moralizing of Washington is finally exposed for what it is--parasitic imperial aspirations, a geopolitical "realism" at its pinnacle. And this is healthy, because all this post WW II BS finally dissipates. For this we all should be thankful to DJT--he cleared the playing field of any smoke and mirrors, and we know what he wants. Pop-corn time, as well as schadenfreude, a feeling after Tucker Calrson explained to this cretin Pierce Morgan that, as one Russian observer put it, the old Euro "elites" can suck American cock because UK is irrelevant, and the US is now empire. Decrepit, impotent and pretentious but still stronger than London, who, together with Paris, Berlin and Rome, is nothing more than a touristy attraction.
Here is from even earlier times. Namely 6 years ago (2019) when explaining the nature of Monroe Doctrine and how it will go for the US.
As you can see, the whole doctrine was predicated on a quid-pro-quo principle of not screwing with Europe and her possessions. Of course this whole thing was not worth the paper it was printed on once the United States solidified and started to grow in the postbellum years and suddenly recognized herself a colonial power with pompous rhetoric about democracy and liberty serving as a fig leaf for full blown imperial conquests.
The US tried with a bunch of ignoramuses from CIA and Pentagon to do the same trick with Russia, remember SMO? Didn't work out, eh? But now some interesting school of thought emerges in Russia--that actually these were Chavistas who arranged this whole Maduro thing. I don't know, don't ask me, but this whole thing with Maduro's kidnapping and especially reactions in the US to this act of pure banditry, as Vasily Nebenzya called it, is down right grotesque.
Mark F. Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Marine veteran with years of official experience working on Defense Department funding, was rather more blunt: "A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water." ... Judging from Trump's bluster about his battleships' size and purported "lethality," to use his description, "the 'Trump class' battleship program seems optimized more to produce a scary-looking vessel than to address the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas," observes Phillips Payson O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Indeed, Trump's plan conforms more to the he-man approach to defense policy, exemplified by Hegseth's harangues to Pentagon officers and service members, than to any sober assessment of military needs.
Neither Pentagon nor CIA are good at "addressing the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas", or in the air, or on the ground for that matter, and that will remain so for a very long time--donkey loaded with gold.
