It was probably shot on an iPhone and edited together in less time than it took to film. "Videography" is hardly recognizable to me now, having studied it nearly 20 years ago. Children literally produce video these days, and for essentially free.
no one is winning. The people who are really loosing out though is civilians
To enhance the family performance during WW2, my "to become" mother served as an aircraft plotter in Townsville during the battle of Coral Sea, she spoke of dozens, if not hundreds of flights out from the Townsville area over a few days; mainly B25s, I think ...
I really have little patience with that sort of sermonizing. Yes, civilians are paying a terrible price because Ukraine was invaded by a powerful neighbor. And rather than simply submit to being vassals of Putin, those civilians who could took up arms to defend their right to self determination. Others have kept their economy going. Like during the Blitz in Britain, still others have risked and too often lost their lives fighting fires, repairing electric and water infrastructure, and searching for survivors in shattered apartment buildings left by Russian cruise missiles and drones. Still others were tortured and murdered by Russian troops who have too often behaved like barbarians.
In August of 2022 Tucker Carlson stated, and others who objected to NATO support of Ukraine and the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia agreed, that Europe was on the precipice of a new "Dark Age" - that the loss of access to cheap Russian natural gas would "destroy" European industry, economies, and quality of life.
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My father was a bombardier/navigator on B-25's but with the 12th Bomb Group in the China/Burma Theater of Operations. Flew 74 missions and was shot down twice (fortunately both successful forced landings).
Ben worked for me when he was a "young" Lieutenant Colonel in the Office of the Chief of Legislative Liaison. He was a very able officer who finished his career as a Lieutenant General Commanding the United States Army Europe from 2014-17. He began the US supported part of the transformation of the Ukrainian Army following Crimea. He knows of what he speaks.
Yes and no. I know the right wing blogs are screaming about it, but what leverage did he actually have? He was trying to get concessions on matters that are already law. No responsible elected official is going to actually put the country in default - it has never happened before and no one with any sense is eager to see what would happen. It is somewhat remarkable that he was able to get anything.
There is also far less collateral damage today than in WW II style pattern bombling.
With respect to strikes against Ukraine's strategic infrastructure, that is correct. However, the Russians fight very differently than we do. They have no compunction about destroying cities along the line of contact. Even there, US forces attempt to cause as little collateral damage as possible.
How come he's not holding a Bud Light? Guess he ran out of it?
I wonder if they still use red lead primer. I've seen ships come into port looking like that but never leaving. Who knows could of been order out sooner than expected.
Red lead was what we painted the aft end of the ship with after a missle launch burned all the paint off. It was rust proof, I am convinced you could paint salt water with it. California was able to ruin any product that once contained lead and the only way to be guaranteed lead is actually in a product is to get food from China. Red lead on steel and zinc chromate on aluminum. 40 years ago the world made more sense.
