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And the dead American suckers and losers buried in the cemeteries of Normandy - where Trump wouldn't go for fear of messing up his 17 hairs.

...by instructing Russian tanks and troops to pour into Ukraine and attempt to capture Kyiv. Because apparently that's what an attack on Russia looks like. It's practically a carbon copy of the American attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, or the German decision to invade Normandy in 1944...

...There were huge numbers of boomers because their parents were busy fighting a war, and so in many cases had to defer starting a family (it's astonishingly difficult to get your wife pregnant when she's in Toronto, and you're in a shell hole in Normandy, even if she's not on the pill).

...retrospect, it would have been much more economical to pursue a similar strategy in World War II, by letting the Germans push us back from Normandy and into the English Channel on D-Day, entailing massive allied casualties. Then we could have just waited for them to collapse while saving a...

But they can't do it. At least not yet. Ukraine is struggling to get to the smaller villages on southern and northern flanks of Bakhmut. The city itself is pretty much secure. At first, Ukraine needs to at least take Klischiivka or the "ledge" NW of Bakhmut. And maybe soledar first, like Russia...

...has constructed are not invulnerable fortresses. Indeed it was one of the follies of both Allies and Germany in WWII. The Maginot line, Normandy beachheads, and others failed to effectively stop offensive forces. They slowed things down, but ultimately fixed fortifications are a loser’s...

I've been following the counteroffensive on Twitter -- not much progress in liberating territory, but the Ukrainian Army doesn't like to do human-wave attacks. Ukraine right to be cautious with counter-offensive, top NATO official says | Reuters (((Tendar))) on Twitter: "Pro-Russian sources...

Germany vs Russia was different. Hitler had lost in North Africa. The allies were in Italy. The Kriegs marine was badly mauled. Normandy was a successful invasion. Allied bombing was destroying Germany city by city. The Luftwaffe was crippled. Russia vs Ukraine is far different. T-34s were...

...South China Sea. Patton along with FDR, MacArthur, Eisenhower and the others were the right people for the time. When the breakout from Normandy stalled Eisenhower authorized carpet bo,bing a path out from the beachheads. The British eventually returned with firebombing German cities in...

The D-Day landings at Normandy were accompanied by a massive psyops campain. Tens of million of pamphlets were dropped from the air across Europe. Including pamphlets announcincing the successful landings. Warning French villagers of the massive invasion near the French coast as the landings...

As part of the deception attack at Pas de De Calais on D-Day dummy paratropers were dropped to add to the effect. Patton had led a dummy army with wooden airplanes and balloon tanks on the ground. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-dummy-paratroopers-of-wwii...

...or not we agree with the person who takes someone off the street and locks them up". We don't judge the guys who stormed the beaches at Normandy in the exact same way that we judge a school shooter, even though "shooting people is shooting people". Circumstances matter. That's why we have...

And submarines can't conduct invasions. It will be Chinese ships at sea vs missiles and some artillery putting up a gauntlet. Landing ships do not mount good anti-missile defenses and will have very little ability to use them even if they had them because the missile tracks will be so short...

Old school. Any artillery piece that sits around firing will get nailed by a missile. It will have to be shoot and scoot. On the flip side, naval artillery has to be on a ship--and that ship will likewise draw missile fire. If China can get a solid beachhead they win, but getting such a...

To create a landing beachhead, China might use long range guided and ballistic missiles, not to mention drones, in place of artillery bombardment from ships that could be targeted. The US Navy would be critical in the defense of Taiwan, and China could target American ships easily. Navies...

The difference is, at Normandy, there were no smart weapons. No guided anti-ship missiles, no guided artillery rockets, no smart artillery shells. No smart anti-aircraft missiles. I have no idea what Taiwan has, but China may well pay a heavy price for any invasion.

...to reinforce the defenders at the landing sites. And the lack of adequate artillery for defence was one of the key factors in choosing Normandy as the target - the area around Calais, and further North into Belgium and The Netherlands, was far more heavily armed with artillery, as well as...

...name is Marvin? Seeing as we like just rehashing the same argument over and over, I'll repeat mine - a lever action .30-30 is all you need for self defense. You don't need something more advanced than what was used to storm the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Your life isn't that stressful.

Too radical a thought. Police must spend every second on the job thinking they are storming the beaches at Normandy. How else can they stop antifa from smashing windows?

...and there's this wonderful photo of these young men uh with getting off a landing craft going on to Omaha Beach in the invasion of Normandy. Two out of three would make it off that beach. Average age 26, average salary (inflation adjusted base) is 800 bucks. I can't imagine any of...