Moot Point
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Georgia |
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| Number of Posts: | 225 |
| Registered on: | 2/19/2009 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Pictures from days gone by....
Posted by Moot Point on 4/19/23 at 4:31 pm
My Mattel M-16 was a prized possession when I was a kid.[img]https://i.redd.it/tfggmkv61yua1.jpg[/img]...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 3/4/23 at 10:45 am
Many of you may already know, but there is a world class tank museum located in Bovington, Dorset, U.K. The Tank Museum puts out a lot of excellent background videos on the history, development, and evolution of tanks and anti-tank weapons. Also, many focusing on specific vehicles.
Here are lin...
re: You would think they would try to clean up around the French quarter!!
Posted by Moot Point on 9/4/22 at 11:42 am
Gosh, this is so shocking. I would thank you for warning us, but it's been that way for the last 40 years and probably for more decades before that. Thanks for the fresh perspective. :snoozer:...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 9/4/22 at 11:37 am
I provide the link to Perun's latest YouTube video provide his analysis, "6 Months of War in Ukraine - Economics, Endurance & the Energy War"
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce5TR-qWCk4)]Perun: 6 months of War in Ukraine[/link]
It's a long presentation, but worth the watch as usual.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 7/10/22 at 11:28 am
On the Österreichs Bundesheer YouTube Channel, an Austrian Colonel presents a briefing on the current situation as of July 8th. The description for this channel states, "?This is the official channel of the Austrian Armed Forces. Here we offer insights into everyday life, into missions and exercise...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 7/4/22 at 5:33 pm
Lima, since you seem to accept Russian propaganda at face value, here are a couple of YouTube videos you may want to take a look at:
The First is by Operator Starsky who is in the Ukrainian National Guard. He shows several instances where the Russians used the same actress in several different fa...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 7/4/22 at 1:46 pm
The YouTube Channel Kings and Generals did a good visual recap of what happened during the month of May in the Ukraine war. [link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-93q4GMFT0)]War of Attrition - Russian Invasion of Ukraine[/link]
It was released yesterday so they lag a month behind in putting the...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 7/2/22 at 11:28 pm
[quote]Everyone is all pro-founding father's until you mention no entangling alliances. Oh, but that's different.[/quote]
The Founding Fathers were pretty pleased with the alliance with France that helped us win our independence. ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 6/26/22 at 3:58 pm
Perun has just posted on YouTube a new analysis on the war: [link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0O_oObJBU)]Myths & Claims of the Russia-Ukraine War - Claims, Feints, and Bioweapons[/link]
It's a well-balanced, logical examination of the situation using the known facts.
The Russian shifti...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 6/19/22 at 9:16 am
[quote]Imagine laughing at “conspiracy theories” and then believing Ukraine had a shot in this conflict.[/quote]
Imagine having to rely on Blitzed during the Revolution, "This is madness, please put the muskets down! We have no shot against the might of the Crown!"
:usa:...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 6/5/22 at 10:14 am
I watched this very interesting interview yesterday with a Bulgarian military analyst who correctly predicted before the invasion the difficulties the Russian military would face performing their mission due to the rampant corruption prevalent in their force structure. Essentially why they weren’t a...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/23/22 at 10:43 pm
[quote]Since I was 4 at the time, was there a legitimate feeling at the time Ukraine, Belarus, or Kazakhstan posed a real threat to just pop off a nuke vs rational action as other nuclear powers have engaged in?[/quote]
Not necessarily that, the major concern was to make sure as much as possible ...
re: Pictures from days gone by....
Posted by Moot Point on 5/23/22 at 5:48 pm
[quote]Going to the show in New Orleans, 1965
Anyone remember these theaters? Especially the Westgate Drive In -- was that NO's last drive-in theater?[/quote]
Yes, I remember it. My friend's parents took us there one time when we were kids to watch something and I remember us craning our heads...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/22/22 at 8:51 am
[quote]NATO said it wouldn’t move east when the USSR broke up….it’s moved very much east since. Ukraine was the last country Russia could do anything in without nato Intervention[/quote]
Aww, everybody's picking on poor Russia! Won't let them intimidate and invade whomever the hell they want. :...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/21/22 at 1:52 pm
[quote]Haha will the Russians ever learn?[/quote]
Hopefully not anytime soon, the dipshits. Nice secondary explosion. ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/14/22 at 10:13 pm
[quote]I can’t understand why some people that post on a southern college football message board carry water for Russia. Russia isn’t our friend, they never really were. The feelings towards the current administration, as bad as they are shouldn’t cloud anyone’s judgment when it comes to what Russia...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/9/22 at 6:17 pm
[quote]Actually at Yalta in early Feb. of 1945 Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill agreed to the partitioning of Germany and the fate of Eastern Europe. The armies didn’t set the borders, the politicians did.
There was a race to get the best scientists.[/quote]
There was no agreement on the "fate" o...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 5/5/22 at 10:53 pm
Canadian volunteer gives a riveting interview to Canadian news channel CBC on what he has experienced fighting in Ukraine.
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2NdiFJFh0)]CBC interview with Canadian fighter[/link] ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Moot Point on 4/17/22 at 1:06 pm
[quote]Possibly, but the story made it sound like his passport was seized outside of Mariupol. Lets hope you’re correct.[/quote]
You are correct, I saw it reported that he is alive and in California. Authorities seized his passport after an incident with his mother-in-law when trying to get his c...
re: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Posted by Moot Point on 2/25/22 at 11:26 pm
It’s performance was also greatly improved when they equipped it with a new propeller. The rate of climb if I remember correctly. ...
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