Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 98
Funny that last week the subtitle here was “Punch a Nazi”.
Anyway, the AR15 is a weapon for mass murder, a domestic terrorist weapon, a weapon of indiscriminate killing and playing soldier.
As the US learnt in the brown people wars. a carbine is a weapon for support troops, not for front line fighting. A nutter with a carbine with 5.56mm will kill unarmoured civilians, especially children as well as their parents, but not a soldier wearing body armour, at least not reliably. Which puts paid to the well-armed militia bullshit.
I’m not a proponent of gun rights, I don’t see the need to own one and don’t want to own one, though I could very easily get a licence, even for an extremely high-powered rifle like above, which is a picture from a gun training course I went to in 2011 (with military trainers), because though I might not want one at home, I don’t want in your home as well, but I might need to shoot at Russians one day (my life expectancy would be about a day but better me than my son). In which case, I want a rifle, not a school murder toy for morons.
Don’t shoot people, don’t shoot them with AR15s and the easy way to avoid shooting them is don’t own AR15s. Weapons are for war, not politics.
A good riot, protest, strike and march are for politics.
Actually useful weapons
Weapons are for war and the king of weapons is artillery, always and forever. No matter how cyber ninja you make your army.
PZH-2000 seems to be the best weapon on the battlefied among Ukr SPGs because of range and armor. Krabs get killed a lot. A lot lot. Sad to know.
Greg Olear on the ‘hatemongering rapist’ shooting
And more on his Nazi pal - the most MAGA of MAGA
This is what that friend says now: “The through line between former J.D. and current J.D. is anger…The Trump turn can be understood as a lock-in on contempt as the answer to anger…” To people like that, Hitler, so to speak, has a point.
The reason the aliens are quiet is because they know we’re insane. Probably put us in a bubble universe to keep us out of the way.
Or maybe they’re watching us
Let me guess how the companies are profiting
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs and country, AI centers are
A fascinating short video
A story on artillery development. Chinese cities and castles were impervious to early cannons because of their low thick walls which meant that heavy artillery wasn’t developed which in turn meant heavy artillery which was over the long term deadly for any fortress wasn’t something China was familiar with, nor with the sort of fortress that could withstand heavy artillery for a while.
Excellent podcast, have a listen
Away from NATO's glitzy summit 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC, the war in Ukraine drags on. Ian Bond, a former British ambassador and now Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank spoke to me about his recent visit to Ukraine and Moldova and what it portends for the war in Ukraine and wider European security.
Talks about ridiculous limitations on Ukrainian supplies and the consequences.
Alabama guardsmen shooting up villages with a PSYOPS Hummer blasting AC/DC plus ‘helplessness’ techniques are covered in the book I’m reading
I’m still reading
American incompetence, hubris and arrogance
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Pakistani duplicity and rabid intelligence service insanity trying to cook a steak of a friendly Afghanistan by throwing a million ingredients into a pot and ending up with domestic insurgency
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Karzai and pals corruption, incompetence, and rentiering
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
and a final thank you: