Pakistan never learns. They mess around with India and get beat down, hard. It's like they just can't help but poke India until they get mauled.

I can't help but wonder if Israel has captured a complete list of the membership of Hamas. And has biometric means to verify ID. So a 100% search of Gaza down to the most granular level with 100% of people inside being Photographed, Height taken, Fingerprinted, and issued ID Cards.

As for "peace" I thought by now Trump would have peace deals for Ukraine/ Russia and Gaza/ Israel.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 09:45 am: Edit

As for "peace" I thought by now Trump would have peace deals for Ukraine/ Russia and Gaza/ Israel.


Can lead a horse to water, can't make them drink....

Want Russian citizens to get force Putin into anything.... Destroy the Vodka Breweries.....

For Hamas, kill all the goats and camels.....
Instead of fluoride in water, put in Plan B......

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 10:36 am: Edit

Headline report says the U.S. lost another Hornet that slid off the deck near Houthi territory.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 02:37 pm: Edit

This one appears to have been a failure of the arresting equipment during a landing.

By John M. Williams (Jay) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 04:17 pm: Edit

"Mittens", the giant cat, strikes again. Someone needs to keep the catnip under tighter control.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 04:50 pm: Edit

Mittens is pro-Houthi??? Does Allah know this??

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 06:52 pm: Edit

In a public meeting, the pastor of my church said: “I don’t think cats are evil.”

I responded: “So, you have never met one?”

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 - 07:20 pm: Edit

I have two of those evil Fuzz buts. They are so cute, and so deadly. Found a dead mouse. Bonny has been gone a while now. It had to be one of the young ones. My money is on Jerry (miss junk a dunk) She was caught hanging around the scene of the murder.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, May 09, 2025 - 09:49 am: Edit

While details are still somewhat clouded, it appears that Chinese-built, Pakistani-flown J-10Cs brought down at least two French-built, Indian-flown Dessault Rafales, using PL-15E active-radar-guided air-to-air missiles.

By John M. Williams (Jay) on Friday, May 09, 2025 - 04:43 pm: Edit

Maybe the Pakistanis just borrowed Mittens from the Truman?

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Friday, May 09, 2025 - 09:12 pm: Edit

The Truman's second jet was lost on landing when it either failed to catch a wire, or the caught wire broke, or (and my thought) they caught a wire, started to pull back on the throttles and then the arresting hook broke with enough thrust to still send them off the front of the ship.

By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Friday, May 09, 2025 - 09:59 pm: Edit

It appears that all 3 fighters lost have been FA-18F two-seaters, meaning they all are from the same squadron. (25% losses on one cruise.)

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 04:58 am: Edit

Alas India/Pakistan appears to be slowly escalating.

What do both sides want (Other than all of Kashmir) from this latest spat?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 10:42 am: Edit

Each wants the other to die, or convert to their faith and submit.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 01:08 pm: Edit

There's a cease-fire in place between Pakistan and India. The U.S is staying that they mediated it; India is saying that they did not and that it was strictly bilateral talks that reached it; Pakistan is saying nothing.

Within hours, there were already violations, though they appear to be sporadic.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 07:08 pm: Edit

GAZA: heavy fighting in Rafah, huge tunnel found, commander of Hamas rocket production killed, IDF calls up 70,000 reserves. Israel will create compounds inside Gaza from which American companies will take over aid distribution to prevent Hamas from hijacking it. Israeli troops will take over security inside Gaza to prevent Hamas from stealing aid and moving troops around. The US says any deal with Iran will require dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Iran says heck no to that.

By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 07:53 pm: Edit

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By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Friday, May 09, 2025 - 09:59 pm: Edit
It appears that all 3 fighters lost have been FA-18F two-seaters, meaning they all are from the same squadron. (25% losses on one cruise.)

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By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Sunday, May 11, 2025 - 08:07 pm: Edit

Current deployment pattern for carrier wings are three FA-18E squadrons (12 planes each) and one FA-18F squadron (12 planes), plus a EA-18G Growler squadron (7 planes). Some carriers replace a FA-18E squadron with a F-35C squadron (10 planes).

By Horganexn on Monday, May 12, 2025 - 06:20 am: Edit

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By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 12, 2025 - 10:27 pm: Edit

China has caved to Trump's trade demands, agreeing to open their markets and accept the loss of their trade surplus. Trump limited sanctions for a short time to get the deal complete. Trump also got the only living US hostage in Gaza released and forced the Huthis to cry uncle. Add in other trade deals and he is winning a lot of skirmishes. Tapes prove that the congress critters who forced their way into an ICE facility were shoving the federal law enforcement officers, not the other way around, but the false claims continue.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, May 12, 2025 - 10:58 pm: Edit

One foot note to the above:

Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of discussion on various news programs arguing about tariffs.

While there has been not a lot of consensus, several things are clear:

One, the doom and gloom crowd that predicted the end of the world, collapse of capitalism and the end of civilization as we know it have been proved wrong.

The minority that pointed out that President Trump was using tariffs as a club to win concessions from various nations (including China) appear to have been correct.

There is, however, a group of “numbers” people that did predict that President Trump would hold the end position of an across the board tariff of 10%, with specific exceptions for commodities of national importance to various trading partners.

I have not seen the full list yet, but would expect things like French wines and champagne, Japans Rice, etc. to be excluded from the tariffs.

China appears to have agreed to a 30% tariff on most exports to the United States.

The fly in the ointment, is, the tariff level at which it becomes most advantageous for manufacturers to build and staff factories in the United States is 40%, not 30% tariff.

Yes, it is a win for the U.S. and President Trumps policies… but it is not the overwhelmingly best outcome that we could have hoped for.

It should also be remembered that China (like Russia and other Communist/Socialist nations in general) often cheat on treaties, particularly in international trade issues.

It is unlikely that this agreement will last for more than months or even past the end of the current Presidential term.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Monday, May 12, 2025 - 11:28 pm: Edit

Personally, if I was the officer discussing the situation with the one in the Red Coat, I think I would have shoved her finger up her nose for her.....

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 02:44 am: Edit

Tariffs - Worth pointing out that the global economic turmoil onlt softened when the higher tariffs rates was suspended - and that followed the 10 Year US Treasury Bonds Yielda going up.

We have about 60 days to sort out the rest of the trade deals - and if they are not sorted, markets might enter free-fall again.

Jeff mentioend two relevant aspects that do go against the original US requirements or could reducethe effect of them.

1) More production of goods in the US. It's still cheaper to build it in X and import it and pay a tariff then build it in the US (and this is true for the rest of the Western World and Japan etc - Staff Wages are too high).

2) International Deals - Western Leaders are just as good at choosing what they follow - like 'Eastern Leader' equivalents. Who wrote and wripped up the previous North Amercian Trade deal (when there was 2 clauses which would have allowed it to be amended or cancelled with notice?). Certainty for the future isn't there.

Hopefully though, April will go down in history as a Trade Storm in a Tea Cup - but there is alot of work still to be done (and it will be interesting to see if the Trade Deals are actually worth it - the UK/US Deal annouced last week was good for Rolls Royce Engines for example - but not too good for some other industries, which still face the 10% Tariff).

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:28 am: Edit

Russia has lost 968,130 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on May 13.

The number includes 1,070 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,802 tanks, 22,487 armored fighting vehicles, 48,256 vehicles and fuel tanks, 27,780 artillery systems, 1,381 multiple-launch rocket systems, 1,162 air defense systems, 372 airplanes, 335 helicopters, 35,778 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine.

Similar numbers have been posted by other media sites.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 01:29 pm: Edit

Will the trade deals compensate for the economic damage to the US? The coming brain drain and the reduced foreign investment in the next four years will not be trivial.