The K98 is a fearsome rifle. Very accurate out to even 1000 yds with a heavy .323 diameter projectile. Maybe not as good for urban street fighting as a shorter barrel modern semi-auto with 30 round magazines, but under the right circumstances I'd be very happy to be carrying a K98.

Could still function pretty well as a sniper rifle (although technology has moved well past it even for that use.) But it's not suited for modern fire and maneuver warfare.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
The K98 is a fearsome rifle. Very accurate out to even 1000 yds with a heavy .323 diameter projectile. Maybe not as good for urban street fighting as a shorter barrel modern semi-auto with 30 round magazines, but under the right circumstances I'd be very happy to be carrying a K98.

Remember, boys and girls, the brain is the weapon, everything else is tools.

Find those tools that you wield best or from all that are available, then master, and own them.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Remember, boys and girls, the brain is the weapon, everything else is tools.

Find those tools that you wield best or from all that are available, then master, and own them.

Exactly!

Look what 35,000 motivated 7th century murder cult radicals did against supposedly the best military on the globe. Now they just have better tools.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
And he’s wearing Jesus shoes too!!!!

What’s that old saying; you fight the war with what you got!

That's a good one, "Jesus shoes." And great eyes, too.

Sounds like the Biden regime is getting worried that this Ukraine thing is dragging on far too long and it’s going to affect the mid-term elections and his presidency in general.

I guess this OD-green-shirted-former-standup-comedian isn’t long for this world, I’d imagine Ukraine either ceases to exist as we know it or gets divided into a West Ukraine and East Ukraine


Report: "Deep mistrust" has developed between White House and Zelensky

^^ There's a lot of speculation in there, and it's based on nothing more than something Thomas Friedman (of all people) wrote while trying to argue that Nan shouldn't have gone to Taiwan.

As long as we're at it, let me throw in speculation number four: the squatters in the White House are trying to take control of the Ukrainian side of the war for reasons that are based on either egotism by the people involved or calculations about the upcoming elections and other domestic political issues in the U.S. Zelynsky, who knows that they don't have their eye on the ball and that they've displayed a willingness in the past to give Putin Eastern Ukraine and Crimea in order to temporarily "end the war" on paper rather than focusing on solving the fundamental problem of Russian aggression, isn't playing ball with as many of Biden's flunkies as Biden's flunkies would like.

That's assuming, of course, that Friedman is right and that the writer of that opinion piece is interpreting what he said correctly. Given the size of the recent shipment of HIMARS rockets to Ukraine (not to mention Friedman's well-established history of bloviating, bombast and truly neurotic self-importance), I'm not entirely sure that's true.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
^^ There's a lot of speculation in there, and it's based on nothing more than something Thomas Friedman (of all people) wrote while trying to argue that Nan shouldn't have gone to Taiwan.

As long as we're at it, let me throw in speculation number four: the squatters in the White House are trying to take control of the Ukrainian side of the war for reasons that are based on either egotism by the people involved or calculations about the upcoming elections and other domestic political issues in the U.S. Zelynsky, knowing that they don't have their eye on the ball and that they've displayed a willingness in the past to give Putin Eastern Ukraine and Crimea in order to temporarily "end the war" on paper rather than focusing on solving the fundamental problem of Russian aggression, and he isn't playing ball with as many of Biden's flunkies as Biden's flunkies would like.

That's assuming, of course, that Friedman is right and that the writer of that opinion piece is interpreting what he said correctly. Given the size of the recent shipment of HIMARS rockets to Ukraine (not to mention Friedman's well-established history of bloviating, bombast and truly neurotic self-importance), I'm not entirely sure that's true.

Spot on assessment. The Biden administration is attempting to give the appearance of fighting a proxy war for political reasons, without fully commiting to winning the proxy war. Tiptoeing around and straddling fences is no way to win a war.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice all the speculation in that opinion piece.

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:

That’s actually 7 months, but I accept.

Crap, my apologies.
No let’s put it back to six months.
Your kind, additional condition hedges any timing issues.

I’ll edit the original post with the proper date WED August 24, 2022

Let it be recorded: SIGnified is a man of his word. I have received one delicious bottle of Glenfarclas 21 scotch whiskey as payment for a wager I’m sure he was happy to lose.

I'll drink to that!

To the victor go the spoils.

Skâl to the winner!

I've heard analysis explaining why the Russians are doing what they're doing. Russia has been invaded over 50 times. They view 9 different avenues of these invasions and to defend the flat land of Russia's interior they expand to plug those gateways. Poland for example. Napoleon and Hitler. Black Sea through Ukraine is where the Turks came through. The Baltics is where the Swedes tried and so on and so forth. They argue the height of the Soviet Union all 9 gateways where plugged.

This is an interesting history lesson, but most countries in Europe have been invaded 50 times in their history. France twice in 30 years in the 20th Century. France didn't expand and take Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland to set up a buffer between them and Germany.

Its nice to think the Russians are doing this for security reasons and history. This is kind of an antiseptic way of looking at this problem. I think they're just expansionist shitheads doing what expansionist shitheads do in the nastiest, meanest way possible.

Here's the problem. Ukraine wheat mostly goes to Africa and the Middle East. Some are saying those people are going to under moderate food pressure this year. Giving way to high food pressure next year. Famine. On a large scale. Estimates say possibly 150,000 dead in the next two years. We've had the trifecta. Pandemic, war, and now possibly famine to come. That's only going to make the war and famine part worse. I sure hope these people who are saying this are wrong.

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France twice in 30 years in the 20th Century. France didn't expand and take Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland to set up a buffer between them and Germany.

Well, to be fair... They didn't need to. In both cases, they set up an occupied and demilitarized buffer zone between France and Germany within Germany: the Rhineland region after WW1, and all of western Germany after WW2.

Anyone else getting a queasy feeling with all this Putin stuff going on? He's now going to mobilize the entirity of Russia for the war and is starting to talk again about nuking us and his enemies.

Either he's really desperate or crazy or both but I really hope this is all just more BS from this guy.


I honestly thought he would have been wacked by now.

Let’s see what two scoops has to say…


I do find it distressing that we sold off our SPR (in part to China) and yet Biden throwing down like we have robust military funding, wherewithal and plenty of fuel for a war.

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Biden throwing down like we have robust military funding, wherewithal and plenty of fuel for a war.

Not to mention a shortage of pilots.

Unexpectedly, the USAF Finds Itself With a Critical Shortage of Pilots While It Says It Has Too Many White Officers
https://redstate.com/streiff/2...ite-officers-n629231

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Unexpectedly, the USAF Finds Itself With a Critical Shortage of Pilots While It Says It Has Too Many White Officers

Awesome, because we all know the color of one's skin determines the outcome of a war

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Originally posted by PASig:
Anyone else getting a queasy feeling with all this Putin stuff going on?

No

What's happening is that Putin knows he can say whatever he wants, with impunity. He knows he's dealing with a doddering, impotent old fool who doesn't know what day it is, and his adolescent, leftist handlers. He knows he's dealing with a US military commanded by ridiculous leftist PC officers who do not have a clue.

He can bluff all day long and won't have to back it up, because he's dealing with great-grandpa and a bunch of children.

Putin also knows that if he brought destruction to his country, he would be deposed and executed, and rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.

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Camo netting

My first thought as well! Carried a LOT of that stuff around Germany during my 9+ years stationed there.

Germany's less than stellar performance over the last several years is proof enough that they have little idea what they are doing.