Empire Woes US Asks Taliban to ‘Spare’ Its Embassy, Sends 3,000 Troops to Evacuate It The Empire down to pleading, begging, and bribing Dave DeCamp 13 Aug 21 731 5
Empire Woes The US Is Considering Evacuating Kabul Embassy, Estimates City Could Be Encircled in 30 Days, Fall in 90 "While the US is desperate to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan, if the diplomatic staff is forced to evacuate, the 650 troops will likely leave with them" Dave DeCamp 12 Aug 21 353 4
Empire Woes Second Attempt to Test the Air Force’s First Hypersonic Weapon Fails The Russians have had one for years...without a trillion-dollar defense/pork sector Joseph Trevithick 1 Aug 21 1299 22
Empire Woes Gradually and Then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy’s Strategic Bankruptcy "How did this happen to a force that, as recently as two decades ago, dominated the world’s oceans to a degree perhaps unequalled in human history?" Christopher Dougherty 13 Jul 21 2205 18
Empire WoesUS-Iraq War III US Military Says ‘Ongoing Situation’ in Iraq Amid Fourth Day of Attacks in a Row Don't bite off more than you can chew... Tom O’Connor 8 Jul 21 734 5
Empire Woes ‘I Want to Talk About Happy Things, Man’: Biden Cuts Off Questions on Afghanistan What's not happy about 20 years of defeat and slaughter for no good reason? Dave DeCamp 4 Jul 21 376 3
Empire Woes One Month, 700 Humvees and Trucks: Afghanistan’s American Military Vehicles Fall Into Taliban Hands Sebastien Roblin 3 Jul 21 1327 6
Empire Woes GLORIOUS: Biden’s Fiddling With Afghanistan Withdrawal Has Ensured the Empire Is Exiting in the Most Humiliating Way Possible Trump left him a decent situation but he had to tinker with it and cross the Taliban Marko Marjanović 30 Jun 21 1109 15
Empire Woes Moderate Rebels Double Number of Controlled Afghan Districts Since May 1 As many Afghans now live under the Taliban as under the occupier-installed government Bill Roggio 29 Jun 21 422 2
Empire Woes Taliban Are Surprised at How Fast They’re Advancing in Afghanistan Have avoided capturing some capitals so as not to upset the defeated superpower too much Dan De Luce 26 Jun 21 1733 11
Empire WoesThose Pesky Russians Ted Cruz Prefers Russian-Style Military Recruitment Ads Campy 1990s action movie stuff, but still better than the Empire's "two moms" & killing people for LGBT "rights" fare Natalie O\’Neill 23 May 21 539 3
Empire Woes The Combined Power of China and Russia Is Far Greater Than That of the Former Eastern Bloc The Chinese view. It's hard to argue that it's wrong Global Times 17 May 21 1789 13
Empire Woes Pentagon Admits Its Drone Fleet Wouldn’t Last Two Seconds Against Russia or China Already looking to retire its giant Global Hawks drones before a realistic replacement Joseph Trevithick 16 May 21 2261 12
Empire Woes The Firepower of the Imperial War Navy to Nosedive in the Years and Decades to Come The fixation on futuristic networks and data concepts has it forgetting tube counts Navy Matters 14 May 21 1312 9
Empire Woes The US Gov’t Has $6 Trillion in Assets and $130 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities Not to worry though. That $130 trillion will soon be in monopoly money Michael Maharrey 20 Apr 21 1362 3
Empire Woes Pentagon Campaign to Recruit Vietnam as Military Ally Against China Exposed Delusions of US War Strategy After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality Gareth Porter 9 Apr 21 1481 12
Empire WoesOur Benevolent Empire Biden: Stop China From Becoming World’s ‘Leading’ Country "That’s not going to happen on my watch, because United States is going to continue to grow and expand.” Dave DeCamp 26 Mar 21 1558 15
Empire Woes A New Great Game Finds the South Atlantic There's a competition for influence in Argentina, and China is winning Ralph Espach 23 Mar 21 940 2
Empire Woes After 20 Years of the US Military Machine Fighting Them, the Taliban Hold 52% of Afghanistan’s Land Home to 41% of the population. Empire to lose another war Jason Ditz 15 Feb 21 440 3
Empire Woes F-35 Pilot Reveals the Disappointing Truth About the Fighter’s Cockpit Touchscreens, magic helmets, voice input... — the pilots don't want any of it Kyle Mizokami 7 Feb 21 4718 6
Empire WoesThose Pesky Sino-Russians NATO Supreme Allied Commander Says West Is Concerned With China-Russia Ties Maybe shouldn't have brought them together then? Dave DeCamp 4 Feb 21 1242 13
Empire WoesMIC Joys Burned by Failed Futuristic Designs US Navy Now Building a Frigate That Will Be Obsolete From the Start Overcorrection Navy Matters 20 Jan 21 1442 1
Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese China-EU Deal Signed Despite Warnings From Biden Team “The most ambitious trade deal that China has ever agreed with a third country” Tom Mitchell 3 Jan 21 706 6
Empire WoesThose Pesky Chinese With Americans Stuck at Home, Trade With China Roars Back Imports from China are up 45% from last year. Medical self-flagellation and economic hegemony don't go hand in hand Ana Swanson 25 Dec 20 935 10
Empire WoesMIC Joys America’s New Ford Carrier Class Is Flawed Junk That Will Be Impossible to Rely On "The design is fundamentally and irrevocably flawed from a maintenance perspective. The entire carrier must be powered down to work on any single component" Navy Matters 22 Dec 20 3278 33
Empire WoesImperial Decline Imperial Navy’s ‘Littoral Combat Ships’ Keep Breaking Down So much so that they're not regularly escorted by special repair ships on deployment David B. Larter 2 Nov 20 1553 4
Empire Woes China Happy: Taiwan Blows $8 Billion on F-16s That Are Useless Militarily, Purely a Political Purchase That's a huge chunk of its procurement budget that now can't be spent on much more useful systems (missiles, small attack ships) James Holmes 30 Oct 20 1519 9
Bolivia CoupEmpire Woes US-Backed Coup Gov’t Concedes Electoral Defeat in Bolivia, MSM Disappointed Morales' guys with such a landslide it was impossible to steal or claim it had been stolen Alan Macleod 20 Oct 20 882 6
Empire Woes Imperial Troopers Are Obsessed With Chasing the Elusive Technological Breakthrough That Will Revolutionize Warfare Tech as a magical replacement to working on yourself Navy Matters 14 Oct 20 800 8
