This case was particularly egregious.
Crew of 193....call it $1m/yr right there just to staff it (at $5k/head). Weaponry: -1 100mm cannon -8 21" torpedo tubes -1 anti-submarine helicopter -2 point-defense CIWS
Now compare that to a small missile boat....maybe a Saar V Crew of 74 (and 1/3 the tonnage) Weaponry: -8 Harpoon missiles in deck tubes -32 cell VLS launcher for anti-aircraft missiles -1 multi-purpose helicopter -3 point-defense CIWS
It was a 'prestige hull'.....biggest hull they could afford to crew....but decades obsolete, and with no military value.
That used to be a lot more common in the 60s-80s, when the US was giving away WWII cruisers. "A lot of ship".....on paper. But with HUGE staffing demands, lots of maintenance required......and COMPLETELY outgunned/outranged by modern missile-equipped ships and aircraft.
Like most 'prestige hull' operators ..... all they got out of it was a money sink. With the exception (when they scuttled it) of denying some Russian ship dock space.
Complete waste.
It sank at pier. There were no explosions or obvious damage. Ukraine claims they scuttled it....which seems plausible given there were no explosions or obvious damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_frigate_Hetman_Sahaidachny
It's greatest military value/achievement may actually be 'blocking dock space'.
Take a look at the armament. It had essentially no military value. But they were spending $millions per year crewing and maintaining it. A couple of small missile boats would have been more practical.
"The Samson option exists for the time when Russia is finally forced to attack Israel. Was it disarmed?"
The Samson Option cannot be 'disarmed'. It is not a 'device'....it's a philosophy.
The short version is that if 'the world' tolerates the destruction of Israel....Israel will destroy the world.....or at least those actively destroyed Israel, or who could have interceded but decided to allow its destruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
There's a reason the Jericho III has the range to hit most of North America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(missile)#Jericho_III "According to an official report that was submitted to the U.S. Congress in 2004, it may be that with a payload of 1,000 kg the Jericho III gives Israel nuclear strike capabilities within the entire Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and almost all parts of North America, as well as large parts of South America and North Oceania."
Well, I believe we're judging for Billy Gates. I,E. .... "if you insist on Bill Gates only talking about things he knows about, Bill Gates won’t have anything to say."
Not so. With a net worth of $90B or so....he has a skill.
I don't have that net worth. I read your posts, sometimes reluctantly......you don't have that net worth, either.
Don't underestimate your enemies.
I know what I could/would do with $90B. No 'miniature giraffes', here in those choices.
If you have a plan to counter that, I'd say were 'all ears'. Only half of us though. The decorative half just bitch.
Not so. He built a multi-billion dollar company on providing the minimal acceptable user experience for $50 (at the time) in a shrink-wrap box at CompUSA (cough......remember them).
I walked away in '95 and went to Linux (first Caldera, then Red Hat. then Mandriva. then Ubuntu (see a pattern??).). Ubunto for the last 10yrs now. but i still buy (retail) laptops with windoze installed......then dual-boot linux......then boot into windoze once/yr to prepare my taxes.
50% of (mobilized) Ukrainian military units are within 100mi of the Russian border. 50% of (mobilized) Ukrainian military units will be destroyed within 100mi of the Russian border.
If I were an oligarch benefiting from this, I would no doubt support it. If I were a US Democratic politician (cough.....Pelosi/Biden) whose crack-addled child was benefiting from this, I would no doubt support it.
Meanwhile....WHO do Biden/Pelosi/Schumer think will be supporting this? Who do these morons think will fight for this?!!!?????
This was fairly pathetic.....
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"Let's take everyone one in Canada, preferably business owners upset with the vaccine mandates, who statistically have larger deposit account balances......
and tell them we're going to seize all of their accounts because they donated $50 to the Truckers."
What could possibly go wrong there? Because having seen the writing on the wall, everyone will wait for the Casto bitch to seize their accounts, rather than empty them.
There's a line where stupid should have a prescribed remedy.
And THAT crazy fucker shouldn't be walking free.
Hehehe.......and Bill Murrey tormenting his squad-mate with a potato scoop......
Sorry.....my eyes are ceramic. Lost them at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa......the one without the Indians.....
Blades or bodies?
Here's a summary of a few blades by aggressiveness: https://www.refinedshave.com/razor-blade-sharpness-summary/
Some good 'starter' bodies: https://www.allaboutrazor.com/best-safety-razor-for-beginners/
I like Astra "Superior Platinum" blades in a leaf twig body, fwiw. Just snap the blades in half.
https://leafshave.com/products/the-twig-razor