"It's a very dangerous situation. We are dealing with a super power" - Douglas MacGregor
https://youtu.be/8AwWhJ4JP_s
See also
What Worries Me, Really...
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues. Martyanov was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he currently works as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He is a frequent blogger on the US Naval Institute Blog. He is author of Losing Military Supremacy, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, and Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse — Clarity Press
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/what-worries-me-really.html
Our VIPs are perfectly safe in their bombproof bunkers.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes like this guy MacGregor, but only when he stays on geopolitics. When he talks economics, I tune out. And in this interview, the guy interviewing him keeps saying "nuke-you-ler" for nuclear. And when people can't pronounce that, I cannot listen. It grates on me.
ReplyDeleteTerrence Popp (former Army Ranger) tells a kick-ass story:
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"nuke-you-ler" for nuclear.
ReplyDeleteThe probable reason behind it.
One minute video from Merriam-Webster.
You say tomato, I say "new-clay-her".
ReplyDeleteIdea, nuclea could be an alternate spelling.
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