{"id":3132,"date":"2022-08-10T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2022-08-09T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:46:58","slug":"i-guess-i-know-what-ukraine-is-getting-for-xrismanukamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/08\/i-guess-i-know-what-ukraine-is-getting-for-xrismanukamas\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess I Know What Ukraine is Getting for Xrismanukamas!&#x1f384;&#x1f385;&#x1f3ff;&#x1f54e;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>\u201cThis rugged, sustainable platform will operate in permissive environments and austere conditions around the world to safeguard our Special Operations Forces on the ground,\u201d USSOCOM Commander Gen. Richard Clarke said in an emailed statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Not for nothing, but \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryfactory.com\/dictionary\/military-terms-defined.php?term_id=4050\">permissive environments<\/a>\u201d sure as heck sounds like Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for context, I&#8217;m a lifelong Michigander (incidentally descended from Jews who fled Ukraine back in the 1920s). Cropdusters are still fairly common here in Michigan (and the terrain, I&#8217;m told, is quite Ukraine-ish). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife grew up in blueberry country, and there are still plenty of fields around her folks\u2019 place, and folks spray them from cropdusters.\u00a0 It is absurd and terrifying how nimble these planes are. Average Joe flyers regularly bring them in below the tree line to dust a field, and then pop back out to dive into the adjacent field. In other words, they can come in over the horizon too low to detect&#8211;likely too low to see&#8211;and be on top of you before you can bring a turret around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the performance we saw of Russian tanks early in the war in Ukraine, planes like these would fucking mow them down like a goddamned scythe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BURIED LEDE: Russia is sending volunteer recruits into Ukraine with ~4 DAYS of training. There they die. (CONTEXT: a US soldier gets between 4 and 6 MONTHS of training prior to deployment. The crappiest police depts in America require 10 weeks of training) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mQjTQ5r195\">https:\/\/t.co\/mQjTQ5r195<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Erik Nelson (@SquiDaveo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquiDaveo\/status\/1556266010851901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis rugged, sustainable platform will operate in permissive environments and austere conditions around the world to safeguard our Special Operations Forces on the ground,\u201d USSOCOM Commander Gen. Richard Clarke said in an emailed statement. Not for nothing, but \u201cpermissive environments\u201d sure as heck sounds like Ukraine. Just for context, I&#8217;m a lifelong Michigander (incidentally descended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/08\/i-guess-i-know-what-ukraine-is-getting-for-xrismanukamas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Guess I Know What Ukraine is Getting for Xrismanukamas!&#x1f384;&#x1f385;&#x1f3ff;&#x1f54e;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[239,53,41,795,104,238,794],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}