Just like Russia, we have 'export versions'.

American export versions are better weapons than Rusky domestic. So they might learn something.

We learned. The USSR and China had good success arming N Vietnam. Just like we will have arming Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Chechnya, Estonia, Latvia etc etc.

Even Finland is welcome to the party (psst. We have Vodka).

If you really piss of off, we'll arm the Siberians. That's Russia's last good hole card (resources and all).

It was obvious that by the end of the cold war there were going to be butthurt pawns all over the planet.

Doesn't change a thing, When facing down the likes of Stalin someone is going to get hurt.

They should have followed the 3 fictitious ones? Seriously?

We're not fighting ISIS directly.

We are maintaining a stalemate between ISIS and the Shia.

As said uptread we are trying to fight the last war. In this case the was the Iraq/Iran war.

Getting two of your enemies to fight each other is the _best_ kind of war.

Secondary explosions are hardly 'circumstantial'.

Greece is what happens when a nations economy is mostly underground. Read economies don't survive 50 year retirement ages. That was all a show from day one.

They really don't care what currency they use to carry out their untaxed business.

It's like threatening a drug cartel with the collapse of the dollar. They care, because they have stash houses full of money. But in the long term they don't care what the cocaine is being paid for with.

Russia can't profit from taking the Crimean peninsula.

The bottom line is war is, in general, no longer profitable. Not even for the leaders and their owners. Just too destructive to commerce and infrastructure.

We're not done with Russia until Putin is standing in line for toilet paper (or standing before a Russian firing squad).

I hope you are never involved in a not at fault accident.

You are giving horrible advice.

When someone is butthurt, you say 'I'm sorry you're butthurt...'

I've known a few CS people that don't code/never coded. They are far from the brightest. I'd go so far as to say the dimmest.

They are the best bullshitters though, and that counts for a lot.

The point is if he/she truly owned the product they would be FUBAR.

In the real world deck chairs are rearranged often enough that the failing project usually lands in someone else's lap.

If the deck chair rearranging stopped their behavior would change (or they would be made examples of so the behavior of others would change).

All truth is socially constructed, so the real fools are the one who think data could contradict TRUTH. /sarc

The fact is that those that believe facts are socially constructed have a bad case of 'Science Envy', hence they phrase their religious dogma with sciencish terms. They deserve to be kicked square in the crotch and ignored.

They should also not be allowed anywhere near hard science. Look at the mess they've made of the 'social sciences'.

That product owner also gets a steaming pile of code. So it doesn't exactly work out for him/her.

Competent CS is a superset of coder. Being CS and not knowing how to code is like being a lawyer and not knowing how to lie.

What year is this?

Why would you hire a bricklayer to glue fake bricks to the front of your house?