Peter Davidsen

Live. Learn. Love. 'Ode We Will Bury Ourselves - Moving Mountains'.

Two time Q&A questionner.

Views expressed are my own.

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

Q: How does the US avoid the exorbitant costs of decommissioning old nuclear submarines?
A: Sell them to Australia for $4.2b and call it ‘streamlining.’
#AUKUS

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

If someone has to take a cognitive exam four times within an 18-month period, they're not just looking for dementia...

they've already found it.

The fact that he's confusing it with an IQ test only shows that it's worsening.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during his two terms.
We don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

So we're calling these guys the "Liquor Cabinet"?

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy So, are we deploying this armoured brigade as a unit of action or are we penny packeting Coy sized forces across the archipelagos to our north?

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy Where in your right mind would an Australian armoured Brigade deploy in our region?

It literally wouldn't be able to get off the docks of Vanuatu...

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy Why do we need an armoured Brigade?

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy Not all armoured vehicles are the same...

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Seems familiar

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today:

“Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.”

The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate:

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible.

James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion.

The First Amendment’s opening words:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

They put it first.

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy I'm not sure how a heavy mechanised force would alleviate your concerns re: resupply and support.

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy I'd suggest a single Armoured Regiment split across the entire 1st Aus Corps for the 1945 Oboe operations to be an appropriate use of armoured forces in the littoral environment.

The hard parts were the C2 by sea and land, the BLGs and the RAN Commandos!

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@linzoconnor @rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy M113s are now only a training aid for 3RAR + BG until they actually get these up armoured and up gunned vehicles.

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

A paratrooper of the 503rd PIR shakes hands with an Australian “Digger” after their successful capture of Nadzab Airfield on New Guinea. 🇺🇸🇦🇺

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@rynoki777 @Dr_M_Davis @AustralianArmy The Army is transitioning to a littoral army and no longer requires the same number of heavy armoured vehicles for its directed theatre of operations.

This isn't political. It is capability requirements based.

[Peter Davidsen @davepetersenis]

@3BrigadeTSV I'd want to be boasting about having even the most basic organic air defence capability against these aircraft before boasting about non-organic logistical helicopters.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened..

the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.."

the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran..

the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data..

think about the timing..

America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile..

they walked through the front door of the FBI..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it..

the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules..

The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

The overriding element that's allowed all this to happen is we have the weakest legislative branch in U.S. history. It's maddeningly passive &deferential.Even the opposition party(the Dems)are like (to quote Robin Williams) a traffic cop on Valium. "Stop. Or I'll say stop again".

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

As we watch things spin out of control in the Middle East I can't help but recall, and I've said it many, many times before and I'll say it again: one human being should not be able to have all this power. The Founders didn't want it that way and they were 100% right.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“What does Putin want to do with his operations in America? He wants to divide America and turn Americans against each other … That is exactly what Murdoch has done: divided Americans against each other…”

- Malcolm Turnbull, former Australian PM (2024)