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missingmytowel t1_jea7gt5 wrote

A gymnastics take is thinking somebody doesn't need to be released from prison because they are a black person who smokes weed. But we got a ton of those guys locked up over here for that so it makes sense.

Cause let's be realistic here. If she was a white girl that got arrested for public intoxication in Russia it would have been a completely different reaction from conservatives. They would have been just fine with it.

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Alarmed-Accident-716 t1_jea7g0f wrote

You can’t call me a bigoted piece of shit for calling someone dumb for bringing drugs to a place where they are illegal, than getting mad about being detained. It’s why people hate American’s entitlement. Americans just do whatever they want because it’s okay at home. I know a kid who brought weed to Japan and got tossed in jail for over a year. Anyone bringing drugs into a foreign country is an idiot who deserves what’s coming to them so that other American’s stop being idiots. She didn’t even say sorry.

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lordderplythethird t1_jea6msn wrote

Not many, and the MiG-29 is still going to be a pile of shit, regardless of how modernized it is.

Ukraine wants a platform that can utilize the SDB (small diameter bomb), JDAM, and HARM (high speed anti-radiation missile) to start pushing Russia back, specifically the SDB and HARM since their HIMARS are already using GLSDBs (SDB with a M26 rocket motor attached to them for ground launches)

Modernized MiG-29s are still going to have to hack on those weapons, which won't operate as effectively as they will on a platform they're natively coded for, such as the F-16.

Also, MiG-29s are notorious for shit engines with absurdly short lifespans (lifespan of them is shorter than even just the mean time between rebuilds of an F-16's engine), which actually allows the F-16 to operate with a far greater availability rating, which means more F-16s in the air lol

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Spencerwebb90 t1_jea69oa wrote

They have those already and they’re getting more, but the issue is the radar on a”modernized” MiG-29 is still not as good as a Su-35 or any American F-Series jet. A MiG-29 doesn’t have the range to take out a MiG-31 traveling at Mach 2.8 at 80,000ft firing R-77M and R-37M hypersonic missiles. The Russians have scored some VERY long distance kills with the MiG-31. They need the American AMRAAM.

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droplivefred t1_jea5xnk wrote

Was he working on a story there? Are there other US journalists there? From what I’ve seen, there haven’t been any US reporters reporting live from Russia for a while. Heck, Russian reporters are disappearing over there and being censored like crazy. Why would the WSJ find it smart to send a US journalist there at this point?

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