HER FRAME!

@lurkerhasarisen Have to disagree with you here Lurker....

At this point, we don't know if his wife has been unfaithful.

What we can establish beyond any shadow of a doubt is that OP is a shadow of a man, living entirely in his wife's (abusive) frame.

He urgently needs to reclaim his manhood, his sense of self and his dignity. Right now.

The rest can be sorted out later.

To focus on his wife's possible infidelities is to focus on the environment around him. This is classic 'externalisation', something that women do all the time. He needs to fix his 'internal world' - himself.

he has allowed himself to decline into a state where he means nothing, is nothing and he actually hates himself (otherwise he would not be talking about offing himself).

I have never read a story in which I so fully realised that this guy is in some sort of emergency. He needs to rebuild himself right now.

@redpillschool

Meh. I saw this on Reddit yesterday and made the following comment: ——————-

I’m not impressed, though. Notice that - even now - he refers to President Trump as “truth impaired” but refers to Adam Schiff as just Adam Schiff. We now KNOW that pretty much everything that came out of Schiff‘s mouth regarding DJT and Russian collusion was an outright, bald faced lie. A lot of people said so at the time, but NPR wasn’t interested in following those leads. Apparently when a story might harm a Democrat only SOME things are considered.

Where is the “truth impaired” modifier for Schiff?… or Fauci?… or the 51 people from three-letter agencies who lied about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop in order to dismiss the absolutely damning implications for Joe Biden on the eve of the election?

A despicable, kiddie-sniffing grifter who has taken bribes from some of the most corrupt nations on earth is currently occupying the Oval Office because NPR was too partisan to do its job. I expect that kind of nonsense from fake news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and The NY Times, but if NPR had played it straight it might well have prevented millions of people from going to the polls believing lies.

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It’s easy to make mouth sounds of contrition after the damage is done… after it no longer matters. And even now the “mea culpa” is barely distinguishable from some police chief saying, “mistakes were made” after a SWAT team raided the wrong house and killed the occupants. He he pretends to not know that NPR has been completely in the bag for the left for decades… insisting that this is a recent phenomenon coincident to the rise of the “truth impaired” Donald Trump.

@MentORPHEUS

I don’t dispute your assertion that a lot of people have inaccurate views of geopolitics in general and Russia’s role in particular. I certainly don’t consider myself to be an expert, and I’m better informed than 99+% of people. But look at who you specified as having that mindset:

1) the Executive Branch (hard left)

2) the MSM (hard left)

3) broad civilian public opinion (the kind of people who believe KJP and CNN)

It’s almost like there’s a pattern, while the people who oppose transferring our national budget and ammunition stores to Zelenskyy are from the other side of the political aisle.

As for the “No first use” policy, that came out of Cold War politics. While the Soviets claimed that they would not use nukes first, they did so when they had an overwhelming numerical advantage in all major conventional systems. Not only that, but nobody believed them. We knew good and well that if war broke out and they started to lose, they would go nuclear.

On the other hand, US / NATO doctrine explicitly called for using a “tripwire” of small, extremely lethal forces to bog down Soviet advances until forces could be brought to bear from CONUS. The only way a small force could prevent the Warsaw Pact from reaching the Rhine before an effective response could arrive was through closing canalizing terrain (specifically the Fulda Gap) with tactical nuclear weapons. That’s what REFORGER was all about: annual exercises to get conventional forces from North America to Europe before the war was already over and before the Russians turned Western Europe into a radioactive wasteland.

The fact that so many people ascribe some moral superiority to the Soviet / Russian public stance of “No first use” just shows how effective their propaganda was / is.

@lurkerhasarisen Maybe so in the military chain of command, but the Executive Branch, MSM, and broad civilian public opinion appear to be stuck in a weird hybrid of thinking Russia is evil and imperialistic like the the 50s-70s, and simultaneously broke and powerless like the '90s. Thus, we MUST defeat them before they take over the world, and also they're one step away from collapsing into bankruptcy and irrelevance.

You say Russia is far behind in military technology, but they appear to be ahead of the West in the areas of drone warfare and Mach 10 hypersonic missiles for which no countermeasures exist. I see them as also having built up their capacity for manufacturing ammunition, while America appears to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for reserves to send to Ukraine and Israel, while our defense contractors are set up to make money disappear rather than build or maintain surge capacity to make new ammunition appear.

America was the party who opted out of the no first nuclear strike doctrine, and we're stupid for pushing and pushing against Russia on the foolish assumption that they would never...

@MentORPHEUS

I doubt that there are many people stuck with “Cold War views.” Certainly not me: I did “strategic stuff” during the Cold War, and my view of the Soviet Union is very different from my current view of Russia. Apples and oranges.

Ten years ago it was rare to see a soldier over the rank of E6 or O3 who “didn’t” have a unit patch on his right shoulder (designating that he’d deployed into a combat zone). Now it is not uncommon to see E9s and O6s who don’t. Then recall that the Cold War ended more than a decade before the “Global War on Terror” after 9/11 had even started.

Given the length of service for even fairly senior military leaders (and the deliberate purge of “warfighters” during the Obama years), we’re basically two generations removed from viewing the world through a Cold War lens.

During my military years and subsequent civilian career, I have witnessed what I consider five major iterations of strategic / operational philosophy (for lack of a better term). The people stuck in the Cold War mindset are those who think the big, bad Russkies are ten feet tall and are willing (if not eager) to start a global thermonuclear war.

Now there’s no doubt that Russia is learning some valuable (and extremely expensive) lessons in Ukraine. Time will tell if that will be enough to get them to radically update their doctrine, which has been advancing at a snail’s pace since the development of smokeless gunpowder. The simple truth is that Russia is stuck with their own Cold War doctrine, in which the primary quality is quantity. The coins of the realm on the modern battlefield are information and agility.

If you want to know how the US trains to fight… read the doctrine. We don’t hide it: you can download the Army’s official, current, capstone publication for land warfare right off the internet. It’s called FM 3-0 - Operations: and it’s only a few clicks away. You can read Joint (interservice) doctrine just as easily (although Joint Pubs tend to be maddeningly vague).