This is an accurate characterisation. For more on the unhealthy relationship between Australia and the United States, please see the book Dangerous Allies, published this year by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

But this thread is about Japan.

What a meaningless statement; your reaction to the increasing number of atheists is to claim that they are stupid and violent and then add some political sounding techno-babble…

My reaction to the increasing number of atheists is one of increasing horror only because most of them are variously objectionable. Alas, it is the inevitable consequence of the great demographic transition. Formerly, by virtue of being raised in a more conducive environment, these sorts of people would’ve been objectionable Christians, objectionable Muslims, or whatever. Now, just as simply, they are objectionable atheists. Inevitable, perhaps, but as an atheist myself, I reserve the right to scowl at all the assholes gatecrashing the party.

…’short-sighted reactionaries’! Seriously?

See: the idea that religion is the principle source of conflict and turmoil in the world today, expounded by several posters in this very thread. It is a noxious and convenient fiction that, by demonising ‘the Other’, allows one to ignore both the explicitly material roots of conflict, and the complicity of our own governments in formenting it.

Do you not think that some of this current ‘atheist enterprise’ may be a reaction to a world with a proliferation of (apparently) religious suicide-bombers and a single remaining superpower that teaches creationism as scientific fact in schools (or objects to the teaching of evolution)?

Certainly there is a considerable element of action-reaction*, but although this helps us to understand what is happening and why, that does not mean we should endorse the end behaviours or opinions if indeed they are objectionable or ill-founded.

* Australian public schools, in the most populous states, have federally funded lessons of religious instruction. In my experience on online forums, there are also a large number of young Australians who exhibit contemptuous or hostile attitudes towards religion. I suspect these two things are related.

It’s ‘kowtow’, by the way. It’s oddly fitting that a cultural reactionary like yourself would appropriate words from a foreign land without acknowledging or even knowing it.

With Tu-160M2 in the picture, PAK DA should be redesigned as a regional bomber powered by 2x (non-afterburning) NK-32. Such an aircraft would be more flexible and affordable and would still have more thrust than a B-2.

A brief moment isn’t good enough unfortunately, because the guys who do ECCM have already anticipated that.

Face it, all weapons manufacturers talk up their own gear and rubbish the opposition, even when they are manufacturing both weapon and countermeasure. The only realistic arbiter is war, and we haven’t had one of those for a long, long time. When a high-end conflict really does break out, I expect there will be almost as many unexpected and unwelcome lessons as were learned in 1914. Platforms and whole classes of equipment that are currently at the core of military inventories and planning assumptions will be found to be obsolete within the first few months of conflict. It’s like a bushfire: there’s a lot of old growth built up in them forests, just waiting for the spark…

And just as the experience of slaughtering Zulus, Tibetans, and other unfortunate natives did not exactly prepare the British for what they found on the western front, the recent neo-colonial experiences of the United States will not have prepared it for conflicts that may eventuate with e.g. China or Russia.

Hybrid meaning half domestic and half forign designed (Russian engines)

This is the very definition of sour grapes.

Russia can bomb all Middleast and Eastern EU and it will have no impact on it’s prosperity and technological development.

Well that’s reassuring.