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On a remotely bright spot tangent.....it seems that the current volunteer call in Berlin is for hot food to be made available for refugees arriving via train at the Berlin Hbf. So, the boy spent some time making some easy, portable food to take down there that all of y'all here will recognize: It's a start. He's looking into which specific aid organizations need hands-on help in the coming days as well.53 points
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With all the Russian tanks, etc. captured by Ukraine they now have the 5th largest Army in Europe.19 points
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Nothing like people wading into this multi-year thread on the afternoon of war day 14 with drive-by hot take after hot take. SMH.16 points
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I can absolutely buy it. Good God, how are we still having this conversation? Enforcing a no-fly zone, directly engaging with Russian aircraft, being potentially shot down via friendly fire (because it can happen), would be moronic. God. Here's your bomber...16 points
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I’ve been extraordinarily impressed with Biden and his team’s ability to get all the players on board. They’re treating this with the exact kind of importance it deserves, even extending olive branches to regimes they’ve given the cold shoulder to (for good reasons). Someone decided to make Rubin the tweeting spokesperson, which is brilliant. They helped to get recalcitrant EU members on board for the SWFT sanctions. They got an omnibus budget bill agreed upon in principle with $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine. The use of declassified intelligence ended up being the winning play from my view, although it should be understood I have no idea what costs were/are involved in terms of alerting the enemy regarding what we know and how we know it. I’m not a Democrat. I tend to be critical of how Democratic presidents handle foreign policy (not to turn it into CR, because certainly Republican presidents have made more than their fair share of mistakes - I just tend to rationalize them more - merely admitting a bias, not advocating). But I’m very proud of Biden and his team, just like I was of George W. Bush immediately following 9/11. This is truly going to be awful for the Ukrainian people. It already is awful. The price they’re paying for the rest of the world not to risk the end of humanity is astronomical. If someone wants to be angry about that, I feel like they’re justified. Life just sucks sometimes. No doubt about it. But the Ukrainians are not alone. The level of support they’re receiving is unprecedented short of entering a war - from aid, to hosting over 2 million refugees and counting, to crippling sanctions and isolation, to intelligence being handed over, to volunteers signing up for service. My hope and expectation is that it doesn’t stop, even after Russia is thrown out. Because I firmly believe Russia cannot win. When the day comes the last Russian troop leaves their soil I feel confident the world will back them in rebuilding their country in ways we haven’t seen since George Marshall was the US Secretary of State. It won’t make up for the death and destruction they’re undergoing currently, but hopefully like other horrors overcome they will rise up stronger than ever. That’s certainly my vision.15 points
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Have you heard of Gary Chambers? He's 37 years old and running for Senate as a Democrat in Louisiana. Here's an article about him: https://www.chron.com/news/article/This-marijuana-smoking-Confederate-flag-burning-16986621.php His advertisements, both of which were made for less than 500 dollars, are exactly what the Democrats should be doing. Of course, burning a confederate flag has had the exact effect from some quarters in Louisiana that you think it would have. Some folks aren't exactly thrilled to say the least.14 points
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Yes and it’s too long to even bother with explaining but anyone repeating the mantra that DTRA or Nunn-Luger funding for research and securing the nasties left behind by the Soviet collapse = bio weapons lab is either a Kremlin agent or a drooling moron. This is the pure, uncut Kremlin disinformation only the likes of Greenwald circulates.13 points
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Lost Athens the Peloponnesian War. (basically they haphazardly fielded a Navy, kicked Sparta's ass, but a storm came and they didn't recover men and many drown. Athens responded by executing these competent generals, and then replacing them with incompetent ones, who let their ships go unguarded while they foraged for food, ignored Alcibiades advice and offer of help with troops, and they were attacked unaware and completely destroyed. Allowing Lysander to block shipping to routes and thus end the war.) This message brought to you by Nivek. Purveyor extraordinaire of information you did not care about but read anyway.13 points
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Oh, and not to leave the girl out -- she's signed up to offer free online basic lessons to learn working English or German to refugees. They are far from alone. If any of y'all need the tiniest dose of hope (I sure as shit do), that generation should give it to you. When the opportunity to step up arises, they fucking take it, en masse. A shitload of their peers are doing similar things. What we are seeing on the ground in Ukraine right now is humanity at its worst, doing what it has done so many times in the past. But truly, let's not forget the millions of people who have simply stood up, stepped up, and are doing the right thing with their hands, hearts, dollars, and anything else they can put into the mix. What the regular people of Poland, Romania, Germany, etc. are doing is beyond huge. When all is said and done, I hope that story is told in bold type. It is what we should aspire to. Oh, and if Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen don't end up with a Nobel Peace Price ASAP, they shouldn't award it anymore. He is beyond impressive.12 points
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I think this has to be Ukraine's best/most hopeful play. BTW, 956 and Shady Ray have provided fantastic insight on the European perspective and implications of this war. And SL Express and BabaYaga are providing some great, measured straight talk on the strategic picture as it relates to the US, our interests, and how we can and should play it out. I'm hard-pressed to think of much that they've posted that I'd disagree with. I think the US approach during this war has been pretty damned smart, and continues to be. No, we're not getting a glamorous victory, no, we're not going to save every civilian life. Lots of disappointments that we aren't throwing the ball for a 75 yard TD. But we're playing good, fundamental football -- 4 yards and a cloud of dust type stuff, letting the other side wear itself out. And yeah, cynically, we're using Ukrainian blood and bodies to do it. In the big picture, there WILL be blood and bodies. That can't be stopped. If we don't directly intervene, blood and bodies in Ukraine. If we do directly intervene, blood and bodies in a lot of places in a much wider war. Stop thinking there's a "good" outcome, where civilians don't die and cities aren't leveled. We have to make our play based on a certain set of options, and none of them are wonderful.11 points
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So got some bad news today. Poor Rini, who has kicked adenocarcinoma twice, is now being dealt a hand that I do not think she is going to beat. We went into the vet for a quarter sized spot on her nose. After a biopsy, it was determined it was a Stage III Mast Cell tumor, which has spread into her lymph nodes. In addition, the adenocarcinoma is back, and is in the lymph node in her belly, which we caught because of all the imaging we had ordered to diagnose problem one. Oh, and she has a UTI (and is on Clavamox already) just to make things extra fun. So, we are just trying to keep her quality of life good. It could be 1-2 months with just the Prednisone, or it could be, because we are going to give her Palladia (targeted chemo), longer. In any case, she has had a hell of a run and it sucks to be in this position with her. I wish there were more I could do, but keeping her comfy and healthy is the best I can do. I might be changing up my Paris plans as she is my priority. In any case, Rini and I would both appreciate positive thoughts coming our way.11 points
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So I think a couple things about the Ukrainians is that first of all, they’re different from Iraqis and Afghans because they’re fighting for their country and their government and not something we tried to create for them. I think what you saw there was a lot more of lack of will to fight than just “we know fuck all about what to do.” I mean, the Afghans flew their Air Force to Termez and said “peace out,” while the Ukrainians are willing to get shot down. The Afghans didn’t “lose” so much as melt away after their own leaders bailed. So Ukrainians fighting for their own country are going to behave differently. I think you’re seriously overstating the amount of corruption and graft in particular to security assistance as well as underestimating the ground up rebuild that Poroshenko initiated. As far as Ukrainian drive and flexibility— my direct work with them has been mostly in the hybrid and information realm. And post 2015 or so, they have been teaching us and the Europeans more than we’ve been teaching them. They’ve been serious, they’ve been focused, and they’ve been effective. And from everything I hear, that attitude and adaptability has been marched on the conventional mil side. Finally, on the ground, we’ve seen Russians do something unexpected and have not seen pitched battles, and we’ve seen the Ukrainians respond quickly to what they are trying to do. And they are also taking care to preserve their forces and pick their fights.11 points
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Shackleton's story is maybe the most fantastic for human endurance I've ever come across. However, maybe it's not so epic... this is a picture of his wife: Nothing personal, but might explain why he was so desperate to repeatedly get to the farthest end of the earth away from civilization - at any cost.10 points
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Some guy with Covid is going to be hanging out near Chernobyl and create Nuclear Covid.10 points
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This is one of my favorite conservative talking points. They break everything and then complain that everything is broken. George Bush passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) in 2006. This mandated the USPS to pay health and retirement benefits of all of its employees for at least 50 years in advance. It also mandated they have to deliver mail 6 days a week and stamp prices could raise faster than inflation. So Bush basically just increased opex by a shit ton and put a hard stop on revenues. I can’t believe the USPS was losing money? email and FedEx are problems but they’re not the reason the USPS can’t be competitive. But thankfully, Biden just passed the USPS Reform Act to eliminate the Republican fuckery.10 points
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Man, I am not a fan of prequels but that looks great.9 points
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I hear McDowell's is hiring. He might have to start out mopping floors, maybe move up to washing lettuce. Then it's onto fries and the grill. In a year or two, he'll make assistant manager and that's when the big bucks will start rolling in.9 points
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The only way Jimbo goes 5-7 is with 7-inch heels.9 points
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They beat us here in '05. I like where this is going.8 points
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I sift through so many of your stupid shithead inflammatory posts and reported posts it's really fucking stupid for you to say this. I KNOW this to be true because of the amount of complaints I get about you. Stop being such a fuckwad, you can have opinions without being such an unbearable shithead all the damned time.8 points
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Go to a different website for fucks sake no one here likes you because you are an antagonizing shithead not because your takes are bad or anything special.8 points
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I think even china says fuck you we are out if they use a tactical nuke. China doesn't want this shit continuing, it's harder to negotiate with pissed off America than it is with everything's cool in the world America.8 points
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I am extremely disappointed that someone associated with the University of Texas would produce a take that so spectacularly fails consider any potential consequences and their weight. So, just so I’m clear, your argument is that the leader who is resorting to dropping said 1000lb air bomb on a hospital because things are going that poorly against an overmatched neighbor won’t resort to nuclear weapons when confronted with fighting a superior conventional force? And that makes sense to you to the point of supreme, bet the world on it confidence?8 points
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Comment on the Manning recruitment. An early commitment to Texas is needed to build critically needed class momentum. However if Texas shits the bed again he’d need to de-commit and still have a spot at his preferred second destination. I believe he will have a spot anywhere in the country, including at Alabama, up until signing day (obviously?), no matter what other QB’s Alabama, Georgia, etc have taken up until that point As a result, an early commitment to build momentum will be what happens.8 points
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I said this on day 1. China wanted Russia to invade. It helps China whether Putin succeeds or not they get something out of it. Putin Wins they get info on how far they can go with Taiwan Putin Loses they get to scoop up Russian assets on the cheap and get access to the raw materials their economy needs.8 points
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Remember that Russia is telling everyone there isn’t a war in Ukraine and the Ukrainians aren’t really fighting. So…..yeah.8 points
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I paid $100.57 to fill up my Tahoe this afternoon in East Dallas. This is the first time I've ever surpassed $100 on a single tank of gas for this car. And it was worth every fucking penny. Put one of these stickers on the pump when I finished. Worth. Every. Last. Penny.8 points
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