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atomheartbevo

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  1. And a libertarian. A libertarian at a Thanksgiving dinner with a Crossfitter and Subaru owner would complete the trifecta, and probably result in three deaths.
  2. They watched Clear and Present Danger (they couldn’t be bothered to read the book) and took all the wrong lessons away from it. Hegseth probably beats off to it.
  3. We are absolutely going to war. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/politics/trump-says-us-land-action-in-venezuela-very-soon President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.” “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many. Of course, there aren’t too many coming in by sea anymore,” Trump told service members in the call. “You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” the president continued. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon. Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water. Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has killed more than 80 people to date — is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution. The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an “armed conflict” with the U.S., these officials and experts say. Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign. Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.
  4. We are using SEAL Team 6 to just execute people that we think are drug runners. That’s some Small Dick Energy right there.
  5. UH-60 Blackhawks doing what they were designed to do. Poland ramping up ammo production in a massive way.
  6. Yes, but we gave them enough aid to survive, and they've had to build a homegrown defense industry that includes the means to hit Russia deep, hard, and where it counts, and that nobody can tell them how to use, and Europe is finally starting to step out of our shadow. It's unfortunate that in our lifetimes, we are watching the US give up our world leadership role, the "arsenal of democracy", but the kids are...errrr..Ukraine is going to be all right in the long run. We gave them the bare minimum, and they pulled themselves together and are hurting Russia far more here in 2025 than we could have imagined at the end of 2022. They may have just lost Pokrovsk, but Putin was going to do anything possible to get a victory ahead of all of these bullshit peace talks to anchor his claims over Ukrainian land and to try and lay the groundwork for something before the 4th anniversary comes up, but guess what? He killed or wounded almost 15% of the entire Russian Army just to take this town of 60,000 people. Imagine if we killed or wounded 15% of the United States Army to take a city the size of Pflugerville. And Finland and Sweden joined NATO.
  7. Those were awesome additions @satyanash and have not tried the original AOE empire but might over the holidays next month. Edit: Not sure why it's not embedding, but here goes again, there's a brand new DLC that just came out as well: I know it's still a popular game, but damn, that is awesome.
  8. I've been a paramour for a lot less than $250 hour. I didn't feel "low-quality"
  9. Or the Epstein files drop.
  10. You absolutely need to ask your cousin if he hates Israel just like Tucker and thinks we should have been on the side of Adolph Hitler just like Tucker.
  11. I wonder where this photo series was headed
  12. He's pretty shitty for ducking and weaving on the asylum thing when he could have just addressed the fact that it's a mental health issue.
  13. Europe thinks the unthinkable: “Retailiating against Russia“ I have been shouting this from the roof for decades and it is starting to sink in to more and more European officials. They realize that doing nothing is always the greatest risk. Allowing Russia to wage a hybrid war against the West without a proper response was always losing game. There must be costs for aggression and they have been well overdue. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-retaliating-against-russia-nato-cyber-hybrid/ Russian drones have buzzed Poland and Romania in recent weeks and months, while mysterious drones have caused havoc at airports and military bases across the continent. Other incidents include GPS jamming, incursions by fighter aircraft and naval vessels, and an explosion on a key Polish rail link ferrying military aid to Ukraine. “Overall, Europe and the alliance must ask themselves how long we are willing to tolerate this type of hybrid warfare ... [and] whether we should consider becoming more active ourselves in this area,” German State Secretary for Defense Florian Hahn told Welt TV last week. Hybrid attacks are nothing new. Russia has in recent years sent assassins to murder political enemies in the U.K., been accused of blowing up arms storage facilities in Central Europe, attempted to destabilize the EU by financing far-right political parties, engaged in social media warfare, and tried to upend elections in countries like Romania and Moldova.
  14. This sums it up: https://x.com/Tendar/status/1994097988730540135 We can be absolutely certain that the Witkoff leak shows only a very tiny portion of the exchange. Witkoff is not experienced in SIGINT. He is a realtor, out of his depth and an easy mark for any intelligence service. There are certainly recordings.
  15. No, but you shop at Krogers, so this is exactly what you should have expected.
  16. This came up with my mom earlier this year, and she was going on about all of the problems with illegals and drugs and trafficking, and I mentioned that for a good 10-15 years, her lawn guy was here illegally, and she had her roof and siding redone by people she probably knew were here illegally (she never checked papers, and they all only took cash), and that if she really cared about the illegals, she'd stop giving them money to fund drug trafficking or whatever Trump claims they do with their money. She hasn't mentioned them even one time around me since then.
  17. We fought on the wrong side of WWII? At least he's being honest that he hates the Jews.
  18. Trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico, so watch him try and rename this.
  19. No way RFK Jr ate McDonalds. They do try and cook their food.
  20. They are losing the ability to raise money through exports (they need that cash), they are having problems getting imported high-end stuff (outside of Iran which that will have to slow down at some point, Iran can’t accept that many IOUs), they are having to bail out large industries (railroad), they are having to import artillery shells which is crazy given that the manufacturing is not close to that of a cruise missile, they are losing air defenses faster than they can make them, their power grid is starting to feel the effects. And they just burned through 180,000 men over a few months for a town of formerly 60,000 people. That is something they are unequipped to do again, so not the best use of men, And they can’t just print a shitload of money to try and keep the lights on or the manufacturing going, at least not for the long term. Are they at the point the Germans were in the fall of 1944? Hard to say, but they are well on the way there. Ukraine doesn’t have to devastate Moscow directly, they just have to make it unlivable for the poors and middle-class by way of fuel and electricity shortages,
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