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atomheartbevo

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  1. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Inshallah the mullahs get the Ceausescu treatment in 2026. What a beautiful country and brilliant civilization that deserves so much better. Would also completely upend militant Islamism, which is running out of steam worldwide anyway.

    I think they get flown out, between this and Russia starting to truly feel the effects of Ukraine, it could be a much better start to the year than we had a year ago.

  2. May not be two weeks, security forces were not able to get a lot of protestors dispersed last night, and full-blown nation-wide protests are being called for tomorrow.,

    Here’s hoping the US and Israel don’t actually bomb them again, and let this play out.

  3. 5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Happy New Year, Surly bastards.

    I'm gonna start negging all non-ironic AI slop posted on this website. We can't stop this AI bullshit in society, but we can at least make a difference here. Join me.

    we need Trump to see this AI-generated stuff and it’ll get regulated really fucking fast.

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  4. Finland's authorities seized control of a vessel suspected of damaging a data cable between Helsinki and Tallinn - Yle. The data cable was damaged today, and the anchor chain of the vessel was hanging in the water. The vessel, Fitburg, was going from St Petersburg, Russia to Haifa, Israel. It is flagged in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Fitburg is not on any official sanctions lists but has been highlighted as a vessel of interest by a sanctions monitoring platform. Fitburg was intercepted in Finland's exclusive economic zone, and the cable damage took place in Estonia's economic zone. 14 crew members were detained.

    Several days ago, information appeared that Denys Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, has been killed defending Ukraine. Turns out, Denys Kapustin is alive and well! Ukrainian Defense Intelligence has performed a complex special operation to save the life of Denys Kapustin, and reveal those who ordered his killing. The operation lasted over a month. Russia has paid half a million dollars to kill Denys Kapustin. This money is now at the disposal of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence and will be used to enhance the units.

  5. They don't realize how fucking stupid they look.

    Speaking of being out of touch.

    EXCLUSIVE IVANKA TRUMP SPARKS ASPEN HOLIDAY OUTRAGE AS SHE ACTS LIKE FIRST LADY

    Ivanka Trump may have been aiming for a cozy, glamorous Christmas in Aspen — but insiders say her over-the-top Secret Service presence turned the ski town into a full-blown security lockdown, leaving other holidaymakers furious.

    “You’d think she was the President himself,” one guest said.

    According to witnesses, the scale of protection stunned even Aspen regulars, who are used to A-listers and billionaires blending in quietly.

    “She acts like she’s the First Lady,” one insider complained. “The security footprint was massive. It completely disrupted skiing for everyone else.”

  6. 1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

    Hey y'all. Clooney has won a couple of oscars, and his movies have sold about 2.5 billion in tickets, but he's not a movie star

    Every single day for the past few weeks, there’s been numerous posts by him that make it clear he is miserable, feels inadequate, and is just angry at the world. This is one of those.

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    19 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

    The proper from response from our dear leader should have been: "stop complaining, you're at war, you want the alleged attacks on your residence to stop, issue a ceasefire and end the war. You are indiscriminately bombing civilian targets and you expect Kiev to temper itself?"

    17 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    maybe if he wasn't a completely-compromised moron

    And the he turns around and says this

  8. 3 hours ago, Dendox said:

    But his general takeaway was - he couldn't fault Russia for going to war with Ukraine.

    The problem for your buddy is that he ignored years of Putin saying that Ukraine and Georgia belonged to Russia, that they were not separate countries. Putin was literally saying that historically Ukraine belonged to Russia and he was going to re-unite the two no matter what. It had absolutely nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with Putin's bullshit version of manifest destiny.

    Obviously, Russia did not realize they were cornering a honey badger in 2022, and many of us didn't realize it.

    But there was never going to be a positive economic outcome from the US or Europe after a full-scale takeover of Ukraine and all of its mineral assets in the Black Sea, and everybody knew that before February 2022, and in the run-up to the full invasion, a lot of people/nations were warning Russia was going to economically isolate themselves. Putin did it anyways.

    And now he's got a sunk-cost fallacy rattling around in his brain.

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    Edited by atomheartbevo

    3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Russia remains opposed to "the West," rather than being a part of it. Its western neighbors behave accordingly. It's not like NATO really represents an arms buildup or aggression, it's a defensive pact.

    It bears repeating, and this is the point I always make to anybody I know or meet that pushes NATO as being a problem for Russia - since the 1940s, NATO has never invaded anybody. It has acted as a peace-keeping force (it didn't have to, it could have ignored things and let them get worse), and it has responded once (once!) to an attack on a member nation, and that was America on 9/11.

    Russia/Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact? Russia/Soviet Union has literally invaded members of its own "defensive" alliance multiple times over its history.

    Come On What GIF by MOODMAN

    Boris Yeltson wrote NATO about Russia joining in the future. In '93, our Secretary of State James Baker talked about Russia joining NATO. 1994, Yeltsin talked about Russia joining NATO ahead of the Eastern European nations, but said Russia was not ready. In 2000 when Clinton visited Moscow, Putin publicly mentioned joining NATO, and again before his first inauguration.

    Putin even said in 2000: "Russia is part of the European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilized world."

    In 2000-2001 Putin said multiple times they should join NATO. One of the Russians biggest hang-ups, and this was mentioned as far back as 94 or 95, was standardization - Russia did not want to/could not afford to standardize on NATO standards because they were admittedly too big, and they wanted NATO membership, but they wanted accommodations for that. And it was understandable - you can't change directions for a military that size in terms of equipment.

    In response to a March 2009 suggestion by Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski that Russia join NATO, the Russian envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Russia had not ruled it out, but preferred to continue co-operation with NATO. He emphasized that "Great powers don't join coalitions, they create coalitions. Russia considers itself a great power". However, he said that Russia wanted to be NATO's "partner", provided that Ukraine and Georgia (which Russia had invaded the year before) did not join the alliance. The suggestion of Russia joining NATO was repeated in an open letter co-written in early 2010 by some German defense experts. They posited that Russia was needed in an emerging multi-polar world in order for NATO to counterbalance emerging Asian powers.

    Things reached a point where Russia wanted more power than they deserved, and they were not the "great power" they claimed - they were a gas station with nukes and a lot of land.

    Putin and Russia are now paying the price for Russia fucking around with Georgia and Ukraine. Had they made truly positive efforts to joining NATO as a full member (they were in a partnership of sorts with NATO for decades) we would have the US, Europe, and Russia in an alliance that could have evolved into an economic alliance that counters China in the long run. Instead, China is going to eat Russia's lunch in the long run.

  10. Maybe some common sense, and Houston gets a capsule (they already have some) instead of wrecking the Discovery.

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    NASA’s New Chief Finds Loophole for Texas Shuttle Switcheroo

    “One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.”

    In an interview with CNBC on December 23, Isaacman saidrelocating Discovery would depend on whether it could be done without damaging the space shuttle and within budget. If not, he suggested sending Houston a different spacecraft, such as an Orion capsule.

    “If we can’t do that, you know what, we have spacecraft going around the Moon with Artemis 2, 3, 4 and 5,” Isaacman said. “One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.”

    Unlike Cornyn and Cruz’s original bill, these provisions do not specifically name Discovery or Johnson Space Center. Rather, H.R. 1 includes $85 million for a “space vehicle transfer” of a crewed spacecraft to a NASA center involved in the agency’s commercial crew program and directs NASA to select a spacecraft to be transferred within 30 days of enactment.

    The bill also states that the selected vehicle must have flown to space, carried astronauts, and must be selected with the approval of a third party chosen by the NASA administrator. Discovery, the most-flown shuttle during its 27 years in operation, fits that bill, but it’s not the only option.

    In August, NASA said then-Acting Administrator Sean Duffy selected a vehicle, but the agency declined to say which one. Sen. Cornyn’s office later claimed the choice was a retired space shuttle bound for Johnson Space Center—without specifying which shuttle.

    Apparently it’s a national security issue on which spacecraft they selected.

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