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  1. The war in the Black Sea absolutely exposes Russian weaknesses and serves a lesson how to defeat a superior opponent, using technology and smart strategies.

    The Russian offensive operations in the Black Sea have completely reversed. In stage one they launched a blockade against Odesa, Ukraine. The sinking of the Russian flagship, Moskva, abruptly ended this operation. Russians were forced to break off their blockade and withdraw to the occupied peninsula of Crimea.

    In the second stage Russians tried to hold the line, while firing long-range missiles into Ukraine. The Russian-occupied harbour of Sevastopol, Russian-occupied Ukraine, was the lynchpin of this operation. When Ukrainian long-range missile destroyed the Russian headquarters along the submarine Rostov-on-Don in August 2024 and other warships in this sector, this operation fell apart. Again, Russians were forced to further retreat.

    The third and current stage started with the withdrawal of the Russian Black Sea fleet back to Russia, making Novorossiysk the new headquarters. The operations from there has been similar to those conducted from Sevastopol. The greater distance to the combat zones in Ukraine should have made things easier, but the last weeks proved otherwise. New drones have penetrated Russian defenses and struck Novorossiysk multiple times, including Russian air defense assets

    The strike today against the Russian submarine "Varshavyanka" marks the beginning of the end of Russia's last naval holdout in this region. Russians will never ever feel safe anywhere in the Black Sea. Together with raids against Russian shadow fleet tankers, this will further complicate Russian abilities to wage war against Ukraine, as well as any other states in the Black Sea region. I wouldn't be surprised when Moscow will soon "offer" a naval truce.

    For the Asia-Pacific region this development will be of great importance.

    From the comments

    First, the Japanese sank the original admiral Makarov, and the Ukrainians sank the ship Admiral Makarov, which was christened in his honor.

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    The Ukrainian general staff has confirmed that the Astrakhan gas processing station was struck last night. Locals reported of explosions and unusual fires have been seen on videos. NASA FIRMS map detected a large heat source after the strikes. The damage assessment is underway. 

    Aside from processing gas, the station feeds from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), connecting natural gas transports from Tengiz, Kazakhstan, to Novorossiysk, Russia. Ukrainian forces already struck facilities of that pipeline in the past.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Parliament said:

    So they say Ukraine might be close to agreeing to the modified US-brokered deal.  Prediction:

    We come up with a deal they agree to. Putin blows it off completely.  Our President gets mad.  Makes some tweets.  Rince.  Repeat.

    Russia has made it clear they won't accept any deal unless they get everything they want, so this maybe setting the Trump administration up to have another chance at peace fail completely.

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    Nuclear news from @hntrbrkmedia: hundreds of tons of yellowcake uranium are on the move in Niger. In order to reach an export terminal in nearby Togo, Russia and Niger appear poised to move the uranium over hundreds of miles of territory occupied by jihadist groups.

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  5. 4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah.  And I particularly loved that very Christian era in DFW (and Texas as a whole), when they lynched black people.  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lynching

    You could really feel Christ's loving embrace as they grabbed and tortured black men before they executed them in public.  WWJL?  Who Would Jesus Lynch?

    Fuck these pieces of shit.  Fuck their fake Christianity.

    And lest we forget a little show in the 80s called.....Dallas....about a beautiful, loving, Christian family, you know, the Ewings.

    Every week, we were regaled with tales of the Ewings and their friends and competitors (not enemies mind you) going out and doing good things in the world.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    I'm coming back to this because she said exactly what the proper, grown up response to tfg's batshittery.  The fact that the perfect response came from this source is utterly baffling to me.  But I'll take it if it means the people who follow her see a crack in the facade of their great and wonderful orange Oz.  

    Almost makes you wonder if her MAGA stuff was all an act.

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  7. 18 hours ago, KYHorn said:

    The shooter on the bridge was right behind the other shooter whose gun was taken. So I wouldn't be surprised if the hero was shot by the guy on the bridge after taking the gun

    Bingo, we were right, after he took the father down, the son shot him.

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    The owner of a tobacconist, al-Ahmed, a 44-year-old father of two daughters, aged six and seven, suffered gunshot wounds to his shoulder and arm from the second suspected attacker, Naveed Akram, who turned his fire on al-Ahmed after he had disarmed his father.

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/fruit-shop-speaks-bondi-hero-233639859.html
     

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  8. 27 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    He cowrote the screenplay with Ephron for When Harry Met Sally. Regardless, terrific film and a brilliant guy. He will be missed. 

    25 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    He contributed to the story, as did Billy Crystal, but I believe Ephron got sole screenwriting credit.

    If he had not changed the ending of When Harry Met Sally to be happy, it would not be nearly as popular as it still is.

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  9. Michael Koffman said 403k was their quota, and the growing pool of reservists include service members who probably thought they had served their time and were done. These maybe the guys who get tapped for those internal forces/national guard to keep the peace in Russia, and you can bet they would be bitter at any men protesting/trying to dodge any drafts.

    “Russia signed up 403,000 recruits this year, surpassing its initial plan for 2025, Budanov said. It is also tapping a growing pool of reservists to replenish its ranks and doling out financial incentives that lure men from its hardscrabble provinces.”

    Zelensky’s Front-Line Visit Highlights Ukrainian Resilience - WSJ

     

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