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    Lately it feels like either they've really worn down air defenses, or they are doing something different, but it seems like they are hitting targets multiple times.  It's not a single drone or missile flying into something or making it through air defenses, it's 2 or more.

    And you'd think Russia would protect their airfields a little better (even though the aircraft that was hit was not actively helping in Ukraine, it's still a loss of an airframe that probably won't be replaced).

  2. 2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    They’ll make a martyr out of Kelly.  He could get elected POTUS

    Gavin is out there certainly shitting on Trump every chance he gets but Trump is mostly ignoring him, so Kelly is going to get the bump in the rankings now that Trump and the major are going after him.

  3. 9 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Ha! Please, please, please, go and fuck around and find out Capt. Kelly. 

    Like I said, it’s a distraction, which they need after the two legal losses today,  They all keep leaving out that he was talking about illegal orders.

    Could be also using it to keep him out of the Senate briefly as well.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I guess I assumed that they were fabricating something he did or said. Is the claim going to be that he's being court-martialed because he said illegal orders shouldn't be followed? 

    What's next, they find someone to court-martial because they say that we shouldn't speed in school zones? 

    Oh it’s all about him saying not to follow illegal orders, but they’ll couch it in terms of him trying to interfere or whatever they want to call it.

    And the White House is doubling down.

     

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  5. 6 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    I can't remember where I heard it (maybe The Bulwark) but they said that this was the cleanest outcome for Halligan - now they don't have to have any more hearings on the botched indictment.

    It's also an off-ramp where they could just blame the "deep state" and move on, but these are idiots so I expect them to keep digging the hole until it comes out in China.

    It does allow them to sweep this shit under the rug.  Arguably this maybe what's behind the attack on Senator Kelly - try and get the base distracted from Comey/Leticia.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    in 24 hours we'll be on to the next rip in space time

    signalgate, dei mid-air collisions and the annexation of canada....... ahhhh..... the salad days

    Yep. The fact that they are getting caught up in this petty little bullshit is good for us though, and good for the Venezuelans, as it's distracting Donnie from doing far worse things.

    When you watch the video, it's clear the six knew exactly where the line was and didn't cross it. They were very careful not to say disobey lawful orders.

  7. 20 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    It’s so weird how they all somehow keep forgetting to use the word “illegal”, which was the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT.

    By design.  Those six said something that really caught the attention of service members and the administration is pretending like that word was not used.

    I don't even think he'll get called back. Hedgehog is trying to insult/threaten with the "Commander" remark, but I doubt a military judge is going to have a problem with anything said by Kelly.

    This is all bluster, just lashing out.   Won't matter in a few weeks when we attack Venezuela anyways.

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  8. Hedgehog getting spicey and trying to demote him while Trump is posting AI videos of the six behind bars.

    "Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar jurisdiction," Hegseth wrote on social media. "However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ—and he knows that."

    “The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false," Hegseth wrote. “Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ’good order and discipline.'"

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  9. Russia’s economy has turned into a militarized, "two-speed" system in which the military-industrial complex and war rents prop up growth by draining resources from the private sector and normal civilian industries. 

    Russian economy and the Russian regions are kept afloat by the war and state procurement, while the civilian sector and most regions are slipping into stagnation. Rising incomes and employment are essentially a bubble inflated by federal spending and a labor shortage, and by 2026 regional budgets risk falling into the red - meaning that ending the war without deep restructuring will almost certainly trigger a new, severe economic collapse. 

    The reforms and structural changes needed to escape this trap are politically out of reach for the Kremlin. As a result, the regime’s goal is not to prevent a crisis, but to avert a collapse:

    • prolong the "neither war nor peace" mode withing the country for as long as possible while maintaining high military spending;
    • intensify manual redistribution of resources in favor of the defense sector and "loyal" regions;
    • mask the deterioration in living standards with statistics and propaganda;
    • rely on gray export schemes and partial sanction relief without changing course.

    In this context, Moscow’s interest in "peace negotiations" is not an attempt to end the war, but an effort to secure a favorable pause: to freeze the front and its territorial seizures, extract partial sanctions relief, and buy time to stretch out the inevitable crisis into a long, managed stagnation of the wartime economy.

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