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atomheartbevo

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  1. That’s a shitload of oil production, and no way they have it back up in November. Don’t need to sanction oil buyers if they can’t get it in the first place.
  2. @PTINS you might find this interesting. Hitting oil export infrastructure from the sea.
  3. Same. I thought there was some scandal in the judging or something.
  4. Sounds like they’re really starting to dial things in. I’m guessing they’ve got analysts who are looking at the whole picture. Like what regions are affected, what facilities downstream are affected, etc. Someday this will be a niche strategy game where your goal is to cripple the Russian economy by taking out various parts of their oil and gas infrastructure.
  5. There’s not that many Tesla Robotaxis out there. Yet.
  6. This is probably why. Ukraine continues to pound away at infrastructure critical to the Russian economy and military while Russia flails about at Ukrainian apartment buildings.
  7. Being confirmed by Russian leadership @PTINS one of those areas, this is apparently the second time in a few days so I’m guessing they have solid intel on what damage they did the first time and then did a follow-up.
  8. It’s fascinating how it came about and Baxter was the perfect partner for him (and to finish it).
  9. Moving onto the third one, Long Mars, really enjoying the series - wish Terry Pratchett was still around, and had co-written more like this (I know he came up with the idea originally, and then shelved it for Discworld). Lot of characters, lot happening across a lot of locations, but it doesn't get bogged down in itself, unlike the Red Mars trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson's series, one of my all-time favorites that has a large amount of characters and plotlines). Brisk, light read that focuses more on people than the sci-fi aspect.
  10. Be glad we didn't invite the Taliban to Camp David.
  11. So far, it looks like the ceasefire between Cambodia and Armenia is holding. We'll see if it lasts 24 hours.
  12. Trump told everybody that he was solving the Ukraine thing or whatever and that Putin respects him or something, and then Putin sent a couple of massive drone raids at Kyiv and elsewhere, and then violated NATO airspace with Russian MiGs, making Trump look weak, all the while Trump is campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize by doing things like stopping the war between Armenia and Cambodia. On top of that, European politicians are one-upping Trump and looking like bad-asses and telling Russia to STFU and don't come whining when their fighters go missing. Trump does not like to look weak, especially with so much shit going down (being mocked over the National Guard stuff, Congress still looking at Epstein stuff, etc.). And let's be real - if we opened up the spigot and things really started flowing to Ukraine, and they make a lot of progress towards Russia and even remove Russia from large parts of the conquered areas, Trump will look like a genius and call himself the savior of Europe.
  13. Because the death penalty is important to aggy students. A 4-star general with 80 years of family ties to A&M is a DEI idiot.
  14. They only have a few flying in service, less than a dozen, and these were apparently some of the ones who were patrolling along the Crimean coast. It actually makes sense in a Russian kind of way, because it’s what they were designed to do. Even if it’s 85 years later.
  15. Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sex Abuse by Multiple Family Members: Report Ummm..Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, but regardless.
  16. Could also be the whole "escalate to de-escalate" thing that others mentioned, where he escalates and then says "you're escalating the war by providing munitions to Ukraine, if you reduce your support we won't do it any more" or he's trying to scare the civilian populations of NATO countries, but at this point, it feels like mainstream Europe is tired of his shit and the latest stuff with Norway and Denmark is just pissing more and more people off, and everybody knows he won't use nukes. Trying to tie up NATO air defenses could be the reason why, but he's in a race right now - the Russians themselves don't have enough air defenses to protect their energy/oil/gas infrastructure, and they appear to be powerless to hit Ukraine's rear areas where the missiles and drones are being built. Maybe he thinks if they can slow down air defense equipment flowing into Ukraine enough, they can wear down their defenses and get at those rear areas, but even just a few more weeks of daily strikes on Russian oil & gas facilities could be too much for Russia - serious fuel rationing has to be on the table soon.
  17. It’s a decent sign that Russia is getting very desperate.
  18. Dozens of flights were diverted or cancelled at Copenhagen airport after a number of large unidentified drones were spotted in its airspace late on Monday. Police said they chose not to shoot down the drones over concerns that burning debris could spark fires, and they eventually flew away. The airport has since reopened. “What we saw last night is the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date,” Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, said. “We obviously do not rule out any options in relation to who is behind it.” Without directly accusing Moscow, Frederiksen said that the incident was linked to recent Russian drone incursions in Poland and Romania, unspecified hacker attacks on European airports and what Estonia said was the violation of its airspace by Russian Mig-31 fighter jets. —— Flemming Drejer, the head of Denmark’s intelligence service, said the Nordic country was facing a “high threat of sabotage”. Jens Jespersen, a police official in Copenhagen, said that the number of drones involved, as well as their size, indicated that the incursion had been carried out by a “capable actor”. He also said the drones could have been launched from a ship off the coast of the nearby Oresund Strait, which lies between Sweden and Denmark. Drone sightings in Oslo caused the city’s airport to close for several hours. Norwegian police have yet to comment. The incidents came as Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow forced a plane to fly low over a residential area in an effort to avoid being targeted. Video posted to social media showed the aircraft, identified as an An–124 cargo plane — one of the world’s largest — flying just above blocks of flats on the outskirts of the Russian capital. ——- @KYHorn interesting theory about trying to tie up European air defenses.
  19. President Trump stopped the war between Cambodia and Armenia. I don’t care for the guy, but God bless him for stopping the bloodshed. Give him the Noble Piece Prize
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