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B00M

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  1. 1 to 9? on a Friday? after the last few Fridays? to Houston? okay this shit might be over
  2. A few more tanks or shells? Fuck you. Offensives are utterly pointless right now. They’re wildly inefficient. The only option now is to kill invading Russians as cheaply as possible: make them respect the threat of artillery and use $600 FPVs to kill individuals and a handful of them to get vehicles. Of course that won’t WIN the war. Are you regarded or something? The lines are established as long as supply levels are simply maintained. Stop rug-pulling Ukraine and these lines will stay static while Russia spills blood for meters. Russia has already LOST this war. Ukraine has to destroy Russia’s o&g economy to WIN this war.
  3. Does it? This is the one part of @Thetexashammer’s post I’m maybe on board with. Why are we not actively trying to tie Russia’s hands like they and China did to us in Korea? Send in troops and make their locations known. Russia: strike here at your own risk.
  4. Be real dude, the west gave an almost negligible number of tanks (far from a metric fuck ton) to Ukraine. The western fighter jets are coming online late enough (this summer!) that a lot of Americans have given up. Expecting Ukraine to fight through THREE separate lines of mines, dragon teeth, and trenches with what they were supplied is fucking insane. How the fuck could you expect that to be successful?
  5. Okay sure, let’s just ignore how wildly successful the 2022 offensive was and focus on 2023. You think they had all they needed for successful combined arms operations with what they had in their Air Force at the time? No air superiority, not enough patriots to devote several to the front, no way to adequately support their ground forces from above … In my mind, the only valid criticism of the 2023 was the predictable direction they chose. They went straight into the strongest teeth of the Russian defense, trying to cut off Crimea. That was at least partly political, trying to maintain US enthusiasm. They wasted a lot of their best men and equipment trying to satisfy assholes like you. If they had guarantees of support they could trust, they wouldn’t have made that risky decision.
  6. The Pentagon has said that if congress doesn’t get their shit together, Ukraine is about to be outgunned. That’s factually correct and says nothing about Ukraine’s longer term prospects for victory. As is, Russia will have a ~1 month window where they have a large advantage in terms of men, artillery, and Ukraine will be starved of air defenses. Ukraine is about to needlessly suffer and undoubtedly lose territory and infrastructure because of the US House. It’s hard for me to think of a recent example of US Politicians more directly having blood on their hands. But since you apparently haven’t been paying attention, I’ll spell out how Ukraine wins: 1 - Ukraine immediately receives a stockpile of Patriot missiles and ~7+ patriot systems from the ~100 spread across the EU. Russia has only been able to take out so much Ukrainian power production recently due to a shortage of Patriot missiles. Aside from reducing civilian suffering, this greatly diminishes Russia’s ability to use glide bombs on Ukrainian fortifications at the front because when patriots get near the front, Russia starts losing a jet a day on those glide bomb runs. Russia has only been able to achieve pockets of air superiority recently due to the patriot shortage. 2 - Ukraine receives artillery, mortars, etc… they’ve proven they don’t need to match Russia’s 10k shells per day to prevent Russian advance because they’re more efficient. But they’ll start receiving the 1-2+ million shells from the Czech led initiative in June. If the US could get them something like 6k shells per day immediately, they’d be able to hold the lines until June. 3 - Ukraine continues playing defense, smoking Russians at a 4:1 to 10+:1 clip … Ukraine receives F16s and enough long range weapons to permanently push Russian support hubs and 100+ miles from the front. Yes, Ukraine has had to give up some land since Avdiivka fell, but they’ve retreated to naturally advantageous positions. They now have water barriers and the high ground and Russian advances have largely stopped again. 4 - Ukraine takes out that bridge in the east and the rail lines over the land bridge to Crimea and chokes out the peninsula. 5 - Ukraine continues relentlessly targeting Russian oil and gas, Russian manufacturing, power plants, etc. Starve the machine of oil. This is the most obvious way to break Russia. 6 - Sustain the lines and keep Ukraine mostly clean and productive for 2+ more years. Russia is losing about 1k men per day. Their infrastructure is failing. They’re hemorrhaging billions of dollars a day in lost o&g revenue. Their stockpiles are demonstrably running low and they’re about to be completely dependent on their own production rates (which appear very insufficient) and supplies from their shit stain allies. Inflation is already very high in Russia and will get much worse due to shortages. Russia will break. Go fuck yourself
  7. It is absolutely without merit. If Ukraine falls, the men, women, and children of all of Ukraine will suffer immensely for the humiliation they’ve put Putin through. The massacres, rape, and kidnapping will only possibly be dwarfed by the number of men that are forcibly conscripted and forced to fight nato on behalf of Russia. The “needless slaughter” will get WORSE and much more likely to directly involve Americans.
  8. Todd Jeffries is a fucking idiot. There’s no covid conspiracy or pro-Russian take he doesn’t parrot.
  9. Have any of you crypto folks sold any and then done your taxes? I had to use an outside service (ZenLedger) to get an accurate gain/loss report. It was $50, still painful, but I would definitely recommend their service because of the customer support. Figuring out my cost basis and capital gains for BTC and ETH required uploading or linking all my transactions across every exchange until the beginning of time. PayPal was the worst “exchange” or whatever the fuck they technically are, to work with because the spreadsheet they export is not formatted correctly to work with TurboTax or ZenLedger so you’re having to clean up a .CSV, upload, error, try again… This is not currency — every transfer or transaction is a taxable event. If I thought crypto was impractical before, I fucking hate it now.
  10. If MTG can effectively be the thought leader of congress, why can’t FL?!
  11. And Ukraine didn’t even have to commit an act of war… just good old Russian incompetence
  12. We need to help Ukraine with drone AI. You know China is or will help Russia.
  13. These are the songs of our people HOW CAN ANYONE ROOT AGAINST THAT
  14. Yeah, for whatever reason, he’s not making the pitches he was making this time last year. He had lots of close misses last night along with some wild pitches and straight meat. Maybe there’s an injury he’s working through or something, but he’s struggling and needs the coach to make a change for him.
  15. so how does Ukraine react if the NATO equipment support levels stay where they are (over promised, under delivered) and Russia starts pushing for a ceasefire because they’re exhausted?
  16. What’s Spartz’s deal? Why is she distancing herself from supporting Ukraine and parroting the conservative (pro Russia) talking points about needing more oversight (corrupt Ukraine)? the MAGA wing of my family has now completely turned on Ukraine and the smartest among them, the last to turn on Ukraine, is pointing to her.
  17. It’d be better if he’d just drop dead. That fat ugly fuck waddling about and heavy breathing was hard to watch.
  18. Man I wish I could more directly help. So disgusting and embarrassing that our lack of support for them has directly led to the lack of air defense in Kharkiv. Pre-war population of 1.4M people, now without power indefinitely and getting double tapped BECAUSE US POLITICS ARE ENABLING A TERRORIST
  19. $35T, $50T, $75T… what’s the difference? Just take control of the fed and put interest rates at 0%
  20. https://www.wecb.fm/a-gigantic-ocean-discovered-700km-beneath-the-earths-surface/ can’t wait until we find there’s plastic in it
  21. Yeah, outside of the trades related courses, it’s a joke of a school that only serves to allow kids to get college level credits without having to put forth college level effort. Maybe it helps raise the worst students up to a barely functioning level. Maybe that’s enough value-add to the community. Maybe the new 4 year programs have elevated the rest of the school. For your mental health, you’re better off getting blackout drunk and just writing the check instead of analyzing where your taxes go.
  22. Should I speak to a lawyer before I admit to being interested in that?
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