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Posts posted by Kwix
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Has anyone in the media gotten a response from Sark as to why he didn't give Card a shot?
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4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
That thing looks like a hyena had his way with a fox.
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Fucking hell, stay on target people!
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21 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:
Touchdown Javier Worthy !
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11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Agree. But here is the issue. Who is going to hit them? The US? Israel?
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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Their drone plants should be rubble within a week.
Yeah, not sure why that didn't happen the first day it was confirmed their drones were being used to target civilians.
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1 hour ago, Modessit said:
Basket is lighter than the berries. Wind blowing right to left. Momentum keeps before going to the right, then wind blows empty basket back to the left.Well, if he's on the cross-dressing forum, they might not be "ladies".
Nah, He's flipping the basket at the last second with his hand.
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Really want to see some live on-air mobilization of one of those state TV guys.
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I'm going to let Ukraine decide how nice they want to be towards Russian civilians in Crimea, and I wont judge them regardless of their decision.
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Elon trying to cover his ass with the eloquence of a 12 year old.
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THAT was targeting
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Fair catch on the 4?!?
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Please more of those delayed hand-offs
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8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Shrapnel is a bitch. You can be 5 feet behind someone hitting a mine and not take a hit. Other times one person hits one and a squad is gone. What is interesting is the Russian troops have no idea about dispersal of force. Tells me their comms suck. Good. Fuck them.
These dropped drone munitions remind me a lot of mines. Ya never know.
Looks like they were carrying someone that was injured. No excuse for the rest of them though.
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3 minutes ago, TexasEd said:
I thought I read somewhere the Abrams needed Jet Fuel or Gasoline instead of Diesel which caused a logistics problem but I looked it up and apparently it has a multi-fuel turbine that can burn jet fuel, gasoline or diesel.
I'm sure the maintenance and operation need to be trained.
Not sure where I saw it, but I believe it's the amount of fuel required that is problematic, not the type.
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12 minutes ago, KYHorn said:U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia
American officials said they were not aware of the plan ahead of time for the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that they had admonished Ukraine over it.
Daria Dugina’s memorial service in Moscow in August. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that parts of the Ukrainian government authorized the attack that killed her.Credit...Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Oct. 5, 2022Updated 1:29 p.m. ETWASHINGTON — United States intelligence agencies believe parts of the Ukrainian government authorized the car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, an element of a covert campaign that U.S. officials fear could widen the conflict.
The United States took no part in the attack, either by providing intelligence or other assistance, officials said. American officials also said they were not aware of the operation ahead of time and would have opposed the killing had they been consulted. Afterward, American officials admonished Ukrainian officials over the assassination, they said.
The closely held assessment of Ukrainian complicity, which has not been previously reported, was shared within the U.S. government last week. Ukraine denied involvement in the killing immediately after the attack, and senior officials repeated those denials when asked about the American intelligence assessment.
While Russia has not retaliated in a specific way for the assassination, the United States is concerned that such attacks — while high in symbolic value — have little direct impact on the battlefield and could provoke Moscow to carry out its own strikes against senior Ukrainian officials. American officials have been frustrated with Ukraine’s lack of transparency about its military and covert plans, especially on Russian soil.
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s security services have demonstrated their ability to reach into Russia to conduct sabotage operations. The killing of Ms. Dugina, however, would be one of the boldest operations to date — showing Ukraine can get very close to prominent Russians.
In a handout photo released by the Investigative Committee of Russia, investigators worked at the scene of the car blast that killed Ms. Dugina.Credit...Investigative Committee Of Russia, via Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Some American officials suspect Ms. Dugina’s father, Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian ultranationalist, was the actual target of the operation, and that the operatives who carried it out believed he would be in the vehicle with his daughter.
Mr. Dugin, one of Russia’s most prominent voices urging Moscow to intensify its war on Ukraine, has been a leading proponent of an aggressive, imperialist Russia.
The American officials who spoke about the intelligence did not disclose which elements of the Ukrainian government were believed to have authorized the mission, who carried out the attack, or whether President Volodymyr Zelensky had signed off on the mission. United States officials briefed on the Ukrainian action and the American response spoke on the condition of anonymity, in order to discuss secret information and matters of sensitive diplomacy.
U.S. officials would not say who in the American government delivered the admonishments or whom in the Ukrainian government they were delivered to. It was not known what Ukraine’s response was.
While the Pentagon and spy agencies have shared sensitive battlefield intelligence with the Ukrainians, helping them zero in on Russian command posts, supply lines and other key targets, the Ukrainians have not always told American officials what they plan to do.
The United States has pressed Ukraine to share more about its war plans, with mixed success. Earlier in the war, U.S. officials acknowledged that they often knew more about Russian war plans — thanks to their intense collection efforts — than they did about Kyiv’s intentions.
Cooperation has since increased. During the summer, Ukraine shared its plans for its September military counteroffensive with the United States and Britain.
U.S. officials also lack a complete picture of the competing power centers within the Ukrainian government, including the military, the security services and Mr. Zelensky’s office, a fact that may explain why some parts of the Ukrainian government may not have been aware of the plot.
When asked about the U.S. intelligence assessment, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, reiterated the Ukrainian government’s denials of involvement in Ms. Dugina’s killing.
“Again, I’ll underline that any murder during wartime in some country or another must carry with it some kind of practical significance,” Mr. Podolyak told The New York Times in an interview on Tuesday. “It should fulfill some specific purpose, tactical or strategic. Someone like Dugina is not a tactical or a strategic target for Ukraine.
“We have other targets on the territory of Ukraine,” he said, “I mean collaborationists and representatives of the Russian command, who might have value for members of our special services working in this program, but certainly not Dugina.”Though details surrounding acts of sabotage in Russian-controlled territory have been shrouded in mystery, the Ukrainian government has quietly acknowledged killing Russian officials in Ukraine and sabotaging Russian arms factories and weapons depots.
A senior Ukrainian military official who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic, said that Ukrainian forces, with the help of local fighters, had carried out assassinations and attacks on accused Ukrainian collaborators and Russian officials in occupied Ukrainian territories. These include the Kremlin-installed mayor of the Kherson region, who was poisoned in August and had to be evacuated to Moscow for emergency treatment.
Countries traditionally do not discuss other nations’ covert actions, for fear of having their own operations revealed, but some American officials believe it is crucial to curb what they see as dangerous adventurism, particularly political assassinations.
Still, American officials in recent days have taken pains to insist that relations between the two governments remain strong. U.S. concerns about Ukraine’s aggressive covert operations inside Russia have not prompted any known changes in the provision of intelligence, military and diplomatic support to Mr. Zelensky’s government or to Ukraine’s security services.
In a phone call on Saturday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken told his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, that the Biden administration “will continue to support Ukraine’s efforts to regain control of its territory by strengthening its hand militarily and diplomatically,” according to Ned Price, the State Department’s spokesman.
Officials from the State Department, National Security Council, Pentagon and C.I.A. declined to comment on the intelligence assessment.
The war in Ukraine is at an especially dangerous moment. The United States has tried carefully to avoid unnecessary escalation with Moscow throughout the conflict — in part by telling Kyiv not to use American equipment or intelligence to conduct attacks inside of Russia. But now, the recent battlefield successes by Ukraine have prompted Russia to respond with a series of escalatory steps, like conducting a partial mobilization and moving to annex swathes of eastern Ukraine.
Concern is growing in Washington that Russia may be considering further steps to intensify the war, including by renewing efforts to assassinate prominent Ukrainian leaders. Mr. Zelensky would be the top target of Russian assassination teams, as he was during the Russian assault on Kyiv earlier in the war.
But now, American officials said Russia could target a wide variety of Ukrainian leaders, many of whom have less protection than Mr. Zelensky.
The United States and Europe had imposed sanctions on Ms. Dugina. She shared her father’s worldview and was accused by the West of spreading Russian propaganda about Ukraine.
Russia opened a murder investigation after Ms. Dugina’s assassination, calling the explosion that killed her a terrorist act. Ms. Dugina was killed instantly in the explosion, which occurred in the Odintsovo district, an affluent area in Moscow’s suburbs.
After the bombing, speculation centered on whether Ukraine was responsible or if it was a false flag operation meant to pin blame on Ukrainians. The bombing took place after a series of Ukrainian strikes in Crimea, part of Ukraine that Russia seized in 2014. Those strikes had led ultranationalists in Mr. Dugin’s circle to urge Mr. Putin to intensify the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s domestic intelligence service, the F.S.B., blamed Ms. Dugina’s murder on Ukraine’s intelligence services. In an announcement made a day after the attack, the F.S.B. said that Ukrainian operatives had contracted a Ukrainian woman, who entered Russia in July and rented an apartment where Ms. Dugina lived. The woman then fled Russia after the bombing, according to the F.S.B.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who voted against the annexation of Crimea, has claimed that a group made up of pro-Ukrainian and anti-Putin fighters operating in Russia known as the National Republican Army was responsible for the killing.In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Ponomarev claimed to be in contact with the National Republican Army and was aware of the operation against Ms. Dugina several hours before it occurred. Many officials in Washington have been skeptical of Mr. Ponomarev’s claims on behalf of the group.
So an un-named official believes Ukraine was behind the assassination. Seems like the sole purpose of that story is to try and drive a wedge between the US and Ukraine.
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9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I mean, who do you think is getting paid here?
I was replying to Gengs post about the government "just paying the local community". That's twisting reality for a feel good angle.
I'm not trying to bag on defense contractors. The work they do is a huge part of the result we are seeing in this war, but honest reporting of the facts is enough to get everyone but the most stubborn dipshits on the same side of this issue.
No need to give said dipshits low-hanging fruit to point at and say "See we're being manipulated!"
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9 hours ago, Gengs1 said:
The part that most people don’t realize is that what the gov is going is just paying the local community to produce more weapons that we give away, we are still paying American workers (I am sure some are working crazy OT hrs, improving the production lines and training new ppl to make the weapons) to make them and aren’t giving the funds to Ukraine. we are essentially paying Americans with these funds
That’s what they need to sell to all the idiots.
Would you say these funds we are paying the local community with... trickle down?
Look, I'm 100% behind giving Ukraine all the weapons they want, but lets not pretend it isn't the usual suspects (contractors/politicians) getting paid here.
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11 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Elon weighs in
I enjoy following SpaceX, so I've given Elon a lot of slack for his stupid twitter posts. But fuck this shit right here!
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3 hours ago, vtaenz said:
You forget all the deliberate shelling of civilian targets, agreeing to and immediately breaking truces for safety corridors, torture, executions, etc.?
Don't forget all the children they've kidnapped and shipped back to Russia.
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7 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
That's actually what I originally did, but I made the mistake of not looking up from the TV while I was pointing.
I never get away with that one either.
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3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:Wife is applying for a new job, under heavy prodding from me.
She's updating her resume, and she has a small question for me:
"Which one of these do you like better?"
I read over both resumes to find no difference, other than that her name up top is surrounded by a grey box on one.
Me: They're the same.
Her: No, this one has a grey box at the top. Do you like it better or the other one?
Me: That kind of stuff doesn't matter at all to me.
Her: OK, but which one do you like better?
Me: That kind of stuff doesn't matter at all to me.
Her: Why won't you help me?
Me: You asked me for my opinion; I gave it to you, but you don't like my opinion.
Her: I'm asking which one looks better to you.
Me: And I've already told you, they are both equal in my eyes.
Her: Maybe that's your problem -- you should try to look at it through someone else's eyes!
Me: Then why don't you go ask someone else if you want the opinion of someone else's eyes?
Shit man, just pick one and save yourself the hassle.
Then she can explain to you why the other choice is better.
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Response to question about Ewers: "His hand is fine and I didn't consider pulling him"