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  1. Poll: Americans More Supportive of Arms Supplies to Ukraine, Including Tomahawk Missiles

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    Poll: Americans More Supportive of Arms Supplies to Ukraine, Including Tomahawk Missiles

    Despite the official position of the US government to reduce aid, more and more Americans are in favor of supplying weapons to Ukraine.

    This is reported by the New York Post.

    According to a new poll by the Ronald Reagan Foundation & Institute, cited by the publication, 64% of respondents were in favor of providing lethal assistance to Ukraine, which is 9 percentage points more than last year and the highest since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

    Support among Republicans increased to 59%, and among Democrats – to 75%.

    The majority of Americans also support expanded military assistance to Ukraine. In particular, 65% approve of the transfer of long-range cruise missiles, such as the Tomahawk. 68% support the sale of U.S. weapons to European allies for further transfer to Ukraine.

    The launch of a Tomahawk missile. Source: US NavyThe launch of a Tomahawk missile. Source: US Navy

    In addition, 69% support the provision of NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, and 74% support the creation of a demilitarized zone under the control of European forces with US air support.

    As for the goals of the war, 45% of Americans believe that Ukraine should fully restore its territorial integrity.

    The authors of the study note that these results indicate a strengthening bipartisan consensus in the United States in support of Ukraine, as well as overwhelming public support for the strategy of military assistance, European solidarity, and deterrence of Russian aggression.

    The survey involved more than 2,500 Americans who answered questions by phone and online between October 23 and November 3. The statistical error of the survey is ±1.96 percentage points.

    HIMARS MLRS during an exercise. Photo credits: US ArmyHIMARS MLRS during an exercise. Photo credits: US Army

    In late November, the White House warned Ukraine about the possible termination of arms and intelligence supplies if the Ukrainian leadership did not agree to the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States.

    This document was prepared by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff with the participation of Russian Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

    The plan, among other things, provides for the transfer of Crimea and parts of Donbas to Russian control, a reduction in the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, refusal to join NATO, and a ban on the deployment of foreign troops in the country.

    The President of Ukraine expressed his readiness to discuss the document, while emphasizing “the fundamental principles that are important for the people of Ukraine.”

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  2. I was once hit and stayed and still lost out to the police. I started to back out at Schlotsky’s and about a 1/4 of the way out of the spot a guy on the opposite of the parking lot started to back out and was playing with his radio. I of course sat there and played on the horn but he kept coming and coming until he hit the back side panel of our new car. I kept the car in place and he pulled back into his spot and apologized. We waited for the police and almost got into a fight because someone in a truck wanted my spot. The police came and said it was a he said he said situation. I said my wife is here in the car and can be a witness and what do you mean anyway, the guy admitted to hitting me. The policeman said that she doesn’t count as a witness because she is biased and it was private property anyway. Nice large dent in my side panel that I had to pay for because of a high deductible. Motherfucker.

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  3. TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — A 50-year-old man and his 3-month-old granddaughter were found dead Wednesday afternoon inside a Tullahoma home after what authorities described as a sustained mauling by the family’s seven pit bulls. Police fired on the animals to stop the attack and get to the victims, investigators said.

     

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  4. People may not agree, but I feel like we are in an age of professional athletics in college football. There is no salary cap, no collective bargaining agreement, and basically a free market where players and universities can do whatever they want within the law. There isn't loyalty one way or the other. It is an open market where the highest bidder wins. And the contracts allow both parties to renegotiate based on their whims. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, Chewy's Hairy Horn said:

    Dallas pd definitely doesn’t want to deal with it.

    I was involved in one too and because I didn’t stay at them scene, they said they’d come take my report……but ticket me as well. So I guess I was supposed to pull off the highway, call, and wait who knows how long for an officer.  
     

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    Seriously?

    Therefore if you leave the accident location without making the proper reports with the Dallas Police Department, you have also violated state law, and our detectives will not be able to investigate your offense case.

     

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  6. Terrible article from the NYT:

     

    Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Trump Pushes Peace Plan

    Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.
     
    Listen to this article · 7:52 min Learn more
     
    Soldiers in camouflage stand near artillery.
    The 148th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in October in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
    Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
    Dec. 6, 2025, 5:33 a.m. ET
    It was a clear attempt to project Russian power.
    Hours before meeting U.S. officials in Moscow this past week about their plan to end the war, President Vladimir V. Putin claimed that Russia’s forces had seized the strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after a monthslong fight.
    The reality was murkier. Slivers of the city were still contested, according to battlefield maps and the Ukrainian military. But Mr. Putin’s claim, even if premature, reflected a trend shaping his unbending approach to negotiations: Russian forces are on the march.
    “The Russians do have the upper hand,” said Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group. Ukraine is not yet at the point where it must capitulate, he said, but it “is looking weak enough that the Russians think that they can impose demands.”
    Mr. Putin has ordered the Russian military to prepare for winter combat, signaling after the talks with U.S. officials that he is not budging from his hard-line demands. Mr. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has since held a series of discussions in Miami with Ukraine’s delegation — with another expected to take place on Saturday — that both sides called “constructive.”
     
    As these statements were being released, Russia unleashed more than 650 drones and 51 missiles on towns and cities across Ukraine in an assault that began overnight on Friday and stretched through Saturday morning, Ukrainian officials said.
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    Soldiers in camouflage stand in the dark, lit by a light on one of their helmets.
    Ukrainian soldiers last month near Pokrovsk, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.Credit...Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
    In recent weeks, Russian forces have advanced on several fronts. They are on the brink of capturing Pokrovsk, a onetime logistics hub in the eastern region of Donetsk, and have nearly encircled its neighbor, Myrnohrad. They are moving quicker in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia. They are pressing closer to the northeastern city of Kupiansk, and they are making gains around the eastern city of Siversk, according to battlefield maps, analysts and soldiers.
     
    The advances have been slow and costly, in both lives and equipment. Ukrainian officials and analysts say Mr. Putin could still be years away from achieving his territorial goals. Chief among them is capturing the rest of the Donetsk region, which would give Russia all of the broader eastern Ukrainian area known as the Donbas.
     
    But Russia’s pace is quickening, and incremental moves have started to add up. Moscow’s forces captured 505 square kilometers, or nearly 200 square miles, of territory in November, up from 267 square kilometers, or about 100 square miles, in October, according to the battlefield map maintained by DeepState, a Ukrainian group with ties to the military.
     
    “The future looks really, really grim for Ukraine,” said Mr. Kastehelmi, the analyst. “I don’t see a clear path out.”
    For now, Ukraine appears to have enough resources to keep the front line from collapsing. But it is bending. Mr. Putin has suggested that Ukraine, facing manpower shortages and uncertainty about Western aid, should concede to his demands before the war gets even worse.
    The Russian leader, in an interview with an Indian news outlet that was published on Thursday, said Russia would take additional territory in Donetsk by whatever means necessary.
    The Kremlin’s summer offensive, which was aimed at capturing all of Donetsk, produced limited gains. But starting in the fall, the tide there started to turn in Russia’s favor. After months of bombarding Pokrovsk with artillery, drones and glide bombs, Russian forces punched through a string of villages and settlements to fight their way into the city.
     
     
    “Things started to fall apart a bit on our side” starting in September, said Ihor, a Ukrainian drone pilot in the area who gave only his first name, according to military protocol. “The line just began collapsing from exhaustion.”
    Russian forces are sending fixed-wing Molniya drones and waves of mini kamikaze drones that carry explosives, he said, adding that Ukraine had nothing comparable in mass production.
    The current push for a peace plan is “all bluff,” he said, adding that as long as the Russians have “the ability to press us, they will keep pressing.”
    At the same time, Russian forces have taken aim at other critical cities in Donetsk, including Kostiantynivka and Lyman. Credit...
     
    Oleh Voitsekhovskyi, a Ukrainian captain whose unit is near Lyman, said Russian forces were attacking “all the time” and “along all directions.”
     
     
    Drone strikes, shelling — it never stops, he said. “In the last two months,” he added, “you can feel an increase in the intensity of hostilities.”
    Russian forces move in small groups, he said, as Ukrainian drones keep watch overhead. Heavy fog has made it harder for the drones to fend off the Russians.
    Russia’s push toward Kostiantynivka, though, has so far failed to yield much in the way of territorial gains, the DeepState map shows. The same can be said for Lyman.
    That has put more emphasis and urgency on Pokrovsk.
    A thick fog descends there every day, accompanying “the smell of burned coal and the smell of gunpowder that has a hint of manganese, like at a firing range,” said Maksym Bakulin, who is with the 14th Operational Brigade of the National Guard.
     
    While the city was “alive” a year ago, he added, Pokrovsk’s once bustling streets now have “civilian bodies and military bodies mixed together, with no possibility to retrieve them.”
    Russian forces see Pokrovsk as a steppingstone toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, two heavily fortified cities in Donetsk that Ukraine still controls.
    Some analysts have questioned Ukraine’s decision to keep fighting in Pokrovsk and incur heavy losses there. Analysts and some Ukrainian soldiers have said Kyiv may be trying to hold on to avoid feeding Russia’s narrative of inevitable victory as peace talks heat up. Staying in Pokrovsk could also increase Russian forces’ losses.
    As Ukraine concentrated so many resources on that battle, analysts say, Russian forces spotted an opportunity elsewhere on the 75-mile-long front line, in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region.
     
    Russian forces made a relatively quick march there in recent weeks, seizing about 75 square miles around the city of Huliaipole in November, nearly 40 percent of Moscow’s total territorial gains last month, according to DeepState.
    Ukraine has sent some reserves to the area, which has helped slow the advance, “but still the pace there is relatively alarming,” said Mr. Kastehelmi, the analyst.
    The onset of winter could reduce the pace of Russia’s advances along the broader front, and also Ukrainian movements. The preponderance of drones is slowing things down even further, forcing a shift away from infantry-heavy attacks. Because of the drones, the front line is less of a line and more of a patch of land, what soldiers call a “kill zone,” up to 15 miles wide in places.
    But Russia has a seemingly endless spigot of soldiers and a willingness to absorb heavy losses in a style of warfare that has been likened to a meat grinder.
    “Russia has committed itself to a war of attrition, and they are currently trying to militarily break Ukraine, slowly,” Mr. Kastehelmi said.
     
    As the 18-month battle for Pokrovsk seemingly enters its final stages, fears have risen for the neighboring city of Myrnohrad.
    Russia is storming Ukrainian positions there daily, said Oleh, a sergeant platoon commander in the area who also would give only his first name per military protocol. Drones have turned the roads in and out into death traps.
    “Neither by day nor by night do they give us peace,” Oleh said.
    He marveled at Russia’s resources, including night vision, resupply aircraft and soldiers.
    “If we have three people, they have 30,” he said. “How much manpower they have is just unreal.”
    “But,” he added, “they also did not expect that we would fight for so long.”
    Maria Varenikova covers Ukraine and its war with Russia.
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  7. On 12/4/2025 at 10:29 AM, closetojumping said:

    If someone of Henry's quality + production entered the portal, I'm guessing Texas would go after that guy with the same gusto, against the same programs. Beyond that, they seem to feel fine with what they believe is coming back. 

     

    They felt that same way last offseason about the offensive line. The only difference is that we sunk a lot of money into Ffrench, Lockett and Mosley and we sunk almost nothing into OL recruiting except for Turntine. 

  8. A good update:

    https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-3-2025/

     

    Key Takeaways

    1. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s theory of victory and negotiating tactics assume that Russia can outlast the West and Ukraine in a war of attrition.
    2. Kremlin officials continued to refuse to publicly discuss the outcomes of the December 2 US-Russia meeting, as ISW previously forecasted.
    3. The Kremlin is reigniting narratives that Odesa City is a Russian city.
    4. Russian forces achieved the tactical breakthrough northeast and east of Hulyaipole in mid-November 2025, likely in part by concentrating and committing a force grouping comparable in size to the one operating in the Pokrovsk-Dobropillya direction.
    5. The 5th CAA’s tactical breakthrough north and northeast of Hulyaipole could enable Russian forces to achieve operational successes in both the Hulyaipole and Orikhiv directions. Russia’s ability to exploit such a breakthrough, however, largely depends on Ukrainian resistance and denial of Russian river crossings.
    6. High ranking Kremlin officials continue to set conditions to justify potential future Russian aggression against Moldova and the Baltics.
    7. The Kremlin is attempting to mobilize Russian and Belarusian civil societies, including Belarusian organizations and the Russian Orthodox Church, to garner support for the war in Ukraine and influence campaigns globally.
    8. Ukraine’s European allies continue to provide military aid and support to Ukraine.
    9. Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Vovchansk, Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Russian forces recently advanced near Siversk and Pokrovsk.

     

     

     

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