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  1. Anastasis got very angry that anyone on this board noticed what happened in Bucha and got drunk last night and revealed he supported gas attacks on civilians in Syria. There is no way to go farther down. He just really likes it when Russians murder lots of innocent people, maybe because he gets hard at when he can claim that U.S. foreign policy failed or maybe because he’s just aligned with Russia for any number of reasons. It’s really that simple and it doesn’t really matter either way— it’s who he is.
  2. I don’t know how to tell you this dawg but targeting the downtown of a city simply for its symbolic and personal value to a nation and its leader is kind of the definition of terror bombing. This is the same logic behind Al Qaeda’s constant targeting of WTC.
  3. The political party he’s bleating about won exactly one seat in the 2019 parliamentary elections. There are far fewer Nazis in Ukrainian structures than there are in America (or Russia) for that matter. Actually there are an equivalent number of Nazis in his own house.
  4. You’re right, Navalny should have just used the VGTRK against Putin, why didn’t he hire a marketing expert to tell him that. So easy.
  5. I will again refer to the GOP’s closed-loop propaganda ecosystem.
  6. Although, I do sometimes wish that Dems and Libs would play in the same sandbox on low stakes level. For instance, the recent principled decision to pull Hamilton from the Kennedy Center. The producer’s statement was thoughtful and well written (reproduced below). And completely ineffective. Instead: Wait till the paying audience is seated on opening night, then stroll out and tell everyone that Trump made you cancel the show because he thinks it is woke. Then go on TV and just call Rick Grennell fake news after he tries to deny it. Promise that you’ll look very strongly into bringing back Hamilton but not so long as Trump treats you unfairly, and then arrange for all of Bug Tussle, Pennsylvania to go see the show in a high school gym and give them free merch.
  7. That and also missing the massive closed-loop propaganda ecosystem that exists solely to affirm and reinforce GOP marketing and for which the Democrats have no equivalent.
  8. I think you are missing something here, namely that while Democrats are indeed bad at marketing, they are also stuck trying to market policies they believe will work and to operate in a fact-based vision of the world. The GOP leads with marketing and creates policy post hoc and with zero effort dedicated to making the policy a success even as defined by the GOP’s own marketing.
  9. It’s not just money that people have issues with, it’s very big numbers in general. And that’s true across the spectrum, it’s not something to be embarrassed of but it does mean that people need to be deliberate when making decisions. You can understand what say, 100,000 people looks like as opposed to 1,000. It’s a full college football stadium, while 1,000 was all the kids in your middle school on panoramic photo day. You can’t conceptualize what 1 million or 1 billion people look like, in relation to 100,000 or each other.
  10. Rest easy Americans, our enemies will never deny our proud nation access to crypto and EFTs.
  11. The best part of Anastasis is how desperately he tries to project this aura of cool reserve, stoic and academic criticism of all. And how pathetically transparent it is to everyone that he has completely stewed himself in the rankest of alt-right and angry manosphere discourse. “Cuck” this, “neocon” that, for fucks sake just change your avatar to Andrew Tate or Scott Ritter and leave the act behind.
  12. Man, I try to keep up with the Balkan stuff and I know the general contours of what is happening, but the intricacies escape me. It seems that Dodik and Sarajevo are doing a dance battle but trying to avoid coming to blows le actually declaring secession.
  13. I don’t think Ana’s yet internalized that now it’s HIM who is supporting U.S. foreign policy interests. At some point he’s gotta own up to no longer being the opposition. I do think he realizes that actual neo-Nazis have far more influence in the government of the United States than they ever did in Ukraine, because that’s why he voted for this government.
  14. Trading you for Lviv’s daily production of untreated sewage would be an unfair deal for Ukraine.
  15. I really like Pannonia, it’s a wonderful place but we have an entire legion there. The Illyrians and Celts, they are great people but we’ve been treated very unfairly, very unfairly. A whole legion we have there in Pannonia, and they don’t have any. I don’t know who signs these deals but I’ll be looking into it very strongly.
  16. Incredible stuff. We very nearly burned Japan to the ground, told them that they can’t have a military except for what we allow, we get to use their country as a garrison to forward deploy our own forces against Russia and China, and this man believes we somehow got scammed on this deal.
  17. You are truly a piece of shit.
  18. Important to note that the UK’s deterrent is extremely dependent on the United States.
  19. Hard disagree. They almost certainly would have staff who maintained security clearances in order to adequately represent and/or defend their former government clients. This is more about kneecapping political rivals’ ability to effectively contest subsequent legal targeting. They absolutely trumpet their team of national security experts on staff. Plenty of firms and lawyers who don’t represent government or get business from them need clearances.
  20. The interim U.S. Attorney for DC is demanding answers about whether Georgetown, a private religious school, has DEIA in its curriculum.
  21. If you will recall the DOGE people also spent a lot of time tweeting about how they discovered evidence of potentially fictitious federal government employees connected to email addresses that don’t offer responses.
  22. Virtually every grant that is listed here is a bespoke project designed to keep potential illegal immigrants from trying to move north.
  23. Also, this type of talk from MAGA is especially infuriating given the extreme wilting hothouse flower sensitivity they all demonstrate at even the mildest slight. We are in the midst of a sustained eight year temper tantrum because Hilary aptly referred to them as “deplorable.” The entire career of JD Vance was basically launched on the thesis that it is unkind to inform the menagerie of pillbillies, incels, and semi-hominids that make up the GOP base that most of their problems are due to their own manifold and manifest inadequacies and failings.
  24. Today Trump’s Special Envoy compared Ukrainians to barnyard animals who need to be beaten into submission. It is exhausting, the rudeness and arrogance and causal cruelty. This is the language of a spoiled and decadent despot, language that should make every American bristle. This is before we even begin to discuss the depravity of letting children and families be killed in their sleep so we can “get the attention” of a friendly nation. Beyond that, mules and donkeys are some of God’s strongest soldiers and we didn’t reach the apex of the food chain without them. Their inner light would blind General Kellog.
  25. These are good points and get at the heart of the issue. Before settling on a common defense policy and posture, Europe first has to decide what “Europe” is and second has to determine what role it wants to play as a geopolitical actor. Both questions are still very much open. What is “Europe?” Is this the EU 27? What about Britain? What about Turkey? Will it simply be NATO minus the U.S.? These are contentious and not at all settled questions. A big reason that everyone just let NATO continue to be the main security architecture is simply because it already existed and agreeing on a new one was too hard. None of those problems have gone away. And because “Europe” doesn’t exist, it can hardly settle on a defined strategic concept. Yes, Europe has shitty strategic airlift capacity but does a Europe that only cares about defending its common eastern flank need the robust capacity we have? The only reason we have it is because for decades we’ve known that any war we fight will be far, far away and across oceans. But maybe Europe does want force projection? At least Britain and France will want some level of blue water capability, and maybe an at-sea-deterrent that is uninteresting to Poland or Germany. The Baltics will squeal about anything that takes force away from the eastern flank, and we aren’t even beginning to talk about Balkans or potential Turkish interests. How do you reconcile member states competing priorities. U.S. defense production and posture is full of irrationalities and tradeoffs introduced by things like congressional politics and intra-service rivalries and state clout. And we ARE a defined political unit with a common foreign policy. There are massive frictions to a common European approach to defense at the structural and political level before we even address the technical.
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