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  1. Un has gotten some technical support from Putin and some other quid pro quo but my point on training the Norks stands. The Ukrainians are doing something we have not done in decades, fighting a high-intensity war against a major power. If we ever end up needing to do it, we will be coming to them for help and we already are learning from them. The important fighting in a major war like this is going to be done by regular troops and not special forces. On the integration piece, there have been issues due to language mostly, and the Russians do not have free rein to use them as desired. There are some firm left and right limits established on what (and where) they are available for. The current time you have on the battlefield before a drone finds you is now measured in single minutes in most cases. This is a real limiting factor in putting significant mass together and launching any sort of maneuver. The widespread adoption of non-jamming fiber optic drones has had dramatic impacts and is one more trend that is creating the current stalemate. The message Russia is sending with drone attacks is that it can sustain their attacks for longer than Ukraine can replenish air defenses. Russia does not “value” its soldiers but they are more than capable of understanding that they have manpower issues and have adapted. You cannot take and hold territory with a Shahed, and they really have limited deterrent value. There’s far less reason to conserve them than Russian troops. They are of little value if they aren’t being used.
  2. The interceptors Ukraine uses to shoot them down are far more valuable in absolute and relative terms than the drones. Many of the missile attacks, especially in civilian centers, are about signaling and not military value, which you can’t use soldiers to do. On the Norks, the Russians do not have an endless supply. Un is getting something out of this, namely the invaluable experience of real combat for some of his most capable units and a first hand look at Western-standard tactics and equipment. It’s not that he objectively values his soldiers lives; but he does want many of them back. It’s a far muddier picture than just meat for the grinder with them. And some of them are turning out to be pretty good soldiers.
  3. They can afford to stop. It’s very much true that the defense base and spending is propping up a flagging manufacturing segment. But, the plan on the books already is to reconstitute their military to be able to seriously threaten a NATO neighbor within five years. They are in a miserable position with labor shortages and returning men to the economy is badly needed (even that won’t reduce dependency on Central Asian migrant flows). And they have a host of nations itching to more openly and greedily return to Russian petrochemicals the minute they can do so without fear of sanctions. Russia doesn’t need the war to adopt a defense production/war footing economy. They can do that without the war, and they will. They are not at all sensitive to consumer preferences, there’s not going to be any pressure on the apparatus to shift focus. The (admittedly capable) technocrats who manage the economy and finances would very much prefer to get away from the current model, and are working miracles as is.
  4. They will pick someone dumb and worse. This is Alabama, the only bar the GOP has to clear is “not a mall food court sex pest.”
  5. This is exactly that. The Golden Dome is grift like everything else. The techbros saw us spending billions on overpriced and behind schedule hardware we badly need and dared to disrupt by asking: “why not billions for overpriced and behind schedule vaporware that we don’t need at all?” Much higher return to founders.
  6. Mr. Tubberville goads to Montgomery?
  7. The hackers got me. Oh no! Did they steal your identity? Did they rack up credit card charges? No. Worse. ??? They followed so many accounts on Twitter. Accounts I have no interest in. Disgusting things like “voluptuous lonely college babes.” “Voluptuous college babe sapphic fantasy.” “Voluptuous sapphic college babes so lonely they’re looking for overweight middle age daddies.” “Voluptuous college babe-loving daddy tries out gay stuff, not because he’s gay or anything but just to be sure he’s really straight.” “Middle aged daddy convinces wife to play with his butt, not because he’s gay though.” Things I would NEVER follow. Oh shit. That sucks? Did they try to blackmail you? Tell business associates or friends and family? No, they just waited until I became IRS commissioner nominee and then reporters and vetters found their dirty tricks!
  8. That Quilette article is entirely too long and needed a better editor. Here is the r key takeaway which speaks for itself and perfectly encapsulates the UATX ethos: ”I firmly believed in UATX’s stated mission of fostering free exchange of ideas, academic debate, and constantly challenging members of the academy to defend and discuss their beliefs and principles. I created an entire institute dedicated to these ideals and partnered with them to advance that mission. Then I made a LinkedIn post about DEI that upset one of the institution’s wealthy financiers and they fired me.”
  9. Lulz at how they introduce the academic luminaries that have flocked to UATX:
  10. This person got a doctorate of education from Harvard and elsewhere in that article she explains that getting an MBA was what really opened horizons for her intellectually. So yes she is very stupid and it reflects poorly on Harvard that they gave a PhD to someone who appears completely incapable of recognizing grifting charlatans when she sees them and who also thinks she really got challenged ethically and intellectually at fucking business school.
  11. Libertarians everywhere are finding out every single day except they will never admit it because Libertarianism is a personality disorder and not a political philosophy.
  12. Bringing up Jill Biden’s use of the title “Dr.” is such room-temp IQ discourse.
  13. There is no other jet that is as capable of being the quarterback for a whole air dominance system as the F-35. There are also more of them in service and planned for delivery to us and allies than any fifth-gen platform. In this era the package of sensors and the airplane’s integration with everything else is at least as important as low visibility and far more important than performance stats. The B-21 Raider will also be able to perform these quarterback functions and both will integrate with and direct the unmanned, less exquisite platforms rolling out.
  14. Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden are the eternal enemies.
  15. No matter how impaired Biden got, he never managed to equal a single random day’s worth of deranged rambling and behavior by Donald Trump. Half of his statements are the ravings of a street person. They are grounds for institutionalization and not a quiet retirement.
  16. Helpful contribution from Putin’s lead propagandist. Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift can cause a full-on meltdown but the capacity to eat endless shit when it’s served by the Kremlin is unmatched.
  17. Honestly, because the whole thing falls apart once you introduce an ounce of decency or critical thought. The lessons embedded in Orwell have been absorbed, just as an instruction manual.
  18. Doing this on the same day they pay out that dead traitor’s family.
  19. It cannot be overstated enough that all Trump really wants is to be adored and respected by showbiz people and we should have let that happen so he didn’t feel like he had to become president. I mean it, if Spielberg offers to do a fawning all-star cast biopic about him that will win an Oscar in 2016 then we avoid all this.
  20. Putin got Trump to chase his tail a little more by floating the idea of agreeing to begin work on working on a memo. And apparently volunteered Pope Leo as mediator because he’s getting bored with the whole thing.
  21. Per online sleuthing she was at Pier 17. There is not much distance between the pier and the bridge and from the video it looks like her screws won’t come out of reverse and she is moving backwards fast. Very likely would have been far more dangerous to try and scramble everyone down by the time it became clear it was going to happen. These ships are diplomatic and educational symbols and when they are in a port, they offer free tours and stuff for the public. Super shitty and sad all around.
  22. From my understanding the Mexican, Colombian, and Peruvian ships are all sister ships built in the same yard in Spain. And that they are themselves basically templates of the USCG Eagle which was seized from Nazi Germany at the end of the war and turned into the Coast Guard’s tall training ship.
  23. Trump going to the Kennedy center and demanding more “Cats” from the new board will never not be hilarious.
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