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Posts posted by MagicSoccerSpray
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27 minutes ago, Bevo said:
What happened to Stratfor? Michael Freidman (guessing a bit since I haven’t seen anything since the Obama administration) was the main guy, right? Where is he now?
They were bought and are called RANE now. They have videos on YT and George Friedman (Austinite) runs Geopolitical Futures now.
14 minutes ago, locodos said:The part were Zeihan's videos are worthless.
Zeihan called out exactly what the Russians would do 10 years ago. He has been nails predicting geopolitics in general, and the Russians specifically. You might not like his style (the hair needs to go imo) but you're dead wrong if you think he doesn't know what he's talking about or think he's a hack.
This presentation was in 2014 and he nailed it:
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2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
There are questions about the University professors and who got them. That was never clarified. And yeah, let's over look what the Druze did.
They know who did that, it was Iran via Hezbollah. No ones overlooking the Druze.
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20 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
The groups that were kidnapping earlier were Lebanese, Hezbollah, Iranian Supported (if you want to get into it), but their support cells were
LebaneseHezbollah/Persian/ShiaYou didn't see any Christian or Sunni Lebanese kidnapping Americans. I understand it was/is a complicated and messed up scene, but it was almost exclusively the Shia/Iranians that were doing that shit.
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17 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
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5 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
This a bit confusing to me. The losing contractor had a design built around the 105 mm Rifled cannon Buford system. The winning system uses the M1A turret fire control system. I’d assume that it would adopt the Abram’s 120 mm cannon instead of a 105 mm barrel cannon due to all of the great ammo in our MBT that could be used in this M-10 Booker, with ammo logistics uniformity . The twitter thread revealed a vid from The Chieftain’s Hatch - a tank blog with a review of the prototype - and said that a new 105 mm will be used. Weird.
They talk about weight reduction not going with the 120 cannon - and that it will be used for destroying things like bunkers and machine gun nests and other light armored vehicles. It is NOT designed as a tank killer (it will use standard NATO 105 ammo, so maybe the brains can invent new 105 shells to pierce other MBTs). At 42 tons the damn thing is so heavy I can’t see how much extra weight going to a cannon barrel that will allow the Booker to defend itself against other nations’ main battle tanks is not a good idea. Why I do not get a vote I guess.
Then, again, maybe the new focus is on survivability and that accounts for the weight. Ukraine has taught us that tanks will be hit a lot with drones and javelin type missiles, so maybe that is the direction we are going.
Not a “ light tank”? Fuck that, it’s a tank. And not so light.
Recoil
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23 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
not sure who fallon blew to get in this, but he almost ruined the entire show
Spielberg casts a lot of his friends and favorites. That's how we got Ted Danson playing a 50 year old captain in Saving Private Ryan.
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Very good read
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Predator. Indiana Jones is an adventure movie.
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27 minutes ago, Mullet Free said:
I don’t know what’s going to happen in this war. I just know nothing good will come of it.
Nothing good? Really? Define "nothing good".
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4 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:
I just listened. What the hell is that?!
Awkwafina is pretty talented. Nora from Queens is a really funny show. But yeah she’s probably should have passed on rapping in the Little Mermaid.
You trippin, Under the Sea was overrated! This shit is straight fire, Thanks Disney!
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4 hours ago, statsman said:
I don’t want to sidetrack the thread, so I’ll drop it after this explanation.
All dictators suck. A dictator that is just trying to enrich himself will steal from you, rough you up, maybe even kill you, but…only if it gets him more money.
A dictator trying to change the system, establish legacy, address generational grievances- that’s the guy who will start wars and get millions killed. Putin always sucked, always disregarded rights and liberties, always murdered with impunity. Now, though, he’s trying for a place in the history books and is wrecking two countries.
It’s like Cambodia in the mid ‘70s. The US backed predecessors to Pol Pot were crooks and authoritarians. Pol Pot was a Marxist crusader focused on social transformation. Who was worse?Seriously? The fucking marxist. Killing fields much?
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51 minutes ago, CoachTex said:
Typically you do not want to fly into defended airspace carrying 2 bags of fuel. A few reasons. 1 it is no longer a 9 g aircraft in that configuration and 2, it seriously limits weapons load out.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
in Daily Texan
Posted · Edited by MagicSoccerSpray
This was just one video I could find in a couple of minutes of searching. He actually called out the Russian moves in his first book in 2011, and he is a proponent of Geography predicting Geopolitics because of history. I've read Gun, Germs, and Steel and it's great.
Yes, and they have some videos as well. Friedman has lots of interviews and videos on YT too, though he seems to have slowed. Ian Bremmer, Michael Kofman, and Stephen Kotkin are good too imo.
He can be a little too declaratory sometimes imo but he's been ahead of the curve predicting the weakening of globalization, Russia, Chinese/American relations, and EU power. He's not Nostradamus, but he's been better than most Geopolitical analysts the past decade.