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MagicSoccerSpray

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  1. And cuts everything to the West and South. After destroying the Kerch bridge, they can let Crimea wither on the vine.
  2. BTW, the British East India company was the entity that sold opium to the Chinese. AFAIK the US had nothing to do with that, which makes the Chinese Fetanyl crisis even more evil.
  3. That's not a theory, it actually happened and busted by the FBI as Operation Dragon Fire. And now the Chinese are flooding the drug market with Fentanyl. They are truly Godless fucks. This Youtuber actually bought a bunch of satellite pics and counted all the visible storage tanks three months ago. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't as many as Russia claims. Even if they're paper shells, they have value. I would keep them or try to sell, don't dispose.
  4. And it's time to stop self-deterring. Like for like imo. You use cluster bombs, we use cluster bombs. Use ballistic missiles, we do too, etc.
  5. An alternative is to post unrolled twitter threads by threadreader. Longer twitter threads will have the links in the comments below said long threads.
  6. They didn't turn them down "flat", they went with converted tank chassis that better fit their predicted future urban battle needs. The Bradleys are great, combat proven, and near/at top of their class compared to similar Western platforms ie Warrior, CV90, Marder, etc.
  7. Why would I bother asking the Israelis? They never adopted or modified the Bradley.
  8. And some dress like a bow-tied Captain Kangaroo on acid. Regardless, your allyship has been noted. Seriously though, I think Zeihan is extremely competent and I celebrate the man's entire catalogue in spite of his terrible hair and questionable sartorial styling.
  9. The Bradley was a success and always was. As funny and entertaining as Pentagon Wars was, it was nothing more than an exercise in cynical post modern mental masturbation contrarianism. Lazer Pig, a youtuber who works in UK defense analysis, has a funny video about the Pentagon Wars book writer, James Burton. Start at 8:03:
  10. I presented them fine. You don't think he assumed it would be a cakewalk and the Russians wouldn't suffer the amount of casualties they are? And now that they are suffering high casualties, a large proportion of them are "undesirables" such as ethnic non-Russians and criminals. Think like a Russian, they are crazy and don't always make sense.
  11. Except he was saying and writing that before 2014. That Russia would seek to expand and have a military presence in all the 9-11 geographic chokepoints it identified to protect the homeland. Crimea, bessarabian gap, the Baltic, Caspian sea coastal chokepoints, etc. He's not perfect but his track record is pretty good. Yeah, he's gay. It's actually one of the things he cares most about, hence kidnapping children. Putin's sponsored multiple government initiatives to increase the birthrate as he's realized it's a state killer in the long run.
  12. FYI he's gay Name an analyst who was? Hodges and Hertling were the only ones close IIRC.
  13. He's former state department and has consulted for some three letter agencies. Here is his presentation to the Army Maneuver Warfighter Conference the week before the Ukrainian invasion.
  14. 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.
  15. They were bought and are called RANE now. They have videos on YT and George Friedman (Austinite) runs Geopolitical Futures now. 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:
  16. They know who did that, it was Iran via Hezbollah. No ones overlooking the Druze.
  17. You 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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