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Looks like this just got passed. Aid to Ukraine will start rolling as soon as POTUS signs. 
 

Arms to Ukraine, Taiwan. TikTok has to be sold out from under PRC. We’re so back. 

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On 4/22/2024 at 10:08 AM, Nivek said:

It might be.  But I think it is more reasonable.   He is a career politician and this is a known strategy.  Give credit for something to someone, let them bask in the glory of something they didn't do in order to try to get them to continue on that path.   Only he is not dealing with a normal person, he is dealing with conman who has the attention span of a syphilitic squirrel.   

He’s a sycophant. Nothing more. 

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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Fucking die already, Mitch. You know damn well it was Trump and that everything ties back to Trump and Russia and you were totally fine with it because you value power and party over the constitution. 

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Just reading the NYT article on what all is in the aid package.

Is there no equivalent coverage from the Russia side? I'd like to read their read of it. We see those clips of the propaganda shows all the time, but nothing else? It seems to me that there would be different types of Russia consumers of news there just as there is here.  Someone has to be demanding more of a realistic conversation of what is going on.  The media control over there just doesn't allow that at all?  Seems like a propaganda loss if anything to be telling your people that you are only going to feed them b.s. all their lives.

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39 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Just reading the NYT article on what all is in the aid package.

Is there no equivalent coverage from the Russia side? I'd like to read their read of it. We see those clips of the propaganda shows all the time, but nothing else? It seems to me that there would be different types of Russia consumers of news there just as there is here.  Someone has to be demanding more of a realistic conversation of what is going on.  The media control over there just doesn't allow that at all?  Seems like a propaganda loss if anything to be telling your people that you are only going to feed them b.s. all their lives.

Your position is that citizens in dictatorships could gain access to non-state sponsored propaganda by asking the state for it?

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On 4/22/2024 at 8:57 AM, RomaVicta said:

I think that's generous on your part. I don't see a subtle nudge from a pitiful minion shaking Trump's fealty to Putin. I think Lindsay wants to make sure he has a spot if the fascists win out. Trying to stay of the proscription lists.

He's fooling himself.  If Trump becomes king he will be first against the wall. /radiohead

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Another US precision-guided weapon falls prey to Russian electronic warfare, US says

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/04/another-us-precision-guided-weapon-falls-prey-russian-electronic-warfare-us-says/396141/

 

Not great, but the intelligence gained about Russia's actual real world capabilities must be priceless to our military. I would imagine our military/CIA spend way more than 60 billion trying to gain this type of knowledge about Russia/China.  

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it's not good, but kinda like a player coming back from injury, there is no substitute for the real thing - getting these weapons into the theater of war is the only way to know if they work. hopefully the knowledge gained is exponentially valuable. i hate that I'm even cheering on the war machine, but fuck Putin

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In the series, Slow Horses on Apple, the setting is a shitty set of offices where fuck-ups from MI6 are assigned boring tasks. The head guy, Lamb, is a legendary spook who is hostile, vulgar, and insulting at every turn. It's a great show.

In an action sequence, one of the fuck-ups, let's call him Agent Boeing, wrestles with and kills an intruder. "I didn't mean to kill him."

Lamb: "Of course not, if you'd meant to kill him, he'd still be alive."

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51 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

In the series, Slow Horses on Apple, the setting is a shitty set of offices where fuck-ups from MI6 are assigned boring tasks. The head guy, Lamb, is a legendary spook who is hostile, vulgar, and insulting at every turn. It's a great show.

In an action sequence, one of the fuck-ups, let's call him Agent Boeing, wrestles with and kills an intruder. "I didn't mean to kill him."

Lamb: "Of course not, it you'd meant to kill him, he'd still be alive."

Love that show, and it's exhibit 1 million in how fantastic Gary Oldman is in everything he does.

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US Green Beret Colonel kills Russian spy…on his own property, near Fort Liberty (former Fort Bragg).

An US colonel of the Special Forces discovered a trespasser with a telescopic camera on his property. After an altercation, the elite US soldier was forced to kill the intruder. It turned out that the intruder is a Russian national of Chechen ethnicity and that he was illegally in the USA. The incident occurred not far from Fort Liberty (formerly know as Fort Bragg), North Carolina. Law enforcement agencies suspect a spy operation.

The company sound s shady as shit.

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5 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

So did your dad kill him with his bare hands, or did he shoot him? 

Dad does not live up there anymore. I will ask him when I see him.

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China’s biggest advantage is the same as Russia’s: brutality.  Especially brutality towards their own people.  Just send wave after wave after wave of all those extra There are lots of reasons they could swamp Taiwan with that.
 

 

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14 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

This is big, if true…..

 

I'm in favor of US weapons being used on any area or facility which is directly involved in facilitating the Ukraine war, including the Kremlin. but I recognize that probably firing on the Kremlin would most likely escalate the situation.

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9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm in favor of US weapons being used on any area or facility which is directly involved in facilitating the Ukraine war, including the Kremlin. but I recognize that probably firing on the Kremlin would most likely escalate the situation.

Agree and fuck them.  We need to call their bluff.  They are not gonna go nuclear cause if they do China is gonna realize this is quickly getting out of control in their backyard and will get off their ass, which may be the only way to end this shit anyway.  Make it very clear that if they escalate, so do we and then follow through. 

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22 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

Don’t forget to close the door, you born in a barn?

 

 

Looks like he was about to hit Submit Reply on a Daily Texan thread.

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13 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Agree and fuck them.  We need to call their bluff.  They are not gonna go nuclear cause if they do China is gonna realize this is quickly getting out of control in their backyard and will get off their ass, which may be the only way to end this shit anyway.  Make it very clear that if they escalate, so do we and then follow through. 

China and India will have already communicated to Russia that nuclear weapons including the threat of, are off the table. Russia still has other available threats including attacks on NATO countries. 

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We've got some experts on this war on this whole board, so they can correct me if I'm wrong.  But a working theory from AEI is that Russia re-upped (again) infantry and armor.  It has been a rough month for Ukraine and even with the new aid packages from Germany & United States, it will take through summer to make a significant impact.  After that, they go back on the defensive/losing side.  They don't deploy tactical battlefield nukes, but do in fact invade or at least aerially attack a Balkan or Baltic member of NATO.  Article 5 is invoked.  U.S. Military boots/assets hit the ground and air in the Autumn and Biden gets blamed for starting us off into another bloody war.  Trump wins, Russia withdraws from whichever NATO country because he can't maintain two theaters.  And then refocus on Ukraine which gets no further assistance from the United States, which results in its demise.  

But I know Russia would never do anything to sway one of our elections.  Since the Kennedy administration, they've shown they have no interest in how we preserve our Democratic system of elections.  

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

China and India will have already communicated to Russia that nuclear weapons including the threat of, are off the table. Russia still has other available threats including attacks on NATO countries. 

I conventional war with NUCS completely off the table between Russia and NATO??

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2 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

I conventional war with NUCS completely off the table between Russia and NATO??

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Russia has shown zero ability to mount anything other than squad-sized attacks.  Their ability to even mount company-sized assaults is questionable right now.

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16 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

China and India will have already communicated to Russia that nuclear weapons including the threat of, are off the table. Russia still has other available threats including attacks on NATO countries. 

China and India would 100% bail on Russia if Russia attacked a NATO member.  Russia has very little impact on them versus the US/NATO and all of our Pacific Allie’s that would crater their economies and dump hundreds of millions of their people in the streets.

15 hours ago, YGIFS said:

They don't deploy tactical battlefield nukes, but do in fact invade or at least aerially attack a Balkan or Baltic member of NATO.  Article 5 is invoked.  U.S. Military boots/assets hit the ground and air in the Autumn and Biden gets blamed for starting us off into another bloody war.  Trump wins, Russia withdraws from whichever NATO country because he can't maintain two theaters.  And then refocus on Ukraine which gets no further assistance from the United States, which results in its demise.  

Putin would get even more of his military hardware wrecked, including even more stuff he can’t replace, and it would happen pretty fast. Poland will be on the other side of Belarus before anybody realizes it. 

Putin has a fear of dying though, and telling the populace he’s going from protecting them from Nazis (who he claims are just their Russian brothers from another mother) to taking on the West is a huge leap that he couldn’t sell, especially since targets inside of Russia are being hit daily.

But at the end of the day he’s a bully with a KGB background who is terrified of being killed.  He wouldn’t do anything that would give the West a reason to go after him.

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