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This is astonishing. The USN has excellent damage control because of its 250+ year tradition. The PLA Navy apparently does not. You can almost imagine how bad things are below the deck if the deck is this bad. The PLA Navy is a bunch of technocrats who apparently don't understand shipbuilding or ship maintenance on this scale. But, not having fought multiple wars and not having sustained a large multi-ocean fleet for the entirety of the last 100 years might limit a navy's awareness of such things. https://twitter.com/GwarWorin/status/1663242285255933954?s=20

Vierling's injury might just open a non-Ibanez path for Carpenter.

Baseball is a horrible bitch goddess. I had actually said that yesterday and they came back. Today, well...they didn't.

The escalation would be very scary for sure. Putin would know it would cost him his life.

This is what teams must have felt like when they had the 2011-2014 Tigers on their schedule. These guys look like they know their business.

My first thought. Its win-win. But as that subsides into rationality, imagine thinking this. I don't know how we would react but I doubt it would be to buy Margarita Simonyan an ice cream.

Sneaky Maltese, swanning off to Australia!

Wondering when Space Force has to pony people up for this sort of thing. Perhaps when they actually have battlefield casualties. Not that they won't at some point in the future. They might claim the Apollo 1 and the two Space Shuttle disasters.

Dress that line! That rifle should not be at an angle, Army! Marine dude has it right.

CMRivdogs is in the Tidewater area which is much more veteran-oriented than Northern Virginia. Our local GOP is too busy scouring the local girl's HS locker rooms for trans athletes.

go go gadget!

remember how various and sundry would quote zero hedge?

I liked how this turned in one inning against Kelly

welp

My guess is that the Ukrainians follow US/Israeli campaign design doctrine which is very much planned to the gnat's level but which allows flexible approaches. You might remember a lot of things were going on in Iraq 1991 and 2003 which were "look at what my hand is doing over here" while other things were happening. 1991 was interesting, because for all the force level that was in the Desert, the USMC and UK did the difficult breaching thing in Kuwait at the same time as the VII Corp strategic envelopment. Having total Air dominance was very nice. 2003 showed that we updated the plan and with fewer forces were able to do the same thing because of information dominance. Now, if the Ukrainians have the same level of information dominance -- assuming there is a pro-Ukrainian partisan with a cell phone (presuming a working cell signal) in every village they will try to liberate -- they might; and if the western IC services are providing world-class strategic pictures of what is happening via their national technical means, Ukraine should be able to do very similarly.

So not a good outcome: Cambodia in the Hindu Kush. Otoh, we reorganized to face threats to Democracy on better ground in Taiwan and Ukraine with more stable partners. The GWOT gives way to the global war of democracy which if you grew up in Livonia in the 70’s and 80’s is a terrible acronym.

These people need to be weeded out of the FBI for sure.

This is really good.

This too

Some stuff going on

So what the hell is up with releasing the story about Trump having the recording of him witness tampering on the Friday before a summer holiday? Weak sauce.

Ask him what his core principles are for a conservative foreign policy.

This game is a cat turd.