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during the late 1990s and early 2000s we were very worried that their early warning satellite network was broken so much that they wouldn't be able to discern civilian launches (which we provide ample warning of) and potential other launches of new-fangled weapons we were testing. We decided to warn, warn, warn because we didn't want to risk their broken crap causing a nuclear war.

Putin needs to respect celebrity privacy

So true story. Was joking with a colleague about this. He says...I guess he's going to take a little longer getting to 50 kills. I say: "how hard could it be if he was already a ghost?"

The Economist editorial from the Crimean war of the 1850s is as true today as it was then.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1520469409944551427?s=20&t=JiX8jOnqCmBLPCFK24_M

The story is that we know that Russian logistics are bad...but the full extent is bizonkers.

I’ve got reasons to believe this

He needs to blend the overwhelming aw shucks positivity with realism if he's going to ever replace Dan Dickerson.

Something is fundamentally wrong with the Tigers.

Speaking of which

I went to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island museum on Spring break with the family this year. Ellis Island is an interesting tour for sure. The regulated but accepting model of immigration. It made America.

If the GOP is in the middle of a bloodletting shouldn't we let them?

Is MTG, about to see the same bus that Madison Cawthorn is looking at?

I am here for this! Boebert didn't vote with the Putin caucus...maybe that was it.

They only care about the issues. They are just passionate about being objective recorders of fact. Unless we carefully evaluate these issues all our daughters will be having brown babies and our sons will be eating tacos. Why our produce might even be slightly less expensive!

which House politicians take cash from Putin?

Ron Watkins is responsible for so much chaos and violence its beyond any meaningful reckoning

It skews more East Asian in my neck of the woods. The Malaysian kid, the Brazilian/Canadian/Chinese kid (his dad works for VW so he and I chop it up about the auto industry a lot), the Pilipino kid. He went to Bar Mitzvahs that would have seemed like stepping onto the surface of the Moon for this Livonia kid. He's got south asian buddies as well but not as many although that minority is heavily represented.

The United States that won WWII was already a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society embiggened by multiple waves of immigration and benefitting to the extent they were allowed from the contributions of African Americans and Japanese Americans. If had been nothing but the sons of WASPy frozen fishstick barons we might all be speaking Russian right now.

My son's peer group, decidedly Benneton ad circa 1984.

The multi-cultural, multi-racial United States will survive and thrive from immigration waves. It will benefit our economy. I don't like the suicidal ideation of the US that Tucker and Laura seem to want to protect.

It has to be more of a Karen thing. It seems its all tied up in racial hysteria. The sort that created the color bar in the first place. White women are the drivers of these things. They do not like their men having sex with the slaves even on the side.

The rest of this thread is really good but this note is highlighted by me

so much desperation Thread Putin either knows he’s lost and wants a scapegoat or Gerasimov wants to go down with the ship because he’s broken by all this.