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So, a go-bag for those of us in the DC suburbs might be a good idea.

she's not in a position to actually drive policy. She's regurgitating. I think this might be subject to a dynamic of the events on the ground.

The average chinese with a confucion world view (sp?) wants to work and be the workshop of the World. Xi might not be the average person in China.

This relates to the conclusion of Putin's nuclear deterrent order

Not sure if I made this comment already. Zelensky is what many of us thought Rudy Giuliani was.

Xi doesn't want the West (and Japan) fully alert and armed.

He has to go Putting Trump on the throne here is one thing.

Seeing an alert on my phone about Putin putting his nuclear forces on "special alert" That would make this a bit more dicey.

I was dying to post that last night. I was away from phone when I saw it. Thanks. Yes, the NRA must be very sad.

Thank you UK MOD for this

fun to poke at the bear...not sure what conclusions to draw. Russia might just be a football team with mediocre 1st half and now that they've figured out the other team's tendency they can get their game on.

Ok, now that I've been looking for them. This is the Ukrainian TB-2 UAV. It bodes very well that they have these engaged. The Russians are terrified of these.

I don't think they faked these videos

One caveat about the Russian soldiers stealing food. They may just want to get better food. We frequently would go "on the economy" when on exercises in Germany to get snacks, beer, cokes not supplied to us.

They are belting it out with a passion

SNL cold open is the Ukrainian chorus of New York !

That is a well done photo

Good professional advice from those who spent may years of the last two decades fighting in cities. Baghdad and Fallujah are not Kiev but the ideas are sound. thread/

A real military -- particularly one from a country that produces fuel -- would have figured out how to supply their vehicles with fuel. Its not hard. You know how much fuel a vehicle burns in a day. You know that the fuel needs to get to a certain point where the armor and trucks can get to it before it can fight. If you can't master this stuff you won't win a war on a modern battlefield. Clearly the mypillow guy that Putin had telling him that this would be easy was not a master logistician

Seems to match what I've seen. The Russians don't appear willing to do their amphibious assault on Odessa yet.

grain of salt

Another observation about what appears to be the case from the available information: Russia has a lot of low-flying aircraft getting hit by shoulder fired weapons. Conclusion: They lack the ability to engage from atmosphere like 1st World forces can. The US would have been able to use PGMs guided by GPS (generic term...Russia uses something slightly less good called GNSS). I recall a discussion that Russia's GNSS would not be used in Ukraine. https://receive.news/02/18/2022/russia-should-abandon-glonass-over-loran-invasion-of-ukraine/ As it turns out this isn't great because it will teach China to improve their PGM use when they go up against the US and Japanese navies when they try to take Taiwan.

I'm too nauseous to look but I'm seeing stuff on twitter about tongue bath for Putin by Trump at CPAC