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They are claiming that.

Russian Navy says to Russian Air Force, Russian Army and Spetznatz: "hold my beer"

I mean, imagine if the Iraqis or Taliban had sunk the USS New Jersey after a few hours of craptasticly feeble damage control?

this is so huge!

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Apparently, lots more NATO gear going to Ukraine The M577 vehicles are loaded with C4ISR gear to coordinate counterbattery fire.

This is all I would have hoped for from this game. But, lets finish the job Tigers!

The counter-battery radars are a huge add.

Oh?

I saw folks groaning about the M113s. That's not Bradley fighting vehicle which would be something. But, the M113 is much simpler to operate.

Interesting nugget

Robbie Grossman was the engine of that last year. Baddoo was also a force. Meadows has been our best hitter from my optic. That and Javy with his random acts of power.

But voter fraud does happen...evidence

Akil got one!

Still time for guys to get going who are not yet going. This does smell like April 2021 without the high expectations thus far.

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Both huge and true

Found the article about the Crimean War which is remarkably consistent with current Russian mil The Economist on Russian Military Weakness During the Crimean War in 1854 : UkraineWarVideoReport (reddit.com) worth a look

We already have private citizen volunteers in Ukraine and recruiting of ground troopers is as public as the doorway to the Ukrainian permanent mission to the UN (saw this last week when I was in NYC) where you can apply to go fight or donate to the Ukrainian MOD. So, yeah a squadron of western nuclear-capable fighter bombers might be a bit scary for the policy people. I totally get that. But, paint them yellow and blue and just tell Russia that they exist and to suck on that.

Get your eyeballs to this

Germany, has a lot to navigate with all this. Ukraine has been shaming them publicly. I think the German public are really twisted about how to proceed since they clearly want the Russians to fail in their genocide but also, their costs are really tied to cheap Russian gas. Nuclear power would really help right about now.

So this thread is a good read. The "South" has their view of things. Many of the problems of the South are based on their resentments of the Rich North in my view and again in my view would improve remarkably with administration of the rule of law. That said...the legacy of the Soviet and PRC's gamesmanship and current cash diplomacy in those places and has an effect. I recall wondering why when South Africa had the World Cup in whatever year they didn't have any concerns about terrorism. Their story was that terrorism was a Northern problem and a legacy of our imperialist past and South Africa's ANC was once called a terrorist group by the North.

Clint Watts was discussing some improvement of the Ukrainian situation in Mariupol this morning that I guess was just happening.

Nothing too surprising about this these have been stop and reads for me.