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I wonder if they will have embeds in with the Russian columns

Some discussion about how the media will broadcast this. During 2003 and 1991 attacks in Baghdad, the US networks had very shrewd workarounds. Vladdie doesn't want to show his mayhem on TV.

Erdogan is interested in all this because of the Turkish minorities in these territories. He could give a fig about Russian majorities.

I understand the Crimea is similar

Extraordinary to wake up to that.

Oh, I don't know...its likely done Russia and China a lot of good.

Apparently Macron's requirement not to be poisoned is being seized on by the nutters as evidence that when they take your PCR test "they" can do something nefarious with it.

Its a great tool for manipulating events though.

Hopefully this is a metaphor

This isn't sport to Manfred. Its premium entertainment.

Its not irrational if they always want the Yankees and Red Sox to be the best teams and there are a handful of similar big market teams and the rest are the chum. Manfred thinks the AL Central for example are all chum.

Good. Shame on anyone who does not shine a light on this horrible act of sedition.

The corruption of the process is astounding.

Manfred will manipulate the shit out of that lottery to deny picks to teams he doesn't approve of. JUST like he did with the juiced and non-juiced baseballs last season.

I remember the breathless friends of mine who would ask me if Jade Helm was really the government's preparations for martial law.

check yourself before you wreck yourself.

that would be interesting

I have a fine memory of a night I spent driving to one of the GLCM bases in Belgium with my captain to snag a bunch of furniture from the just built but also just closed facility. It was something like built in April and now closing in January the following year. It was a snowy January in the Ardennes and I was driving the same roads Patton did to approach the base from the South. I was grooving on the historicalness of it. That was HW Bush and Brent Scowcroft who knew a thing or two about collective security. This here link says my dates might have been slightly off but essentially accurate. Florennes - United States Nuclear Forces (globalsecurity.org)

I hope this is confidence and fighting spirit and not a false sense of security.

"Russia if your listening, I hope you have a good plumber. "

I guess not all the Ukrainians are secret quislings

Russian FM Lavrov basically declared the UK FM Liz Truss to be an idiot to her face. In olden times, you'd see redcoats on the crimean peninsula over that sort of thing.

Interesting thread

The Russians are truculent bitches

I do not accuse anyone I've chatted with here of this view. Only some in other spheres.