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They put these numbers out there (leaked or otherwise) to argue that the Ukrainian number of 14k KIA were outrageous. I mean... if you are arguing 14k is ridiculous but a hair under 10k is more reasonable...you are in "there is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy" territory

Interesting numbers Might be higher

That's an interesting point. I also wonder if the move is bottom-up from the public who emotionally view the threat as greater from Russia than their economic well-being. German leadership has been dragging its feet on weapons and aid to Ukraine and Eastern NATO but the public are packing the protest marches.

The solution to free rider syndrome is to have the barbarians at the gate

Archie is a segregationist now? Does he mean the 1850s?

Those FSB guys even arranged for both Mens and Women's BB teams facing Villanova! I don't know how loyal or disloyal Russian intel services are to their master. I think the Trump presidency is a good model for how loyalty works with a paranoid. They talk on deep background to stabilize their post-regime reputations but they never congeal around any definitive action. Those who step out get quickly isolated and crushed in a public way. In Putin's regime they often fell out of windows. BTW, the dirty pool guys in Russian intel are the GRU who used nerve agent in the UK on the Skripals.

I want to point this out. Its from a couple days ago. The level of Air Force activity for all NATO countries is really high right now. Collective security is rocking and rolling. We normally have a level of fighter cap over Poland and Romania that is more than the entire day's worth of Russian sorties into Ukraine. WE COULD CLEAN THEIR CLOCKS. I really do not want a nuclear sunburn however.

I was waiting for the Trumpies to say...Bolton wasn't sufficiently loyal to the Orange one.

John Bolton noted that Trump was pushing his nat security team to withdraw from NATO

Biden’s response has been extremely skillful. Nothing but respect for Blinken, Sullivan Burns and Austin

like UBL?

Gott in himmell. If you watched the Helsinki press conference, Impeachment 1 and Trump's "Peacekeeper" comments and think Trump would have played this better. You are beyond saving.

It isn’t an argument it’s wish casting

He’s not publicly praising Putin therefore he’s weak?

It might help temper future support for Ukraine if Western leaders are worried about offending the future coup plotters

it’s a cui bono situation. It helps Ukraine to put that out there. I doubt the KGB trained albeit paranoid Putin would fall for that.

They don't have to call Doug Macgregor, he's fully on the team.

Yeah, that’s my Trumpy brother and his wife… no kids, no skin in the game

Amateurs worry about tactics, professionals worry about logistics. That's a maxim that has a lot of sources and its the US military's secret sauce.

This war exists in the imagination. In his mind Putin believes it is a mid-20th century war or one like the Red Army might have launched in the Central front of Germany. In the mind of the Ukrainian people this is the American Revolution or any number of other wars of liberation in which a lavishly-funded popular revolution fought a floundering global power. In the mind of the Putin Wing of the GOP its a distraction from Hunter Biden's laptop.

It took them this long to get one of their vaunted hypersonics into the war. Sheesh

When I told my buddy about all this work I'd done he sent me this

Random this morning. I read a couple posts about the Tigers going to Outback Steakhouse for their FA pickups (what was Javy Baez?) and then I decided I wanted that for dinner and my buddy asks me: "what is their stance on Russia?" and I looked it up and they apparently are not in the Russia market. However, the Outback Steakhouse Pac does give to GOP candidates more than any other party (you'd expect them not be major contributors to Angela Davis or Gus Hall). So, I went on OpenSecrets and made sure no money went to the bad 8 GOP candidates who voted against revoking most favored nation trade status. https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/outback-steakhouse/C00253153/candidate-recipients/2020 I see an Elise Stefanik in there (she was not a bad 8 member but has been awful wrt impeachment) but I also see some key impeachment votes like Gonzalez and Riggleman So, when I searched on twitter I got this hit