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a little bit of reading on this topic reveals general pessimism that this will take 20 years. Turkey is still not in the EU for example despite applying in 1999. I was scratching my head that this was like...an immediate declaration of War for Ukraine. What it means maybe is that the EU doesn't want Ukraine to fail and will keep funneling arms etc. I think also this explains the exemplary behavior of Turkey in this crisis.

This is interesting. I heard that Twitter was always wrong. And that Nord-2 was a sure thing and would definitely be why Germany wouldn't turn its back on Russia

Thank God

Yeah you just can't trust Reuters. GTFO

woah

I think he is going to level some cities. Its going to be awful. The emotional tug on us will be powerful.

meanwhile his soldiers are operating with terrible opsec and surrendering in bunches

It would and could be worse.

This is a remarkable thread My colleague who made a career of following low-level Russian ops says "nothing surprises me"

This was astounding. When i saw this I immediately referred to a colleague who has a bit more experience They told their troops this was an exercise and prepared accordingly. Hence the troop's lack of discipline.

Yeah, how is it not? We were warm toward Yeltsin. That vestigal support for corrupt but lovable Boris was what kept us from smelling how bad Vladdie was.

Xi wants the things from Russia. Sorry

he wants some things from Russia that he does not have

surely George Soros is involved somewhere. Plus Satan and the other lesser devils.

I don't want to alarm anyone but A little piece of Gen X hysteria from our most paranoid half decade 1980-1984

well, this is interesting. Not sure how they will get there but they are going to go via non-NATO airspace.

This is how wars have a dynamic all their own. If Ukraine were to be infected with corrupt and craven leaders (still) like the Afghans and there were not people standing in the breech like Z and leaders in the West like Biden who sees the bullying for what it is, then the Ukrainian resistance would be limited and sad.

The aha moment here is that he is trying to avoid sanctions on behalf of Putin's croneys so they can funnel their cash, their fuel etc.

He's really threading a needle since he owes his regime survival to Putin.

Zelensky won't be hurt if someone throws a tent peg into the turf.

The west is throwing a lot of hardware into Eastern Europe and we may be entering Hunt for Red October levels of dangerous intermingling.

The whole world wasn't condemning OSU's blatant recruiting violations and hand-wave approach to academics. The problem will be if the Michigan Football program drags the Baltimore Ravens into the game because of its natural sympathies and that leads to a larger game.

Good news overall for European stability. If he was willing to allow Putin to use his army it would have raised the spectre of Vladdie making a grab for a corridor to Kaliningrad