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Zelensky getting a standing ovation at EU parliament

seems reasonably accurate.

I also pumped my fist when I saw this. (it gets noisy)

JUST heard the blurb on my Morning Joe that Belarus won't send in its army. That's decisive to save Ukraine. They won't create new stresses on the forces in Western Ukraine.

RT is still on Directv. WTF AT&T

Without confirmation, something like this coming out is intended to add to his paranoia.

They need about 12 A-10s. The Ukrainians are hammering the convoys with TB-2s though.

About half through this thread

The Royal Welsh nee' Welch was the unit of Robert Graves of excellent WWI memoir Goodbye to all of that and a bunch of other literary stuff but I don't know because i didn't read it. Glad to see other heavy units moving in besides ours.

bit of a lol not the discussion about the bomb effects. The attack on word art.

i’m willing to take that chance

I just had a laugh when i realized what this is: The Halo effect. Hard to attribute a halo to Putin but, yeah...that was it.

We knew that in our brains. We just couldn't trust that. The extrapolation of Putin's savage technical brilliance to his armed forces was a cognitive error. What do we call that.

This is me totally

You don't want an actor like Ronald Reagan as president until you need someone to do this https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-sanctions-swift-central-bank/

This is awesome

My colleagues were very pessimistic that Russia would knock out the internet and it would all be dark. Welp, that assumption like others was wrong.

I can see that. He may think he can do that. I don't know if sanctions survive peaceful occupation on the current lines. Germany has too much to lose.

It has been an interesting day of thoughtful reflection for everyone today. Lots of early lessons learned being absorbed. Russian technical and tactical incompetence do not look to be fixed too easily. Maybe, Russia thinks that one lesson is that is hasn't been brutal enough is a little scary to contemplate. If Belarus decide to invade with whatever they have it might be an ill omen even if its tactically incompetent.

this was remarkable. She was not aware that there was a war. He was completely befuddled by their attack into Ukraine. It is propaganda but it was excellently deployed.

Just remember it took us 20 days to get to Baghdad and how much longer before we had Sadaam. And the fight is going in the other direction. its currently more likely that Z dies before P

Russia using the energy weapon against NATO?

The Russian ambassador blames the Ukrainians for not welcoming the Russian peacekeepers with open arms.

The UN session ongoing right no (looking at BBC) is really interesting. The Ukrainian ambassador dropped some morally righteous hammers. one of 10 sessions like this in the 70 year history of the UN. The Russian translator is struggling to keep up with the Russian ambassador.

Nice.