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When you are a nerd with small hands the tiny young girls are appealing balms to your lack of self-confidence.

Germany: trying it and that sweet low cost LNG sure is tempting way to lower the power bills. Because Germany is anti-nuke. Renewables plus nuclear and you have something.

Take it off the table and then send assassins after Putin nonstop

Take it off the table and then stage 1988 levels of forces inside Ukraine for a couple years.

Hungary has been Tucker/Trump/crapola as well. Putin does elite capture pretty well.

This gets a yes and no from me. Mostly true but Germany is talking out both sides of its face.

Putin only understands strength. Make him react to our moves. You can't give him a provocation but he has to understand that the pimp hand is coming for this.

Recall that certain (now banned) posters on the old site would cite ZH as credible.

People in RW twitter will still be pointing at this when the bombs and arty rounds are falling on Kiev.

Sarah Palin having her suit throw out is weird. I was used to the hillbilly elegy people always winning in court. Also, I have these rando co-workers coming at me with with this Durham thing.

good deal. I have a feeling the people fleeing will be a flood shortly.

This is the sort of thing you had to expect. RT (note, the channel on your DirectV thanks to AT&T being oligarch friendly) is whipping up the home crowds.

If Canada was responsible for a genocide in our country and had imprisoned thousands of us for the bulk of the last century . . . all the American gun strokes would have anywhere near the reason to be as passionate as the Ukrainians have been... Hopefully it matters.

Plus she has a mask!

decent thread

Tulsi Gabbard being a Russia tool. Remember her? She was Foxnews favorite dem running in 2020.

Following the letter of the OSCE agreements is important. We cannot allow Vladdie any wiggle room.

Jake Sullivan gives off a young Dick Cheney vibe and I'm saying that's a compliment.

So young

IF, we are even listening to Putin about "historical Russia" THEN shouldn't East Prussia be returned to Germany?

It’s a mix: Professional 1/3, conscripts 1/3 and PMCs (private military contractors). Ukraine has a lot of the latter as well. The militias in Ukraine are similar to the US Civil War when rich men would raise regiments for their own vainglory.

He's going to hammer Ukraine. Its going to be extremely bloody because there are plenty of Ukrainians who are also spoiling for a fight. The Russians are terrible at the beginning of wars because they are slovenly. I don't see an endgame that ends up well unless Putin is driven from power somehow.

Might just be good planning Lvov is going to be the defacto capital of wartime Ukraine unless the defenders of Kiev can hold out longer than Putin can afford the sanctions and other pain inflicted on him. .

Its crazy to think this...but Biden and Sullivan have played this pretty well. They have judiciously leaked intel that I won't tell you how dear that stuff is because of sources and methods. But,the intel is use or lose. They won't save Ultra by letting the Germans conquer Britain. Letting the Japanese conquer Australia wouldn't save the analogous US code breaking operation against Japan.

[chef's kiss]