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I guess he's not going to lose his yacht. Repairs are still pending.

I'd say some of them are clear eyed about the Russian donations. Paul Ryan knew plenty about the ones who were.

Pre-invasion.

Was hearing that some Republicans wanted to do per-invasion sanctions. I'm [shrugs] about the difference. So long as we speak with a common voice and let the bully know that he will pay a potentially regime-ending price for war with Ukraine. Now, how do you do sanctions that are dangerous to his regime? Castro never had that. Kim il Sung never had that.

Blair had to swallow invading Iraq

The German political hot house is really against cancelling Nord2 because it would be like telling Louisiana and Texas that we won't pump oil if Canada wins a gold in the Olympic hockey. Except for all the death and violence of course.

You see that in the Youtube algorithm where the black rifle coffee company guys are boosting Ukraine's potential fight against Russia. This is a real disconnect between the "Russia is the only real Christian country" nonsense spewers and these dudes. Smart strategy is to keep a leash on them to avoid them being provoked into the sort of "nazi" atrocity that Putin wants to launch his invasion.

Are the players getting the issue of Rob Manfred trying to have some of them killed in games with souped up balls addressed?

My hypothesis is that Dad wants his son in the room for the defensive meetings to round out his skillset.

Putin will be very happy to get everyone in Ukraine registered and cross-tabulated using his Chinese friend's tools for data management

Its not as bad as Iraq or Afghanistan was. There will be a core of Ukrainian resistance like there was in immediate post WWII period until well into the 1950s until they were finally snuffed out by the Red Army and the KGB.

Many like these guys are in the Baltics as well

All true. I would say that the best way to deal with the quislings is to string them up but that is exactly what Putin wants to create the conditions for his invasion to help the "Sudeten Russians"

The GOP right now is what happens when you don't have collective security based on norms of behavior. The bully dominates the individually weaker members.

There is a scene in All Quiet on the Western Front -- the 1930s version, not the TV version with John Boy Walton and Earnest Borgnine which is quite good in its own right -- where they have a prolonged discussion about why the Kaiser needs a war. And they decide that he needs a war because he has everything else in Germany.

and of course, he may just want to fuck shit up and invade.

I think a lot of diplomacy is performative. We know one thing. Vladdie wants to destroy a democratic Ukraine. He may have calculated that this won't work this time. He may think he needs to do more elite capture like he did with Orban in Hungary, Trump and Tucker (et.al.,) in the United States and certain UK pols. But, this could still work. He could get pols bending over to avoid bloodshed. Ben and Jerry's (!) for example is tweeting that Biden is a warmonger for sending a pittance of troops to Eastern Europe.

Apparently Sam Webb (the oracle) revealed Matt Weiss and Sherrone Moore to co-OCs. Grant Newsome's role is TEs which was Jaybaugh's job previously. Jay can coach STs and outside LBs apparently.

Macron! Sadly, I don't think this is actually going to occur.

Fight for taiwan.

G2, if I hit you over the head with a frying pan it will be your fault for belonging to NATO.

Vladdie is tired of waiting for his war

Imagine an environment where road rubble was subject to freezes worse than in Michigan. Imagine that that is in a country more corrupt than the worst of Michigan corruption by a factor of 10. Then ask: "why won't they fix the roads?" OTOH, Germany has similar climate to Michigan but roads are in decent shape. Because they built the roads properly.