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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.

My buddy says the roll out will be Jaybaugh to LB while still retaining ST Ron Bellamy to WRs (we knew that one) Grant Newsome to onfield coach in some unspecified capacity No mention of Hart or Clink status

for that creep

They kept that secret under wraps for a while. I never had wind of it. I'm not especially plugged in. The guy I talk to at work who is sorta plugged into the scene there (more on MBB side) will have a story to tell. However, this guy was talking up Gattis on Friday before all this came down.

The story on the MGOwhoknows board is that he was pulled off the recruiting trail for making the moves on recruit's moms.

Schadenfreude feelings to see that the quisling American who is skating for China's olympic team is getting destroyed on Chinese social media for having a fall.

They started out with some red zone issues but they eventually got to the point where they were playing 4 dimensional chess with their opponents.

JJ McCarthey is the QB they need to win a National Championship. Now, getting him the other pieces including staff support will be the question.

I think this is Donna Shalaylah's Miami not Stephen Ross' Miami.