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I have doubts...but still

Perhaps. Putin isn't stupid but he's also emotionally driven by this...and at the same time he is a judo practitioner. He is looking for the seam or the lever upon which to turn his enemy. The Russian UN Ambassador was talking from a WWE script for a heel. He certainly was trying to justify the invasion.

Well, the US and Norway weren't going to join the EU. But, the venn diagram between NATO and the EU benefited from the economic and military and diplomatic inter-latticing

That is interesting. I'm anti-Brexit. I always believe you are better off in tighter alliances. i can see the frustration (e.g., People in UK seaside communities can't fish because some French firm has the authorization and you don't. )

Unless they suddenly get better I won't care either way. They certainly had a good recruiting class but...jeeze this product is lame.

effective propaganda Particularly the second image of a bunch of babuskas with automatic rifles.

I'm seeing a lot of succsessul coaches

They aren't nearly as interesting. Its like watching them flail away is fun and all but they don't have elite status. So, bubble and whatever they can scratch out in the first round maybe.

Huh, they won?! i guess having Hunter on the floor mattered in the second half.

The Broyles award winner blended just fine. The motion, using motion as decoy, using power to decoy to deception. The best offense is one with lots of flexibility. That plus 5stars at each position.

the two point conversion in the CFP game that Michigan ran has me very excited for more. That was mad magician stuff.

the MGOBLOG article by Seth was pretty close to this. Laid out a lot of the issues. I'm annoyed. I'm not looking forward to chaos. Lets get this over with.

If it aint rough it ain't right. I just don't need 2009-2014 level chaos anymore. I don't want Rich Rod coming in talking about Jesus. I don't want Brady Hoke apologizing for his player throwing a tent peg into the turf in East Lansing. This is Michigan. We don't apologize and we are men and women of science.

She seemed pretty terse.

Hearing some things about Ward Manual having a list of candidates already. This comes from the "Ward Manual Preservation Society" Propaganda minister that I know. He mentioned a guy named Goodwin from Tampa Bay.

Parnas is the last name of one of the goons that were working with Rudi

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/01/london-russian-oligarch-ukraine-britain-financial-oversight/ The Boris Johnson scandal...hmmm The UK have been doing serious good work in the Ukraine crisis though.

He went from super buttoned up to hitting on any female within range.

The item that really raises the concern meter for me is that he's volunteering to interview on NSD. I guess its not as big a deal as it used to be but it indicates he may have checked out.

Well, Dave "Destroyed Toys R US" Brandon isn't all her fault.

What I love about the BBC TTSS/Smiley's People is how they just emptied all the great character actors out of the Royal Shakespeare company. Absolutely great actors doing great stuff in all the supporting roles. The one i liked a lot most recently was Bernard Hepton's Smiley's People portrayal of Toby Esterhase where he drops the RP diction of his character when he was constrained by inter-office politics within The Circus and reverts to what he truly is: an emigre hustler. His interaction with George over the burn operation of Grigoriev is just fantastic stuff.

Watching Poland and Lithuania's ambassadors...yeah, we got allies.

The Russian amb just bails when the Ukrainian amb starts talking. I think I know how this is going to go.

This is something https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/ukraine-russia-putin-nato/ Hey, that's only half true!

He did a great job playing Jerry Westerby in TTSS.