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It looked kinetic. However, the fact that the tank is going through a known obstacle could mean that a mine or something was there.

Noted by the Morning Joe crowd that the Chinese government had one of their senior advisors pen an op-ed in the NYT on Sunday about china being a mediator.

BTW, "it took us 20 days to get to Baghdad" day has arrived.

Very interesting reporting on this meeting. 7 hour "direct" and "intense" meetings are a lot of fun. Jake Sullivan for MLB commissioner when this is over.

Glimmer of hope That this was behind closed doors shows that Putin's operatives in the GOP are working hard to crush dissent from the Putin path.

Biden's trip to Eastern Europe will go far to helping cement what Trump and Putin wanted to smash.

all of it from stooges and trolls. Supposedly the Real, real GOP doesn't like Mitt but lurves them some Tulsi.

Lots of pro Tulsi Gabbard twitter tonight didn't like Mitt taking her to task for supporting Asad and Putin.

So, its not a Real real thing.

The White House has been playing this so damn well. Its like watching a Verlander no-hitter except the fact that they can't actually stop a lot of human suffering in Ukraine. They are doing much more sub-rosa than we are seeing.

I hope she ends up ok. Also, the newscaster needs an intervention for her bloated lips.

Gripping stuff on the resolve in Poland to help the Ukrainian refugees and on the behalf of Ukrainian men to go back and fight.

Next planned phase of the crushing of Ukrainian nationhood by pathetic dictator

Scott Pelley on 60 minutes tonight. Wow.

Motivated criminals!

There is a lot of truth with this When this started analysts were fighting their instincts to be giddy to be soberly pessimistic because in part, they were fighting the fall of Kabul over again. I believe I made the caveat multiple times "well, it took us 20 days to get to Baghdad". I dunno though. Saddam had his tactical successes against us on the road up but didn't prepare Kyiv-like urban fortresses in Baghdad.

They have rail connections as part of the belt and road initiative via Kazhakstan. BRI also says they will have direct rail connections via Siberia. https://merics.org/en/tracker/mapping-belt-and-road-initiative-where-we-stand

I admire them trying this. They know that China is the bigger problem long term and having it behave according to International norms matters much more. Meanwhile, China is MUCH worse and will be trying to navigate how to be total bastards to the Taiwanese population when the World is watching. Its not the internal issue that the Uighers can seem like, when nobody has an idea of just how many people you are genociding.

Yeah, This is entry level derog on Russian assets

I dunno seems risky

These guys are delusional.

Chickens coming home to roost

My anti-fascist rant music. Even with no lyrics.