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I was waiting for the Trumpies to say...Bolton wasn't sufficiently loyal to the Orange one.

John Bolton noted that Trump was pushing his nat security team to withdraw from NATO

Biden’s response has been extremely skillful. Nothing but respect for Blinken, Sullivan Burns and Austin

like UBL?

Gott in himmell. If you watched the Helsinki press conference, Impeachment 1 and Trump's "Peacekeeper" comments and think Trump would have played this better. You are beyond saving.

It isn’t an argument it’s wish casting

He’s not publicly praising Putin therefore he’s weak?

It might help temper future support for Ukraine if Western leaders are worried about offending the future coup plotters

it’s a cui bono situation. It helps Ukraine to put that out there. I doubt the KGB trained albeit paranoid Putin would fall for that.

They don't have to call Doug Macgregor, he's fully on the team.

Yeah, that’s my Trumpy brother and his wife… no kids, no skin in the game

Amateurs worry about tactics, professionals worry about logistics. That's a maxim that has a lot of sources and its the US military's secret sauce.

This war exists in the imagination. In his mind Putin believes it is a mid-20th century war or one like the Red Army might have launched in the Central front of Germany. In the mind of the Ukrainian people this is the American Revolution or any number of other wars of liberation in which a lavishly-funded popular revolution fought a floundering global power. In the mind of the Putin Wing of the GOP its a distraction from Hunter Biden's laptop.

It took them this long to get one of their vaunted hypersonics into the war. Sheesh

When I told my buddy about all this work I'd done he sent me this

Random this morning. I read a couple posts about the Tigers going to Outback Steakhouse for their FA pickups (what was Javy Baez?) and then I decided I wanted that for dinner and my buddy asks me: "what is their stance on Russia?" and I looked it up and they apparently are not in the Russia market. However, the Outback Steakhouse Pac does give to GOP candidates more than any other party (you'd expect them not be major contributors to Angela Davis or Gus Hall). So, I went on OpenSecrets and made sure no money went to the bad 8 GOP candidates who voted against revoking most favored nation trade status. https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/outback-steakhouse/C00253153/candidate-recipients/2020 I see an Elise Stefanik in there (she was not a bad 8 member but has been awful wrt impeachment) but I also see some key impeachment votes like Gonzalez and Riggleman So, when I searched on twitter I got this hit

That's ballsy

We had a discussion at work. This is in the heart of the US national security world, so results might not be representative. Question: who had the most guns of all the guys in our office. I was the leader on my team (double digits). The chief of my team had more than me (maybe twice as many as me). The African American former US Secret Service guy on the team across from mine had us both by three laps. He was a legit paranoid type who had guns hidden in every room. US gun ownership is indeed a curiosity to the World. Lots of reasons why this exists.

Remember that time that Trump had a downs syndrome boy run up to him. No, I don't either.

Make him wear this

Actually the people who have those woke degrees are fighting along with the farmers and everyone else in Ukraine because Ukraine had to UNIFY because of the war. Unlike asshole pols who seek to divide.

Oryx is considered pretty rigorous.

wait whut?

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