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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.

"Gattis had HR issues" is the rumor. Mutha-f. Dudes, keep it in your pants at the workplace or with the students or whatever.

Fudge

also note that below there are commenters that say that Ivashov has been in opposition to the regime for a while. Others saying its a ruse. We shall see.

Tom Nichols should know. He wrote the text my class in grad school read on the Soviet armed forces.

This persistent dream that an accommodation of some sort can be made is out there among even the sober diplomatic crowd like Bill Taylor. An arms control agreement would not be a bad outcome if it limits some of the very exotic new weapons coming down the pike. It wouldn't be bad to limit foreign election interference or created some rules for foreign behavior in an election. It would be great to guarantee the civil and human rights of each other's citizens too. Likelihood?

So, notable that Turkey has backed Ukraine. Keep that in mind.

The degree of UAV intergration of Russian and Ukrainian forces will be super important too. The US has this stuff down pat after 20 years of GWOT and we've got extensive systems of systems designed to train up operators, have trained low level units in using them as their battlefield close air support systems . This was demonstrated effectively in the recent war in Armenia/Azerbaijan when the Turkish UAV systems were decisive against (lavishly) Russian armed Armenia forces. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/has-azerbaijan’s-use-drones-karabakh-transformed-warfare-181526#:~:text=Azerbaijan forces had used Turkish Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned,armor%2C artillery%2C and tactical ground-based air defense systems.