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There is an Economist or Atlantic article written in the 1850s floating around my office that discusses the problems of the Russian army in the Crimean War and it reads exactly like what is wrong with the current Russian army. One of the other things that resonates with me about the Crimean war is that it may be that portable anti-tank, anti-air systems and long range A2 (anti-access) weapons may well be taking us back to the age of rifles which began in Crimea, was manifest in the US Civil War and reached its extreme in the trench warfare of WWI in which the defense had the advantage over mobile offense. Now alternatively, the systemic advantages the Ukrainian army has (better leaders, better cohesion) may negate the dominance of man-portable defensive systems. Also, we (yes we) have the advantage of our superior information integration systems (i.e., RIVETJOINT, AWACS, drones, satellites and our network of trained operators) in which we are capable of destroying defensive systems faster than they can be deployed. Now to take the lab coat off. I'm definitely rooting for a rollback of Russian gains and to have them bled white so that Putin loses power.

Ezra Klein World Historical Genius. I'm in agreement that Putin needs to lose the war.

He's doing as much as could be expected. Milley and Austin are doing great things. Its not like we have an inexhaustible supply of Soviet era systems. We do need to ramp up production of lines of the good stuff. And then train the Ukrainian armed forces in the M1, the MLRS, Patriot and so forth.

THIS is absolutely correct.

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This is my hope

Muy bueno

i had a smarmy " of course they would have given up a hit every time someone hit the ball to the left side of the infield" type response queued up but then I realized that would be lazy. Indeed, we have gotten 2 wins because of Javy.

Vic Reyes needs ABs

Yeah, that was an inspired device for framing the narrative.

I am not sure if this has been posted but this is FIRE I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. Here's What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies. - The Bulwark

The latter point is relevant. The US has been flying rivet joint and awacs over Romania and Poland and the range of those systems drops after the Kyiv/Crimea line so we won't be providing such good info as we were about the location of ground and air systems. Russian troops are broken though. They plan all sorts of augmentation but their basic foundation is rotten.

if you need context on the above

Lots of folks having fun with this one. Because Vladdie can't have it both ways.

Javy is weird. He's like asleep in innings 3-7. Or at least thats what it appears. I enjoy the results in the other innings. Meadows is worth the freight.

She's right

4.8 billion what?

More dem ads

nice Bill K!

The Scott Pelley interview with Zelensky is powerful

Shit when it lies to other shit, says that its full of Seagal.

Unfortunately, this will all come to and end if Trump wins the WH again after Biden and Harris are impeached in favor of Speaker of the House Trump.

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-jens-stoltenberg-military-presence-eastern-border-army-ukraine-russia-war/ We need to have a permanent US heavy division or even a corp of troops. UK, Germany, France and other Northern Europe countries need to add another division or two of troops to Baltics/Poland. Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Balkan states need to add a corp to Romania. This needs to be a permanent change of station for US troops so we put our best foot forward.

Appears Macron is safe. This is the biggest of big deals.

How many bad plays can we make here?