Let’s go Brandon indeed. I was disheartened that we withdrew our troops from Ukraine ahead of the invasion, but how we then massed troops and support lines and have been running probably the biggest resupply mission since the Berlin Airlift ever since, Sleepy Joe’s strategy is paying off over time.
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Every now and then, we see something suggesting there are yet lines American business would not want Trump-influenced public officials and private actors to cross, don’t we? I have in mind the speed with which Cleta Mitchell parted ways with Foley and Lardner.
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We’re well past the Point of Know Return.
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I prefer getting a breaking news update on my cell phone in coming hours that his personal guard executed him.
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It seems though that anyone who dares speak against him ends up falling out of a window or being poisoned.
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Well, maybe not so much that particular aspect but the whole underdog nature of this fight is one thing that captures people’s imaginations. I don’t know if everyone roots for the underdog the way we do (we were pretty much in this situation early on) but I know people tend to respect bravery against a superior force.
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I think Donnie plays one on TV, but there’s not enough evidence from MAL to support this conclusion.
All of the allegedly hoarded papers that we know of were in proximity to government document that he’d stolen. At the moment, I don’t think it can be conclusively said that he wasn’t using the appearance or tendency to hoard certain kinds of papers as cover for his criming.
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The problem is that everyone fell for the “Zelenskyy is just a comedian” line, when in fact he’s well educated (a law degree), daddy is a professor (computer science) and head of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at his university. Mama was an engineer. Zelenskyy leveraged his talent to build a small media empire, while being politically active. If you watch his show (we got it on Netflix here in Germany), you can easily see his political (and personal) philosophy buried in the character. It’s truly a case of foreshadowing…
EVERYONE underestimated the guy. Putin most of all. And Putin also drank Trump’s koolaid that Biden was an old feeble guy, when in fact Biden turned out to be a wise old fox, who turned the tables on Pootie by announcing his intentions to invade well in advance, so the world could see clearly what was happening.
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I’m way down South in Arkansas and I remember seeing smoke almost every day last year and it wasn’t smoke from Arkansas. It was blowing in from way out West.
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Al Franken is another example
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Yup, NYC had smoke too.
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Sometimes a cigar is just something stuck in an asshole.
LOL - I’m dyin’ here.
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Yep.
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Fucker Carlson has no human value.
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Do you have climate control in your house? HEPA filters.
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And serious misunderstanding that Biden has known all of the EU’s leaders for years and how relieved these leaders were, how pleased to see an old friend after Trump.
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That, true, but there was also the whole problem of his oligarch patron, Kolomoisky, and massive questions when Zelenskyy made it into power who, exactly, Zelenskyy would be working for, and whether he was going to surrender quickly or slowly to putin.
Absolutely true that EVERYONE underestimated him, but not without reasons.
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One of, if not THE major failure with Russia’s military is low levels of training, especially in combined arms operations.
Russian air force pilots spend very little time training in combined ops compared to US and NATO forces. For example, flying large sorties with Wild Weasel (anti-air missile suppression) aircraft followed by air superiority fighters to take control of high altitude airspace, and then strike fighters to take out remaining anti-air on the ground.
Astonishingly, Russia never managed to take control of the skies over Ukraine. They’re just sending small numbers or individual sorties scooting at low level across the borders, and then scampering back home to Russian airfields. No combined ops at all. The same lack of training and coordination is in the ground forces, where armored units in the SE aren’t cooperating with units in the NE as an overall operation.
The US and NATO just don’t ever operate this way. I don’t know if it’s lack or money and resources for extended training, lack of trust between branches of their armed forces, or an over-reliance on high-tech like cruise missiles that explains it. Maybe all three. But they’re paying a very high price for it now.
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There has never been anything “superior” about Russia’s military.
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I just don’t believe that. It doesn’t make sense to me.
If any documents were valuable enough to T**** to keep, the documents would not have been buried in a casket 6+ feet down. It would have made it too difficult to retrieve them.
If T**** just wanted to get rid of the documents all together, he would have burned them.
On the other hand, I’m not as confident that Ivana’s death was an accidental fall.
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