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Noticing that reporters are back in Kyiv. It appears that the Yookies are on the offense in the suburbs.

Basically we are arguing over a man with a supple brain and an incredible will to power against a guy who thinks Putin is the bee's knees. If that mattered at all. In any conflict, I'll take the smarter man.

Manfred has got to go

https://www.looper.com/191828/the-real-reason-steven-seagal-is-banned-from-snl/#:~:text=In what seemed to be a bizarre misunderstanding,Then%2C he clumsily kicked the two caricatures' asses. You have to say that if nothing else, Arnold was self-aware.

whut? Arnold Schwarzenegger has had how many open heart surgeries and Steven Seagal is a mushroom of a bloated lard ass. I would put my money on Arnie if they were both in their 30s and 40s though.

this is amazing. Steven Segal is a big fan of Vladdie

This will cross a line into WWIII territory when Russia feels the pain. But, they must feel the pain.

Gen. Wesley Clark describing how the UK SAS are training Yookies to fight inside Russia. Woah. I mean, we kinda knew but...that's really newsie.

The speed of these losses... Can only imagine all the damage this is doing to Russian air crews, leadership cadres.

They put these numbers out there (leaked or otherwise) to argue that the Ukrainian number of 14k KIA were outrageous. I mean... if you are arguing 14k is ridiculous but a hair under 10k is more reasonable...you are in "there is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy" territory

Interesting numbers Might be higher

That's an interesting point. I also wonder if the move is bottom-up from the public who emotionally view the threat as greater from Russia than their economic well-being. German leadership has been dragging its feet on weapons and aid to Ukraine and Eastern NATO but the public are packing the protest marches.

The solution to free rider syndrome is to have the barbarians at the gate

Archie is a segregationist now? Does he mean the 1850s?

Those FSB guys even arranged for both Mens and Women's BB teams facing Villanova! I don't know how loyal or disloyal Russian intel services are to their master. I think the Trump presidency is a good model for how loyalty works with a paranoid. They talk on deep background to stabilize their post-regime reputations but they never congeal around any definitive action. Those who step out get quickly isolated and crushed in a public way. In Putin's regime they often fell out of windows. BTW, the dirty pool guys in Russian intel are the GRU who used nerve agent in the UK on the Skripals.

I want to point this out. Its from a couple days ago. The level of Air Force activity for all NATO countries is really high right now. Collective security is rocking and rolling. We normally have a level of fighter cap over Poland and Romania that is more than the entire day's worth of Russian sorties into Ukraine. WE COULD CLEAN THEIR CLOCKS. I really do not want a nuclear sunburn however.

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