Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Do you feel that after this came to light there are more checks and balances of internal spying specifications?

The checks and balances against espionage are never perfect.  I always consider that one of the people I'm briefing at any given time might be a self-indulgent narcissist who wants to trade on the information i'm providing to get himself a bag of cocaine or a blowjob or a nice new house.   The negative incentives for espionage are imperfect. 

[Dan Gilmore]

Wow, I hadn’t realized you had briefed Trump.

 

😎

[romad1]

13 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Wow, I hadn’t realized you had briefed Trump.

 

😎

Not once and never would.  I can only imagine the hellscape that detail would be.  My USSS peers tell me the stories barely cover the insanity (e.g., Eric is brain damaged, DJr is coked out). 

[romad1]

Judge Napoletano, please tell us what the pederast Scott Ritter has to say....

 

[romad1]

 

[romad1]

Take that you genociding swine

 

[romad1]

Must be too late for the folks in St. Petersburg.

[romad1]

love collective security in the face of the small-brained, sloped foreheaded, small-footed Karens like MTG

[romad1]

Oh fun

I guess you can't pretend to own something you don't when the rightful owners are on the doorstep trying to get it back.

[digitalpigsmuggler]

Ukraine economy taking a hit

Polish government bans grain and food imports from Ukraine

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The Polish government has decided to ban imports of grain and other food from Ukraine to protect the Polish agricultural sector, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczyński, said on Saturday.

... But it is the duty of every state, every authority, good authority in any case, to protect the interests of its citizens,

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-government-bans-grain-food-imports-ukraine-2023-04-15/

[digitalpigsmuggler]

Lula says US should stop ‘encouraging’ war in Ukraine

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said the US should stop “encouraging war” in Ukraine “and start talking about peace”.

In that way, the international community would be able to “convince” the Russian and Ukrainian presidents that “peace is in the interest of the whole world”, Lula told reporters in Beijing at the end of a visit where he met President Xi Jinping.

The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace. The European Union needs to start talking about peace.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/apr/15/russia-ukraine-war-live-brazils-president-accuses-us-of-encouraging-war-in-ukraine-after-meeting-xi-jinping

The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace. The European Union needs to start talking about peace.

[digitalpigsmuggler]

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia

The Washington Post obtained access to another document from mid-February, where they found that Egypt had plans to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia in secret.

The Post said President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi told officials to keep production and shipment secret "to avoid problems with the West".

An official is quoted as saying he would "order his people to work shift work if necessary because it was the least Egypt could do to repay Russia for unspecified help earlier".

It is unclear what the earlier help refers to. In January, Reuters reported that Russia's share of Egyptian wheat imports had risen in 2022, offering one possible explanation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65238951

[romad1]

"Zelensky cannot want everything either"

Perhaps STFU dickweed.   Also, this is the fear if the Corbynites win in the UK.  More of the old form of Russia love from the Left.

 

[romad1]

Meanwhile

 

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, romad1 said:

"Zelensky cannot want everything either"

Perhaps STFU dickwd.   Also, this is the fear if the Corbynites win in the UK.  More of the old form of Russia love from the Left

ironic since today Russia is all Oligarchy and facism. It just goes to show that the fascination for the USSR among Western Leftists was never about the Proletariat and always about the Dictatorship.

[romad1]

22 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

ironic since today Russia is all Oligarchy and facism. It just goes to show that the fascination for the USSR among Western Leftists was never about the Proletariat and always about the Dictatorship.

The RW only see it as the whitest place on Earth where Christ himself walks the streets of Moscow and gun laws don't exist and there is an (underage) escort in every pot. 

[romad1]

Can you imagine how someone comes around to posting all the pro-Russia stuff?  What is the appeal? 

[digitalpigsmuggler]

Russia on Saturday claimed advances on the northern and southern outskirts of Ukraine's embattled city of Bakhmut, the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle of Moscow's military campaign.

According to the ministry, Ukrainian troops "while retreating, are deliberately destroying city infrastructure and residential buildings in order to slow the advance" of Moscow's forces. 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/04/15/russia-claims-gains-north-and-south-of-ukraines-bakhmut-a80848

[gehringer_2]

On 4/14/2023 at 10:44 AM, romad1 said:

The checks and balances against espionage are never perfect.  I always consider that one of the people I'm briefing at any given time might be a self-indulgent narcissist who wants to trade on the information i'm providing to get himself a bag of cocaine or a blowjob or a nice new house.   The negative incentives for espionage are imperfect. 

The one thing that kind of bothers me in the reportage about this is the seeming assumption that it's allowing lower ranked people access that makes the system insecure. I would say BS. There is no reason I know of to assume a guy that achieves rank is a priori any more loyal a citizen or less corruptalbe than a good grunt. I would think the real issues are document distribution control/management as well as management and oversight of handlers of classified material at all levels, exacerbated by having too much stuff classified in the 1st place.

Edited April 16, 2023 by gehringer_2

[romad1]

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The one thing that kind of bothers me in the reportage about this is the seeming assumption that it's allowing lower ranked people access that makes the system insecure. I would say BS. There is no reason I know of to assume a guy that achieves rank is a priori any more loyal a citizen or less corruptalbe than a good grunt. I would think the real issues are document distribution control/management as well as management and oversight of handlers of classified material at all levels, exacerbated by having too much stuff classified in the 1st place.

Yeah, that reflects a lot of ignorance of how things get done.   Network admins are way too powerful in the system where all the bosses are IT illiterate.  Also,  I spend a lot of time waiting for char women and other worker bees to move along while discussing things where i work.  We go to the "so about the alien autopsy, did we find the creature's second heart?"  and other nonsense banter to wait them out. 

[romad1]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The one thing that kind of bothers me in the reportage about this is the seeming assumption that it's allowing lower ranked people access that makes the system insecure. I would say BS. There is no reason I know of to assume a guy that achieves rank is a priori any more loyal a citizen or less corruptalbe than a good grunt. I would think the real issues are document distribution control/management as well as management and oversight of handlers of classified material at all levels, exacerbated by having too much stuff classified in the 1st place.

So, about the latter issue.   Navigating all that stuff in a collaborative environment is a headache.  The value of information was proven beyond any doubt by the timely provision of critical information to Ukraine about Russia's plans and intentions in the opening hours.  The battle of Hostumel. The deployment of artillery to staunch that part of the attack was all because of our data fed and made part of dynamic targeting.   However, if you reveal sources and methods to the guy who just wants to get back at his boss for being mean to him... well, facaccta. 

[Jim Cowan]

He sounds like kind of a weird kid who just wanted to impress his online incel friends.

[romad1]

Oh golly gee...I don't think it works like that Yevgeny

https://www.rferl.org/a/wagner-prigozhin-urges-moscow-end-war-ukraine/32365878.html

 

[romad1]

and here is why.

[romad1]

Romad has a shiver up his spine