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


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18 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Fuck this slag with a porcupine

 

of course there has to be hostile overseas money driving driving this. Orchestrated politics of any kind in America doesn't happen without money. In hindsight it becomes plain that has to be one of the main drivers behind the GOP efforts to emasculate every Federal financial enforcement agency. It's aimed directly at making sure it doesn't get found.

And to think that back in the Cold War days we laughed at those people concerned about '5th columns'. They've gotten a lot better at it than old Gus Hall could ever have hoped.

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3 hours ago, romad1 said:

OH, that's why Fox still has Tucker Carlson on the air.

Koch is a lot like like Trump but without the dark side charm, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, inherited a prebuilt fortune, believes he's a genius. An embarrassment to Chemical Engineers everywhere.

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This pretty much adds up. Russians losing on the ground, just going to try to kill a lot of people instead....

from NYT:

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WASHINGTON — In 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima during World War II, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed. Now, 20 days after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia invaded Ukraine, his military has already lost more soldiers, according to American intelligence estimates.

The conservative side of the estimate, at more than 7,000 Russian troop deaths, is greater than the number of American troops killed over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

It is a staggering number amassed in just three weeks of fighting, American officials say, with implications for the combat effectiveness of Russian units, including soldiers in tank formations. Pentagon officials say a 10 percent casualty rate, including dead and wounded, for a single unit renders it unable to carry out combat-related tasks.

With more than 150,000 Russian troops now involved in the war in Ukraine, Russian casualties, when including the estimated 14,000 to 21,000 injured, are near that level. And the Russian military has also lost at least three generals in the fight, according to Ukrainian, NATO and Russian officials.

Pentagon officials say that a high, and rising, number of war dead can destroy the will to continue fighting. The result, they say, has shown up in intelligence reports that senior officials in the Biden administration read every day: One recent report focused on low morale among Russian troops and described soldiers just parking their vehicles and walking off into the woods.

The American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, caution that their numbers of Russian troop deaths are inexact, compiled through analysis of the news media, Ukrainian figures (which tend to be high, with the latest at 13,500), Russian figures (which tend to be low, with the latest at 498), satellite imagery and careful perusal of video images of Russian tanks and troops that come under fire.

American military and intelligence officials know, for instance, how many troops are usually in a tank, and can extrapolate from that the number of casualties when an armored vehicle is hit by, say, a Javelin anti-tank missile.

The high rate of casualties goes far to explain why Russia’s much-vaunted force has remained largely stalled outside of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

“Losses like this affect morale and unit cohesion, especially since these soldiers don’t understand why they’re fighting,” said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Russia and Ukraine during the Obama administration. “Your overall situational awareness decreases. Someone’s got to drive, someone’s got to shoot.”


But, she added, “that’s just the land forces.” With Russian ground forces in disarray, Mr. Putin has increasingly looked to the skies to attack Ukrainian cities, residential buildings, hospitals and even schools. That aerial bombardment, officials say, has helped camouflage the Russian military’s poor performance on the ground

 

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3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Is MTG basically telling us here that she has a direct financial interest in Russia?

A couple days ago Putin sanctioned Americans who do business with Russia.  These included Biden himself, Joe's boy Hunter, a whole bunch of Joe's cabinet and friends, and Hilary.  There was no mention of Chelsea Clinton or Greene. They must not have financial dealings with Russia.

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2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Koch is a lot like like Trump but without the dark side charm, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, inherited a prebuilt fortune, believes he's a genius. An embarrassment to Chemical Engineers everywhere.

I never realized that the Koch’s bought Guardian Industries after Bill Davidson passed away.   Shame.   

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30 minutes ago, Archie said:

A couple days ago Putin sanctioned Americans who do business with Russia.  These included Biden himself, Joe's boy Hunter, a whole bunch of Joe's cabinet and friends, and Hilary.  There was no mention of Chelsea Clinton or Greene. They must not have financial dealings with Russia.

And not MTG or Republicans.

Imagine that!

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