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BurtReynolds wrote:Could just as easily be purposely leaked fake info.

ahhhhh yes, hopefully

fak

NYT frontpage indicating it is real…

maybe this is China payback for downing their balloon instead of letting them low-key save face

Don't f*** with another man's balloon.

Maybe it's someone not wanting to talk about how they fucked up the timeline of getting out of Afghanistan.

i think they are planning to follow U2 on Tour in the spring

elliseamos wrote:Maybe it's someone not wanting to talk about how they fucked up the timeline of getting out of Afghanistan.

The funny thing about the Afghanistan pull out is that apparently no one learned anything about the Iraq pull out and we had a very similar outcome (Islamic State only took over part of Iraq and Americans were not too adversely affected).

The politicians dictated the scope of the mission and the troop levels, apparently being unwilling to listen to commanders about what was achievable with what headcount.

elliseamos wrote:

When the initial invasion went so bad there was speculation that some members of the Russian FSB had spent all the bribe money they were supposed to use to secure the loyalty of Ukranian officials on themselves. There wasn't a massive purge, at least publicly.

It's confusing that we would have any HUMINT in Russia, because very publicly all US agents were rolled up in China and Iran because the system to onboard new informants bled into the more "secure" system not too long ago. It does however line up with the US calling almost the date of the invasion while almost everyone else was saying it wouldn't happen.

Some good news
Ukraine rescue group brings home 31 children taken by Russia

My family there are now getting pensions from Russia, which is necessary in order to being able to use the few open shops in their area.

jeez

hoping for the best

I saw the video of Prigozhin screaming at the camera while he stood among all the bodies of his men. Crazy shit, being on the wrong side of the fight.

Russian mercenaries vow to quit Bakhmut

eat shit tsar putin

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/06/ukraine ... triot.html

USA
USA
USA

it's a fake hypersonic

'new wine in an old bottle'

just a brand-new second-hand

96583UP wrote:it's a fake hypersonic

'new wine in an old bottle'

just a brand-new second-hand

The definition of hypersonic is pretty dumb. This one is the spaceship one of ballistic missiles. Just strap a rocket to a large interceptor and call it Guichi.

Tanks displayed in russian victory day parade 2020 vs single tank on display 2023


Maybe if they ask nicely, the Ukrainians will give them back some of the ones they confiscated.

Wow. That's pretty striking.