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atomheartbevo

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  1. And the he turns around and says this
  2. The problem for your buddy is that he ignored years of Putin saying that Ukraine and Georgia belonged to Russia, that they were not separate countries. Putin was literally saying that historically Ukraine belonged to Russia and he was going to re-unite the two no matter what. It had absolutely nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with Putin's bullshit version of manifest destiny. Obviously, Russia did not realize they were cornering a honey badger in 2022, and many of us didn't realize it. But there was never going to be a positive economic outcome from the US or Europe after a full-scale takeover of Ukraine and all of its mineral assets in the Black Sea, and everybody knew that before February 2022, and in the run-up to the full invasion, a lot of people/nations were warning Russia was going to economically isolate themselves. Putin did it anyways. And now he's got a sunk-cost fallacy rattling around in his brain.
  3. It bears repeating, and this is the point I always make to anybody I know or meet that pushes NATO as being a problem for Russia - since the 1940s, NATO has never invaded anybody. It has acted as a peace-keeping force (it didn't have to, it could have ignored things and let them get worse), and it has responded once (once!) to an attack on a member nation, and that was America on 9/11. Russia/Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact? Russia/Soviet Union has literally invaded members of its own "defensive" alliance multiple times over its history. Boris Yeltson wrote NATO about Russia joining in the future. In '93, our Secretary of State James Baker talked about Russia joining NATO. 1994, Yeltsin talked about Russia joining NATO ahead of the Eastern European nations, but said Russia was not ready. In 2000 when Clinton visited Moscow, Putin publicly mentioned joining NATO, and again before his first inauguration. Putin even said in 2000: "Russia is part of the European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilized world." In 2000-2001 Putin said multiple times they should join NATO. One of the Russians biggest hang-ups, and this was mentioned as far back as 94 or 95, was standardization - Russia did not want to/could not afford to standardize on NATO standards because they were admittedly too big, and they wanted NATO membership, but they wanted accommodations for that. And it was understandable - you can't change directions for a military that size in terms of equipment. Things reached a point where Russia wanted more power than they deserved, and they were not the "great power" they claimed - they were a gas station with nukes and a lot of land. Putin and Russia are now paying the price for Russia fucking around with Georgia and Ukraine. Had they made truly positive efforts to joining NATO as a full member (they were in a partnership of sorts with NATO for decades) we would have the US, Europe, and Russia in an alliance that could have evolved into an economic alliance that counters China in the long run. Instead, China is going to eat Russia's lunch in the long run.
  4. The oldest girl is probably already been married off.
  5. Maybe some common sense, and Houston gets a capsule (they already have some) instead of wrecking the Discovery. GizmodoNASA’s New Chief Finds Loophole for Texas Shuttle Switcheroo“One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.” Apparently it’s a national security issue on which spacecraft they selected.
  6. I'm tired of the AI generated commercials as well trying to make me feel guilty for being middle-aged and not doing Tai Chai.
  7. The interesting thing to me is that if he hadn't mentioned it publicly in an interview, we might not have known about it at all. I'm also guessing that it's about risking CIA assets and not US military personnel.
  8. This shit is right out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
  9. These are the kind of people who are going to make it easy to get at redacted text, because you know that they are pissed that D.C. is telling them to give up their holidays.
  10. Congress will most likely make sure, because Johnson, for all of his faults, is going to try to shore up Republican seats anywhere and everywhere and Trump's little stunt hurts the GOP in Colorado. Trump doesn't think that far ahead - he saw a chance to fuck with Boebert and took it.
  11. Yes So do I. Would have been great if they had more long-range stuff a year ago, but you go to war with the army you have or something, not the one you want. I feel optimistic as well though. I didn't anticipate that the amount of Russian deaths/casualties would rise as fast as it did, but Putin was desperate to take some major towns ahead of "negotiations" and Russian soldiers paid dearly (as did some Russian generals apparently). Time to dust off the parallels to Afghanistan, except Russia/Soviet Union was substantially larger manpower-wise in the 1980s, and has lost far more troops in the 2020s (crazy to think Afghanistan only cost them 15,000 - 25,000 deaths).
  12. Say what you will, but Dr. Sbaitso never told anybody to kill themselves or family members.
  13. Trump being surrounded and advised by Scientologists would be the icing on the cake. Not sure that even @Brisketexan could have developed that plot twist.
  14. And the US and Israel are close to bombing them again.
  15. All of those wheelchair ramps that Greg Abbott uses came out of DEI measures.
  16. They haven’t been able to keep pace with replacements, and that never ends well. It may even be a reason why the two major cities they claimed to have taken were not in fact taken.
  17. So I didn’t see the original on its first run in theaters, forgot why, but didn’t. I had friends though that were obsessed with it, like seeing it after work almost every day and going early on the weekend showings. I very clearly remember CNN and other outlets talking about it being a serious mental health thing. I remember thinking it was some kind of furry thing going on, but it was grabbing “normal” people.
  18. I feel like if it had went well, we would see lots of video.
  19. Damn I miss Lobo’s commentary during all of this.
  20. Oh this decision will be reversed in April. Lot of people do not pay attention to these little details. They’ll get fucked and they’ll bitch to Congress and it’ll get changed. We are talking about people who mail this stuff in. They’ve skipped technology or are in a situation where physical paperwork is needed for some reason.
  21. Stop fucking believing everything Putin says. Putin’s aide Ushakov stated that during a conversation with Trump, Putin complained about an alleged Ukrainian attack on his residence. According to Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov, Trump was "shocked" by what he heard, and Russia may now reconsider agreements reached earlier. However, there are discrepancies regarding the drone attack, as Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that 89 UAVs were shot down over Russian territory on the night of December 29.
  22. Meanwhile, Putin doing Putin things. Who knows what this is meant to cover up ReutersPutin amends law to let Russia ignore foreign criminal co...The move appears to be a response to several initiatives to go after Russian officials and military officers for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, something Moscow denies its forces are guilty of.
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