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Happy Birthday Putin
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement regarding combating drug trafficking and the cartels with Venezuela, paving the way for a potential military escalation against narco-terrorists or the Government of Nicolás Maduro, according to several U.S. officials who spoke with the New York Times. Last Thursday, President Trump spoke with Richard Grenell, who is currently serving as Special Envoy for Special Missions and is leading diplomatic efforts with the Maduro Regime in Venezuela, instructing him that all diplomatic outreach, including his talks with Mr. Maduro, were to immediately stop, as tensions have grown recently between Grenell and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Officials state that the Trump Administration has drawn up multiple military plans for an escalation with Venezuela, with those operations possibly including plans designed to force Maduro from power, over claims that his government is actively directing and supporting drug cartels operating in Venezuela against the United States.
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Can’t believe Su-25s are still around. Played this dos game back in the 90s
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I can tell you that elementary and middle-school aged kids do not seem to like the movie, but the sample size I have is small.
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It’s gonna get scrapped. They had too many problems with it. I don’t think they could really move it anywhere. Hell, the crew is fighting as infantry in Ukraine.
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Crimea is a weird way to spell Moscow.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
atomheartbevo replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
atomheartbevo replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
So a shitload of Texas NG members were stuck in shitty conditions along the border, expected to act as Border Patrol/ICE (while getting paid less and being taken away from jobs, college, family, etc.) and now 400 are going to be in Chicago in the winter, again, getting paid less (and away from family, college, jobs, etc.). Going to do wonders for retention and recruitment. One of our neighbors who is in the NG said if he is forced to go up there, he's going to use it a chance to job hunt and interview and see what the market is offering. He wasn't joking around. Granted, he's got 20+ years in, had a solid military career, has a solid civilian career (he could work in any large city - and Portland and Chicago fit the bill for him), and his youngest is about to graduate high school. He's made it abundantly clear that he is going to bail on the Texas NG as soon as the right opportunity presents itself (and may even go back to active duty if he can get things to line up with his future plans). He's at Mabry for his NG commitments, so he's probably pretty clued in on what's happening. I imagine that a lot of members who are not in as good of a position as he is, are even more ready to bail - this shit is fucking with their schooling/civilian careers, all to try and help Abbott get noticed by Trump (won't happen). -
If he had said something like "well, you know, Tomahawks are not the ideal missile for Ukraine because of the normal launch platforms, so maybe we can sell Tomahawks to our allies who have the capability to use them, and could use them to replace other systems that are better suited for Ukraine, and send those systems to Ukraine" I would have been slightly impressed that he thought that far ahead. But if Ukraine ends up with them and he finds out where they are going to use them, I could see him telling some reporter "Well you know, Ukraine has those Tomahawks, and they figured out how to use them and they are going to launch them from these locations, and they plan on targeting these targets in Russia so any Russians living there better be careful." edit: These are the kinds of systems that would be used to launch them on land:
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This is the kind of training that NATO and the US needs. For the first time in NATO's history, the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine led, planned, coordinated, and managed the opposing force (OPFOR) during the REPMUS/Dynamic Messenger 25 exercises held in Portugal. The training incorporated modern trends in naval warfare, particularly the use of unmanned systems for coordinated strikes and rapid response to emerging threats. This year's exercises combined REPMUS - the world's leading event in maritime robotics and unmanned technologies - with Dynamic Messenger (DYMS), which is part of NATO's series of operational exercises. During the exercises, unmanned platforms were integrated into the DELTA combat system used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The integration was carried out according to the new NATO standard STANAG 4817, the testing of which was also one of the key goals of the exercise - namely, to verify interoperability, test unmanned systems under various conditions (including electronic warfare), and train operators. Alongside Ukraine, the REPMUS/DYMS 2025 exercises involved naval forces, enterprises, and research centers from 26 partner nations, as well as representatives from NATO's Maritime Command (MARCOM) in Northwood, the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), the Laboratory of Underwater Systems and Technologies at the University of Porto (LSTS), and the NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative (MUSI).
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[Q]: Have you made a decision on whether to supply Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine or sell them to NATO and let them sell them to Ukraine? President Trump: Yeah, I've sort of made a decision, pretty much. I think I want to find out what they're doing with them. You know, where are they sending them. I guess I'd have to ask that question.
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This is better than any thing I've seen elsewhere on the subject. Crazy that 3 of the top 4 refineries have been hit multiple times - where air defense at? Hey @PTINS 2,000 miles from the Ukrainian border
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Imagine if we invaded Mexico 10 years ago and grabbed Baja California, and then three years ago we did a massive “everything but the kitchen sink” invasion, and after 3 years we had barely gotten a swathe of land between say Big Bend National Park and Nuevo Laredo, and that Mexico had even reclaimed some of that.. Now imagine if in the past few months, Mexico has knocked out even just 20% of our refining capacity. Not 38%-40%, just 20% and they are hitting military facilities and oil refineries in Oklahoma and Colorado and Nevada and Louisiana and even out towards Tennessee. And we had lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and another million wounded
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The Russians do not understand the cost of all these blackouts, of all the hardships that the people of Ukraine experience and endure during this war. And this is not even a question of their morality, which they lack, but of their physical perception. Ukraine does not kill civilians. But they must understand the price of this. Ukraine strikes back, hitting military targets and energy facilities that sell their energy resources. Russia sells its energy resources and then uses that money exclusively for war. That is why Ukraine is taking absolutely just steps. We would gladly not do this. We would gladly wish there were no war, but the Russians do not want that. For now. That is why only pressure can stop this war. Pressure that is multidirectional. The pressure from Western countries today is not enough. Nor is there enough unity in applying that pressure. We need more pressure from the United States, more pressure from Europe. As for the Global South – we do not yet even feel their pressure on Russia to make it stop. And the second vector is Russian society itself. They are killing us. They cannot be allowed to feel comfortable. And when they no longer feel comfortable, they will begin to raise questions with their leadership.
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Are they going to do something towards Belgorod and they are shutting the region down? Or just low-hanging fruit/practice for larger cities? Zelenskyy says it’s part of a pressure campaign.
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Horses are low-maintenance in some ways, but either they are out of vehicles (including commandeered civilian cars) or the drones really are that affect at easily picking up vehicles (I'm leaning towards this). If the vast majority of front-line deaths are from drones and not from artillery and small arms fire, it favors Ukraine - they have shorter internal lines (comms, command & control, etc.), and they are on defense - you need 3-5 to 1 to take a defended position, and drones have to make that even more difficult since they pick up movement from far away. Not to mention that we've seen Ukrainian and Russian accounts of the Russians having to keep their guys spread out and doing their assaults with groups of two soldiers so that everybody is spread out and not as vulnerable to drones, and they don't have the numbers they did. If tonight's drone attacks on Russian forces include more attacks on Crimean-based oil & gas infrastructure, that is going to get the internet generals buzzing. That was a large facility and airfield they hit yesterday.
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Fleetwood Mac has fired Buckingham, hired Mike Campbell
atomheartbevo replied to Gil Bang's topic in Music
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Ehh, just combine the two, we'll call it "Fire Island". Or "Fire Festival" -
Belgorod has over 300,000 people. Would be interesting if this is a run-up to either taking out power for more cities around Russia, or practice runs for some of the largest cities. It could be that they want to make things difficult in Belgorod because it's close and is probably a major hub for pushing supplies and troops into Ukraine. At this point, I doubt they hit that fuel depot in Crimea for shits and giggles - they're probably going to hit the pipelines/pumping stations that push fuel to Crimea sometime soon (and perhaps they already have in the previous weeks), or if they can damage enough of the storage depots, it makes it harder to distribute.
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Ukraine doing work tonight, multiple power plants inside of Russia, one of the largest fuel depots in Crimea, air base in Crimea. This is the second thermal power plant - Klintsy This is the first - Luch Thermal Power Plant
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