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atomheartbevo

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  1. atomheartbevo

    Rush

    I'm just glad that there will finally be a woman at a Rush concert.
  2. I think he believes it will be like Panama or Grenada. It's scary because he really needs a distraction after he keeps getting embarrassed at home and with the shutdown starting to fuck things up (the last 3 shutdowns were under him). He really wants other nations to fear him, all the while he doesn't realize that Europe and China are starting to replace us on the world stage. This is what the real problem is (not the oil, although that will come into play) - it's in our backyard. I'm putting it at pretty good odds that we do something serious in the next few weeks.
  3. @PTINS may have the numbers, but it's a lot. And the two refineries on this map below Moscow, and the two near Sochi may have been hit since since this article came out in August. Ukraine Is Systematically Striking All Major russian Refineries At Distance of Up to 1000 km (Map) | Defense Express And the Ukrainians are putting pressure all across the oil & gas infrastructure - pipelines, pumping stations, fuel depots (Russia doesn't have as much static storage I believe), refineries, etc., so it's a lot of chaos- even if a refinery is up and running, it may not be able to receive enough to stay running 24/7 or it may not be able to push much downstream if the pumping stations or fuel depots are offline. And they will fall back to rail, but damage to railways/engines has been happening here and there and Russia can't get their trains too close to Ukraine these days.
  4. This will hopefully piss off Trump since it's a jab at the US. A “Moscow Format” meeting is underway in Moscow with Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in attendance, his first visit since Russia officially recognized the Taliban government in July. Lavrov stated that any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan is unacceptable and discussed prospects for bilateral relations.
  5. The fire at the Feodosia oil depot, struck by Ukrainian drones on the night of October 6, remains active. Flames have spread to additional storage tanks, with four large ones now at risk. Tanks marked in red were hit in previous strikes, while those in yellow are threatened as the fire risks spreading to two more.
  6. With so much shit going sideways today, on purpose, occasionally something good does happen, like Rush going back on tour.
  7. Now hold on there, that sounds like some states rights bullshit coming out of South Carolina, and we can’t have that - maybe President Trump needs to send some troops down there to occupy a fort and teach South Carolinians a lesson.
  8. atomheartbevo

    Rush

  9. 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.
  10. Can’t believe Su-25s are still around. Played this dos game back in the 90s
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Crimea is a weird way to spell Moscow.
  14. How long until the UMC is branded a terrorist organization and Venezuela is bombed as a result?
  15. 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).
  16. 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:
  17. 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).
  18. [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.
  19. 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
  20. 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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