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atomheartbevo

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  1. So the socials are saying it's a distillation column/unit that suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Older bingo card from a month ago.
  2. Hitting that tower 1,200 km deep is the kind of accuracy the Pentagon would be proud of and would be bragging about. Pretty wild to see it in broad daylight, and you know that stuff is circulating on Russian social media.
  3. @PTINS holy shit video of them hitting a tower of some sort at a refinery in broad daylight
  4. Meanwhile, what’s Peron up to?
  5. Jake Bro got noticed by both the White House and the Kremlin.
  6. 52 minute video - Rob Lee interviewed a commander of a Ukrainian Marine Brigade. Time stamps if you click through.
  7. An explosion occurred on the Pskov–Saint Petersburg railway, which is used for the Russian army’s military logistics. According to Ukrainian media sources in the HUR, the tracks were damaged, and a freight train caught fire partially. Railway traffic has been halted, which will affect the supply of Russian troops.
  8. Or it could be that they've so thoroughly depleted Russian air defenses (and or Paranoid Putin has pulled them all back to Moscow and St. Petersburg) that they feel like they can fly them in daytime (and most likely be more accurate). Meanwhile,
  9. Ukraine trying to buy Hueys and Cobras. Keep an eye out for this guy
  10. Wow, almost reads like one of those Russian letters "Dear Mr. Putin, we love you but you clearly aren't hearing accurate news from your subordinates and we just want you to know that we are getting rat-fucked and we know you really don't mean to do this to us." (1) Meriwether Farms on X: "Dear @POTUS Trump, We love you and support you— but your suggestion to buy beef from Argentina to stabilize beef prices would be an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher. We understand there are larger economic and geopolitical dynamics at play, including countering" / X
  11. I talked to one of my cousins in Oklahoma, she and her husband have her parents farm, and they do farm (150 acres), but it's more of a side thing for them - her husband has a machine shop on the place and that's most of their income. She said farmers are absolutely talking about Argentina and not happy at all about Trump throwing money at them, etc. She sent me this, and they have millions of members. She also said everybody is ripping into the legislators and asking why the fuck can't they get $40 billion. Farm Bureau Urges Restraint on Beef Imports | News Release | American Farm Bureau Federation That can be read quite a few ways, but it's pretty clear that they and the Cattlemans' association are not happy with this. These press releases were rushed out within a few days of the news hitting the wire. Trump's not a farmer and has absolutely no clue how many family farms are limping along, and being covered by "regular" jobs that one or both spouses have outside of the farm.
  12. I haven't watched or read anything about the admiral, but I've been seeing concerns about the whole "war powers" thing and the administration trying to tie it to 9/11 and people saying "nah".
  13. The Russian "soldiers" can loot food, fuel, and ammo. Maybe not much, and maybe they die in the process of trying. And the generals will try to make sure they at least get ammo, because Russian soldiers surrendering = trip out of a window for leadership. Food and fuel, not so much, and they've already pulled out Soviet-era food. The Muscovites and St. Petersburg types can buy food on the black market (but not all can), but can't loot electricity, or buy it on the black market. And the panic buying kicks in and the black-market kicks in and reduces the government's ability to move stuff around because the wealthy are buying it up. That could very well explain why they are hitting power stations/substations in cities that ostensibly have small-ish populations (hundreds of thousands) but I bet if one digs, they act as transport hubs of some kind. Thanks, some interesting stuff to ponder, would be curious to look at the cities whose power grids were knocked offline, since everybody is focusing on oil & gas.
  14. If I had to guess, they want to agree but tried to get the admin to change some things.
  15. It probably embarrasses the shit out of him, given how much he’s been selling himself as a deal maker and settler of wars lately.
  16. Noel Reports: “Russia has rejected Trump’s proposed plan to freeze the war along current front lines. “Russia’s negotiation stance, to halt troops at existing positions, remains unchanged,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov stated.“ “Ukraine’s General Staff has confirmed strikes on Russia’s Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery and Orenburg gas processing plant overnight on October 19. The Novokuybyshevsk refinery, processing 4.9M tons of crude annually, suffered hits to its primary refining units. At Orenburg, one of Russia’s largest gas plants, fires broke out following damage to gas treatment systems.”
  17. National Cattleman’s Beef Association is not thrilled. https://www.ncba.org/news-media/news/details/44430/argentinian-beef-import-plan-harms-us-cattle-producers Today, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) responded to comments from President Donald J. Trump that suggested importing Argentinian beef as a solution to lower beef prices. NCBA’s family farmers and ranchers are concerned that rewarding Argentina with this expanded access to the U.S. market harms American cattlemen and women, while also interfering with the free market. “NCBA’s family farmers and ranchers have numerous concerns with importing more Argentinian beef to lower prices for consumers. This plan only creates chaos at a critical time of the year for American cattle producers, while doing nothing to lower grocery store prices,” said NCBA CEO Colin Woodall. “Additionally, Argentina has a deeply unbalanced trade relationship with the U.S. In the past five years Argentina has sold more than $801 million of beef into the U.S. market. By comparison, the U.S. has sold just over $7 million worth of American beef to Argentina. Argentina also has a history of foot-and-mouth disease, which if brought to the United States, could decimate our domestic livestock production.” Although beef prices have increased, consumer demand for beef remains strong because of the work American cattle producers have done to improve the quality and safety of U.S. beef. We call on President Trump and members of Congress to let the market work, rather than intervening in ways that do nothing but harm rural America.
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