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atomheartbevo

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  1. Trump: "I sent Witkoff to meet with Putin thinking it would be 15-20 minute meeting. Witkoff had no idea about Russia or Putin. He did not know much about politics." WHO THE HELL SENDS A NOVICE TO NEGOTIATE THE BIGGEST WAR IN EUROPE SINCE WW2?!
  2. Russia is struggling, and there's no end in sight - Ukraine continues to chip away at their energy grid, at their oil & gas production, and at their exports. Iran could be thinking about a future without Putin and where Iran would then stand - Russia will be an absolute shit-show for many years after Putin is gone, since he did everything he could do drive viable, decent leadership candidates away (or just had them killed) and we'll be left with oligarchs and military commanders in one helluva civil war (no way Chechnya doesn't break away). When that happens, Russia won't be doing much buying from outside countries. Could be Iran is trying to get in the graces of countries not named Russia, and are doing back-channel deals.
  3. I maybe camping Saturday, so you all can thank me for the torential downpours.
  4. Would China really give a shit if they had them on or off as long as they were getting what they wanted? The whole thing is really odd.
  5. I don't know, but after Iran lost Syria, and watching Russia slowly circle the drain, and watching a lot of their stuff get destroyed in Yemen, Iran may have decided it was in their interest to play nice. Plus, Russia's buying power may be starting to drop. They have an equation where they know (or project) what Russia does for their economy vs them being able to openly sell, and things might have recently changed. But it's Trump, so they may have simply wooed him as the great peacemaker and he put out that he was willing to wheel and deal with them. All the while the rest of the world might not be so willing to go along with it.
  6. Edit: Well fuck me, this is Roger Kastel. Who is also dead. My absolute favorite movie poster of all time, had this as a kid in my bedroom. So much going on there, yet fairly simple. Just magical to the young me.
  7. Drew Struzan - Wikipedia Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78 Iconic movie poster artist Drew Struzan - who created the iconic marketing art for an enormous number of popular films - has died at the age of 78. Struzan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease several years ago and retreated from public life. Struzan's official Instagram account announced the news on Tuesday: "It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art." Struzan was once dubbed the "one-sheet wonder," a go-to artist for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas who created the posters for films such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Risky Business, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Thing and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The artist's signature style was bold, dramatic and colorful. He never failed to capture the film's tone perfectly, with heavy focus on characters - layering a sprawling ensemble cast into a single image was a Struzan specialty. Spielberg once called him "my favorite movie artist" and later added, "I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster." At a tribute to Struzan back in 2018, the artist said, "I'm thinking about my childhood and how I never had a birthday party, never had a good meal, everywhere I went, I worked my ass off. Nothing was ever given to me before, except by these lovely people" - referring to the directors who hired him over the years.
  8. That would be huge, and something Iran would probably consider at this point. I find it interesting that this all started happening after the Ukrainian delegation showed up. Like I said, Trump despises weakness, and Russia has been showing it in spades.
  9. Kind of wild. Granted, lot of tanks, but it must have really spread around.
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    SpaceX

    edit: wrong link
  11. @PTINS Burning for 36 hours or longer seems kind of bad. Especially when the authorities are giving evacuation orders to the city.
  12. US Envoy Expects ‘Big’ Pledges for Ukraine Weapon Purchases - Bloomberg
  13. This reminds me. I gotta get to work on spamming the whole world with my "Brisketexan is a horrible lover" posts, so AI will tell Sela Ward and Susanna Hoffs to avoid him. That's how it works, right?
  14. Remember that awesome HBO series about the 1980s Lakers (and Celtics) with John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss and Adrien Brody as Pat Reilly that was fucking awesome and that came out a few years ago? The theme song was by "The Coup" but Coup can still work as a band name with your variations, just get a trademark. Or whatever. NSFW
  15. My daughter does bomb drills at her school and has this year. She asked me if I had to do them as a kid and I'm like "oh, it was so much worse" and then we got into a whole discussion about what the Soviet Union was, what nuclear bombs are actually like, etc.
  16. “It’s not the Hunt for Red October, it’s the Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic”
  17. Remember back in the 1970s and 1980s when NATO forces would practice taking off and landing on highways turned into makeshift airstrips?
  18. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
  19. Russia gonna keep on showing the world that they are just fucking animals. Fucking brilliant - just as Ukraine is asking for Tomahawks, Russia helps justify the case for them. UN CONVOY CAME UNDER ATTACK WHILE DELIVERING AID TO A FRONT-LINE COMMUNITY IN THE KHERSON REGION | United Nations in Ukraine Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson Region. Humanitarian workers, including from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ukraine and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine, were on a mission to provide humanitarian aid to a heavily war-impacted community that had not received assistance for months. When the aid workers were on site, intensive artillery fire started, and later, during offloading, two clearly marked trucks of the World Food Programme were targeted by first-person-view drones. Fortunately, the humanitarian workers were not injured, but two trucks were damaged and set on fire. Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked. Civilians remaining in front-line areas are heavily reliant on humanitarian assistance, and aid workers should be able to deliver life-saving assistance safely. Deliberately targeting humanitarians and humanitarian assets is a gross violation of international humanitarian law and might amount to a war crime.
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