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Ukraine is killing it on morale propaganda like as if it was hundreds of RU paratroopers.

Or we in the mother of all proxy wars and will eventually act in accordance once all the necessary pieces are in place. Giving NATO everything needed to fight RU is the first step required for entering into this war.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien · 9h I would never have imagined early in my career I would be in real time, closely following the movement of tanks and trucks on secondary roads in Ukraine in mud season. Life is strange. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1513941989338894340?s=20&t=BPjXHLjM9JeWBsczOzJI8w

Keep in mind it took half a year to do the logistics for Desert Storm not 45 days. There is a hell of a lot of USA shit flooding NATO/Europe/Ukraine even faster than during the greatest logistics feat in all of the military history of the world for Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

The talk is heading towards a far more active US participation.

We bought some for use in Afghanistan but there are websites that advertise them for sale. https://www.militaryaerospace.com/communications/article/16715565/us-army-to-buy-30-russian-mi17-helicopters-for-use-in-high-hot-areas-of-afghanistan

UA SOF snagged Putin's Ukraine right hand man Viktor Medvedchuk. He was smart enough to be wearing Ukraine camo pattern. EDIT- of course Miller posted it first.

That's how propaganda works. Try to find any 'shady' past/neo-nazi stories prior to Azov fucking RU's shit up in 2014.

Don't think this one has made it here yet. Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel · 14h just noticing this little Easter egg that was hidden at the end of the U.S. judge ruling last week ordering the seizure of Vekselberg's yacht. https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1513491675376672779?s=20&t=HEHRflCMSEOM6hWf17QjjQ

If I don't move off this post in 4 hours should I see a doctor?

Think UKa version of Green Berets painted by RU propaganda as Neo-Nazis since they kicked RU's ass in 2014-2015.

RU is openly talking about needing to 'purify' the elites which shows they don't think twice about how they've relegated the serf class.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/11/7338832/

Good read from former Ambassador McFaul published in 2020. https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/45/2/95/95260/Putin-Putinism-and-the-Domestic-Determinants-of#.YlRNmOj8xLc.twitter

Someone want to explain military parlance of indirect fire for direct hits on armor by artillery fire? Does it just mean those firing the artillery can't see what they are shelling with accuracy?

Helos skimming the waves over the Azov Sea to stay under radar. Took a few weeks for RU to spot it.

Josh Humphrey of easywdw has passed. Josh's acerbic wit made easywdw the surly of park blogging. Fellow park blogger tributes- https://touringplans.com/blog/s6-easywdw/

On this note my German ancestors fled Prussia in the other '49ers movement being the Prussian purge of the intelligentsia in 1849. They arrived and became wagon drivers for the Union in the Civil war to earn our family's farm land. Three generations spoke German as their main language until 1917. My grandmother born in 1901 was the last to learn/speak German. The US was a multilingual from all the immigrants until WWI.

Gunners gonna gun until made partner.

Jackson’s catering bill being 7 figures wouldn’t surprise me. Last one I was at had the Cirque style aerialists in the lobby. Maybe at the Natural Science Museum?

It is big soirée usually held at the Houston Fine Arts Museum to entertain clients and judges. All former V&E lawyers are invited since they tend to use V&E as outside counsel. It was annual until the Great Recession and then moved to every other year and apparently every 5 years now.

This gets to the story I've told before of an Exxon exec friend of my parents that hired English majors over business majors because it was easier to teach English majors business than it was teaching business majors how to write.

Is the V&E prom still a thing or did COVID kill it? We never made the trek while we were in the Midwest.

Ukraine tea bagging RU with the weapons the Baltic states are helping to flooding them with pretty well does this change 'organically' and lets RU know the Baltic states are not the wayward client states RU views them as and will indeed fight RU to the last human willing to stand up against tyranny. Want to retake the Baltic states? RU's going to have hundreds of thousands dead soldiers in that try.