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    I would imagine the Fall mud season, prior to the ground freezing will be an especially intense period of NATO weapons training for Ukrainian forces.
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    Yeah. The most recent version has an APU to reduce consumption when idle/overwatch, but the Abrams was designed with the idea that we’d be falling back toward the Fulda gap and shortening our supply lines. the other complication is you can train up a diesel mechanic pretty quick in just about any piston engine, but the Ukrainian mechanics would have to learn how to work on a turbine with the Abrams.
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    I could drop it in Movies and TV, but somebody would get bent out of shape and start screaming NO CR!
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    Definitely don’t google Rule 34.
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    Like, no shit Sherlock. Apparently this is the new horror/ outrage Libs have visited upon America. Did people not know Velma was gay? It wasn’t even really a secret in my mind. Shaggy smokes pot, Scoobie snacks are meth, and Velma is gay. This isn’t rocket surgery.
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    For any gearheads, here’s Chris Harris in a 60s era Le Mans winning Ferrari from a driving perspective. It’s not the same car Ford beat (250LM vs a 330?) but same family. If you don’t want to watch all the misty Goodwood stuff, fast forward to about 6:10.
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    Add in Lee Majors and this might as well be the opening movie from Scrooged.
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    The Last Duel. The action is excellent (I mean, it’s a Ridley Scott film), but I could have used more. The rest of the movie is, well, a bit inert. I like the 3 perspective design, but holy fuck they needed to shave 30 minutes off. Still, perfectly watchable. Honestly, my favorite part is Ben Affleck’s character, who is so ridiculous as to steal every scene he’s in.
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    Look at the Europeans trying to beat us into being the Ukrainians primary MBT provider. Capitalism occasionally has it's charms.
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    I was going to go with mature, healthy Cape Buffalo will go out of their way to kill lions if they can get away with it (as will Elephants).
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    Was that unnamed official Maggie Haberman?
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    Is it daze or days? And don’t consult a lyrics website. Give me your thoughts.
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    That bass drum isn't fucking cheap, yo.
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    The Battle of Mogadishu, in many ways, still reverberates through our military today. The lack of overwhelming air cover, reliance on under-armored vehicles, equipment failures, training failures, etc illustrated the need for the military to cast off it's Cold War mindset and start modernizing. The lessons learned from 1993 would save a lot of lives and improve operational efficiencies after 9/11. I know people like to blame the Bush 1 and Clinton Administrations for mission creep, and plenty of blame is correct, but ultimately, the affair led the Pentagon to do a lot of looking inward and think about what the future should look like. It's the opposite of the Chechen invasion for the Russians, who learned nothing from the debacle of the 1st Chechen War. A failure that is probably going to cost them the Ukrainian War.
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    Interestingly, I had my car rifled through when I went to Lowe's the other day. That's on me for not locking my car. I don't keep shit of value in my car, for that exact reason. I wouldn't call cold whataburger valuable, tbh, but a man's gotta eat. I guess. Tl;dr: OP is a bitch.
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    So, if you’ve gotten this far in this thread and haven’t read Keegan’s Faces of Battle, please do. It’s incredibly illuminating about the day to day lives of soldiers and close combat. One of the things he talks about is how routes have a tendency to build on themselves, and running from an enemy actually increases your chances of being killed. The route and the drive to pursue and kill build on each other an it requires and intense command structure to keep the winners from slaughtering the losers.
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    I can't imagine how much frozen Russian assets are already currently tied up in Greek and Cypriot financial institutions. I'm sure the local governments want a cut, restitution, etc.
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    HE'S NOT A FUCKING ENGINEER. While he has a BA in Physics and a BS in Economics, he's not a technical person. He actively allows people to think that he is a STEM specialist despite the fact that he is absolutely not. He has a technical adjacent background.
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    Europe has to negotiate (buy off the Turks). It's better to keep Turkey close and deal with Erdogan's bullshit than cut them loose and see them become a rogue state. You are correct. Kicking Hungary out of Nato and the EU would be a big deal, but it would devastate Hungary. Land locked, militarily weak, without access to other allies, they would be lumped in with the Serbs. Orban will come around once Erdogan signs on the line.
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    Hungry we all know and hate. I would assume Greece (and their proxies in Cyprus) want something: money, arms, lube, idk. the only thing I know about Malta is Below Deck Mediterranean is filming this season.
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    All I know is walleye is fucking delicious.
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    As a not military guy, the Navy sounds super fucked up, even by DC standards. Jesus.
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    Totally agree. She pretty much carried that segment and some how made me love her more than I already do, which I didn’t think was possible.
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    Este. Sadly.

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