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You should have told her whichever one she could get the box seats at...as that is what matters.

The thing that started to become obvious to me is that there were not any "good" Russian guys in the story. I felt the author was the most neutral, and it was him telling the story, but all the Russians whether his friends or others, were all fairly shitty people (at best).

It's really like someone who only achieved a 9th grade education, after failing to advance past that several times, and who then became a bus driver for the next few decades was suddenly made ruler of the country.

He skins his humps and tucks his junk.

The only drug she is on is estrogen.

Fixed it.

Well, Crimea river.

Or place your foot/shoe on the take-out window counter. But nonchalantly, and with heavy eye contact.

In the short term we don't care about meaningful change in Russia. If Putin is killed/removed the new person/regime can hit reset and blame all the ills, poor decisions and losses on Putin. This can include Russia pulling out of Ukraine and blaming Putin for everything and for lying to everyone. Their new justification will also likely be full of lies, but hey...that's how they do it in Russia. What will all of the Pro-Russian, Pro-Putin, Pro-Nuke everyone Russians and commentators say and do? Whatever they are told...as usual. There will be no stalemate from the Ukrainians as long as they want to fight, and my perspective is that they will fight until they reclaim all of their territory. They know that anything less will be viewed by Russia as a pause to regroup and then attack again in a few years. They need to win, and win it all. If they negotiate away anything even "temporarily" or in a "pause" then it will be 10 times harder to go back later. They can fight (and maybe die) on their feet, or live on their knees. We should do everything we can to help them fight as long as that is their choice.

Is this an airport Popeye's?

Someone needs to put "ESPN" name tag on the guy in Blue and then in each picture put a small box in the upper corner that says "The game you want to watch".

But what if they threaten to fire him? 😂

Rubio is on the Senate intelligence committee. Early on he was very upfront on calling out Russian BS, or possible Russian false flags. After 3-4 weeks of interesting public comments on the war he stopped. Originally it seemed like he was being used to disseminate info to expose False flags, but it stopped.

Kill, murder, rape, kidnap…no problem. Try to mobilize me out of my Mom’s basement….it’s on!

Putin would have gotten’ away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling Ukraines!

You should have said you always prefer box to no box and left it at that.

This allegedly happened around 2005-2008 time frame, so the “victims” are now old enough to try and get paid. The real victims in all this are the current Grand Terrace HS football players. “Gordon is now the athletic director at Grand Terrace High School in the CJUSD.” But has been suspended pending investigations.

I love these posts you do! But not sure how much influence “home field” will have.

People say crazy and that is an incorrect assessment. Putin is negotiating both with the Russian populace/elite and with the west. In the West/free world we view negotiation as two parties acting in good faith who each have goals and then work toward a mutually agreeable solution with compromises by both parties. He is Russian and their industrial/modern era MO when negotiating with the West has been to threaten, demand everything, , escalate, threaten, demand again, and escalate some more. Often the West then gives them a lot of what they want and requires little or nothing, often only getting Russia to agree to remove the threat they themselves created as a leverage tool to get concessions. So Putin is acting/negotiating as he and Russia often do, but the difference is that he has started this by asking and taking far more than the West could allow. His age, health and desire for historical importance have already been discussed as reasons for over-stepping Russia’s normal incremental approach. My thought when this was about to start was that Russia would just invade the two disputed territories and no more, and that if he had done only that, and limited his actions to just those areas, that the US and West Would have pushed back much less and we would eventually get to a point where we dispute it but generally accept it like Crimea. Or historically like Austria, then the Sudetenland’s, then Czechoslovakia, etc. Incremental conquest with words of peace if only everyone allows it to stand. As it is clear, and Putin himself has said, that all of Ukraine is the current but not final conquest, It is actually good for us that he grossly misplayed this. But back to crazy. He is here and while reality of the military situation and economic situation should push him to reassess, I think his personal reasons keep him trying to “negotiate” this in the same way he and Russia always have. So he acts and negotiates as he knows best with the West, and honestly how we have trained him again and again through capitulation, that it will work. So he will continue with brinksmanship, and we need to ignore it as if it was a child’s tantrum, we should act like adults, go all in for Ukraine to defend and take back their territory with equipment, training and intel, and try to avoid direct involvement (NATO servicemen and NATO launched bombs) being used at Russian troops. There will be more threats, more brinksmanship, more veiled sabotage and espionage, because that is what Putin knows and also all he has got. It may seem crazy when viewed from the prism of Western negotiations, but that is because it has been 30 years or so since living with and understanding Russia/USSR was more common.

How old are they?

The Oligarchs want to make money (or steal money...220/221). While I agree the next guy will be a shithead as well, he will have the option of blaming this on the last guy (Putin), and walking back the war and their territory claims in order to get the Russian economy back into the global markets and make money. I still think he or the someones after him will harbor delusions of Russian grandeur and likely still cause future problems as you are saying, but I do think Putin going allows for them to walk it back and blame Putin.

Fixed it.

and deservedly so. When someone tries to walk away and give you the win, take it.

You all are stating this wrong. The US has not escalated this. The US has escalated our support as Ukraine continues to fight for their freedom from invaders. Russia intentionally invaded another country to conquer and annex it. Ukraine has been fighting this. None of this has "escalated" at all since the start. So US support has increased (or escalated), but the conflict itself which Russia started....and which Russia could stop by leaving, is the same war of Russian attempted conquest and subjugation of Ukraine. Russia keeps trying to "escalate" the stakes by threatening Nuclear blackmail, but they have been making those threats since they were initially stopped and had to pull back from Kijev. So the Russian doctrine of "Escalate to Deescalate" has been something they continue to push regardless of the level of support from the US or others.

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