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  1. 6 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Except it's not a crime to simply possess a $100 bill. There's a reasonable reason for you to have that. Ain't no reason for you to have a kilo of coke, and just like it's easy to separate the legal docs from the pile of coke, so too is it easy to separate things with classification markings from those without. 

    But what if I communicated to my lawyer via lines of coke set up like cuneiform letters? You never thought of that, did you, huh?

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  2. 23 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

    I don't have any issue with the US sending weapons. I fully support it and think they should send more. My issue is about Ukrainian officials bitching about the speed of delivery and type of weapons they are getting. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth and don't bite the hand that feeds you.

    They are the ones dying, being raped, having cities destroyed.  They can bitch all they want and it won’t bother me. 

    I’d love to know the true amount of captured ammo tho…

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  3. 2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    I'm not sure it was that close. Kyiv would've been insane for the Russians if some locals assisted by SOF stopped them on the way.

    If enough Russian armor had made it into Kyiv - and the airport lost - the government fleeing might have been seen as the best option.   Had that happened, the fact that Russia would have lost a shit ton of people over time trying to hold it would not have prevented a shit ton of orcs from occupying Ukraine for a while.  

    Take away the “I need ammo, not a ride” moment and maybe many, many good things would not have happened.   I mean, who the fuck knows what it would look like now.

    Maybe my take is wrong.  But to me, it read like absent the civilian volunteers at critical moments the Ukrainian military alone would have faltered.  

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  4. That story shows just how fucking close that first couple weeks were.  Almost a damn miracle.  But ordinary Ukrainian civilians rose up and found a way to halt that first attack….by a thread.  

    The money quote is the Orc who lost his tank commander and told the Ukrainian woman he “did not know if they should go forward or back…”.   No initiative and no training.  

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  5. 22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And.....these.

    As we game possible future scenarios, a Russian collapse/civil war/power struggle/free-for-all with nukes in play is one of the paths.  In fact, some version or another of that is likely MANY of the possible - even most likely - coming scenarios.  That level of chaos is "black swan event" type shit -- functionally impossible to predict with precision.  The West's play absolutely has to be 1) intelligence sharing on a large scale 2) of info from the majority of our assets in Russia in order to 3) figure out who is making the moves most likely to succeed, and 4) to begin negotiating with them on a path forward that allows them a "win," and gives them an incentive to consolidate power quickly and avoid further conflict with the West.

    Pretty easy to say.  Going to be hard as shit to execute.

    Naturally, my first thoughts went to the possibility that upon break up we need to focus on Surly Only Fans Franchises in the former Russian Federation - and explore the possibility that they can sponsor/participate in NIL opportunities

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  6. 2 hours ago, Fico said:

     

    All you assholes dissing Putin better stop and reassess.   This True American Hero is single-handedly destroying the Russian Federation and its future.  If there was a “Ronald Reagan Medal of Freedom for Heroic Re-Dismantling of the Evil Empire”, he should get it. 

    Plus, that NATO Membership Salesman of the Year Award.  

     

     

     

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