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It was fucking brutal, worth a stop if you are ever in the area and a bit of history fan. I don't live far from Kennesaw Mountain, which was a battle in the outskirts of Atlanta, the earth works still exist and one area where a company from Tennessee made the bend and walked directly into artillery. None survived. What is crazy, is that with the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to see that conditions and battlefield tactics had changed, yet for at least another sixty years plus, everyone still taught the Napoleonic tactics. As it applies to today, the Russians still use some of this, (i.e. columns, over dependence on artillery, etc). It isn't just that they take untrained peasants and run them onto the field, it's also that their command is taught tactics that are 200 years old.

Easy joke (relax not serious), It's pretty easy to be in a book in Mississippi, you just have to write it. Of course no civilians deserve anything of this sort, just pure horror and misery. An interesting thing to think about though, is how the siege of Vicksburg essentially foretold where artillery based warfare was going; i.e. the stagnation and trench warfare of WWI. In this case the side that one eventually exhausted supply of the enemy, however, what happens when neither side can be exhausted (hint, it's fucking bad).

Looks like they will need more prayers in Kursk

The Backup Plan has been unleashed

The Ukrainians apparently launched a drone attack on Moscow, and the Russian's have claimed to shoot down 10. This would be the largest single drone attack on Moscow proper if true. As to whether or not the Russians actually shot them down, I guess we will see in the morning. I like this strategy, for a few reasons. The first being, tying up their missiles in Russia keeps them out of the Ukrainian's hair and can only help to exhaust Russian stocks. The second being that psychologically this further removes the idea that somehow Putin is "protecting" the motherland with all this. I hope they keep it up.

Sound like Bush as well, but I digress

I know you can work hard at public speaking, and I know you can improve at it, but some people just have a natural gift with it, Obama is one of those. I'm not trying to take away from his the hard work he put in to it. He's just really good.

This is only night 2. This is by far, without question, the best Democratic convention of my lifetime.

I just hope Lil Jon closes the night with the East Side Boyz

Earlier a poster put together an idea of a potential battle plan with the idea of going towards Melitopol (I forget the poster, apologies), that's a long way from the river banks. However, using the deep state map, I did notice that merely by crossing the river bank anywhere between Kherson and NIkopol, with any heavy equipment (to include HIMARS) they would be within the 300 km range of the Kerch Bridge, making an ATACMS strike possible. I'm not sure that would do the job entirely, I suppose it depends on the warhead. If they are going for it, I would at least have to think this is a strong secondary objective. In searching, the average depth of the Dneiper in this area is between 1.3 meters and 12 meters, however, I'm unclear if this is pre dam demolition or post. Additionally, the width of the river in dry periods ranges anywhere from 200 ft to 1200 ft, again, not clear if this is pre or post dam. In any event, if it is significantly low from even these readings crossing heavy equipment with pontoons might be possible, but I have to imagine still extremely difficult. If they do accomplish this, it would potentially open a door behind the Surovikin line. Fingers crossed.

Noel also picking it up, no confirmation of yet, but he's pretty much on the ball, so....

along with the bureau of prisons budget, the motorpool, the navy, the air force..... Gotta give it to Putin, he's really solved that age old pesky deferred maintenance issue.

By Russian standards, probably not, after all the Soviets had somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million in ww2 (military only, perhaps 20 million more civilian), so this is going just great!

Friendly reminder, the USA lost 419k in all theaters combined in WW2

What a fucking clown

He was the first to buy into Zaslav's (and his dipshit Licht) mandate for "both sides" bullshit, and he hasn't let it go. Zaslav's day's are numbered, the Discovery merger is going to rank up there with the AOL Time Warner merger as being one of the biggest media disasters in history.

Calling CNN a dumpster fire is an insult to a dumpster fire. I still like looking at Erin Burnett though.

I actually get asking for them not to kill Gerasimov, he seems quite shitty.

Politicians are gonna politic, that part I get. This however, is something more damning, at least to me. This indicates that our intel people are either incompetent or are compromised, or worse both. After that, who can blame the Ukrainians for keeping us at arms length on planning?

That's one hell of an indictment of our people and their inability to keep their mouths shut, or worse even being compromised. Not great Bob.

Well going into one is sort of like being a contestant on one of their fucked up game shows, so yeah, I can see it.

A couple of interesting surrenders

We aren't coming for your guns, we are coming for your rascal.

I'm not sure how you deal with this but's it's a big problem when it comes to the "non-profits" out there. The vast majority of these aren't really charities, as often times only an extremely small percentage of the proceeds actually go the causes the claim to support. Basically, they are highly profitable for the board, who gets huge salaries. I remember a few years ago reading an article on Wounded Warrior, in theory a very noble cause, but in reality the actual charity was only seeing somewhere under 20% of the proceeds. That's not a non-profit, nor is it a charity, that's a for profit business venture. That's just one example, and unfortunately, if held under the same scrutiny, my bet is you'd find nearly 80% of the "non-profits" are just like this. As for churches, sure some of them are just ordinary small town places trying to do their level best, but the mega church needs be under intense scrutiny and treated like for profit business, because that's what they are. Again, I don't know the exact way to deal with all this, but some level of threshold when it comes to salaries, holding, and actual charitable acts needs to be considered.

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