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[SmokeyTheBear 5,562]

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

 

[crash_davis 23,113]

4 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

much respect to how you own it.

[956 Worldwide 34,715]

5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

 

 

Here’s where I plunge in to remind everyone that Prigozhin recruiting for “Wagner” really means “Putin” recruiting for the “Russian Defense Ministry.” Wagner is just a convenient semi-fiction that exists solely so that Russia can do things that are illegal under Russian law, like recruit convicts. 

[elfenix 34,269]

2 hours ago, The Royal We said:

Correct.  It's a paper tiger held together with gauze pads, bailing wire, duck tape, and ball bearings.

[crash_davis 23,113]

Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

Here’s where I plunge in to remind everyone that Prigozhin recruiting for “Wagner” really means “Putin” recruiting for the “Russian Defense Ministry.” Wagner is just a convenient semi-fiction that exists solely so that Russia can do things that are illegal under Russian law, like recruit convicts. 

Convicts die too. Don't give a shit. Sent whole prisons worth. Fuck em all.

[Macanudo 12,983]

8 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

much respect to how you own it.

Let's be fair...  If that was the case, there'd be some gumbo, road kill and cheap liquor involved then too.

[dimyh 1,874]

Russia still making a late push to get the #1 recruiting class in the Eastern Europe conference. Look at all of those 2* star recruits still out there! Wonder if he is showing his depth chart and selling everyone on the benefit of guaranteed playing time?

 

[Pato del Muerto 52,508]

22 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

much respect to how you own it.

Wouldn’t you feel better about owning the Charlie strong era if he won a title in between incompetent seasons?

Edited September 15, 2022 by Pato del Muerto
Phrasing

[Bateshorn 9,928]

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

 

 

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

 

[MillerEP 30,490]

 

[MillerEP 30,490]

 

[SimonBolivar 10,958]

24 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

This is my favorite part of Eritrea's wikipedia page
 

Population
• Estimate	3.6-6.7 million

 

In other words, fuck if we know.

[MillerEP 30,490]

 

[MillerEP 30,490]

^😆

[MillerEP 30,490]

5 left:

Hungary 
Portugal
Slovakia 
Spain 
Türkiye 

 

 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

 

 

 

if god is with us, who can be against?

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

 

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

Long thread about how incompetent the German intelligence and military has been about Ukraine.

 

[MagicSoccerSpray 1,732]

39 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

 

 

 

if god is with us, who can be against?

 

Finally. Must have broken that communist's heart to say that.

 

[cactusflinthead 27,601]

1 minute ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 

Finally. Must have broken that communist's heart to say that.

 

You just called the pope a communist?

[Pescado_Rojo 19,418]

3 hours ago, MillerEP said:

 

I'm sure those Eritrean troops will love the Ukrainian winter. And I'm sure Russia will make sure they have adequate cold weather gear and rations. 

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Paywall.  But the thesis is damned important.  Always be thinking ahead, and in this case, one of the reasonably likely paths ahead is one of massive chaos and upheaval, which presents both incredible danger and incredible opportunity.

Gotta defeat Russia and win this war first.....but it would be stupid not to be gaming for all reasonably possible outcomes over the next few months to several years.

Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union fell apart fairly fast, relatively speaking. 

This quote from earlier could apply:  Dornbusch's Law in action. That law says that the inevitable crisis takes longer to come than you can imagine, but when it does come, it happens faster than you can imagine.

 

[Rimbo 25,967]

🤣🤣🤣

[RDCanecutter 26,447]

36 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm sure those Eritrean troops will love the Ukrainian winter. And I'm sure Russia will make sure they have adequate cold weather gear and rations. 

Looks like a handy way for the Eritrean High Honcho to send troublesome elements far away to die.

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

8 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I've been thinking about this a long time.  Could be that the US presidential election threw him off balance, there is the Zeihan stuff, and for it to have worked he probably should have done it in Jan 2021 or the delay to do it after the Olympics threw off the timing. 

Ukraine is larger and has far more people than Iraq did in 2003, and we invaded Iraq in 2003 with a larger force than Russia did, and we did this after 12 or so years that saw Iraq’s military substantially weakened.   Putin thought he could do what we did, but on a smaller scale, and leave more of the infrastructure intact (since Russia wanted to annex Ukraine). And this at the end of nearly 8 years of the West and Ukraine working on Ukraine’s military.

2011 would have been much better demographics-wise and vastly better military-wise?

 I’ve been wishy-washy on Zeihan over the past few months because he still believed Russia would win, but the recent Ukrainian streak has him changing his tune.  I really like that he talks about demographics, because a lot of analyst types talk about Russia as just this group of 130 million people or whatever, and they don’t drill down to what that actually means in terms of how many military-aged men that means, and more importantly, how Putin is limited on mobilization, because the pool of military-aged men is also the pool of a lot of prime workers in manufacturing and the Russian economy as a whole, etc.

8 hours ago, TexasEd said:

  I've said it before.  I hope he dies from an artillery hit while taking a shit and falls into his own feces.

 

Can we crowd-source some Texans in the Foreign Legion to track him down?  Don’t even have to kill him, just drive him around to all of the areas he thinks Russia still holds.

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8 hours ago, ryskey said:

I think you have to exclude ball bearings at this point

https://www.bearing-news.com/bearing-industry-update-on-ukraine-russia-conflict-part-2-may-2022/

Of course there are websites devoted to the news of bearing manufacturing, and that they’d be analyzing this conflict in terms of the impact on bearing productions.

And of course that out out a magazine on bearings.  I don’t know why I find that awesome.

[Gatorubet 30,246]

1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

You just called the pope a communist?

Pedophile protecting communist. Let’s be accurate.

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

48 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm sure those Eritrean troops will love the Ukrainian winter. And I'm sure Russia will make sure they have adequate cold weather gear and rations. 

Has a real "Jamaican bobsled" feel to it. Eritrea, we have an infantry fighting team!

Edited September 16, 2022 by Schulz2.0

[RDCanecutter 26,447]

3 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Has a real "Jamaican bobsled" feel to it. Eritrea, we have an infantry fighting team!

Say I'm an Eritrean dude without family connections. I could wash dishes in Paris and make more cash than my town's mayor. But those rubber dinghies sink sometimes. 

If I learn to say "I surrender" in Russian, and hug the ground while the tanks roll by, is that a better deal than a rubber dinghy?

I dunno. I'd be thinking about it.

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19,418]

5 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Say I'm an Eritrean dude without family connections. I could wash dishes in Paris and make more cash than my town's mayor. But those rubber dinghies sink sometimes. 

If I learn to say "I surrender" in Russian, and hug the ground while the tanks roll by, is that a better deal than a rubber dinghy?

I dunno. I'd be thinking about it.

It would be pretty tough to throw on civilian clothes and wander off without standing out...

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

 

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

 

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

Long thread about how incompetent the German intelligence and military has been about Ukraine.
 

I guess we did too good of a job breaking the German military.

[Brisketexan 105,154]

 
Of course there are websites devoted to the news of bearing manufacturing, and that they’d be analyzing this conflict in terms of the impact on bearing productions.
And of course that out out a magazine on bearings.  I don’t know why I find that awesome.

So….I actually knew, worked with, and drank beer with the multi-billionaire owner of the Schaeffler group (German bearing manufacturer featured in that article). None of us knew he was a billionaire back then. He was trying to live a quiet life as an ordinary texas lawyer. True story.

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

🤣🤣🤣

For a moment, I thought that it said he made it with Erin Burnett, and I was ready to 

[Born to Run 6,569]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/europe/biden-will-not-designate-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism.html
No CR but the Biden admin has said “This designation could have unintended consequences to Ukraine and the world." which makes me think they are concerned about crude and other prices will react if the Russians are truly shut off from the world. 
If the Russians are no longer able to market crude to India and China, we very quickly return to a +$110 price environment on crude oil which doesn't play well into the admins hands with gas prices and heating right before the election in Nov. (Sorry this is probably CR material but that's my take working in the commodities side of the industry)

Fair take, I feel like that should be allowed in this thread.

[Schulz2.0 28,959]

7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

He was trying to live a quiet life as an ordinary texas lawyer.

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

Given that these shows are approved by Putin, and that he feeds them subjects or things to say, they are always floating a lot of trial balloons.  That makes this one interesting, given that they are leaning harder into it being a full-on war, and using that term, and that they want all power and water infrastructure destroyed.  

A lot of Russians won’t get the underlying currents on those comments about plunging Ukraine into darkness, especially since many Russians want nothing to do with the war and are not watching this show, but it’s a clear sign that they no longer think they can hold much, if any, of Ukraine in the long run, and just want to destroy as much as they can. 

There is a narrative being formed:

1. They can’t hold much, if any, of Ukraine and therefore have to make civilians absolutely miserable
2. It’s the West’s fault they are losing 
3. Putin is getting bad advice from somebody.
4. Putin desperately wants to call it a war, but is unable to do so.

 

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

If Russia goes all in on destroying every bit of power and water infrastructure they can, we really need to talk about ATACMS. 

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

If Russia goes all in on destroying every bit of power and water infrastructure they can, we really need to talk about ATACMS. 

I’m wondering how many Russian power plants would begin to catch fire.

[Scheiss Meister 8,408]

I am mighty tempted to say Ukraine should respond by reciprocating and hitting Bolgorad, Kursk, and other Russian cities in range of HIMARS and destroying their infrastructure.  I would rather Ukraine continue to concentrate on the Russian Army until they are all dead or gone from Ukrainian territory.  Again, Russia shows that they are better terrorists than soldiers, and they know it.

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/15/vladimir-putins-war-is-failing-the-west-should-help-it-fail-faster

Edited September 16, 2022 by atomheartbevo

[Chad Fuck 17,684]

I am mighty tempted to say Ukraine should respond by reciprocating and hitting Bolgorad, Kursk, and other Russian cities in range of HIMARS and destroying their infrastructure.  I would rather Ukraine continue to concentrate on the Russian Army until they are all dead or gone from Ukrainian territory.  Again, Russia shows that they are better terrorists than soldiers, and they know it.

This is indeed the voice of reason.

[atomheartbevo 89,686]

 

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[F250 28,777]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Of course there are websites devoted to the news of bearing manufacturing, and that they’d be analyzing this conflict in terms of the impact on bearing productions.

And of course that out out a magazine on bearings.  I don’t know why I find that awesome.

Csb

A number of years ago I was overseeing a security assessment of a large bearings manufacturer. On the second day we discovered that their SCM system was accessible from the internet. I notified the customer and they reacted with a 5 alarm fire and fixed the issue immediately.

I told my team that we have never seen that kind of reaction from retail, banks or critical infrastructure organizations. Then followed up with "WTF are they doing with these bearings that they reacted this way.

Tldr

Bearing manufacturing is serious business.

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[atomheartbevo 89,686]

It this a big deal?