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44 minutes ago, Parliament said:

That's a nifty headline, but to me it just looks like two guys on a lark trying to blow off steam after being on the front line.  The real shit is buried deep in the article:

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“Russian forces are sustaining heavy losses,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight explained. “However, they continue advancing in multiple areas where Ukrainian defenses are stretched thin due to manpower shortages—and where Russia has been able to concentrate superior numbers.”

 

 

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6 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Those morons are going to run like rabbits when they see a phalanx of machine gun drones coming their way.

I sure as fuck would.

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Joke on you, can’t see shit!

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On 2/4/2025 at 2:41 PM, Laxtonto said:

This is good and bad, because if you throw up a map of rare earth minerals, you now have a defacto set of new boundaries for the Ukraine. 
 

Back to the carrot and the stick approach to all of these negotiations.  I don’t necessarily like the approach because it now implies that the aid we now gives comes at a “price”, but it also now provides a legitimate impetuous for the US to provide assistance that make sure that the mineral rights they get are now being protected. Also it puts added pressure on Russia to be careful of over running locations now in which the US has territorial mineral rights to.

The real question will be what aid does this buy and what, if any, conditions that aid comes with? Any new redlines in their use? Any old redlines removed?

The devil is in the details.

I know you know this, but it's always worth repeating in the off chance that somebody may read it for the first time, but we have many legitimate reasons other than just helping an ally and defending democracy (which should be enough by itself). The majority of money we've "spent" has never left the States. It's being spent all over the county in factories, providing munitions, supplies, thousands of jobs, etc. And all the vehicles, tanks and whatnot were a liability for us as we were paying to store, maintain and eventually pay to dispose of them. 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Parliament said:

It’d be better if we were doing this only to help Ukraine, but to sell it we need to articulate more reasons:

1) Domestic manufacturing of highly technical weapons.

 1a) All the additional weapons we’re selling allied because of how good our shit kills things.

2) Mineral, oil and NG

3) The only good Russian is a dead Russian.  Since 1946, America has worked to make a World where Russia can’t project power outside the borders of their own shithole country.  Those of us raised in the 80’s and still love Reagan need to remind those of us raised in the 80’s who no longer believe in that.  We are SO close to stuffing those fuckwads in a box that Harry Truman started building a generation ago.  Let us not lose faith.

Fuck yeah.

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Oligarchs are finally getting some relief

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-2025-02-06/

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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.


A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, issued on Wednesday during a wave of orders on her first day in office but not previously reported, said the effort, known as Task Force KleptoCapture, will end as part of a shift in focus and funding to combating drug cartels and international gangs.

"This policy requires a fundamental change in mindset and approach," Bondi wrote in the directive, adding that resources now devoted to enforcing sanctions and seizing the assets of oligarchs will be redirected to countering cartels.

The effort, launched during Democratic President Joe Biden's administration, was designed to strain the finances of wealthy associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin and punish those facilitating sanctions and export control violations.

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It was part of a broader push to freeze Russia out of global markets and enforce wide-ranging sanctions imposed on Moscow amid international condemnation of its war in Ukraine.

The task force brought indictments against aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska and TV tycoon Konstantin Malofeyev for alleged sanctions busting, and seized yachts belonging to sanctioned oligarchs Suleiman Kerimov and Viktor Vekselberg.

Cases investigated by the task force are likely to continue, but the work will no longer be centralized at Justice Department headquarters.

"Are we going to suddenly see a surge of sanctioned oligarch wealth flood into the United States? I don’t think so," said Andrew Adams, the first leader of the task force who is now at law firm Steptoe. "What you will see is a sharp decline in the pace of charges that target facilitators that are specific to Russia."

 

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Posted (edited)
10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I was just reading and fuming about this. Basically this fucking AG's first official act was to protect russian oligarchs, and her second was to make it openly apparent that russia (and China) can interfere in US elections.

 

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Posted
39 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Go to Settings > Moderation and you can alter them there, to include making your own moderation markings.

Ok got it figured out. They have a lot of moderation settings. 

Posted
12 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Ok got it figured out. They have a lot of moderation settings. 

You can even create your own advanced moderation rules and share them out. NAFO has one that will mark propagandists for you, etc. BlueSky has a lot of really cool features.

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