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[KYHorn 17615]

No CR. Just a good sign to have the Overton window moved a bit in this direction

 

 

 

[B00M 6734]

Sound up ^^ that post got me HYPED

[davidg 4057]

3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

The only way Russia nukes anything is with a warhead strapped to the top of a mini van.

Probably need to watch out for blown up bridges and the occasional pelican

[Gatorubet 30720]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

No CR. Just a good sign to have the Overton window moved a bit in this direction 

The Bears and the birds tell Clifton Clowers If the Polish are registered…

Edited September 13 by Gatorubet
….yeah, I know

[Chopper 17432]

Continued whiplash from the Storm Shadow dialog. FT on why UKR has been requesting use of Storm Shadow (into Ruzzia) for a long while, but others say they won't provide the advantage Zelensky seeks. https://archive.ph/ZTGCk

 

Edited September 13 by Chopper

[BamaATL 16593]

2 hours ago, B00M said:

Narrator: the Loaf van with a nuclear payload and reactive armor mounted to the windshield broke down before it even made it out of Russia. 

I just hope the Russian's don't see that Safelight commercial.  

[MagicSoccerSpray 1736]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-disinformation-rt.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/09/13/voice-of-america-russia-repairs-su-30s-with-western-equipment/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/biden-administration-rt-russian-intelligence

[Chopper 17432]

edit: beat by MagicSoccerSpray, pasted the text from the NYT article, which has more detail than what I originally posted from Politico.

 

Spoiler

The United States, Canada and Britain on Friday accused Russia’s global television network, RT, of acting as an arm of that country’s intelligence agencies, announcing new sanctions meant to cut off international financing for disinformation operations around the world.

The action came days after the Justice Department indicted two employees of the network for funneling at least $9.7 million to bankroll American podcasters on Tenet Media, a video-streaming site in Tennessee, in hopes of pushing the Kremlin’s propaganda and undermining the American democratic political process.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, appearing at the State Department, said that RT no longer acted simply as a state-owned news organization. Instead, it now actively carries out covert operations not only in the United States, but also in several other countries at the direction of intelligence officials reporting directly to the Kremlin.

“Today, we’re exposing how Russia deploys similar tactics around the world,” Mr. Blinken said. “Russian weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world.”

“We urge every ally, every partner, to start by treating RT’s activities as they do other intelligence activities by Russia within their borders,” he added.

Those operations have included disinformation campaigns, like the one using Tenet Media, but also cyberespionage, fund-raising for Russia’s war in Ukraine and the laundering of funds to covertly purchase light matériel, including sniper rifles, drones and night-vision goggles from China and other countries.

The announcement on Friday, along with a series of recent investigations by the Justice Department and the F.B.I., signaled an intensifying effort by the Biden administration to thwart Russia’s influence operations before the presidential election in November.

U.S. intelligence officials have said that the Kremlin is seeking to bolster former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign, angered by the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine. The announcement on Friday was meant to spotlight RT’s global activities, U.S. officials said.

The officials have tracked similar efforts involving RT to interfere in other countries, such as Argentina, France and Moldova, which goes to the polls next month and has become a particular target of the Kremlin’s interference. RT covertly operates an English-language news outlet in Germany called Red., and another that covers Africa, called African Stream, Mr. Blinken said.
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The sanctions announced on Friday are an effort to undercut RT by making it difficult for the organization to conduct global business in dollars, which officials hope will curtail its ability to work outside Russia.

The campaign is not unlike the one the Trump administration began, with mixed results, against Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that officials feared posed a threat to U.S. national security interests. The United States, under the Trump and Biden administrations, has sought to warn countries about relying on Huawei for critical infrastructure.

“We’re exposing what they do in country after country around the world,” said James P. Rubin, the coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which focuses on foreign propaganda and disinformation efforts.

RT, with broadcast and streaming channels in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages, has long been an irritant to the United States. It has for years pushed a Kremlin view of the world, one increasingly shaped by hostility toward American political and diplomatic power under Republican and Democratic presidents.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, however, U.S. officials have grown increasingly concerned that RT’s activities extend beyond providing news. They have cited the network’s cooperation with Russia’s intelligence apparatus, including the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor of the Soviet K.G.B.

In the spring of 2023, the officials said, the Russian government created a cell within RT to carry out cyberespionage.

In July, the Justice Department, the F.B.I. and the Pentagon’s Cyber National Mission Force accused an editor at RT of working with an F.S.B. officer to oversee the creation of hundreds of fake accounts on X that spread the network’s content.

The U.S. agencies were assisted by the police and intelligence in Canada and the Netherlands, jointly issuing an advisory calling on social media companies to identify fictitious accounts on their platforms “to reduce Russian malign foreign influence activity.” (X, formerly known as Twitter, took down nearly 1,000 accounts after officials notified the platform.)

Among the steps the Biden administration took last week, the Treasury Department announced that it had extended sanctions that were imposed because of the war in Ukraine to include several officials at RT. They included Margarita S. Simonyan, the editor in chief, and two deputies.

Ms. Simonyan ridiculed the State Department’s accusations in a series of posts on Telegram, specifically the allegation that RT helped raise money to support Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. “We’re doing it openly, idiots,” she wrote.

She also embraced the core accusation from Mr. Blinken and Mr. Rubin that RT was influencing world opinion about the war. “I have not lived my life in vain,” she wrote.

Red. and African Stream did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The State Department accused one of the deputies, Anton S. Anisimov, of conducting “activities on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service.” Officials said Mr. Anisimov administered an online crowdfunding platform in Russia that ostensibly supported the country’s troops but was covertly used to buy weapons around the world, including from China, which has denied that it provides lethal arms or military assistance to Russia.

Mr. Blinken imposed sanctions on Friday to RT as a whole. Any transactions conducted in dollars could now be subject to freezing or seizure by Treasury.

Canada and Britain also made simultaneous announcements warning about RT’s covert activities.

The goal of the sanctions and diplomacy is to alert countries where RT remains a popular source of global news — including in many parts of Africa, the Middle East and South America — to the potential for Russian influence campaigns against governments that fall out of the Kremlin’s favor.

“We will not stand by as RT and other actors carry out covert activities in support of Russia’s nefarious activities,” Mr. Blinken said. “And we’ll continue to respond forcefully to Moscow’s playbook of aggression and subversion, one that includes invading sovereign nations, fomenting coups, weaponizing corruption, carrying out assassinations, meddling in elections and unjustly detaining foreign nationals.”

Last year, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center disclosed a covert information operation to push Kremlin-friendly content in Central and South America by producing articles that appeared to originate with local media organizations, not the Russian government.

That campaign involved two companies, the Social Design Agency and Structura, that were cited in last week’s indictment. Both report to Sergei V. Kiriyenko, a former prime minister who is now a senior adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation and disinformation from San Francisco. Since joining The Times in 1989, he has reported from around the world, including Moscow, Baghdad, Beijing and Seoul. More about Steven Lee Myers

Michael Crowley covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The Times. He has reported from nearly three dozen countries and often travels with the secretary of state. More about Michael Crowley
See more on: U.S. Politics, Treasury Securities

 

Edited September 13 by Chopper

[Parliament 14598]

Shocking!

[MagicSoccerSpray 1736]

 

[Parliament 14598]

#iwantthat

[Chopper 17432]

Storm Shadow update: Biden and Prime Minister Starmer concluded their meeting about an hour ago and discussed Ukraine. No announcement was immediately forthcoming. Petraeus has thoughts, though and I sense they're going to go ahead with it, but we'll know when we know.

[PTINS 3520]

On 9/12/2024 at 9:33 PM, BamaATL said:

That's a great question, I haven't read a ton on it, but my general understanding is storage and security.  How many does that include?  Obviously, they aren't going into strategic locations, is there another way they verify conditions, etc?  

Generally speaking, not just in terms of military capability, you can judge just about anything (a company, government, etc) by their maintenance standards and practices.  I can't imagine that Russia's was good, but to the point of being derelict to cause safety concerns?  We certainly haven't heard anything like that prior, nor now, and I have to imagine that would have leaked by now.  

I think it's a pipe dream to think that they don't at least have a percentage of working weapons, mind you that has nothing to do with the delivery method (which we've seen that part of theirs is shit, but capable to a degree).  I get the impulse based on their overall performance to think of them as paper tiger's in this regard, but these two things are likely to be vastly disconnected.  

 

I also have not read a lot about this, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn a few times…

I would question what maintenance Russia has done in the last 20-40 years, and what exactly they are maintaining.

What maintenance has been done?

Ballistic missiles have either solid fuel boosters or liquid fuel boosters; the space shuttle used both. 

Short range missiles  (300-1,000 km?) need less fuel, which favors a solid fuel booster. Once ignited, they burn full throttle until they burn out. I imagine the solid fuel is relatively stable, but I also would think it has a finite shelf life. Have Russian nukes had their solid fuels replaced in the last 20-40 years? Do they still make the fuels and rockets? I’d take the under, not the over. One advantage of the solid fuel missiles is they are ready to launch on short notice.

Long range missiles (1,000+ km) require multiple stages, with disposal of the stages as they burn out. Much more complicated with exponentially more things that can go wrong and not work properly. The liquid fuel rockets have separate fuel and oxidizer tanks, that are mixed during flight, with control over the combustion rates. I recall that fueling the rockets is extremely hazardous (No Smoking!), extremely flammable fuel, as any leaks are immediately exposed to oxygen, and  ... big badda boom. Same questions exist on the shelf life of the fuel? Is this what was in the tanks at Proletarsk? IMO, the longer range liquid fuel missiles would be less reliable than the shorter range solid fuel missiles, but they have more control, I think.

No idea of the fuel compositions, characteristics, manufacturing processed, storage temperatures and pressures, etc., but It's one of the most volatile compounds known and I would not want to be anywhere near it. Is this what was in the tanks at Proletarsk, where so many firefighters were injured?

As loading the fuel is something that happens right before launch, it requires that skilled engineers and /or technicians (rocket scientists) are at the ready to do their deeds when called upon. Are these skilled people still in Russia, or did they leave for something else?

  Jared Cohen : So, you're a rocket scientist.

Peter Sullivan : I was, yeah.

Jared Cohen : Interesting. How did you end up here?

Peter Sullivan : Well, it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up. And, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive.

If they stayed in Russia, they were probably KIA in Kharkiv or Kherson a year ago, like a lot of the other skilled professionals.

Is Putin or his lackeys going to send some fat, drunk & stupid conscript with 2 weeks of training to do it? Good luck with that.

What are they maintaining?

Some of these system predate widespread GPS systems. Did Russia go back and upgrade the guidance systems, electronics, etc.? Even then, in 2024, Russia has demonstrated on a continuous basis that they cannot hit the broad side of a barn door a barn, or a specific target.

Morton Thiokol knew the limitations of their solid fuel rockets and still couldn't convince NASA to wait. Any chance the Russia equivalent of Thiokol even exists, or knows those limitations, and what chance would they have in telling Putin to wait?

With that said, regardless of condition of so many weapons, statistically, a few would find their targets, or something worse. 

The boss is always the boss, and a guy with nukes is always a guy with nukes.

[atomheartbevo 90650]

2 hours ago, PTINS said:

I would question what maintenance Russia has done in the last 20-40 years, and what exactly they are maintaining.

We know that Putin is not actually afraid of NATO starting things first - Kaliningrad is not well-defended, and the Russian borders (all the way up to Finland) seem to be lightly defended, to say the least. Hell, the Ukrainians are able to fly things up to Murmansk.

For a while, they were using a lot of S-300s/S-400s in a land-attack capability rather than reserving them for air defenses (I'm sure they are pulling out the stops now for anything that can be AD), so he was not worried about NATO air at all.

Yeah, he's a guy with nukes, but I'd be willing to bet that they have nothing on standby, outside of maybe some solid-rocket stuff (and that would probably be in their submarines or setup for air-launches from their bombers). Prior to 2022, their military budget was around $60 billion, and who knows how much of that was siphoned off by oligarchs.

And I wonder about their submarines - would they risk leaving nuke missiles in submarines, knowing that if the crew decided to sail to the West, they'd be handsomely rewarded?  

[AnTiM 1695]

15 hours ago, Parliament said:

Shocking!

Who knew????  Thousands raise their hands...

[Dahobbs 18324]

14 hours ago, Chopper said:

Storm Shadow update: Biden and Prime Minister Starmer concluded their meeting about an hour ago and discussed Ukraine. No announcement was immediately forthcoming. Petraeus has thoughts, though and I sense they're going to go ahead with it, but we'll know when we know.

Supplies of Storm Shadow are so limited that it really wouldn't matter. Supplying JASSM is the real key.

[MissingInAction 25556]

What's the shelf life of rocket fuel? I could those dipshits filling rockets with natural gas.

[Deej 77827]

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

What's the shelf life of rocket fuel? I could those dipshits filling rockets with natural gas.

Vodka

[atomheartbevo 90650]

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

What's the shelf life of rocket fuel? I could those dipshits filling rockets with natural gas.

I could see some general selling off a bunch of rocket parts and fuel, knowing that the average Russian bureaucrat doing an audit won’t know what’s he’s looking at and/or is taking a bribe to check off a bunch of boxes on a spreadsheet. We saw it with their tanks, with hoses, batteries, wiring, etc. being sold off ont eh black market.

8 minutes ago, Deej said:

Vodka

too valuable.

[BamaATL 16593]

3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

What's the shelf life of rocket fuel? I could those dipshits filling rockets with natural gas.

Well, gas is about 3 years, jet fuel I think somewhere around 5, no idea on that.

 

Oh hi, new incursion into Kursk, Ukrainians appear to have baited Russian forces there.

 

[RPM 26628]

 

[B00M 6734]

This is brilliant. 

Trap Russians, wait for them to leave their defensive positions and try to break out, then counter attack to butt fuck them. 

[Parliament 14598]

Let's hold off on the high-fives just yet.

[B00M 6734]

22 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Let's hold off on the high-fives just yet.

I guess after the Abercrombie thread you didn’t want to go with the classic let’s not start sucking each others dicks just yet 

[Gatorubet 30720]

On 9/13/2024 at 1:06 PM, Chopper said:

Continued whiplash from the Storm Shadow dialog. FT on why UKR has been requesting use of Storm Shadow (into Ruzzia) for a long while, but others say they won't provide the advantage Zelensky seeks. https://archive.ph/ZTGCk

 

According to this clip (Margarita is the appointed head of propaganda on Russian television)  and the message Marges’s husband gives came directly from Putin.   Her husband went on Soloyov’s show to say that the special operation was going according to plan, and that Putin never said he was going to use nuclear weapons if the West gave long range missiles to Ukraine.     

That little bitch Putin isn’t going to do anything.    Marge’s husband said that even if Ukraine blows up something in Russia with long range NATO missiles, it’s just a blow to Russian ego and nothing to worry about, as this was always part of the plan. 

What strikes me as shocking is Soloyov  pushing back on what is obviously Putin‘s attempt to say that what he previously said several times is really not what he meant.   This looks to me like unusual discord between high-level propagandists arguing about what Putin said, and Soloyov insinuating that Putin is weak. 

I would love to hear from people on this thread with far more insight than I have as to whether this strikes them as much as it strikes me.  Is this nothing - or is this a sign of trouble in paradise?

[Gatorubet 30720]

On 9/12/2024 at 11:16 AM, Trey3216 said:

I bet she has Oscar Mayer bologna nipples.  Hard Pass 

[Bevo 13896]

2 hours ago, B00M said:

This is brilliant. 

Trap Russians, wait for them to leave their defensive positions and try to break out, then counter attack to butt fuck them. 

 

I don't quite get this graphic but it looks like something is going in the R.

[Parliament 14598]

32 minutes ago, B00M said:

I guess after the Abercrombie thread you didn’t want to go with the classic let’s not start sucking each others dicks just yet 

Trying to show some maturity here.  (I'm as surprised as you.)

 

Edited September 15 by Parliament

[BamaATL 16593]

12 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

I don't quite get this graphic but it looks like something is going in the R.

The "R" is Russian shorthand for getting teabagged.  

[B00M 6734]

58 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

I don't quite get this graphic but it looks like something is going in the R.

You’re looking at the ~800 square kilometer portion of Kursk that Ukraine has cut-off from Russia by strategically conquering land, and then destroying permanent bridges and many pontoons. The expectation is that Ukraine will take this once the trapped Russians are sufficiently starved.

The trapped Russians, before starving, opted to mount a counter attack into the area of Kursk that Ukraine holds (red arrow moving east). Almost immediately, as if expecting this, Ukrainian troops crossed the border into Russia (yellow arrow moving north). The counter attacking Russians now have Ukrainians on their east, west, and south, with no way to escape north and no defensive positions. 

[RDCanecutter 26893]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

What strikes me as shocking is Soloyov  pushing back on what is obviously Putin‘s attempt to say that what he previously said several times is really not what he meant.  

Assuming that the husband/wife team are relaying the Thoughts of Putin, maybe Soloyov's job (also under orders from Putin) is to argue against it, then lose the debate.

Sort o' like a rehash of Hannity and Colmes of yore. Or good cop/bad cop, or professional wraslin. Pick your favorite drama.

[Gatorubet 30720]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

Assuming that the husband/wife team are relaying the Thoughts of Putin, maybe Soloyov's job (also under orders from Putin) is to argue against it, then lose the debate.

Sort o' like a rehash of Hannity and Colmes of yore. Or good cop/bad cop, or professional wraslin. Pick your favorite drama.

That is not a bad take. And yet, all of the Russians watching on TV who have been told 100 times that Russia is about to launch nukes for slights 1000 times less serious than this, have to see it as Putin backing down and backing off to NATO. 

They say that the one inviolate rule as a Russian strong man is to protect the people (from everyone other than your government).  Russians know they were blowing up apartment buildings with missiles in Ukraine, and they have to assume that Ukrainians will be blowing up their apartments with theirs.  I think this will cause some major stress - but I don’t know anything..

[KYHorn 17615]

Just so it's on your radar, the latest shooting near a Trump was carried out by a Ukraine-war advocate who claimed to have daughter for Ukraine and seems to have organized volunteer efforts. He has been quoted in a few news articles on this topic as well. I'm sure Russia won't use any of this to advance their cause. 

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suspect-shooting-assassination-attempt-west-palm-beach-1954191

 

 

Edited September 16 by KYHorn

[Dahobbs 18324]

2 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Just so it's on your radar, the latest shooting near a Trump was carried out by a Ukraine-war advocate who claimed to have daughter for Ukraine and seems to have organized volunteer efforts. He has been quoted in a few news articles on this topic as well. I'm sure Russia won't use any of this to advance their cause. 

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suspect-shooting-assassination-attempt-west-palm-beach-1954191

 

 

He also voted for Trump. So bit of a mixed message here. I think the general observation is that he was generally, actually crazy. So good luck getting us to do anything about crazy people, Russia. 

[atomheartbevo 90650]

6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

That is not a bad take. And yet, all of the Russians watching on TV who have been told 100 times that Russia is about to launch nukes for slights 1000 times less serious than this, have to see it as Putin backing down and backing off to NATO. 

They say that the one inviolate rule as a Russian strong man is to protect the people (from everyone other than your government).  Russians know they were blowing up apartment buildings with missiles in Ukraine, and they have to assume that Ukrainians will be blowing up their apartments with theirs.  I think this will cause some major stress - but I don’t know anything..

Russians are tolerating a lot. Putin sold them on a massive invasion as a means to protect them, while at the same time telling them that Ukrainians are just brothers from another mother even as they killed, and continue to kill, a lot of civilians. Nuking them, especially given that the fallout could drift into Russia, and especially since so many Russians have family in Ukraine, might be a step too far for a lot of Russians, especially if they are worried about the West retaliating.

 Putin’s got that old-time KGB paranoia as well, and he probably thinks about what would open the door for the lower ranks to take their shot at him.

[BamaATL 16593]

Don't know how to embed the long tweet, worth a click.  

[BamaATL 16593]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

Just so it's on your radar, the latest shooting near a Trump was carried out by a Ukraine-war advocate who claimed to have daughter for Ukraine and seems to have organized volunteer efforts. He has been quoted in a few news articles on this topic as well. I'm sure Russia won't use any of this to advance their cause. 

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suspect-shooting-assassination-attempt-west-palm-beach-1954191

 

 

I don't know what is true, and what isn't, but the Ukrainians are already refuting that this guy had any real ties to the foreign legion.  

[atomheartbevo 90650]

6 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Don't know how to embed the long tweet, worth a click.  

Better to copy and paste

The development in the Glushkovo area, Kursk region, in Russia are very intriguing. Both on an operational but also on a strategic level.

Russian channels report that the village Veseloe has been taken by Ukrainian forces, which based on the videos we have seen are very likely. It brings Ukrainian forces in close range with Glushkovo and threatens to split this pocket south of the Seym river to be split in two.

Furthermore and even worse for Russians, it is an assault into Russia's rear of their ongoing counteroffensive, whose results are murky at best. Aside from 3 villages and some failed assaults further east, we have seen nothing what backs up Russian gains in Kursk. It wouldn't matter much either when reflecting the following point.

Having Russians commit resources in Kursk has been most certainly the very idea by the Ukrainian high command. There is is also something more going on. It is possible that Ukrainians were only waiting for this Russian counter offensive operation. It not only forces Russians to finally commit their troops, including their reserves, in that sector, but also on top expose their artillery positions.

Ukrainians now know what the Russian tactical intents are. They in return can now effectively counter them. It is an highly mobile war, far from the trench wars in the Donbas. It forces Russians to fight a war in which they utterly fail. On an operational level, this is how I would proceed against the Russian army. The Ukrainian operations south of Glushkovo are only backing up this assumption. The Ukrainian army obviously prepared for that gambit and are now pushing into another soft spot of the Russian defense, while Russians mindlessly run against Ukrainian fortifications.

To say that Russians have "no good plans" is an understatement, both in Kursk, but also in the Donbas region. As always, Russians are just wildly slashing and hammering like mindless slaves into their enemy, hoping to overwhelm them only by numbers, and in the process consume insanely high resources with substantial amounts of them being destroyed. It only reaffirms that Ukraine, strategically, is still in the defense mode, but never fails to exploit a situation where it can inflict painful damage upon Russians, where they didn't prepare an Ukrainian operation.

[atomheartbevo 90650]

 

[Gatorubet 30720]

I see where the Soviet media are now saying nice things about VP Harris. Earlier they had called her slow witted and dull, but now take a completely different tone.  She is “ well prepared”, “articulate” and “knowledgeable”.    

Does this mean that Putin now sees the possibility of a Harris win, and is trying to mitigate personal animosity by Harris if it might play into a role in future administration behavior in the event Trump loses?    

[atomheartbevo 90650]

Nice look at the Battle of Hostomel Airfield

 

[Parliament 14598]

5 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I see where the Soviet media are now saying nice things about VP Harris. Earlier they had called her slow witted and dull, but now take a completely different tone.  She is “ well prepared”, “articulate” and “knowledgeable”.    

Does this mean that Putin now sees the possibility of a Harris win, and is trying to mitigate personal animosity by Harris if it might play into a role in future administration behavior in the event Trump loses?    

It means they continue to stir the pot.  Nothing more.

[KYHorn 17615]

Interesting thread here. I'll paste the links in the spoiler. 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1835351645305106753.html

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B00M 6734]

2 hours ago, Parliament said:

It means they continue to stir the pot.  Nothing more.

It’s just bullshit for fox to show their viewers so they “know” who Russia is “really” supporting. As always, sewing division. 

[Chad Fuck 18135]

I don't know what is true, and what isn't, but the Ukrainians are already refuting that this guy had any real ties to the foreign legion.  

This morning, it seems like he’s just good ole, down home, Florida man crazy.

[Chad Fuck 18135]

I see where the Soviet media are now saying nice things about VP Harris. Earlier they had called her slow witted and dull, but now take a completely different tone.  She is “ well prepared”, “articulate” and “knowledgeable”.    
Does this mean that Putin now sees the possibility of a Harris win, and is trying to mitigate personal animosity by Harris if it might play into a role in future administration behavior in the event Trump loses?    

His flattery will not have the same effect on her that it did on that fucking guy.

This isn’t political opinion, it’s fact.

[Chad Fuck 18135]

Interesting thread here. I'll paste the links in the spoiler. 
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1835351645305106753.html
[/url] Spoiler

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Strong Ursula Andress in Dr. No vibes in that first pic.

[InkaUtexas 26891]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-military-numbers-9c5554302486adfe7b3d69cb297f8a98

 

 

[Brisketexan 106899]

"troops"

 

 

[InkaUtexas 26891]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

"troops"

 

 

Those dudes are on leave. Plenty of drunk front line troops out there.