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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

So true! Around 4 p.m. my wife asked me if I was literally going to sit and look at my phone for another six straight hours. I told her I'd take a two-hour break when the Iowa women played :)
She probably told you that if you were going to be holding that phone all day, you’d be holding something else tonight.😉
 
This is Cancel Culture I am on board with. Suck it Russia. But really, how insane is it that the whole world, public and private entities, are coming together like this? This is an amazing development for mankind imo
I have said many times on this platform how social media is the worst thing to happen to the world and in most cases I still believe that to be true.

However, it is awesome how Twitter, FB and TikTok thanks to the Ukrainian people have brought everyone together at least temporarily.
 
And sell it to HROT so we can cruise the Mississippi on it:)
I'd be happy to live on it as full-time boat keeper! Just dock it down at Oneida landing and I'll host some epic HROT parties!

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This is terrible for the Ukrainian people, but their standing up to Russia reminded everyone else what doing the right thing looks like. It’s been unifying because it seems that we’d all forgotten.

The biggest impetus for the West finding it's balls and getting real about Russia is the Ukrainians refusal to fold.

The moral imperative to support these people shredded the most intransigent European supporters of status quo/cover your own a$$ in a matter of days.

It's incredibly remarkable. The effing Swiss for God's sake!
 
Sad and almost twisted to say, but maybe this' what the world needed right now. Something tragic and evil to unify us all. Like mentioned above, watching billionaires, businesses, liberals, most conservatives and other countries governments and people come together is heart-warming, inspiring and gives me a glimmer of hope for our future.
Zelenskyy likely has Time's "Man of the Year" sewn up.
 

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From Google translate. Excuse any errors.
12:23-Lash, why are you not answering for so long, are you sure you are on exercises?
14:16- Mom, I'm no longer in the Crimea, not at the EXERCISE
14:33-And where??? Dad asks if you can send a package
14:38- What kind of package moms. I'm just upside down now I want [Possible translation-potentially to kill himself by hanging]
14:47- What are you talking about? What happened?
14:50-Mom, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war here. I'm scared, we **** on everyone, even on peaceful ones. For everything in a row. We were told that they would greet us, but they threw themselves under our vehicles and did not let us pass. They call us fascists. Mom is very hard for me.
 
The biggest impetus for the West finding it's balls and getting real about Russia is the Ukrainians refusal to fold.

The moral imperative to support these people shredded the most intransigent European supporters of status quo/cover your own a$$ in a matter of days.

It's incredibly remarkable. The effing Swiss for God's sake!
Too many volunteers for the military to process. Their blood banks are full. Old women are sewing camouflage netting. Young women are making Molotov cocktails and taking up arms. Their reporters don’t sleep and keep the world updated. Ex-pats are organizing GoFundMe campaigns to house and transport refugees.

They’re an inspiration.
 
I just saw an American general on CNN. I forget his name but he's on the news weekly, at least.

He said he's observed the Russian military up close and their leadership is "terrible" at all levels.
Leadership anywhere requires responsibility as well as accountability. People have to be empowered at the lowest command levels to make decisions independently in order to respond effectively to a changing environment.

A junior officer in the Russian military certainly lacks responsibility and is going to think long and hard about going "off script" even if it's what's best under the conditions he's facing. The thinking is, "Let the shit roll uphill" and someone else can be held accountable for the fvck-ups. In peacetime, the mantra is "keep your head down and present a small target for your own commanders". In Russia, those guys are far more hazardous to your health than the enemy. Get into a combat situation and that's a hard mindset to break.
 
I was never for pulling out of NATO. It's an incredibly stupid idea. I will say, one of the very few things Trump was correct on while in office was calling out other NATO countries for dragging their ass on NATO funding. Seems like a few of them are waking up to that at this point, looking at you Germany.

AGAIN: there is no "NATO Fund". Participating nations are to commit 2% of GDP to military assets available for NATO. Yes, many were not up to that level. But it hasn't "cost" the US anything.
 
The main things I disagreed with on that by Trump, is that people kept glossing over the fact that Obama and Bush had both been pushing NATO countries to do this as well, they just didn’t harp on publicly like Trump kept doing.
Trump kept harping on "America paying for NATO", which is fully untrue.

Euro nations did NOT commit 2% GDP to military readiness: that is TRUE. But claiming the US was "footing the bill" for some "imaginary" NATO funding is fully FALSE. And it's being regurgitated repeatedly here.

I recall taking lots of potshots over NordStream 2 here, as well. Seems like my points on that turned out to be fully correct.
 
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