There is a lot of equipment moving to the eastern flank. Most of the mechanized equipment has been mobilized from Grafenwohr, Germany.
It’s a shame that they can’t throw in a few Apaches and Warthogs.
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I was thinking leftists, but that would be an insult to roaches to be compared to them.
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I’ve got remember : “Tallahassee Taliban ”. That’s a good one.
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And, inevitably, we end up on American Politics.
Build your own military and we can return to our roots as illiterate tobacco farmers and rum exporters.
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Firefighters cannot get near the flames because they are being shot at
Improvised dirty bomb? But why???
Don’t like rum but feel free to carry on with the Jack Daniels.
Bourbon is the American drink.
Of course, it requires clean water to distill and this entire European mess are leading me to question whether we’ll have anything to eat/drink that doesn’t glow in the dark.
BBC report 10:58Z
No release of radioactive material - International Atomic Energy Agency
Here’s a line from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general Rafael Grossi on the Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. We’ll have more from the IAEA soon.
Quote Message: Overnight a projectile hit a building within the plant site. The building is not part of the reactors. This caused a localised fire that was extinguished by the local fire brigade. All the safety systems at the plant were not affected. [There was] no release of radioactive material" from Rafael Grossi IAEA
Overnight a projectile hit a building within the plant site. The building is not part of the reactors. This caused a localised fire that was extinguished by the local fire brigade. All the safety systems at the plant were not affected. [There was] no release of radioactive material"
Rafael GrossiIAEA
PS> Crimea used to get most of it’s electric power from the Ukrainian grid, but apparently no more:
https://tass.com/economy/1091929?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.com&utm_referrer=google.com
Reports in Ukrainian media suggest that a Russian attempt to land troops near the coastal city of Odessa ended in failure, with Russian marines refusing to attack in an act of mutiny.
Theres a good deal of propaganda out there and I would think this story is part of that. Kinda like the Ghost of Kiev or the dead guys on Snake Island.
FWIW I’ve read the Russians are in Mykolaiv but have not captured it and a landing wouldn’t occur until that was complete. I’ve also read that the landings were a rumor spread in Odessa. Only time will tell.
Thought I’d leave the Wikipedia page to Mr. Putin’s first campaign. If nothing else it’s interesting reading
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“The first casualty of war is the truth.”
Hiram Johnson
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The sanctions/trade embargo of the US/NATO/allies has been carefully calculated to give Putin a choice: Stop now, or things will get worse. What if he doesn’t listen?
Much of the world has halted flights into Russia. But commerce really depends on ships. Can’t stop the ships, because China is a Russian ally.
What if the U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc. stop exporting to Russia? Not a big deal for manufactured goods, but how about food? Would Brazil and Argentina join a trade embargo?
If they did, would Putin triple-down and escalate, do something even more stupid, to win quickly, before his economy is wrecked? Or would he throw in the towel?
I would argue that Putin’s operation was timed to
minimize the sanctions that could realistically be applied to Russia. Global markets need Russian oil (in fact the US and Europe will continue to import it) as its absence would create a devastating price shock. Russia (and Belorussia) is a leading fertilizer producers. Have a gander at that market, especially since Russia announced today that is is halting fertilizer exports. Russia is also one of the top producers of wheat whose restriction will also have an upward pricing effect on global grain prices.
The question isn’t the if the world stops exporting to Russia, but “Does the world stop importing from it?” Economies run on supplies of commodities. As supply tightens (ban of Russian exports) cost go up, and with most commodities there is not enough available to pick up Russian slack. With an already inflationary and fragile global economy the question will be asked “how much is enough?” Do we have another 2008 wipeout because of Ukraine/Russia?
Simultaneously other bad actors and large economies will take this opportunity to diversify their financial sectors to limit our reach. I would imagine if China moved on Taiwan the lessons they are learning now will be very useful.
Fareed Zakaria’s Opinion from WAPO today [edited at …]
P46 should…[ expedite] as much production and export of U.S. petroleum as possible to replace Russian energy… he should urge his regulators to facilitate production and…help more with the financing of liquefied natural gas, so that it can be sent to Europe. He should also encourage countries such as Japan and South Korea to divert more of their liquefied natural gas(to Europe. (They have alternative energy sources.)…
P46…should suspend former president’s… sanctions on Venezuela and Iran…which would bring all of Iran’s oil back on the market. And P46 should personally reach out to…Saudi Arabia and…United Arab Emirates… patch up relations with them and ask them to ramp up production — which the Gulf states can best do in the short term.
[I left the presidents’ names out. They seem to trigger a syndrome in some people… 
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Idk, I’d say Rye is the American drink. Well at least until prohibition.
They can’t LNG their way out of it. LNG imports can reduce reliance. Building the amount of LNG terminals needed would take just as long as nuke plants for less long term benefit.