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Ahh. There is nothing like the scent of a new thread. :)
Figured I’d get it out of the way before it got too late….
Wordle 280 3/6
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I KNOW this is one I wouldn’t have gotten in two…
Your awkward use of English and patriotic flag avatar has convinced me that you are 100% American Red-Blooded Man Strong Like Tractor pic.twitter.com/7JKoMqc1HM
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 26, 2022
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Smells like cow.
Looks like US and European Policy is undergoing a metamorphosis. And, sadly, to preserve Ukraine, this appears necessary:
!! Biden just said about Putin in Warsaw: “For god’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) March 26, 2022
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CNN @Phil_Mattingly to @Acosta: Not sure Biden meant “regime change,” but it underscores the view he’s long had of Putin that’s only hardened over the last weeks. The speech tied this moment to others in history: communism, USSR, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain, (Solidarity) Poland. pic.twitter.com/CEg7LsID6n
— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦 (@PaulaChertok) March 26, 2022
re: #8 ckkatz
Putin has been an autocratic asshole for over a decade. He’s just being more blunt about it now.
Anyone who thought he was good for Russia is deluding themselves.
And Russia trolls Biden and NATO by bombing Lviv:
They’ve been anticipating and relishing this on Russian state TV for days. So many pundits, experts said, “Why are they all going to Lviv? What makes them think we wouldn’t strike there as well?” It was obviously timed when Biden would be nearby.https://t.co/JhzyFnqn1G
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 26, 2022
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President Biden just called Vladimir Putin a “butcher.” Trump called Putin a “genius.” pic.twitter.com/KNlnLECjBp
Weird how you have this ironclad evidence literally in your lap, but can’t seem to actually produce any actual evidence of any actual criminal activity in any actual fashion whatsoever though, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/cQ0zDp3Wbg
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 26, 2022
re: #11 nines09
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Biden, “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. People refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness.”https://t.co/UwZr9KdW6I via @politicususa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 26, 2022
re: #11 nines09
Is that Robert E. Lee on the license plate?
This is pretty amazing:
Greece, France and Turkey Prepare Joint Evacuation Mission in Mariupol
Putin, bringing peace to the world. Against his will.
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
My standing in the battlefield is growing quite untenable
My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal
Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal https://t.co/GqxMuPQ7J8— Andrej (@AndrejNkv) March 25, 2022
re: #14 ckkatz
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re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
Putin has been an autocratic asshole for over a decade. He’s just being more blunt about it now.
Anyone who thought he was good for Russia is deluding themselves.
About time. Though we really should have been doing this in 2008 or 2014 at the latest. Western Europe and the US were treating Putin with way too much deference and respect.
re: #19 jaunte
Your comment on generals reminded me of this Civil War anecdote and Abraham Lincoln quote:
In March 1863, John Mosby’s Confederate Rangers raided Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia, capturing two captains, 30 Privates, 58 horses and Brigadier General Edwin Stoughton. “For that I am sorry,” Lincoln said when told of the capture, “for I can make Brigadier Generals, but I can’t make horses.”
So someone in a chat shared this article with me. Nice backgrounder on the idelogical underpinnings of the 🇿 mindset and POV.
A Russian Intellectual Fortified the Notion of a Eurasian Civilization
re: #19 jaunte
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
I have a lot of medals, but I’m really quite expendable
My forces get destroyed by some rockets quite untraceable
I lose my tanks, and other ranks, and quickly are replaceable!
re: #11 nines09
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re: #22 JC1
About time. Though we really should have been doing this in 2008 or 2014 at the latest. Western Europe and the US were treating Putin with way too much deference and respect.
as long as we were tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all those NATO peeps with us, our actions in Europe were constrained.
Now, we can devote our full attention to these people who are within easy car/train distance.
re: #24 Teukka
So someone in a chat shared this article with me. Nice backgrounder on the idelogical underpinnings of the 🇿 mindset and POV.
A Russian Intellectual Fortified the Notion of a Eurasian Civilization
It has the distinctly pungent odor of woowoo bullshit, too:
The most important of the latter was “Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere,” in which Gumilyov explained his theory of how ethnic groups, or ethnies, come about. He saw ethnicity as an intrinsic natural phenomenon that emerged in humans as a response to their natural surroundings, with only dynamic ethnies showing the ability to rapidly expand and adapt to new environments, before following a predictable cycle of stagnation and, eventually, disappearance.
The key to that dynamism, he argued, was neither natural nor human-made, but cosmic: a force called passionarnost. This he defined as “the ability for single-minded super-efforts, overriding even our most basic instinct for self-preservation.” That energy emerged from the “biosphere,” which from time to time erupted with energy to give birth to new great ethnies. His historical works were imbued with these theories but had their own separate implications.
re: #20 nines09
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Retired US General Hertling trolling the Russians:
We have five grandsons, each loves LEGO. Believe we have a new gift idea. pic.twitter.com/KnZq2rxflE
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 26, 2022
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(The article is from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. So take it fwiw. But may be an indicator of Russian investment in kleptocracy rather than defense.)
Interesting 🧵 reinforcing a scene I saw visiting a RU tank regiment in 2012.
The Regimental Commander had display vehicles to show us, but I managed to see inside his motor pool bays…it was in a shocking state with broken vehicles everywhere.
Anecdotal, but an indicator. https://t.co/sNVsauPfC5— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 26, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle. I can’t wait to see the reactions when it rolls round to youse fullas.
Wordle 281 3/6
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re: #30 ckkatz
JFC, only 10% of Russia’s tanks were actually battle-ready? No wonder they’re getting their asses handed to them.
All I can gather is that Putin’s lackeys in the Defense Ministry were using their defense budget to buy villas, yachts, high-end watches and Ferraris.
[2] According to the Intel. Dept. of #Ukraine MoD, only 1 out of 10 battle tanks in the storages of the 4th #Russian tank division is battle-ready. Because of this, a commander of the 13th regiment of the 4th Rus. tank division committed suicide.
— Victor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) March 26, 2022
re: #27 sagehen
as long as we were tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all those NATO peeps with us, our actions in Europe were constrained.
Now, we can devote our full attention to these people who are within easy car/train distance.
This is very true.
Additionally, I seem to remember a quote attributed to the Russians that our presence in Afghanistan kept the religious militants from coming into the ‘stans and Russia over the past two decades.
Russia’ 12,600 mile land border is now a lot more exposed. Plus, with half their active duty Army being tied up and trashed in Ukraine, they are a _lot_ more vulnerable.
And a lot of folks are starting to test this. Right now its just little pokes to see what happens. But it could escalate back in the 1990’s again.
Azerbaijan/Armenia, Ossetia/Georgia, Moldova/Transnistria are all stirring publicly. Finland/Sweden warming up to NATO. And who knows what is quietly happening in Central Asia and further East. Plus, for some inane reason, Russia has suddenly decided to troll Japan over the Kuril Islands.
Putin has not only trashed the Russian economy and military, but also its geo-political situation.
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