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Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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Trump to finance Ukraines war on terror... albeit indirectly

He has created the circumstances for Ukraine to start an export of giga proportions

 
Given the AFU's successes with it's drone campaigns, one can only assume they're bound to come up with very effective stealthy drones going after high value targets in Russia sooner than later.
 
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Наземні роботизовані комплекси (НРК) можуть замінити третину української піхоти на лінії бойового зіткнення.Про це заявив командир 3-го армійського корпусу Андрій Білецький в інтерв’ю ТСН.Також він додав, що у майбутньому ця […]
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Наземні роботизовані комплекси (НРК) можуть замінити третину української піхоти на лінії бойового зіткнення.Про це заявив командир 3-го армійського корпусу Андрій Білецький в інтерв’ю ТСН.Також він додав, що у майбутньому ця […]
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It's funny that we were working on FCS ~20 years ago to field basically what Ukraine is cobbling together on the fly.

Sad it was shut down because Boeing fucking sucks as an LSI.
 
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I haven't watched the whole thing but I think the logic the guy uses is very faulty. "Is Donald a Russian agent?", allegedly not because he's frustrated Russian interests in several fronts. I'd like to ask, with this rationale in mind, who considers Donald to be an American agent? He's supposed to be the President of the freaking United States and I'd say he's done a lot more to aid Russia than he has America.

I'm not saying that it therefore necessarily follows that he's a Russian agent, but TBH I think it's splitting hairs to differentiate between whether he's in the employ of the Russian state or he's just trivially easy to manipulate relative to intelligent and mentally mature adults in general.
 
mikeymikec said:
I haven't watched the whole thing but I think the logic the guy uses is very faulty. "Is Donald a Russian agent?", allegedly not because he's frustrated Russian interests in several fronts. I'd like to ask, with this rationale in mind, who considers Donald to be an American agent?
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I think thats the point of the video - ie thats its not a binary choice as you have expressed. Donald is not an agent of any country. He is an agent just for himself (and by extension his family) and noone else. In this context he is willing to use anyone else, and any country you care to name as a punching bag. Or if he doesn't believe thats the right tactic, with profuse flattery. He currently believes that Europe and Ukraine are weak, so no need to use flattery. He'll punch those as often as he can until he gets what he wants. Greenland and another peace deal. With Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un he has been trying flattery, although the tariff's on Xi probably means he is flip flopping between the two.

The big thing messing with our determination of his 'loyalty' is that he is not a 'rational' actor. Whether the chaos is intentional (I don't think he is that smart) or from the mixed signals from various factions inside his Administration I don't know.
 
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I think thats the point of the video - ie thats its not a binary choice as you have expressed. Donald is not an agent of any country. He is an agent just for himself (and by extension his family) and noone else. In this context he is willing to use anyone else, and any country you care to name as a punching bag. Or if he doesn't believe thats the right tactic, with profuse flattery. He currently believes that Europe and Ukraine are weak, so no need to use flattery. He'll punch those as often as he can until he gets what he wants. Greenland and another peace deal. With Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un he has been trying flattery, although the tariff's on Xi probably means he is flip flopping between the two.

The big thing messing with our determination of his 'loyalty' is that he is not a 'rational' actor. Whether the chaos is intentional (I don't think he is that smart) or from the mixed signals from various factions inside his Administration I don't know.
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The extent that I watched included the presenter saying "he's not a Russian agent". He absolutely can be, though if he is, he's as god-awful a choice as he would be as any country's agent. And we know that the Russians can make god-awful choices because look at the Ukraine invasion and Putin not being defenestrated yet.

I completely agree that Donald thinks almost exclusively about himself and how others perceive him.
 
I don't think he is a Russian agent as in working for Russia as Gabbard I think is. But he was one of many Americans groomed and helped with money to become powerful. Also I'm sure that operations like Epstein are not singular and at smaller scale are used by many secret services to have compromising stories/photos/videos with them so they become controllable.

Trump was controllable until the narcissism and dementia got the best of him. He still didn't forget who helped him but his mind is a fucking mess so he's half useless for their purpose.

Why does half the congress do nothing? They are also in someone's pocket. Try to break the line after you've decided to not help Israel line? Bam! The married faithful christian suddenly appears to have be a pedophile, a rapist, gay, whatever. Israel, Russia, China, etc.

Countries can invest billions into owning such men, and they have patience, they do this on who knows how many, in the hope that if even one gets into top positions in the government, you have a powerful tool there. For a country like the superpowers, it's easy to sustain such investment, people making 100-300k a year suddenly can get double, triple, 10 fold that. And we know politics attracts the psychopaths...
 
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Russian pilots have an unfortunate (for them) encounter. Ukrainian drone operator has his month made.


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This made me realize I don't think I've ever seen a value of e-points attributed to helicopters. I looked and couldn't find it either. Sent off a couple emails asking people who might know. One replied he thought it would be tallied as a tank, 40 points. AFU says the crew took off on foot after the crash and were taken out with more drones, so another 12 per there. Using a drone to capture a live Russian is still the apex achievement for pilots apparently. 120 points. That POW can be used for a prisoner swap.
 
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This made me realize I don't think I've ever seen a value of e-points attributed to helicopters. I looked and couldn't find it either. Sent off a couple emails asking people who might know. One replied he thought it would be tallied as a tank, 40 points. AFU says the crew took off on foot after the crash and were taken out with more drones, so another 12 per there. Using a drone to capture a live Russian is still the apex achievement for pilots apparently. 120 points. That POW can be used for a prisoner swap.
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Feels like a Ka-52 should be worth at least 60 points to me.
 
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