I wonder if there's some passive protesting going on with those photos of Americans.

I don't think US vehicles have done camo since the early 90s

That was observed on videos the Russians posted of Su-34s bombing sites in Syria a few years ago

Those tanks are not "free" but have maintenance costs to keep them either training or combat ready.  I can see keeping them for training if one expects tanks that are actually survivable to come along in time of war.  From where, I have no idea (yes I kinda do). These tanks are a death sentence to where it's just not feasible to use in combat as these only serve to lose tank troops.

Maybe so, but I still find it incredibly amusing.

It's a video always good for a chuckle but, in fairness, it's a really nice jack. Love mine.

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Trex in this one, LOL

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Rotting dead bodies of Russian soldiers found in liberated village near Kharkiv

This.  It’s a temper tantrum.  Like a toddler discovering the world simply doesn’t work a certain way, some of these “conservative” posters have had their world view destroyed.

They have realized that Putin isn’t a military genius looking to deNa I a corrupt Ukraine to halt the global homo agenda.

He’s just a sick, old dictator on his last gasps of power.

The Russian military is a joke.

So anger temper tantrums.  

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When EU was established, there was not a "one vote per country" but countries got multiple votes.  Germany got the most along with UK, FR, and IT.

They also cooked the procedures for what constituted as passed legislation.  If the council introduced the legislation, it only needed a simply majority.  If a EU member introduced the legislation, it needed a two-thirds majority to pass. There in lies the corruption of the EU parliament.

However, this corruption is nothing compared to the EU commission.  It's is where majority of the power is consolidated. Each EU member country gets one representative, but, and this is a very big but, they can only represent the interests of EU and Europe as a whole and not their home country.  It's the only legislated body in the EU that can introduce legislation, and gets to determine whether it's simple majority or two-thirds. It is so powerful, that it's often referred to as the European government.

Not surprisingly, the countries that had the most votes since its inception has the most power in this commission.  They had decades of multiple votes up to about 2000 to consolidate their power.

The longest standing president of the commission (and president of the EU) was a socialists from France.

France and Germany are use to getting their way.  NATO represents a threat to the EU, and therefore a threat to them their power.  They have been slowly corrupting the NATO council for decades.  USA holds little power in NATO even though it is basically NATO's defense.  UK's influence on NATO is waining since their brexit.

Germany has been slowly destroying NATO through their self-interest and stupidity.  They are one of the few countries that are powerful in both EU and NATO, but they are a country of Ron Dellums.  Like Ron, Germany believes that military is inherently bad.  They have been reducing their military as a means of de-militarizing the world.  They also have been lobbying to rid NATO of nuclear weapons through arms control and reduction.  Their thinking is that China and Russia are only responding to USA and UK's nuclear threat.  They often conveniently leave out France as a nuclear power.

So I agree, either NATO needs a make over, or we need to replace it.  That replacement is taking shape with the USA-UK-AUS alliance pact.  Germany and France see that as a threat to their power. I believe their lobbying of Australia and the Australian anti-war socialists politicians are who's behind the sinking of AUS' nuclear submarine force.  And it certainly looks like it's sinking fast.  Hopefully, it will get righted and Australia will go with an Astute or Virginia class hull.

Whether people like it or not, Putin's strategy of fomenting crisis by sending in FSB agents and funding local "ethnic Russians" (even if they are actually Buryats and other fodder) to create a pretext for invasion has worked multiple times. And in that sense, it was a smart strategy to employ (for Russia). Just in the last two decades they dissected Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014) this way and they were prepped to do the same to Moldavia (by way of Transnistria). Up until this latest offensive they received close to zero pushback when they made these moves. It is not a stretch to think that from Putin's perspective this playbook seemed like it can't possibly fail, i.e. brilliant. Everyone was surprised, including some of us in the West, by the sudden and harsh response with sanctions and materiel support to Ukraine this time around. Certainly, Putin and his power structure was surprised by it. They expected the same toothless proclamations from the EU/NATO as before and thought the uproar would die down within a news cycle. It's not what happened this time.

Trump's comments pertained to this strategy being effective in the past. He has a habit of assessing even adversarial leaders from the standpoint of whether they can get what they want. This is why he said the Chinese were smart to exploit the US economically since we had traitorous leadership that was willing to sell out to them so why not? They get what they want and all it cost them was some bribes. Trump said this not because he's rooting for China but rather to acknowledge that Chinese strategy to exploit US corruption was successful. He also said something similar about Mexico with respect to NAFTA. He said they are smart for taking advantage of an agreement that hurt US trade balance and caused a depletion of manufacturing, some of which ended up in Mexico. Trump didn't say this because he wants Mexico to exploit us, but rather to make the point when we (the US) agree to disastrous trade deals, the other parties will take advantage of it and why shouldn't they? His point in both cases is that it's largely our own damn fault for letting this happen.

I doubt Trump supports Putin or that he's rooting for Russia, calling it "brilliant" just his way of saying that this strategy has worked for Russia before. Not once, but multiple times. And again, it's largely because EU/NATO/US response was weak and ineffective. Trump was going around NATO countries telling them to beef up their military. Precisely because of the danger Russia posed/poses. He was of course ridiculed and criticized for it by the same people who told us that thinking Russia was an adversary was "the 80s wants their foreign policy back". The same people who took bribes and sold us out to Russia, team BHO/Clinton's "Reset Button" the Uranium One deal, etc. These same people in government and their media lapdogs are suddenly experts on Russia being a threat. And we're supposed to just forget about what they've done and go along with the narrative? Oh, yeah "Trump is a Russian asset" while BHO/Clinton actively undermined US national security to line their pockets via deals with the Russians. And the Biden Crime Family was neck deep in corrupt dealings with the Russian puppet regime in Ukraine. But no, we're supposed to pretend that never happened and it is Trump who's the problem. LOL I don't think so.

If Trump was in office, as he should be if the election wasn't stolen, Putin quite possibly would not have dared to make this move. We'll never know for sure but he certainly didn't dare to make a move while Trump was president. The Democrats have been fellating Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union and their cries of "Russia Russia Russia" is just a thin veneer, an attempt at projection, to divert attention away from their own corruption and complicity in Putin's imperial expansion. Trump was right in ringing the NATO alarm bells and they hate it. He was right again and they can't admit it so they must spin the story 180 degrees opposite from reality.

Sorry, my bad. I misread. My apologies. I must have just skimmed it. Particularly as I would never expect anybody to have a problem with the country that was the one that was invaded. Again, my bad.
I support Ukraine. Period.
I have come to the conclusion the rest of Europe is never going to be safe from Russia, ever. The only way for European countries to be safe and able to relax is if Russia gets hit so very hard it's entire royalty/empire/soviet culture is disrupted.

Great, yet another band I need to figure out. I want to hear MOAR !

At 38 seconds one vehicle out in front hurrying to get away drives into a cloud of smoke and can't be seen for a second or two and still gets blowed up.

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— spook (@spook_info) May 10, 2022

Might just be retrograde from exercises!

How did you come up with a TB2 carrying 4X as many APWKS as MAM-Cs & -Ls that they currently use?

TB2s have only 4 weapons stations that can carry a max of 50 pounds each. An APWKS missile by itself weights 32 pounds. I'm guessing an APWKS plus a single launch tube (is there even one?) is going to add up to close to what a MAM-L weighs.

Cold Resolve most likely.

It’s the special operations NATO invasion force deploying from their undersea arctic base.





Shit. I’ve said too much.

NEW: Russia has added TWO battalion tactical groups into Ukraine in the last 24 hours, bringing the count to 99 BTGs: senior U.S. defense official

Russia started the conflict with 120 BTGs more than two months ago.

Jack Detsch  (@JackDetsch) May 10, 2022

The First "Ghost of Kyiv" - Vietnam Super Ace "Colonel Tomb"

Lots of reports of multiple cities in Sumy being hit.  

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The savagery of the UA social media game.

I was wondering. Thought Alex Jones slipped into your bedroom and slipped you some of Michael Jackson's "Jesus juice".

Doesn't look at all like CGI or a game. Looks totally like IRL footage with audio in sync.

If you're havin' Ukraine problems, I feel bad for you son...
You committed 99 BTGs, but the Special Operation ain't won.