War in Ukraine

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volgr said:
The competition of ideas? No, that isnt the competition which you talk of. Snowflake is the one who hides behind the skirt of censorship.
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No one is hiding behind censorship, snowflakes only make that accusation when their propaganda is exposed and silenced.
 
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luthervol said:
An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry
5 of Trump’s Most Racist Rants During the First Presidential Debate
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none of that is racist and you know it. Did Trump say if you don’t vote for me you aren’t black? No. Did Trump say black people didn’t know how to get an ID or use the internet? No. Face the facts Luther. The word racist has been summed down now. Anything uncomfortable can be deemed racist. Biden is more racist than Trump ever thought about and you cannot handle that fact.
 
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luthervol said:
Yes, it is.
Just as the left tried and failed (for good reason) to have liberal talk radio. the right tried and failed (for good reason) to have popular social media platforms.

I get the whining of the right wingers. They can't compete on a large scale so they cry about things being unfair.
I think that's what you guys liked to call snowflakes.
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You all deplatformed the POTUS that had close to 90 million followers, You all deplatformed Alex Jones on Youtube that had millions of followers. You all tried to discredit and deplatform Joe Rogan because of his stance on vaccines and he isn't even a conservative technically. You guys do what you do best, which is silencing people.

Conservative and alternative voices have no place on social media.
 
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KB5252 said:
Many may not be saying it but most think it. With that said, most won't go public with this for obvious reasons. Biden running his mouth carelessly helps no one.
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I think the opposite. I think many leaders now see the US as weaker and are now finally able to flex their muscle and give their honest opinion without fear.

The US has done a pizz poor job of diplomacy for decades and now these countries see their moment to pivot and get some payback.
 
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luthervol said:
Simply disagree.
I would much prefer to have Biden/Harris than Trump/Pence.
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Mean tweets can't possibly be worse than this rolling dumpster fire in DC right now. You are either a lunatic, a hardcore partisan sheep that doesn't know any better or just lying and gaslighting because you know the Biden Administration is a complete disaster but you are just trying to save face.
 
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"...Exit defense minister who fought crony oligarch arms dealers, enter guy who knew how to “get along.”

As a result, Kamil Galeev tweets that “Shoygu [...] pandered to old military establishment [and] stopped arguing with army suppliers about the equipment cost and quality.”

The cost of the equipment, whatever. Defense contractors will bilk. It’s what they all do. But the quality of the equipment is a different matter. During peacetime, no one cared. The myth of the Russian Bear was enough to strike fear in the hearts of all potential adversaries. But now that they’re locked in a war with an enemy willing to punch back, all that corruption is coming home to roost. Breaking Defense’s Kyiv correspondent, speaking to Ukrainian intelligence sources (which because of shared history, supposedly retain close contact with many of their Russian counterparts), reinforces this point.

Those who have watched the evolution—or rather the deterioration—of Russia’s military and the defense-industrial base that supports it are pointing out that the poor performance of Moscow’s forces has been a process unfolding for years now.​
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Today “Russia has no more Kalibr missiles left in strategic reserve,” said a Ukrainian defense enterprise director familiar with the program, “but that is not the end of their troubles. The guidance system, the seeker head and other critical modules [in the missile’s front end] contain about 60% imported electronic components. None of these will be available after the long list of sanctions being imposed on Russia now, so it is hard to see where any new missiles would ever come from.” [...]​
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The Kalibr is not the only program in trouble. One Ukrainian intelligence officer tells Breaking Defense that there are “numerous shortages of [Russian] weapon systems. The famous KBM plant in Tula and other factories controlled by longtime Putin allies the Rothenberg brothers are unable to physically fulfil orders for infantry weapons and ammunition.​
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“Weapons that are officially on the books and should be available for delivery to active-duty units are missing and the next production runs will be complete only in three to four months,” the officer said. Even that estimate assumes that the raw material inputs have not been pilfered as well and are still available—if not, the time frame could be considerably longer.​
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The end result? Equipment that breaks down at its most basic level. Check out these two threads (one and two) on how tires are failing on Russian vehicles. When I was in Cuba a few years back, I was able to buy cigars from a guy who worked at the official state factory making them. Everyone pilfered a certain amount, which they would then sell on the black market. That’s what’s clearly happening here: the Rothenbergs and other arms manufacturers pilfer; the steel-, iron-, and component-manufacturers pilfer; the plant managers pilfer; the employees pilfer; the unit commanders pilfer; the supply officers pilfer; the soldiers pilfer. It’s a wonderful grift. Everyone benefits! Well, except when war is called. Suddenly, all that equipment that was supposedly in the field turns out to have been an illusion, long sold off for Italian villas and bottles of vodka. That’s likely why we haven’t seen much of a Russian Air Force in action. I bet they can’t even get their birds in the air.

The poor 18-year-old conscripts dragged off to a war they didn’t ask for get f’ed as a result. But it’s hard to feel sorry for anyone else."
 
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Putin heard 'loud and clear' call for regime change after Biden said he 'cannot remain in power': expert
The cleanup shows the White House is not fully in control of the message, she said.
"I would be interested in knowing whether that was in his TelePrompTer or not, because people who create his speeches have a responsibility for the American people to minimize security threats," Koffler said. "And if they put something like that in his TelePrompTer, that means those people are incompetent."
 
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AM64 said:
We were there at UT at the same time. It was my second time around - after I quit and joined the Army in 1967. If you were Chem Engr, we might have passed on the street; the Nuc Engr building was just down the street, and our metallurgy classes were in the Chem E building.
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Yep. We might have rubbed elbows or been in the same line for coffee at 7:45 AM. I would always grab a cup to take to my 7:50 classes. Those were good days to be an Engineering student at UT.
 
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