Mirah
I love you
A bear carried our garbage can up into a tree once. Was missing for days. Then it finally fell down. So wierd.
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A bear carried our garbage can up into a tree once. Was missing for days. Then it finally fell down. So wierd.
USUC
Trollzilla
I am not at all happy today.
A smoke detector battery was dying last night and I was woken up 3 times during the night by a loud beep, beep, BEEP!!! But then it stopped so I wasn’t sure which smoke detector I needed to kill at the time. I think I finally found it late this morning.
Just now I went to retrieve a ball for my dog from a rose bush. She clearly has the brains in the family because I came out of that with a shredded, bleeding earlobe.
Fuck today. Wahhhh….
A smoke detector battery was dying last night and I was woken up 3 times during the night by a loud beep, beep, BEEP!!! But then it stopped so I wasn’t sure which smoke detector I needed to kill at the time. I think I finally found it late this morning.
Just now I went to retrieve a ball for my dog from a rose bush. She clearly has the brains in the family because I came out of that with a shredded, bleeding earlobe.
Fuck today. Wahhhh….
The Question
Eternal
0200... Last Call. Coincidence? (Probably.)
USUC
Trollzilla
Part of me wishes that would happen.
It would be easy enough for us to detonate something in Poland and then blame it on Russia. Not that WE’D ever engage in a false flag operation.
But what I really want is a coup against Putin inside Russia. That’s the very best thing that could happen but I don’t know if there’s a chance in hell it will.
The Question
Eternal
I just unleashed a fart so rancid it could have strongarmed the demons right out of the Amityville house. Jesus. Stank could wrench a nose. I know they say everybody likes their own brand, and that's usually true, but I think I just made myself physically ill with that one.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Simlie: Not coming to Ukraine's aid is like if you were the biggest senior on the high school football team and you saw a freshman you know getting pounded by the second biggest kid on the football team, he asks for help, and you keep walking because the bully says he'll burn down the apartment building you both live in if you get involved.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
I've randomly started another plant.
USUC
Trollzilla
Provided the EU and NATO are on board and thoroughly invested I agree.
I’m somewhat concerned that we’re going to get involved in some greater capacity down the not-very-long road anyway so perhaps better to do it while Ukraine still has a fighting military (although the longer this goes on the more depleted and scattered the Russian military might be so those two things might off set each other).
Beyond the stinger and javelin systems we’ve been supplying some Pentagon talking head this morning alluded to more advanced systems we might funnel (or be funneling) to the Ukrainians (as opposed to those MIGs Poland offered). I don’t know much at all about weaponry but Patriot missile defense systems (or similar) sound like the next step up. Maybe more help is forthcoming.
USUC
Trollzilla
Can he?
Here again I obviously don’t know near enough about Russian capabilities versus western to agree or disagree with that.
USUC
Trollzilla
My dad was an executive in defense systems. Actually my older brothers knew the “Falcon and the Snowman”….they attended the same high school (my dad was uncomfortable about even that acquaintance as it related to his own security clearances).
He didn’t talk about his work (and I didn’t really care in my youth) but probably 30 years ago he told me how “back in the day”(so maybe another 20 years prior…all told 50+ years ago), we had the ability to see and read a postage stamp on an envelope from space pretty much anywhere in the world. That caught my attention and made me realize…I had/have no clue.
He didn’t talk about his work (and I didn’t really care in my youth) but probably 30 years ago he told me how “back in the day”(so maybe another 20 years prior…all told 50+ years ago), we had the ability to see and read a postage stamp on an envelope from space pretty much anywhere in the world. That caught my attention and made me realize…I had/have no clue.
USUC
Trollzilla
Russia asks China for support in Ukraine:
“We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them,” Mr. Sullivan said on CNN on Sunday.
“We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world,” he said.
Supposedly Russia is asking China for “military” help in Ukraine today. Wonder how Beijing will respond.
“We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them,” Mr. Sullivan said on CNN on Sunday.
“We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world,” he said.
Supposedly Russia is asking China for “military” help in Ukraine today. Wonder how Beijing will respond.
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Trollzilla
So if he took Ukraine without us putting “boots on the ground” (or air) because we were concerned about a nuclear confrontation, does that mean any time he threatens a nuclear response we’re going to roll over? If he decides he wants some other eastern European country, would we give it to him or fight then?
I guess the whole premise is Ukraine isn’t a NATO member ergo we aren’t going to engage but we absolutely will (no matter what) if Russia lands a bomb 15 miles to the west in Poland.
Seems like a flimsy policy when you think about it to me.
The Question
Eternal
"Give it to him"? Eastern europe doesn't belong to us. It's not our business. Well, our "representatives" might decide it is, as another avenue for money laundering... there's no legitimacy to that, though.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
OK. Here's an interesting bit of trivia: You know who the #3 world nuclear power was in the early 1990s?
The Ukraine. They had a shit ton of the Soviet nukes.
Then in 1996 we talked them into giving them up to the Russians on the promise that the US and the UK had their backs if Russia ever invaded. :marathon:
The Ukraine. They had a shit ton of the Soviet nukes.
Then in 1996 we talked them into giving them up to the Russians on the promise that the US and the UK had their backs if Russia ever invaded. :marathon:
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
China will laugh at them and offer to give them $5 Canadian if Russia will let them piss in their ass and then drink the piss after China catches it in a beer stein when it comes out. The Chinese are ruthless and smart. They don't need Russia anywhere near what Russia needs them. And they can actually get some brownie points on the world stage if they leave Russia twisting in the wind. Then they can cash them in when they decide they want Taiwan.