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That loss will be in a week or 2 vs Oregon or sc.

I’m not sure anyone thinks they’re winning. At best they’re surviving. I think the 60mins story said something that their professional military is basically gone at this point. Relying on volunteers, militia, foreigners. Failed to mention conscripts.

Zelenskyy was on 60 mins tonight. They said the front averages 40k artillery rounds a day. That’s insane!

I think some are against supporting UK because without US support Russia rolls over them. We are simply delaying the inevitable and causing more damage/death in the process. There are some that say its partly our fault for expanding NATO east and being involved in the 14 elections. I know a lot that want all that money being spent on UK, spent in the US. But that's not a reality. I dont know the right answer, I see the benefit of weakening Russias military in the process. But I also dont think this ends in Ukraine. I cant see Putin packing up and heading home or just settling for the east. There had been fighting there since 14 anyway so I dont think that changes anything.

I mean did he really think he'd stick around after his coup? Surprised it took this long.

Plane crash north of Moscow. Prigozhin was on the passenger list.

I'll add my .02 from my career in Oil and Gas with a lot of former military colleagues. Like all things there are good and bad. I wouldn't say the military experience I have seen is an auto step above anyone else. Some are really good others are not. Im on the sales side of our business and we have maybe 40% sales guys with military experience. The main issue I see is they need to be told what to do and exactly how to do it. I dont see a lot of thinking outside the box with new and innovative ideas to create new business. But if there are procedures to follow, they are great at it. In the O n G industry, an ex enlisted guy with a GED can make great money, however I think that time is mostly coming to an end with energy policies. As far as recommending someone to join: I did and the startup I work for was big on military guys so it worked for me. Where we are now 10 yrs later, we want industry experience, preferably from a competitor we can train. Military experience may or may not be a bonus. I dont want my kids to join. Not after the way GWOT was handled. I feel like it was Vietnam 2.0. Nothing was learned. My best friend from highschool quit college on 9/15 became SF in the ARMY. I dont know how many deployments he did and how many buddies he lost. He was awarded the purple heart and just retired after 20+ yrs. All that time away from his family and the dude is not the same and for what? I did try to get my brother in law to join hte AF as a load or boom for obvious reasons (Travel, college, experience). His family doesn't have much and he was limited on options. Well he didn't and joined the Army after too many years in college figuring out his path. He's an 01, but he could be a civi now had he listened with 0 dept. Lots of guys that were in their 20's 10 yrs ago now have kids. Willing to bet not many will push for a career in the military. It will be a long problem.

Isn’t this how “by dawns early light” started?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-intelligence-pro-ukraine-group-nord-stream-pipeline-attacks-report.amp so it wasnt the russians

Let's also be honest. Not a single cent that has gone to Ukraine would have been used in any meaningful way to make the US better. Infrastructure desperately needs updating. Our education sucks. Health care?

Isn't he also like 25? So you would think he's more mature going into hte NFL. PPL thought Vince Young was a sure bet and all teams passed over Tom Brady through 5 rounds. So its a crap shoot.

Interesting topic but yeah China on US soil would be an interesting strategy plan for logistics. Secure Costcos for resupply? Not sure how they could resupply food/equipment across the Pacific. The US at least has Korea and Japan to work from.

Oz wasnt a great candidate though. Hes not from PA or lives in PA and a Trump candidate I believe. That said...I really dont know what the appeal of Fetterman was. He has lived off his parents his whole life, never had a real job. Was mayor of a dump and still a dump, hes basically pro 2nd degree murder, hes huge on Teachers unions but sends his kids to the most $$$ private school in Pittsburgh. Throw in the stroke and its really mind boggling he won. When I saw that race still close I knew the red wave was just a myth.

Was that just for Denver? I know for fact you can get liquor in King Soopers in Arvada. Dont miss CO and it's politics.

I work in the pigging industry on the inspection side. I'll add my.02. Never thought of a pig as a delivery vehicle for a bomb but it could happen. However, I believe the line was idle and not making deliveries? The pig would have to travel with the pressure of the gas flow. So Germany would need to be taking deliveries. If the line was idle they couldnt push the pig since the displaced gas had no where to go. I found this site when I was trying to be an AF pilot. Now I am posting on my post military career. Baseops has now become full circle.

interesting. It looked like tanker cars which most likely would have fuel and had they known the train schedule and timed it that well....that is some good intel.

Also looks like they timed it where a train was on that portion of the bridge.

I mean Putin could have just blown up the Polish line that was just completed. By blowing his own he's severed his main artery of delivery to his #1 customer. Bold move.

I believe you should always question things. as you said gulf war 2 and wmd’s, gulf of Tonkin etc…I can’t understand how 1 party can question conflict then blindly follow domestic orders. (Covid) and vice versa. also….don’t forget a few years ago russia hacked the colonial pipeline and shut it down. That line is the main artery for fuel on the east coast. A lot more damage could have been done.

It was full of natural gas. You don’t leave pipelines empty. You’ll get moisture and corrosion.

https://news.sky.com/video/crisis-has-come-to-the-the-baltic-12706950 Interesting take on the situation. Basically says Putin blew it up to say nothing is safe in the baltic including hte new Polish line. Met with my contractor the other day who is Polish. Said the factories are shut 2-3 days a week due to lack of gas to keep them powered.

Just in time for the largest LNG terminal to go on line. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cheniere-go-ahead-with-texas-corpus-stage-3-lng-export-plant-2022-06-22/ Interesting thing going on here. Russia Gas lines flow through the Baltic or Ukraine. They have limited capacity to ship gas on the sea. For as bad as Russia has handled this war and watching ppl flee maybe they did blow the line to drum up support somehow? If the US did this it basically secured energy independence for NATO members. They will be forced to get it from the North Sea and supplemented from the US. The line can be repaired eventually and maybe that is leverage NATO can hold over Russia to back down?

Yeah I remember going into costco in my Denver burb with my 2 yr old and getting yelled at by the greater that he wasn't masked up. Then there was a dude that got arrested for shooting hoops with his daughter at a park in the early days in the same hood. Funny when I traveled to red states they didn't have these issues.

When I lived in Denver I could tell Denver would be the new LA/SEA. Nobody wanted to admit what the issue was, just be nice and cave to their poor plight. My burb but in a light rail to Denver. A billion over budget but once it opened our nice little old town was filled with bums. Quickly became a place you didn't want to take the family. Although some loved hte diversity. But if you brought it up you were a bigot. Ironically I think it was the mayor from Aurora who was a self described liberal. He spent a week on the street with them. His thesis was they were down on their luck good Americans victims of the system....He reported it was mostly a lifestyle choice that were abusing drugs and alcohol. Where I live now there are signs in our urban center that specifically say no panhandling and if you want to help donate to this site.

Kids are going back to school, inflation, recession, midterms, low approval ratings, Ukraine, China…..I’m sure the cdc guidelines are completely unrelated.