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He always keeps a folded paper map of Ukraine by his right hand.

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USAA names a new CEO this morning. Juan Andrade. Article says he's only the second CEO with no military background, Peacock being the first. He's been on the USAA BoD for 4 years and is leaving Everett Group, a multi-national insurance provider. It's pretty clear the USAA trajectory isn't going to change. Over the past few weeks, I've moved nearly all my assets out, changed my direct deposits, leaving just enough to keep a checking account open. With it clearly not being military focused anymore, there's just no advantage in doing business with a bank that has no local branches. https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/usaa-new-ceo-20023348.php

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. https://x.com/RyanMcbeth/status/1877189961608233012

Haha. What's more embarrassing for you? Announcing to everyone that you're quitting the forum, or being too weak to actually do it?

This instantly teleports me back to my college days. Good to see Soundgarden still going strong even without Chris. For 1000 Baseops points: If you could describe the event at 19:15 using only the name of a Soundgarden song, what would it be?

2025 is already off the scales crazy. The Vegas Trump tower bomber claimed to have insider knowledge about the East Coast drones and China. Weird AF. Current, qualified, well-regarded Green Beret in good standing with his bros. Also claimed he was a whistleblower for war crimes committed by the US. There is also a claim that Iranian made MANPADS have crossed the border into the US and are unaccounted for. Wow.

What seems off? If you could only bring two guns to a suicide bombing, you’d naturally bring a .50 Desert Eagle and a .308 AR-10 SBR. And your passport.

Instantly remembered this story. Might be unrelated. 🤷

Wright Patterson AFB. "Medflight 8, Patterson tower, use extreme caution for heavy UAS movement on the base. Security forces is handling the situation." https://x.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1868501899890348402

More people are coalescing around this theory. This guy is a commercial drone manufacturer. "The only reason to fly a drone around at night is if you're looking for something." It makes sense that our authorities seem to be not taking action because they know the drones are ours and do not post a threat. What's the greater risk? - Allowing the public to freak out a little over their unexplained presence in the sky - Truthfully explaining the underlying reason for their presence, and perhaps causing an even greater panic https://x.com/MilaLovesJoe/status/1868042627360403849

I thought this was an interesting post. Recently, I’ve watched a handful of podcasts and read a few articles with people claiming to be insiders who believe we are on the cusp of a large scale terrorist attack. That seems plausible given the politically and emotionally charged conflicts were involved in, our open borders, and our vulnerabilities. It might be BS, but the pieces sort of fit. Our adversaries have these capabilities, we’re fighting proxy wars on their territory, why wouldn’t they attack us through a proxy, on ours? The original post is deleted, but below are the screenshots claiming the drones are for hunting nuclear devices.

I have to admit I’ve been saying people were misidentifying aircraft in the midst of a sort of mass hysteria, but I’m beginning to wonder…

Anyone else get a weird, sickening feeling from this movie trailer? 😀

Just straight up lying to get us into a conflict prior to January 20th.

Looks like the good guys found one of Assad's family members. Syria is finally free from tyranny! https://x.com/MundoEConflicto/status/1866209781658075287

Biden considers pardoning Milley... For what? https://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/biden-preemptive-pardons-trump-milley-cheney-fauci

I did some digging, found this clip of Blinken accusing Russia of interfering in the election. One day later, the election is cancelled. Such bullshit.

Romania just cancelled its Presidential election. Calin Georgescu was up around 30% in the polls. Apparently, he favors de-escalation of the conflict with Russia and has a bit of an anti-globalism position. Ukraine cancelled its election. South Korea had its attempted coup, French government is in crisis, UK and Germany aren't far behind. I thought we were all about promoting, and in some cases imposing, "democracy". What are the odds the USA has anything to say as watch yet another one of our allies move toward tyranny as the obviously corrupt government attempts to cling to power in spite of the will of the people? Bad people are leading good nations. I keep saying it... they are the real threat. https://x.com/james_freeman__/status/1865180136720523344

....and it's over. We need better allies. WTF. https://x.com/clashreport/status/1863981374232776968

Huh... polling indicated the current administration was unpopular. Interesting.

This is probably going to be a significant event, so I'm making a separate thread. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol just declared Martial Law for the entire country. He said there are North Korean Sympathizers in the Parliament and they are attempting to Sabotage the Government with "Anti-State Activities". The President said he is going to “Eradicate Pro-North Korean Forces and protect the Constitutional Democratic Order.” In other words, the political party in power is accusing the opposing party of colluding with a foreign adversary, and is using it a pretext to "pause" democracy. Tanks are in the streets, military forces have blockaded and entered the Parliament building. This is probably going to have an impact on our relationship with SK, and our troops who are based there. Why is one of our closest allies in the region moving away from Democracy and toward totalitarianism? Ukraine did this, now SK. This is pure speculation and a "hot take" based on limited information, but there is a non-zero chance the people of SK may find themselves in yet another proxy war and we shouldn't be surprised to find ourselves paying for massive support to the SK government as they fight our "mutual enemy".

That wasn’t directed at you, but those who indignantly cry “Russian propaganda!” at the mere suggestion things aren’t going well for the “good guys”. We should also expect to hear a chorus of backpedaling insisting that the point of spending hundreds of billions in debt financed Ukraine aid and countless lives was never to win a conventional conflict or reclaim territory lost, but that the goal all along was only to inflict military losses on Russia to disrupt their plans to mount a full scale invasion of Europe. Brilliant.

How is it some of you continue to be unable to see the writing on the wall? I have always maintained that the progression of this war continues to trend in one direction. Ukraine is losing. It's not propaganda, it's not something I want to happen, it's a just reasonable application of logic to observable objective facts.