BashiChuni

You have an unhealthy obsession with Russia and Putin.

monopoly? on what? cars? superior tesla car orbital internet? superior product spacex? superior launch platform at a cost savings from other competitors. elon is the richest man in the world he doesn't need more money. the dude is driven to fix problems and his resume is evidence of that. https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/did-spacex-really-save-taxpayers-40-billion/ "General Hyten, [then] the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told me last year ... the fact that we have competition now on going to space -- just for the military -- has saved them $40 billion in launch costs." Now, $40 billion is a big number, and it's not entirely clear how Hyten came up with it. Still, SpaceX has been launching government satellites at significant discounts to the prices charged by space companies such as Boeing (BA 0.46%), Lockheed Martin (LMT 1.12%), and Northrop Grumman (NOC 1.12%) for about a decade."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/s/Hq5oTnS1q6

i'm afraid you're correct

https://www.city-journal.org/article/nsa-whistleblower-trans-gender-ideology-dei Biff you workin at the NSA?!

this. the deep state is in both sides of the political spectrum. it's why businesses contribute to both parties...why risk ever being out of influence/power based on elections?

The media claimed twitter was on the verge of failure “any day”. That didn’t happen. Twitter is very successful. Let Elon cook.

I think the emails aren’t the point. It’s trying to find a signal thru the noise. You actually think anyone is going to read millions of email replies? say what you want about Elon, but he’s not dumb. This playbook was implemented on a much smaller scale at twitter and worked. Let’s see how it plays out.

i think the navy has been going pretty hard the last few months

Enshallah.

It’s not shallow analysis dude. I’m going back to the 1990s, putins speech in 2007, our cia memo in 2008, the US backed coup in 2014. the shallow analysis is the side which looks at Russia invading in 2022 and screams “Unprovoked invasion, we must defend Ukraine at all costs!” That side is viewing the invasion as a singular event and not considering the factors, actions, and consequences of multi national foreign policy which contributed to shaping Russian decision making. again I’ll ask…why does the US not recognize Taiwan as its own independent nation? Are we capitulating to China? Are we not letting Taiwan pursue what they want? Doesn’t Taiwan have the right to be its own independent country? we are ambiguous because we know if we aren’t the Chinese might take Taiwan back by force. It’s the same calculus I’m overlaying on Ukraine.

pretty cool they pulled from the ANG...a very clear signal to every flag officer on AD...

Say his name three times to summon him!

Might have to be slife story telling night tonight 🤷‍♂️

Paris next right?!

WHAT A GREAT NIGHT!!!

FUCK YES a huge middle finger to that ASSHOLE! 🖕 busting out the expensive stuff tonight 🥃

I’ll go back and look. from a Russian perspective I would say they’re not wrong. From our side I’d say it was wrong to invade, but I understand why they did it. And how our actions provoked them to action. A war which would have been avoided. I can provoke you into punching me in the face. Does that mean you’re justified in doing it in the eyes of the cops?

this is a fantastic post.

can you post the documents here for me to look at? i'm not justifying the invasion i'm saying we provoked it (two different issues) and could have avoided it. again...the Burns "no means no" memo is my proof.

you guys are really obsessed with me. i feel loved.

i didn't necessarily say justified. i think we had a hand in fermenting this conflict...the memo in 2008 warned about it...and the 2014 coup which the US orchestrated in Ukraine certainly didn't help. also the biden involvement in ukraine is at the very least interesting...probably a lot more to that story. and the cia outposts along the Ukrainian border probably didn't do anything to calm tensions. let me ask you this...why does the US not officially recognize Taiwan as it's own independent country? straight from wikipedia: --- "Over the past four decades, the U.S. government's policy of deliberate ambiguity toward Taiwan has been viewed as critical to stabilizing cross-strait relations by seeking to deter the PRC from using force toward the region and dissuade Taiwan from seeking independence." --- we know that if we recognize them, China gets mad and invades. so we are SMART and don't provoke the Chinese. Now insert Ukraine and Russia into that statement. its intellectually dishonest to say putin invaded "unprovoked". he didn't. he was certainly provoked by western actions. justified? i'm not arguing that point...i'm simply stating we had a chance to avoid the whole mess in the first place.

It was a warning from the cia about what our current path would lead to.