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I really hope we are both wrong, but I suspect we are both going to be right in the end. Like you said, hes going to take the small bites because no one is going to push back.

Video of some very heavy fighting going on. Thats pretty clearly right next to civilian areas as well. Theres going to be a lot of collateral damage.........

IF he does launch a cyber war on those nations I think that would also trigger Article V. Biden was apparently given some options for our own cyber war that we could launch against Russia. I was reading about the leaked options earlier and they are pretty robust. No idea if anything was used. I really do think Ukraine is just the first step. He wants to rebuild the USSR and "Russian Empire" and he was angry way back in 2014 when the people there deposed his puppet, and he never forgave them for it. Now hes out for revenge and is going to try and put another puppet in place. Once he gets a puppet here hes going to look for the next place to simply repeat the playbook.

Huge news if this is true. Earlier reports (just repeating what I heard here) were that Russia planned to use this airport to fly in mass numbers of troops and armor to try and quickly take Kyiv. Ukraine could sabotage the airfield as a way to seriously hamper the planned attack by Russia. They could completely destroy the airfield and make it totally unusable. Its a Scorched Earth tactic, but it could be hugely important to slow down the Russian invasion.

The real question I think is what he does with nations like Latvia and Lithuania. Both are former soviet states, and both are in NATO. Any move against them would absolutely trigger Article V. I have no doubt that hes going to keep pushing as far as he can. Once he takes Ukraine hes going to set his eyes on the nexdt nation to conquer. Its just a question of where does he look.

Going to have a lot of questions for these two nations if this is true.

Biden reiterated that Putin is trying to rebuild the USSR and has his eyes on all former soviet states. Thats the bigger fear. Its not that hes going to stop with the Ukraine, its that hes eyeing all former soviet states as potential invasion targets.

So our sanctions are going to totally freeze Russian assets, both private and from state-owned companies, in the US and EU. We are also limiting, or outright banning, the export of high-tech products into Russia. The full list of sanctions will come out later. We are also sending more troops to Eastern NATO countries to help solidify their borders.

Super..........

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-declares-state-emergency-after-russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24/ Lithuania is a NATO member that borders the puppet state of Belarus. Belarus also is taking part in this invasion.

Even Russians arent buying Putins bullshit. Really proud of these protestors. Takes a lot of bravery to do what they are doing when you have a dictator like Putin in charge.

Biden is going to speak in roughly an hour. Hes been talking to G7 leaders and NATO this morning. We're going to launch a ton of sanctions against Russia. Thats really all we can do. We cant go to war with Russia because thats Game Over. A lot of Putins power comes from the oligarchs that are happy with him. If our sanctions start to cripple those around Putin then the pressure would grow on his ouster. The real question is if we expel Russia from SWIFT. That would absolutely cripple Russia and all of the oligarchs that Putin depends on. If Russia is expelled from SWIFT then they would basically become a hermit nation, but without the ability to sustain that. Their economy is smaller than Texas and is almost entirely dependent on petro-exports.

Well this is super. Its been 80 years since we saw something quite like this in Europe. Really hope that it stays contained, but I dont know if it will. Putin has made it clear that he wants to reassemble the USSR, and some of those former soviet bloc nations are firmly in NATO. More immediately, the DOW is crashing and Oil is now over $100 a barrel. We need to start pumping our own oil again in a hurry so we can cut-off the Russian oil we buy and bring our own energy prices down.

Not going to hear me disagree with that. The NFL has been doing this shit for a long time now, and I dont expect it to stop anytime soon. Mayyyybeeee if Congress investigates Snyder that may scatter some of the cockroaches, but I doubt it goes far enough for that to happen.

Look, the Rooney Rule is a total joke. I dont think anyone thinks that it was anything other than the NFL trying to cover their ass for continuing to run an Old Boys Club. I get the idea of the rule, but its not like it was ever going to change anything. You cant force an NFL team to hire someone they dont want, and many times the GM already knows who they want to be the coach before they ever start the interview process. All the rule does is force teams to check a box before they can announce who they really want as a coach. The NFL is the definition of an Old Boys Club where teams would rather run the same failed coaches over and over again than try something new. How else do you explain the constant retread of coaches? A few teams have branched out and looked for newer coaches, but it continues to be a revolving door of the same old coaches just moving from team to team. Edit: I should point out Im not discrediting his lawsuit at all. His description of Elway being totally hungover sounds freaking accurate. Just pointing out that the Rooney Rule is nothing more than a face saving act by the NFL.

Its actually impressive how far the Blackhawks have fallen.

Homer Simpson is the only owner I will accept at this point. Mr. B isnt here anymore, so it goes to Homer.

Blackhawks are turning into the Washington Football Team of the NHL.

So, hes admitting he lost without admitting it and still claiming that Pence had the ability to overturn the results of the election(which again, he says he didnt lose).

HAHAHAHAHA FUCK THE CHIEFS

Im doing it! Im taking the Bengals! I want to take the 9ers as well but I dont want to bank on both road teams winning. Fuck the chiefs!

Not overly surprised. The real question is just what kind of nominee can get approved in a 50-50 Senate. If Dems hold the line they can get anyone, but theres no guarantee that will happen.