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Happy birthday vamped!

Happy birthday ghostrek!

if true

As awkward as it was for that cohort of kids who were legal and then suddenly weren't, imagine if they were grandfathered in and Jimmy could drink for the three years because he was 18 and a day when the change was enacted but Timmy had to wait the three years because he was only 17 and 364 days.

lol

how would our tastebuds interpret the cold vacuum of space

Did they confirm? Always the risk of false flag stuff.

Last night I saw that one Russian outlet was claiming it was an attack and another was claiming it was human error.

A surprise to literally no one:

I wouldn't really rely on anything citing the Azov Battalion as it's source. Those guys are the alleged neo-nazis that tie all the narratives together, though I can't say for sure since I didn't follow the conflict prior and everything declarative now is untrustworthy. https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/02/what-is-ukraines-azov-battalion/

I definitely wouldn't say they're winning. Russia is still invading, bombing cities to dust, capturing other cities and installing puppets, and they have a numerical advantage despite suffering steep losses. Whether we realize it or not, a lot of the information being filtered out does have a pro-ukrainian bias, and we are completely in the dark as to how many casualties they've taken.

It's at a turning point where Russia is pulling back from its now-stretch-goals (like taking the capital) and digging in where they've been successful, so whatever they don't get pushed out of in the near-term is going to lock in. They're already trying to reframe the current status as the plan all along so it can be spun into a victory.

Haven't verified the source, but this is an interesting summary of why (eight tweet thread): To cut to the chase:

happy birthday seight!

Also the added complexity that they aren't trained to fly the planes we have, so like Poland is contorting itself to come up with a way to send them their compatible planes (and backfill from us) while trying to get us to choreograph their dance for them so they're not technically directly sending Ukraine their planes.

Russia has already threatened that any non-Ukrainians that have come to fight won't be treated as POWs

If he can still shut it all down, that's not the crumble yet.

No, he's pounding them into oblivion for resisting and for coordinating with the west against him, and he's doing it because he knows they're on the cusp of, but don't have actual NATO protection. It's a punishment to them and a warning to others. A warning that's obviously backfiring with regards to other Russia-adjacent countries.

paging @Poof

They're going scorched earth now that it's clear they aren't just walking in, they're more geared to artillery and bombings anyhow.

Per @Poof: