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But the nonsense you post most definitely is.

Trump isn’t the first leak and he won’t be the last. Intelligence agencies plan for these situations.

Oh I agree, however it's also worth noting that a lot of those assets tend to muddy the waters. I'm in no way celebrating the loss of any asset regardless of its value, just pointing out that chances are pretty good that the most important assets were never exposed to Trump for the simple reason that the would likely have been wasted on his unorthodox decision making in the first place. It begs the question of who in fact was actually exposed by this leak.

No, losing individual assets is pretty important, even if they weren't promptly murdered by Russian Intelligence.

Dude, just get a better paying job.

Their home games must be a real blast,

Happy Birthday!

How the hell do you have a football team when most of your students are online?

That guy is so giddy at the prospect of Rittenhouse getting sued, he's making me giddy.

No doubt Russian Intelligence has that base covered, but if I also had to guess.... Russia's intelligence services all pretty much know what's up with this and are likely laying low for the time being.

This is going to be a tipping point in Russia. From here, we're either going to see a concerted buy-in from the general Russian public or we're going to see the gradual erosion of Putin's power over his government. Up to this point, he hasn't had to sell his own citizens on the imminent threat to Russia's own borders, and, regardless of the ill conception of the invasion, he's now had a few months of maneuvering to build a solid sales pitch.

That motherfucker plays dumb, but you know he's dangerous as fuck.

You're like the Tasmanian Devil of politics.

You know.... if someone didn't know who Sponges was, I bet they might actually have that ever-so-slight doubt about his politics.

It appears I was wrong. Zelensky did indeed declare martial law.

Harsh, man.

Also… There is no evidence Ukraine’s military or its government is preventing its citizens from evacuating.

It’s a distinction that needs to be made; it’s not something that could be taken as given no matter how obvious it might be. People get the mistaken idea that disease alters your psychology instead of diminishing the brains ability to either perceive or process external stimuli. In Putin’s case it’s less that he’s prone to a moment of irrational behavior as he’s diminished in his ability to react to problems.

If Herschel Walker starts borrowing your lexicon, I’m flipping my shit, I tell you what.

What do you expect? He's up agains the only war criminal in history to have never actually participated in a war. At any rate, it is certainly worth noting that this conflict is a direct result of failures by the United States as the Cold War came to its abrupt end. It's not wrong to say that the United States tends to be the best benefactor when a conflict is involved, and that tends to be a function of multiple factors, like a clear diplomatic delineation, the excess amount of military hardware that can be produced, and legislature that is looking to score political points the easiest possible way. Still, a lot of it also has to do with the lack of a strong universal infrastructure to offset the wealth gap. It isn't enough, for instance, to simply to give a billion dollar package including food, equipment, and security guarantees if there is no way to gauge what is actually needed. Putin's hatred of NATO, unreasonable as it is, underscore the fact that it will always be a security organization and not a humanitarian one, and that its function as a neo-allied pact did not fill the shortcomings of United Nations as it was still in its infancy. When the Iron Curtain did ultimately fall, the countries left behind didn't have a strong support network to help them rebuild the critical systems that the USSR had provided. Some countries fared better than others, but it left the door open for Russia to try to move back in even a full three decades later.

Fascinating, isn't it?

I believe your point has been mentioned several times before by several different people, yet here we are. Just goes to show that good faith arguments don't always result in good faith discussions.

Also, what’s the connection to Syria other than sharing the same barbaric Russian general?

It will always be a problem as a side effect of our hyper vigilance in fighting the Cold War, and our hyper enthusiastic embrace of globalization for profit, and our overreaction to the catastrophic results of the Holocaust. Hegemony is the by product of hubris, but our sins are not comparable to the Russians.

Just checking. FWIW, that Jacobin sight is a fairly suspect source because it tends to parrot an anti-imperialist agenda with little to no substantiation. I find it fairly unlikely the CIA would have ever been involved with the Ukrainian regular army given the skill sets they provide are ill-suited to combat. The logic most likely holds that there were ultra-nationalists taught by US soldiers, possibly Special Operators, in the build up to the conflict, but the fact that the US Government has privately expressed concern about them having access to military hardware should be a good indicator that some guardrails are in place.