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What is the yellow country? USA? - Pebble - 3/4/2022 6:49:45 AM
- head smack - podrock - 3/4/2022 4:05:49 PM
  - Yeah…last night added a few. - Pebble - 3/4/2022 8:08:46 PM
    - Sorry about my contribution. - podrock - 3/5/2022 1:12:54 AM
      - Yours was fine… - Pebble - 3/5/2022 3:20:59 PM
        
        Thank you for your service - podrock - 3/5/2022 3:51:46 PM
        
        A discrete (and discreet) chilly bin Is essential… - Pebble - 3/6/2022 4:37:12 AM
        
        It's my signature misspelling. - podrock - 3/6/2022 4:47:12 AM

Why NATO hasn't established a no-fly zone over Ukraine. - ER - 3/5/2022 2:23:49 PM
- Good analysis. Also, - podrock - 3/5/2022 4:06:35 PM
  - Also, - ER - 3/5/2022 6:54:33 PM
    - More - podrock - 3/5/2022 7:24:40 PM
      - But WHY did they do this so incompetently? Have the Russians suddenly become that inept? - RL - 3/5/2022 10:12:12 PM
        
        Suddenly Inept? - podrock - 3/6/2022 12:10:32 AM
        
        I know the Russian military isn't the sharpest tool in the shed... - RL - 3/6/2022 1:36:30 AM
        
        It's a grift. - podrock - 3/6/2022 1:57:14 AM
        
        The Russian army is much like the US Army in the Vietnam era. - ER - 3/5/2022 11:30:26 PM
        
        Their battle plan is horrible. - podrock - 3/6/2022 12:16:33 AM

Fools - RobVG - 3/5/2022 9:48:41 PM
- Ffs - Pebble - 3/5/2022 11:22:22 PM
- It works like this. - ER - 3/5/2022 11:20:52 PM
  - Takes the think'n out of it, saves time. - podrock - 3/6/2022 12:37:28 AM
- The GOP works for Putin- it has for quite a while now... did you not get the memo? - RL - 3/5/2022 10:05:16 PM

Hope - RobVG - 2/26/2022 5:53:15 AM
- Wonder if we are seeing the beginnings of a siege. - RobVG - 3/2/2022 6:25:11 AM
  - "Slow annihilation" - RobVG - 3/3/2022 6:15:10 AM
- Scuttlebutt - podrock - 2/26/2022 3:15:55 PM
  - more rumor - podrock - 2/26/2022 11:01:14 PM
    - I was prescribed Prednisone once - RL - 2/28/2022 4:32:06 PM
      - The doctor really failed to warn me what it would do - RL - 3/4/2022 10:41:52 PM
        
        There's that moment - podrock - 3/4/2022 11:36:24 PM
      - I have witnessed it - podrock - 2/28/2022 5:12:27 PM
        
        I have seen a six year old on six tablets a day - Pebble - 3/1/2022 5:46:42 AM
        
        Yikes! - podrock - 3/2/2022 7:07:08 PM
  - Some news sources: - podrock - 2/26/2022 5:51:47 PM
    - Thank you - RobVG - 2/26/2022 11:45:21 PM
- Its only been two days. - ER - 2/26/2022 6:14:10 AM

Watch this with the Ron Paul institute - Pebble - 3/3/2022 7:58:18 PM
- I'll have to get a bucket first. - podrock - 3/4/2022 1:11:31 AM
  - Don’t mention buckets - Pebble - 3/4/2022 6:39:20 AM
    - okay - podrock - 3/4/2022 4:04:57 PM

RUSSIANS BOMBING EUROPE’S BIGGEST NUCLEAR PLANT - RL - 3/4/2022 2:02:32 AM
- Update: - podrock - 3/4/2022 4:00:28 AM
- FFS - podrock - 3/4/2022 2:52:30 AM

‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes - RL - 3/3/2022 6:06:34 PM
- Zaporizhzhya - podrock - 3/4/2022 1:05:22 AM
  - Live video feed now down. - podrock - 3/4/2022 2:58:37 AM
- https://tldrussia.substack.com/p/home-to-roost - Pebble - 3/3/2022 8:00:53 PM

Hackers Make Russian Charging Stations Display "Putin Is A Dickhead" Message - RL - 3/4/2022 2:53:58 AM

Trump “barely knew where Ukraine was” and once asked if Finland was part of Russia - RL - 3/2/2022 2:51:39 PM
- Image not coming through, needs a tag. - podrock - 3/3/2022 2:37:21 AM
  - It’ll have to wait, - Pebble - 3/3/2022 7:13:53 AM
- Remember when he wanted to build a wall between Colorado and New Mexico? - podrock - 3/2/2022 5:56:37 PM
  - Where ? Never heard of them …… - Pebble - 3/2/2022 6:38:12 PM
    - If I can't get my Hatch Chilis from NM there is going to be trouble. - podrock - 3/2/2022 6:54:06 PM
      - New Macadamia so a nice line in nuts….. that do? - Pebble - 3/2/2022 7:17:20 PM
        
        I accept no substitutes. - podrock - 3/2/2022 7:27:27 PM
- This does not surprise me - Pebble - 3/2/2022 3:58:10 PM
  - Will New Zealand send troops across it's southern border with Ukraine to help defend against Russia? - RL - 3/2/2022 4:40:48 PM
    - I think they have to pass the distance swimming award first - Pebble - 3/2/2022 6:37:16 PM

Radio Free Europe? - podrock - 3/1/2022 1:16:28 AM
- BBC sees spike in readership from Russia - podrock - 3/2/2022 8:37:33 PM
  - Also, restaurant reviews - podrock - 3/2/2022 11:12:56 PM
- Hey Freedom Convoy! - podrock - 3/1/2022 2:06:05 AM
  - Speaking of radio... - ER - 3/1/2022 3:51:49 AM
    - Interesting - podrock - 3/1/2022 4:15:42 AM
      - Secret radio universe - ER - 3/1/2022 4:27:52 AM
        
        Number stations - podrock - 3/1/2022 4:32:50 AM
  - Do they even make red tin foil? - Pebble - 3/1/2022 3:50:36 AM

Hypothetical worst case - RL - 3/1/2022 3:03:04 PM
- Ok now I’m looking at the worst case too - Pebble - 3/2/2022 2:49:55 PM
- You are thousands of Km away - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:31:04 AM
  - Yes, I have a friend living in Norway - RL - 3/2/2022 5:34:38 AM

"NATO'S balancing act" - RobVG - 3/2/2022 7:14:21 AM

SOTU - RobVG - 3/1/2022 5:15:36 PM
- He did well. - podrock - 3/2/2022 3:21:20 AM
- He did well. n/t - RobVG - 3/2/2022 2:29:35 AM
- I think everybody already knows that. - ER - 3/1/2022 6:48:45 PM
  - State of the union address. - RobVG - 3/1/2022 7:26:34 PM
  - He proved that back in '99 - podrock - 3/1/2022 7:18:19 PM
    - And this guy needs to STFU - podrock - 3/1/2022 8:26:34 PM
      - What a f’g arse he is. - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:18:51 AM
        
        Just for the last several decades. - podrock - 3/2/2022 3:09:35 AM
        
        I’m not but I think I know all that I need to know - Pebble - 3/2/2022 5:05:44 AM
      - Between that, antivaxxers and other current events - RobVG - 3/1/2022 9:56:46 PM
        
        Yep. Got there myself the other day. - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:19:29 AM
        
        Usually between the first and second cup of coffee for me - podrock - 3/2/2022 3:14:13 AM
        
        Same but late st night. - Pebble - 3/2/2022 5:06:48 AM

Media reporting (nsfw) - Pebble - 3/1/2022 5:50:27 AM
- Russian media - Pebble - 3/1/2022 11:00:51 PM
  - follow - podrock - 3/1/2022 11:26:04 PM
    - I do - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:31:56 AM
- To show or not to show - podrock - 3/1/2022 6:30:42 AM

Well, we shall now see what outrageous escalation Putin will do- timed for the SotU.... - RL - 3/2/2022 1:31:09 AM

Don't get your hopes up. - ER - 3/1/2022 4:05:01 PM
- The Chinese long game - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:21:50 AM
- Fresh from the rumor mill: - podrock - 3/2/2022 12:12:49 AM
- This only ends, - podrock - 3/1/2022 8:30:31 PM
- PS: If you're lurking, SDAI, I'd love to hear your spin on this. - ER - 3/1/2022 4:08:23 PM
  - You have to say it three times. - podrock - 3/1/2022 8:45:56 PM

None dare call it racism. - ER - 3/1/2022 6:54:25 PM
- Sorry to say,,, - Pebble - 3/2/2022 1:16:04 AM

Russia forgot the trucks? - RL - 2/28/2022 3:48:27 PM
- I hope we are all here next week... - RL - 3/1/2022 2:24:32 AM
  - Yeah…I’d like to fly back south now where it’s much safer than Europe. - Pebble - 3/1/2022 5:27:29 AM
    - Only 34% of Americans Can Find Ukraine on a Map... - RL - 3/1/2022 2:14:16 PM
      - Many Americans can't find their own county on a map. - podrock - 3/1/2022 5:26:47 PM
- Out pacing your supply is a bad idea. - podrock - 2/28/2022 6:44:44 PM
- They forgot the boat fuel too - Pebble - 2/28/2022 5:46:42 PM
- Calls for a NATO enforced 'no-fly zone' over Ukraine growing - RL - 2/28/2022 3:56:27 PM
  - There’s precious little flying over anyway. - Pebble - 2/28/2022 7:12:19 PM
  - Bad, not good, idea. - podrock - 2/28/2022 5:54:27 PM
    - GOP dumbass senator calls for no-fly zone - RL - 3/1/2022 1:50:43 PM
    - Agree - Pebble - 2/28/2022 7:12:44 PM

And, lest we overlook it, Trump darlings Greene and Gosar speak at White supremacist conference - RL - 3/1/2022 2:02:08 PM

The highways out of Kyiv are packed - RL - 2/24/2022 5:31:14 AM
- An interesting view of the religious aspect - podrock - 2/25/2022 11:01:17 PM
- Russian space agency head threatens to drop the ISS on our heads... - RL - 2/25/2022 8:29:38 PM
- Seize their stuff. - podrock - 2/24/2022 3:43:34 PM
  - Instead of turning up the heat, we should have thrown them in the fire. - RobVG - 2/25/2022 2:53:43 AM
    - “Let's have a conversation in another month or so to see if they're working.” - RobVG - 2/26/2022 4:12:08 AM
  - That's not the "free enterprise" solution to the problem. - ER - 2/24/2022 5:52:59 PM
    - For far too long - podrock - 2/25/2022 12:08:51 AM
      - Exhibit: - podrock - 2/26/2022 1:58:06 AM
  - This is what the UK are doing - Pebble - 2/24/2022 5:52:14 PM
    - Does that include the Isle of Man? - podrock - 2/25/2022 1:16:58 AM
      - No, it’s not part of the UK , it’s independent - Pebble - 3/1/2022 6:21:18 AM
        
        Good. - podrock - 3/1/2022 6:36:27 AM
  - Agree but not the children bit - Pebble - 2/24/2022 5:31:51 PM
    - Understood. - podrock - 2/24/2022 11:56:14 PM
    - I can see your point, and pretty much agree with it... - RL - 2/24/2022 9:25:40 PM
      - It’s a tricky one - Pebble - 2/24/2022 10:44:32 PM
- Horrible. - podrock - 2/24/2022 3:36:12 PM
- Reports say Russian forces entered Chernobyl, fighting destroyed nuclear waste storage facility - RL - 2/24/2022 2:52:30 PM
  - Chernobyl power plant seized by the Russians - RL - 2/24/2022 9:31:20 PM
    - It stopped producing electricity back in the early 2000's - podrock - 2/25/2022 12:15:26 AM
  - Stupid. Idiots. - podrock - 2/24/2022 3:39:43 PM
    - Much like last time… - Pebble - 2/24/2022 5:51:52 PM

Where have standards gone to ? (NSFW) - Pebble - 3/1/2022 6:04:07 AM
- Top Gear - podrock - 3/1/2022 6:20:53 AM
  - Class ? Mr C? - Pebble - 3/1/2022 6:26:05 AM

Putin puts nuclear force on high alert... - RL - 2/27/2022 3:21:04 PM
- Good for Saturday Night Live! - podrock - 2/27/2022 6:18:35 PM
  - Video block in Canada. - RobVG - 2/27/2022 6:47:53 PM
    - Write up: - podrock - 2/27/2022 7:10:09 PM
- More rumors - podrock - 2/27/2022 3:59:32 PM
  - I am on the side of the Ukrainians %100... but - RL - 2/28/2022 6:31:02 AM
    - The risk is worse now. Kruschev was not crazy. - ER - 2/28/2022 3:21:41 PM
      - Yeah- we do not seem to be dealing with a rational actor... - RL - 2/28/2022 3:57:33 PM

Countries agree to remove Russia from SWIFT - RobVG - 2/26/2022 11:44:34 PM

Anonymous hacks Russian ministry of defense - RL - 2/26/2022 12:28:08 AM

Ukraine - why does Putin want it - Pebble - 2/22/2022 5:26:08 PM
- Short term objectives - RobVG - 2/23/2022 4:19:43 AM
  - The Baltic - Pebble - 2/23/2022 1:25:17 PM
    - Waiting to hear from family - podrock - 2/23/2022 9:19:49 PM
      - I can well imagine - Pebble - 2/23/2022 10:36:11 PM
  - that posted - podrock - 2/23/2022 4:22:02 AM
    - Couldn't post. Rebooting took care of it n/t - RobVG - 2/23/2022 4:41:55 AM
      - when in doubt, reboot. - podrock - 2/23/2022 5:14:31 AM
        
        "Like" - RobVG - 2/23/2022 5:21:27 AM
- Don't read this before bedtime: - podrock - 2/23/2022 1:39:45 AM
  - There goes the neighborhood... - RL - 2/23/2022 7:15:40 PM
  - It could be worse - ER - 2/23/2022 5:20:37 AM
    - The Current Events board was created for political rants. - podrock - 2/23/2022 6:02:26 AM
    - Have a stiff drink for this one - Pebble - 2/23/2022 5:52:15 AM
  - Madness. - RobVG - 2/23/2022 4:40:55 AM
- Another view, from a former Bush advisor turned geopolitical speaker - Pebble - 2/22/2022 9:21:39 PM

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