Looking for a few good men...

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Defense is physically easier than offense on the battlefield, especially in an urban environment where gains are measured in city blocks, not klicks.

The APC numbers seem very high.

@George-K

Without a doubt he’ll try.

Regardless, even under Geneva Convention rules a foreign legion fighting in this conflict would be regarded as a mercenary force and its members not afforded POW status if captured. Given the Russians track record of treatment of mercenaries they would want to make sure they die with their boots on and avoid capture.

Who votes for these people?

Honestly, would anybody here actually vote for this woman?

Too little, too late. Better than nothing.

@Axtremus said in Off to FLA:

Have fun!

Let me know if the airport or the airline still insist on people wearing masks. The CDC has relaxed its guidance on masking, but not sure if that filters down to the TSA or the airlines yet.

It hasn’t.

He always looks so serene . . . so imperturbable.

@Jolly said in If wars were ran like U.S. elections...:

Zelenskyy could "find" a half-dozen misplaced nukes tomorrow at 3AM...

And Trump would state that he'd won, by "a lot", right as they started going off.

@George-K said in The Hiding Place:

@jon-nyc said in The Hiding Place:

For a long time I kept a stack of 20s in foil in my freezer.

Really? How thick of a stack?

Not that thick. Maybe 2k or 2500 worth.

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English meet physics.

This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them.

Physician, heal thyself.

@George-K

No she was born right after the war. Her mother though served from 1939 through 1945 as a Red Army field nurse. She was first in the Winter War with Finland, the at siege of Leningrad and ended the war posted on the southern front. She mustered out with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. My wife always says her grandmother saw too much and rarely spoke about that period of her life other vague passing references.

Not likely there will be any untoward consequences, hell even in Soviet times the authorities knew better than tangle with a pissed off over 70 year old babushka.