Rapidcreek @ Rapidcreek @reddthat.com

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Fiona is wicked smart.

: “A world in which Putin defeats Ukraine is one where the U.S.’s standing in the world is diminished, where Iran and North Korea are emboldened, where China dominates the Indo-Pacific, where the Middle East becomes more unstable.”

Ha! Hamas actually took the press to visit them. They find them every day. They found two dead hostages in one yesterday. I don't know what evidence you need.

Urban warfare increases casualties. Especially when it's house to house.

You mean the places surrounded by underground tunnels?

Why would they?

Indeed. They've already murdered them.

That's a lot of trust.

And when you've lost Ann...

They brought upon themselves an unusual position of ruling on abortion access even after its conservative majority declared that it would leave that question to the states.

The hostages are either dead or have been so horribly tortured, raped and terrorized that Hamas will never let them live to tell their horror stories to the world.

The hostage negotiation phase of the war is over, IMO

Dimes to donuts that is just another old suit he grew out of.

That's a good one and very interesting. Normally, you wouldn't release intel and assessments to the general public to protect sources. But, this time is different from the very start. Why? Are the sources indestructible? In any case, Putin must be constantly looking over his shoulder and wondering where it's coming from. The release of some of this information has stopped planned Russian efforts.

I don't know that Iridium is still working. I think it's been decommissioned. But, the US military has been looking for its replacement for years. Now, they could launch their own, or buy a network. Musk not getting RUS funds and losing a thousand satellites from orbit a year makes Starlink a prime candidate.

Indeed, changed

Edited to add. I was in Spanish, in which that spelling is the same word.

Massive is right. And Russia has still never recovered the population losses from WWI (at least 1.7 million), WWII (27,000,000), Stalin's purges, believed to be 20-30,000,000) the living exodus from Soviet break up, or the 4,585,000 covid deaths, and now has less than half this place's population, which limits is status as any kind of global power.

Russia ought to be begging for emigration, right now. But, they are a pariah.

No, in fact they weren't. There were 26 countries that abstained

A good agreement in principle. Now to see if this agreement can survive its infancy—as Kyoto and Paris did not—and actually see through some significant changes in our global energy policies.

I'm always skeptical about these junkets, especially considering they tend to be held in places like Cairo, Dubai and - next - Baku. Not a good look.

Or you could say investing in Ukrainians future, but that won't work with your narrative.

So, negotiations are unstuck but the timeline remains the same.

For an operating company that's the kiss of death. I predict Starlink will be bought by the US government and there won't be a hell of a lot of profit.