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Originally posted by parabellum:
Biden is such a fool, such a braying jackass, it's utterly maddening. Absolutely the wrong guy at the wrong time. This is not a leader. A leader takes the people into consideration, and doesn't carelessly throw-about frightening rhetoric about the destruction of mankind.

This asshole is guaranteed to do damage and/or embarrass us as a nation each time he speaks.

He casually throws out remarks about food shortages and civilization-ending nuclear conflict like it's nothing. He's a yammering jackwagon without the first fucking clue.

A genuine idiot. stupendously fubared of a so-called human being. lucky for us with all the laws and layers of bureaucracy and largess of govt between us and him, we have a chance to eventually get rid of him. Not so much in non-representative govts and banana republics. So in that sick sense it could be worse, but then the consequences of that type of behavior are much less for tiny countries than coming from the likes of the US of A. Good lord.

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Originally posted by JohnCourage:

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Originally posted by armored:
My fear is that Moooochele Obama will run in 2024.
She checks all the boxes for any level of liberals. First black women president.

I get what you are saying but how could she possibly be qualified to be president? Black,
an Obama and female I get but it ends there.

Think Kamala.

Well, SOMEBODY just destroyed the bridge between Russia and Crimea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdAdwahF1Fk

Some comments from the above Crimea bridge video:



Another video of the explosion(s):




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2C2RVe_Wf8

Perhaps the Ukrainians are following the same pattern as they did with the bridges across the Dniepr from Kherson? Do enough damage to slow the flow, and then decide whether or not to eliminate it depending on where they find it convenient for the Russians to concentrate their troops?

Bravo Zulu Ukraine!

Link to Fox News video and story.

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State Adel al-Jubeir spoke to Fox News.

“With due respect, the reason you have high prices in the United States is because you have a refining shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years.
You haven’t built refineries in decades,” he said.

“Oil is not a weapon. It’s not a fighter plane. It’s not a tank.
You can’t shoot it.
You can’t do anything with it.
We look at oil as a commodity and we look at oil as important to the global economy in which we have a huge stake.
The idea that Saudi Arabia would do this to harm the U.S. or to be in any way politically involved is absolutely not correct at all,” he said.

Oh my

The Biden administration is nothing less than criminal. The entire establishment is no better than what we see in Russia- oligarchs making massive amounts of money at our expense.

What truly sickens me is that half the country hates conservatives SO much that they keep marching toward the abyss just so they can say “our side won”. All while their monetary value is being bled dry.

Owen Matthews
Who really blew up the Kerch Bridge?
Russia's security apparatus is being blamed by some for the attack
10 October 2022, 9:13am

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Who blew up the Kerch bridge? Not the Ukrainians, according to two of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers. Over the last 24 hours, both Mikhailo Podolyak and Oleksiy Arestovych have officially stated that the partial demolition of the vital bridge to Crimea was not the work of the Ukrainian army or their special services. Rather, Arestovych blamed the explosion on elements 'at the top of the Russian security apparatus' who 'have realised that the war is lost and are now fighting for power and the remains of their property inside Russia.' Zelensky himself has so far refrained from commenting on the attack, except to say that the 'weather has been cloudy in Crimea.'

This is very strange. After previous sabotage attacks, for instance on Russian airbases in Crimea in August, Ukrainian official social media channels issued a series of mocking memes referring to careless disposal of cigarettes (the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s official reason for the sinking of the cruiser Moskva). Kyiv never officially denied involvement in the Crimea attacks – yet now they explicitly say that the bridge attack was not their work.

Why would the Ukrainians not claim responsibility for a sabotage attack of high sophistication that caused widespread jubilation in Ukraine and across the world? The answer may lie in the details of the attack’s planning and execution that have emerged on anonymous, pro-Kremlin channels of the Telegram messenger and news service.

According to the '112' Telegram channel, quoting Russian police sources, the truck that exploded on the bridge was driven by one Makhir Yusubov, a former resident of Kazan, Tatarstan. He had worked as a truck driver for 25 years, and was now a freelance delivery driver with his own truck. Two years ago, Yusubov moved to a small detached house in the Aviastroitelny suburb of Krasnodar in South Russia.

On 6 October, Yusubov accepted a haulage job from a popular Russian logistics site ATI.su, which has over 100,000 registered drivers, according to the Telegram channel Baza. The job involved picking up a mixed 21-ton load of 'packaging materials' from Armavir near Krasnodar for delivery to Simferopol, the capital of Crimea. The online haulage contract, published by Baza, showed that the client was a limited company called TEK-34, based in Ulyanovsk in South Russia and listed as the number one most trusted haulage client of 370 registered in that city. It would be the first and last job Yusobov would do for TEK-34. According to Russian investigators quoted by the 112 channel, the advertisement was posted by a ATI.su user with the handle ‘Oleg’ and with a Moscow IP address. The haulage fee offered was a generous but not outrageous 48,000 rubles, or £694. The ad was online for around 15 minutes, and was taken down as soon as Yusubov accepted it.

Russian police who searched Yusupov’s computer found that he had checked TEK-34’s hundreds of positive reviews – but did not apparently notice that the most recent of them was in 2020, when the company was sold to one Oleg Antipov, according to Russia’s EGRYuL register of limited companies. But between its sale in 2020 and 6 October, 2022, TEK-34 did not post a single job or register any commercial activity, according to the 112 and BAZA reports.

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The truck that Yusubov drove had been re-registered to his nephew Samir because Mahir himself had gotten into trouble with the law after an earlier crash and didn’t want to lose his sole source of livelihood. Or so the nephew Samir himself claimed in a video he posted online explaining that he had nothing to do with the truck or the attack – adding that his parents’ apartment was being searched by the FSB and that he himself was abroad. According to Yusobov’s wife, her husband reported picking up the load, packed in pallets, at a 'completely normal' goods depot in Armavir on 7th October and set off on the 463 kilometre (287 mile), seven-hour first leg of his journey from Krasnodar to the Kerch bridge.

Yusubov should, by rights, have crossed the bridge towards the evening of the 7 October: Vladimir Putin’s birthday. But instead he decided to stop in a lay-by and spend the night, as the delivery was not due in Simferopol until the next day. At dawn he rose, drove to Taman on the mainland Russian side of the Kerch Strait, passed through the electronic x-ray and explosive detectors. His truck had just drawn level with an apparently stationary train-load of oil tankers when his truck detonated, demolishing one of the two road bridge spans and setting the oil train on fire. Yusubov was killed in the blast, along with a couple from St Petersburg who were in a passenger car that was nearby.

So far, so strange. But the really conspiratorial part comes next. According to other anonymous Telegram channels, the oil train was stationary on the bridge in contravention of regulations. Was it waiting for Yusubov’s truck to pass? And why were the tons of explosives in his truck not detected by the sophisticated machinery designed to prevent just such an attack?

The obvious problem with this bizarre story is sourcing. The details are too complex and too specific to be anything but a leak from law enforcement or intelligence services. The question is, whose? And why, since the Telegram channels used to publicise the information are known to be not only pro-Russian but security service-linked, would Russian spooks be interested in publishing details that point to Moscow’s involvement, not Kyiv’s?

If the attack was, in fact, organised by the Ukrainians, one can see why Arestovych and others would wish to distance themselves from it. A suicide bombing involving an unwitting patsy would not only be an act of state-sponsored terrorism; it would also be a cold-blooded murder unbecoming of a country whose main strength is its moral superiority.

But if Arestovych is right and the attack was organised by the Russians – or, as he claims, by a faction of the Russian security state – then the war has entered a far more volatile and dangerous phase inside Russia that we ever could have imagined. For the moment, though, only two things are certain in this hall of mirrors: someone did blow up the bridge using a truck bomb and that someone was willing to kill the driver to do it.


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Owen Matthews
Owen Matthews writes about Russia for The Spectator. His latest book Overreach, a history of the origins of the Russo-Ukrainian war, will be published by HarperCollins in November

Well, Russia is using this as an excuse to send cruise missiles into Kiev again.

You know it's bad when you have retired Admirals telling Biden to STFU with the nuclear war talk:


Mullen: Biden Needs To “Back Off” Armageddon Language

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Originally posted by PASig:
You know it's bad when you have retired Admirals telling Biden to STFU with the nuclear war talk:


Mullen: Biden Needs To “Back Off” Armageddon Language

Biden? Biden couldn't tell you if its night or day on his own.

Wonder who is making the teleprompter policy.

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But if Arestovych is right and the attack was organised by the Russians – or, as he claims, by a faction of the Russian security state – then the war has entered a far more volatile and dangerous phase inside Russia that we ever could have imagined.

There were reports of Rosgvardia (Putin's "praetorian guard") deploying all over Moscow when this happened. Then again, in Russia there could always be another explanation for there being troops in the street.

The plot thickens on the bridge demolition. Not sure about his claim on Ukrainian Special Forces, but it’s likely not a car bomb from on top of the bridge.

I’m behind in this thread, and this my be an ignorant take, but aside from dragging us into a proxy war with Russia, isn’t our support for Ukraine preventing Putin and Zelensky from reaching an off-ramp?

Biden’s making it sound like he’s not responsible for Putin’s potential actions. But we’re enabling this to continue.

I feel like I’m having a “Captain Obvious” moment, you guys are really on point with this.

Putin's demands isn't allowing for any kind of 'off-ramp' and the Ukrainians aren't interested (as far as we know) any kind of compromises. They've made significant gains and have a lot of momentum that they don't want to loose, and Putin is convinced that if he keeps feeding bodies into the meat grinder, he'll be able to out-last everyone and prevail..body count be damned.

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Originally posted by sigalert:
I’m behind in this thread, and this my be an ignorant take, but aside from dragging us into a proxy war with Russia, isn’t our support for Ukraine preventing Putin and Zelensky from reaching an off-ramp?

Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Canada decided to "annex" the New England states and started lobbing missiles and artillery into Boston, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, and NYC.

Would that be OK with anyone? In all seriousness, they are mostly communist states, so...commies, nazis, tomato, tomahto....

Would anyone here be asking for an "off-ramp" if that happened?