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Which of the three Putrids is that?
but where is his suit is the question
Can't recall seeing Putin in Russian military garb before.
Doesn't look like a man who is signalling that he's ready for a peace deal, despite what the EU and Starmer are saying.
Maybe spoke up and said his mind re Ukraine and Russia behind closed doors (?), i.e. told rest of the "brains trust" of kooks and sycophants around Trump (and Trump himself of course) that idea of a Reset with Russia (or keeping alliteration, Pivot to Putin!) is for the birds and of no benefit at all to the US (setting aside morality of it - these people will laugh at that argument). That sort of truth telling is not on and not the done thing, I expect!
Quite a coincidence. Aviation fuel for the US military and then a Russian captain ramming it.
A Russian 'sleeper' agent perhaps?
Or it goes to war with itself, which I reckon is the most likely scenario.
if a country goes to war it’s more likely going to be its Neighbour it’s going to war with. Just from a quick glance of the history of warfare .
The point about Russians invading Ukraine as unthinkable was a certainly a thing in the aftermath of the USSR breakup. Ukraine had sent the same amount of troops as Russia to Afghanistan, they were comrades in arms.
I saw an interview with a Russian POW who said it rattled him to see old pictures in Ukrainian homes of soldiers in soviet uniforms.
If there is trouble at the Canadian border it will be more like a MAGA insurrection rabble who'd be as likely to descend into a quick lived chaos and no more.
Your fault lies in thinking that such an order would be illegal. It's within his and Congress's remit to order military operations against anyone. There's nothing inherently illegal about attacking Canada or Greenland or Ireland for that matter. There are no shortage of military personnel who would be happy to march to the beat of that drum.
There have also been multiple illegal actions taken to date in pursuit of his policies. Illegal firings, withholding authorized payments, arrest and detention of individuals in violation of the Constitution. Laws mean nothing to them
My post is trying to warn you about “dictator for a day” who can undo and has undone (oh and tried even to have a little coup too) checks and balances and effectively becomes an elected king like has happened in Russia
Now Trump doesn’t have long to live due to his age, but potentially someone much worse could come along and demolish any remaining opposition to authoritarian rule
Trump could yet be the Yeltsin to future US Putin like figure, probably one of his sons at this rate is next in line
For Russians invading Ukraine used to be as unthinkable as it is for Americans to currently think about invading Mexico or Canada, if any generals object he just fire them (as he recently done) and put in someone sympathetic to him
Your post seems to indicate a total lack of understanding of (a) how the US works, (b) how my mind works.
There is a world of difference between what I may perceive as bad policy, and what is unlawful policy. If Trump wants to abandon Ukraine, focus the Army on the border, insult Denmark and Canada, eviscerate the executive branch and ruin the US economy with a daft trade war, those are policy decisions which are within his remit. The checks and balances as far as that go are the ability of Congress to censure or legislate. Should the elected representatives not do so, that is itself a policy decision by those representatives who are answerable to their constituents. We are getting what we vote for.
The other checks and balances are those based on legal authorities. Idiotic policy is not illegal. Thus far there has been no evidence that the system is not working. Not least because there is only so much he can effect. Contrary to your post, Trump actually isn't in my chain of command right now, for example. The merits of our dual jurisdiction federal system. Causes all sorts of fun in disaster relief operations (used to be a lot worse).
So, yes, I am very confident that I will never receive an order to seize Toronto. In the astronomically unlikely order is ever tried (or maybe just a piece of Ontario, maybe to Hamilton) , I have no reason at all to believe that the order will nprogress past Gen. Guillot.
Probably far less environmental damage than you might think.
Has Kellogg lost his snap, crackle & pop? Brought out the tiget in Trump? etc…
Looks like Trump fired his chief negotiator
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article301911414.html
No sign of Putin agreeing to ceasefire
WhY DoNt ThEY WaNt PeAcE?
Am I doing the concerned peacenik thing right?
That last paragraph has aged well in the last while. 🤨
Roman Abramovich (the russian oligarch) has a steel plant in Oregon, USA that has been supplying faulty substandard armour plates for U.S army vehicles. The kremlin pissing themselves laughing at the U.S. And then the U.S through NATO putting pressure to only buy US made substandard military equipment on it's supposed allies.
Maybe a warning to the UK, who recently announced increases to defence spending. It creates a lot of environmental damage in UK waters.
It's still a case of they can just rent another one. Were I a marine insurer, I would roll out a quick policy update cancelling insurance on any vessels with Russian captains or first officers. They have gone from dragging anchors across the Baltic to ramming amidships.
Or Putin warning Trump that he has the terrorism card to play against the US and world outside of Russia if they give too much to Ukraine in negotiations.
(Since Trump is fond of cards for negotiation).
And Putin knows no other powers can play the terrorism card back in locked up Russia.
Trump being weak and subservient to Putin would relent and accept the message.
Whatever though it shows outside of Russia, Russians shouldn't be afforded any positions of power or responsibility. This is what happens when one is afforded control of a 140 metre long cargo ship. Rest of the crew were russian and filipino.
It was however was US flagged which is a rarity these days
Only 185 US flagged merchant vessels in 2024 (down from 3000 in 60s) while China has literally thousands, hell Russia has hundreds of tankers alone in its dark fleet now
Of which only 74 are tankers, and less than dozen specialised for aviation fuel
A few more “accidents” and US power projection is limited to its shores for a while
Yeah, those US engines have already likely cost SAAB sales to Colombia because the US nixed it.
The tanker was a rental.
Poland can always cancel those orders for the Westinghouse/Bechtel nuclear reactors, I'm sure the south Koreans would just love to fill the gap. The order for those 32 F-35s can be binned as well - Macron won't mind.
The US will go straight past recession to depression if Krasnov keeps this up.
I don't think there's going to be any Ukrainian war angle to the Russian captain of the container ship. Way too obvious and doesn't make sense at a time when the US were doing Russian's bidding. The only relevant thing him being Russian is that he or the crew are more likely to have been intoxicated to some degree while in charge of a vessel.
It's like that, but worse. Just after Google hears you aren't getting updates, they deliberately roll out a major change in HTML and a new version of Chrome. Within a week, 75% of websites you visit don't display. In another month it will be 90%
Sure it's the same computer and Office still works and you can do spreadsheets and word processing and stuff, but the internet has essentially broken.
This week we had RussianZ walk themselves into a freaking gas pipeline and straight into an ambush
Driving a ship into another and walking away without loss of life is minor in comparison
The captain gets to spend time potentially in a cushy UK prison which be at about same grade of comfort as a good Russian hotel
While the US loses one of the very few logistics ships (only 10 of these?) they have and would need in case of war with China
All completely deniable of course
The Z fanatical terrorists.
Kind of mad thing to do if it was deliberate though, a freelance special military kamikaze operation…
I had my suspicions.
That is certainly suspicious.
