Gregory Purcell
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@wonderingBit @RicFlairsUncle @PopBusterZ @Grand_design0 @JordanSchachtel The move on Kiev is a diversion and a faint in my opinion Russia will not try to take that city, it will encircle the Ukrainian military deployed against the separatists.
@AngieSkys Let me rephrase this, there might be 1000 Russian VDV at Anotov airport and they are diverting 10's of thousands of Ukrainian troops in their direction. Main axis of Russian attack is linking up the troops at Kharkiv and the troops at Metropol.
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@RjmMarques @officejjsmart @MelnykAndrij @elonmusk And Ukraine is a self righteous beggar nations who thinks they can demand anything. You can object all you like.
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@RealScottRitter Third problem: given the political climate in Kiev, Zaluzhny is in no position to promise anything.
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@ByrneHobart Jewish nerdy computer guy saves the day with the help of his African American taxi driver.
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@BigDaveMartel I worked in the taxi industry for years, the very best tippers are bartenders, waitstaff, strippers, other taxi drivers. and anyone else who works for tips.
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@katewillett In Austin rents went down across the board, as the tec bros moved out of second and third tier apartments and moved into nicer ones.
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@damintoell I don't care about the Home Depot lady, I do care about the scores of people I knew for decades who called for violence against Trump supporters and canceled me for pushing back in 2020.
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@RealPepeEscobar I was hoping they would rename those 847 restaurants Don Mac in solidarity with the ones in Donbass.
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@RichardHanania Looking @ MalcolmNance Twitter feed it is safe to say he spent the whole of his first day in country tweeting re-tweeting and replying to tweets.
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@PStyle0ne1 This is Russians remembering their forefathers who defeated fascist Germany in WWII.
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@NRO No, economically he is very much a socialist but culturally he is a traditionalist (why many on the right like him) Lenin's version of Communism embraced the same woke version of "social justice warriors" we see from the modern left in the west. Putin is no Leninist.
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@blackintheempir They lost more than one city yesterday they lost three. Getting approximately 8000 troops out of Lysychnsk is now impossible the only open road is now covered by artillery fire
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The so called "Rules Based Order" is sleepwalking into its own demise.
The FT quotes EU officials saying “we may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing” and "we’ll pay a heavy price in the global south [for supporting it]". This is insane. They're predicting a "massive ethnic cleansing": why on earth is it so hard to, at.
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@OwenJones84 "Russia's kleptocratic, irredentist gangster regime". I don't think you grasp the depth of the misinformation surrounding the 10 year war in Ukraine.
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@OwenLaw76 @NeilPHauer If the pro-Ukraine side was more truthful they would be doing better and would have pulled out of this cauldron a month ago.
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@RepDonBacon @randy24049 @DevilFrawg @americaninq1488 Why not just claim the real number of Russian casualties is 7.3 million?.
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@KellyScaletta The last 10 years of history in Ukraine would have been radically different if they were a well armed society, the government we installed in 2014 would not have lasted long.
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@MOMCastTrevor @EventHorizon05 @dylanlhoyle @CensoredMen No this is what happens when you dehumanize the enemy.
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@aroh_gerald @Reuters Any report which starts with "Ukraine says" is likely a lie. Russia is in control of the NPP and Ukraine is the one doing the shelling.
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@_rob_p_ @jbhenchman @willjennings80 @Reevellp After Macron met with Putin at the long table a few days later Brazil's president met with Putin at this short table.
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@ThePollLady What this really means is NATO will have no idea where Russia is keeping it's nuclear arsenal. It is a big place.
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@nytimes Antony Blinken also said a cease fire agreement is unacceptable. I had thought that was for Ukraine to decide?.
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@katewillett That has been the case for the past two decades in Austin, lots of rich folk moving in and sending rents upwards. But here is an interesting chart, Austin now has record apartment vacancies, 40,000 new apartments in 2022 alone will do that.
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@nytimes European countries which wrecked their economies in support of Ukraine are going have some political upheaval when Ukraine loses the war.
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@Mac_Fhionn @NeilPHauer Not really, Ukraine has a whole lot less artillery than Russia does, nor can Ukraine call in air strike and Russia can. And Russia has tanks.
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@FlynDutchman466 @Parabellum2021 @quibbler if you ever find yourself in a gun fight without a gun acting like the bearded dude in a completely non threatening non caring manor is a very good idea.
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@cholent_lover @katewillett Well on Zillow I can currently find 64 apartments in Austin Tx at under $600 a month. I would bet the asking rent was a lot more when the overall vacancy rate was a lot lower.
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@vonderburchard Well it was the truth, if Germany cuts itself off from Russian gas there will be uprising across all of Europe over the price of energy and heat.
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@371_doom @greentexts_bot Yes I sympathize with the Ukrainian who want no part of your proxy war with Russia.
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@RealScottRitter I would presume Gerasimov would coordinate everything he says with Putin, whereas Zaluzhny and Zelensky appear to be at odds with one another on just about everything.
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@ArmchairW The day I realized how warfare in the 21st century had changed dramatically. April 16, 2018.Syria - Pentagon Hides Attack Failure - 70+ Cruise Missiles Shot Down. The U.S. military seems to hide that its attack on Syria last Saturday largely failed.
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@GeromanAT Schrödinger's Russia, a paradox, of quantum superposition. Russia is both on the verge of total collapse and also about to overrun all of Europe, both are true until we open the box.
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@Trollstoy88 As a former anti-tank man I can say that was a perfect hit directly hitting the turret ring. No tank survives that.
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@Happywife151 @girlziplocked Been there done that job, but not all the trades require heavy lifting, such as electrician.
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@ArmchairW How does this happen, when I was in the USMC they made me paint rocks white for some stupid 1950's esthetic.
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@jeffbercovici @DavidSacks Yes the paper decides how to frame the debate by choosing which opinions are acceptable to print. This opinion would have been unacceptable to print a few months ago, even though it has been true for over a year.
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@RonPaul This will be very bad for struggling Americans and catastrophic for many poorer nations.
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@bungarsargon This is a class issue, putting on a mask when I pop into a store is nothing. For the waitress in Chicago who needs to wear it all day as she serves the mask-less, be the vaxx police for the city, and has no idea if her kids schools will be open week to week it is different.
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@LiberalNewbie @jacksonhinklle Gloves came off tonight no more polite war. The electrical grid is duel use military and civilian, USA normally bombs the electrical grid the opening day of any war.
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@mattyglesias no you are in a bubble and the NYT is trying to cover their asses for ignoring this story for almost a year.
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@stillgray She is correct a two hour commute to and from work turns an eight hour work day into a twelve hour work day which is a very hard schedule.
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@Cernovich It was good reporting, I had no idea of his personal politics from his original tweets, he has no idea how bad this looks.
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@ThuleanGamer @greentexts_bot Why are you not on the front line, this is more your war than that Ukrainian guy who wants no part of your war.
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@Trollstoy88 Whatever the amount is that North Korea has sent, no one in the west has the capacity to know, these numbers are just made up.
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@DWPscumbags @colonelhomsi Well Russia is saving them from a devastating famine by promising to send them as much grain as they need to feed their people. Also they are glad their civil war is over.
Young leader and Peace Ambassador of Afghanistan, Anas Haqqani @AnasHaqqani313 at today’s cricket 🏏 match in Kabul cricket stadium 🏟. #AfghansSupportTaliban
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@CNN So Ukraine will lose far more then thy would have had they accepted Putin's demands before the war, and this whole thing was for nothing.
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Latvia's Justice Minister proposed law to revoke citizenship of anyone who "supports Russian war crimes". Currently, posting a pro-Russian opinion online is punishable by 5 years in prison. (Note: when Latvians joined ISIS, no lawmakers proposed revoking their citizenship.)
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@ShoahUkraine Did you know Yale has a school devoted to teaching people how to bring about regime change in their nation which is only open to select foreigners. Alexi Navalny was part of the class of 2010.
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@AZmilitary1 "Malva 152mm wheel-based self-propelled howitzer is now passing through its preliminary trials".
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@Kokotxas1 @CraigMurrayOrg I don't think this provocation will dictate what Russia is going to do. Russia hasn't said a thing about Nordstream 1 & 2, The Silence is deafening.
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@angrybklynmom 2015 I started to realize the forces we were backing in Syria and Ukraine were not the good guys, and the destruction of Libya was a massive war crime.
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@KitKlarenberg All the people pretending the Ukraine was winning and Russia was going collapse at any moment were a gift for the Kremlin. They were why we did not ramp up military production.
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@AGoldsmithEsq @DrJenGunter Ritualistically showing off how virtuous you are doesn't make you a good person. Jesus said don't be the guy showing off how loudly he can pray to God on the street corner or in the Synagogue, when you pray to God do so in secret in the closet where only he can hear you.
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@simpatico771 Farmers and hillbillies know. A John Deer 4x4 Gator may be light weight but it is worth its weight in gold. It will not get stuck in the worst mud.
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@astroehlein The obsession with using Ukrainian over Russian phrasing would be funny if it was not the underlying cause of this war.
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@_VerbaNonActa @Cernovich This doesn't really hurt Russia, but Europe is going to freeze this winter.
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@BlackRedGuard1 The big question: is Ukraine a sovereign state or a colony of Washington DC ?.
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@Maestro4Maestro @SecBlinken Taking down the electrical grid is what the USA does on the opening day of all its wars these past 30 years.
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@ggreenwald As a professional animal handler I just can't read that. And I can't believe she wrote about something so shameful.
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@InUAOfficial The photo was taken in 2013 (or maybe earlier) for the cover of a Spanish book.
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@Andrew_S_Bowen I find these Ukrainian claim a bit hard to believe. Seems more likely that in Severodonetsk it was Ukraine which committed most of their reserves to a piece of real estate where they are on the wrong side of a river and still surrounded on three sides.
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@KwameA007 @BBCNews @RT_com Can not say I am surprised, I remember massive protests at the start of the Iraq war which got absolutely zero media coverage. unless one window got smashed they would cover that one window and call the antiwar protest dangerous rioters & extremists.
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@yqxo @joshua_landis A lot has changed since 1991 Ukraine use to be the richest Republic in the USSR the Soviet's powerhouse in industry, shipbuilding, aerospace technology, and much more.
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@dilemmv @lobo_despierto @KamalaHarris @VP Injecting USA styled identity politics is not going help, the people getting targeted by death squads are the people advocating for land reform, workers unions, and cleaning up industrial pollution.
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@ArmchairW An interesting thing I learned driving a taxi cab in Chicago-land is there was no place I could not go, be it Argon National Laboratories or backstage at a big rock concert. Security just waves you through, one of our drivers accidentally got onto the runways at O'Hare airport.
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@angelsforlove @JamesPhillips00 Zelensky is desperate because he know the war is lost without direct NATO intervention and he will say anything.
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@haywarmi @ggreenwald I tuned into NPR yesterday their focus was why this is all Russia's fault and what can we do to stop them. Basically everything short of fighting a war w/ Russia with our own troops.
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@baxter_daniel @Mac_Fhionn @NeilPHauer Military reality is Russia also has UAV targeted artillery the supply route to Severodonetsk is under Russian artillery fire the reports from this area indicate Russia has far more artillery. As a veteran I am appalled any soldier in any army would be ordered to make this attack.
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@Steve_Sailer The Post's story is only significant because it indicates the Biden administration is throwing Ukraine under the bus. How can Germany continue to support Ukraine when we tell them it was Ukraine who blew up Germany's energy infrastructure.
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@blackintheempir Yes but winning is expensive.
Vladimir Zelensky told the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that Kiev needs $7 billion a month to pay salaries
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@ArmchairW Russia's imperial model follows the Mongolian model not the European one. When the The Teutonic Knights came they wanted to forcibly convert everyone to Catholicism, the Mongolian overlords just wanted its subjects to pay taxes and not revolt.
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@maphumanintent @RealCynicalFox The amount of firepower Iranian backed militias in Iraq can dish out, is nothing compared to the amount of firepower Iran itself can dish out. If we hit them directly they will hit back at US military bases through out the region and also at Israel.
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@angelsforlove @JamesPhillips00 It is not a matter of if but rather when, and Putin is not a madman, Russia does not want to invade Poland.
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@ljmontello Lets not forget the DNC after 2016 got sued for rigging the primary election and they successfully argued in court that they are free to chose their candidate any way they want.
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@KitKlarenberg Same thing happened with the war in Syria, when events on the ground can not be shoehorned into the establishment narrative that war vanished from the news cycle.
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@aaronjmate the Russian oligarchs based in the west and with strong ties to neoliberalism have always been the biggest opponents of Putin. Mikhail Friedman and Alfa Bank are allies of the Clintons.
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@reaganbush84fan @BertWooster1 @DanCrenshawTX Ukraine is losing the same way our Afghan government lost to the Taliban.
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@AshWilliam1992 @zerosum24 I bet the infantry is half a block behind and now they know which building to assault.
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