"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

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  1. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Treason has cloaked itself as patriotism since the Civil War.
    It's not a new disease for this country.
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  2. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Hmm… wonder why someone on here is so defensive:

    “The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.”

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  3. matthunter

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    I think you might have missed the key part:

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  4. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    US/ NATO forces on the ground.
  5. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    You can’t help yourself can you? Don’t expect me to answer any more of your questions now.
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  6. 14thDoctor

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    Wasn't this you yesterday? :chris:
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  7. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Your point?
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    is going way over your little head.
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  9. Tuckerfan

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  10. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    What do you consider to be ‘on the ground’ and what evidence do you have that US forces are such?

    Please be explicit.
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  11. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    For those that pretended to miss it the first time:
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  12. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Jack Teixeira, a 21 year old far right racist gun enthusiast, arrested as the leaker for the latest data dump. He's Air National Guard working in Intelligence.

    Why we give such low level grunts access to top secret materials I will never understand. How many times does this have to happen?

    Fox News live broadcast it, but I won't link to them, so here's a twitter link with their footage.
    https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1646597013402800137
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  13. Tuckerfan

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  14. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, is due to arrive in the US in a few days to take up the Russian term to chair the UN Security Council.

    The Biden Administration to this point has not granted him a visa to enter the country - or to any of the other Russian delegates.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-not-granted-visas-russian-075857150.html
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  15. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Doesn’t matter, it’s not what we’ve been told and it goes against what Biden said he wouldn’t do.
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    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    I seem to recall this discussion from a few weeks ago, can you quote the statement from Biden you are referring to?
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  17. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Please be specific.

    What evidence goes against what info we have been told?

    Make your case.
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  18. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    https://reason.com/2023/04/12/pentagon-leak-reveals-14-u-s-troops-in-ukraine/
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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    What evidence do we have that they are deployed in any combat capacity?

    Being in country doesn’t mean fighting.

    37 series (Psychological Operations) are USSOF.

    Even at the height of Iraq and Afghanistan there were more 37s operating out of embassies in the rest of the world than on the ground.

    It’s why we got a special clothing allowance every year for buying suits and why we had red passports (government official) because the majority of the time 37s work out of embassies.

    Considering the kind of hybrid war this is I would be shocked if there weren’t 37s at the embassy helping the Ukrainians.
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  20. Ancalagon

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  21. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Maybe we should send some soldiers over to the embassy to help keep track of our weapons systems, how they are performing and help predict what the Ukrainians will need in the future?

    What do you think? Good idea?
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  22. Tuckerfan

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    And given that everyone thought that the war would be over in a short period of time, but even before we started shipping weapons to Ukraine they were kicking some serious Russian ass, shouldn’t we have people who did more than thinking about getting a degree from Armchair General in the area learning how the Ukrainians did it?
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  26. Tuckerfan

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    This seems relevant to the discussion.

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  27. Bickendan

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    HoW aRe tHeY RuNnInG OuT AlReAdY?
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  28. shootER

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    14 soldiers isn’t even a platoon’s worth and they’re not in the field anyway. :lol:
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  30. Tuckerfan

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