I missed this one. It appears the RF is trying to set up reciprocal foreign asset seizures ahead of expected formal seizure of RF assets in the US. Here’s a very short article in Xinhua.
This actually looks like an attempt at de-escalation to me. The seizure of foreign property is an act of war, and the Putin administration seems to be looking for a way to appease RF entities holding those frozen assets in the US without a war declaration, should those assets be subject to formal seizure by the US. Am I reading this correctly?
The Cuban Communist Party is mad at the German Embassy over a Facebook post.
On that same date, Press Freedom Day, 8 161 kilometers from Berlin, the German Embassy in Cuba, and through the Facebook account of that legation, consummated a gross act of interference and flagrant violation of international standards for diplomatic relations, by altering the text and photo on the front page of Granma with erasures typical of (un)classified documents, even on the name of Palestine. "There is not much to see here," the publication added.
To my ear, this style is the Nashville version of "Adult Contemporary" ca. 2010. Similar things were happening in Evangelical Christian music at the time.
does this style actually sound good?
It sold a lot of records. A more interesting question might be "is it country?", or "who gets to decide what country is?". It's probably better not to argue about that sort of thing on the internet though. Instead, here's a video of a contemporary christian group from Nashville performing a minor novelty country hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ow1pV2MqN8
The hilarious part is that there's plenty of tungsten deposits in the US, but getting it out of the ground would require, you know, industrializing.
Thank you for this update! I didn't follow Bentley closely, but he has been on my mind a lot since his reported death. It's the kind of thing that won't be widely reported in English because his existence was embarrassing to the American project in Ukraine. WTF happened to Texas???
a stalemate is when the enemy captures your cities. and the more cities they capture, the more of a stalemate it is.
That went quicker than last time, didn't it.
Listen sweaty, we have to protect the only democracy in the middle ease. By the way, have I told you about the terrible man-made famine of 1931?
The Kagan-Nuland connection is strong.
Million dollar take: Mueller good actually even though he’s FBI because dialectics.
A 4.8 earthquake hit NYC this morning. The footage from the U.N. Security Council meeting is pretty funny.
Sure, but I'm usually wrong. I think it's likely that the RUAF will try and make a buffer zone out from the Belgorod and Kursk borders. This will have to include Kharkov City.
Every day for over two years now, comrade. They changed the name of the mega, but that's mainly why I'm still here as well.
The Avdeevka offensive kinda kept going since then, and went further than many of us were expecting. The RUAF pretty quickly took an additional ring of villiages past Avdeevka, then even more surprisingly took positions in the next ring of villages out from there. The AFU is managing to defend at that second line, but has been steadily conceding small amounts of territory there for a few weeks now. A similar situation is happening in the other villages surrounding Donetsk City generally. It seems like the overall objective of the RUAF in that area is to finally create a buffer zone around Donetsk City to protect it from artillery fire.
Other that that, the RUAF has been making small gains to the west of Artyomvisk, and even smaller gains in the area the AFU carved out in Zaporozhia during their summer offensive. The AFU's defense in the northern parts of the front lines has been more effective, with some back and forth there.
Everyone seems to be expecting something big from the RUAF this year, but I am not going to try and make predictions. There have been some other developments in the Russo-Ukrainian not directly involving the front line. You didn't ask about that though.
Wow this is very interesting. I had no idea this was going on.
Yeah the deal is supposed to be that they get US military support against the socialists, and the US gets all of the downstream industry for their raw resource extraction. What the hell are they thinking? If they get away with this, it'll be a very big deal.
I guess people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop thing on the internet again because of :melon-musk:. That story about Hunter just leaving it at a computer repair shop seems kinda sus, doesn't it? But I'm not super interested in pulling at that thread. Anyway, at the time I did hear reports of the story getting suppressed. Is that just because it was full of pics of the dude smoking crack with his dick out, or is there also something substantial and worth keeping in mind as history unfolds behind us?
I'm asking here because I don't really want to go fishing around on the internet for Biden dick pics. That's icky. Feel free to just post PPB or whatever here too, but I'm all ears if a kindly comrade feels like filling me in.
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