Ukrainian Defensive War against the Russian Invasion - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

The position of the Russian Orthodox Church with regards to war and Ukraine:
tl;dr:
The war in Ukraine is a Holy War in which the Russian people both defend themselves against Satanism as well as a part of the project of unification of all Russian peoples' under one rule (which includes Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians).
During the Council Congress, which took place on 27 March 2024 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, head of the WRNS, the Order of the XXV World Russian People's Council "The Present and Future of the Russian World" (Moscow, 27-28 November 2023) was approved.
This document, summarising the most significant proposals put forward within the framework of the work of the expert platforms and during the Plenary Session, is a programme document of the XXV World Russian People's Council, as well as a decree addressed to the legislative and executive authorities of Russia.
The Special Military Operation is a new stage of the national liberation struggle of the Russian people against the criminal Kiev regime and the collective West behind it, conducted in the lands of South-Western Russia since 2014. In the course of the SMO, the Russian people with arms in their hands defend their life, freedom, statehood, civilisational, religious, national and cultural identity, as well as the right to live on their own land within the borders of the united Russian state. From a spiritual and moral point of view, the special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, defending the unified spiritual space of Holy Russia, fulfil the mission of the "Restrainer", protecting the world from the onslaught of globalism and the victory of the West that has fallen into Satanism.

After completion of SMO all territory of modern Ukraine should enter into a zone of exclusive influence of Russia. The possibility of the existence on this territory of a Russophobic political regime hostile to Russia and its people, as well as a political regime governed from an external centre hostile to Russia, must be completely ruled out.
Russia is the creator, support and defender of the Russian World. The borders of the Russian World as a spiritual and cultural-civilisational phenomenon are significantly wider than the state borders of both the current Russian Federation and the large historical Russia. Along with the representatives of the Russian oikoumene scattered around the world, the Russian World includes all those for whom the Russian tradition, the sanctuaries of Russian civilisation and the great Russian culture are the highest value and meaning of life.

The highest meaning of existence of Russia and the Russian World created by it - their spiritual mission - is to be the world's "Restrainer", protecting the world from evil. The historical mission is to time after time collapse attempts to establish universal hegemony in the world - attempts to subordinate humanity to a single evil beginning.

Construction of millennial Russian statehood is the highest form of political creativity of Russians as a nation. Division and weakening of Russian people, deprivation of its spiritual and vital forces always led to weakening and crisis of the Russian state. Therefore, the restoration of the unity of the Russian people, as well as its spiritual and vital potential are the key conditions for the survival and successful development of Russia and the Russian world in the XXI century.

The family is the basis of Russian national life and the inner stronghold of the tradition of the Russian world. It is the most stable, conservative institution of society, responsible for the transmission from generation to generation of basic ideas about the world and about man, for instilling the most important social skills and roles (man and woman, father and mother, citizen, etc.), for the preservation and transmission of the civilisational worldview, the national idea, and traditional spiritual and moral values. Being the most important school of education of a personality, the family not only helps a person to cognise the world around him, but also teaches him love, kindness and compassion, gives him the most important moral ideas and guidelines.
Russia should become one of the leading centres of the multipolar world, leading integration processes and ensuring security and stable development throughout the post-Soviet space. As the geopolitical centre of Eurasia, located at the intersection of the global axes West-East and North-South, Russia should regulate the balance of strategic interests and act as a bulwark of security and a just world order in the new multipolar world. The reunification of the Russian people should become one of the priority tasks of Russia's foreign policy. Russia should return to the doctrine of the trinity of the Russian people, which has existed for more than three centuries, according to which the Russian people consists of Great Russians, Malorussians ["Small Russians" aka Ukrainians] and Belarusians, which are branches (sub-ethnoses) of one people, and the concept of "Russian" covers all Eastern Slavs - descendants of historical Russia. In addition to recognition and development in domestic science, the doctrine of trinity should be legislated, becoming an integral part of the Russian system of law. Trinity should be included in the normative list of Russian spiritual and moral values and receive appropriate legal protection.

Russia should become a state of refuge for all compatriots of the world suffering from the onslaught of Western globalism, wars and discrimination. In addition to compatriots, our country can become a refuge for millions of foreigners who uphold traditional values, are loyal to Russia and are ready for linguistic and cultural integration in our country.
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Pretty standard Kremlin line, really driving home why Russian Orthodog Church should be banned everywhere, not just in Ukraine.

Poltards may read this and think the globohomo shit they're complaining about and contrasting "Russian civilisation" with refers to trannydom and such, but if you read more of their texts you learn that the satanic evils they find abhorrent are rule of law, civil liberties, and governance accountable to the people. Homosexuality is seen as a result of such degeneracies. Being Trad doesn't refer to being a single breadwinner or homemaker, but to being a serf, kneeling in turns before a priest and a government agent.


Reminder that Russians do not only routinely target civilian infrastructure and residential areas, but also medical facilities. Another historical tradition of the Russian World.
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US Treasury Sec Janet Yellen warns her Chinese counterpart of significant consequences for Chinese companies engaged in trade with Russia:

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Beijing of "significant consequences" if Chinese companies provide support for Russia’s war against Ukraine during her meetings with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng.

Beijing has maintained close ties with Moscow during the war, increasing economic cooperation and disrupting Western attempts at isolating Russia.

Expanded trade with China has played a key role in allowing Moscow to keep its economy running and ramp up its military industry despite Western economic pressure.

The U.S. has repeatedly warned China against providing Russia with lethal military aid and urged Beijing to use its influence over Moscow to help end the war.

Yellen met with He in Guangzhou on April 5-6, where the two officials discussed the U.S.-China bilateral economic relationship, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and other issues.

"Secretary Yellen emphasized that companies, including those in the PRC (People's Republic of China), must not provide material support for Russia’s war against Ukraine, including support to the Russian defense industrial base, and the significant consequences if they do so," according to a readout published by the U.S. Treasury on April 6.

Yellen’s warning comes after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told EU and NAO foreign ministers in Brussels that China was helping Russia "at a concerning scale" and giving "tools, inputs, and technical expertise," the Financial Times (FT) reported, citing three people familiar with the discussions.

The aid was reportedly particularly focused on Russia's production of optical equipment and propellants as well as its space industry, which Blinken said "not only contributes to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine but threatens other countries," according to the people.

"The warnings were explicit," one of the FT sources said. "There has been a shift, and it was felt in the room . . . this was a new development. It was very striking."

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While the Beijing Biden jab is unfair (Trump now praises it readily and opposed a sale of Red China's propaganda tool TikTok), I'd be surprised if this statement isn't pro forma. Aliexpress probably provide parts to a good many Russian drones not provided by Iran, but Ukraine too.

The war in Ukraine is a Holy War in which the Russian people both defend themselves against Satanism as well as a part of the project of unification of all Russian peoples' under one rule (which includes Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians).

Address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the 25th anniversary of the start of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia​

DECR Communication Service, 24.03.2024.

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' sent a message to His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the start of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


To: His Holiness Porfirije, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia

Your Holiness, beloved Brother and Concelebrant at the God’s Throne!

I cordially greet you and wish you strength and God’s aid during the beneficial time of Lent.

This year, the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy coincides with a memorable mournful date - the 25th anniversary of the start of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The tragic events that took place a quarter of a century ago are not only a sorrowful page in the modern political history of Europe showing the intention of the Western world countries to destroy a large Slavic state by encouraging and supporting nationalist separatism, but also a revealing episode of the same old struggle against the Orthodox faith and its followers led by “the ruler of this world” (Jn 12:31). Obviously, the main goal of the aggressors was to forcibly separate the Serbian autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija – the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The courage and resistance of the fraternal Serbian people in this unequal confrontation has once again confirmed the justice of the words said by the Holy Right-believing Prince Alexander Nevsky: “God is not in power, but in truth.”

In those awful days, I happened to be in Belgrade and see with my own eyes not only the disastrous strikes on the city, but also manifestation of the indestructible will of its residents who remained unbowed, undefeated and full of spiritual strength and dignity. Having awakened people to the historical memory, the tragedy inspired many contemporaries to return to the holy faith of their fathers, to comprehend their belonging to the Kosovo Covenant, and to feel personal responsibility for the fate of their beloved homeland and for the spiritual choice of their children and future generations.

Both in the dramatic time now remembered and in the years that followed, the Russian Orthodox Church constantly raised her voice, condemning that what had happened as “the mystery of lawlessness already at work” (2 Th 2:7) and trying to draw the world public’s attention to the crime committed with tacit support lended by Western countries to the destruction of the centuries-old shrines of the Serbian Orthodox Church with culmination in the inglorious terrible ‘March Pogrom 2004.’

I offer up prayers for the rest of the souls of the Church of St. Sava’s children who died from the bombings or fell at the hands of the extremists. Memory eternal to them.

With warm recollections of our recent meeting in Moscow, I remain as ever with brotherly love in the Lord,

+KIRILL

PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUS’
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Since the genocidaire (basically the author of Holmodor and allied genocides against peasants resisting collectivisation and Russification) and Stalin's secret policeman extraordinaire Lazar Kaganovich re-erected the Russian Orthodox Church in 1942 at the height of the war (co-started with Hitler in '39 with the invasion of Poland), the Russian Orthodox Church has been the megaphone and whisperer of Russian state propaganda whether through its churches in Russia and worldwide and each Sunday or through orgs like the KGB front the World Council of Churches (where Gundyaev/agent Michailov got his start as a KGB influencer). Peter I (who incidentally adopted official the foreign coined name of Russia for Moscovy's lands) did complete the Romanov reforms of obliterating any ROC independence.

Metropolitan Onufry, Moscow's man in Ukraine did make a show a year ago of breaking ties with Moscow, but repeated police investigations uncovered how ROC church property is repeatedly used to spread Russian propaganda and support spying. Yet these ROC priests are dealt with through legal processes. Quite a few parishes have transferred to the Kyiv Patriarchate at the choice of parishioners, but it is Russian bombs which land on Onufry's churches (mostly in the east) and cathedrals (notably Odesa). Ukraine has ended the lease on certain monuments like the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra which saw precious items of Ukrainian heritage sent to Russia.

Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia: The Orthodox Church is subjected to unprecedented persecution and violence in Ukraine​

DECR Communication Service, 18.03.2024.

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia (Patriarchate of Jerusalem) issued an appeal to all Christian Churches of the world, noting the need for an immediate intervention and support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is being subjected to unprecedented persecution by government authorities in Kiev. It was emphasised that the situation is reminiscent of what this Church faced during the communist era, while today the persecution is taking a different, extremely dangerous form.

The appeal, quoted by the website of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, says: "Attacks on bishops, priests, monks and nuns, seizure of churches and monasteries, threats to ban the Church, which has been present in Ukraine for a thousand years and is the first, oldest and most ancient church in Ukraine. Silence in the face of persecution of this Church, led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry, with bishops serving this Church with devotion and sincerity, as well as fathers and monks, is unacceptable. The people of this Church are attached to it and hold firmly to their belonging to it".

The archpastor is convinced that the oppression faced by the legitimate and canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church "should attract the attention of all Christian Churches, human rights and humanitarian organisations, as this kind of oppression is a form of religious persecution."

"Our brothers in Christ are being purposefully persecuted for belonging to the legitimate Orthodox Church. It is very important to demand from the authorities in Kiev to stop their aggressive activities and unacceptable and unjustified persecution of this fraternal Church," Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia emphasised.

Addressing the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he said, "From Jerusalem we express our solidarity with the Church in Ukraine, its bishops, priests and people. You are present in our prayers, and we pray that God will preserve you in these difficult times when you are being persecuted by a system that does not wish well for the Orthodox Church, whose target is you as followers of the original and only canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church."

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Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia is a member of the international human rights organisation "The Church Against Xenophobia and Religious Discrimination". It was established in December 2023 by a number of hierarchs and clergy of the local Orthodox Churches together with the non-governmental organisations Public Advocacy, VSI Zmogaus teisiu apsauga and European institute for religion and law, which have a consultative status within the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

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Ukraine would be fully justified in taking more radical action against those cassocked FSB officials, but given international aid needs, it has to follow the most cautious line possible. France, Germany and many democratic countries have in the past taken action if religious organisations engage in ill willed political scheming.
 
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Threads dead my man.

In this case I don't believe they were powered up, and were meant to be unloaded & used by their infantry once they had taken a position. Since trucks wouldn't be very survivable in the initial assault (as if it matters), they had to transport it on top of a tank's cope cage because it would interfere gun rotation piled on the engine deck, possibly with cooling as well.

Russian arms manufacturer Lobaev has built a prototype remote shotgun-turret, ostensibly for anti-drone use:
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They're gonna have to work on that pan/tilt speed; the slew rate couldn't keep up with a golf cart, much less a tiny, fast-moving drone.

I wonder what choke it has because tracking so slowly would demand one that's full open.... making it useless against slower/hovering drones at dropping or overwatch altitudes. With a full choke they could possibly hit those, but then forget about FPVs, and I highly doubt the thing has removable chokes anyways.
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IDK I just find it weird that if there carrying it for the infantry why are they strapped ontop of tanks and not being carried by trucks which would make sense.

Ontop of that I'm still digging around, there videos of several tanks with these strapped on getting blown up by Drones.
 
The position of the Russian Orthodox Church with regards to war and Ukraine:
tl;dr:
The war in Ukraine is a Holy War in which the Russian people both defend themselves against Satanism as well as a part of the project of unification of all Russian peoples' under one rule (which includes Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians).
During the Council Congress, which took place on 27 March 2024 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, head of the WRNS, the Order of the XXV World Russian People's Council "The Present and Future of the Russian World" (Moscow, 27-28 November 2023) was approved.
This document, summarising the most significant proposals put forward within the framework of the work of the expert platforms and during the Plenary Session, is a programme document of the XXV World Russian People's Council, as well as a decree addressed to the legislative and executive authorities of Russia.
The Special Military Operation is a new stage of the national liberation struggle of the Russian people against the criminal Kiev regime and the collective West behind it, conducted in the lands of South-Western Russia since 2014. In the course of the SMO, the Russian people with arms in their hands defend their life, freedom, statehood, civilisational, religious, national and cultural identity, as well as the right to live on their own land within the borders of the united Russian state. From a spiritual and moral point of view, the special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, defending the unified spiritual space of Holy Russia, fulfil the mission of the "Restrainer", protecting the world from the onslaught of globalism and the victory of the West that has fallen into Satanism.

After completion of SMO all territory of modern Ukraine should enter into a zone of exclusive influence of Russia. The possibility of the existence on this territory of a Russophobic political regime hostile to Russia and its people, as well as a political regime governed from an external centre hostile to Russia, must be completely ruled out.
Russia is the creator, support and defender of the Russian World. The borders of the Russian World as a spiritual and cultural-civilisational phenomenon are significantly wider than the state borders of both the current Russian Federation and the large historical Russia. Along with the representatives of the Russian oikoumene scattered around the world, the Russian World includes all those for whom the Russian tradition, the sanctuaries of Russian civilisation and the great Russian culture are the highest value and meaning of life.

The highest meaning of existence of Russia and the Russian World created by it - their spiritual mission - is to be the world's "Restrainer", protecting the world from evil. The historical mission is to time after time collapse attempts to establish universal hegemony in the world - attempts to subordinate humanity to a single evil beginning.

Construction of millennial Russian statehood is the highest form of political creativity of Russians as a nation. Division and weakening of Russian people, deprivation of its spiritual and vital forces always led to weakening and crisis of the Russian state. Therefore, the restoration of the unity of the Russian people, as well as its spiritual and vital potential are the key conditions for the survival and successful development of Russia and the Russian world in the XXI century.

The family is the basis of Russian national life and the inner stronghold of the tradition of the Russian world. It is the most stable, conservative institution of society, responsible for the transmission from generation to generation of basic ideas about the world and about man, for instilling the most important social skills and roles (man and woman, father and mother, citizen, etc.), for the preservation and transmission of the civilisational worldview, the national idea, and traditional spiritual and moral values. Being the most important school of education of a personality, the family not only helps a person to cognise the world around him, but also teaches him love, kindness and compassion, gives him the most important moral ideas and guidelines.
Russia should become one of the leading centres of the multipolar world, leading integration processes and ensuring security and stable development throughout the post-Soviet space. As the geopolitical centre of Eurasia, located at the intersection of the global axes West-East and North-South, Russia should regulate the balance of strategic interests and act as a bulwark of security and a just world order in the new multipolar world. The reunification of the Russian people should become one of the priority tasks of Russia's foreign policy. Russia should return to the doctrine of the trinity of the Russian people, which has existed for more than three centuries, according to which the Russian people consists of Great Russians, Malorussians ["Small Russians" aka Ukrainians] and Belarusians, which are branches (sub-ethnoses) of one people, and the concept of "Russian" covers all Eastern Slavs - descendants of historical Russia. In addition to recognition and development in domestic science, the doctrine of trinity should be legislated, becoming an integral part of the Russian system of law. Trinity should be included in the normative list of Russian spiritual and moral values and receive appropriate legal protection.

Russia should become a state of refuge for all compatriots of the world suffering from the onslaught of Western globalism, wars and discrimination. In addition to compatriots, our country can become a refuge for millions of foreigners who uphold traditional values, are loyal to Russia and are ready for linguistic and cultural integration in our country.
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Pretty standard Kremlin line, really driving home why Russian Orthodog Church should be banned everywhere, not just in Ukraine.

Poltards may read this and think the globohomo shit they're complaining about and contrasting "Russian civilisation" with refers to trannydom and such, but if you read more of their texts you learn that the satanic evils they find abhorrent are rule of law, civil liberties, and governance accountable to the people. Homosexuality is seen as a result of such degeneracies. Being Trad doesn't refer to being a single breadwinner or homemaker, but to being a serf, kneeling in turns before a priest and a government agent.
Has there been any response by the rest of Christendom? The ROC raping my religion makes me genuinely mad and I'm somewhat disappointed the Constantine/Greek/etc. Churches/Patriarchs haven't released a statement.
 
Regarding that Russian tank with all that EW gear on top.
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Quoting Nick Knack for translation
A column of armor came in. Our FPVs were dropping like flies on all frequencies because the lead tank was riding an EW monster.

Mad Max has nothing on this one. On a pallet, they put together a monstrous construction of everything they had. There are three panels of 800/900/2.4/5.8 patch antennas in a circle, and to this they added a 700-1000 band. On the top and in a circle.

They also installed a generator and a battery on the armor.

Our pilots certainly had a hard time. But did the electronic warfare monster save the tank (and the tank's friends)?
 
Regarding that Russian tank with all that EW gear on top.
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This is pretty much what I was going to speculate.

to tl;dr:
Russians just crammed a bunch of EM emitters to hammer every frequency possible with as much garbage as possible to make any ordered communications impossible.

Imagine you are blindfolded and being guided by your friend on the other side of the room - the further you get from your friend the quieter they are. Now if you put some mong in the room screeching and hollering. So the further away your friend is, the harder it is to hear your friend over the retard meltdown.

The reason you put this retardrack on top of the tank is previous attempts to do this with more targeted frequencies (remember the "cope boobs" from last year?) were met with HARM drones that, do use the previous example, would just home in on the screeching retard - so this way the drone explodes hopefully airgapped from your tank.

and to further sperg, with equipment of that size/nature... given the low-tech it can take a few good-sized whacks, especially from weapons decided to penetrate not HE/fragment. IF you're just trying to flood channels with EMF, usually the big issue is cooling.
 
I too am sick of these misrepresentations, such as Trump's anecdote about how he pressured Europe to pony up more for NATO being interpreted as sincerely inviting Russia to attack. However, the fact remains, these are bad times for those of us who had been broadly supportive of the Tea Party / MAGA / Freedom Caucus movements.

I was elated to see the likes of J.D. Vance, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, even Boebert and MTG, winning elections and putting up a fight, and watching how the liberal mainstream seethed and then lied about them. Much like with Trump, there was hope that the current replacement-level immigration would be dealt with, and the woke cultural rot and judicial corruption infecting this country could be fought or even reversed.

Instead, little was accomplished on any of these fronts, and these people's greatest achievement has been starving Ukraine of support for no fucking reason, refusing to spend what is chump change to our budget to send them a lifeline, an amount dwarfed by the trillions we spent failing to fix Afghanistan.

I'm now growing to hate this whole crew, along with their once-respectable enablers such as Tucker Carlson.

Maybe Trump will be different and do the right thing. But given his allies' track record, there's reason to be doubtful. I can't see myself voting blue while the left is eagerly corrupting every institution and turning America to shit. But I fear that this year's election has no good outcome and we're only picking our poison.
I have believed for a while that Tucker Carlson would make or destroy his long-term career on his stance on the Ukraine War. He went all in Putin shilling.
 
I have believed for a while that Tucker Carlson would make or destroy his long-term career on his stance on the Ukraine War. He went all in Putin shilling.
Tucker just had an interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene, which he prefaced with his usual spiel about how America started and is fighting a proxy war against Russia for no reason (he suggests that elites harbor ethnic hatred for Russians). He makes it sound as though we tricked Ukraine into attacking Russia. Of course, both repeatedly say that we're "sending" billions to Ukraine, and Tucker repeats his nonsense about how religions are persecuted and it is undemocratic.

Also, Tucker repeats another favorite talking point: Ukraine can't possibly win because Russia has a larger population. But the Soviet Union had a proportionately larger population than Afghanistan in the 80s and still lost. He says that only Americans are brainwashed enough to think Ukraine can win. He's clearly never listened to any European leader.

But the meat of the interview is them both raging that Mike Johnson isn't doing enough to sabotage Ukraine aid. The guy who's literally held it up for almost half a year. MTG says Mike Johnson is collaborating with the Democrats and suggests they have blackmail material on him to keep him obedient. This is pants-on-head crazy. Tucker nods along.

(They're both also upset about uncontrolled mass immigration, which they're right to be, but this has nothing to do with foreign aid. The border is wide open not because there isn't enough money (because it's being "sent" to Ukraine) but because Biden's team wants it that way.)

I was only able to tolerate half of the interview before I quit. I won't to try to upload it but it's on Xitter:

It sounds as though MTG is serious about going forward with the motion to vacate. I don't see any coming back from the things she's said about Johnson. This could bring us back to last year's chaos. A deal with the Democrats may be necessary to have a speaker at all.
 
The "Banshee":

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I knew it was only a matter of time before actual jet drones were being used, after I saw Magyar posing with one early last year.

Leaked audio reveals Russian plan to occupy Kazakhstan territory:
A leaked audio recording from a Russian deputy has sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles, indicating that Kazakhstan could be the next target of Russian aggression following Ukraine’s invasion.

In the recording, Russian General and State Duma deputy Andriy Gurulyov unequivocally states that Kazakhstan is slated to be Russia’s next victim.
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Twitter link w/ videos

The leaked recording, initially shared within parliamentary defense committees, surfaced publicly on Saturday, sparking concerns over Kazakhstan’s security. Gurulyov attributes Russia’s military buildup against Kazakhstan to what he describes as the country’s failure to comply with Kremlin directives. He claims that decisions have already been made regarding Kazakhstan’s fate.

This disclosure comes amid a backdrop of escalating tensions, with Russian media increasingly demonizing Kazakhstan, mirroring the rhetoric used against Ukraine in previous years.

Former KGB operative and State Duma deputy Andriy Lugovoy, infamous for his involvement in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, has also joined the chorus of anti-Kazakhstan sentiment. Lugovoy recently produced a propaganda film accusing Kazakhstan of Russophobia, further stoking tensions.

Moreover, another State Duma deputy, Yevgeny Fedorov, has raised legal arguments questioning Kazakhstan’s sovereignty, suggesting that until territorial disputes are resolved, Kazakhstan should face limitations, such as a ban on joining NATO (as was demanded for Ukraine).

Russian propaganda has long targeted Kazakhstan as an “ungrateful neighbor,” and recent rhetoric has escalated, branding the neighboring republic as the “second Ukraine.” High-ranking Russian officials have expressed linguistic and territorial claims over Kazakhstan, with former President Dmitry Medvedev labeling it an “artificial state” and advocating for a revival of the Soviet Union under a “Slavic people” umbrella.

The leaked recording and subsequent reactions underscore the precarious geopolitical landscape in Eurasia, with Kazakhstan potentially facing a similar fate as Ukraine.
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A new long thread points to considerable evidence that Russia may have burned through nearly all of its Soviet armor stockpiles.

First few tweets as a screenshot:
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Whole thread on Thread Reader.
Original on Xitter.

Tellingly, Russia was caught packing 25 soldiers onto one tank:
 
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