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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 19h

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 2d

Well if there were any such position muted among the members, the Chathma House Rule would apply

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that the default position of the RIIA?

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 10d

The first thing for allies to consider is if and by how much US terms of engagement will change, and if/when they do will they be so distant from those of allies that fighting along side the US becomes impossible

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 12d

It's excurciatingly cringeworthy to watch a Beta male trying to act like an Alpha male and believe that he's pulling it off.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 14d

It seems that current whispers in the wind are that the next Kremlin provocation will be shooting down their own drones over Belarus and bringing Belrus officially into the fray, or claiming that RU drones falling in Poland were actually fired by UA as a false flag. A transparent Kremling play.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 21d

Ummmm, the airfield was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s, and was the Soviet main base during the 1980s

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 22d

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 23d

How very Soviet. Here is the criminal, find me their crime......or it will be your head on a pike.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 24d

If only I could find my surprised face......but I can't.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia

The two men and a woman were all arrested in Grays, Essex, the Metropolitan Police says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 27d

In an attempt to secure a base for his presidential run......

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 27d

I would suggest that is more than likely. It's not as though Reform claims to be the new Tory party or its replacement.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 27d

Indeed. Turkey shooting down a RU fighter in 2015 resulted in no action from RU.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 27d

Meaning that they won't be imposed.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 27d

US House Speaker Mike Johnson stated desperate times call for desperate measures, and sanctions against Russia are long overdue. He noted strong congressional support and readiness to work with the White House and Senate. Congress won’t impose them without Trump’s coordination.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 28d

And why not send drones to enter Romanian airspace? The lesson from the Poland incident is that there are no significant consequences.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · 29d

This is #TACOTrump's way out, knowing full well his "friend" Orban (and Fico) won't stop buying RU oil. That said nobody ever expected #TACOTrump to seriously sanction RU, this, however, lets him blame others for his deliberate inaction.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · Sep 12

At the Chinese LNG terminal Beihai a 4th LNG tanker carrying LNG from the US sanctioned Arctic LNG-2 project of NOVATEK has arrived. The US has to act or the sanctions will become meaningless.

www.kommersant.ru/doc/8026685

Reuters: четвертый танкер с «Арктик СПГ-2» пришел в Китай

Подробнее на сайте

www.kommersant.ru

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 12

Indeed. It's not what you say but what they hear.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 12

Use the formal title, RIIA in full. That removes the need to explain anything. That's what my membership fees are for.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 12

Poland and the rest of the EU nations should also consider closing its airspace to Belarussian "Belavia" now the US has lifted sanctions on it.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Clearly there's a lack of windows to fall from in Kaliningrad

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · Sep 8

Russian media reported that Alexey Sinitsyn, head of K-Potash Service, was found decapitated in Kaliningrad.

He is at least the 19th top manager in Russia to die under mysterious circumstances, following similar deaths of executives from Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek, Transneft, and Uralkali.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 8

I suspect any European presence would be temporary because Russia would be quick to test it and the first casualty would force a choice of fight or flight and there just isn't the political spine to fight among the "coalition", so flight would be the outcome. No doubt the Kremlin sees it that way.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Maybe he's also ready to announce the "Coalition of the willing" is going to be rebranded to a more accurate "Coalition of the waiting" (for something that won't come) because as he says, the war will drag on for a long time yet.

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OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well, that worked out well for Harold didn't it.

OdessaBlogger @odessablogger.bsky.social · Sep 6

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