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No ***** Newt. Iran couldn't have cared less about a Ceasefire. Now they do. It's like somebody killed off their proxies, smashed their military and assassinated a bunch of the generals. Funny how that worked.

That's AC Milan kit with the Pats logo glued on it. Very low effort.

Interesting point. But it begs a question. Is continued war required to keep Russia on this vector? If it is, you've made an argument that this "pointless slaughter" isn't pointless from an America First POV.

Ron's been reading my posts.

"Our final deal is done, save final approval with President Xi and Me". " The USA and China have reached and agreement..." Those are some pretty terrible misspellings of "Ongoing Negotiation".

What a gesture it would be if the President, or Elon Musk, took a rounding error on their net worths and paid for the parade themselves?

Moulds and Aaron Schobel would have been 1st Team AP multiple times if they'd played for any other drought era contender. Had he not played on some horrendous Defenses, Schobel would have been a 120+ sack guy and an HOF'er. Talk about a no drama professional.

Here's the thing. Air Forces and drone swarms are great and all. However to sustain this war, Ukraine and Russia are operating conscription based recruiting regimes, feeding recruits into training programs with 4-12 week training cycles. They're sustaining the equivalent of 1-2 battalions per week KIA/WIA/MIA. Of course their are exceptions, like Azov or the VDV. How do the USMC or Army operate in an environment like this using the All-Volunteer model where every infantry recruit gets 16 weeks of just Basic. Nevermind specialist schools or AIT? How do you execute doctrine if your maneuver battalions depend on peacetime trained specialists, but are losing a squad or a platoon a day just sitting on the contact line?

Hey now! Someone did! There's pictures floating around the Internet of completely enclosed and armored hangars. Complete with armored doors! But the captions are all in Mandarin... The tally is up to 22.

Oddly enough, if any single power is responsible for Russia staying in the fight, it's North Korea. Russia's vaunted industrial mobilization has lagged quite a bit. The Norks supply 30-50% of ALL of Russia's small arms and artillery ammunition is OSINT is to be believed.

Initial OSINT analysis says Ukraine destroyed or damaged 15 Russian strategic bombers, AWACS and heavy cargo lifters. So we're a bit of a ways from the 41 claimed in public, but still quite the coup.

I'll keep reiterating a point BMan made two-ish years ago. The war will continue so long as one side thinks it can win outright or thinks that any kind of fighting is better than the most likely peace deal. The game we're playing right now is the diplomatic equivalent of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush telling the military to get this whole Iraqi insurgency sideshow wrapped up so we can move on to what's really important. Which is why the war goes on and on and every day we look more foolish and weak.

Pro Russian mil blogger Rybar would like to remind us that Russia no longer has the capacity to manufacture the types of bombers that were attacked/damaged/destroyed in this operation.