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Oh yes.

Iron Maiden picked a good night to play a show in Worcester MA. Otherwise I'd jave to watch the Broncos.

I'm all for a ceasefire, assuming the Ukrainians are holding the whip hand going into the negotiations. Otherwise, Putin's dick is in a sausage maker and his hand is on the crank. He can stop cranking whenever he wants to. Also, did we secretly deploy actual NATO units to the war, and nobody's said anything? I'm still trying to figure out how we're fighting in this war without our military actually, you know, fighting in it.

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

What a game. Stack wins. Stack conference wins. Play post season home games. And Miami ***** the bed too, so *chef's kiss*.

Here's a gif of how the front lines have changed. It goes from February 24 to October 4th. The Ukrainians are doing pretty well for being taken basically by surprise by a country that outnumbers them 5 to 1. The summer was very rough on them before they got a hold of MLRS/HIMARS, but they've been doing pretty well ever since. There's a great article on the defense of Kyiv early in the war here: Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital by WaPo. It's a great read for anybody who's interested in what good leadership, a motivated, armed citizenry and a motivated, skillful army can do against a dumb, arrogant opponent. The language is a little breathless, so keep an even keel.

Exactly. @B-Man posted a great article on how wars end, which a bunch of people in this thread didn't bother to read. It makes this point. Ukraine is winning right now, so they're not going to bother negotiating, because they aren't stupid . Russia is losing right now, and negotiating would only compound how weak they look. All of Putin's foreign policy leverage comes from intimidation. So negotiating is a no-go. So here we are, 8 months into a 4 day war. Which makes me sad, because even the Tsar knew when to take his L and try and see the big picture. But that was in 1905, and nobody predicted that Japan would sink the whole Russian navy and smash every Russian army they fought. Russia was the 2nd greatest land power in the world at the time, and it was supposed to be a walkover. Eerily familiar.

You know it's bad when they're relying on Fitzmagic's cleavage to draw an audience. Not to show my age, but the NFL should replace the announcers with Statler & Waldorf.

Yeahhhhhh. Fortunately for Ukraine, Joe Biden cultivated alliances across Europe and Asia to help foot the bill, and there's some heavy hitting economies in North America, Europe and Asia.

It really isn't. For some reason the hard right/alt right thinks we should appease Russia because reasons. The hard left/far left thinks Imperialism is only bad when America does it, so they support Russia. Reasonable people in both parties tend to support Ukraine, because its a really, really easy issue to be right about.

Cam, Stidham, McCorkle... bring on the Zappe Era! QB purgatory is a wonderful thing to watch.

Given how wrong you are about the events running up to the war, I think the replies to you have been charitable. They certainly don't merit this whiny crap.

Yeah, you really need to go back and read up on our actions prior to the invasion. I loved the part where Macron fired his chief of intelligence when Russia invaded. Because his chief of intelligence told him there was no way America could have penetrated Russian security so completely.

Better late than never. Pompeo was another one in a long, long list of politicians who couldn't see through Putin's BS.

Nah, it's not. Nobody's won yet. And if nobody's won, you're either talking about "peacekeepers", or the peace treaty is just an ceasefire while everybody gears up for round two.

How does somebody who coached in NE for forever look at 3rd and 1 and call anything but a qb sneak?

Jesus. I read the last to pages of this thread and had to remind myself we're up 28 heading into the 4th...

Good call. We've had lots of company around recently, and I can't find any mulling spices. Try throwing some orange zest in there, and let me know how that works!

Might have to try that today...

Sweet jesus. Anybody ever noticed that on the internet, everyone's got a PhD on the Nazi party? Especially when it's time to pont fingers at the other guys?

I'm gonna laugh if the next season of Deadliest Catch is just the skippers saving Russian draft dodgers.

Simple solution. 1. Russia gives back all the land they've captured, including Crimea. 2. Ukraine pledges perpetual neutrality. No EU, no NATO, no foreign troops, no foreign bases. 3. Ukraine gets their nukes back, or gets to make new ones. That should keep them independent. If they want to be dumb thats on them. Russia's proven that having tons of nukes doesn't save you from your own stupidity. I thought they'd learn from us, but their national inferiority complex is so huge they really do have to be better than us at everything.

Thanks for posting. Saw some odd stuff today cross-posted from the Russian Twitterverse. Take or discard as you want, but it speaks towards Russia's ability to negotiate a peace. Apparently, the so-called "referendums" passed by Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhia don't really take effect until 2026. So they remain "independent" but Russia-aligned states until 2026, when they are formally annexed into Russia. Meaning that Russia can cut them loose at any point until then, without legally handing over sovereign Russia territory. Again, just some twitter stuff, so we'll see.

Well done GB!

We got a hold of them, dragged them into the deep water and drowned them.