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Cut Moss, and draft Kromer whoever he wants and whatever round. I don't care about value. Get. Josh. A. Running. Game.

Let's matriculate the ball down the field.

Great question. The best answer we've got right now is you beat the crazy person so badly they come to their senses. Because you're gambling they arent actually crazy, theyre just pretending to be crazy in order to scare people into concessions. Otherwise, youre just engaging in appeasement. The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other people's money. The problem with appeasement is that eventually, you run out of other people's land.

The Ukrainians have taken Lyman. Looks like the Russian garrison in Lyman were mostly veteran DPR/LPR units and soldiers of the Regular Russian army. They held out for about month, so much tougher customers than the Russian forces that were smashed in Kharkiv. Anyway, Ukraine mostly encircled the city, and the garrison tried to break out toward Russian lines. The Ukrainians controlled the only road out though, and literally blasted them to pieces. You can find the pictures and videos on your own if you want, but they are nightmare type stuff.

But you can't provoke a war that's already going on, and was started by another country... Listen. I'm an american and a nationalist. Once you start diving into this conspiracy ***** though, you're left with one option. That Joe Biden is the single most ruthless, most brilliant, most 5D chess playing president we've ever had. Because all he apparently had to do was stick Cynthia Nuland back in Ukraine, and that provoked a murderous proxy war with Russia. In this proxy war, Vladimir Putin's reputation was destroyed, his country was humiliated, and his military has been ground down to useless nub using Enemy At The Gates tactics. To achieve all this, he has successfully threatened, manipulated and coerced 40ish countries into supporting his plans. All for the price of running the printing presses at the national mint and funding our Military-Industrial complex. And to top it all off, he simply goes ahead and blows up Russia's pipelines. Which destroys all their economic leverage over Europe and forces Europe to source its gas from anywhere else. It also completely guts the negotiating position of anybody that wants a peaceful settlement and a return to the status quo. Because there is no more status quo to return to. So basically, do you think Joe Biden is an evil genius who effortlessly made Vladimir Putin his B word?

Assuming you're right and we did do it... so what?

Come on now. There's quite a bit of difference between Eastern European NATO member actions, and Central European NATO member actions. Eastern Europe is donating it's Soviet era weapons hand over fist, and repairing damaged Ukrainian gear in leftover Soviet factories. The Poles gave Ukraine practically their entire Soviet era tank fleet for free. Your takes are usually solid, but this one is trash.

1. Can I see a source for this? 2. He should send Robert Lighthizer instead. That guy actually had the skill to sniff out the weaknesses of someone's negotiating position, then mercilessly take advantage of them. Lighthizer was tying the Chinese in knots while Trump was suckered by Russia's bluffs and threats.

Exactly. He's one more cog in the Media Infoganda Complex. But people love him anyway...

The stuff coming out of Russia right now is insane. Widespread draft dodging, attacks on recruiting offices, mass flight to the borders, at least one recruiter murdered. It's like they're speedrunning Vietnam. If you're going to make a conscript army work, you need a just cause, some damn good propaganda, or both. Ukraine has both and Russia has neither.

It's Miami. If the Bills don't find a way to win, Miami will find a way to lose.

Right? They won back-to-back SBs in the 70s and have the NFL's only perfect season. But nobody in Miami cares.

Speedy recovery to Hyde, and next man up. The last thing we need is to end up like the Colts of years passed, trotting out the ghost of Bob Sanders to keep their D viable.

It's Miami. Since everyone in Miami is some kind of salesman or social media personality, going to the game doesn't make sense. Staying home and posting about the game does, you've got to deliver daily content to you followers. It's all about your brand and the number of subscribers. That and they're all secretly terrified that their city is sinking into the Carribean, and they'll have to move somewhere and get actual jobs.

Emphasis on meat for the grinder. The "partial" part of the partial mobilization is pretty much a sham. Russia said they're inducting 300k men, but only men with prior military training and/or combat experience. Their actual goal may be as high as 1.2 million, and they're grabbing anyone. Guys in their 50s and 60s, medical doctors, skilled workers from defense manufacturers, doesn't matter. Check out today's ISW report.

Ukrainian partisans are back at work assassinating collaborating officials. The Russians seem to using lots of husband-and-wife teams as colonial administrators. There's talk of another encirclement of Russia troops, this time in Lyman. That's coming from both Russian and Ukrainian sources. And there's a video floating around purportedly from an induction center for Russia's recent conscripts. An official there yells that theyre going to be enlisted and get two weeks of training. Which I'm hoping is just Russian misinformation, because 2 weeks of training is meaningless. It's enough time to teach people how to put on their gear, load and fire a weapon, and start improving their fitness. Deploying whole units of these guys to an active part of the front is assisted suicide. Who knows what the plan is for these guys, if there even is a plan.

Turf is bull####. Play on grass.

Are you insane?

Tucker is low hanging fruit now. So's his fact-free shill, Doug Macgregor. Don't get all echo chambery dunking on them.

I hope so. This war should have never happened, and when it happened it should have been a comprehensive Russian victory. Putin has no one to blame for the current mess than himself and the country he's built over the last 20 years. Taking his L and cutting a deal *should* have happened months ago, when it was obvious his army and his country weren't prepared for a real war. But all he does is double down on mistakes, or try and escalate his way out of the situation. What worries me is what he does when he realizes he's flushed 20 years worth of success down the toilet in 6 months.

A lot of good people making and sharing good food and a lot of booze. You're going to make friends with people next to you. After the game, be ready to fire up your grill again while Abbott road clears out. That usually takes about an hour and a half. Its also a great chance to get rid of leftovers.

Why don't fish fans compare Tua to Dan Marino? Dan's a HoF QB and his game has way more in common with Tua than JA. Oh yeah. And he also played a game or two for Miami.

Normally I'd dismiss it as crazy talk. But there's reports coming out from both Russian and Ukrainian sources that Izyum fell to Ukraine. Along with the supply depots full of artillery and small arms ammunition, dozens of tanks and armored fighting vehicles and thousands of POWs. If this pans out too, the Russian army in the north is in a full fledged rout. I say the north because the Russian army in the south is still fighting hard and maintaining its discipline. But holy *****.

Easy does it. The Ukrainians have done a great job setting up their offensives, it's true. A lot of the elite infantry and tank units that Russia needs to counter-attack in the north were sent south to defend Kherson. That gives the recent breakthrough near Kharkiv a good chance to succeed and a decent window to do it in. But they've got to take Kupyansk if they want to really screw up the Russian position in Luhansk/Donetsk. Kupyansk is the road and rail hub Russia needs to move men and supplies quickly and in large quantities. It also means that Russia will have a much easier time moving supplies and reinforcements into Kupyansk, than the Ukrainians will have moving fresh attacking troops through the hole they opened in the Russian defense and across the 30ish miles of territory they've advanced. Give it time, there's a lot left in play up North, as well as Ukraine is doing right now. In the south, Ukraine's just going to keep grinding away. The Russian defenders there have a river between them and their lines of supply and reinforcement, and Ukraine blows up their bridges they put across it regularly. They're really in a jam, as losing Kherson to the Ukrainians is a Tet-offensive sized political headache for Putin and the rest of his wannabe Neocons. So they're forced to defend a very disadvantageous position with crack troops they need elsewhere. This is still playing out, and the Russians are taking a hell of a beating, but there's a long way to go yet.

No doubt the chickens are coming home to roost. European countries can always choose to continue giving up sovereignty and liberty for comfort and economic growth. They'll have to perform miracles recommissioning old coal and nuclear plants. It will be a near run thing.