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sucks, another long wait. Hopefully they give us a battle scene for episode 10. (unlikely?) There has been very little action this season.

Yeah, it looks like this season will end with a massive cliffhanger- the actual civil war will be next season. Do you know when S2 will come out?

G4 (gaming channel) has shut down for good. I have fond memories watching G4 with my college roommate, mainly because of Morgan Webb:

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Ashley's face model is EXACTLY the same as a popular Dutch youtuber (who lives in Japan). I will find it later.

@Matt!

found it!

You know that Bri has a youtube channel, very revealing? Olivia is very delicate and lovely.

I am stunned at her beauty. She's my age and still has zero wrinkles.

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Well you should be aware that a portion of the claims of Russian war crimes are fake news spammed into our media, created by Ukrainian psych-ops units. But certainly, they have committed war crimes. But not as much as they could (kill hundreds of thousands of civilians). This recent move, attacks on Ukraine's energy grid is likely the worst war crime they have done so far. Ultimately, it's Ukraine and Europe's problem, not so much America's. Like the endless wars in the middle east and Africa. As demonstrated the Russian people are not that even that interested in the war in Ukraine, even a partial mobilization has been difficult for Putin to get going. To my understanding the Russian youth are more anti-Putin, while older Russians are more pro-Putin. Besides Ukraine being an economic and humanitarian disaster zone, the Russian people expect Putin to rebuild and integrate Ukraine into the federation like they did to the Chechens and the rebuilding of Grozny. However Ukraine is much larger than Chechnya. This is the very definition of poison chalice.

Your posts are mainly unmilitary fiction to me (Ukrainian propaganda). The Russian politics will be Russian politics, that's what they are. There are pre-war literature on the Russian army and their escalation strategies, unsullied by contemporary propaganda and misinformation. The goal of the SMO is to de-militarize Ukraine. Territorial objectives are secondary. If they can't hold it with their small forces, they withdraw. If the enemy ground force is weakened, they can advance again. This is a basic military concept. The russians obviously have strategic failures. But their strategic depth is much more than Ukraine/NATO.

GRRM will definitely have a different narrative (than D and D) for all these key characters. They will arrive at the same place but the journey will be very different. That's if he managed to publish his books and preserve his health (hopefully). To be honest I feel like Sansa is a very familiar archetype in life (also a modern feminist one). The final result is a bitter-serious faced and humorless Sansa, very different from the innocent and idealistic girl from the beginning of the story. I don't know what's better. It might be better to be dead than have to live the life of Machiavellian Sansa. I think most people would rather be carefree and happy than being powerful and bitter. Maybe GRRM will write Sansa's hero's journey more like Geralt in the Witcher 3. She finds strength but also happiness and wholeness in the end. A well-balanced conclusion to her story.

Yea, he was an evil moron, and it is implausible that he would have ruled for long. He seems to have been written as a foil to Jon Snow- as the evil Bastard son/nemesis. The actor, after GOT played a young hitler in a movie.

Russia is still somewhere in the first 1/3rds of their escalation ladder. Putin was only able to get 200,000 troops into the Ukraine on Feb 24th. All the Battalion tactical groups of Armored and Motor-rifle brigades were missing 3 infantry battalions. They attacked Ukraine while being outnumbered 2-3 to 1. By Russian law and combat doctrine, to fill these infantry units they need to perform mobilization of reservists. This can only be done if legally they are fighting an anti-terrorist campaign or have declared war on Ukraine. So politically it was not possible to escalate until now. As for the current situation, Ukraine will have the upper hand as long as the Russians hold Ukraine with a skeleton crew. They will no longer have the upper hand when the Russians return with 370,000 new troops.

Ukraine has less than mediocre military performance. They have 700,000-600,000 troops yet fail to eject 200,000-150,000 Russian and separatist troops from their territory. The performance of their propaganda, however, is extraordinary.

From the Russian perspective this war is Operation Ukrainee Freedom, Brother war. The Russian goal is to eliminate Ukrainian state and culture, and integrate them into the federation. As a consequence, they used only an expeditionary force and did not use many weapons, like high powered FOAB and strategic bombing that could kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. The war is also managed politically, with baby steps like Putin managed the second Chechen war. Now the Russian people are annoyed at situation in Ukraine and Putin finally got the domestic support for escalation that he wanted all along. The worse the war goes for Russia, the more they will escalate. The Russians have not used vast majority of their air force or their 2 million reservists in this war yet (10% active in the American sense). They also have been collecting tens of thousands of volunteers for half a year. Their air force presence has actually increased, not decreased. The Russians also have not played hardball against Ukrainian civilians yet. They only recently started attacking Ukraine's power grid, with Zelensky claiming 40% of it is now damaged. Winter is coming and many Ukrainians will die, especially senior citizens. The Russians have not used much chemical/biological weapons or tactical nuclear weapons either to inflict mass civilian and military deaths. They have begun the first wave of partial mobilization, using units withdrawn from the Ukraine in April-August 2022. On the other hand, Ukraine has done many mobilizations already. Russian AFVs and missiles continue to flow around Russia and Ukraine as they conduct large scale maneuvers (like the big Volstok maneuver with the Chinese army recently). It is likely that the reservists and volunteers will be used to generate 3 additional infantry battalions per brigade per army doctrine. The Russian army now has approx. 370,000 additional troops slated to be used in the Ukraine, earliest at the end of 2022 and more likely in 2023. And if this does not work, they can do more mobilizations of reservists. The 'best case' scenario now is a weakened Russia but a long term Cold War II. Wonderful!

died of a heart attack recently. A drawing genius: Kim Jung Gi death: Visual artist dies of ‘sudden’ heart attack in Paris aged 47 | The Independent

^ don't you usually eat 2 of those? A lot of off-road vanlife youtubers are driving old Land Rover Defenders. It's looks like 100% a style decision but it's not very smart. The car is unreliable

Silent Hill 2 Remake!!!