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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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I zoomed in…it said “Anti-Moose & Squirrel Rocket.”
I just missed a Wordle problem, so I should shut up.
I almost missed out on not having 'Far-right monarchist coup in Germany' on my 2022 bingo card.
Funny you say that, it never left my brain from John Cusack's using it in the movie Con Air.
Any thoughts from the brain trust on trading an international arms dealer for a basketball player?
Seems pretty asymmetric to me. I have yet to find a quality analysis of the situation.
Seems pretty asymmetric to me. I have yet to find a quality analysis of the situation.
A few points..
- The administration is repeatedly calling Griner "innocent" and framing this as releasing someone responsible for the deaths of countless actual innocent lives in exchange for an innocent American. BS. She plead guilty. We just don't agree with their law against drug trafficking being applied to hashish oil or whatever.
- why was she prioritized over an actual American-loving patriot in Paul Whelan? Politics. They claim it was Griner or nobody. BS. Giving up Bout gives us less leverage to get Paul or others.
- If you think Griner was wrongfully detained, then this just encourages Russia and others to wrongfully detain more Americans to use as bargaining chips. Especially if they happen to be lesbian minority females that will drive the political narrative wild in a way that jailing a white male former Marine will not.
Curious what I'm missing here.
Wasn’t he thrown out of the USMC for something?
If he has been there 4 years, why wasn’t he traded for years ago? Particularly when the last admin had better relations?
We had a Penn State employee arrested there under similar sketchy auspices.
Man held as spy says Penn State hung him out to dry
STATE COLLEGE (AP) — A businessman imprisoned and convicted as a spy in Moscow last year blames lack of support by Penn State and its Applied Research Lab for prolonging his ordeal. Edmond D. Pope …
www.poconorecord.com
More to the story on both counts, clearly. Politics and emotions run high. Hope it’s more than political optics and narrative.
While I disagree with Russia’s sentence, making this kind of prisoner trade doesn’t make objective sense on the face of it, particularly with respect to future bargaining power, as stated above.
Hopefully the Jack Ryan types are watching this arms dealer dude closely from now on.
While I disagree with Russia’s sentence, making this kind of prisoner trade doesn’t make objective sense on the face of it, particularly with respect to future bargaining power, as stated above.
Hopefully the Jack Ryan types are watching this arms dealer dude closely from now on.
Thought this was interesting, in particular the take on the new Russian general in charge. From Dara Massicot at the RAND Corporation.
He got a Big Chicken Dinner on his way to being kicked out of the Corps, yes.Wasn’t he thrown out of the USMC for something?
If he has been there 4 years, why wasn’t he traded for years ago? Particularly when the last admin had better relations?
We had a Penn State employee arrested there under similar sketchy auspices.
Man held as spy says Penn State hung him out to dry
STATE COLLEGE (AP) — A businessman imprisoned and convicted as a spy in Moscow last year blames lack of support by Penn State and its Applied Research Lab for prolonging his ordeal. Edmond D. Pope …www.poconorecord.com
skybert
Skybert
I’d say you described it all pretty well