At Least 6 Soldiers Attacked by Coyotes, Treated for Injuries While Training at Fort Johnson

At least six Alaska National Guardsmen were attacked by coyotes during a rotation to the Joint Readiness Training Center, or JRTC, in Louisiana in July.

Soldiers assigned to the 297th Infantry Regiment were injured when they encountered up to four coyotes while training at Fort Johnson, Louisiana, according to a base spokesperson. The soldiers likely encountered a den and were attacked by the wild dogs, suffering bite marks to their arms and head.

The soldiers were all treated for injuries and released from medical care. Fort Johnson wildlife officials shot one of the coyotes and captured another for rabies testing. The soldiers were armed with rifles but were training with blanks, which is common in the training environment.

It's unclear if the soldiers provoked the coyotes. Service members are routinely briefed before trained events to not interact with wildlife.

Chad Ranking needs urgent patch notes

I just spoke to brace (we’re close friends) expect Wagner two part episodes in the coming month

I really thought Trump was gonna hold one of those mugshot signs in his photo. Like in the movies. Very disappointed.

Is the BRICS thing in Joburg? Maybe I should give it a visit lol. I'll be sure to be the most cringe crank leftist possible, in order to give us a good name

Teamsters just ratified their contract with UPS with 86% voting yes

Oh thank God, I thought I didn't actually understand modern Russian politics for abit there. Alright boys, it's business as usual.

It's going to be really funny if Pringles actually shows up alive after this.

Prigo is kill, elevate Putin to gigachad because he definitely purged the guy trust me.

Prigo wasn't assassinated, his plane just did that.

Are US officials signaling a new ‘forever war’ in Ukraine?

By Responsible Statecraft, the American realist camp.

A forever war seems to be brewing in Ukraine.

Last week, I argued that given the failure of Kyiv’s summer offensive to reclaim significant territory from Russia and given the maximalist rhetoric that the U.S. government and NATO allies had been using since last year to sell the public on open-ended military support, the war in Ukraine was in danger of being prolonged again, well past the date that the Biden administration had appeared to set last year.

This increasingly looks to be the case. On Saturday, the Financial Times reported that “U.S. officials are privately girding for what increasingly looks like a war of attrition that will last well into next year,” echoing an earlier Wall Street Journal report that “military strategists and policymakers across the West are already starting to think about next year’s spring offensive” and about “how to prepare for a protracted conflict.”

It may well become “a protracted struggle that lasts several more years,” the Journal warned on Sunday, noting that Ukraine’s goal of retaking all the territory it lost now “appears a distant prospect.”

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In other words, the United States and NATO are moving the goalposts again in a war that has already been characterized by steady mission creep. At least some of their Russian counterparts appear to feel the same, with former Russian President and Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev recently saying that “should it take years or even decades, then so be it.”

Yet this begs the question of when it will ever be considered a good time to wind down the war. The Ukrainian government and its supporters maintain that it’s a lack of advanced military weapons that have hobbled its offensive, even as military experts insist no weapon would be a “magic bullet” against the dug-in Russian defenses and that the reasons for Kyiv’s military failures run deeper. This is not an unreasonable take given the significant amount of Western-supplied heavy weaponry destroyed in the offensive’s opening weeks alone.

If the next offensive similarly fails, will a ceasefire be pushed back again? How many years might this go on for?

Even if Kyiv does stage a successful operation against Russian forces in the future, it’s not clear it will lead to an end of the war. For one, Moscow may decide to launch its own counter-offensive to erase whatever gains Ukrainian forces have made, starting perhaps an endless cycle of military toing-and-froing. Or we could have a repeat of last fall, when Kyiv and its NATO backers, emboldened by the major gains made in Ukraine’s September counter-offensive, rejected the idea of talks to insead pursue “total victory,” at ultimately disastrous cost.

Even now, Ukrainian leaders and many of its Western supporters still maintain the maximalist goals of restoring the country’s pre-2014 borders, which includes retaking Crimea.

Ironically, a prolonged war is exactly what at least some NATO officials had hoped for from the start in order to trap Russia in its own Afghanistan-like blunder, with the New York Times reporting in March 2022 that the administration “seeks to help Ukraine lock Russia in a quagmire.”

But a prolonged war will not be good for Ukraine, which has already suffered breathtakingly vast human and economic costs from a protracted war, and which falls further and further into debt with every month. And it will not be good for the rest of the world either, feeding into worldwide cost-of-living shocks while carrying the already twice-averted possibility of a catastrophic NATO-Russia war that could turn nuclear.

So apparently the entire command staff of Wagner might have been on that jet. Seems like an awfully convenient "crash" if that's true... https://nitter.net/ragipsoylu/status/1694405239820980509#m

At least Prigo finally got his ammunition

All those who deliberately embarked on the path of betrayal will suffer inevitable punishment. The Russian Armed Forces received the necessary order.

Putin on June 24th, one day after Prigo’s farce. Putin’s words often take a while to sink in, but he’s not someone you should take lightly or ignore what he says. Everyone was saying his speech was underwhelming at the time because it got hyped up as being a big declaration, but it was low key just a stated death threat. Not even threat. Just a statement of fact that he would assassinate Prigo and his ilk.

The gift of prophecy

The building blocks of propaganda is focus, not lies. My western mainstream TV news had a segment about "patriotic" youth camps in Russia where pre-teens go to do flag-shagging and military larping. It is some truly fucked up chud shit and the "journalists" made every effort to hammer home that point. They even had an expert in Russian children's culture on to talk about how the Russian chud camps were a form of child abuse.

I have no reason to believe the "journalists" were lying, for all I know they were telling a true story about some fucked up shit in Russia.

However, the only reason they bring that story is because it happens in Russia. When similar forms of indoctrination happens in the Aryan "garden" countries it is reported in much friendlier terms, if it is reported at all. Things like American school children chanting a nationalist propaganda pledge or going to JROTC or the very similar camps in the Baltics are treated much gentler.

Oh and by the way, one thing that made me really sad was to see how the Russian youth chud camp used the same kind of red scarves the young pioneers did back in the days. It was sad to see footage of children with red scarves around their necks hoist the tsarist white-blue-red rag while singing a bastardised version of the Soviet anthem. It all gave the vibes of being a pale imitation of the USSR.

Tackling corruption in healthcare is actually evil and communist

CNN - China is launching an ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on corruption in its health industry as economic woes pile up

Germany's Baerbock decries weak impact of Russia sanctions

"Economic sanctions should have an economic impact. But that is not the case. Because the logic of democracies does not work in autocracies."

New economic theory just dropped.

"We have learned that with rational decisions, rational measures, agreed between civilized governments, it is not possible to end this war," Baerbock said in the interview carried out on July 10.

Again with the chauvinism. They don't say what her conclusion to this is, but I'll bet it involves kidnapping people and marching them into mine fields.

Owning the Revisionists by training hyper reactionaries

It's something unpredictable

But in the end, it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

Channel 4 in the UK gave the predictable rundown on how Prigozhin's death will help Ukraine win the war blah blah blah but then had a slideshow of pictures and videos of him over the end credits of the news like he was a beloved celeb who just died, it was super weird lmao

Donald trump’s bail set to 200K in Georgia election case

Hogs will have that covered practically instantly

thank you mr putin for showing your commitment to denazification by starting at home

Dreaming of a buddy comedy where Prigozhin and Trudeau fake their deaths and travel the world in disguises.

Prigo Dead.

There are protests levied against Russia because of:ukkkraine: during the BRICS summit and of course it's mostly :lmayo: suburbanites from Sandton.

so BRICS was originally a term from western economists to highlight investment opportunities in growing economies, so the countries decided to form into a bloc that has at this point become the greatest alternative to the west-led international order?

common western economist L

Bricsmaxxing

whether it was Russia or Ukraine that did it, if Utkin and Prigozhin are dead and it doesn't result in Wagner Mutiny: The Squeakquel, then I see this as an absolute win

(aside from the others who may have been on board, though if they're on Prigozhin's private plane then they're probably also Wagner chuds?)

The European economy continues to be crushed from losing their cheap energy supply from Russia and increasing interest rates to chase US Fed rate hikes with no end in sight, as detailed in the release of Flash Germany PMI and Flash Eurozone PMI yesterday.

Germany’s Composite PMI has cratered from July’s 48.5 to the current 44.7. Anything below 50 means production is shrinking, which is bad.

Note: Composite PMI shows the combination of both Manufacturing Output Index and Service Business Activity Index.

From the commentary:

Commenting on the flash PMI data, Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia, Chief Economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, said:

"Any hope that the service sector might rescue the German economy has evaporated. Instead, the service sector is about to join the recession in manufacturing, which looks to have started in the second quarter. Our GDP nowcast model, which incorporates the PMI flash estimate, now indicates a deeper fall of the whole economy than it did before, at almost -1%.

“Stagflation is an ugly thing. However, it’s exactly what is happening to the services economy, as activity has started to shrink while prices have shot up again, even picking up pace. When inflation cannot be tamed in the eurozone’s biggest economy, this is bad news for the ECB.

“Manufacturing output took another hit in August, dropping even faster. Having said this, there is a glimmer of hope that the downturn in industry is nearing its bottom. Indeed, the downward trend in the PMI measures of new orders and stock of purchases have lost momentum. This could well mean that the inventory cycle is only a few months away from a turnaround.

“The rate of decline in new export orders eased in August, though demand from abroad is still shrinking quickly. We take this development as the first tentative sign that the global economy’s industrial sector is about to stabilize sooner rather than later.

“The fall in services activity has only just started as new business declined for the second month in a row and companies showed reluctance to hire new staff. However, services companies seem to feel surprisingly bold jacking up prices at an even quicker rate."

Eurozone is not doing any better either, as the bloc falls into stagflation (sharp rise in unemployment while inflation remains elevated)

Commenting on the flash PMI data, Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia, Chief Economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank, said:

“The service sector of the eurozone is unfortunately showing signs of turning down to match the poor performance of manufacturing. Indeed, service companies reported shrinking activity for the first time since the end of last year, while output in manufacturing dropped again. Considering the PMI figures in our GDP nowcast leads us to the conclusion that the eurozone will shrink by 0.2% in the third quarter.”

“ECB president Christine Lagarde sounded the alarm that the economy may be faced with higher wages and lower productivity, leading to higher inflation. It seems like those worries are about to turn into reality, at least for the vast service sector. For, in this sector input prices and thus wages increased at an accelerated pace in August. Meanwhile, stagnating employment combines with decreasing production and results therefore in lower output per head. As a result, the ECB may be more reluctant to pause the hiking cycle in September.”

“Is a bottom in sight in the manufacturing sector? Perhaps, as the PMI headline index, though still in shrinking territory, has increased somewhat. This happened on the back of a slightly better order situation as well as slower destocking. The higher confidence that output will be higher one year from now fits into this narrative. A real turnaround may only happen in the first quarter of next year, however, as the PMI starts from a rather low level.”

“The downward pressure on the economy of the eurozone in August stems mainly from the German service sector which switched from growth to contraction at an unusual pace, while the French service providers reduced their activity at a similar speed as the month before. In the manufacturing sector, Germany’s firms are reducing their output at a much faster pace than the French ones. This will only fuel the discussion of Germany being the sick man of Europe.”

The Flash United Kingdom PMI also showing the same trend - disaster ahead.

At this point, it is not even worth discussing about re-joining the EU, which is now a moribund case. Better look to Asia if they want to survive.

She Prigozhin on my plane till I crashed

🇫🇮 🔥 update! Became quite the effortpost!

The energy crisis: The electricity is fucking ridiculously expensive this week, up to 70 cents/kWh, because the shareholders of the state energy company (Fortum) need new yachts for next summer. That, and because while one nuclear reactor was undergoing rout maintenance (Loviisa unit 2), another one (Olkiluoto unit 2) had some kind of sussy readings and had to be shut down for maintenance as well. There's also some kind of maintenance going on with the power lines connecting our grid to Sweden's, so the capacity is reduced even further. The government recommends The Poors don't use dishwashers, saunas, or ovens during peak hours, or simply live in darkness and bang rocks together until the situation improves. At least we'll freeze to death happy in winter knowing that we stood up for democracy and justice with the wholesome uwukrainians against evil.

The government shitshow: The Finnish government continues to be an absolute dogshit dumpster fire. No new scandals or crises in particular, just the regular clusterfuck. The media are talking about the government shitting the bed completely, with potential reelections down the line, but I find that unlikely. The ruling party and its leader are absolutely spineless enough to work with anyone they can (except the left, naturally) to stay in power. None of the parties in the ruling coalition can agree on anything other than "fuck the poor" and "send every single weapon in the country, from giga-death-missile to slingshot, to Ukraine because fuck the Russians". Due to the extreme levels of red scare anti-russian brainworms here, speaking out against the war would be political suicide, so I imagine Finland will be one of the last countries in Europe to withdraw support. People think Russia is going to come for us next "like they did in WWII", because as we all know the material and geopolitical circumstances are still exactly the same and nothing has changed at all since then. I'll try and ask like "now why the fuck would they do that? We have literally nothing of value here except I guess trees, which I'm pretty sure Russia already has a fuck lot of a lot more of" and always get the same kind of vaguely racist canned lib response or some other vibes-based imaginary fucking drivel. Honestly I think it's mostly some kind of generational trauma coping because their grandmas dad got owned in the winter war. Like my brother in christ, my grandparents lost most of their families to that bullshit as well, but that's kind of what happens when you get into a war. Perhaps we should have considered that possibility when we allied with the fucking Nazis? Remember when national war hero Mannerheim, renowned anti-communist military boy and buddy of Hitler, won the civil war (the Finnish civil war and its consequences...) and had all the reds put into internment camps and/or executed? Pretty sure they were all somebody's sons and daughters and parents and grandparents as well. At least they died fighting for the common good, for whatever that's worth now. These god damn liberals, I s2g. What zero historical materialism does to a mf. Sorry, I got a bit carried away there, but anyway.

Bonus: some state media article picks from this week. Check out what kind levels of cope we're reaching, while risking taking 4d10 psychic damage!

https://yle.fi/a/74-20046194 – Finland considers swastika ban - good, but you'll never guess what other horrible hate symbols they want to ban! This proposal comes from Ben Zyskowicz, who is almost always wrong about everything.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20046173 – Niinistö [the president]: Russian propaganda against Finland increasing - Joining NATO totally owned the russians lmao!!! this will not have any unforeseen consequences in the future.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20046011 – FDF [finnish defense] Commander: No surprise in Russian rhetoric - The burgerländers are coming. this will not have any unforeseen consequences in the future.

More in comments if you want to suffer further ->

https://www.rt.com/news/581894-biden-tiktok-control-censorship-bytedance/

Biden administration sought control over TikTok - report

The Biden administration sought to gain control over nearly every aspect of the inner workings of social media behemoth TikTok as part of negotiations allowing its continued operation in the US, according to a draft agreement obtained by Forbes last week.

I think this is the forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/draft-tiktok-cfius-agreement

A Draft Of TikTok’s Plan To Avoid A Ban Gives The U.S. Government Unprecedented Oversight Power

Maybe this was posted before?