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Send the princes.

What’s the point of having princes if you don’t send them to conquer the holy land.

If you’re gonna crusade fucking crusade and send the princes.

Ivan you forgot load nuclear warhead

Russian air defenses shot down five of the missiles and another was damaged. Fragments from the damaged missile fell on the territory of a military facility, causing a fire that has since been extinguished. There were no casualties or damage.

It sounds like they actually did shoot down all of them but one crash landed instead of exploding

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/19/europe/ukraine-russia-atacms-biden-strike-intl/index.html

Putin didn’t deny it but his answer did seem trolling.

I’ve seen milbloggers speculate that if it’s true they probably go into action this weekend in Kursk.

Mideasteye live reporting

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-israel-war-lebanon-hezbollah-attacks-updates

The Gauls are not paying tribute which undermines our ability to defend the Gauls from our legions.

I read several not necessarily trustworthy sources state elite Ukrainian units were moved there from Kursk and / or other fronts that Russia is also pushing on. If this is true that could stall this front but it comes at the direct cost of weakening other fronts.

If true we would expect to see other directions start moving more quickly and possibly multiple other directions moving at once as Ukraine is kept off balance by having to constantly move their elite units around as the front with the greatest degree of crisis keeps shifting between multiple simultaneous fronts.

A side effect of the Varoufakis idea that we are in fact ceasing to be public governments, replacing the actual functions of government with private corporations and vesting actual power in corporate offices, a side effect of that means government is less coordinated and effort is duplicated.

Instead of NASA plowing billions into the Saturn rocket program, now SpaceX and whatever Bezos’ space company is called and Boeing are all duplicating effort.

Which runs counter to the consolidation argument. Like, I think both arguments are true to different extents. Part of the problem is of course consolidation and the direction of effort to extracting rents rather than competing absolutely that’s a huge possibly even bigger part of it. An economy that’s being strangled by all these rents being collected by monopolists and the highest achieving maths whizzes going into finance and tech instead of science. 100% true.

But another part is ironically the decentralization of research effort as it is privatized.

Russia convincing the teens to support Palestine would mean Russia is far cooler than it is

So these days $60bn only buys you 6 F16s and a 1000km2 push into farmland. Inflation really bites hard.

dumbass