Yeah they have black budgets, underground SCIFs (where high ranking officials can learn of certain secrets they are cleared for), and incredibly compartmentalized to facilitate secrecy. The MIC is obsessed with compartments and modules. From their weapons platforms to their bunkers and especially with their hierarchy. I read one year (2016 I believe) that 6.5 trillion (with a T!) went “missing” into black budget projects. That’s not corruption, it’s way too much. It’s likely them spending on things they don’t want any record of. It’s very shady and needs to be thoroughly audited imo.

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Times change?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#/media/File:Kisabur%C5%8D_Ohara,_Europe_and_Asia_Octopus_Map,_1904_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1145_01.jpg

Australia doesn't have a local fox news. Our wanna be fox news copy is sky news.

Boris Johnson talking about a 'historic mistake' reminds me of another historic mistake

from wish dot com no doubt 👍

Poland was originally going to send Russian jets in exchange for new US-made ones. That is the best plan if jets are going to be sent.

Sending Typhoons is a ridiculous idea: we don't have spare jets, Ukrainian pilots don't know how to fly them, there are no trained maintenance crews etc. Apart from these issues it's a great idea.

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It requires acknowledging that while you think they're cool, absolutely no one thinks the "snake guy" in the neighborhood is cool.

If Ukraine falls, then those corrupt officers or officials end up dead or in prison. And there families as well. Even if they are enemy collaborators, well, traitors aren't looked at kindly when their usefulness ends. Russia has enough kleptocrats of its own, they won't need to tolerate one's from Ukraine. The brutal nature of the Russian regime does put a lot of pressure on Ukraine.

You can see it on the battlefield. Ukraine fights so hard because they are facing genocide if they fail. Russia miscalculated how well Ukraine remembers the Holodomor. There might be some corruption left, but not nearly enough to siphon weapons and supplies from the front line.

Russia on the other hand, they face no consequences for failure. If someone's army looks below the money spent due to corruption, it's Putins army for sure.

First the east, then the south, now Poland's border.

The putjn regime will probably never stop until they are stopped.

Exactly. Its always been like this, everywhere. Any large scale human project has to deal with corruption and malfeasance. I'm sure when the Egyptians built the pyramids someone skimmed something for themselves. The genius is getting the job done through adversity versus failing.

Joke of the week

Once they push their borders out they will continue their expansion.

Up in Scotland we have been rejecting the tories since the 50s…still get lumped with the useless fucks anyway.

it is occupied; there is a full staff and a foreign service member with the title "Chargée d'affaires" as the acting ambassador, but as such they can represent the US, but not the POTUS, as an ambassador does.

Conviently ignoring the more up-to-date and modern equipment that has been received and changes post Ukraine? Interesting view you have there.

And I didn't realise we were going to go back to the original Latin meaning of the word when the english version is far more common.

How to twist an argument 101.

It's a bit more complex than that. The populace at large does not support russia and some are apathetic. The ruling party is historically a communist party but have moved away from many of those policies to maintain popular vote. Currently, South Africa is going through a power struggle literally(ESKOM) and politically (state capture).

Yes. That's exactly what they would do.

Is it a “hive” or is it a “nest”…..

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)

> MOSCOW. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, asserted on Friday that Moscow must push "The borders of threats" as far as possible, "Even if it will be the borders of Poland."

> In the aftermath of the war, Medvedev said he expects "Touch and nervous" negotiations, in which he said Russia would not be dealing formally with the real decision-makers on the "Opponent's side," arguing that the US controls Ukraine with arms deliveries and funding.

> "This cannot happen. That is why it is so important to achieve all the goals of a special military operation. To push the borders of threats to our country as far as possible, even if it will be the borders of Poland."

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Go Boris.

then what? say they need to push the next threat through and past poland? $#@! russia!

Its been a year, at this rate my money is on the heat death of the universe before russia making it to Poland

The only country I want to visit.

Ahh, I see. I didn't know if the property gets absorbed into the home country when the embassy isn't occupied.