1/ "Steele Dossier" revelations, Danchenko and connection to Clinton. Some journalists are finally taking note, like Jonathan here.
The activists on the left came up with interesting counter-narrative. Let's investigate.
2/ Lefty activists' counter-narrative, part 1:
"the information was accurate, it was just passed through unexpected channels".
Wow, a barefaced assertion of "nothing to see here". Of course the information was bogus.
3/ "Trump did worse by sharing *muh confidential data*". It's a weird one; as far as I can tell it hinges on The Guardian (lol) reporting.
4/ Back in 2020, The Guardian (lol) posted a hit piece stuffed to brim with keywords. "Willingness to pass on confidetnial material to alleged Moscow agents".
Note the hedging.
5/ "Confidential material", discussed in context of then-President, and in context of national security. Wow.
It was Trump's campaign's internal data, polling conducted pre-election, confidential to the campaign itself only. But all the scary keywords still in play in 2021
6/ The current outrage over "Steele Dossier" and "Trump Russia" hoaxes is *at the press*, which back then did spread those in attempt to sink Trump, and also decorated themselves "defenders of truth".
The leftist activists & the media pretend there's no outrage. Jim got it right
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2/ Isn't she pretty?
In particular the Ukrainian maritime variant, with seabird decal.
3/ Unique design allows for low observability, in particular low radar cross-section. Not quite "full on stealth" - but it's much stealthier than an average flier.
We don't have official numbers, but this calculates baseline expectations - and it's good:
2/ #T14Armata, an innovative russian tank with crew fully enclosed in the front hull behind heavy protection, while a fully automated turret was located in the classic way.
Along with the tank, related T-15 IFV and 2S35 SPG were developed as shared platform.
3/ The design seemingly got a lot *right*, tho there remains some discussion as to armor of the turret - supposedly absent in the vehicles produced.
With a lot of hopes riding on its shoulders, the design failed to enter serial production and seems stuck. How come?
1/ Unpopular opinion:
the recent wave of "work from home" is the biggest and unique opportunity to "stick it to the boomers". Actually to do much better than that.
2/ Good management is both about enabling your employees - and also about measuring their effectiveness.
Beyond "walking around & seeing butts in office chairs", actual measurement - and reporting both up & down the chain. "Work from home" pushes in that direction.
3/ There are also various other benefits to "work from home" - less dependence on proximity to city; more personal freedom to shape work as you see fit, to juggle & smoothly change works, etc.
1/ >US commenced "invasion" in Ukraine by regime changing it
No.
2014: Ukrainians over-threw their government aligned with Russia - the Russia that for well over a century occupied Ukraine, drained resources & talent, suppressed culture.
2/ You see people in Ukraine staunchly & resolutely defending their freedom for 2+ months now. That is a clear and strong signal. I support their defense of freedom.
As for democracy... whatever. Both sides are democracies with all the trappings & faults, and it helped neither.
3/ To see just how pernicious and pervasive suppression of Ukraine's culture was back under russian control, see this well written thread: