Let's call it. Russia has and has always had a shit army with shit equipment maintained at about the rate that Afghans used to keep their gear up to spec. When Vlad the Angry pushes the big nuke button. Watch out for sparks.
All their sexy time Pantsirs were knocked out by TB-2s in Libya, all their reservists being called up are going to Plan B. There is no Jiffy Lubeski in Ukraine.
Putin's Pals are not happy that he is making them into brokeasses. The jungle drums are pounding with proposals to beard for Oligarchs. Turkey and Israel have a new economic pitch for the yacht and mistress crowd. This should get interesting. #SadVladnewsweek.com/russias-elite-…
Turkey love them some oligarch loot. The problem is the lira and the ruble are so low oligarchs have to buy most of Istanbul just to launder enough to buy a decent meal. reuters.com/world/middle-e…
Seems like a perfect time to build that Trump Tower in Moscow. Real estate so cheap even Daddy Fred would have bought in. No customers but once Putin is gone...happy days will be here againski. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…
Israel doesn't know what to do with their naughty Russian oligarchs. Hey....Maybe the Abraham Accords will save them! timesofisrael.com/toxic-russian-…
It might get tough. The old fashioned ways of laundering money could be problematic. Its hard for criminals to go straight. en.globes.co.il/en/article-isr…
Putin is going to ruin it for all criminals: "According to the Atlantic Council, president Vladimir Putin and his associates control about one-quarter of the estimated $1 trillion in Russian dark money hidden outside of the country." qz.com/2136067/where-…
Putin will blink and keep whatever tattered remnants of Ukraine that he has stolen. He really wants the south to strangle the north. The world needs to punish Vlad for stealing other people's things. But the little shit needs Maripol to join things together. #BadVlad
The good news about Putin's inner circle needing frontmen to hide their money is that Steve Bannon now finally can go on BeardForOligarchs.com and find a replacement rich guy to sponsor his oiled up gladiator boy school. in Crimea of course. thedailybeast.com/russias-alt-ri…
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"Bad Brokeass White Gals" is America's latest cultural craze. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Sarma Melngailis are young white and busted. Madonna, Britney, Paris and the Kardashians are so yesterday naughty. latimes.com/entertainment-…
"True Crime" is saturating streaming channels. I still like Lord of Scam. Ratings wise...crusty old French pros can never compete with innocent sounding white girls. Not sure why we celebrate criminalty but being nice and productive doesn't snag eyeballs. netflix.com/title/81092697
I suppose it began with post civil war dime novels sold on the east and west coasts. Fabulous tales of daring criminals with a dash of legendary lawmen. Much of it fictionalized. history.org.uk/student/resour…
The big Bronco has more solid common sense design thinking put into it than any other off road vehicle out there. We just need a winch, some impassable hell and some decent grub.
Terrorism meets cancel culture. Lots of infighting and backstabbing in the Gitmo film business. Each one insists that their vision is true and the other insults them. Former al Qaeda members sell paintings and make films while MBS lops heads in KSA. People...focus.
Plenty of Gitmo folks have entered the victim art business. Their stories are horrific. Plenty of sad stories. But making film makers as the enemy for humanizing them is the most bizarre perversion from members of a group that worshipped image projection.wikileaks.org/gitmo/prisoner…
The books and films are an attempt to tell a story, a form of interrogation and evidence gathering. Many claim they were innocent. Many admit they were guilty and hope people forgive them. Why work work to ban a film where Gitmo folks tell their story? theintercept.com/2021/08/17/gua…
"If Franklin Roosevelt could work with Josef Stalin to defeat Nazi fascism, certainly the United States could work with Vladimir Putin to defeat Islamic fascism.”
It was only 6 years ago that a lot of people around Trump really really wanted to get close to Vlad Putin to roll back sanctions, make some money and reshape the status quo. No one has really told the story of what happened up until today.axios.com/erik-prince-cr…
But it wasn't just getting cosy with Vlad...the entire Trump White House focused on creating a New World Order in which America would let autocrats expand their control of the world and look the other way while they snuffed out democracy. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Haftar is an Egyptian-born Libyan American mercenary from Falls Church and Vienna, Virginia. I have no idea whose men he is pimping as mercenaries….but they gonna die pretty quickly in Ukraine.
I am assuming that he will boxing up and shipping the Russian, Janjaweed, Chadian, Syrian and other riff raff low budget mercs that were on the UAE payroll. If actual Libyans show up to die for Putin. I will be surprised.
If you followed the Libya conflict you will remember the almost comical attempt to take over Tripoli slowly turn into a war crime. Like Putin, Haftar thought he could roll into Tripoli in a few days. Nope. Three years later, Libya who fought the revolution want him gone.
Watched the whole show how. Lot of good granular stuff on personnel, deals, ambitions and compartmentalization. Lot of people worked together on projects but had no idea of the full scope or client. A lot of those people are friends, acquaintances and subjects of interest..cont.