Malcador

WaPo articles on the Ukraine offensive https://archive.is/QBc7Z https://archive.is/voNgX "U.S. military officials were confident that a mechanized frontal attack on Russian lines was feasible with the troops and weapons that Ukraine had. The simulations concluded that Kyiv’s forces, in the best case, could reach the Sea of Azov and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60 to 90 days." A bit optimistic there.

Exactly, will be chalked up as Hamas' fault and then people will say "war is hell" or something.

Think I got a bad economy seed on this Japan scenario in RT3, is annoying when the place I need to shuttle supplies to - that is apparently in desperate need of aid - has non profitable demand for the supplies. Bah. Also playing WoW's season of discovery. Of course, WoW players' idea of exploration is checking WoWhead, but it's fun enough.

But at least it was relevant. And Sarex pretty clearly implied the look at Kissinger was brief, so wasn't really much to go on anyway. Will have to read up on the Bangladeshi genocide, never really knew much about that.

Fighting back on. Israel now telling people to go further towards Egypt. Good thing they are on Blue Team.

https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/blog/24031819 "The Shadow's Mantle Impale’s additional damage increased to 120,000% weapon damage from 75,000% to the first enemy hit, and to 40,000% from 25,000% to subsequent enemies." D3's design approach always amuses me

Phew, been a while since you whined about how white people are treated.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/venezuela-oil-guyana-essequibo-vote-nicolas-maduro Exceedingly dumb to do, given the US dislike for the Venezuelan government for so long.

Tom Lehrer - 'When Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize, satire died'

Probably that they should have bombed Serbia harder. "Arguments that focus on loss of life in strategically marginal countries – and there is no other way of describing Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chile, Cyprus, and East Timor – must be tested against this question: how, in each case, would an alternative decision have affected US relations with strategically important countries like the Soviet Union, China, and the major western European powers?” The US won the cold war, and that means that the “burden of proof” is on critics to show how different policies “would have produced better results”. The Rules Based Order laid out neatly, I guess.

Niall Ferguson is that you ?

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/biden-netanyahu-gaza-israel-military-palestinian-civilians I am sure Bibi will listen to Biden.

Media coverage of Kissinger is funny, just briefly mentioning negatives.

Henry Kissinger

Beat the Rhodes scenario in RT3 on second try, rather surprised at that. Really hate the book value objective. Almost done this game with full golds. Better 20 years late than never, I guess.

Hamas obviously has Terror Hiltons in their Terror Tunnels.

You forget how the rules work. There are civilians and "civilians". She's very into anti-corruption work too, no ? That could be one other way. Thinking about it, you could off some people easily as everyone would think it would be the Russians.

Huh Frontline took away access to the Mariupol documentary. Well, honestly, wasn't all that impressive. The Allies have built the weather control device.

https://www.eurogamer.net/new-tribes-game-seen-in-first-gameplay-footage Tribes 2 remastered is all I want.

https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-live-november-27/live-67559384 Truce extended 2 more days, that's good if so. Maybe we'll get a ceasefire just due to humanitarian pause creep.

Got gold in RT3 Orient Express finally. Lucked out getting 30 mph express average honestly, but found out the secret was to put my corporation 7.5 MM in debt to inflate my networth via buy backs and then buying more of my stock on margin. Completely gaming the system but I suppose that is finance. The Rhodes scenario is soon too, FFS, that one is also hard.

https://archive.is/uh7hv original - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-lacks-firepower-as-it-braces-for-a-brutal-winter-war-p2pwrdr0k "“Hopefully Israel will be able to complete its task in the near future,” said the commander. “Our situation is critical, because we are not getting enough munitions. We are well covered with small arms but we are in extreme need of artillery shells, explosives, anti-tank weapons and mines." Bit snarky about finding out their ranking in things.

RT3 Orient Express mission is doing my head in, so guess stuck there as I can't get Gold yet.