Malcador

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/top-gop-negotiator-border-deal-00134185 So probably some money for Ukraine.

Second Monday of the year is when I realize there's another year of this bull****

The international community should seize Israeli assets to fund the reconstruction

And presumably pay for it, too. Convenient.

Russia still had a lot of missiles it seems. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-moves-forward-with-plans-to-buy-iranian-ballistic-missiles-cf3560e4 Got some from DPRK, too, interesting Kirby talking about airstrikes in a horrified tone is funny when you remember his comments on Gaza.

No one should take Steam Awards seriously, right ?

Miami Connection was worth watching just for the letter scene.

EU4 game is devolved into madness, Austria and Sweden control all of the continent. I'm playing as Russia and Austria was my friend until I finished off Poland and took 3 provinces they really want bad Got Door Kickers 2 over Christmas, so also doing that. I suck at the game, but there's fun in the failure.

They used to show Blade Runner on TV every New Year's here, until the station ditched everything original to be another syndication channel

Yah, I remind my mom to quit smoking. Granted she seems to use the cigs just for fashion, I swear I've never seen her take a drag in years...

Forgot I need to work in office 2 days a week this year. I get to collaborate with people on Teams there, brilliant.

Hope the procedure goes well and your dad recovers KP.

Wonder if the EU helps draft Ukrainians where will they run to.

Is such an escalation though, I doubt they'll go for it, really. A type of victory also doesn't remove Ukraine from the board, so they could be used in a future war. Not as if NATO is going to be sitting idle for 10 years as well. Just the new domino theory to scare people. Is sort of odd how people judge NATO for how they respond to an outsider

Well, fighting NATO equipment (of various vintage) anyway. They'd fall before our Democracy powered soldiers.

A lot of if's tailored for a purpose. And threatens a lot off what I still see as an impossibility, Russia taking all of Ukraine.

Pretty loose definition of conquered there, at least correlating with all the fear mongering in the past month. Even if Hungary and Slovakia somehow refrain from acting if Russia tries to invade a NATO member, the rest will act and those two aren't critical.

Russians reportedly captured whatever is left of Marinka. Deepstate's map agrees, so probably true.

Some mythical country no doubt. Remarkable how MoDs just BS like this, although the source for the Russian claim of F-16s turned out to be some dude on Telegram, but I imagine the RuF MoD would claim that.

Thought they walked back the Su-30 claim. Pretty sure was ground based air defense doing it. Russia claimed they downed several F16s for some reason though.

Get well soon Shady. Google keyboard suggested "swole" not well, but maybe that too.

Way too much time cooking, but at least the weather is pleasant.

They got the PAC2 so 100 miles or so and Germany gave them a battery recently.

I dunno, seems to be pretty Western centric to think that's the main goal as opposed to the simple idea of keep attacking your enemy (especially with Israel and domestic US issues affecting support) , Russian domestic concerns perhaps.