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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

You thought I was rough on Berger? Reddit is BRUTAL!

Congratulations Gen Berger
by u/tommysthename in USMC

Damn! I thought I could meme but I'm still rookie class. I bow to the greatness of Reddit'ers.

Don't know if this is true or not, but it if it is then wow...

👀🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/9vvCkfZTHF pic.twitter.com/nEDmQeDsxK
— Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) July 11, 2023

I find this interesting. What has me curious is that they obviously got within dog fighting range. That isn't supposed to be the F-35s preferred fight. I would assume the same applies to the Chinese J-20. Additionally the Chinese are supposed to have an all aspect air to air missile. It should be irrelevant to the fight.

So what gives with this report?

Lastly we keep hearing that the F-35 needs the Blk 4 update or whatever it is that they're calling it now.

Things get weird in the ocean depths. Never heard of a tripod fish

Tripod fish inhabit the deep ocean floor at depths ranging from about 900 to 4,700 m (2,950 to 15,400 ft). 🐟🌊 pic.twitter.com/I2j5Vp4koZ
— Fun_Facts (@Fun_Facts4Life) July 12, 2023

Fitness is now right wing?

The far right’s obsession with fitness is going digital https://t.co/saGOFXMn64
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 10, 2023

Prime Day is a fraud and so many fall for it....

Saved this to my cart yesterday but decided to wait until today to buy it to get a sale price on Amazon Prime day.
by u/QuickWrenn in mildlyinfuriating

I wonder how our society evolved to the point where people buy shit they don't need. Correction. Lust for shit they don't need.

Even weirder? How are corporations able to so effectively tap into that lust to create a false sense of need/desire and then announce a sale that isn't a sale?

America needs a back to basics movement. I'm not anti-consumerism. If you want to buy x, y or z then go for it. That's between you and yours. But on a societal level its a bit worrisome. What happens when you have jaded, immature people that lust for things that they can't afford? You have crime, depression, broken relations...just a host of social ills.

We've got to break the cycle but I don't know how. Our society is broken bad.

Slovakia to get more JLTVs

🇸🇰#Slovakia: Slovakia accepts 🇺🇸#US offer and buys 160 Oshkosh M1278A1/A2 Heavy Gun Carriers Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs). The cost of approximately 170 million euros will be paid by the United States from the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. The Slovak Ministry… pic.twitter.com/Oq6XyKcCqB
— 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖊 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍 (@praisethesteph) July 12, 2023

Open Comment Post. 12 July 23

Kyrylo Budanov...this guy is being used and will die a horrible death...

Fame and the desire of fame are a dangerous pairing. I consider it to be part of the "arrogance" paradigm that the bible warns against (no I'm not a bible thumper so don't get it twisted but I did pay attention in Sunday school!).

This is all guess work but I BELIEVE this guy is being used, knows he's being used, is enjoying the fame but has yet to wrap his mind around the end state of this thing.

via Task & Purpose

Rzhitsky was a dedicated mountain biker and runner, who went on rides in nearby mountains and kept a regular running route through the city he lived in, Krasnodar, Russia.
He was also, according to Ukrainian defense officials, a submarine captain who ordered a notorious attack on civilians in 2022 and was shot dead by an assassin while out for a jog on Monday.
And some online sleuths think Ukrainian intelligence operatives might have set up the ambush using Rzhitsky’s account on Strava, a fitness tracker app.
One hint: An otherwise dormant account tagged Rzhitsky with a “kudos” (the Strava version of a “Like”) to one of the dead sailor’s last entries that showed a run on what appears to be his favorite route. That dormant account is named “Кирилл Буданов,” the Cyrillic spelling of Kyrylo Budanov — the name of Ukraine’s shadowy spymaster who runs the nation’s intelligence services.
Budanov, a Ukrainian major general who heads Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence within its military, is widely credited with a long string of intelligence coups before and during the Russian invasion. In 2016, two years after Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine, Budanov led a raid into Crimea that destroyed several Russian helicopters and went toe to toe in a gunfight with elite Russian FSB troops.

Here

This guy is front and center on most of the attacks on Russian targets. Several assassinations, deep strikes inside Russia, attacks on civilians etc...

My thinking is that Western intel agencies are actually doing the leg work and even CIA direct action teams along with perhaps even Special Operations having done a few of the deeds (if not then Ukrainian Special Ops).

Without a doubt Western intel is assembling the info needed to do the targeting.

The Ukrainians need a hero, the Western Intel Agencies need a cutout and Budanov was just arrogant enough to step up.

Fame is fickle. Ask Fauci. Hero today, villain tomorrow. But Budanov will be lucky to reach villain stage.

Guarantee he's on the target list. Will remain on the target list till the day he dies. I seriously doubt they'll stop coming for him even after this thing is over and HOPEFULLY a full peace is restored.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Asked to be demoted instead of using his position to change policy or to tweak details to the advantage of the situation?

🗞️Valery Markus, Chief Master Sergeant of Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade, has asked to be demoted to a lower position.
He says he disagreed with decisions made regarding the deployment and development of 47th Brigade and there is incompetence of the officer corps. pic.twitter.com/Sh3d2Au1QP
— MilitaryLand.net (@Militarylandnet) July 11, 2023

I would so love to know the details behind this. You don't have to agree with an order but you can surely tweak it on the battlefield to the best advantage for you and your men. Intent is the deal. Getting it done alows wiggle room (or it did...don't know how the new Corps works). I'd love to know more about this.