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Today I woke up in cold sweat after a dream of watching a Tu-22 bomber getting prepped for a nuclear strike. Fueled, missiles rolled out and attached.
Now I read the news about the weird purge in Ukrainian government and multiple countries (USA and Germany being main ones) promising to send hundreds of tanks to Ukraine. Plus McCarthy planning to go to Taiwan. Plus the ongoing dedollarization. Plus a new shooting in USA. Plus friends sharing photos of seriously weird, apparently quite jingoistic books being displayed front and center in bookstores in our city.
Sometimes it feels like communism should have won half a century ago. And that now it’s too late. That it’s one of those timelines, if you’ll excuse Hollywood speak.
It’s amazing watching liberals cheer on Zelensky purging his government but condemn socialist leaders for doing the same. Just amazing.
I can’t even joke about it, it’s so dumb
No, Britain’s sending 14 and Germany and the US aren’t sending that much more. Denmark has sent literally all of its Archer howitzers, and the Abrams can probably get one-shotted by a Kornet
Edit: it seems that when we extend the time frame for two years, the total planned tank donation number 200, but that’s not anytime soon (and Rheinmetall, separate from Germany, is giving more tanks than everyone else combined).
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