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Azath Vitr (D, on 08 October 2025 - 06:07 PM, said:

I always feel shitty pointing out that my BIL never went to post-secondary education (went from Bartender, to the job that led him to be the GM at his company), and my sister never finished high school (our family divorce issues forced her out of my moms house when she was 18).

Whereas I attended college.

Like I don't want to point that out, but it's hard to not comment on in daily shit they say or believe.

My BIL is also a deeply trusting person on some things...like they spent 700k on an older mansion by the water in like 2015...then wanted to put 100k into renovating it for their liking as it was very 70's....the General contractor he hired who then subcontracted out the other jobs asked for the money up front so he could pay everyone....by BIL trusted him and gave it...the GC then fucked off with 1/4 of the job done, and the Subs all told my BIL that they weren't paid and would not be working...GC told him everything cost more than he thought...he was going to take the guy to court, but learned he was mob connected and that would not be good...so my BIL and sister spent 350k on what should have been a 100k Reno to get him to go away.

So not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed...but yeah, it's still hard to watch them be this dumb...

Ukraine is punching so far above its weight. When the war is over Ukraines officers are going to be highly sought after by allied nations for training (they are the only combat hardened troops of a modern peer to peer combat). Spiderweb will be a movie one day.

Billions in damages, shattering troop moral, deep penetration into ‘safe’ Russian territory and deeply embaresssing for Putin. Also stategic bombers as in nuclear triad strategic bombers? I have always seen the bombers as likely the least useful part of the triad if not outright obsolete but I have no idea what the current military thoughts on this are. Still major loss.

At this point Putin seems to be running this war purely on emotion rather than reason. Somewhere between 1-7 billion in losses I read (is there any precedent for something like this?). Just more losses on top of a pile of losses and now a million casualties. I hope this brings him closer to the negotiating table but also wonder if it won’t do the opposite.

If this thread didn’t exist and I wasn’t a member of this forum I would also hear almost nothing about this war other than its ongoing. It shouldn’t take something on this scale to break through the noise.