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US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

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RaceBoarder said:
They are the lone supply line to the outside world though, aren't they?
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I saw an analysis that basically said, "How are they going to ship their oil to China? Bucket brigade?" They have a plan to build a huge pipeline, but it's still blueprints. They can't get their oil to the world market through China.
 
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

U.S. officials said Thursday that the Pentagon was amplifying its readiness in the Pacific in light of two North Korean missile tests over the past two weeks. North Korea said the launches were to help develop satellites, but as CBS News Asia correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, American intelligence agencies believe Kim Jong Un's military was really testing components of its gigantic "Hwasong-17" intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The new weapon was rolled out in a military parade in 2020, but as far as anyone knows, it has never actually been fired. If the missile works the way it has been designed to, it could potentially reach anywhere in the continental United States.
North Korea has ramped up its missile testing since the beginning of the year, and the U.S. has expressed concern that the international community isn't doing enough to stop them.

A senior Biden administration official said Thursday that the February 26 and March 4 missile tests represented a "serious escalation" by North Korea, but that unlike three ICBM tests carried out in 2017, neither of the recent launches demonstrated the range or capabilities of the missile system involved.

They were "likely intended to test elements of this new system before the DPRK [North Korea] conducts a launch in full range, which they will potentially attempt to disguise as a space launch," the official said, citing a U.S. intelligence assessment they said had been made in close coordination with key regional allies Japan and South Korea. The information had been shared with other American allies, including at the United Nations.
 
SonofSouthie said:
They were "likely intended to test elements of this new system before the DPRK [North Korea] conducts a launch in full range, which they will potentially attempt to disguise as a space launch," the official said, citing a U.S. intelligence assessment they said had been made in close coordination with key regional allies Japan and South Korea. The information had been shared with other American allies, including at the United Nations.
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If they claim a space launch don't they have to register that someplace like a space air traffic control?
 
Handyman said:
Why...we aren't going to give anything up because of what is happening. You have to know that.

Convenience > do what is right

Unless you never wear name brand clothes, shoes, use technology, invest in banks...etc.
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So we should let this just happen? Seriously? That's weak. There are plenty of companies who have pulled out of Russia (as mine has) to give business to.
 
This is like reading about Dumpies.

I had a friend in Khabarovsk, Ru

We used to play Tarkov for 5 years now. And he serves in Rosgvardia. He told me he will be drafted to war in Ukraine. I don’t have a friend anymore. “That’s my job” - he told me.

I didn’t know that brainwashing go this deep. “Crimea is Russian” - he striked, “ and what about 8 years in Donbas”. I hope my Ukrainian soldiers strike back in full force. I had a friend.
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aparch said:
It's not.

Ukrainians have been saying that Chernobyl has been without power for two plus days now. Yes, the plant was finally decommissioned in 1999, but the cooling ponds and out buildings need power to keep the spent fuel cooled.

If there is no power, the cooling ponds could fail causing a radioactive release.
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Couple things:

1. It's true the power has been out two days and the data feeds cut out last night, meaning nobody can tell what's going on there anymore.

2. However, I've seen videos of IAEA guys saying it takes 9 years for the particular fuel rods (?) that were left at site to become neutralized and they have been buried under concrete for over 20. They said even if the cooling ponds completely evaporated there would be no significant increase in radioactivity.

3. I know nothing! Reporting what I heard.
 
It's the Daily Mail so take it with a grain silo of salt.

I have been seeing this alluded to on other sites but don't know if it all stemmed from the same so far uncorroborated source.

Vladimir Putin has placed the head of the FSB's foreign service and his deputy under house arrest after blaming them for intelligence failings that saw his army handed a series of embarrassing defeats in Ukraine, it has been claimed.

Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency's foreign service, has been placed under arrest on Putin's orders.

Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.
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I'd say it's plausible, because it's now obvious what Putin's big fault is. He has surrounded himself with corrupt yes-men who know that telling him the reality of Russia's lack of military readiness and Ukraine's willingness to resist will threaten their own positions and lives. Combine that with the arrogance of a megalomaniac who, because he was something of a KGB/FSB hotshot 25+ years ago, thinks he knows military strategy and intelligence better than his own generals and spy chiefs.
 
I am absolutely shocked Israel thinks Zelensky should accept putins conditions for surrender.


Or, not.
 
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