re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Trial documents for Jack Teixeira can be found here: LINK

What a total clown show. How in the world is this possible? A bunch of people need to lose their jobs for this.







It's like a security guard writing memos like: "I observed the bank robber enter the bank. I advised the robber that he should not try to rob the bank, and I then left the bank."

Is there any possible reaction to this other than WTF?

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What a pathetic joke our military security is.

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And has been for a very long time. The below case was in 1985. Walker's toothpaste comment was accurate then and it seems that it still is.

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... convicted Navy spy John Walker, who is serving a life sentence for running an espionage operation for at least 17 years- “K Mart protects their toothpaste better than the Navy protects their top secrets,” Walker gloated in a television interview. As an example of lax military security. Walker told how he gave himself a security update by using a rubber stamp that he had made up in a local store.

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Do these chucklefricks actually believe the words that come out of their mouths?

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Russian Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov asserted the superiority of upgraded Russian T-72 main battle tanks (MBT) to the US M1 Abrams on Tuesday, after a Monday announcement that Ukrainian soldiers were to soon train on the American MBT.

Kadyrov said that the Abrams was like a children's pedal car, and that the improved version of the T-72 was "real power."

The T-72 "surpasses foreign equipment in combat power, control, protection and ease of use. With it, any attack is like fishing on a yacht – a pleasure!" Kadyrov wrote on Telegram, alongside a video of him riding in the armored vehicle's turret.

"On such a tank we will enter Kyiv and carry out denazification, simultaneously splitting the Abrams like nuts! "

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Jerusalem Post

British Defence Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
UPDATE ON UKRAINE 18 May 2023

The Russian state is likely effectively banning senior officials from resigning from their jobs while the 'Special Military Operation' continues. The measures likely extend to at least regional leaders, security officials and members of the powerful Presidential Administration.

In private, many officials are likely highly sceptical about the war, as well as often experiencing work stress within the dysfunctional wartime apparatus. The ban is likely enforced with strong hints that resignees will face trumped up criminal charges.

As well as being concerned about capability gaps resignees would leave, the authorities are likely also attempting to prevent any impression of defeatism, and to bolster a sense of collective responsibility for the war.

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Russian Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov asserted the superiority of upgraded Russian T-72 main battle tanks (MBT) to the US M1 Abrams on Tuesday, after a Monday announcement that Ukrainian soldiers were to soon train on the American MBT.

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Kadyrov always seems strung out on dope. He is a weird specimen.

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Kadyrov always seems strung out on dope. He is a weird specimen.

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As dictator of the goat and donkey sex capitol of Russia, it should be a given.

USG is full of professional memo writers.

Politico:

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Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s top policy official who was narrowly confirmed by the Senate after a tough confirmation battle two years ago, will leave his post in July, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Wednesday.

Kahl is returning to his position as a tenured professor at Stanford University, according to a Defense Department official familiar with Kahl’s plans, who was granted anonymity to discuss details of the move.

When he took the job as DoD’s undersecretary for policy in 2021, the agreement with Stanford was to take a two-year leave of absence, which would end this spring. Kahl asked to extend his leave until mid-July so he could support President Joe Biden and Austin in the lead-up to the NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, according to the official.

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Kahl has also been one of the administration’s top officials making the case against sending U.S.-made F-16 jets to Ukraine, which has been a point of contention between the Biden administration and lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans.

Despite a plea from Kyiv for more advanced jets, Kahl has argued sending F-16s would take years and cost billions of dollars, while noting fighters aren’t Ukraine’s most immediate need.

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Ukraine, China Meeting Shows No Breakthrough to End Russian Invasion (WSJ Paywall)

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Ukrainian foreign minister tells Chinese envoy Kyiv can’t accept any proposals that mean losing territory to Russia

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A meeting in Kyiv between Ukraine’s foreign minister and a Chinese envoy brought no sign of a breakthrough for Beijing’s most concrete effort yet to insert itself into diplomacy aimed at ending the war.

During the meeting with Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba “emphasized that Ukraine does not accept any proposals that would involve the loss of its territories or the freezing of the conflict,” his ministry said.

China’s Foreign Ministry said that Li, who also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, presented Beijing’s position on a political settlement. Li told the Ukrainian officials that there was no cure-all to stop the fighting, but all parties needed to build mutual trust to create conditions for talks. China planned to continue its own efforts to restore peace as soon as possible, Li added.

Li’s weeklong trip around European capitals taking in Ukraine and Russia, as well as Poland, France and Germany, follows an April call between Zelensky and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Zelensky said he told Xi during the call that he was counting on China not to supply Moscow with arms or other technologies, and Xi reassured him that China wasn’t providing arms to Russia.

More than a year into a war that is estimated to have already killed or wounded more than 300,000 people, China hasn’t acknowledged that Russia invaded Ukraine and generally avoids referring to the fighting as constituting a war, in line with Moscow’s euphemisms over its invasion. Instead, Beijing has heaped criticism on Washington and its allies for supplying arms to Kyiv, while echoing many of Moscow’s public positions.

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