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re: Thoughts on trading for Draymond? - GOP_Tiger
[quote]The yearly terrible offseason player suggestion thread by Mantis. [/quote] Still not as bad, though, as that time two years ago when brmark repeatedly suggested that we acquire Russell Westbrook....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[quote]Give us the cliffs. [/quote] Ukraine started the war with a fair number of Tochka rockets, but they had no way to acquire more, and so these became scarce quickly. The introduction of HIMARS had a transformative effect in Ukrainian ability to hit targets behind the front. Over time, t...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
Today really does look like the "shock and awe" part of the leadup to the offensive. Storm Shadow getting a lot of use....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
The vast majority of the Muslim world is Sunni. All of North Africa, all of Indonesia, etc. Important Shia areas include: - Iran is mostly Shia. Sunni minorities exist among several tribes, but especially among the Kurds in the northwest. Much of the last uprising in Iran was in Kurdish are...
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re: Thoughts on trading for Draymond? - GOP_Tiger
[quote]CJ is too chill and nice, Zion still wants to be a kid and BI is too quiet. Maybe Draymond isn’t the answer but we definitely need an enforcer. Naji acting hard once every 8 games after Zion gets mauled all game every game isn’t cutting it.[/quote] Who on our team do you hate so much that ...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[quote]But I really don’t want to drag this thread into a political discussion[/quote] I actually think it's good for us to show our cards, so that others know where we're coming from. My own background is that I got into politics because I was a Christian Conservative. While still an LSU stu...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
Zaluzhny's video message, which was initially published on Telegram, is now on his English-language Twitter page, with English subtitles: [link=(https://twitter.com/CinC_AFU/status/1662451731261796353)]LINK[/link]...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
Rybar has a new map showing the expected Ukrainian offensive towards Melitopol. [quote]A couple of remarks about the counteroffensive. In the Zaporozhye direction, roughly speaking, in the center of the combat order of the AFU grouping, the operational-tactical group "Marun" (https://t.me/rybar/...
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re: Best Italian in the North End Boston - GOP_Tiger
[quote]Regina Pizza north end was really good. Nice Italian food and vibe. [/quote] Regina's Pizza is the only affordable Italian food in the North End. You'll almost always wait a long time to get in, however. But this thread was about fine dining, not good local pizza joints....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
Wow does this Washington Post story hit hard: [b]Russians snitch on Russians who oppose war with Soviet-style denunciations[/b] [link=(https://wapo.st/3os9tWh)]Free Gift link[/link] An excerpt: [quote]Arkhipova said she and several university colleagues were all reported by an email addr...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
I think that operations in the Russian information space are beginning to have an impact. I think that the invasion of Russian territory had a big impact on this. Two striking examples from today: [b]1) Girkin says that Prigozhin is plotting a coup. [/b] [link=(https://twitter.com/wartransl...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
Ukrainians begin training on M1 tanks: [link=(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/world/europe/ukraine-tanks-counteroffensive.html)]NY Times[/link] [quote]The first group of about 400 Ukrainian soldiers started training in Germany on how to operate and maintain American M1 Abrams tanks, accordi...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[quote]I knew it was you all along. Pathetic [/quote] What was pathetic was your "where's Zaluzhny?" trolling, especially when you doubled and tripled down on a pretension with zero evidence for it. How about this? You quit trolling, and I'll quit reporting your alters....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[quote]“The time has come to take back what’s ours,” Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram this morning.[/quote] [link=(https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1662349934148853761?t=dzEaeNU2sJIkpC-cwS1axA&s=19)]Video[/link] is like a movie trailer....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
See, he brought in here the crap about Zaluzhny being dead or wounded (with zero evidence). I explained to him why it was stupid, and then he doubled down on for three more posts. That's just trolling. Coming in here and saying "Where's Zaluzhny?" is not about enhancing our understanding of the...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[quote]its production line still exists.[/quote] Lockheed actually just restarted the production line for the ATACMS that we are selling to Morocco....
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[link=(https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/us/politics/russia-public-opinion-ukraine-war.html?smid=tw-share)]NY Times[/link] [b]Russian Public Appears to Be Souring on War Casualties, Analysis Shows[/b] [quote]FilterLabs AI, which uses messages on the Telegram app, posts on social media and dis...
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict - GOP_Tiger
[link=(https://archive.is/XP16I)]Article in Foreign Policy[/link] on the new bi-partisan effort to persuade Biden to send ATACMS: [quote]Congress, fresh from seemingly securing a U.S. promise to provide advanced fighter jets to Ukraine, is now urging the Biden administration to send long-range we...
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re: Should we have a "Lakers Offseason Thread"? Please vote (on Page 3 - "Yes" is ahead 11-9) - GOP_Tiger
Should we have a Lakers Offseason Thread? Please vote up or down on this post. I will personally abide by its results....
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re: Should we have a "Lakers Offseason Thread"? Please vote (on Page 3 - "Yes" is ahead 11-9) - GOP_Tiger
You think that we should simply ignore the fact that we have the Lakers' pick next season, with an option to defer it to the following year? The key to getting another top-ten pick from the Lakers is not to talk about it?...
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