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Gregory Ramos3 said:Russia used their veto this past Friday to block a Security Council resolution meant to condemn the annexation of those four Ukrainian regions, while China and three other member states decided to abstain.
The draft put forward by the United States and Albania actually pulled in 10 votes in favor, though they had four abstentions from China, India, Brazil, and Gabon.
Washington has already signaled that once this clears the Security Council, they’re taking the text straight to the General Assembly, where none of the 193 member nations hold any veto power.
Honestly, I have no clue why on earth they even let them stay in there when they're basically trampling over every single foundation the UN was built upon. 🙄
Matthew Booth said:Look, there's zero chance everyone in NATO is going to be pulling for Ukraine—it’s just not realistic. Honestly, it makes sense if you think about it. You can't just invite someone into the club when their borders are a total mess.
steelheron25 said:Do you honestly believe this was some spontaneous, independent decision made in a vacuum? Isn't it far more likely they received a quiet signal from NATO leadership beforehand to pull this exact lever?
John Ramos45 said:I suspect Zelenskyy isn't acting as a lone wolf here. If Ukraine joins NATO, it implies the USA is planning to push Russia out of the territory much like how Saddam Hussein was forced out of Kuwait during Desert Storm. In a head-to-head conventional conflict, the Russians simply don't stand a chance against the modern machinery of NATO.
Sandra Harris2 said:
John Ramos45 said:Ukraine has officially submitted its application to join NATO.
Sandra Harris2 said:You're joking, but I actually work for someone who makes these exact same accusations against the decadent West.🕺
I’m not kidding around. That was straight from Putin just a moment ago.
gentleviper62 said:We will likely see a shift toward a wartime economy soon, with much higher defense spending across the board.
gentlestag15 said:You can catch the live stream of the speech regarding the annexation of Ukraine here
Timothy Williams5 said:My apologies if this was excessive:
RUN ORCS RUN
There’s a video circulating that shows a massive group of Russians—large enough to be considered a platoon—retreating in absolute chaos through Levittown, fleeing a fortified zone straight into a kill zone. It’s officially started. Honestly, the whole thing looks like one of those color films from the 1950s about World War II. The only real difference is that in those movies, people were usually advancing rather than running for their lives.
https://twitter.com/Ukrainene/status...Donald Trump
brightheron64 said:Good grief...
🙂
Kate Cook27 said:http://www.mobile.twitter.com/Podoly...Cg5fjWjdwrAAAA
Foreign observers attending these "referendums" are going to have to face the music.
brightheron64 said:Theoretically speaking, though, how on earth are you supposed to shove anything (through a tiny hole in a barrel) when you're dealing with internal pressures exceeding 1,400 PSI? 🤔
Just to give you some perspective, this example shows a situation where the internal pressure is only about 87 PSI. 😉
brightheron64 said:Oh, sure, this looks like a textbook case of a profile leaking out... Sezmika basically caught what was almost certainly a secondary explosion of a pressurized mixture, and clearly someone smart enough knew exactly what kind of mixture was sitting in that pipeline, along with its ignition temperature at the specific pressure the pipe was under.
All they really had to do was introduce some kind of low-yield cumulative charge capable of generating enough heat to trigger an explosion once it breached the pipe wall.
I guess I'm some kind of expert now, too...😁🕺[/I]
Are you thinking along the lines of a thermobaric bomb, but a water-based version? 😁
hollowdriver13 said:https://twitter.com/CovertShores/sta...70419551145989
By the way, some pretty sketchy "little boats" were loitering around that area earlier this summer.
Then, right on cue, the CIA Berlin Station gets a heads-up about potential sabotage on the pipeline.
And then the US Navy sends the USS Kearsage (which, let's be real, acts more like a light carrier despite being labeled an amphibious assault ship) out to the Baltic Sea.
hollowdriver13 said:It’s not impossible, but we’re talking more about an autonomous submarine than some tiny little drone at that point. (And here we go again, back to the fact that the US had those submarine hunter helicopters and planes patrolling that area back then, just tearing things up left and right.)
Punching through an underwater pipeline isn't exactly a walk in the park. You've got steel walls that are several inches thick, all encased in a concrete sleeve or sarcophagus that averages about 8 inches deep. Because of that, sections of undersea gas or oil pipelines usually weigh dozens of tons. To actually breach something like that, you'd need a seriously massive amount of explosives.
analogbear5 said:In Nord Stream 1, the pressure plummeted from 105 down to 7 bar overnight right before the explosion.
Nancy Gomez26 said:Yes, the pipes are coated in a type of concrete—which also functions as ballast to ensure the empty pipe sinks and stays anchored to the seabed—along nearly its entire length. However, at the welded joints, there is only some sort of insulation covering the weld rather than concrete; it's thinner there. Concrete likely won't act as much of a barrier against high explosives, so it will be interesting to see the post-blast imagery to determine the size and shape of the resulting crater.
Daniel Ward87 said:We already know the drill: Americans did it yesterday just so they could pin the sabotage on the Russians. It’s all about messing with those gas lines to the European Union so they stay hooked on the USA, plus it makes it look like the US is pulling the strings behind this whole war.
Honestly, what's the point of the meeting when I can just get the whole story from this PDF? ☕
It’s starting. said: Military analyst Ilya Kramnik isn't ruling out the possibility that the US Navy had a hand in this incident. A few days ago, the amphibious assault ships USS Kearsarge and Gunston Hall stopped by a Polish port in Gdansk. To make matters even more interesting, the destroyer Paul Ignatius was also in town right before the explosion hit.
"Deploy the special ops team, prep the gear, grab the equipment, execute the hit, pack up, then ditch everything once the job is done," Kramnik said, laying out how a sabotage mission might actually go down.
Читайте больше на The latest reports out of Washington suggest a major shift in how the administration is handling university oversight. It looks like there’s a growing push from certain factions within the US government to tighten the leash on academic institutions regarding foreign influence and funding sources. It's the same old story, really. We see these massive research grants flowing into Ivy League schools, often tied to interests that don't exactly align with domestic security priorities. Now, the conversation is moving toward actual policy changes. There's talk about more rigorous vetting processes for international partnerships and perhaps even stricter disclosure requirements for researchers receiving outside money. I remember back when I was finishing my degree, nobody even blinked at where the endowment money came from. You just assumed it was some local philanthropist or a corporate donation. Nowadays, everything is viewed through a lens of geopolitical competition. It’s a different world. Whether this actually results in meaningful reform or just becomes another layer of bureaucratic red tape remains to be seen. For now, the tension between academic freedom and national interest is clearly hitting a boiling point in the halls of Congress.
Christian Torres3 said:It makes no sense for Russia to invade Ukraine just to have this happen.
And I haven't even heard the wild theories yet about how Americans would somehow drop explosives 80 or 90 meters deep into the freezing Baltic Sea. For the people dreaming up scenarios involving drones bought on eBay or AliExpress, you realize those explosions were only 2.1 or 2.2 on the Richter scale, right? How much explosive do you even need for that? Five kilograms?Terry Green3 said:In that scenario, I’m playing the hand where the explosives were planted by the FBI during construction. If this operation was carried out by the Russians now, it’s worse than a drone flying over all of Canada and crashing into the capital of a NATO member. It makes you wonder about their defense readiness.
Just to add some context here. The Americans found the Russian explosives already in place and started poking around them, trying to get a look at the tech and reverse-engineer their methods. Something clearly went sideways, and then we saw explosions hit three out of the four positions.
So what now? The wolf finally caught the sheep.
Maybe the Russians put that there as some kind of failsafe during the pipeline installation, a little ace up their sleeve. Then the Americans showed up, started poking around, and well... here we are.
