Austin
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Austin
@AustinDunno
Tech guy and girl dad. Conservative. Diplomat 2006-2009: Africa and conflicts. The last living Pluralist. 🇱🇧+🇮🇪 to 🇺🇲
Palo Alto, CA Katılım Ağustos 2023
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Massive blast hits US consulate in Iraq in ‘direct drone impact’
RT@RT_com
US DEFENSES FIRE DESPERATELY TO STOP INCOMING DRONES IN IRAQ
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@TabithaStevens8 @LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio They're just begging the US not to be pro-russian, pro-commie vatnicks.
And yes, help supply Ukraine. But not because "they refuse"
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@AustinDunno @LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio The same weapons Europe is begging the US to send Ukaine, man.
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Ukraine was invaded by Russia.
The US was not invaded by Iran.
I hope this helps @marcorubio

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@TabithaStevens8 @LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio Google it, man. Stop reading only propaganda.
What weapons will "Europe not produce"
This is just maga garbage
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@AustinDunno @LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio How did the US give far far less when the US armed Ukraine with the same weapons that Europe can not or will not produce?
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@TabithaStevens8 @LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio 1) he spent it here
2) it counts donations of decommissioned stocks at replacement value
3) we gave far, far less than the EU. It's not even close
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@LofMaggan @hplrosenberg @joni_askola @marcorubio Yes he did. Biden sent 100s of billions in weapons and money to Ukraine, way more than EU. That's why Republicans were so ticked.
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Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.
My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

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@IainMacBets @Sean_Leaf @mckaycoppins Only because they expect late action to follow the sharps. It's done that way as a strategy for ending up with even, so it doesn't argue against his point
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@Sean_Leaf @mckaycoppins No. Sportsbooks adjusted their odds based on sharp action, even if that means having lopsided splits.
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@CripeHub @bonchieredstate No, they were both rejected. It's a stupid justification from people who don't understand
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@AustinDunno @bonchieredstate Takes over a year for applications to go anywhere. Russia invaded Georgia soon after, NATO members were split. But for a country to request to join at least means it's close to that alliance. You're being disingenuous.
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Neither is Ukraine.
I don’t think you guys want to start setting these standards.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “This is not a NATO war. There would have to be procedures, within NATO there are established processes, and none of them were followed.”
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@CripeHub @bonchieredstate Were those applications accepted?
Were both countries already under attack by Russia at that point?
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@AustinDunno @bonchieredstate Ukraine and Georgia applied to join NATO in 2008
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@CripeHub @bonchieredstate They were not applicants. Where do you get this bs.
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@AustinDunno @bonchieredstate It's arguable that Ukraine and Georgia as NATO applicants were at least NATO adjacent wars...
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@MaryMargOlohan @realDailyWire Did he quote the usual suspects thinking it was scripture?
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VP Vance: "Every great world religion including Christianity, the one that I believe in, has understood that there are weird things out there. There are things that are very difficult to explain, and when I hear about extra natural phenomenon, that's where I go to, is the Christian understanding that, there's a lot of good out there, but there's also some evil out there, and I think that one of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed."
Daily Wire@realDailyWire
JD Vance says he believes UFOs are demons: “I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons…”
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@AustinDunno @jarvis_best Ya where’d she get the googly eyes is what I thought. Definitely some planning there.
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Woman who swallowed 3 liters of vodka pleads guilty to sticking googly eyes on $95K blob-like sculpture trib.al/EGZ9qHN

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@jarvis_best How the hell did she track down and buy giant googly eyes? This took forethought and planning.
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@clashreport You mean a Red Cross helicopter with the logo blurred out to make it look like a U.S army helicopter?
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U.S. Air Force losses in the Iran war (confirmed/claimed):
1× F-35 – damaged by Iranian air defense.
3× F-15E Strike Eagle – shot down by Kuwaiti forces (friendly fire).
1× KC-135 – destroyed in a mid-air collision.
1× KC-135 – damaged in a mid-air collision.
5× KC-135 – damaged in Iranian strikes on an airbase.
12× MQ-9 Reaper drones – shot down by Iranian air defense.
1× UH-60 helicopter – damaged by an FPV drone at an airbase.
Source: @EGYOSINT

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@Lizrael90 @neoavatara @ratlpolicy But if laf takes out Hezbollah, idf has no reason to invade and occupy buffer zones.
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@Lizrael90 @neoavatara @ratlpolicy It's Israel not coordinating. They are weakening Hezbollah relatively, but they could empower LAF instead of also weakening them.
The relative power change is why they are able to expel the iranian ambassador and close their border with syria to hez.
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@Lizrael90 @neoavatara @ratlpolicy That's my point. Israel could help tip the power balance, but instead they love to weaken the laf
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@AustinDunno @neoavatara @ratlpolicy I’m not talking about Aoun, I’m talking about Haykal. He will not confront Hezbollah head-on. You can call it disarmament action, but in practice it would probably look like a civil war because there’s no reason yet to believe the LAF has any distinct power advantage.
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@Lizrael90 @neoavatara @ratlpolicy Aoun has never said that or anything remotely close
Yes, Lebanon wants to avoid a civil war. We had ~30 years of that due mostly to external influence (syria, Palestinians, Israel).
Civil war happens when there is a balance of opposing forces. If LAF had a distinct power adv,
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