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Jesus, what's going on over there, have they reintroduced leaded gasoline in the US or something? 😅

I think it's essentially a Topol-MR/Yars with one stage removed.

It's probably not a true ICBM, but more likely some kind of medium or intermediate-range missile with a cluster munitions payload. Could be Iranian, even. The available videos show what looks like six separate RVs coming down in sequence, each separating into a number of submunitions that impact simultaneously.

Yes, they do.

Yes, and Kim Dotcom will be head of Cyber Security.

How is the AI handling tactics for the enemy computer player?

I'd say keep it, it seems to work fine to keep most of the political aspects about NATO/Russia/Ukraine/defense spending in one place.

Marco Rubio as secretary of state. Not quite the Putin-lover some people imagined, I guess.

Disagree completely on the "old stuff hardly relevant" part. Some of the most effective weapon systems donated to Ukraine was old stuff with specific roles that suddenly became relevant again over there, for example, Gepard. Systems like Roland could have been even more useful if Germany kept them on hand instead of scrapping them.

This might just be crazy enough to work. 😄 For all we know, Zelensky could already be negotiating a discount on surplus Tomahawks. "Put TLAM in Kiev and let the Germans pay for it." 😁

Interesting insights from the Trump-Zelensky phonecall: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/musk-trump-zelensky-ukraine-call

Right now? No. As far as I'm concerned he's a new President on a new term and we're at a clean slate right now. Donald Trump won the election fair and square, without any shenanigans, Russian or otherwise. He has a clear political mandate to move the country in whatever direction a majority of its people prefer. I'm not particularly interested in domestic US policies as we have enough international stuff to take care of, and whatever role the US will play there, we'll see.

If Trump manages to force the EU to finally get their act together on a serious security and defense policy, he might have a good effect. It really depends on what his actual policy will be.

Don't worry, he's fine. 😅 https://twitter.com/arogDC/status/1853839248408883518

As Roman likes to put it, "will see". That guy might still surprise us in ways we didn't expect.