Concertina wire is *not* to be fucked with even if you're in a tank.

5 years ago I existed for TSD. Today I exist for TZD. Perhaps tomorrow I'll exist for TCHICOMD. There will always be war, and I exist to provide a minor hand at helping to ensure that our guys will be slightly more efficient and effective at killing the enemy of our country as you whinge about it.

The greatest failure of the Biden admiration was not taking videos of Abrams and Bradley’s kicking ass and blasting it onto every media platform possible all the time:

Enough about. Here's a clip of a Minuteman III RV re-entering the atmosphere and hitting Kwajalein Atoll during a GLORY TRIP test.

MORE: These trends include 1) killings, arrests, and kidnappings that appear to occur outside of a transparent judicial process for trying war criminals, 2) provocative protests and sectarian imagery on social media, and 3) Iranian provocation. isw.pub/IranUpdate12... More Key Takeaways 🧵(1/7)

Apparently the registered owners of new cable suspect EAGLE S shares adress in UAE with companies linked to Iran military. I smell maskirovka.

Nature is healing, Russian air defense is back to feeding on its natural prey, civil aviation.

*Takes a deep breath* *looooong exhale* Ok, WTF, guys??

Concerning escalation, the gamble spears to be that other countries will not follow suit, that it’s something they can do but others cannot or won’t

According to eyewitnesses, the explosion occurred when the men were leaving the house. Most likely, the explosive device was mounted in a scooter parked near the house. Source: Telegram / Baza

As a result of the explosion in Moscow, the head of the nuclear, chemical, and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was killed. His assistant Ilya P. was also killed.

Ukraine's SBU still getting points on the scoreboard.

Neither do they feel a need to create *intelligently written* legislation about firearms. Because fear mongering is easier.

That we didn't let the A-10s feast upon the convoys of SNA marching on Manbij is an utter shame.

Oh wow, we already have them. "We were told it was an operation to fight North Korean infiltrators. But when we got off the bus, we realized we were at the National Assembly." "We realized the op was against unarmed civilians only when we arrived . . . I am sorry. I feel ashamed."

With the potential collapse of the Russia-backed Assad regime in Syria, propped up by Russian intervention since 2015, and the failure of Russia to secure a swift victory in Ukraine in 2022, which turned into a costly war of attrition, Russia’s future appears increasingly grim

He is absolutely not interested in leaving us alone after "territorial concessions" because we will continue moving west. He wants the entire Ukraine gone and painted as "Russia" on maps, and he wants to savor his triumph in blood long enough. Putin will not stop, and it's now or never for him.

Terra Invicta has incredible space battles, once you get to them. An excellent demonstration of how you can get epic, visually exciting outcomes just by sticking to hard scifi rules: it's pure ToughSF.

Maybe these marks are some of the referred to traces of dragging? They line up pretty well. bsky.app/profile/chie...

Yi Peng 3 dropped its anchor into the Baltic Sea. Went dark on AIS and dragged it along the bottom, destroyed comms cables. Hull and anchor bear traces of the deed. Investigators suspect pre-mediation and that RU intelligence directed it.
 Bojan Pancevski in a remarkable WSJ-piece.

Reuters writes that US intelligence believes that authorizing strikes by Western weapons deep into Russia has not increased the risk of nuclear escalation. Some U.S. officials now believe that concerns about escalation, including nuclear fears, have been exaggerated.

I just need this wall back. Just one more HAWK wall, please, Europe, give us a medium-range SAM wall with a long-range SAM wall behind it.

Russian forces continue to execute Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) amid a surge of recent Russian war crimes. The Russian State Duma is preparing the legal mechanisms to remove the Taliban from the Russian government’s official list of banned terrorist organizations. isw.pub/UkrWar112624

If you see this, share a vehicle! M2A1 (the Hammervers is pretty awesome)

The Russian Navy, though still a serious concern for NATO, shows signs of decline reminiscent of the 1990s. Expensive reconstruction projects are struggling. Efforts to revive major warships, like the Nakhimov, seem driven more by national pride than strategic value www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

ICBM: Escalation was released on Steam today. Quite the elaborate guerilla marketing campaign they have set up.