Another Putin Disaster

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Is Russia Becoming Irrelevant?

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 8:00 PM

A 4,600 mile Army airborne message drop to Russia

It did so by delivering the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division 4,600 miles from its Fort Bragg home base to Estonia. Without stopping to rest or refuel, approximately 750 paratroopers were dropped into northern Estonia in a simulated forcible entry operation. Once on the ground, they were just 70 miles from the Russian border and 150 miles from Vladimir Putin's home city of St. Petersburg. The U.S. paratroopers jumped alongside B company, 2nd Battalion of the British Army's Parachute Regiment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-4-600-mile-army-airborne-messag
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I'm sure John Oliver is pleased.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Originally posted by THG:
more pointless obsessing over irrelevant Russia

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See? No matter how much you claim Russia is irrelevant, and no matter how irrelevant it has been, is, and will be to the US and the goals we should be pursuing, you're still obsessing over it.


I told you so.


And you always will obsess over it. Because your mind is diseased.

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Russia is attacking Americans. Time to attack back

Suspicion is growing within the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill that Russia is conducting vicious attacks against Americans. Namely, as the Washington Examiner reported, intelligence is looking at focused radio frequency attacks ("microwave attacks") against the nervous systems of U.S. government personnel serving in foreign policy or national security roles.

President Joe Biden and his newly appointed national security team have pledged to make the issue a top priority.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-is-attacking-americans-tim
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Congress may force Biden to stop Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Nord Stream 2, the Kremlin's pet project to bypass Belarus, Poland and Ukraine and deliver natural gas directly to Germany, poses a graver threat than Russia's recent military buildup in the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently used gas as a political weapon, and Nord Stream 2 would make it easier to do so in the future.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-may-force-biden-to-st
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NATO exercises sweep Europe amid Russian escalation, rising tensions between Moscow and US

Moving past the fallen guards, an American voice - among the mix of men speaking accented English -- shouted at two others in a car: "Get out! Hurry up, hurry up."


The team of US Navy SEALs, along with Romanian and Spanish Special Forces, quickly and quietly worked their way through the warehouse, firing on enemy fighters and, when possible, taking them prisoner.

When the operation was done, the assaulting team -- whose ammunition had consisted of plastic projectiles and paint rounds -- was told by an instructor they had passed the course and to get back in position to run it again.

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The SEALs, from Virginia Beach, are in Romania this month as part of a contingent of American special forces taking part in the "Trojan Footprint" military exercises across five Eastern European countries that involve 600 NATO and non-NATO forces, including troops from Ukraine and Georgia, which have both been invaded by Russia in recent years. The training is taking place alongside this month's much larger Defender-Europe 21 NATO joint exercises, which have some 28,000 forces participating from 26 different countries.

Both sets of military training exercises, while long-planned, follow a series of aggressive Russian military moves across Europe.

CNN was given exclusive access to see the American special forces - the SEALs and US Army's Green Berets - exercise in Romania and North Macedonia over several days. In central Romania, the Green Berets fast roped and rappelled down from helicopters alongside Ukrainian and Romanian soldiers before blasting and shooting their way into a makeshift house.

In North Macedonia, American special air tactics airmen taught local troops how to call in targets for an AC-130 plane that was firing on a distant ridgeline, the Macedonians carefully annunciating the coordinates in halting English.

One salvo, called in by an American officer, was significantly off target, appearing to be the result of a misunderstanding between the ground and air forces: A potentially deadly mistake that spoke to why live fire training is so vital.

The annual exercises were canceled last year during the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and while they are over a year in the making, it is lost on no one that they coincide with a dramatic escalation of tension between Russia and the West.

"We have to be strong and supportive of our allies when there is a threat," said David Muniz, the most senior US diplomat in Romania who serves as the embassy's chargé d'affaires. "When we are strong, when we are united, it has a real chilling effect, shall we say, on the kinds of things that can happen."

"In this way, you cut down on the chance for mischief," he added, shortly before American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division poured out of transport planes over a Romanian airfield in Boboc.

While some Russian forces have recently pulled back from their deployment to the border with Ukraine, Russia's navy has also carried out exercises in the Black Sea, challenged Ukrainian Coast Guard vessels in the same waters and closed down parts of the small sea around the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in 2014.

Few diplomatic or military officials -- American or otherwise - wanted to speak specifically about the Russian threat though several privately admitted there's no doubt it is hanging over these exercises.

"It's just showing everybody that we have a capability and we can use it when necessary," said Major General Joe Jarrard, the deputy commander of the US Army in Europe and Africa, downplaying the significance of the timing of the exercises. "We're going to continue to develop our readiness and the interoperability between all of the allies and partners and so that's what we're continuing to focus on."

The head of Romania's special forces, which copie

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