White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia
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5.56 effective range out of a 16" barrel is 500 yards. Trump was a mere 400 feet from Crooks.
"Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL and the former head instructor of the SEAL Sniper course, said a well-trained shooter could shoot very accurately with an AR-15 at the distance at which Crooks shot Trump, especially with a magnified optic such as an ACOG sight."
Dude missed. The weapon and projectile are more than capable of delivering an accurate and lethal hit at that distance.
TL: DR, Skill issue.
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Doesn't work when the target is wearing discreet body armor, and the impact has to be instantly lethal. Trump isn't, going to bleed out (they pre-deploy emergency services to large events) Even a lung hit isn't going to kill fast enough. So center mass become "pretty much heart only".
Shooting for the head and neck is pretty much the only option in that scenario.
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I've commissioned an art piece of Trump sucking Putins dick. Will share when it's done.
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Crooks did keep shooting... He killed one person and hit a few others.
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I meant Yanukovych ran away to hide in Russia at the first sign of trouble and Zelensky stayed in Ukraine even with bombs falling on Kyiv
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So you're saying those who didn't vote love him? How does that make sense?
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Fight Canada, help Russia. How in the hell are Republicans just watching this happen? Cowards and frauds, all of them.
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That's certainly the trajectory Project 2025 wants to really drive home. That's not exactly a defense of Russia.
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He came into power almost a decade after the Cold War ended, so I don’t get what you mean
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Both Putin and Trump are 80s relics and so it matters little how much the wor[l]d has changed, the cold war facet applies to the blindly pro-russian stance of Trump.
Of all the stances to take, this one is insane. Almost every violent conflict has shades of gray, nuance rather than unambiguous good and bad. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is one of those supremely rare straightforward ones where Russia is just straight up the bad guys.
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Because ultimately, those armed MAGA people's faces are just too delicious for the leopards to resist. There's already been discontent that they aren't seeing the improvements they wanted, and some of them directly getting screwed by Trump and Musk.
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As an American? Surely you mean as a proud member of the new American Protectorate of the Russian Federation, comrade?
APRF, got a ring to it!
Anyway better start being proud or it's off to Gulaganamo Bay...
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As Trudeau said at the top of his speech yesterday:
So today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator.
Make that make sense.
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Ties that look a lot like puppet strings.
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I think the EU should consider sanctions on select oligarchs from the US.
I can suggest one such oligarch, Elon Musk
All of the billionaires who were mugging for the camera at the inauguration.
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4D chess right here, put economic stress on our allies, but try to help out our enemies.
If we dont know what we are doing, the enemy certainly cant anticipate our future actions!
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It's more subtle. Technically they won, but while they were winning, Russia was buying the power in US. Weird situation now where the winner becomes a vassal state of the loser...
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Unfortunately, the EU still didn't even manage to block Twitter and even less to touch Starlink, or send promised money to Ukraine in less than months. I wouldn't hold my breath on anything further out of what they've planned at least 6months ago already, and sanctions against US oligarchs was definitely not on the list.
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FYI if everybody no longer pay their taxes and no longer work, its game over for the government in less than a year and in a peacefull way... (Excluding food, energy and health sector of course, and people will need to be able to rely on their communities exclusively, but lets be honest, in the US its already the case...)
Imagine a COVID but as a national and perpetual strike/protest. Even with a third of the population doing that, it would work.