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emblem21

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Biden admins blessing us with new memes every day:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1761812122042876183

Texas A&M is like THE feeder school for Lockheed so I'm surprised it happened there:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762137549189877892
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Hopefully that worthless representative can choke on that for a bit and the ghost of all those innocent children can hopefully haunt this POS to the end of his days and quite seriously be driven to an early ending given that these heartless weapon makers are not human and thus don’t deserve a happy ending of any kind. Also apply this to the entire MIC and imagine how peaceful the world will be if each of these mongrels can be traded one for every child and woman these weapons of theirs help to created in the Middle East. Also the entire Biden administration can go right ahead and go to hell because all these people have proven after all these years is how much better the world will be without them in it
 
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Exports to the Taiwanese market look sad – after enormous efforts in opening representative offices, only €1.5 million more worth of goods were exported in the first quarter of this year than in 2022.
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Following two tumultuous years in relations between Vilnius and Beijing, the sudden declarations of the quest to normalize the bilateral relations cast further doubt about the future of the Baltic country’s outreach to Taiwan. Importantly, the unveiling of the negotiations between Lithuania and China coincided with the Vilnius leg of Joseph Wu’s visit to the three Baltic countries. While the level of Wu’s meetings in Vilnius
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than in Riga or Tallinn, the Taiwanese foreign minister did not interact with Landsbergis or any other ministers, as the Lithuanian government
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its adherence to its One-China Policy.
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That last bit is kind of hilarious. This kind of tour by Wu was ostensibly signaling to show a strengthening of the relationship between the former USSR Baltic countries, but instead used to spit in the guy's face.
 
AssassinsMace

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China helped push a ceasefire deal in Gaza at the UN where Biden pulled a Trump like with the immigration deal and killed it so that he can push his own grand ceasefire hostage release deal he can take credit for. Now word has come out that no one on the Israeli and Palestinian sides have heard about this deal.
 
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Sardaukar20 said:
Blow out panels worked. But there is also smoke coming out from the turret hatches. Meaning that the fire got into the crew compartment. That's usually not good for the tank's recovery prospects. It is likely that the Abrams did it's job, keeping the crew alive. But the tank may be too far burnt to be worth recovering. Too many things have been burnt. Same thing happened to several Leopard 2s, and those tanks were not recoverable.

However, the turret hatches were opened, but the driver's hatch wasn't. Not sure why. The Abrams driver's hatch slides sideways, allowing it to be opened even when the main gun is above it. Driver could have escaped via the turret hatches along with the rest of the crew though. The Abrams does allow the driver to access the turret compartment. But that is still strange, considering the NATO training they have received. Either the crew all got out in unorthodox fashion. Or the driver is KIA. But there are no obvious penetrations around the driver's compartment. If the driver is killed by a blow to the turret, then it doesn't look too good for the turret crews either.
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I assume you're referring to the Twitter pic linked in Post #88,926, and I have no quarrel with your assessment. My comments were confined to the Twitter video linked in Post #88,893 and TK3600's reaction to it (Post #88,897). My limited point was that based solely on the video -- and assuming the filmed vehicle is indeed an Abrams -- one cannot conclude the blow-out panels didn't work. On the contrary, a flame funnel billowing out the rear roof of an Abrams turret is precisely what one would see if the blow-out panels *did* work.
 
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