He died from natural causes:
However, according to an RT Russian service source, the opposition figure had a blood clot.
Subject a person to harsh conditions and they die, naturally.
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That’s kinda the objective. Get the body overtaxed so that it gradually deteriotes because it can’t repair it self fast enough.
Putin: MEMA (Make Europe Medieval Again).
IFYP
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Do we not have a thread specific to Mike Johnson? Just the Gaetz-McCarthy one?
I guess nobody thought Johnson would survive long enough to warrant a thread.
Anyway, Johnson’s campaign accepted $37k in donations from a company owned by Russian nationals. They gave it back after “being made aware of the situation” that this was illegal and they’d be in trouble. I don’t see any indication that it would have been given back otherwise.
Johnson is currently refusing a vote on a widely-supported bipartisan bill to give aid that would help Ukraine against Russia.
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Ukraine is getting really good at using these naval drones to take out Russian ships.
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The US should be wary what Iran and China are learning from that…
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We refer to it in the house as “promoting a Russian ship to submarine.”
The U.S. should be making sure it knows how to defend against that.
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Criminal case against Kasparov for terrorism now pending.
He’s been outspoken against Putin for so long, I’m surprised there hasn’t been an assassination attempt yet.
I hear he’s super clumsy so he might just fall out a window.
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None that you’ve heard of. I’m sure Putin has tried many times, but Kasparov always seems to be one step ahead.
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My money is on Kasparov staying a few moves ahead of Putin.
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Putin’s probably consulting with Deep Blue on how to beat him.
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It’s like he’s playing some kind of chess.
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Maybe they’re hunting each other, and whoever gets there first gets to say “Check. Mate.”
As you would expect, military powers have paid a lot of attention to how drones are changing the modern battlefield
Here’s a recent article about one item the US is working on as a result:
https://news.usni.org/2024/03/11/pentagon-will-spend-1b-on-first-round-of-replicator-drones
I imagine there are plenty of other initiatives that aren’t public
At this rate I expect to have Dune tracker-seekers inside of a decade. Micro-drones the size of a hummingbird that deliver death individually. Or explode catastrophically inside of a room, etc. (I realize the latter pretty much exists already.)
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Also nanodrones that make you really ticklish and makes it hard to keep a straight face when you are trying to give a motivational speech to your subordinates.
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