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Live Stream just went down for me too. I'm located in Kentucky, for reference.

My guess is that this is a response from Russia in reply to our Idiot-in-Chief's public threats of a cyber attack against them.

Well, I guess that explains why my go to Twitter sources for breaking news don't seem to be functioning.

IMHO, there was no valid reason to maintain a DEFCON 3 rating any longer. In fact, I am not sure an increase to DEFCON 3 was warranted in the first place. I believe such increases in alert levels should correspond in some way to an actual increase in the U.S. military alert posture. And during the t...

killjoy27 wrote:I would not be surprised if elements of the Filipino Military has plans for a Coup in the works.

Unless they have a strong desire to become allies with China and Russia, they better. This Duturte character is crazier than a s%#* house rat.

Somehow, I doubt the Cubans are overly interested in serving as useful idiots to the Russians yet again. That would especially be true after relations between the U.S. and Cuba have been restored. For that matter, I am not sure the Vietnamese would want them back either. It seems the Vietnamese are ...

It would also eliminate the need for Russia to bomb Syrian cities, no? Absolutely! As soon as the western-supported terrorists are destroyed and peace is restored to the land. By the way, Russia doesn't bomb cities. It indiscriminately bombs targets in cities. I find the propaganda coming from my o...

I suppose the people of Donbass and Crimea are excluded from "the ability to choose whoever they wish to align with, be it the west or Moscow. Well, using the methods they are using, yes, I would say that does exclude them. If Latinos suddenly claimed southern California and the Mexican military wa...

Except the U.S. and NATO aren't trying to take Ukraine by force of anything. Ukraine is a free and sovereign nation that has the ability to choose whoever they wish to align with, be it the west or Moscow. Just because Russia doesn't like that doesn't give them a right to do what they are doing ther...

I don't have any interest in my country getting into a war with anyone, stupid or otherwise, even if we had zero debt. But sometimes in life you have to make a stand whether you like it or not. If the west sits idly by and allows Russia to take Ukraine by force of arms, then you can bet it won't sto...