Rapidcreek

Urban warfare increases casualties. Especially when it's house to house.

That's a lot of trust.

They brought upon themselves an unusual position of ruling on abortion access even after its conservative majority declared that it would leave that question to the states.

That's a good one and very interesting. Normally, you wouldn't release intel and assessments to the general public to protect sources. But, this time is different from the very start. Why? Are the sources indestructible? In any case, Putin must be constantly looking over his shoulder and wondering where it's coming from. The release of some of this information has stopped planned Russian efforts.

I don't know that Iridium is still working. I think it's been decommissioned. But, the US military has been looking for its replacement for years. Now, they could launch their own, or buy a network. Musk not getting RUS funds and losing a thousand satellites from orbit a year makes Starlink a prime candidate.

Indeed, changed

Edited to add. I was in Spanish, in which that spelling is the same word.

Massive is right. And Russia has still never recovered the population losses from WWI (at least 1.7 million), WWII (27,000,000), Stalin's purges, believed to be 20-30,000,000) the living exodus from Soviet break up, or the 4,585,000 covid deaths, and now has less than half this place's population, which limits is status as any kind of global power.

Russia ought to be begging for emigration, right now. But, they are a pariah.