RansomthePasserby

Don’t abandon the run and play good defense let’s go!

The US is not necessarily bad at nation building either, Japan and Germany became two economic powerhouses with our help in the decades after WWII. We didn’t replicate that level of success in Iraq, and it was a rough journey, but in the end Iraq is a functional, relatively peaceful country that isn’t threatening its neighbors with invasion anymore. Afghanistan is obviously an F on our nation building report card and it’s clear in retrospect that the US was the only thing holding the tribes together and propping up the government.

Yeah, this is going to be a horrific invasion.

As a parent words cannot express a response to this.

Influence from Iran makes sense to me. I’m also wondering if they thought they could avoid retaliation if they took enough hostages as insurance. Perhaps the Hamas leadership wanted some death, destruction, and prisoners to exchange or use as shields, but they underestimated the horror their cohorts would display to Israel and the world. So they may have made a miscalculation and overplayed the terror hand. It’s not like they have individual control over the actions of every individual.

This is the sad reality and fundamental problem. Two groups of people who are not willing to coexist are claiming the same piece of land as their own. One will have to wipe and/or push the other out.

Judging from this Israel is going to occupy Gaza. 100,000 troops gives Israel the 1:20 ratio of troops to residents it needs for a successful occupation.

That’s not counting kidnappings. I keep seeing 100-200 taken back to Gaza as prisoners.

This is a confusing video. Why are there so many fireworks?

Yeah getting bored would be my struggle too. I think I’d continue my current career because I love what I do, invest most of the winnings, buy a house with cash in a good neighborhood, and enjoy a life of working because I want to, not because I need to.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/europe/israel-hostages-hamas-what-we-know-intl/index.html Hearing the death toll from the attack at the music festival alone could be as high as 250. Edit to add a source:

This is brutal. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/middleeast/israel-gaza-fighting-hamas-attack-music-festival-intl-hnk/index.html “She saw a number of dead and injured people on the sides of the road, but one stuck with her. Another video shows that scene: one concertgoer was shot dead outside a van, and another dead in the passenger seat of the vehicle. Gibly confirmed video obtained by CNN of the scene showed the two victims that she saw. “It was so terrifying and we didn’t know where to drive to not meet those evil…people,” she said. “I have a lot of friends that got lost at the forest for a lot of hours and got shot like it was a range.”

Could be… the first half felt like someone put NyQuil in their Gatorade. I’ve never seen a team look so flat all at the same time.

It’s sad the fans showed up for this

LETS GO REDSKINS

Refs refuse to throw flags today

I was yelling at the screen dude

Easy

Came free

Yeah super inconsistent on when they blow it dead

Seriously feels like they’re holding every pass play

Why is the clock running when we go out of bounds??

It was a bad route, the receiver needs to angle back to the QB for this exact reason

What a bad route

Refs can’t find their flags today