I agree. I compare that to our data security, and each folder in our system has its own permissions that you separately need to justify your access to. Why did this kid have permissions for so much?
It's one of those weird quirks of 20th century migration that Massachusetts has a big Portuguese community.The news on the Portuguese news channel CM covering the security leak had a photo of Jack Teixeira with the ticker tape caption underneath of “Jack Texixera , a racist , has a Portuguese uncle “
People working for the government pushing anti-governmental politics WTF is that all about?
I think they somehow see the army as separate, you get it in those films where the bold hero goes up against shadowy deep state types.
Whenever something, anything, happens that's remotely controversial, you can guarantee that this dipshit will overdeliver in their response to the question: "what's the dumbest, most divisive and disingenuous take that can possibly delivered in reaction to this event?"
It's why some people look at you funny when you refer to the armed forces as part of the public sector.
It's a rich melange of bullshit.
Yup, although there is quite a bit of the public sector which doesn't have to swear an oath to the king or queen.
ime in the public sector over the past 30 years there's a fair amount of swearing at the king or queen
As a coincidence, another Member of Spies For Peace has recently revealed himself
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
And in a way, don't all racists have a Portuguese uncle?The news on the Portuguese news channel CM covering the security leak had a photo of Jack Teixeira with the ticker tape caption underneath of “Jack Texixera , a racist , has a Portuguese uncle “
So 40,000 rather lower than many of the figures that have been bandied about
The leaked American intelligence estimated 43,000 deaths, so that matches the 48,000 casualties (including Luhansk and Donetsk) pretty closely.
Certainly a lot lower than the official Ukrainian figures, but then it’s not clear if those account for deaths or include wounded/prisoners - that would be closer to the 170,000 (I think) that they’re currently running with - BBC actually has that at over 200,000. And some of the UA figures are definitely bollocks, particularly aircraft losses.
Noted that the total figure is not far off the estimate of the recently leaked documents (43,000 I think was upper estimate for RU losses - but that document was from a couple of months ago, BBC totals up to mid April)
If it accounts for 50% of casualties and they've got there by counting graves then obvs they're not on about people with blighty wounds or captured
They always use the word 'liquidated' which while it might sound unclear has a completely unambiguous meaning of killed.
I think they usually say eliminated, or at least, they do on their official Twitter. Slightly more ambiguous than liquidated, though perhaps not by much.
If they've got there by counting graves then they're nowhere near accounting for all their dead either. I fear that figure may ever only be an estimate, sadly.
Yep, I remember it too (and they still do from some .gov sources). I suspect it could be different translations.
They’ve been quite clear that they’re not likely to have counted all deaths, they have verified a certain amount (20,821) and have derived a further estimate based on the number of graves in 65 places, presumably by comparing these to the number of verified military deaths reported from those locations (would assume 50% is a fairly rough and rounded figure). This won’t account for the missing, buried under rubble or atomised in exploding vehicles etc.
