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🚨🚨 It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment

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UncleMark said:
Yeah, the youngster doesn't understand. "Proxy wars" are generally civil/internecine conflicts where we and our adversaries are supporting opposite sides. Viet Nam, Korea, Afghanistan in the 70s, Syria, Lebanon, all our adventures in Central America, on and on. The Ukraine war is a different animal altogether.
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A proxy war is a military conflict where a third party supports one side in a conflict to influence the outcome. The third party, or proxy, does not usually participate directly in the fighting.


Proxy wars are a way for major powers to compete for resources and influence without directly confronting each other. They can be used to achieve strategic interests or undermine those of an opponent.


Here are some examples of proxy wars:
  • The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union indirectly fought each other in several conflicts by providing support to friendly governments. The US usually supported democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union supported communism.


    • The Syrian conflict: A local uprising in 2011 led to the Syrian conflict, which was complicated by the involvement of global powers.

    • The war in Ukraine: Some say that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war.

Proxy wars can be dangerous and expensive. They can also have devastating consequences for the people involved, such as families losing their homes, children losing their schools, and communities being displaced.
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Big Red Crimson Buffalo
Al Bino said:
I did not think that the NCAA has anything to do with the CFP?
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They don’t. I’m just trying to draw some comparisons to how both the NCAA and CFP don’t think through the scenarios that come about ahead of them actually transpiring. NCAA and what brought about the creation of NIL is a prime example. They both leave things unaccounted for, which is a lack of foresight and structure.
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Al Bino said:
I will believe it when I see it.

If IU does not blow out PU this coming Saturday, IMO, that could change the potential for being in the CFP.
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Like the blowout that Penn State had at Minny kind of a blowout? Or the blowout win Oregon had at Wisconsin? Or, the blowout win Georgia had at soon to be 4-8 UK earlier this season? If we are considering margin of victory in all of this, every single team in the CFP is up for scrutiny.
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BradStevens said:
So that's kinda a perfect example of a terrible blocking scheme/play calling.

First, you're playing a team that is blitzing all the time, and you're running PA--that doesn't work. Quick hitters (slants, screens, stick/hitch), lobs over the top, or swinging it out wide quickly is what you do there.

Second, notice the blocking scheme. It looks like our LT blocked down to double-team their tackle, while we expected a pulling RG and our PA back to come over and block their future NFL DE on the QBs blindside. WTF? Did Shane Waldron draw up this scheme? Nevermind we're sending a guard and RB to do it--we're sending both from the opposite side of the line of scrimmage, and the RB is going to be delayed getting there by design because he's part of the PA.
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Just shows that Cigs was right.... our communication on the line was horrible.
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OpenWheels said:
Well, at least give the deserving visiting team a large chunk of tickets as their reward. 3k tickets or whatever it is is wrong. Based on a committee decision as to who's the seed.
Not half the tickets but a quarter or so. It's POST season, not regular season.
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^^^^This 1,000%^^^^

Tiered system or not, giving the visiting fans 2,500 tickets is not the way to go about it.

As of today, the bracketologists have IU playing on the road as the #10 seed at #7 seed Penn State. Good luck getting tickets to that one if you want to see your team live in the postseason.
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🚨🚨 It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment

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Aloha Hoosier said:
He’s done that, but he’s also expressed a desire to withdraw regardless. This is well reported and I heard it directly from a flag officer who was in the meeting. I just don’t understand how you guys can ignore this and consider him rational about NATO. He doesn’t think the US benefits from being in NATO. He doesn’t understand it.
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"What's in it for us?"
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🚨🚨 It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment

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CO. Hoosier said:
Those comments were accompanied by very reasonable conditions addressing political weaknesses in NATO.

While we are pretty good at modernizing military hardware, the agreements and political softwareNATO rests on has never been addressed or modernized. Except for adding the responsibilities to cover for weak former USSR republics and a few Warsaw Pact countries, NATO not only hasn’t modernized, it has become more bureaucratic.
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He’s done that, but he’s also expressed a desire to withdraw regardless. This is well reported and I heard it directly from a flag officer who was in the meeting. I just don’t understand how you guys can ignore this and consider him rational about NATO. He doesn’t think the US benefits from being in NATO. He doesn’t understand it.
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🚨🚨 It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment

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DANC said:
This isn't a proxy war. Russia is directly involved. Russia sure as hell didn't put a limit on N Vietnamese weapons against our troops.

Don''t invade sovereign countries and the problem goes away.
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Yeah, the youngster doesn't understand. "Proxy wars" are generally civil/internecine conflicts where we and our adversaries are supporting opposite sides. Viet Nam, Korea, Afghanistan in the 70s, Syria, Lebanon, all our adventures in Central America, on and on. The Ukraine war is a different animal altogether.
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Did Cignetti's Words Fire Up OSU?

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dr.jb said:
exactly,

guaranteed it was bulletin board material but cigs bravado has served us well this yr. who'd thought we would even be in games like this with all the national attention?

if you dish it you have to be able to take it. they won...credit to them

that doesn't mean it still wasn't a pussy move to end the game like that. o$u and fans are way too obnoxious/classless to ever take the high road.

that's not the last time we'll meet, we will play again and I'll also guarantee cc reminded day when they shook hands that he won't forget it....

on to the next game AT HOME where we have the opportunity to make statement of our own. I hope we take advantage.....

and finally, that last td didn't mean sh!t as far as playoffs/ranking are concerned. everybody and their grandmother could see it for what it was
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Generally speaking, I agree with the post.

The post-game handshake seemed anti-climactic. I’m not a great lip reader, but Cignetti seemed to take the high road and offer congratulations.

Ryan Day’s pre-game admonition to his team “to leave no doubt” was arrogantly par for the course not to mention the various end of game antics. Seems like an insecure bunch given the $20 million payroll.

Nevertheless, OSU was the better team, yesterday.
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