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PATRICK

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17. They took prisoners

Reply to Rincewind (Reply #13)

Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:29 PM

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They may get some leverage to make Trump ease off? Past blunders of our currently hyperactive incompetently guided, gutted "Intelligence" agencies have been sent into hyperdrive with plots so old and now off the shelf that there can never be any successful followthrough. Not in the Mideast, not in South America or Cuba. God knows how any military personnel from top to bottom could stomach a seizure of Greenland.

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