U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tank units have conducted intensively training at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Poland, with crews manoeuvring at least one of the vehicles through a water obstacle and mud fields.
Tanks were delivered from multiple locations across Poland to take part in the Forward Land Forces expansion exercise, with the Polish Armed Forces assisting in the coordination of rail transfers and managing of the training site.
Exercises were designed to rehearse mobility, sustainment, and positioning of heavy armour in Eastern Europe, simulated cold, mud-heavy terrain, and unpredictable temperature changes, which are common in the autumn and winter, and which can make it particularly difficult to operate tanks.
U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams Tank During Exercises in Poland
Poland is one of just three foreign countries to host permanent foreign deployments of U.S. Army tank units, alongside Germany and South Korea, with the M1A2 SEPv2 variant being stationed there.
The Abrams is one of two tank types alongside the Russian T-80 to use a gas turbine engine, which provides higher mobility particularly in muddy terrain.
Pentagon says it received ‘serious allegations of misconduct’
Trump had accused Kelly and other Democrats of seditious behavior
Trump administration has purged top generals
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to active duty status in order to prosecute him after what it described as seditious behavior by the former astronaut and decorated veteran.
Kelly, who denies any wrongdoing and who said in a statement he would not be intimidated, joined five other Democrats in Congress with backgrounds in the U.S. military and intelligence community to urge U.S. troops to refuse any illegal orders.
The video in question1is a Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK) move. The only way to defeat it is swiftly arrest the perpetrators and prosecute them, thus ‘killing’ them. That video is an act of sedition in and of itself. Nothing like this should be permitted in USA. Hegseth should act swiftly while details are fresh in the public mind and to show force. ABN
Ukraine has agreed to Donald Trump‘s peace plan to end the war with Russia, according to a US official.
‘The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal,’ the official said. ‘There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal.’
The new agreement has been revised from 28 points to a 19-point peace plan that no longer includes amnesty guarantees for atrocities committed during the war. Kyiv has agreed to cap its army at 800,000 men.
It is less favorable to Moscow, leaving it up to Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to decide the most sensitive terms, including territorial disputes and US security guarantees.
Vladimir Putin is expected to dismiss the new deal ‘out of hand’ – leading to longer drawn-out negotiations Trump has tried to avoid, sources in Washington said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday that if the plan ‘erased … key understandings’ that Putin reached with Trump at the Alaska summit in August, the ‘situation will be fundamentally different’.
One important thing FIML practice has showed me is that people very often—more often than they realize—attribute specific, clear intentionality to the speech of others when that speech actually originated out of a muddled state and was not clear or specific at all to the speaker.
I think we do this because as speakers we have better knowledge of the rich ambiguity that is our mind, while as listeners we know, for the most part, only what the speaker has said, or rather what we think we heard them say.
In many other posts we have discussed hearing words incorrectly and the consequences that can follow from that. In this post, let’s confine ourselves to a listener’s attributing a more specific intentionality to the speaker than the speaker intended.
A crude example might be a drunk at a bar mumbling to himself. Another drunk walks by with his girl on his arm. Hearing the mumbling, he asks, “Did you say that to her?” In saying that, he is attributing intentionality where there was none.
Sometimes, the drunk at the bar will explain that he was just mumbling. And sometimes he will own the intentionality being attributed to him.
In that case, he might say, “Yes, I did. What are you going to do about it?”
Misconstrued intentionality surely leads to many fights.
But those of us who don’t get drunk in bars like that never do anything similar, right?
Not so. We do it all the time. We frequently hear the speech of others as having more specific intent than they meant.
Whenever we listen, we do so with the network of semiotics and language that subsumes our perceptions. Thus, whatever we hear will tend to confirm or be contextualized by that part of our subjective network that is most active at the time or that seems to apply best to what we are hearing.
Our use of that network for understanding the speech of others is hurried, quick, and often wrong. Our listening makes sense to us, but is almost never in full accord with what the speaker said, especially as so much speech initiates in vague or muddled states of mind. Speech is often groping while listening often is less so.
For example, if someone expresses a political view that we have recently been thinking about and that irritates us, our listening will very likely attribute a more specific or pointed intentionality to the speaker than is justified.
If we agree with what the speaker said under the circumstances described above, much the same thing will happen though our attribution of specific intentionality will be favorable rather than unfavorable.
These examples are the polite forms of the barroom brawl versus barroom camaraderie.
Notice also, the tendency we humans have to frame these sorts of errors as dichotomies. Either you are insulting my girl or we are all best friends.
Furthermore, notice that we also have a strong tendency to own the more specific intentionality being attributed to us by the listener. In the bar, you might decline the fight, but in another location you might lock horns with someone who attributed a specific intention to your muddled or idle expression of a vague political “view.”
Next time you think you heard a specific intent in the words of a friend, ask them if that was indeed their intent. Be careful when asking because if they are not experienced FIML practitioners, they may agree to own an intention they never had or that was far more muddled than it had seemed to you (or them in the moment of speaking).
My guess is a great deal of what we say is sloppier or more muddled than even we ourselves realize. This is simply how we are and how we really use language. You can’t make speech perfect.
> Vladimir Zelensky, president of Ukraine under martial law
> Timur Mindich, business man involved in key Ukrainian industries, close friends with Zelensky
> Tsukerman, co-partner and financer to Mindich
> German Galushchenko, Minister of Justice, resigned
> Svetlana Hrynchuk, Minister of Energy, resigned
> Dmitry Basov, Security Director at Energoatom, arrested
> Igor Myroniuk, Advisor to Minister of Energy > Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, closest friend of Zelensky and second most powerful man in Ukraine, investigated for heavy corruption
Something similar happened in USA and the West about 125–250 years ago. That takeover was largely covert and gradual, so less obvious unless you pay attention and are good at pattern recognition. ABN
An unsealed federal search-warrant application reveals investigators have zeroed in on a Chinese drug-trafficking network operating out of Dexter, Stetson, Norridgewock & Ripley, Maine.
According to a sealed 50-page affidavit filed March 17, investigators caught their break when Zhao & Li were stopped crossing back into the U.S. from Canada and were forced to hand over their phones.
At the center: 🇨🇳 “Larry” Zhao of Brooklyn 🇨🇳 Wen Hui “Wen” Li of Las Vegas
DEA task-force officers then secured warrants for 4 Maine properties linked to the pair — each showing red flags for commercial-scale illegal cannabis grows: massive power usage, structural mods, and suspicious financial flows.
The affidavit says the operation was fueled by mortgage fraud, shell companies, foreign money transfers & straw buyers. Federal investigators say these sites fit patterns seen in the 270+ Chinese cartel grow houses DHS flagged across Maine.
WeChat messages pulled from Zhao’s phone show him telling partners that Maine operations had “ceased” due to “local police concerns” — matching the lull in cartel activity after public reporting and increased scrutiny.
As an update, both the White House and our counterterrorism agencies have confirmed receipt of what I reported publicly: Emmanuel Macron attempted to organize my assassination, per a source close to the first couple.
Also, I will again state that the French legionnaires were involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination but they did not act alone.
For all of you who doubted my claims, you can now look to the President of the United States and our intelligence communities to issue a statement to confirm whether I am telling the truth.