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Texas scientist John Spor rescued from Ukraine
CBS DFW ^ | 22-JUN-2022 | ANNIE GIMBEL

Posted on 06/23/2022 1:28:59 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

A nuclear scientist from Texas, who's credited with designing sensitive technology found in dozens of laser-guided weapons systems used by the U.S. military, was rescued from war-torn Ukraine.

Members of the non-profit rescue organization, Project DYNAMO extracted John Spor from Russian-occupied territory deep in the country.

Spor, was living in Mariupol, Ukraine, when the city was attacked and occupied by invading Russian forces in February. Following the siege and unrelenting brutal artillery and missile attacks, he fled his home and went into hiding.

Chechen-Russian forces ransacked his home and hunted Spor for months, according to a spokesman for the organization.

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To: Seruzawa

“No way did they need this guy to build nukes.”

I agree. Ukraine has its own share of accomplished physicists. I assume he was there because of his laser-guidance expertise.


21 posted on 06/23/2022 2:08:47 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Russia used to have a lot of nuclear related sites in Ukraine that we would be interested in studying, of course.


22 posted on 06/23/2022 2:15:37 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Project Dynamo is the same group that has been going into Afghanistan to rescue Americans left behind by Biden.


23 posted on 06/23/2022 2:19:15 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: kiryandil

Just fulfilling the Minsk Accords looks like a pretty damn good deal now.

But they had to take their billions in bribes from Nuland and company.


24 posted on 06/23/2022 2:23:21 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The Sea of Azov is just gorgeous in the summer.

I’ve got a seaside villa in Mariupol too. Doesn’t everybody?

Totally normal, not suspicious in any way.

/sarc


25 posted on 06/23/2022 2:25:00 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SpeedyInTexas; Travis McGee

There is so much about this war we are never going to know.


26 posted on 06/23/2022 2:26:39 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: Travis McGee

Now That was funny!


27 posted on 06/23/2022 2:27:55 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Still have stranded Americans in Afghanistan tho.
Will rescue when?


28 posted on 06/23/2022 2:29:54 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Tench_Coxe
would that not be in violation in spirit of the agreement made when the Soviet Union broke up? Ukraine at the time gave up their nukes as part of that arrangement.

Ukraine never owned any nuclear weapons, only hosted them on their territory. Russia inherited all the nuclear weapons in the former Soviets when the breakup took place. This is legally codified in the founding documents of all the former Soviet territories...including Ukraine.

Ukraine never controlled the nuclear weapons on their territory either, they didn't have the nuclear launch codes and didn't have the technical expertise to maintain them independently. The only value to Ukraine would have been to sell the warheads to the highest bidder, which Russia and the other Great Powers wanted to prevent.

The Budapest Memorandum was a diplomatic fig leaf designed in part to prevent Russia from using 'other means' to safe guard the weapons. Both sides have violated its terms by meddling in Ukraine's domestic affairs since then.

29 posted on 06/23/2022 2:32:29 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: piasa

“Russia used to have a lot of nuclear related sites in Ukraine that we would be interested in studying, of course.”

The U.S. has had 100% free access to study every inch of every facility in the Ukraine since our 2014 Maidan coup.

What was he doing there NOW? Finishing up his 8-year-studies?

Come on.... please.


30 posted on 06/23/2022 2:34:08 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine

The Ukrainians are the ones who are occupiers of the People's Republic of Donbas. But they are being repelled.

31 posted on 06/23/2022 2:37:00 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Tench_Coxe

There are 7,000 unaccounted for former Soviet Union biological warfare scientists and technicians inthe world as of 2002. That hunt continues because of the possibility they could be hired by various regimes like Iran or Norh Korea, as happened with some Iraqi weapons scientists, who were found working on Libya’s nuclear program. When the USSR collapsed these 7000 lost their jobs and it would not have taken much to hire them.


32 posted on 06/23/2022 2:41:04 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Travis McGee
But they had to take their billions in bribes from Nuland and company.

The Skyy Boy and his coterie will slither away to Old Blighty with the cash, leaving the piles of dead Ukie and dead Russki boys.

33 posted on 06/23/2022 2:44:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Travis McGee; piasa
What was he doing there NOW? Finishing up his 8-year-studies?

I hear the deafening silence of the dogs that aren't barking about this.

34 posted on 06/23/2022 2:46:02 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: piasa
"John Spor is a Texas-based nuclear physicist with specific expertise in laser-guided weapons systems credited for designing highly classified U.S. military technology. He was based in eastern Mariupol when Russia invaded."

I'll ask it again: what was this man doing in Ukraine?

35 posted on 06/23/2022 2:51:05 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Bkmk


36 posted on 06/23/2022 2:51:15 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: McGruff

Dirty RuZZian


37 posted on 06/23/2022 2:52:27 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
A nuclear scientist from Texas, who’s credited with designing delicate expertise present in dozens of laser-guided weapons techniques utilized by the US navy, was rescued from war-torn Ukraine.

Glad he's home. But this sentence makes no sense. What's a "nuclear scientist," what are "laser-guided weapons techniques" and why would you want one to work on the other?

38 posted on 06/23/2022 2:52:51 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

For crying out loud.


39 posted on 06/23/2022 3:03:23 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Odd place for an Oklahoma guy.


40 posted on 06/23/2022 3:06:55 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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