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You might think you can keep up with eastern Europeans when it comes to liquor. You'd be wrong, though.
Getting drunk in Eastern Europe is just acclimating to the culture, but the classified documents thing is just unforgivable.
I mean, look. Who among us, am I right?
Incident happened two years ago in March of 2024.
Why even have the maps with you when you’re going out drinking?
Edit: the reason he got hammered was because he was stuck in a six hour long military dinner event lol.
As for why he had the maps, despite us all reading the summary the same way, the “and” in “lost maps on train and got concussion after drinking” is actually being used to delineate two entirely unrelated events
They were two separate incidents.
Thanks, yeah the whole introduction of the article is quite misleading
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I suggest you read the article before commenting.
If I were a US General right now, I'd want to drink myself to death too.
There are better alternatives
Edit: I forget if there is an original source somewhere. But this version literally removes the joke by replacing "educated" with "brainwashed" with a bad dub. The joke was him saying "Educate Me? Americas son? THAT will be a challenge". I guess the ultimate irony is that they needed to remove the education line and replace it with "brainwashed" for Americans.
If the US was a person.
Alternate title: "Handoff of classified documents comes with free drinks."
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