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theghostpt posted:Nice spaceballs cosplay. The BBC News website reported at 11:05 that talks had started, take that for what you will.
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Just give the drones to all the Ukrainian gamers who got the Elden Ring launch ruined by the invasion.
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Antigravitas posted:Lmao, can't hold a candle to Tactical Baerbock STALKER / Mirror's Edge crossover looking sketchy
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FishMcCool posted:Just give the drones to all the Ukrainian gamers who got the Elden Ring launch ruined by the invasion. lol There would be desolation and charred bodies all the way to the Kremlin.
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I'd like to post here this fantastic 90's Italian commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3igoswexQ I should send it to the Ukrainian government, at least they'd have a chuckle.  "Mother Russia!" "What Russia? This is Ukraine""but Ukraine is Russia""Ukraine is Ukraine"Tafferling fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/AlbanianTimes/status/1497567066831790082 No idea if this has been already posted, but some wholesome content anyway
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The TASS Russian news website, before it was taken offline: Dear citizens. We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death. Putin makes us lie and puts us in danger. We were isolated from the whole world, they stopped buying oil and gas. In a few years we will live like in North Korea. What is it for us? To put Putin in the textbooks? This is not our war, let's stop it! This message will be deleted, and some of us will be fired or even jailed. But we can't take it anymore. Indifferent journalists of Russia.
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https://twitter.com/BarracudaVol1/status/1498253048526917634 Some more AA hopelessly stuck in mud it seems.
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Budzilla posted:Not verified. Also look at thread Drones are loving scary. As far as the invaders are concerned their poo poo just exploded without any warning. I don't know how you can stay in a war theatre with active enemy drones, you'd have the constant thought that one is up there somewhere with a lock on you... ready for a push of a button to annihilate you instantly.
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The E-3s orbiting over Poland must be very useful for Ukraine, but what about jamming? Is it an act of war for a few Growlers to send some loud photons?
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Charlotte Hornets posted:https://twitter.com/BarracudaVol1/status/1498253048526917634 Serves Russia right for invading Russia in winter.
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Shibawanko posted:selfish question: did russia or japan block eachothers airlines yet? my wife has to fly home, i already told her to consider rebooking through the middle east to avoid russia They have not, but I would have serious second thoughts about flying over Russia right now, and certainly not any flight path that put me anywhere close to Russia's western border. IMHO rebook with Qatar or Turkish, don't end up like those Ukrainians that the Iranians shot down a couple years ago.
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Ola posted:The E-3s orbiting over Poland must be very useful for Ukraine, but what about jamming? Is it an act of war for a few Growlers to send some loud photons? I don't really see how it could be argued as anything other than actively engaging in war. Also, 'growler' is a loving funny name for a plane considering what it's slang for.
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Xachariah posted:Drones are loving scary. As far as the invaders are concerned their poo poo just exploded without any warning. I don't know how you can stay in a war theatre with active enemy drones, you'd have the constant thought that one is up there somewhere with a lock on you... ready for a push of a button to annihilate you instantly. I don't know much about how they operate, I assume they must be a kilometer or so up so they can't be seen or heard. Are they too slow to effectively engage with cannon fire from fast jets? Presumably something that small gives off gently caress all radar reflection for targeting with radar guided missiles and the heat signature from a pissant little engine can't be easy for a heat seeking missle to aim at.
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A naive question, I'm sure, but: so it's obviously taken as given that direct NATO–Russian contact would be a disaster in terms of the violence unleashed. Yet, I find it almost absurd that both sides are comparatively more chilled about indirect violence – arming of intermediaries, intelligence sharing etc – when the outcome is essentially the same, if not on the same scale. It's like Russia can be all "the consequences will be apocalyptic if you get involved so don't you loving dare, but if you want to give some arms to these other guys to help them kill us... eh, if you must". And vice versa Is it just a weird 'loophole' in war diplomacy where everyone just pretends that 'this is fine' because the alternative would be much much worse? I appreciate that this is how 99% of the Cold War functioned too, but it just seems mildly bewildering that international relations can function in this way.
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Watched a clip of Putin giving a speech with his Generals and he said something like "And these sanctions, which everyone knows are illegal, are ..." and I thought how that sounded Trumpian. Is this the merdes touch again? Everyone who gets into business with Trump gets hosed eventually.
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Crossposting from the UK thread. Russia is specifically using Truss as an excuse to escalate nuclear tensions https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1497936839164010499
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Do not invade kievan rus
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FizFashizzle posted:Russia getting bodied on the social media front is especially confusing given that Putin and the global right/reactionaries absolutely understands the power of memes/social engagement. You cant really power through every single Ukrainian grandpa having a smartphone at ready
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Charlotte Hornets posted:https://twitter.com/BarracudaVol1/status/1498253048526917634 That's their latest and greatest AA too, what little post-cold war kit they have and meant to be good at taking down drones
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Pantsoff more like. Sorry, I can't sustain srsposting forever.
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I'll take it as a good sign the talks are taking this long.
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Can't wait for some Ukrainian farmer drinking his vodka potion to get max bravery level to get the tractor out his shed and tow the Pantsir away. Some NATO boys will be happy to buy it off of him for science.
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Charlotte Hornets posted:https://twitter.com/BarracudaVol1/status/1498253048526917634
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fuctifino posted:Crossposting from the UK thread. Russia is specifically using Truss as an excuse to escalate nuclear tensions Yeah this morning it sounded like Ben Wallace the defence secretary was doing the rounds denying half the things Liz Truss said yesterday. If anyone inadvertently starts a nuclear war here it will definitely be the UK.
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Dwesa posted:$15 million system defeated by mud tbf that's like 15 million rubles of mud
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Charlotte Hornets posted:https://twitter.com/BarracudaVol1/status/1498253048526917634 Russians, repeatedly saved from invasion by brutal winters, are now getting owned by an early spring.
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That mud has to be a huge help to the Ukrainians. Leaving Russian units unable to maneuver across open ground and confining them to the roads would neutralise some of the numerical advantage they have, and it must be making hunting easier for the drone operators if they only have to look up and down the main roads for targets.
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Lol that Putin delayed the invasion by two weeks to show up biden only to have his park freeze disappear as soon he sends tanks across the border
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Confirmation of civilian casualties in the recent bombardment of Kharkiv: https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1498266082536312839
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Answers Me posted:A naive question, I'm sure, but: so it's obviously taken as given that direct NATO–Russian contact would be a disaster in terms of the violence unleashed. Yet, I find it almost absurd that both sides are comparatively more chilled about indirect violence – arming of intermediaries, intelligence sharing etc – when the outcome is essentially the same, if not on the same scale. Check out the RAND report (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html) Geopolitical Cost-Imposing Options: Provide lethal aid to Ukraine Likelihood of Success in Extending Russia: MODERATE Benefits: HIGH Costs and Risks: HIGH
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If this conflict did go nuclear, what's the most likely way that would occur? Tactical strike in Ukraine? What would NATO's response be? We couldn't charge in, because that would get us nuked too, right? Just keep doing what we're doing? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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One thing that's surprised me so far is how quiet Joe Biden has been in all of this, you might have thought as "Leader of the free world" and America's major role in NATO that he would become the state figurehead in all this. But so far the EU, and in particular Ursula von der Leyen, seems to have been stealing all the limelight and be seen to be making all the big decisions. Dont get me wrong, I think that's a good thing, but I find it striking none the less. StarBegotten fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Answers Me posted:I'm fully aware that we're in 'It's too late for anything else' territory now, but 'what if our international empires and trading blocs were even bigger and more polarised' is only kicking the can down the road, and will likely lead to bigger catastrophes and/or a shitload of collateral damage in the meantime. People like to read this situation like it's a Cold War speed run but I'm picking up more 'eve of WW1' vibes in terms of imperial powers butting heads and getting themselves into messes that can't be cleaned up. wrong war; if you want the sanctions->war between global powers speedrun, the 1940 economic sanctions against Japan for its occupation of French Indochina is a better fit quote:But the ploy worked, and on Friday, July 25, FDR announced Executive Order No. 8832. The executive order, which came into effect the next day, froze Japanese-owned American dollars in their bank accounts and prevented the acquisition of more dollars. Great Britain and the Dutch Indies soon followed, further increasing Japan’s trade isolation. On Monday, July 28, when the bankers and traders returned to work, both countries saw immediate changes to their financial markets. International bank branches in both countries closed. Japanese silk futures were suspended, and stocks for firms producing rayon (a silk substitute) rose. Soon after the executive order was issued, negotiations between the two countries centered on thawing the financial freeze. The Department of State remained resolute in its enforcement of the freeze, restricting licenses for trade down to the bare legal essentials, such as allowing for the fulfillment of pre-freeze orders and granting Japanese ships dollars in order to return to their home country. Japanese officials and merchants pursued alternative schemes and loopholes to get around the sanctions, but none worked. Although Japan had stockpiled a significant amount of gold before 1941, it was not allowed to cash it in at the U.S. Treasury for dollars, and U.S. traders were prohibited from purchasing the gold because of the Trading with the Enemy Act. A swathe of similarities - retaliation against a widely denounced invasion amidst the widely-accepted incapacity of the nonetheless, to be clear, this is of limited relevance from a pre-nuclear world (and more importantly a pre-MFN world - economic sanctions were a lot deadlier before the global GATT system), but if insofar is one is searching for historic analogies, there it is ronya fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Grandmother told me how hellish it was to be even on the friendly side of Katyusha fire in Stalingrad, thank god she is not alive to see this.
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