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EvilHawk posted:Where are you seeing that? There was some chat yesterday about what Turkey could and couldn't do according to a treaty I've forgotten the name of, but I haven't seen anything since. Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits
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Orban announced Hungary is not giving weapons to Ukraine, because he is worried the weapons could be used against the ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine.
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in terms of more recent freezes, Myanmar's reserves at the Fed were frozen in March last year and Afghanistan in August, although neither are in an (active) international war context
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KitConstantine posted:They've been members of Kadyrov's personal army, not just regular Chechen units. I've been referring to the groups of Chechens who've been involved as 'Kadyrov's men' rather than just 'Chechen units' for this reason. IIRC most of the time when the Ukrainians are referring to them, they call them "Kadyrovites" rather than the more general Chechens used by Western media. For what it's worth, I can easily imagine they have better cohesion and are more experienced than what seems to be the case for the regular Russian soldiers we've, I also think it's pretty obvious that their strength as it were is not in conventional assaults against prepared positions, but rather in "pacification".
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: The goober on Twitter is going to look mighty stupid when Putin uses nuclear weapons. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dapper_Swindler posted:isn't cuba have mostly fine trade with alot of south/central America and Europe/etc. like its not great at all but i assume most of the stuff was US based. Cuba is fine to trade with pretty much anyone who isn't the US.
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Fame Douglas posted:Cuba isn't cut off from most of the world, just the US. There's trade with Europe, and you can buy Cuban goods (Havana Club, the real one, primarily) in pretty much every European supermarket. When I moved to Europe I bought some Cuban rum on an online delivery service, accidentally used my US paypal account, and literally got an email yelling at me for trying to violate the embargo. Kind of insane. Biden hasn't drone striked me yet, but I did need to call the liquor store and arrange alternate payment
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:you're overthinking it imo. putin wants kharkiv or kyiv captured by today. kharkiv is the weaker target. failure means sugoy is fired or should be scared of balconies. therefore take kharkiv at all costs./ Unless something has significantly changed on the ground, I don’t believe the RAIN can achieve either no matter how many bodies and thermoberic they throw at it.
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StarBegotten posted: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. It’s a deliberate strategy to rebuild relations after trump to let the Europeans take the lead and America not hog the spotlight.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:43
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Not wildly dissimilar to the sanctions the US and Europeans imposed on Japan, but those were instituted more gradually over the course of several years. Japan and (West) Germany are a little different in that their governments were set up to be able to work with the US, though both had reason to choose a working relationship with the US over the USSR. Both ended up becoming staunch allies, and have numerous US bases to this day (and I lived on one in Okinawa!). Edit: Oh, I see, you're talking about the sanctions pre-US entry. Red fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:isn't cuba have mostly fine trade with alot of south/central America and Europe/etc. like its not great at all but i assume most of the stuff was US based. Ah, that's true - I'm still stuck in the "US closed you off, which means the world" thinking we've been pumped with forever.
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Interesting, apparently there is talk to connect Ukraine to the European electricity grid. (CW: German) https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticke...mnetz-verbinden Machine translation: The European Commission is planning to connect Ukraine's electricity grid to the continental European grid. EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson discussed the proposal with the European Network Operators Association ENTSO-E, as she announced on Twitter. The project was also to be discussed at the crisis meeting of EU energy ministers in the afternoon.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:46
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Mr. Apollo posted:Yeah, he's older, fatter, and has a ton of botox, filler, and plastic surgery. Also his COVID quarantine doesn't seem to have treated him well. He's probably spent the last couple of years in his empty palace watching satellite tv. Give it a few more years and his transformation to Donald Trump will be complete.
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I hear a good deal of hem-hawing about Nazis in this war, and why you should support one horse over another because fascists, but for the life of me I thought that literally both the Russians and the Ukrainians had their own contingents of fascists and thus neither side was particularly clean on that front. Is there a nice primer on Ukraine and Russia's fascist problems somewhere? I'd rather be informed before I go scream at more leftists to stop clutching their pearls for justification to support an expansionist war.
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Ola posted:It's just smack talk. "Deadline is Feb 31st". Deadline is February 31st. Is this a weird Russian calendar thing or is this guy just an idiot?
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: I preferred it when Tom Clany still published his fiction as novels.
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Fame Douglas posted:I preferred it when Tom Clany still published his fiction as novels. It's far too long to be a Clancy novel.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:49
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Antigravitas posted:Interesting, apparently there is talk to connect Ukraine to the European electricity grid. This February, a five day disconnection from the Russian power grid was planned to test the stability of the Ukrainian power grid standalone, to prepare for connection to the European grid. This has been planned for a long time. I assume due to the war, plans are getting accelerated now.
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Fame Douglas posted:I preferred it when Tom Clany still published his fiction as novels. The fact that reading that will require me to parse an arbitrary number of 233 character posts in a system designed for making quick quippy advertisements is a loving travesty of the modern age. Ban Twitter Forever.
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: I also fear that the situation could be significantly more serious than the triumphant posts on social media let on. Based exactly on how uncharacteristically direct the European response has been.
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: I think I agree with most if not everything stated there, unfortunately  I'd brace for another 2008-style global economic crisis, and it's going to get worse the longer this loving shitshow lingers on.3D Megadoodoo posted:The goober on Twitter is going to look mighty stupid when Putin uses nuclear weapons. Can we please put a temporary ban on the words "nuclear weapons" in this thread or something
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Warmachine posted:I hear a good deal of hem-hawing about Nazis in this war, and why you should support one horse over another because fascists, but for the life of me I thought that literally both the Russians and the Ukrainians had their own contingents of fascists and thus neither side was particularly clean on that front. pretty much every eastern european country has a number of far right militias yes. Its hosed up but I would argue they do not represent Ukraine, a democratic country with a jewish president.
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a podcast for cats posted:I also fear that the situation could be significantly more serious than the triumphant posts on social media let on. Based exactly on how uncharacteristically direct the European response has been. It is; the majority of the Ukrainian standing army is about to be encircled and trapped in the east. They don't seem to have been moving around much, so all the disadvantages experienced by the Russian forces (rasputitsa, exposed travelling along roads, logistics overextension) will start hitting them, and it's probably going to be a far greater problem for them.
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nurmie posted:Can we please put a temporary ban on the words "nuclear weapons" in this thread or something yes please
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Do flight bans amount to anything more than an inconvenience when you can fly from Moscow to say, Dubai and then anywhere you want? Or is more to do with messing with trade shipping routes
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ZombieLenin posted:Deadline is February 31st. Is this a weird Russian calendar thing or is this guy just an idiot? I think it's a joke. Just read the individual points.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:yes please Agree with this. If somebody wants to start WW3 ClancyChat The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play: The Thread, I'd probably participate. Otherwise it'll just derail this one every time it comes up.
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steinrokkan posted:I think it's a joke. Just read the individual points. Yeah, I did find myself thinking “I find it highly doubtful any member of the UK government has assets in banks located in Chechnya.”
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like I'm sure there's some value for people to discuss Russia's nuclear use doctrine and its applicability in this situation somewhere on the forums, but what people here are doing is masturbatory doomposting and it's loving annoying
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: Bleak thread, but also kind of what I expect to be honest.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:like I'm sure there's some value for people to discuss Russia's nuclear use doctrine and its applicability in this situation somewhere on the forums, but what people here are doing is masturbatory doomposting and it's loving annoying Agreed. It is fear mongering at this point to wax on about crazy Vlad Putin and his scheme to delete the world (and Russia) in the process.
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nurmie posted:It is; the majority of the Ukrainian standing army is about to be encircled and trapped in the east. They don't seem to have been moving around much, so all the disadvantages experienced by the Russian forces (rasputitsa, exposed travelling along roads, logistics overextension) will start hitting them, and it's probably going to be a far greater problem for them. We have absolutely no idea where the Ukrainian standing army currently is, and for good reason. There's currently no reason to expect that they've all just been stood on the border with Donbas/Luhansk watching the Russians slowly encircle them.
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Alchenar posted:This is a really long thread but I think unfortunately has it right: genuine questions I have with this forecast: - does Russia have enough boots on the ground to shut down not only every highway but every country and farm road? That is, is encirclement and blockade really on the table? Does Russia want to blockade the eastern cities and towns rather than encouraging people to flee? - a active-duty serviceman puts on a t-shirt and jeans, gets in their civvie car, and joins the very normal flow of people fleeing to Lviv; does anyone really stop them even if they drive past a Russian infantry carrier in open daylight? It's not like the UA really suffers ditching their materiel as long as more mysteriously appears in Lviv - conversely, food and ammunition travelling the other way, not necessarily to the cities but to backcountry towns and villages?
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steinrokkan posted:I think it's a joke. Just read the individual points. It might be a joke but he is right about the tea and should say it
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Finnish support for NATO membership has exceeded 50% according to a fresh poll. This is the first time in history we are seeing numbers anything like this.
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EvilHawk posted:We have absolutely no idea where the Ukrainian standing army currently is, and for good reason. Correct; and the vast majority of the UA’s mechanized forces are being held in reserve and have not even been engaged yet.
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EvilHawk posted:There's currently no reason to expect that they've all just been stood on the border with Donbas/Luhansk watching the Russians slowly encircle them. Haven't there been quite a lot of reports of very heavy fighting in the area? ZombieLenin posted:Correct; and the vast majority of the UA’s mechanized forces are being held in reserve and have not even been engaged yet. Source?
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ZombieLenin posted:Yeah, I did find myself thinking “I find it highly doubtful any member of the UK government has assets in banks located in Chechnya.” Tbh that's the most plausible part of the whole thing imo, but overall yeah it's very lolpenguin random meme energy for a brutal warlord
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ronya posted:Does Russia want to blockade the eastern cities and towns rather than encouraging people to flee? There was a press release earlier today I think where they said any civilian who wanted to flee Kyiv would be allowed to do so. I assume they are going to offer the same to other cities.
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