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Rust Martialis posted:Yes you predicted it over and over, wrongly, for years. They were right when it counted and mattered. Besides, Russia has been invading Ukraine for eight years already. If they were saying it years ago then they're still not exactly wrong.
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May 18, 2022 21:58
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Russia will nuke Sweden if it joins NATO. stop shitposting, thanks also goes for other posters
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Phlegmish posted:I do wonder to which extent his previous appearance was orchestrated as well. Surely they must have known about his views before they invited him to the show, so did they purposefully allow him to say what he said, the gist of which they could have easily anticipated? I have no idea why they would do this, but I also don't know why they would host a reasonable-seeming known dissenter otherwise.
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mobby_6kl posted:Is this now an Indian vs Pakistan proxy war? loving lmao. Even if true, probably not. First off, it's a random rich dude not the Pakistani government. Second, even if Ukraine loses it doesn't materially hurt Pakistan or help India, while throwing in with Russia definitely could create some lasting problems for India. India is going to sit on the fence for this one, as is the Pakistani government. I could definitely see Pakistanis being sensitive about "SPHERES OF POWER" and the neighborhood fascist power invading and genociding their smaller neighbors, though, given their proximity to both India and China. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 22:32 on May 18, 2022 |
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Discendo Vox posted:And another: It's nice to know that other countries have a shitpost-to-head-of-state pipeline.
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Risky Bisquick posted:I'm not aware of where the 300 number came from, anyone else with other sources?
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1527034138972372993?s=20&t=spKmX8wR1sDE470MpQqd-w I'm pretty sure every NATO country is just taking this chance in the spotlight to air out their grievances before the US gives them all stern looks and a cookie to get back in line. The issues all seem so petty compared to the peer land war in Europe
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1527034138972372993?s=20&t=spKmX8wR1sDE470MpQqd-w Isn't this just Milanovic doing Milanovic things with no political mandate whatsoever? Because it seems awfully familiar, fairly sure he's said this before and been rebuked.
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Orthanc6 posted:I'm pretty sure every NATO country is just taking this chance in the spotlight to air out their grievances before the US gives them all stern looks and a cookie to get back in line. The issues all seem so petty compared to the peer land war in Europe Turkey is important enough from the bosphorus, Middle East Central Asia force protection/relations and having an actual army instead of just being completely under the French/British/American umbrella that they might actually get what they want. Especially since it wouldn’t be that politically difficult for Finland or Sweden to throw the Kurds under the bus. loving lol that Croatia thinks they’re important enough to demand another country get a completely new constitution
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Inepta Lacerta posted:Isn't this just Milanovic doing Milanovic things with no political mandate whatsoever? Because it seems awfully familiar, fairly sure he's said this before and been rebuked. It is, he doesn't have the power to actually stop it or order the permanent representative to do it.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1527002958596124674?s=20&t=spKmX8wR1sDE470MpQqd-w In any event, once an embassy is "abandoned", it will take quite some time and expense to recertify for the typical suite of classified communications that State uses so a USMC presence is not justified. Also, their presence is always a joint agreement between USMC and State, and one of the partners, hopefully both, wisely wishes to avoid any headlines involving US military personnel, so good on them preempting that kind of bullshit. (I had the same job Vilerat did, and got out some time ago).
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Risky Bisquick posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to single you out, but Hospitallers generally became just a volunteer EMS brigade, with guns, now afaik. If anyone has sources otherwise I'd like to know because I sometimes donate money to them. It would be good to know in advance before I end up funding ultra nationalists Well, Dmytro Yarosh is a ultra nationalist, he ran on a unity list with Svoboda, Right Sector and National Corps in the 2019 parliamentary election: https://m.glavcom.ua/country/politics/yarosh-tyagnibok-bileckiy-taki-sformuvali-jediniy-spisok-na-vibori-600508.html And he promoted the founder of the Hospitallers, Yana Zinkevych to deputy commander of the UVA. https://bigkyiv.com.ua/nardepka-yana-zinkevych-stala-zastupnykom-komanduvacha-uda/ So guilt by association? Maybe, it seems Ukrainians value NGO's over the state and the various volunteer battalions got a lot of clout from fighting in the Donbass. People might just join them because they see them doing something not for their ideology, which the Hospitallers funding pages are silent on. Ultimately it's something you have to decide for yourself preferably after finding some Ukrainians who could share their views. Kallikaa fucked around with this message at 23:29 on May 18, 2022 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:loving lol that Croatia thinks they’re important enough to demand another country get a completely new constitution Any organizations that require ALL members to agree on something before anything happens are dumb and unscalable by design. They work fine when it's a group of 5 friends doing stuff together, but when it gets to 15+ members it's a degenerate blackmail mill, with random nobodies who joined recently demanding payments, or else they grind everything to a halt. NATO should have always been 3/4th vote required for new members.
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Rad Russian posted:Any organizations that require ALL members to agree on something before anything happens are dumb and unscalable by design. They work fine when it's a group of 5 friends doing stuff together, but when it gets to 15+ members it's a degenerate blackmail mill, with random nobodies who joined recently demanding payments, or else they grind everything to a halt. NATO should have always been 3/4th vote required for new members. I would agree in general but 3/4 vote for new members doesn't really work in the context of a defensive military alliance.
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WarpedLichen posted:I would agree in general but 3/4 vote for new members doesn't really work in the context of a defensive military alliance. It would be as existing members are always allowed to leave prior to new members being ratified. Croatia is free to leave the alliance if they don't want to defend Finland.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:loving lol that Croatia thinks they’re important enough to demand another country get a completely new constitution They're not wrong that now, when the US really wants something from an organization that requires unanimous consent, is the only time they'll ever really have serious leverage over America. I don't personally expect it to be enough leverage, but it's a high-water mark on their chances for sure.
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Rad Russian posted:They work fine when it's a group of 5 friends doing stuff together Your point is well taken, but even in a small group of reasonably like-minded people you occasionally need to tell someone, "well, tough poo poo, four of us want this and you ain't standing in the way."
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As someone mentioned on a previous page, Turkey will get help to curb hyperinflation and their economic crisis which benefits Erdogan's stranglehold on power. Though there's no predicting how emboldened Erdogan might be now. https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1527054605007331329?s=20&t=8uRjICwkDfMMIi0WJrKB6Q
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Nenonen posted:Ah yes, the navy's land force's air defense branch. And yet people are claiming Russia is incapable of mastering combined arms operations
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Shes Not Impressed posted:As someone mentioned on a previous page, Turkey will get help to curb hyperinflation and their economic crisis which benefits Erdogan's stranglehold on power. Though there's no predicting how emboldened Erdogan might be now. The only solution to hyperinflation is rational economic policy, which is a bit of a user problem for Turkey. A US aid package won't solve the issue, its almost by definition a problem you can't spend yourself out of.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:As someone mentioned on a previous page, Turkey will get help to curb hyperinflation and their economic crisis which benefits Erdogan's stranglehold on power. Though there's no predicting how emboldened Erdogan might be now. i mean yeah, i think the war probably hits a slow state mostly centered around Donbass until the Russian army slowly cracks and America/west pumps money in.
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Paladinus posted:Kasparov definitely knows a thing or two about alternate history. There are so many conspiracy theories that make me just go...why? Who will possibly get anything out of this? What ideological goal or purpose is possibly being gained out of espousing this line if thinking? Like at least Hollow Earth theory or QAnon are exciting and weird and let you attack your enemies as blood-drinking underworld pedophiles "actually all of antiquity happened in middle ages" is just...what? DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 00:37 on May 19, 2022 |
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DarkCrawler posted:There are so many conspiracy theories that make me just go...why? Who will possibly get anything out of this? What ideological goal or purpose is possibly being gained out of espousing this line if thinking? Like at least Hollow Earth theory or QAnon are exciting and weird and let you attack your enemies as blood-drinking underworld pedophiles "actually all of antiquity happened in middle ages" is just...what? Some people just desperately need to be different and be the fringe iconoclast who know the real truth. It's not that bad to always have a few crazies going against the status quo of any field, sometimes they're right or bring up new ideas that lead to good thing. Stuff like plate tectonics was regarded as a totally insane fringe crackpot theory. But of course for every "maybe plate tectonics?" there's 1,000 "what if hollow earth reptoids??" so I don't know if the progress is worth it actually.
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DarkCrawler posted:There are so many conspiracy theories that make me just go...why? Who will possibly get anything out of this? What ideological goal or purpose is possibly being gained out of espousing this line if thinking? Like at least Hollow Earth theory or QAnon are exciting and weird and let you attack your enemies as blood-drinking underworld pedophiles "actually all of antiquity happened in middle ages" is just...what? With regards to the New Chronology at least, the claim there is "ACTUALLY the world used to be dominated by a Russian-based superempire until it collapse and its enemies in the West rewrote history entirely to make themselves look good and to write out the glory of ancient/medieval Russia, and because it actually happened relatively recently that means we're actually not far removed from the days when Russia dominated all of Eurasia!" It seemed like a silly nationalist wacky belief when I first heard about it. It's rather less zany-sounding now.
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Tomn posted:With regards to the New Chronology at least, the claim there is "ACTUALLY the world used to be dominated by a Russian-based superempire until it collapse and its enemies in the West rewrote history entirely to make themselves look good and to write out the glory of ancient/medieval Russia, and because it actually happened relatively recently that means we're actually not far removed from the days when Russia dominated all of Eurasia!" This seems to be common for so so many countries. From Korea to Hungary to Albania, just about every culture has some fringe group that believes with absolute certainty that their people once dominated the whole earth or were some great empire that put Rome to shame, or actually they invented everything and all culture flowed from them. It's way more common in countries with huge chips on their shoulder though.
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So why did Putin decide to invade Ukraine during the Biden administration? Well, according to a former National Security Council advisor, because he got sick of explaining geopolitical issues to Trump and thought it would be easier to negotiate with someone who knew basic poo poo about the world.quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin often became frustrated with President Donald Trump over his lack of knowledge on geopolitical issues, Fiona Hill said, adding that this played into Moscow's decision on the timing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Not sure how true this is, but it does make for a funny headline.
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DarkCrawler posted:There are so many conspiracy theories that make me just go...why? Who will possibly get anything out of this? What ideological goal or purpose is possibly being gained out of espousing this line if thinking? Like at least Hollow Earth theory or QAnon are exciting and weird and let you attack your enemies as blood-drinking underworld pedophiles "actually all of antiquity happened in middle ages" is just...what? If you read his writing about it its clear he just thinks he's much smarter than every historian. Literally "The Romans produced a lot of Iron, how could they do that before blast furnaces, invented in the 15th century?" Or my favorite, "roman soldiers could not have marched 20 miles in 6 hours without Schwarzenegger like bodies"
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Wildeyes posted:So why did Putin decide to invade Ukraine during the Biden administration? Well, according to a former National Security Council advisor, because he got sick of explaining geopolitical issues to Trump and thought it would be easier to negotiate with someone who knew basic poo poo about the world. i wouldn't be fully shocked if that's partly true. i think while Putin views trump as useful idiot who helps smash down a rivals government/society through stupid insane bullshit but trump is unreliable as gently caress, like he could go along with it and smile vagantly as Ukraine dies or he could over react the other way and drop a nuke on moscow.
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Morrow posted:The only solution to hyperinflation is rational economic policy, which is a bit of a user problem for Turkey. A US aid package won't solve the issue, its almost by definition a problem you can't spend yourself out of. I'm pretty sure that Erdogan believes that 0% central bank interests are the only solution to inflation as an article of faith. Whereas even the hardline clerics of Iran went "Turns out the Qu'ran doesn't say anything about high-complexity international finance", Erdogan appears to think any interest rate is literally Satan.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Russia will nuke Sweden if it joins NATO. Is anyone sure Russia even has functional nukes at this point given how bad everything else has gone?
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aphid_licker posted:Popasna push looks like it could become A Problem. What I'm finding odd is that when I look on FIRMS there's hardly anything around Popasna/that side of the front. Tons around Izyum, a lot up north/east of Kharkiv, but relatively low frequency/density around Popasna in the last few days/week I wonder if both sides have lower artillery density around there due to the fight closer to Izyum? I dunno
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is anyone sure Russia even has functional nukes at this point given how bad everything else has gone? It’s best to assume they all work, otherwise you get into Clancy chat like first strike which is pants on head stupid.
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