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Tevery Best posted:Wait, you mean you don't? The extent to which I can possess national sympathies and antipathies is 90% correlated with my interest in local cuisine and Poland* is pretty milquetoast in that regard. The other 10% is cool looking military hardware. * Well, postwar Poland.
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Also, Poles live there, so that kinda sucks.
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Dragas posted:They were described in the first sentence of that paragraph, greens bad Greens are good! None of their members went public saying horrible things about the LGBT or were involved in ridiculous corruption scandals yet. Agreed about the social model, but from the discussions I've been to, apprenetly it worked pretty well for people employed by government agencies and universities and stuff. Fired for failling at your paper pusher job? Well have some money worth 6 months of wages lol
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Greens tend to be socially progressive, but even though I support Green politics many parties all around the world tend to have some idiotic policies as their keystones.
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There's also the article prohibiting striking, which is very ideologically odious but again, not like Lithuanians have a huge history of labour action.
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So... everything still hosed?
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Well I'm in sunny Ukraine right now but also really sick. I forgot what this place was like. Mama mia what a country
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Belgrada Pride passed without visible incidents. 7 guys were arrested on suspicion of planning to attack the participants, and a group of about 70 people lead by a couple of priests later followed the path of the parade "disinfecting" the streets with holy water, but that's about it.
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my dad posted:Belgrada Pride passed without visible incidents. 7 guys were arrested on suspicion of planning to attack the participants, and a group of about 70 people lead by a couple of priests later followed the path of the parade "disinfecting" the streets with holy water, but that's about it. How many people were there at the parade? Also lol at priests disinfecting the streets.
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Sep 20, 2015 17:29
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Haven't a clue about the total number, but a friend of mine participated and I'll ask her if I get the chance. Here's a pic from a web article about it: Here's a picture of the oldest participant:  Apparently, there was also a separate, Trans Pride parade held today.
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How close we came to Armageddon: Russian bombers began to arm nuclear bomb near UK airspace
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jaete posted:How close we came to Armageddon: Russian bombers began to arm nuclear bomb near UK airspace That is a ridiculous story photo, what is that, some sort of tabloid?
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I'm not doubting the Russians pulling stunts but Sunday Express is a poo poo tier newspaper.
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Stunts and drills are par for the course in a cold war, I agree. That article still looks like it should involve bat boy piloting the plane.
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Killer-of-Lawyers posted:That is a ridiculous story photo, what is that, some sort of tabloid? It's a competitor to the Daily Mail whose cover boasts that it's 10p cheaper than its rival. Specialises in stories about how the EU is destroying Britain and were the only paper to openly support UKIP in the last election. Looking around their site you can also find huge piles of nonsense reported with complete seriousness like this thing: http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/606441/alien-map-location-drawn-found-extra-terretrial-life
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Yeah the source and the article aren't the most reputable. At the same time it wouldn't surprise me at all if it were true that the Russians are actively drilling for nuclear warfare. Actually it's a relief that the paper is shittier than I though heh, hopefully that means this news is also made up
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Russian aircraft over northern Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JYEmXJ60Yc
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Even if true it's non news. Welcome to nuclear politics, I hope you enjoyed the break this past 20 years. Edit: The nukes, not the Russians in Syria. Killer-of-Lawyers fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sep 20, 2015 22:36
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Meanwhile, in Crimea, Tatars have blockaded the road from the mainland into Crimea. They're stopping food and supplies deliveries from Ukraine into Crimea. http://uatoday.tv/politics/happening-now-crimean-tatars-blockade-crossing-to-russian-occupied-crimea-497002.html quote:Happening Now: Crimean Tatars blockade crossing to Russian-occupied Crimea (updates) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TfLYYNEsUU http://uatoday.tv/news/tatars-threaten-civil-blockade-of-crimea-in-response-to-russian-occupation-489931.html quote:Crimean leader Refat Chubarov makes five demands of Moscow This could get interesting.
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This is a very creative use of the available leverage- I'm not sure who the intended audience is, though. Which parties to this conflict find the Tatars sympathetic, such that their blockage of aid won't vilify them in the occupied territory?
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Im sorry Im actually surprised, why has Ukraine not already blockaded the Crimea?
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Gaj posted:Im sorry Im actually surprised, why has Ukraine not already blockaded the Crimea? I'm always morbidly fascinated by questions like this. Why do you think Ukraine should embargo its own citizens? What do you think that would achieve? Also, what do you think Russia, Ukraine's largest trade partner and energy supplier, will think about such an embargo?
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I'm not particularly concerned about what Russia thinks, but starving their own people is something Ukraine rightfully shouldn't be doing. In other news, there's a new red flag over Czech presidential palace:  Zoom in!  Those red underpants are protest by a group called Ztohoven (Hundredshits) criticizing the president for being too cozy with China and Russia. Also implying that security at the compound is poo poo.
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sparatuvs posted:Russian aircraft over northern Syria Needs some BUKs.
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Gaj posted:Im sorry Im actually surprised, why has Ukraine not already blockaded the Crimea? As far as I know they cut off the water supply already last year. And I guess that bridge to/from Kerch won't be ready for a long time. e: also Ukraine closed it's airspace to Russian airlines.
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Crimea is the only russian "province" who is allowed to import certain otherwise banned ukranian food produces, as Russia are having problem delivering enough to them since, surprise, goods used to be delivered through the Ukranian infrastructure. Putin should have waited a few years for the new bridge to be completed before attacking.
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waitwhatno posted:I'm always morbidly fascinated by questions like this. I remember the argument about the citizens when it first happened, some people were even denouncing the Ukrainian government for not providing services and aid to the eastern provinces controlled by Russian proxies. A trade partner isnt so much a trade partner when they finance and organize a massive destabilization of a nieghbor.
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Discendo Vox posted:This is a very creative use of the available leverage- I'm not sure who the intended audience is, though. Which parties to this conflict find the Tatars sympathetic, such that their blockage of aid won't vilify them in the occupied territory? Alongside that, how sympathetic are the wider Tatar community going to be given that the group protesting are blocking supply access to their own home and effectively sanctioning themselves?
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm not particularly concerned about what Russia thinks, but starving their own people is something Ukraine rightfully shouldn't be doing. This is cute I'll be there in a few days sad I missed it. Is there a cultural significance to the pants ?
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Rincewinds posted:Crimea is the only russian "province" who is allowed to import certain otherwise banned ukranian food produces, as Russia are having problem delivering enough to them since, surprise, goods used to be delivered through the Ukranian infrastructure. Putin should have waited a few years for the new bridge to be completed before attacking. I've read that the Azov sea is very violent and all the previous bridges built there were destroyed in the first winter. Dunno how true that is but Putin's buds who were offered to build the bridge were very reluctant to do it according to the press.
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That's a nice bridge they're building. It would be a shame if something happened to it!Baronjutter posted:This is cute I'll be there in a few days sad I missed it. Is there a cultural significance to the pants ? If it helps, I'm here and didn't seen this either because I haven't been in that area in years. Don't think there's much special significance, just general embarrassment from everyone seeing your underwear maybe.
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Somaen posted:I've read that the Azov sea is very violent and all the previous bridges built there were destroyed in the first winter. Dunno how true that is but Putin's buds who were offered to build the bridge were very reluctant to do it according to the press. The first modern bridge attempt was partially constructed by the Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union. It was never finished because the Nazis got crushed by the Red Army, the parts built were bombed, and the Nazis sabotaged the remaining parts as they retreated. Then in summer 1944, Soviet troops rebuilt and completed the bridge the Nazis had sabotaged when partially complete, but that one did not last the winter due to ice - however it had been built with leftover Nazi materials that had been sitting out from 1943, and it had been done in a hurry, so it wasn't exactly well engineered/planned. Ever since 1944, plans for bridges don't get far enough to be destroyed by the weather, they all fall through. The fact that hastily built war time bridge couldn't hold up really says nothing about what could be done without war restrictions and with modern engineering assistance.
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cloudchamber posted:Alongside that, how sympathetic are the wider Tatar community going to be given that the group protesting are blocking supply access to their own home and effectively sanctioning themselves? I got the impression that they effectively lost their homes because of widespread persecutions and are quite pissed about it.
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https://www.facebook.com/hrvatskauzivo/videos/1681172175452813/ :baww: I haven't contributed much personally but I'm proud.
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Doctor Malaver posted:https://www.facebook.com/hrvatskauzivo/videos/1681172175452813/ awww  good on you guys! : )
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Gantolandon posted:I got the impression that they effectively lost their homes because of widespread persecutions and are quite pissed about it. That's true, but there's apparently a portion of the community which remains on the peninsula and are more ambivalent about the order post-annexation: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/crimean-tatars-divided-between-russian-and-ukrainian-promises
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cloudchamber posted:That's true, but there's apparently a portion of the community which remains on the peninsula and are more ambivalent about the order post-annexation: The sad fact is that a bunch of people who lost their homes because of foreign occupation won't really care about their compatriots collaborating with the new government. If you support, even by inaction, a group of people who violently displaced and persecuted another one, you can't really expect loyalty and compassion from the latter. Gantolandon fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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 Really a substantial amount of hardware, pretty undeniable. I wonder if these will be piloted by "volunteers". ass struggle fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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quote:"I am sorry to see that Croatian humanity and solidarity lasted just two days," Serbia's Social Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin said after Croatia closed all but one border crossing. He warned that Serbia will take the issue to the international courts. 
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