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Lichtenstein
May 31, 2012

It'll make sense, eventually.

Doctor Malaver posted:

It's a montage of characters and scenes from the Polish politics on some Japanese anime music and with words in Japanese characters. So it doesn't make sense if you are neither Polish nor Japanese.

To dispel some of the confusion, it's the opening to a fairly popular amine about good peeps entrenching in their cities against some amine monsters that want to eat them because evil.

[edit] :thejoke: about plucky little Poland besieged by Jews and vegans.

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Gantolandon
Aug 19, 2012

While wandering through Polish political movies on YouTube, I delved too deep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuYXZSW6rE.

Lichtenstein
May 31, 2012

It'll make sense, eventually.

Gantolandon posted:

While wandering through Polish political movies on YouTube, I delved too deep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuYXZSW6rE.

I'll one up you with an unironic one, sir. Nah, there's actually two of them.

A Pale Horse
Jul 29, 2007

Mercy! No more, please.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
I kind of wish someone would update the OP for current events.

Plan Z
May 6, 2012

-Troika- posted:

The Russian military-industrial complex today seems focused mostly around creating fancy toys that they can't actually afford to use and that no one wants to buy.

It's seemed mostly inert to me. I haven't seen anything particular interesting come out of their MIC. Even the Armata just seems like a typical modern tank, but with a weird gimmick. Don't get me wrong, the stuff they made in the '70s through '90s or so is still very strong design-wise, but their military and procurement seems a mess since the breakup.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Plan Z posted:

It's seemed mostly inert to me. I haven't seen anything particular interesting come out of their MIC. Even the Armata just seems like a typical modern tank, but with a weird gimmick. Don't get me wrong, the stuff they made in the '70s through '90s or so is still very strong design-wise, but their military and procurement seems a mess since the breakup.

The Armata came out a generation too late. If it came out in the early 2000s when they were pushing the Black Eagle and the T-95 prototypes, it probably would have been worth something.

The only recent military stuff that's come out of Russia has been their small arms, but even then, the AK-12 is just another Kalashnikov outside of some ergonomic updates and the addition of the counter-balancing piston, and even that's trumped by the AEK-971. The only real game changer has been the 12.7x55mm assault rifles and that's really a niche market for close-range sharpshooter support and better suppressed ballistics. Meanwhile, American gunsmiths would approach that same problem by cutting down the barrel on a Barrett rifle and make a sound suppressor that makes even a big loving .50 caliber round sound like a hush puppy from a Hollywood film, all of which would be cheaper and more readily accessible than a new gun in a new cartridge.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Yeah but just wait for the stealth supersonic double-decker strategic transport, they're gonna have 200 of them before 2020, you'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9IF6A7ZK0

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

Cat Mattress posted:

Yeah but just wait for the stealth supersonic double-decker strategic transport, they're gonna have 200 of them before 2020, you'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9IF6A7ZK0
Christ, it looks like it was designed by Apple.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Cat Mattress posted:

Yeah but just wait for the stealth supersonic double-decker strategic transport, they're gonna have 200 of them before 2020, you'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9IF6A7ZK0

This is a thing that's going to happen.

Bates
Jun 15, 2006

Friendly Humour posted:

This is a thing that's going to happen.

For their space program they are also developing super-heavy lift, will build their own space station after the ISS and will land on the Moon. Russia is pretty cool.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Anosmoman posted:

For their space program they are also developing super-heavy lift, will build their own space station after the ISS and will land on the Moon. Russia is pretty cool.

Yeah! Russia! Go!

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
at last it will confirmed whether moon bourgeois cheese, or yummy potato

special tactics
Oct 13, 2015

Anosmoman posted:

For their space program they are also developing super-heavy lift, will build their own space station after the ISS and will land on the Moon. Russia is pretty cool.

It will be funny

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

special tactics posted:

It will be funny

And if they go back to the good old Soviet-strategy to brute forcing results with bad tech, it will be both funny and sad. (On account of the many, many crashing/exploding rockets/planes.)

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

-Troika- posted:

I kind of wish someone would update the OP for current events.

I have a little more free time now and I've been meaning to do that.

A Pale Horse
Jul 29, 2007

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

I have a little more free time now and I've been meaning to do that.

We're almost at 750 pages, its probably time for a new thread tbh.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
please include a pro-putin section to piss off lucy heart fil a

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

Libluini posted:

And if they go back to the good old Soviet-strategy to brute forcing results with bad tech, it will be both funny and sad. (On account of the many, many crashing/exploding rockets/planes.)
The Soviet research strategy is "do nothing then submit a report that says you were successful".

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Feb 22, 2016

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


Baloogan posted:

please include a pro-putin section to piss off lucy heart fil a

I'm always pissed off though.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Libluini posted:

And if they go back to the good old Soviet-strategy to brute forcing results with bad tech, it will be both funny and sad. (On account of the many, many crashing/exploding rockets/planes.)

Hopefully Putin will attend an ill-fated demonstration and end up like Nedillian.

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002

Anosmoman posted:

For their space program they are also developing super-heavy lift, will build their own space station after the ISS and will land on the Moon. Russia is pretty cool.

If I had a dollar for every news story, where Russia is totally going to develop/produce/implement X...

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Nitrox posted:

If I had a dollar for every news story, where Russia is totally going to develop/produce/implement X...

For your incredulity you'll be destroyed by the mighty Russian truck-container-drone-howitzer thing, totally coming soon to a military near you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp7mM2TP_1A

Martin BadClixx
Jul 14, 2012

dada stijl

:cumpolice:

anilEhilated posted:

The Soviet research strategy is "do nothing then submit a report that says you were successful".

Dont forget espionage.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

steinrokkan posted:

For your incredulity you'll be destroyed by the mighty Russian truck-container-drone-howitzer thing, totally coming soon to a military near you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp7mM2TP_1A
Given what a huge and slow target that would be, I can only assume it's actually designed as a suppression unit for use against civilian crowds.

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi
Happy second birthday, Ukrainian revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsbMLSw_6s

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Given what a huge and slow target that would be, I can only assume it's actually designed as a suppression unit for use against civilian crowds.
Duh. When has Russia last attacked someone capable of fighting back?

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

anilEhilated posted:

Duh. When has Russia last attacked someone capable of fighting back?
June, 1941.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


uhm... he said "has", not "was"

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

oh my god i thought that video had reached peak ridiculousness and then i saw the carrier.

this is amazing.

Maybe this company sells safe rooms in the side. "is YOUR $10 million villa safe from DRONESSASSINS?"

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

double nine posted:

uhm... he said "has", not "was"

Exactly :can:

Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT

anilEhilated posted:

Duh. When has Russia last attacked someone capable of fighting back?

November 30, 1939

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx

Anosmoman posted:

For their space program they are also developing super-heavy lift, will build their own space station after the ISS and will land on the Moon. Russia is pretty cool.





What could possibly go wrong?

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

anilEhilated posted:

Duh. When has Russia last attacked someone capable of fighting back?

When has anyone? Let's be honest here, has there ever been a war where the party starting it didn't think they'd win quickly and easily? Usually things don't go as planned, but not even insane people go into a war knowing it'll take a long time.

If anything, it just shows Russia stepped up their intelligence game a bit since the Afghanistan camping trip :v:

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

crabcakes66 posted:

What could possibly go wrong?

Move over, bears- Bubsy for Russia's new mascot.

:siren:don't watch that- it's the most painful video in existence:siren:

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Discendo Vox posted:

Move over, bears- Bubsy for Russia's new mascot.

:siren:don't watch that- it's the most painful video in existence:siren:

why does the armadillo sound like he is a gimp orgasming.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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crabcakes66 posted:



What could possibly go wrong?

lol 4 years ago people legitimately thought that Russia was going to create a space program on par with the USA's via petro money

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

why does the armadillo sound like he is a gimp orgasming.

It's a bad attempt at a neurotic jewish stereotype. I hope you're happy to have learned this.

jonnypeh
Nov 5, 2006
Three arrested in estonia with espionage charges. Coincidentally, few days ago Russia arrested an Estonian businessman with espionage charges.
edit: apparently they were arrested early last year, the last one was convicted by the end of the last week.


In other news, one absolutely unbiased journalist wrote something in new york observer about the baltic states: http://observer.com/2016/02/estonia-wants-more-nato-troops-but-only-if-they-arent-black/

quote:

...In 2015, during the Independence Day parade, while African-American troops wearing NATO uniforms marched on the main street of Estonia’s capital, local racists shouted all kinds of racial slurs, including, “Go back to your grandparents in Nigeria!”...

Not only is Narva not the capital of Estonia, 99% of it's residents are Russian and even then I only saw the joyous crowds. Well there we go, propaganda at it's finest.

jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Feb 23, 2016

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OhYeah
Jan 20, 2007

1. Currently the most prevalent form of decision-making in the western world

2. While you are correct in saying that the society owns

3. You have not for a second demonstrated here why

4. I love the way that you equate "state" with "bureaucracy". Is that how you really feel about the state

jonnypeh posted:

Three arrested in estonia with espionage charges. Coincidentally, few days ago Russia arrested an Estonian businessman with espionage charges.
edit: apparently they were arrested early last year, the last one was convicted by the end of the last week.


In other news, one absolutely unbiased journalist wrote something in new york observer about the baltic states: http://observer.com/2016/02/estonia-wants-more-nato-troops-but-only-if-they-arent-black/


Not only is Narva not the capital of Estonia, 99% of it's residents are Russian and even then I only saw the joyous crowds. Well there we go, propaganda at it's finest.

:ughh:

I don't even... what the gently caress.

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