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Since Turkey's economy is crashing, is Putin eyeing an opportunity to seize Turkish lands for Armenia?
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Grouchio posted:Since Turkey's economy is crashing, is Putin eyeing an opportunity to seize Turkish lands for Armenia? and start ww3 over armenia? No. There is already a low boil war with people being killed every week between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Putin wants to keep good terms with both.
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Aug 10, 2018 20:31
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Grouchio posted:Since Turkey's economy is crashing, is Putin eyeing an opportunity to seize Turkish lands for Armenia? That's an incredibly stupid question. No.
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Aug 10, 2018 21:49
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BattleMaster posted:Why is "Wagner" in quotes? I thought that's what they called themselves.
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Aug 14, 2018 07:34
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45194333 SPACE WAR
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Aug 15, 2018 22:39
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https://vilniusgspot.com/ It's up, and it's honestly pretty great.
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Aug 16, 2018 03:25
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Vilnius, the city that asks, "Is there ever too much tongue?"
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Aug 17, 2018 00:06
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new DIY drone bombing footage from ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3Vf-E9FBA
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HorrificExistence posted:new DIY drone bombing footage from ukraine Is it dropping hand grenades? I can't tell what's going on
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Aug 20, 2018 12:58
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I think when IS did this in Iraq they dropped mortar rounds that they tampered with somehow because usually they only are supposed to explode after having been fired. Also do not just let autoplay do its thing for that video bc next thing I knew I was watching someone bleed out next to a BTR
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Aug 20, 2018 15:39
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Quite a few of the ones used by ISIS were modified grenade launcher grenades, or built from scratch.
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Aug 22, 2018 18:07
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Russians test new nuclear powered cruise missile with 'unlimited range', crashes after 22 miles: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/russian-missile-with-unlimited-range-crashed-after-only-22-miles.html
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Aug 24, 2018 07:07
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Nenonen posted:Russians test new nuclear powered cruise missile with 'unlimited range', crashes after 22 miles: every test failed apperently https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-seems-have-lost-ultimate-doomsday-weapon-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile-29632
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Aug 25, 2018 21:15
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Aug 26, 2018 20:11
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Putin trying to influence MEPs?
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Aug 26, 2018 20:16
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Additional detail from the Argentinian embassy coke case: they had what looks like the star of the armed forces printed on them source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-argentina-cocaine-smuggling-operation-plane-air-drugs-embassy-a8231406.html  (Source: https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2014/06/19_a_6078177.shtml)
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Aug 26, 2018 21:02
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why the hell would you do that?
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Aug 26, 2018 21:03
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cocaine-is-a-helluva-drug.gif?
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Aug 26, 2018 21:05
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Rinkles posted:why the hell would you do that? Brand awareness?
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Aug 26, 2018 21:27
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Rinkles posted:why the hell would you do that? The Russian mafia state and Putin's inner circle have been involved in trafficking SOuth American cocaine through St Petersburg since the 1990s. It's one of the revelations that Litvinenko got poisoned for (https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/alexander-litvinenko-inquiry-ex-kgb-spy-killed-after-exposing-putin-allys-crime-links-1489177) These are just their little signs of appreciation and inner jokes they have developed among themselves in their long and productive relationship, there's probably a lot of birthday card/call exchanges going on too. They were using diplomatic immunity for decades for this poo poo to run under the radar Somaen fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Aug 26, 2018 21:44
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cinci zoo sniper posted:What's the "Remember the recent incident with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office?" reference? After the Salisbury attack, the Foreign Office tweeted: "Analysis by world-leading experts at Defence Science and Technology laboratory at Porton Down made clear that this was a military grade nerve agent produced in Russia.” They later took down the tweet, saying “One of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report our ambassador’s words. We have removed this tweet.”
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Aug 27, 2018 04:53
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Rinkles posted:why the hell would you do that?
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Aug 27, 2018 14:45
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The Economist has apparently hired Joy Reid to analyze ex-Yu linguistic issues: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/08/25/classifying-languages-is-about-politics-as-much-as-linguistics
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Aug 28, 2018 13:43
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The Economist posted:But Croatians and Slovenes can largely understand each other’s languages. This being the case, why are they considered two distinct languages at all? Because "largely" isn't enough. If you understand 70% of what someone is saying, it means that you don't understand 30%, which is a lot. That's why younger Croatians and Slovenes speak English to each other. The question would be valid for Croatians and Serbians, though.
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Aug 29, 2018 10:35
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I understand serbian/croatian fine myself, but I can't speak/write it worth poo poo, and the other side often doesn't understand slovene so yeah, often I have to default to english.Doctor Malaver posted:The question would be valid for Croatians and Serbians, though. Just don't let any croats hear that lmao
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Aug 29, 2018 10:50
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TheWeepingHorse posted:The Economist has apparently hired Joy Reid to analyze ex-Yu linguistic issues: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/08/25/classifying-languages-is-about-politics-as-much-as-linguistics quote:The usual criterion for what is a separate language, and not a mere dialect, is that speakers of two languages should find it difficult or impossible to understand each other. But factors that have nothing to do with language often supersede the linguistic ones. No, it isn't. At least not in the linguistic community. The line between a pidgin, a creole, a dialect, and a language is often blurry, but mutual intelligibility is never even the most important factor when discussing the issue.
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Aug 29, 2018 11:24
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lol I can't see that article because of paywall, what clown wrote that? There's *far* more difference between the official language and some dialects than there is between the official slovene and croatian, but they're still counted as slovene by any scholar, simply because grammar is closer to slovene than other languages 
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Aug 29, 2018 12:52
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I don't think anyone quoting 'an army and navy' in 2018 has anything useful to say about languages.
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Aug 29, 2018 14:11
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Shy posted:I don't think anyone quoting 'an army and navy' in 2018 has anything useful to say about languages. It's why Austrian isn't a language though.
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Aug 29, 2018 15:07
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And why American is.
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Aug 29, 2018 15:08
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fishmech posted:It's why Austrian isn't a language though. Somehow Luxemburgian is a thing, though. Perhaps, you can substitute shell corporations for a navy, it is not too different from piracy, after all.
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Aug 29, 2018 16:44
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/vladimir-putin-russia-pension-reforms-retirement Maybe this is the thing that could do Putin in? Hard to see people being able to stomach austerity for olds in a country that's become infamous for obligarch luxury.
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Aug 29, 2018 16:47
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mila kunis posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/vladimir-putin-russia-pension-reforms-retirement Putin does a good job of distancing himself from unpopular decisions. I don't think this will affect his support significantly, unfortunately. The 'good Czar, bad boyars' mindset is really strong.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:00
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Brown Moses posted:The Russian Foreign Spokesperson responded to Suck-My-Balls-Gate: You cad, you.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:05
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fishmech posted:It's why Austrian isn't a language though. You'd really have to go all in with the postfactuality to say Austrian is a language when all three groups of Bavarian not only exist in both Bavaria and Austria, and are also split from north to south with absolutely no respect to the border whatsoever
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Aug 29, 2018 20:34
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Paladinus posted:Putin does a good job of distancing himself from unpopular decisions. I don't think this will affect his support significantly, unfortunately. The 'good Czar, bad boyars' mindset is really strong. It's also difficult to overstate the effects of complete state control of media. Imagine a country where the only channels are Fox, and you're 60% of the way there.
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Aug 29, 2018 20:51
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Crazy. I can't imagine living in a country where the vast majority of the media toes the same line on major issues.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's also difficult to overstate the effects of complete state control of media. Imagine a country where the only channels are Fox, and you're 60% of the way there. Yeah, 60% and not 100% because they have different flavors of Fox News targeted for different audiences.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's also difficult to overstate the effects of complete state control of media. Imagine a country where the only channels are Fox, and you're 60% of the way there. Now in democracy you also get the the "we support the same things as Fox, but we disagree with the way they talk about them" opinion!
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