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It's amazing how many tinpot government step on the fuel subsidies rakes. IMO it's a good thing to do but you'd think by now they'd realize that the changes have to be phases in gradually and not doubling prices overnight.Dwesa posted:That escalated quickly.
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Jan 5, 2022 11:47
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RaffyTaffy posted:https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1478666771863375872 That's a lot of gunfire in that third video.
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Jan 5, 2022 11:52
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aphid_licker posted:Color revolution, time to start up the tonks It depends. Color revolution might not be anti-Russian. See armenia for example.
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Jan 5, 2022 11:52
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What’s that Mad Max SUV-powered portable wall rig?
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Jan 5, 2022 11:54
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How does a petrostate run out of fuel subsidies anyway. Just dig more of it out of the ground.
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Jan 5, 2022 12:05
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The russosphere is doing great lately (or ever)
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Jan 5, 2022 12:14
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cinci zoo sniper posted:What’s that Mad Max SUV-powered portable wall rig? A bunch of these have been coming out lately, p ominous https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/news/a27989/kalashnikov-shchit-shield-anti-riot-vehicle/ E: this was just the first link I found, not meaning to imply that this is an EE only development
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Jan 5, 2022 12:19
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aphid_licker posted:A bunch of these have been coming out lately, p ominous Oh, those I’ve seen plenty. The SUV thing on video is much smaller and looks like something you could weld with pals over a weekend, for a laugh.
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Jan 5, 2022 12:25
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https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1478694849440358400?s=20
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Jan 5, 2022 13:00
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Quite a difference to the months long hundred thousand strong protests in Belarus https://mobile.twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1478698552834637825 No anarchists what are you doing https://mobile.twitter.com/taxfreelt/status/1478698330150612997
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Jan 5, 2022 13:15
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Gotta say, I like their style: https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1478656252670578688
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Jan 5, 2022 14:12
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President’s residence appears to have fallen. Edit: https://twitter.com/_ZhN_/status/1478678087852122114 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Jan 5, 2022 14:21
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How dare the CIA act against the will of the people of Kazakhstan like this
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Jan 5, 2022 14:30
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steinrokkan posted:How dare the CIA act against the will of the people of Kazakhstan like this I have seen this take twice or thrice today, without a hint of irony. NATO has failed to destabilise noble Belarus, and has moved on to try to destabilise a different brotherly nation.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:32
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I have seen this take twice or thrice today, without a hint of irony. NATO has failed to destabilise noble Belarus, and has moved on to try to destabilise a different brotherly nation. 
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Jan 5, 2022 14:38
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cinci zoo sniper posted:President’s residence appears to have fallen. But are there any leaders at this point? I've seen like ten different lists of demands.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:46
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Paladinus posted:But are there any leaders at this point? I've seen like ten different lists of demands. Not that I know of. How different have been the lists which you've seen?
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Jan 5, 2022 14:48
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FishBulbia posted:It depends. Color revolution might not be anti-Russian. See armenia for example. These "protesters" could be the Russian agents, now that I think about it 
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Jan 5, 2022 15:05
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mobby_6kl posted:These "protesters" could be the Russian agents, now that I think about it You joke but there was a bit of concern that Putin would use Belarus unrest to make a move and install someone more consistently loyal than Lukashenko. Just because these old autocrats have lasting relationships with Putin doesn't mean he couldn't benefit from their removal.
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Jan 5, 2022 15:08
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mobby_6kl posted:These "protesters" could be the Russian agents, now that I think about it What if they are double agents working for both Russia and CIA? Mossad triple agents even? Triple pay!
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Jan 5, 2022 15:28
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Not that I know of. How different have been the lists which you've seen? Some focused on purely economical issues, some demanded transfer of power to Tokaev, some demanded Tokaev to resign, some want free local elections. Nexta even posted a list that included Ukrainian style decommunisation, which is weird because Kazakhstan is not big on the great Soviet past to begin with.
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Jan 5, 2022 15:46
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cinci zoo sniper posted:President’s residence appears to have fallen. Tokayev in fake mustache and hawaiian shirt: Hello fellow citizens!
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Jan 5, 2022 17:01
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Paladinus posted:Some focused on purely economical issues, some demanded transfer of power to Tokaev, some demanded Tokaev to resign, some want free local elections. Nexta even posted a list that included Ukrainian style decommunisation, which is weird because Kazakhstan is not big on the great Soviet past to begin with. Okay that’s really all over the place.
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Jan 5, 2022 17:03
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Okay that’s really all over the place. I mean for mass protests that's not particular rare. Often easy to get just a whole lot of people who know the current situation is failing, but far, far harder to get them to agree on what exactly to do about it outside of a broad "change the current system."
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Jan 5, 2022 17:10
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https://twitter.com/liveuamap/status/1478761460415270923?s=21 https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1478760857077268486?s=20
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Goddamn that was fast. Feels like it was just this morning that I read about some riots over there ... which it was. No wonder Putin is so paranoid about any kind of protest movement.
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Jan 5, 2022 17:29
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This is what distracts Putin long enough from committing to a Ukrainian invasion. My two cents.
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Jan 5, 2022 17:38
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FishBulbia posted:You joke but there was a bit of concern that Putin would use Belarus unrest to make a move and install someone more consistently loyal than Lukashenko. Just because these old autocrats have lasting relationships with Putin doesn't mean he couldn't benefit from their removal. Yeah I mean that's not even much of a joke, they could either want what the protestors want, or to use it as an excuse: 
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Jan 5, 2022 17:46
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Holy poo poo guys Russia distracted us with Ukraine so they could secure northern Kazakhstan. Which will be called...
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Jan 5, 2022 17:49
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Holy poo poo guys Russia distracted us with Ukraine so they could secure northern Kazakhstan. Which will be called... East Ossetia
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Jan 5, 2022 17:53
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Whorelord posted:East Ossetia Baja Omsk
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Sorry to get your hopes up, but Putin thinks this is fine:quote:Russia has said that Kazakhstan could solve its own problems and it was important that no one interfered from the outside. Kazakhstan had not requested Russian help to deal with protests, triggered by a fuel price increase, that prompted the resignation of its government, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said on Wednesday.
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Has the FSB party plane landed in Astana yet?
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Mokotow posted:Has the FSB party plane landed in Astana yet? I’ve only seen some evidence of a flock of business jets leaving it yesterday. Also, that’s Nur-Sultan for you!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/mighty_shield/status/1478788599273435145 I won't turn this into my twitter timeline but this is too good
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Has arstotzka setup barricaded to protect it from kazak loyalists yet
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh, those I’ve seen plenty. The SUV thing on video is much smaller and looks like something you could weld with pals over a weekend, for a laugh. You could do worse if what you needed was a mobile barricade. The British made successful use of armored Land Rover trucks modified like how you describe. The idea is that a mobile barricade doesn't trap the police behind cover. This should make it far easier to retreat or disengage, while giving them a big enough vehicle to remove obstacles on the advance. Also, they make a larger target than a line of people. That works going both directions. Like with all crowd control tools theory falls apart fairly quickly, absent strict discipline and forward deployed command elements. Give these things to a group with no intention of using them correctly and they may as well have APCs. This highlights a longstanding problem in international arms control: police equipment is generally far less regulated than out-and-out military equipment, regardless of their similarity. In places with a wavy line, or no line at all, between the military and police they may as well be the same thing. Witness the overnight creation of "anti-terrorism" police units across the world. These units have broad authority in acquisition of foreign arms, vehicles, and training, sometimes being better equipped and trained than the military. They get caught but only after using their new, shiny toys to crack heads on video. The only thing that seems to slow this down is government condemnation of the companies who sell this stuff. US and Russian companies are nearly exempt from that constraint. Even the Euros (Belgium, France, and Germany) resist reigning in their arms manufacturers. Speaking of APCs... I have seen video of attemped ramming of civilian barricades by Kazakh BTR-70/80s. Don't know who was operating them (mil or police), but they got lit the gently caress up with molotovs. Like, kill the motor, hit the extinquishers, and hope you can sit it out, lit up.
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https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1478798827775741957 *taps forehead* Russia can't invade if we invite their troops in first not sure if it was mentioned here yet, but Tokayev (apparently unilaterally?) just kicked Nazarbayev out of his lifetime seat on the security council, nbd
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1478798827775741957 No one hasn’t, that’s actually massive news. Now this looks like Tokayev taking over - kick Nazarbayev out, invite Russian spooks to clear house of his loyalists, and have some civic activism leaders trip over a glass table while playing Skyrim VR.
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