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https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/german-insurance-company-says-nord-stream-2-c-1474902.htmlquote:MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd February, 2022) German insurance company Munich Re said on Wednesday that the contract for Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project was canceled, Bloomberg reported.
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Feb 23, 2022 11:52
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Could be a wild weekend.
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Feb 23, 2022 11:57
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well yea, elden ring is out on the 25th
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Feb 23, 2022 11:58
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John Charity Spring posted:the biggest reason not to is a hostile population making occupation hell yeah honestly I don’t think the ukranians genuinely have it in them to successfully wage a long term insurgency because not only do they not have a political ideology strong enough to sustain the sacrifices the way Islamists or tribal folk tend to have it’s also, let’s be real, going to be suicidal to go up against an army that has genuine experience and success in putting down popular uprisings to keep minoritarian genocidal dictators in power. i got bad news to the ukranians, if Russia and it’s Allies can get away with sarin gassing thousands of people in Syria to put down a city, they can absolutely get away with it in Ukraine.
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Feb 23, 2022 12:01
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crepeface posted:well yea, elden ring is out on the 25th gonna be Wilding out this Thursday/Friday
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Feb 23, 2022 12:02
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Al-Saqr posted:gonna be Wilding out this Thursday/Friday Elden Ring, Cyberpunk next-gen patch, Horizon Forbidden West... lots to play!
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Feb 23, 2022 12:05
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John Charity Spring posted:the biggest reason not to is a hostile population making occupation hell Like I can tell you right now if Germany invaded the UK I would not be out there with a pipe bomb sacrificing everything to track a Leopard, all I'd be doing is trying to make sure my family was as safe as possible in the new system. It's wrong to ask any more than that of civilians.
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Feb 23, 2022 12:49
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Glimm posted:i think what the US is doing is probably the best approach they can Oh, what a loving surprise
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Feb 23, 2022 12:53
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it doesn't seem to be much of a moral impulse, it seems to be more of a strategic prediction if you invade place, people will resist invasion. that's very inconvenient to deal with. if you're going to invade place, you have to be prepared for people resisting. that can be difficult, as seen in e.g. afghanistan, and the russians have shown little appetite for this kind of scenario in recent history
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Feb 23, 2022 12:54
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Flayer posted:I hate this take because you're basically demanding that the Ukrainian people sacrifice their lives, the lives of friends and loved ones, all personal hopes for the future, just to satisfy foreign commentators desire to see the Russian military suffer some extra losses to annoy Putin. I'm not asking it of Ukrainians, not in the slightest. I'm saying that I can't see why the Russian army - from their perspective alone - would want to occupy the country for no reason other. Ukraine isn't Afghanistan but there has to be institutional memory in the Russian army of what happens when they try to occupy/pacify a country that has diehards in it being supported by western arms and money, not to mention direct examples of the US attempting this in Iraq and Afghanistan Version 2 as well in recent years. Plus the western security services have been open about training and arming stay-behind groups in Ukraine. Not to mention that a full occupation of Ukraine would mean that there's no longer any buffer between Russia and NATO members, which is the whole reason they've been trying to stop NATO's eastward expansion. I don't see why they'd want to occupy Ukraine at all. Even in a scenario where the population is as placid as can be (as, I agree, I would also be if the UK was invaded or whatever), it'd still be a headache for nowhere near enough gain to justify it.
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Feb 23, 2022 12:56
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crepeface posted:huh, the actual contract has been cancelled? if true, it sounds a bit more serious than the previous scholz statement. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-munich-re-nord-stream-2-idUSKBN2AN18M the *insurance* contract got pulled lmao
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Feb 23, 2022 12:57
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Truga posted:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-munich-re-nord-stream-2-idUSKBN2AN18M Yeah Nordstream 2 has been “killed” a couple hundred times at this point.
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Feb 23, 2022 12:59
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:A friend on Discord found that board game in the OP of a thread on custom Risk maps, so the tweet is probably fake, unfortunately. I really wanted to believe in a Russian dad saying a homebrew Risk board was an Orthodox Splitter conspiracy. No, I remember RISK boards looking like that too, though I didn't at the time think there was anything weird about it
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Feb 23, 2022 12:59
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Glimm posted:maybe that'd be good Stamping your feet and refusing to give other people what they want only leads to war, a war you are only too happy for other people to fight and die in because you're too dumb to recognize that you'd probably die in this one too. This is the way 30 years of hegemony have warped your mind. What do you think diplomacy is, anyway?
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Feb 23, 2022 13:04
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https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1496424596400009217?s=20&t=nxxFhkPTH3gvk8QBF3YVgg All cats are meme but China has the memest cat
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Feb 23, 2022 13:05
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Wait is the insurance contract for Germany or Russia? Because if it's for the former or both couldn't that make them not want to pull out?
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Feb 23, 2022 13:05
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DiscountDildos posted:https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1496424596400009217?s=20&t=nxxFhkPTH3gvk8QBF3YVgg thank you, China
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Feb 23, 2022 13:09
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crepeface posted:lol it really is a parade of a new idiot into this thread every six hours or so folks i am proposing a total and complete shutdown of posters from others threads until we can figure out whats going on
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Feb 23, 2022 13:11
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thechosenone posted:Wait is the insurance contract for Germany or Russia? Because if it's for the former or both couldn't that make them not want to pull out? Germany cancelled the insurance contract to send a message to Russia, but it doesn’t mean the pipeline is actually dead. ————- Russia doesn’t have an issue with staging forces versus NATO (it is already happening in Kaliningrad), the issue is allowing NATO to push itself East closer to Moscow and putting Russia in a more awkward strategic position. Also, the partisan thing sounds like a bluff, not only would it destabilize Ukraine but it would directly affect all the EU countries on its borders and height the possibility of a general European War. There is a reason why The European powers wanted the Balkan Wars clearly settled.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:13
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Death By The Blues posted:Seems like the day is starting with some spicy news: wow, no way this could backfire in a country with already-established neonazi militias
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Feb 23, 2022 13:21
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fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1496330986388443137?s=20&t=O7sKt9-b2FuvEcFUC7nChQ None of these dipshits care about Ukraine at all. This whole bowl of poo poo has been people living in a loving dream world about conflicts from 40 years ago (or 80 for the Azov types), and yet they feel the justification to be smug and indignant about it.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:22
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Al-Saqr posted:next time Hamas parades kids in military uniforms and the libs get horrified let’s just bookmark these last few days shall we, it’s an amazing contrast. I'd be curious if they think the situations in Yemen, Syria, occupied Palestine and global sanctions throughout the world count as an aggressive US action.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:America doesn't like wars, which is why it conducts wars, but with drones America loves war as long as it's politically cost-free. We can't get enough of that flavor of war. We want to kiss cost-free war on the lips and introduce it to our mother. The idea of losing thousands of people a day to a grinding peer-to-peer conflict and risk actually losing? No fuckin' way. That doesn't make us even remotely unique throughout history, it's just that ascribing it to a sense of morality or uprightness is laughable.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:33
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So does this end any other way than NATO giving up on ever giving Ukraine membership and Putin pulling back? I'd guess that he'd like to go all the way to Kiev, but Ukraine ain't Georgia and that'd be a pretty big bite for the Russian Army (which sucks poo poo).
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Feb 23, 2022 13:38
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Glimm posted:yeah i think killing people and claiming their lands is bad Brave pro landlord posting here.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:38
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https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1496399293124599808?t=ESHdzeAksbKlO2enzM32SQ&s=19
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Feb 23, 2022 13:46
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1496399293124599808?t=ESHdzeAksbKlO2enzM32SQ&s=19 oh word?
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Feb 23, 2022 13:56
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1496399293124599808?t=ESHdzeAksbKlO2enzM32SQ&s=19 Imagine the babysoft brain you would need to have to be surprised by this.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:58
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Glimm posted:yeah i think killing people and claiming their lands is bad so get out of America, settler scum
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Feb 23, 2022 13:59
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Zeroisanumber posted:So does this end any other way than NATO giving up on ever giving Ukraine membership and Putin pulling back? Economically the West could shatter Russia and grind their army out of existence that way but it would take a few years to bankrupt them and that's disregarding wildcards like India, China, Brazil and Iran who well might continue providing markets for Russia.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:01
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1496399293124599808?t=ESHdzeAksbKlO2enzM32SQ&s=19 good
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Feb 23, 2022 14:05
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i love oil
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Feb 23, 2022 14:05
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Flayer posted:. ...can they?
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Feb 23, 2022 14:06
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The west couldn't even "grind down" Cuba into oblivion.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:07
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the west would grind themselves down
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Feb 23, 2022 14:07
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Flayer posted:The Russian military sucks poo poo compared to the US military, as does every other military. Take the US out of the equation however and the Russian army is absolutely the worst army to be going up against in a land war. If Russia is hell-bent on taking Kiev whatever the cost it would be fairly quickly achieved. The US wont send troops into Ukraine if Russia is doing a full blown invasion my man, its not a matter of who's army has the biggest dick. And the US and its allies could "shatter china economically" as well if they all got together and decided to constantly hit their dicks with a hammer for a decade. Its not something thats feasible when they are so integrated into the world economy.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:08
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"we are grinding you down," says a frozen icicle with scholz's voice
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Feb 23, 2022 14:09
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The US wont send troops into Ukraine if Russia is doing a full blown invasion my man, its not a matter of who's army has the biggest dick.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:13
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Glimm posted:they've been there the entire time dumbass So nothing has changed? Edit: Wait, I'm hours late.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:14
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Kill All Cops posted:its almost as if having a gvmt that incompetent so that china could be the saviour was the plan all along god, the ukraine crisis really is bringing all the nimrods back to this thread
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