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In retrospect it is a lot easier to predict an invasion when you refuse to budge on anything of note and publicly state repeatedly you won't intervene militarily. One thing you can always count on from authoritarian regimes: they'll happily eat poo poo diplomatically over and over without ever trying to use force. After all their entire domestic position isn't tied into projecting strength. I can imagine Putin going on Russian TV to announce "sorry guys I tried" before he sends the troops home.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:35
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SorePotato posted:No loving way they reportedly just opened the portal again there's at least a lot of radiation captured in the upper layers of soil all around the reactor, which is trivially released into the air by tanks and dramatically increased air traffic, etc.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:35
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Feb 25, 2022 01:35
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Budzilla posted:Why would I be hopeful for war? You will need better bait than that. Cpt_Obvious posted:In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory, from a longer continuance of the war.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:36
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SorePotato posted:No loving way they reportedly just opened the portal again they’re going to prove to us all that they can stop the reaction by throwing more boron and sand on it.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:36
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Feb 25, 2022 01:37
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Feb 25, 2022 01:37
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TipTow posted:I dunno about Budzilla and yeah the American foreign policy apparatus is not to be trusted but the evidence for all this poo poo was plain to see for a couple weeks. The CIA didn't conjure hundreds of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's border. I don't think anyone here claimed they did. A lot of us thought the costs for Putin would be too high for him to follow through with an invasion. We were wrong on that. When organizations like the State Dept, CIA, DOD, etc have lied to the public so often and for so long, i think it's pretty understandable that a lot of us thought they were crying wolf again. In this one instance they weren't. Doesn't mean we were wrong to be skeptical of them in general.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:37
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https://twitter.com/kvnrogan/status/1496981318403387406
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Feb 25, 2022 01:37
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God I'd hate to be CaptainACAB. Imagine being Ma-Ti in this analogy.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:38
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TipTow posted:I dunno about Budzilla and yeah the American foreign policy apparatus is not to be trusted but the evidence for all this poo poo was plain to see for a couple weeks. The CIA didn't conjure hundreds of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's border. There were arms build ups before, this one was larger but that on its own isn’t enough. I would say Putin’s intentions were only clear later. Granted, I am not surprised the Russians would be willing to take losses for a political objective and I thought the mud thing was kind of dumb. I mean Ukraine isn’t just a giant mud pile or just a sheet of ice or whatever. It is more “is he going to pull the trigger or not” and the quality of US intelligence was generally very poor, so no one knew really what believe until he was about to pull the trigger. It was quite a bluff to be sure since it is kind of an insane conflict when you get down to it. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 01:46 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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Feb 25, 2022 01:38
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:If you're going to invade you may as well install a puppet The Russians didn't install a puppet government in Georgia after the 08 War. I don't see why they would do so here.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:38
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SorePotato posted:No loving way they reportedly just opened the portal again What is 'the portal'?
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Feb 25, 2022 01:38
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thank you working hard!!!
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Feb 25, 2022 01:38
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Feb 25, 2022 01:39
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Currrrrrrrrrrsed
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Feb 25, 2022 01:39
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:A militarized Taiwan is in a better position than Japan or Korea to threaten Chinese shipping lanes though. Taiwan is already militarized. They spend billions on defense and basically have the same missile porcupine strategy as Iran. In a general war with China they would absolutely wreak havoc on Chinese shipping because most of China's big ports are within range of Taiwanese missile batteries.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:39
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https://twitter.com/espn/status/1497003682516410379?s=20&t=r3LMf33hrEGU9D6SnkKHoQ
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Feb 25, 2022 01:40
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Majorian posted:God I'd hate to be CaptainACAB. Imagine being Ma-Ti in this analogy. gently caress I should have made him Gi.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:41
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Let him gloat, what else is the dog gonna do when it catches the car?
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Feb 25, 2022 01:42
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Feb 25, 2022 01:42
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PhilippAchtel posted:gently caress NATO
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Feb 25, 2022 01:42
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Majorian posted:I don't think anyone here claimed they did. A lot of us thought the costs for Putin would be too high for him to follow through with an invasion. We were wrong on that. Yeah, I expected NATO to at least push some heavy sanctions but leaving energy out seems pretty weak.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:42
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How hard would it be to actually gently caress up the sarcophagus in Chernobyl with munitions, it’s like a lot of concrete and steel right?
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Feb 25, 2022 01:42
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Feb 25, 2022 01:43
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lol absolutely cursed
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Feb 25, 2022 01:44
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TheMightyBoops posted:How hard would it be to actually gently caress up the sarcophagus in Chernobyl with munitions, it’s like a lot of concrete and steel right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
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Feb 25, 2022 01:44
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FuzzySlippers posted:Yeah, I expected NATO to at least push some heavy sanctions but leaving energy out seems pretty weak. Didn't the gas deal with the Germans fall through before the invasion start it? That feels like it could have caused a "gently caress it, nothing left to lose" calculation from Putin.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:45
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Zurtilik posted:Pretty sure multiple mods said NOT to do this. listens to mods, reported
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Feb 25, 2022 01:45
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TenementFunster posted:how's the invasion going tho A little too well imo
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Feb 25, 2022 01:45
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TheMightyBoops posted:How hard would it be to actually gently caress up the sarcophagus in Chernobyl with munitions, it’s like a lot of concrete and steel right? The first sarcophagus fell apart on its own. I don't think it would be that hard.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:46
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Kill All Cops posted:apparently thread bans arent a thing here 
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Feb 25, 2022 01:47
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all the other planeteers got to do stupid poo poo like spraying people with water and making the ground rumble so they trip while ma-ti got loving mind control I'll never understand all the hate for him
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Feb 25, 2022 01:47
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TipTow posted:So NATO is off-limits in the DnD thread (unless you're thirsting for their weapons) and if you say anything even remotely critical of Russia in here you get dogpiled by a bunch of tryhard doompilled retards There it is
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Feb 25, 2022 01:48
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OhFunny posted:The Russians didn't install a puppet government in Georgia after the 08 War. I don't see why they would do so here. Reportedly they wanted to get rid of Saakashvili, Lavrov even told Condi Rice that they wanted him gone in private but she immediately revealed it at the UN and they backed down from that demand
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Feb 25, 2022 01:48
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Majorian posted:I don't think anyone here claimed they did. A lot of us thought the costs for Putin would be too high for him to follow through with an invasion. In fairness we may still be tallying up the cost of this for twenty years. We're not even 24 hours into what could very well metastasize into a really awful chain of events. FuzzySlippers posted:Yeah, I expected NATO to at least push some heavy sanctions but leaving energy out seems pretty weak. My overall impression is that NATO is an apathetic observer to whatever happens to Ukraine.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:48
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post more twitter updates
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Justin Tyme posted:If it's true Russia has only committed a small portion of their mobilized forces at the border....... there is a small, and hilarious, possibility Ukraine can defeat them in detail lmao War, ouf, I dunno
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