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What's the point of this ridiculous posturing? Do people think Russia is actually serious
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ik note: i'll kill on sight for any ww3 drivel in reply to this 
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Feb 27, 2022 22:53
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Willo567 posted:What's the point of this ridiculous posturing? Do people think Russia is actually serious That's what people were saying a week ago, to be fair
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Feb 27, 2022 22:53
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I want to believe this is real. https://twitter.com/QuarantinedCoof/status/1498047484538638337
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Man Plan Canal posted:I don't mean to pull rank, but I've polled about 700,000 respondents since the beginning of the last US election cycle. This is my professional capacity speaking. An N of far less than 2000 would be fine to saturate their target cells given their described sample frame, and given a 91-6 split on the parameter of interest, the classical MOE is all but irrelevant anyway, a minuscule sample would be fine. It was a selection issue joke my dude
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Willo567 posted:What's the point of this ridiculous posturing? Do people think Russia is actually serious The Russian armies been hyped up as Uber technological, advanced, heavily reformed and modernized and then they’ve embarrassed themselves p thoroughly here with their lack of planning. They have to remind everyone they still have big boy weapons since to keep people from completely losing fear
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Willo567 posted:What's the point of this ridiculous posturing? Do people think Russia is actually serious This is a notoriously unhinged anchor. If I were to draw a line from, like, Anderson Cooper to Tucker Carlson - this guy relative to Carlson is what Carlson is relative to Cooper.
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Looking back but it seems like maybe Russia trying to hold onto its sphere of influence in the aftermath of the cold war was a huge mistake. If they hadn't attempted to take Crimea and instead negotiated with the more liberal government in good faith (afterall the Sevastopol naval base wasn't under any kind of immediate threat of being repatriated back to Ukraine); they could've made partnerships with Ukraine to improve their military modernization with access to skilled Ukrainian firms. If they had instead focused on improving their quality of life, fighting corruption, and improving their economy; and treated the FSU states with respect; they wouldn't be in this position and could've been improving and developing peacefully.
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It's also not beyond possibility that in whatever drug induced stupor Putin woke up from in whatever his Oligarchic equivalent of the Führerbunker is when he made the decision to do this stupid poo poo in the first place he also may have just "forgot" NATO has nukes too.
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Willo567 posted:What's the point of this ridiculous posturing? Do people think Russia is actually serious Russia needs their Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.
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Feb 27, 2022 22:55
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I want to believe this is real. The article is real, the tweet summary is not
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FishBulbia posted:https://twitter.com/liz_cookman/status/1498005055613685762?s=20&t=0oH4Ws0TjKye0Qe5PytVow Yeh, they saw through a lot of poo poo in 2014. And they have nearby reinforcements from JFO area.
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Feb 27, 2022 22:56
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Dante posted:It was a selection issue joke my dude I mean, duh, but I responded to say "actually this seems like a pretty decent poll provided they actually did it as described"
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Feb 27, 2022 22:56
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https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1498028744807694338?t=XfZWH4jbm0zZh9AXfQS0bg&s=19 I don't know the guy but he raises a good point. Has Russia not discovered the concept of driving at a slight distance?
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Feb 27, 2022 22:57
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The EU should be training Ukrainian refugees to fly helis Nd operate vehicles and have them drive en back into Ukraine. Hopefully the Chechens get railed in their collective asses from the ukranians. We need to trap the wehrmact in the hills of Kyiv and win a decisive victory. Let's push the SS all the way back to... Moscow?
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FishBulbia posted:https://twitter.com/liz_cookman/status/1498005055613685762?s=20&t=0oH4Ws0TjKye0Qe5PytVow Yeah no cities are gonna surrender at this point. Have fun in hell, zinkie boys.
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Warad posted:It's also not beyond possibility that in whatever drug induced stupor Putin woke up from in whatever his Oligarchic equivalent of the Führerbunker is when he made the decision to do this stupid poo poo in the first place he also may have just "forgot" NATO has nukes too. It's also believing your own hype that you have the biggest baddest most invincible army on the planet and weak Ukrainians and ESPECIALLY weak westerns would never fight us because they're scared of us. The mentioning of nukes here is because he thinks NATO and the US will back down because we are strong and tough and they are weak and wimpy.
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Feb 27, 2022 22:58
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This is a notoriously unhinged anchor. If I were to draw a line from, like, Anderson Cooper to Tucker Carlson - this guy relative to Carlson is what Carlson is relative to Cooper. What's his name? I'm assuming he said similar unhinged poo poo in the past
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Feb 27, 2022 22:59
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GABA ghoul posted:https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1498028744807694338?t=XfZWH4jbm0zZh9AXfQS0bg&s=19 Well Ukraine is a notoriously small country
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GABA ghoul posted:https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1498028744807694338?t=XfZWH4jbm0zZh9AXfQS0bg&s=19 On the other hand, how loving long is a convoy going to be if you do that?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:As I thought I am not terribly surprised, like I was saying earlier it’s a matter of pilots more than aircraft; and there is nothing seeing like a nuclear armed fascist state and a resurgent NATO to change your priorities about where that old Soviet tech can go if it’s useful. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:As I thought That's basically it as far as Mig-29s in the EU go. Some have Mig-21s but not sure what those could do even if a Mig-29 pilot could fly one... there's some Hinds as well but Ukraine doesn't seem in the market for helos.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Hopefully the Chechens get railed in their collective asses from the ukranians. More precisely Kadyrov's goons, Chechenya very much does not side with Russia.
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Feb 27, 2022 23:00
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:The EU should be training Ukrainian refugees to fly helis Nd operate vehicles and have them drive en back into Ukraine. What in he world?
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Feb 27, 2022 23:00
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Willo567 posted:What's his name? I'm assuming he said similar unhinged poo poo in the past Yes, he has a rather large body of past works - Dmitriy Kiselyov is the primary firebrand of Russian television. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Kiselyov
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Feb 27, 2022 23:00
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Ewan posted:I think you've misunderstood what FIRs are - they aren't the same as airspace. It's just a way to divide up whose air traffic controllers are responsible for monitoring etc. Airspace in the context of banning flights is the upwards projection from your national territory and territorial waters. A lot of the Canada &Icelandic FIR is above international waters and so they are fine to fly through. Indeed, that’s a good point, although navigating that particular route between those two airspaces could be challenging. I’m fairly confident they do have an exemption, though, since we saw an earlier Aeroflot opting not to go around Iceland, and these flight being return flights to Russia.
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Feb 27, 2022 23:00
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slowdave posted:More precisely Kadyrov's goons, Chechenya very much does not side with Russia. Well yes. Ant Chechen who does not side with Russia is in no danger of being killed by Ukrainian anti imperialists.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:That's what you call a good old-fashioned bank run. grab as much devalued cash as you can before its gone. This is fake news. Source: Took out some cash (not more than usual, 10k RUB) earlier in central Moscow at an Альфа-Банк next to a metro station and there was nobody there and no withdrawal restrictions. Paid attention during the day when walking past other bank offices and didn't see any queues there either, same for ATMs in central metro stations (Дмитровская, Чеховская).
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Mustard Iceman posted:That's basically it as far as Mig-29s in the EU go. Some have Mig-21s but not sure what those could do even if a Mig-29 pilot could fly one... there's some Hinds as well but Ukraine doesn't seem in the market for helos. Those are all upgraded to NATO standard, so I assume they can share data with NATO assets like AWACS directly.
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Feb 27, 2022 23:02
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Going by the sparks shooting up in the duma it’s telling that some politicians are now more scared of being seen as pro war then balconies
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Warad posted:It's also not beyond possibility that in whatever drug induced stupor Putin woke up from in whatever his Oligarchic equivalent of the Führerbunker is when he made the decision to do this stupid poo poo in the first place he also may have just "forgot" NATO has nukes too. Well this is the least coherent take in this thread, and that's quite impressive!
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Interestingly enough I have a good Russian friend who approached me today to ask me to donate to an organization that is providing aid to Ukraine because she was told from back home that they are branding anyone who does that as a traitor. So this poo poo is definitely spreading between Russians, even outside of Russia.
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https://twitter.com/Marmel/status/1498037890974056448 Someone handed out Russia-branded Trump flags at CPAC as a prank, and either no one made the connection, or no one minded. Or a mix of the two!
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Raenir Salazar posted:Looking back but it seems like maybe Russia trying to hold onto its sphere of influence in the aftermath of the cold war was a huge mistake. If they hadn't attempted to take Crimea and instead negotiated with the more liberal government in good faith (afterall the Sevastopol naval base wasn't under any kind of immediate threat of being repatriated back to Ukraine); they could've made partnerships with Ukraine to improve their military modernization with access to skilled Ukrainian firms. Yeah it’s crazy to imagine a world where Shock therapy and the 90s didn’t give Russians ptsd about democracy
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Going by the sparks shooting up in the duma it’s telling that some politicians are now more scared of being seen as pro war then balconies I can only hope so, but that's my read as well, for the time being.
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Upgrade posted:The article is real, the tweet summary is not Sanctions and cyber attacks are all necessary if we're going to avoid actual war, but I think gawking and mocking everyday Russians just trying to live their loving lives is cruel. Their suffering might be preferable to the alternative right now, but it should not exist at all in a just society. It's the compromise we make to avoid actual war. I'm sure there are a bunch of people with more mundane jobs the tweet could respond to, but mocking predominantly women and sex workers adds another level of kicking down. Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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GABA ghoul posted:I don't know the guy but he raises a good point. Has Russia not discovered the concept of driving at a slight distance?
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GABA ghoul posted:https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1498028744807694338?t=XfZWH4jbm0zZh9AXfQS0bg&s=19 No, they think in RTS terms. If they can get one tank to Kiev city hall and hold for a 3 min. Then they win. They are gonna get droned and ambushed and then get hosed up in In the cities.
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https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1498054577765163010 well that's a move
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GABA ghoul posted:https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1498028744807694338?t=XfZWH4jbm0zZh9AXfQS0bg&s=19 I don’t do it on the highway and I sure as hell won’t do it at war!!
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