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My Russian is elementary school tier dogshit but I'm pretty sure that's not what they start saying around 1:05 lol "Lots of European leaders die by assassinations, when you really think about it" is an interesting topic edit: I want to emphasize I am starting off understanding like 1/3 of what they are saying and then rewatching over and over in an attempt to fill in more context so uuh why am I even posting
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:The New York Times reports that fourteen cargo planes carrying military aid landed near Ukraine's border on Friday, with the weapons to be transferred into the country. Probably more poo poo than Russia was able to bring into Ukraine that day.
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You are best off to ignore Russian tv propagandist doing improv until the time comes to laugh at them crawling and saying sorry. You won't get any clue about Kremlin mindset from them its not Trump repeating what he saw on Fox minutes earlier.
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KitConstantine posted:Looks like the Germans weren't doing maintenance either. The majority of the missiles that Germany shipped were ancient Strelas from DDR stocks, meaning they have been rotting in some depot for decades. Not a surprise that they are in such condition, considering the overall state of the Bundeswehr.
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Kavros posted:We're all friends here... [uncomfortable mumbling] “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” Kevin McCarthy, the second-ranking House Republican, told his colleagues during the meeting. Some of those colleagues then laughed, and McCarthy added: “Swear to God.”
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Greg of Doom posted:https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1499771677143707658?t=mttaEjW1qLDa30caVKM9MQ&s=19 This is now the third time I saw a major news network interviewed a Nazi they called a "freedom fighter". They are few in the government but do seem more common in fighting the separatists.
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Hammerstein posted:The majority of the missiles that Germany shipped were ancient Strelas from DDR stocks, meaning they have been rotting in some depot for decades. Not a surprise that they are in such condition, considering the overall state of the Bundeswehr. They were officially marked as not save for use in 2012 and there was an article early this year about the fact that the storage of them is a danger for the depot and the people working there. Before that they were used as exercise equipment. I have no idea why we offered them to Ukraine.
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Anubis posted:You just gotta walk 50' from the convoy to maybe dig a hole and take a dump in the middle of a field but it's all loving mud so every time you try to wander away the ground attempts to eat your boot so those loving guys keep doing it closer and closer to the loving road and now it's day 3 the flies are starting to hatch and are super happy about this new food supply. Stuck in the raspootitsa
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I ate expired rations, now I got the raspu-shits-a
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punk rebel ecks posted:This is now the third time I saw a major news network interviewed a Nazi they called a "freedom fighter". They are few in the government but do seem more common in fighting the separatists. A lot more could be done to actually denazify Ukraine if there wasn't a threat of Russian invasion for 8 years.
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I've tried the non-expired rations and they still made me sick I think it was the cured pork fatback
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Rand Paul Has anyone posted the amazing clip of the guy from the Rand Paul Institute on Indian tv yet?
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Comstar posted:https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1500007076814278656?s=20&t=CPo5K4bqtqhiOvcA78Othg I have been thinking of this part a lot lately. uncleTomOfFinland fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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There is a total war going on, yeah. You're gonna take what help you can get and for some curious reason the extreme right are exceptionally motivated to to go and shoot at some invading Russians, so, uh, maybe Western sensibilities aren't the first thing on top of their minds right now. e: to be clear, i don't approve of it, but it's pretty understandable
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Missing Name posted:I've tried the non-expired rations and they still made me sick Steve1989 from MREInfo would have smacked his lips and said: Gourmet
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GaussianCopula posted:They were officially marked as not save for use in 2012 and there was an article early this year about the fact that the storage of them is a danger for the depot and the people working there. Before that they were used as exercise equipment. I have no idea why we offered them to Ukraine. Does the German military have more modern manpads in use? Which also didn't require training? My guess is it was what was available. Didn't Germany also send some really capable AT weapons as well?
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Trump posted:Does the German military have more modern manpads in use? Which also didn't require training? My guess is it was what was available. They do and according to Politico and Times of Israel they also shipped 500 Stingers and a number of unspecified AT weapons to Ukraine. What worries me is that someone in the Bundeswehr administration saw the conflict as an opportunity to also get rid of old garbage like the Strelas.
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Hammerstein posted:Steve1989 from MREInfo would have smacked his lips and said: Gourmet the man is on another plane of existence and immune system. The Russian rations he's eaten haven't had that cursed salo though. Yet. We should have the captured expired crates shipped his way
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Kavros posted:Putin has had incredible success with the firehose model of propaganda, and could have continued to utilize it to great effect. But autocratic backslide is all-consuming, and now he's the latest, greatest dictator to be institutionally and/or mentally unable to abide letting any dissenting viewpoints exist. It just seems so dumb to me. Russia has no real future even if Putin wins completely in Ukraine. Russia needs real, productive business to live, domestic expertise, they need basically stuff that can give people jobs and reason to stay in Russia, reasons for people to start families, the ability to make stuff that could be exported to the world other than raw materials. If Russia wants to be a world leader, it needs to be built on a solid foundation of something productive. Starting with investing in schools, universities, research & development and investment into domestic businesses with promise, these are the things that creates wealth and stability for a nation. Instead Russia just relies on fossil fuel exports and its army, which it is less and less able to keep working and up to date so it just keeps getting more obsolete, good example is that they have to use civilian chinese walkie talkies. There's no russian infrastructure left for producing their own stuff. That's the kind of stuff they need to be able to produce and develop. Their army is only ever as good as the society it's backed up by. The US didn't win the cold war because it had the bigger army, it won because it had the bigger economy. Putin doesn't seem to understand this, or Russia is too corrupt to steer in that direction. In starting this war they also scuttled one of their few remaining high tech industries that was actually doing well abroad and was a global leader in developing new tech. That is their nuclear industry, Rosatom was doing really well, their VVER-1200 reactor was as good as anything the west got and was built across the world on time and inside budget, they where also the leaders in breeder reactors, running two reactors on a commercial bassis and developing a commercial breeder for mass production. But after this I don't think Rosatom is gonna be able to do much business outside Russia anymore and they will have less moneu to pursue their goals. Russia looks like it's gonna keep relying on it's increasingly obsolete army until the shell of Russia can't support it anymore. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:It just seems so dumb to me. Russia has no real future even if Putin wins completely in Ukraine. Russia needs real, productive business to live, domestic expertise, they need basically stuff that can give people jobs and reason to stay in Russia, reasons for people to start families, the ability to make stuff that could be exported to the world other than raw materials. Not really? The only people he needs are resource extraction maintenance, administration and security. Everyone else is new humans generation or dead weight.
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Trump posted:Does the German military have more modern manpads in use? Which also didn't require training? My guess is it was what was available. Germany uses Stingers under the name of "Fliegerfaust 2" as their regular MANPADS. It was suggested by some people on Twitter that the 500 of those we already send to Ukraine were the total stock the Bundeswehr was able to part with without suffering severy lack themselves. But that isn't a very good reason to send a shitload of rotting wood crates with chemical waste to Ukraine.
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https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1500016881310355462?t=nnUNDSuTnnFEKsoyeCwMKg&s=19 christ lol ...this humanitarian column isn't going to last, is it e: christ lol vvvvvv Missing Name fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Google today lists 1 RUB as 0.0081 USD. It was 0.013 USD before this, which means a 38% drop.
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His Divine Shadow posted:It just seems so dumb to me. Russia has no real future even if Putin wins completely in Ukraine. Russia needs real, productive business to live, domestic expertise, they need basically stuff that can give people jobs and reason to stay in Russia, reasons for people to start families, the ability to make stuff that could be exported to the world other than raw materials. It always baffled me why Putin doesn't look toward the China model in terms of building a "modern Russian economy".
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fatherboxx posted:Not really? The only people he needs are resource extraction maintenance, administration and security. Everyone else is new humans generation or dead weight.
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fatherboxx posted:Not really? The only people he needs are resource extraction maintenance, administration and security. Everyone else is new humans generation or dead weight. Most of the developed world is planning to have largely moved away from fossil fuels by mid century. Even today, renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuel plants. Electric vehicles are expected to reach price parity with combustion ones in the next 3-4 years and then slowly displace them front thr market. It's completely unclear if it's still going to be feasible to run such an extensive petro state in 30 years. Russia needs something else apart from fossil fuels to not revert to poverty.
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punk rebel ecks posted:It always baffled me why Putin doesn't look toward the China model in terms of building a "modern Russian economy". They are two very different countries
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GABA ghoul posted:Most of the developed world is planning to have largely moved away from fossil fuels by mid century. Even today, renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuel plants. Electric vehicles are expected to reach price parity with combustion ones in the next 3-4 years and then slowly displace them front thr market. It's completely unclear if it's still going to be feasible to run such an extensive petro state in 30 years. Russia needs something else apart from fossil fuels to not revert to poverty. Thats enough time for current leadership to secure generational wealth for their grandchildren and sell off land and serfs to an interested investor
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VorpalBunny posted:So, these humanitarian ceasefire routes. How long before it becomes a slaughter? The Russians have agreed to 5 hours of peace. Do we really think folks bombing full apartment blocks are going to let civilians go free? the russians mostly respected the humanitarian corridors even as they pulled grozny down brick by brick in the 94 siege, so...it's possible?
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Small White Dragon posted:Google today lists 1 RUB as 0.0081 USD. It was 0.013 USD before this, which means a 38% drop. Can someone convert that into Target budget brand toilet paper sheets for me please? Re a ceasefire: call me a cynic but it might be convenient time to call a ceasefire when you’ve run out of fuel/food/ammunition and are waiting on a resupply.
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punk rebel ecks posted:It always baffled me why Putin doesn't look toward the China model in terms of building a "modern Russian economy". Unlike China, Russia didn't have an enormous pool of young underemployed liability labour to exploit.
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GABA ghoul posted:I don't know if you can even keep lovely Soviet equipment alive for 30+ years, but if you can, then it wasn't really a priority here. The Strelas are not used by the Bundeswehr and are just surplus equipment someone kept around in a warehouse for god knows what reasons. Seems like a lot of wasted cargo volume that could have been used for something else instead of garbage the Bundeswehr wanted to dump. https://twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/1499293651306160129 https://twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/1499295754929983488 https://twitter.com/Phozz4/status/1499296159537549315
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Small White Dragon posted:Google today lists 1 RUB as 0.0081 USD. It was 0.013 USD before this, which means a 38% drop. IIRC it was about 0.04 USD pre-war, so it's lost about 80% of its value. That's fast approaching "wheelbarrows of cash/using scientific notation to work out your household budget" levels of economically hosed. Wonder how many broke brained cryptoleeches are trying to "buy the dip" right now
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