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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:It is an explosion, it is in Kyiv, and that's a Ukrainian pensioner I gotta say that tone doesn't match the footage.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Oh yea I totally wasn't directing any of that at you, just quoting your summary. Ok thanks. I was being overly sensitive. Sorry, it's been a rough month.
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Point taken. I'll do better. "Never believe anything until Kreml denies it" https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1503339841790095363?t=z5Xh-MuL2GdcYDVegpR17A&s=19
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Point taken. I'll do better. I was just thinking the same thing. The vehement denials basically confirmed it.
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psydude posted:I was just thinking the same thing. The vehement denials basically confirmed it. Anyone who followed Trump administration news should be familiar with this approach.
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Let’s see what’s going on today…. https://twitter.com/ua_parliament/status/1503341790983766017?s=21 Oh. Granted this isn’t confirmed or anything, but the Russians do love to be stupid.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Let’s see what’s going on today…. Bah gawd, that’s LAPD’s music!
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Here’s the actual scary thought is there anyone in the chain of command that would stop Putin. even in the much more disciplined soviet union there were people who stopped nukes from flying, so why wouldn't some mistreated officer in a cleptocracy stop them from flying too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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GD_American posted:What's the current assessment of the Russian nuclear stockpile? Has it degraded enough to the point that idiots might try to resurrect the early Cold War belief in US survivability? There are two ways to look at this. One is that if the conventional forces have been allowed to deteriorate, with real consequences for the state, why is there any reason to believe that nuclear forces were maintained any better? You can loot that all day from the top with zero consequences, so long as your strategic enemies don’t engage in Operation Unthinkable. The other is that the conventional forces are weak in part because a strong military presents the threat of a military coup. Nuclear forces pose no such threat, so they may not be subject to the same purges.
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Platystemon posted:Bah gawd, that’s LAPD’s music! Deep cut, I like it!
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US Police Departments have been killing Russian speakers for decades at statistically significant levels above random chance? poo poo, my wife studied Russian in college...
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How good is the money to be that transparently a sell out to a foreign government.
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Maybe someone should look into if she's conducted financial transactions with any sanctioned individuals. Oh poo poo wait, sorry, I forgot. Prosecuting conservative blue check marks for crimes is "too political".
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That dude certainly looks like he's noshed a Big Mac every day of his life, drat. Not the most effective form of protest I've ever seen, nor the most compelling cause.
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I've heard a lot of noise about how sanctions hurt the common man, but it seems like in this case it's helping.
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Where are Clarkson, May and Hammond hiding in this?
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davecrazy posted:How good is the money to be that transparently a sell out to a foreign government. Oh it's a lot less then one might think. Whenever details around this kind of thing surface it'll be like a 10k campaign contribution or whatever. I'm on my phone but I'll dig around for an article later unless someone beats me to it.
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Need For Technical 2022 lookin good.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:It is an explosion, it is in Kyiv, and that's a Ukrainian pensioner Those two dudes in the background were engulfed in the fireball 
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The pico second sanctions are lifted capital will fly back in because it will be the wild west Nah. Russia has gone full klepto on all these companies assets, companies are not gonna spend money on things they might have stolen again.
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CommieGIR posted:Nah. Russia has gone full klepto on all these companies assets, companies are not gonna spend money on things they might have stolen again. That’s the next executive’s problem. The current executive will have cashed their chips and moved on by then.
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I remember seeing the new Red Dawn and the ending having a Mustang with a minigun as a technical and thinking "That is stupid as hell, come on!" Well, the jokes on me I guess. Anyways, I guess China might have told Russia to piss off? https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1503357043285143560?t=oRR0gRt30mSpbp9J-Sp7sw&s=19
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Guessing this is controlled demolitions of unexploded ordnance from the battle or something until I hear something more specific.
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Detailed synopsis for the visual learners like me: https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1503229523055235072/photo/1
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Caconym posted:Guessing this is controlled demolitions of unexploded ordnance from the battle or something until I hear something more specific. Even if it is…I really don’t trust the morons of the Russian Federation to do things correctly. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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So an Arleigh Burke arrived unannounced in Stockholm today with another somewhere in the Baltic sea, speculation is that it might be on it's way to Helsinki. At the same time the Swedish and Finnish prime ministers are in London meeting Boris Johnson, the speakers of their parliaments are meeting in Stockholm tomorrow and the defence ministers are meeting in Helsinki today. Could be nothing, could be something.
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Xakura posted:I've heard a lot of noise about how sanctions hurt the common man, but it seems like in this case it's helping. my thoughts.
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Churchill posted:So an Arleigh Burke arrived unannounced in Stockholm today with another somewhere in the Baltic sea, speculation is that it might be on it's way to Helsinki. At the same time the Swedish and Finnish prime ministers are in London meeting Boris Johnson, the speakers of their parliaments are meeting in Stockholm tomorrow and the defence ministers are meeting in Helsinki today. It definitely seems like Sweden and Finland have agreed to Thelma and Louise their NATO application.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/12/javelins-ukraine-russia/quote:Social media has been littered with photos of destroyed Russian tanks with cages. The images have acquired a symbolic resonance so quickly that Internet users have coined the term “cope cage,” earning a page on the Internet’s primary meme directory.
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davecrazy posted:How good is the money to be that transparently a sell out to a foreign government. The price of a US Senator can be as low as 10,000 USD. People who are inclined to sell their loyalties can be had for cheap. Sometimes as cheap as naked insincere flattery.
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Mozi posted:What of that do you think is photoshopped? Also it's not clear that the headline is referring to only the photo or other incidents, how many cases, and so forth. Anyways to me that doesn't look like a properly opened parachute. Regardless either they have found cases of ejected pilots having messed up parachutes that didn't work properly and are trying to scare other Russian pilots, or they haven't and are trying to scare Russian pilots. So either way I'm fine with it.
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A.o.D. posted:The price of a US Senator can be as low as 10,000 USD. People who are inclined to sell their loyalties can be had for cheap. Sometimes as cheap as naked insincere flattery. I’ve come to the conclusion that they keep the prices low because make up for it in volume.
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PCjr sidecar posted:I’ve come to the conclusion that they keep the prices low because make up for it in volume. Gotta dilute the corruption and spread it across a bunch of individual instances so it's bite sized. Better to get found out on a single $20k speaking engagement with Pootie Poot than a multi-million dollar loan for your failing hotel chain.
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