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Kavros posted:I remember back to the beginning of this invasion where we thought the mobile incinerators were for their own troops. Probably for the planned disappearances they had lists and stuff for after their 'lightning victory', and now the scope has expanded.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Wasn't there a Russian riot unit that drove up to a major city and tried to setup a road block and found out? https://twitter.com/citeam_en/status/1497573785414901760
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FishBulbia posted:I have been to this one at it was good food wise. They had a nice dark beer (no name just two options -- dark and light) and no spoons. Just knives and archaic looking forks. I ordered a hunk of some sort of meat and a trout. All was high quality and actually tasty. Aren't spoons ancient though? It's forks that were invented in the renaissance.
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Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:I’d rather think they’d ask people to not stand so close to them. They couldn't stand losing Ukraine, but now they're the kings of pain
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Charlz Guybon posted:Aren't spoons ancient though? It's forks that were invented in the renaissance. I’m really starting to doubt the historical accuracy of this novelty restaurant.
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Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor Russian diplomatic staff in Dublin being unfairly discriminated against... Oh no... https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/cry-for-help-from-russian-embassy-in-ireland-as-it-faces-fuel-shortage-1.4845579 quote:There has been a cry for help from the Russian Embassy in Ireland as it reportedly faces a fuel shortage. It is understood diplomats have complained that Irish oil companies are refusing to deliver supplies to their Dublin property due to the invasion of Ukraine. Anyway...
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Morrow posted:Even Hertling, for all his optimism, seemed to expect it to devolve into guerrilla warfare. We're seeing the Ukrainians go toe to toe with their enemy.
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Spiegel has release a free english version of the BND Bucha intercepts article https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...5c-c4a772315b0d
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FishMcCool posted:Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor Russian diplomatic staff in Dublin being unfairly discriminated against... Oh no... Quick, someone stand outside playing the world's tiniest irish fiddle.
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GaussianCopula posted:Please explain to me how an energy embargo by the EU would stop the war. Russia is already heavily sanctioned and if the past is any indication, sanctions rarely work quickly. The imports that are vital to Russia are already blocked since the start of the war. https://twitter.com/elinaribakova/status/1510646908687167494 That said, it is entirely fair to also note that https://twitter.com/valuehao/status/1511848165141581828 As far as I’m concerned, I think that Putin doesn’t personally feel pressured by sanctions yet - and I believe we can actually change that by going after their oil specifically. Coal and gas should happen, but if oil is on the table I’d rather just see us take a swing at oil now and leave the rest to the announced accelerated withdrawal schedules.
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GaussianCopula posted:The prevailing opinion from the European governments is that cutting Russian natural gas would not be sustainable. For the discussion on whether gas imports from Russia can be eliminated, I'm not interested in the self-serving "prevailing opinion" of those governments. That's mostly an economic question. GaussianCopula posted:and for Russian oil in particular the question becomes whether they will be blocked from exporting it or whether it will be exported to a different country, in which case the benefits derived from the sanctions are even less. Sure. We can never do anything against Russia as long as not everyone else is 100% with it. I see that you oppose any sanctions, since they don't work immediately and aren't perfect.
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Geopolitically sanctioning the oil would be a shitshow. The UAE and Saudi don't want to poke the Russian bear by increasing the output drastically, and besides that, they know it can happen to them someday, and don't want to create a precedent. There's no guarantee the same won't happen to KSA some day and all the other OPEC members gently caress them in that turn. It's a hard situation all around. If others don't increase output, then oil will just be very expensive for a while. Just lmfao if in the long run it's Russia's invasion of Ukraine that finally brings the energetic transition to reality.
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Yeah, I had concerns about sanctioning oil earlier in the outbreak, but with Russia confirming even most far fetched of my suspicions, I think we (EU) have an obligation to make this war as expensive as possible for Russia, even at cost of incurring substantial damage ourselves.
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FishMcCool posted:Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor Russian diplomatic staff in Dublin being unfairly discriminated against... Oh no... Maybe some sympathetic locals could fill some empty glass bottles with fuel and throw them into the embassy grounds. orange sky posted:Geopolitically sanctioning the oil would be a shitshow. The UAE and Saudi don't want to poke the Russian bear by increasing the output drastically, and besides that, they know it can happen to them someday, and don't want to create a precedent. There's no guarantee the same won't happen to KSA some day and all the other OPEC members gently caress them in that turn. It's a hard situation all around. I don't think the UAE or KSA would want prices to spike too much either. Every time the price increases it improves the business case for a switch to renewable energy (which is getting cheaper all the time) and they run the risk of their being quite a few less customers for their oil when the prices subside.
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I haven't had tea yet and I promise I'll be more eloquent later but what the gently caress https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1511812712887689224?s=20&t=3kh5X7glLteynDXamG4sdA Might as well drop a rusted out junker car with a full tank of gas and call it a bomb
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KitConstantine posted:I haven't had tea yet and I promise I'll be more eloquent later but what the gently caress Should be a straight and level snack for the Starstreak cocktail fork.
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I will seriously laugh if they actually managed to down a Tu-22M3 with a starstreak or stinger or whatever. Those things are meant to attack carrier battle groups with supersonic missiles from hundreds of kilometers away.
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KitConstantine posted:I haven't had tea yet and I promise I'll be more eloquent later but what the gently caress
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KitConstantine posted:I haven't had tea yet and I promise I'll be more eloquent later but what the gently caress Flying a bomber like that into contested airspace and over potentially MANPADS infested territory sounds like an extremely dumb idea. Dumber considering the accuracy with that thing is probably pretty poo poo so you might not even hit anything of military value. That bomb looks old enough that it's debatable whether the explosive in it still works too.
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KitConstantine posted:I haven't had tea yet and I promise I'll be more eloquent later but what the gently caress I still haven’t figured out how we have gone from a picture of a dumb bomb to Russian strategic bombers flying over contested airspace to drop dumb bombs on a ruined factory.
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punishedkissinger posted:i dont think any of those MANPADS can hit a high altitude bomber, or really anything moving fast through the air Anything flying at high altitude close enough to Ukrainian positions to drop a bomb like that is probably going to be within range of Ukraine's other SAM systems. Also you're probably just as likely to hit your own dudes dropping that thing from a high altitude. I think a modern MANPADS could hit it easily enough if it was low enough. Those old Strelas might struggle. It would be a nice big target for a Starstreak if the crew was the right distance from the plane - too close and it's apparent speed would make it hard to track with the laser.
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gay picnic defence posted:Flying a bomber like that into contested airspace and over potentially MANPADS infested territory sounds like an extremely dumb idea. Dumber considering the accuracy with that thing is probably pretty poo poo so you might not even hit anything of military value. If it does, that thing would do serious damage tho, no need for precision. That poo poo is an old blast bomb, no fancy tricks, just 1200kg of TNT on board. It's gonna do serious infrastructure damage if they manage to hit anything. I'd wager that at 3 tons you can chuck that thing pretty accurately too, although I wouldn't want to zoom and boom with one of those things attached.
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Youth Decay posted:Zelensky gave an exceptionally good evening address yesterday night - they are always good, but he sounds very angry about the continued refusal of certain countries to sanction Russian oil and gas. Frankly I don't know how you can walk through the remains of Bucha and Irpin and not want to shake Scholz until he grows a spine. Ofc he says that and it's important to constantly remind Europe that gas payments kill Ukrainian soldiers. However, he knows as well as everyone else that countries like Germany have chained their energy sector to Russia over the last decades and that there is no way to get out of this on short notice. Especially when Russian gas makes up 60% of Germany's (or 80% in case of Austria) natural gas imports. Unless you want to crash the industry and let the people freeze at night.
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punishedkissinger posted:i dont think any of those MANPADS can hit a high altitude bomber, or really anything moving fast through the air
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European Parliament vote on immediate and total ban on importing Russian fossils. https://twitter.com/ijabs/status/1512024860444315655
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organburner posted:I can't quite see that symbol by 552 properly, what does it mean? Total votes cast from adding it all up.
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gay picnic defence posted:Flying a bomber like that into contested airspace and over potentially MANPADS infested territory sounds like an extremely dumb idea. Dumber considering the accuracy with that thing is probably pretty poo poo so you might not even hit anything of military value. Explosives actually get easier to use over time. They crystalize out free impact triggers. Do not taunt.
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organburner posted:I can't quite see that symbol by 552 properly, what does it mean? Number of present MEPs.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:European Parliament vote on immediate and total ban on importing Russian fossils. Seems big and good if that passes right?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I still haven’t figured out how we have gone from a picture of a dumb bomb to Russian strategic bombers flying over contested airspace to drop dumb bombs on a ruined factory. Apparently it was posted by a Russian 'fighterbomber telegram channel' - found a Russian language article about it. It even has a second angle on the bomb https://topcor.ru/24931-v-rossii-raskonservirovali-bomby-fab-3000-na-fone-operacii-na-ukraine.html Also the plane in the background of the photo matches images of the Tu-22M3. Edit: Also also the air over Mariupol isn't really 'contested airspace', even the Ukrainian military admits they don't fly often in the solidly Russian-controlled areas of the country, sneaky helicopter bombings notwithstanding KitConstantine fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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GaussianCopula posted:The best way to lose weight is to have a sustainable lifestyle change. The prevailing opinion from the European governments is that cutting Russian natural gas would not be sustainable. What? Russia is a petro-state, and Europe is by far its largest customer. If the EU banned all fossil fuel imports from Russia, the Russian economy would suffer tremendous; and its not as simple as just selling more fossil fuels to India for Russia to recover. Furthermore you are way over simplifying how the production of war materials work. Even if they are produced internally, Russia has to pay for their production. Russia generates the revenue used to produce those war materials in part—a significant part—through fossil fuel sales to Europe. In the absence of that income they would have to secure money another way, for example printing rubles. If you want to know how effective that is see this.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Seems big and good if that passes right? It’s only a resolution. Basically a way of saying “The Council thinks this should happen.” It’s a long way from an actual proposal to do it.
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KitConstantine posted:Apparently it was posted by a Russian 'fighterbomber telegram channel' - found a Russian language article about it. It even has a second angle on the bomb Ukraine isn't flying there but they might have SAMs in range
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KitConstantine posted:Apparently it was posted by a Russian 'fighterbomber telegram channel' - found a Russian language article about it. It even has a second angle on the bomb You can contest airspace from the ground. Although a surprise MiG-29 pop-up would be excellent.
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Fans posted:It’s only a resolution. Basically a way of saying “The Council thinks this should happen.”
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Fans posted:It’s only a resolution. Basically a way of saying “The Council thinks this should happen.” Good speech yesterday in favor of actually doing something. Pointed comments for Germany in the last 20ish seconds of his speech too https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1511976396129816577?s=20&t=3kh5X7glLteynDXamG4sdA
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