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Cimber posted:"Hey, look, we are talking! See? We are talking while we bomb refugee convoys. We are not the bad guys cuz we are talking!" Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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A.o.D. posted:The negotiations were never in good faith. This changes nothing. Its this. The negotiations were always about dragging out and appearing that they were using diplomacy. Russia has kidnapped people and children, they are in no way interested in a peaceful solution.
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Apr 12, 2022 21:47
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zoux posted:Let's say Putin had a sudden cerebrovascular event that killed him (this is not unprecedented among Russian rulers): who the hell takes over? Or does the country immediately fall apart? I just watched a documentary about this, from what I can tell Jason Isaacs takes charge.
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Apr 12, 2022 21:51
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The official answer with regards to Putin's successor is "no one knows." The unofficial answer is the one that's been true in Russia since the fall of the Tsars: whoever is the most tactful and/or violent. My money's on Igor Sechin.
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Apr 12, 2022 21:57
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What about his daughter?
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Tired: Give Ukraine US Fighters I read this as B-25s and quite frankly reviving a fleet of those with 75mm nose cannons would be metal as gently caress
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Apr 12, 2022 22:29
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just watched a documentary about this, from what I can tell Jason Isaacs takes charge. 
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Apr 12, 2022 22:36
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just watched a documentary about this, from what I can tell Jason Isaacs takes charge. 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just watched a documentary about this, from what I can tell Jason Isaacs takes charge. Actually it’s Steve Buscemi, but Jason Issacs helped a lot! Seriously I love that movie so much. Also I noticed Beria and Zhukov reunited for Operation Mincemeat.  Also in good news. Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/12/pentagon-ukraine-weapons/
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Baby loooooooove shack, just a little old *crumpf* zoux posted:Let's say Putin had a sudden cerebrovascular event that killed him (this is not unprecedented among Russian rulers): who the hell takes over? Or does the country immediately fall apart?
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Apr 12, 2022 23:35
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Wasn't the USSR ruled by committee for a few years after Stalin died while there was a lot of infighting to see who would rule? I'd guess that. Death of Stalin is actually surprisingly historically accurate, for a comedy.
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Apr 12, 2022 23:38
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Galaxy brain: Give the Ukrainians F-117s from the boneyard. Get around the km/knots thing with a Garmin duct taped to the cockpit. Malenkov (Tambour) for 9 days and then Khruschev (Buscemi)
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A.o.D. posted:The negotiations were never in good faith. This changes nothing. It means they no longer see value in pretending.
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Apr 13, 2022 00:04
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The official answer with regards to Putin's successor is "no one knows." Who knows, I'm shocked that Putin really has near total control of the Russian state. You don't get away with making choices like this that damage the rich and your own population if you don't. The situation is probably more like that of a post-colonial African state than it was at the fall of the USSR or after the death of Stalin but it seems like every powerful Russian institution besides the intelligence community has been utterly gutted so it's probably not going to be pretty. GD_American posted:Death of Stalin is actually surprisingly historically accurate, for a comedy. I mean I feel like it gets the vibes and personal conflicts right but chronologically it mashes together events and conditions in the Soviet union that would have happened years or even a decade apart into months or days.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Who knows, I'm shocked that Putin really has near total control of the Russian state. You don't get away with making choices like this that damage the rich and your own population if you don't. The situation is probably more like that of a post-colonial African state than it was at the fall of the USSR or after the death of Stalin but it seems like every powerful Russian institution besides the intelligence community has been utterly gutted so it's probably not going to be pretty. It's a True War Story, as told by Tim O'Brien.
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Apr 13, 2022 00:12
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:It's a True War Story, as told by Tim O'Brien. I like to describe those sorts of things as not necessarily factual, but nevertheless true in the sense that they accurately convey the essence of their subject matter. Same with Catch-22 and Pentagon Wars.
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Apr 13, 2022 00:23
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Yeah, he discusses it in The Things They Carried. It's a great little chapter.
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Blind Rasputin posted:
Third option, AVG
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Blind Rasputin posted:Or let them train in Ukrainian airspace? Good luck with the latter. not the first time we have sent "advisors" to "train" people on the use of our aircraft in a conflict area, is it?
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Apr 13, 2022 00:56
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I'm surprised none of these George Will-rear end chickenhawks have tried flogging a 21st century Lafayette Escarille
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Elviscat posted:Aeronautical navigation. Who measures airspeed in ropes?!? WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY IS THIS
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Flikken posted:Third option, Ah yes, the “American Very Good”. I knew one of those guys. Bought many an acre of farmland with his pay.
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Flikken posted:Third option, ... AVG F-22s
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Alan Smithee posted:Who measures airspeed in ropes?!? WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY IS THIS The kind that's landed on the moon 
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So the former president of Ukraine that was on the lam after the war started got captured today https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1513943691555188737?s=20&t=f1P-43CeYCo1NA5BIyIPTA It's spawned a lot of pretty great memes - there's a thread in GBS. But this is a favorite I had to share 
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Apr 13, 2022 01:53
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Apr 13, 2022 01:58
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when you're an oligarch you afford it
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Meet Mozart Group, the anti-Wagner Group. https://twitter.com/historicfirearm/status/1514036068265385990?s=19
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KitConstantine posted:So the former president of Ukraine that was on the lam after the war started got captured today So this was the guy who Putin would have installed? The former future president? Makes sense that he was caught in Ukraine, had to be close to Kyev to claim the throne
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Meet Mozart Group, the anti-Wagner Group. https://youtu.be/vfpgpf6QVnI
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Meet Mozart Group, the anti-Wagner Group. Russia should form a PMC called the Wonder, Beethoven, and Soulja Group cuz they're blind, deaf, and dumb as gently caress
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GD_American posted:I'm surprised none of these George Will-rear end chickenhawks have tried flogging a 21st century Lafayette Escarille In the past few days there was a popular military twitterer arguing for American pmcs going in with patriots, m1s, and f-16s in the spirit of the flying tigers.
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PCjr sidecar posted:In the past few days there was a popular military twitterer arguing for American pmcs going in with patriots, m1s, and f-16s in the spirit of the flying tigers. Strike Commander was only off by two decades or so.
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 Ukrainian soldier calling dead Russians cell and for lack of a better word, trolling his family on video. The 21st Century is weird. code: Is this a war crime or just an army reg violation? I mean he is harassing a soldiers family. I mean this is besides the fact it’s extremely distasteful at best and disturbing at worst.
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There were videos going around in 2014 2015 of the Russians doing the same thing.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:
Whatever. It’s lame but it doesn’t add up to poo poo. Pestering the family of an invading genocidal army doesn’t amount to poo poo.
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Syrian Lannister posted:There were videos going around in 2014 2015 of the Russians doing the same thing. "Russians did it too" is not exactly a great standard.
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Not saying it's right, or agreeing with it, just that there was past precedence.
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I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, OK TOVARISCH? I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!
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