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Nice piece of fish posted:Christ. They are going to have to hurry up and put indicators on their aircraft so they are road legal Wild of you to assume that people in Ukraine use indicators while driving
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Ukraine_AF/status/1566486966346162178 Lmao at the St. Nicholas (I think?) Icon in the helicopter. This is STRONG east european taxi driver vibe Sekenr fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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I imagine they're following roads because they're a clear indicator of where you are flying without having to turn on any navigation equipment that could be jammed or somehow used to track you.
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Looks like Jupiter has not been taking well to the prospect of reduced frequency of calls with Putin. https://twitter.com/kyleworton/status/1566575126514106369
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Soon, Western military aviation will add a modifier to the term "nape of the earth.". They'll call it "Ukrainian nape" or something.
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Ynglaur posted:Soon, Western military aviation will add a modifier to the term "nape of the earth.". They'll call it "Ukrainian nape" or something. “Sunflower-level”.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:“Sunflower-level”. 
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friendship ended with Zelensky now Timati is my best friend cinci zoo sniper posted:Looks like Jupiter has not been taking well to the prospect of reduced frequency of calls with Putin. starting to wonder if that kompromat Trump was digging up on him wasn't real after all
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Sekenr posted:Lmao at the St. Nicholas (I think?) Icon in the helicopter. This is STRONG east european taxi driver vibe Before you get dropped in a warzone you get told about the best place to buy meat and watermelons and strike a deal for a nice 10 liter bottle of moonshine
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Interesting development: U.S. ambassador to Russia leaves Moscow, will retire quote:The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, has left his post and will retire, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow announced on Sunday. This could mean a bunch of different things, or nothing. It's just weird that it's so abrupt. We'll have to keep a lookout for further information on it.
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Deteriorata posted:Interesting development: It's more surprising that Biden has let Sullivan, a Trump appointee, stay for so long.
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Ambassadors, particularly political appointees to major countries, tend to be show ponies who primarily exist to appear in media, throw parties at their official residence, and be summoned when their country does something the host government doesn't like. The actual day-to-day running of the diplomatic mission and the nitty-gritty of bilateral relations is handled by the chargé d'affaires, who is typically an extremely experienced career diplomat.Ynglaur posted:Soon, Western military aviation will add a modifier to the term "nape of the earth.". They'll call it "Ukrainian nape" or something. I remember early on in the war someone posted about how Ukrainian pilots are going to be in huge demand after the war as trainers and that just gets more true every day.
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New Galiotti podcast doing a dive into what's going on in the Russian economy: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/11262742
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I don’t know what it is about the news being released today, but for the first time I really get the feeling Putin is getting desperate.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Ukraine_AF/status/1566486966346162178 That last one  I automatically parsed it as the cab of a truck and kept waiting for the heli/jet to appear. Only realized what it was when it crossed the grass median.
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i just assume mi-8s come out of the factory like that
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What's your guys' read on this? Personally I'm inclined to think that Ukraine's attacks in the Crimea may have played a part too, signaling that they won't defer to any arbitrary red lines imposed on occupied territory because they're now quote unquote "Russian". That way they sort of preemptively dashed any hopes Russia might have of freezing the conflict by annexing these territories and changing their legal status, no? https://twitter.com/eugenechausovsk/status/1566769264501063684?s=20&t=8TJ4s-LMJ7TiIboNGa8DHw
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Russia would have to be pretty delusional to think some fake referendums were going to make a difference. Oh, wait...
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To be fair, I totally expected Russia to push through and hold that referendum even if Ukrainian soldiers are already marching into the city. Or to hold the referendum in "exile" if the city falls too fast
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It could be that back in around June or so when there was still some reason for the Kremlin to think they could just fake up a referendum, declare some land to now be part of Russia and freeze things there, that they gave some direction to the bureaucrats to work on it. And as time went on and as that plan had to have looked utterly ridiculous even to Putin's circle, the bureaucrats dutifully continued to work, until they were only now told to pause.
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PerilPastry posted:What's your guys' read on this? Personally I'm inclined to think that Ukraine's attacks in the Crimea may have played a part too, signaling that they won't defer to any arbitrary red lines imposed on occupied territory because they're now quote unquote "Russian". That way they sort of preemptively dashed any hopes Russia might have of freezing the conflict by annexing these territories and changing their legal status, no? My read is that the counter-offensive is at the very least going good enough to make it too strenuous to sell the referendum to Russian citizens.
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Rigel posted:It could be that back in around June or so when there was still some reason for the Kremlin to think they could just fake up a referendum, declare some land to now be part of Russia and freeze things there, that they gave some direction to the bureaucrats to work on it. And as time went on and as that plan had to have looked utterly ridiculous even to Putin's circle, the bureaucrats dutifully continued to work, until they were only now told to pause. Yeah, if it's obvious that no amount of brinkmanship will deter the Ukrainians from reclaiming their own territory I'm struggling to see the potential upside to Russia. Plus turning Kherson into a "Russian" city even as the Ukrainians are advancing would be counterproductive as hell when your one through line has been to keep this a "special military operation" so as to limit your exposure domestically. cinci zoo sniper posted:My read is that the counter-offensive is at the very least going good enough to make it too strenuous to sell the referendum to Russian citizens.
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Pookah posted:That last one It’s all but mowing the grass. That’s the type of flying you expect to see in star wars, not from an actual military 
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Perhaps the reason for the delay in the 'referendum' https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1566836412158283783
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Ukraine_AF/status/1566486966346162178 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUmIO_MG5IU
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cinci zoo sniper posted:My read is that the counter-offensive is at the very least going good enough to make it too strenuous to sell the referendum to Russian citizens. It's also going to be difficult to get even the most pro-Russian collaborators in area to appear enthusiastic in front of tv cameras when they know what future holds for them. My theory for why Russia is so bent on holding the ref is that it you don't then have to pay overseas extra to your contract soldiers and even conscripts can be sent there. Even a dictator is not above bureaucracy and red tape! 
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-05/russia-risks-bigger-longer-sanctions-hit-internal-report-warns The document, the result of months of work by officials and experts trying to assess the true impact of Russia’s economic isolation due to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, paints a far more dire picture than officials usually do in their upbeat public pronouncements. Bloomberg viewed a copy of the report, drafted for a closed-door meeting of top officials on Aug. 30. People familiar with the deliberations confirmed its authenticity.
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bad_fmr posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-05/russia-risks-bigger-longer-sanctions-hit-internal-report-warns A useful background tweet for this: https://twitter.com/x1skv/status/1565664173618520065
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Icon Of Sin posted:It’s all but mowing the grass. That’s the type of flying you expect to see in star wars, not from an actual military I just rewatched- the helicopter can't be more than 5 feet above the road, and the pilot is just cruising along, switching sides when there's traffic. Insane skills, also just insane.
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Alan Smithee posted:friendship ended with Zelensky Russia's friends keep providing proof of their leftist credentials. Why you can't say "orthodox very not racist marxism" without saying Lega Nord!
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Just look at this https://twitter.com/lessprit/status/1566853305476780035?t=NreFd-aqn1LAN6p79WDmtA&s=19 I think russians are getting desperate
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Deteriorata posted:Interesting development: https://twitter.com/nahaltoosi/status/1566882002187567104
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Sekenr posted:Just look at this Is it supposed to show the gas pipeline shutting down and Europe freezing?
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Nitrox posted:Is it supposed to show the gas pipeline shutting down and Europe freezing? It’s a “winter is coming” song, served as a thinly veiled threat to Europe, yes. Between this and a few other things going on, like string of small protests in Germany with not the most straightforward story of origin, I’m increasingly amused. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Sekenr posted:Just look at this The end of the gas export market from Russia will speed the reversal of anthropogenic climate change; a good cartoon.
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Here’s the quiet part out loud, although Medvedev, I think, made it the worst kept “secret” in history of this war. https://twitter.com/christopherjm/status/1566768172933550081
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Here’s the quiet part out loud, although Medvedev, I think, made it the worst kept “secret” in history of this war. Good luck financing your war without europe then, Vladdie. ...I hope.
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