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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:yeah lucky for me “pro-Russia” is meaningless and impossible to define (good work admins!) Eh, I think as long as you're making descriptive statements about Russia's motivations, and not outright justifying things (ie: "Russia is right to have invaded" or whatever), you're safe. I'll do my best to warn people if I think they're getting too close to the electrified fence.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:44
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xpost come on. No one’s allowed to use chemical weapons. Except the US, and all its allies, pretty much constantly
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Nov 5, 2022 20:45
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Rutibex posted:oh also i think russia has chemical weapons. those are theoretically "less bad" than nuclear? pretty sure those are another scare thing and not actually "real" so to speak. I mean they exist but they're not worse than conventional bombing
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Nov 5, 2022 20:45
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https://twitter.com/MayaSashenka/status/1588925101776711680
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Nov 5, 2022 20:45
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aiming my single bow with the angle of a howitzer, definitely not just for instagram
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Nov 5, 2022 20:48
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Lahk Unglas what do your orc eyes see
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Nov 5, 2022 20:48
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Rutibex posted:oh also i think russia has chemical weapons. those are theoretically "less bad" than nuclear? OPCW said Russia destroyed theirs in 2017 under their CWC obligations, so I'm hoping they're correct.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:48
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Majorian posted:OPCW said Russia destroyed theirs in 2017, so that's good at least. according to libya, this has poor long-term effects
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Nov 5, 2022 20:49
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i say swears online posted:according to libya, this has poor long-term effects lol, well, the CWC doesn't say poo poo about nukes.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:50
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speng31b posted:yeah, it's totally unrealistic, but as an opening point to negotiations it would be great to feel that the Ukrainians actually know it's unrealistic and aren't amping themselves up (with a healthy dose of western cheerleading) for insane unachievable hyper nationalistic goals of ethnic cleansing that will make it even harder to actually achieve something like peace There's also the angle about comments like that being intended for internal consumption. Like when the DPRK talks about bathing the US in nuclear hellfire, that's mostly about speaking to people internally while nominally speaking directly to other countries. The nature of information and war is that we will never hear unvarnished assessments from anyone, and everyone is always propagandizing all the time, so trying to distinguish true belief and propaganda from statements is, at best, a fool's errand. What is more important to watch for are what they do with their actual troops and resources. I think Ukraine would like to threaten Crimea, strategically that makes sense, and they might even make the occasional small attack in that direction, just to either try to catch Russia with its pants down or to keep Russian resources there tied up and not able to be deployed elsewhere, but until they start seriously massing troops and potentially giving up other, more winnable objectives, which I haven't seen any evidence of, it makes far more sense to interpret what they're saying about Crimea as a combination of red meat for the ultranationalists and something they can "give up" at the negotiation table.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:51
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Majorian posted:Nah, that's a perfectly valid position to take IMO. Others may disagree and are free to argue against it, but it's not a particularly hot take. Yeah, it's hard to look at the demographics and culture of Crimea pre-2014 (let alone after it) and make an argument it was culturally more aligned with Ukraine than Russia.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:53
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:risking a probe for this but Crimea is also historically Russian, at least according to the majority of the people who live there and also history as well as Russia itself not really a hot take. crimea voted to remain with moscow (and then later independent) but ukrain invaded them and took away their self-determination. Ukraine invalidating the self-determination of the Crimean people posted:" On 20 January 1991, before the independence of Ukraine, the Crimeans were invited to choose by referendum between two options: to remain with Kiev or to return to the pre-1954 situation and be administered by Moscow…. 93.6% of Crimeans agreed to be attached to Moscow….  should add it wasnt' really that big of deal because russian ethnicity was largely left untouched and had a relatively decent trading relationship between the two countries before US did the violent coup in 2014 and armed up far-right neo-nazi groups and then all hell broke loss with what could be constituted 'genocide' under a liberal framework definition of the russian ethnicity in the eastern regions. Xaris has issued a correction as of 21:02 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 20:57
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Azathoth posted:Yeah, it's hard to look at the demographics and culture of Crimea pre-2014 (let alone after it) and make an argument it was culturally more aligned with Ukraine than Russia. Well the solution is to just not look at those things.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:58
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lobster shirt posted:its always better to think about trains than to think about war Wow, an Eichmann quote in the tankie thread, why am I not surprised? PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 21:09 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 20:59
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it is ukraine's right to take crimea as reparations for land lost in the soviet chernobyl exclusion zone
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Nov 5, 2022 21:03
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Al-Saqr posted:that would be pretty loving dire if they had to evacuate three million people out of Kiev, not even the Iraqis evacuated Baghdad when the Americans knocked out the power. Seems very unrealistic, especially if the power grid collapses completely.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:04
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Wow, an Eichmann quote in the tankie thread, why am I not surprised? lmao, damning indeed!
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Nov 5, 2022 21:11
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trying to make a map of what provinces were added to germany when but my computer keeps running out of ram
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Nov 5, 2022 21:16
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i say swears online posted:aiming my single bow with the angle of a howitzer, definitely not just for instagram this is the much vaunted Swedish "Archer" artillery system
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Nov 5, 2022 21:16
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V. Illych L. posted:i think this is the thread where people suggested unity of command was a good game to play and while this is true i keep getting completely owned by two german armoured divisions when i try to do the optional objectives in operation overlord Depending on your budget of time and money I would almost recommend playing through UoC 1 first, the system is a lot more bare bones, but it does feel like UoC 2 was partially designed to be a step up in challenge for veterans of 1, partially because 2 gives you so many more specialised tools and scenarios that can be won win those tools; in UoC 1 you are really just working with the basics of movement and supply lines - less stressful
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Nov 5, 2022 21:19
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Breakfast All Day posted:trying to make a map of what provinces were added to germany when but my computer keeps running out of ram lmao
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Nov 5, 2022 21:24
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OctaMurk posted:this is the much vaunted Swedish "Archer" artillery system 
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Nov 5, 2022 21:25
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Majorian posted:I suspect there's a bit of a game of telephone going on here, because 800,000 is a third of Crimea's total population. Or just the usual ethnonationalist big talk that the Daily Mail loves. Either way, in the unlikely event that Ukraine retakes Crimea, I strongly doubt their military will be in any position to undertake such a mass deportation.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:25
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Rutibex posted:they could go full USA on the cities of ukraine with normal bombs I don’t think they want to risk their backfires against nato AA missiles of any age unless nukes were flying
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Nov 5, 2022 21:30
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Saw this while catching up on the pictures thread, not sure if it was already posted
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Nov 5, 2022 21:36
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I don’t think they want to risk their backfires against nato AA missiles of any age unless nukes were flying are you telling me that a russian carpetbombing campaign might . . . backfire?
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Nov 5, 2022 21:38
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1588620168829501440 free Animal's Trash
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Nov 5, 2022 21:40
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Saw this while catching up on the pictures thread, not sure if it was already posted this seems legit until the last step i mean, who would actually want the crown of england at this point?
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Nov 5, 2022 21:41
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Saw this while catching up on the pictures thread, not sure if it was already posted Putting it up in the 2nd op. Tyvm, extremely illustrative.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:42
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all weapons are made from chemicals
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except the neutron bomb. that’s just neutrons
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OctaMurk posted:are you telling me that a russian carpetbombing campaign might . . . backfire? stop badgering Raskolnikov38
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euphronius posted:all weapons are made from chemicals lasers, sonics, lightsabers. mods ban this dezinformatsiya (also a nonchemical weapon!)
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Nov 5, 2022 21:48
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Train post. https://twitter.com/akamyshin/status/1588940542817488896?s=46&t=wRQHq9J9MH66pmNp8LJSGw
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Nov 5, 2022 21:50
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i commend ukraine on inventing the train. at this rate theyll unlock combustion in just a few turns
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Nov 5, 2022 21:52
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Cerebral Bore posted:this seems legit until the last step crown of england fills 23 tiles and its worth 2 victory points. great early game if you can get it, but its hard to fit it into your treasure puzzle late game
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Nov 5, 2022 21:53
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speng31b posted:https://twitter.com/legion_svoboda/status/1588903546027913217 Comrade Koba posted:new vlasov army just dropped In case anyone doubted this account's moral integrity and dedication to liberating Russia, they tweeted in celebration when a Sukhoi jet crashed into an apartment building in Yeysk in the Kuban area of Russia, finding the dead civilians guilty of the crime of... living too close to a military air base. Including the children, presumably. Tweet has a video of a burning building so putting it behind spoilers, but here is the very sane text: quote:🔥Yeysk is the home to Russia's 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division, which obliterated the city of Mariupol along with its citizens in the early months of the war. Yet no one in Yeysk stood against that atrocity. https://twitter.com/legion_svoboda/status/1582390044865990657?s=20&t=WLyVN7WAzJkE7ZuZSlu1WQ Al-Jazeera story on it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/17/aircraft-crashes-into-russian-residential-building-in-yeysk-city
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:In case anyone doubted this account's moral integrity and dedication to liberating Russia, they tweeted in celebration when a Sukhoi jet crashed into an apartment building in Yeysk in the Kuban area of Russia, finding the dead civilians guilty of the crime of... living too close to a military air base. Including the children, presumably. Tweet has a video of a burning building so putting it behind spoilers, but here is the very sane text: Ick. They seem like absolute delights.  (thanks for spoilering btw)mlmp08 posted:Train post. I like the paint job. 
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Nov 5, 2022 21:58
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euphronius posted:except the neutron bomb. that’s just neutrons that Weirdos song ftw
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Azathoth posted:There's also the angle about comments like that being intended for internal consumption. Like when the DPRK talks about bathing the US in nuclear hellfire, that's mostly about speaking to people internally while nominally speaking directly to other countries. The nature of information and war is that we will never hear unvarnished assessments from anyone, and everyone is always propagandizing all the time, so trying to distinguish true belief and propaganda from statements is, at best, a fool's errand. yeah, a lot of that is pretty clearly for internal consumption. as I said, the issue is that the longer the conflict goes on and the more opportunities for negotiation are missed, that internal propaganda has the effect of making it harder to open reasonable negotiations because the nationalist elements being empowered by the consumption of that internal propaganda do things like we've already seen, such as excommunicating or assassinating people who don't take the hard line stance. saying "it's all just for internal consumption, don't worry" only matters if there are rational actors in control and insane nationalists aren't being increasingly empowered
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