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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Arnt they also separated from politics of the Russian state much like Erik Princes backwater goons and all those ex special forces in the US are (in that they sell books and show up on TV as taking heads). Unlike Azov which runs children's camps and have a political party. So on scale of S to SS they a just a S?

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CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009


kherson unproper

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

ughhhh posted:

Arnt they also separated from politics of the Russian state much like Erik Princes backwater goons and all those ex special forces in the US are (in that they sell books and show up on TV as taking heads). Unlike Azov which runs children's camps and have a political party. So on scale of S to SS they a just a S?

They aren't or more specifically Prigozhin isn't. He is obviously using the PMC to advance his personal political goals and whatever other ambitions he has, whether the PMC itself has other political ambitions isn't a topic that I've seen come up. So I guess yeah it's pretty much exactly like Erik Prince.

speng31b
May 8, 2010

ughhhh posted:

Arnt they also separated from politics of the Russian state much like Erik Princes backwater goons and all those ex special forces in the US are (in that they sell books and show up on TV as taking heads). Unlike Azov which runs children's camps and have a political party. So on scale of S to SS they a just a S?

hard to compare it to azov, as poster above said, Wagner is detached from Russian military organizationally, but the leaders are tightly woven into Russian government, so it's no stretch to say Wagner is only separate because it suits their interests to keep it that way and not for any "nice" reason

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Post soviet Russia is the reflection of USA looking back at it. You see yourself and you hate it.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

ughhhh posted:

Arnt they also separated from politics of the Russian state much like Erik Princes backwater goons and all those ex special forces in the US are (in that they sell books and show up on TV as taking heads). Unlike Azov which runs children's camps and have a political party. So on scale of S to SS they a just a S?

The National Corps has no representation in the Rada and afaik Azov's Youth Corps is not affiliated with the state in any way. Azov does have ties to the state obviously but not really in those ways.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

That's true, not all nazis in Ukrainian government are linked to Azov.

https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1387651437568663553

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Where are the conscripts or everything is just in a holding pattern due to winter?

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Mr Hootington posted:

Where are the conscripts or everything is just in a holding pattern due to winter?

last update from Putin said 30% of them were deployed

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Mr Hootington posted:

Where are the conscripts or everything is just in a holding pattern due to winter?

half of them are probably already dead

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Mr Hootington posted:

Where are the conscripts or everything is just in a holding pattern due to winter?

the holding pattern is when the conscripts actually show up to the critically undermanned front. ukraine is probably redeploying to zaporizihia or Donetsk than trying to force a crossing around Kherson

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Makes sense.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the degree to which Russia has hosed up this entire war can no longer be understated

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
so do all these nazi enthusiasts actually believe in making a national socialist government or are they just liberal edgelords

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
the drive to Kiev is going to go down as one of the greatest military blunders of all time

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
they will sell everything off to the EU.

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
The conscripts are being captured by Ukraine and sent right back at the Russians

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the drive to Kiev is going to go down as one of the greatest military blunders of all time

because it wasn't a military decision at all, it was political

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


personally I think this whole war is freaking bullshit. russia didn't even have the good controller

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Bro Dad posted:

personally I think this whole war is freaking bullshit. russia didn't even have the good controller

Clinton to yeltsin in 1996: we’ll keep you in power but you have to play with the madkatz controller

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Rutibex posted:

so do all these nazi enthusiasts actually believe in making a national socialist government or are they just liberal edgelords

I watched bits of a talk by a neo-nazi about the 2014 coup and the impression I got was he was interested in forming a society in keeping with his ideology but keeping a liberal government in power and that this was seen as a more efficient way of achieving his goals.

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Clinton to yeltsin in 1996: we’ll keep you in power but you have to play with the madkatz controller

hah, I remember those.

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Clinton to yeltsin in 1996: we’ll keep you in power but you have to play with the madkatz controller

imagine trying to fortify your position with a dead thumbstick

GlassElephant
Oct 25, 2009

Schwere Panzerabteilung 502
Discovered they were Glass Elephants, 27 APR 45
Looks like Nuzhin was returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, so the Russian government (via the military) got him and handed him over to Wagner.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Clinton to yeltsin in 1996: we’ll keep you in power but you have to play with the madkatz controller

thats why they call her killary

speng31b
May 8, 2010

GlassElephant posted:

Looks like Nuzhin was returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, so the Russian government (via the military) got him and handed him over to Wagner.

i read some pretty wild sounding stories about him being claimed as a double agent who was supposed to infiltrate Ukraine's Russian defector brigade (same guys claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks on the opposite side of Russia). As in, Wagner sent him to infiltrate the defector brigade but Ukraine turned him double agent. Probably all bullshit but there's lots of crazy stuff floating around.

e: these guys, who are totally real and not a Ukrainian op https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

I don't think you need to make up a conspiracy for a PMC executing a convict that they expected to die instead of surrendering.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

speng31b posted:

Wagner's pretty dang high on the Nazi scale, this is the dude that founded them and they are filled with similar ilk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin

basic Slavic blood and soil genred Nazis

quote:

Utkin, who reportedly has a passion for the history of the Third Reich,[17] had the call-sign Wagner, allegedly in honour of Richard Wagner.

lmao the nerdiest strain of nazi to boot

Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

Horizon Burning posted:

Like seriously how pathetic do you have to be to breathlessly rush in here about the evils of Wagner PMC while ukraine is going on about the evil Russian soldier staybehinds who are pretending to be civilians and kindergarten teachers or whatever

Sad poo poo

I'd guess glasselephant approves of the purges and is trying to deflect attention.

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Lostconfused posted:

I don't think you need to make up a conspiracy for a PMC executing a convict that they expected to die instead of surrendering.

its not about need, they do it for the love of the game

GlassElephant
Oct 25, 2009

Schwere Panzerabteilung 502
Discovered they were Glass Elephants, 27 APR 45

speng31b posted:

i read some pretty wild sounding stories about him being claimed as a double agent who was supposed to infiltrate Ukraine's Russian defector brigade (same guys claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks on the opposite side of Russia). As in, Wagner sent him to infiltrate the defector brigade but Ukraine turned him double agent. Probably all bullshit but there's lots of crazy stuff floating around.

e: these guys, who are totally real and not a Ukrainian op https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion

Those stories match up with one of the versions of why he was handed over.

Gulagu.net posted:

Gulagu.net's source in the "PMC Wagner": "We took Nuzhin. Evgeny Viktorovich, through his connections in the General Staff and the FSB, set a condition - to take Nuzhin and return him at any cost. The counterintelligence forces planted disinformation to the Ukrainian side that Nuzhin was allegedly a double agent and wanted to infiltrate the "Legion" in order to carry out intelligence work. As a result, they sowed doubts, + Nuzhin did not pass the polygraph. At this time our people imposed a condition - all exchanges are stopped until Nuzhin is handed over. After some deliberation a decision was made in Kiev. After that Prigozhin himself is waiting for the second star of Hero of Russia and walks very happy. But the effect is the opposite. Many of our people realized that it was time to leave, we will not take part in such lawlessness anymore.

Gulagu.net's source in Kiev confirmed that E. Nuzhin had been handed over to the Russian side as a prisoner exchange. There is a scandal in Kiev, and a wave of interviews with prisoners has begun in view of this emergency. Personnel decisions and the resignation of a number of officials are possible (although we admit that this was the goal of the Prigozhin/GRU special operation and not Nuzhin himself).

We are waiting for a response to our public appeal from the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski with an explanation of the circumstances. He is the only one who can finally dot all the i's in this story.

We ask everybody to keep composure and not to turn to insults and foul language.

P.S. No one absolves Putin, the dictator who started the war and who "gave the go-ahead" to the bandit Prigozhin and other murderers and executioners, of responsibility. Biden was right - Putin is a murderer. And all these shootings outside the Kremlin and sledgehammer executions are the work of his henchmen, who can do anything for money.

And by way of background, September 2022: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky addressed the Russians on mobilization in Russia, stressing that now is "the key moment when it is decided whether your life will end." "Ukraine guarantees every Russian soldier who surrenders three things. One: you will be treated in a civilized manner, in accordance with all conventions. Two: no one will know the circumstances of how you surrendered, no one in Russia will know that your surrender was voluntary. And the third: if you are afraid to return to Russia and do not want an exchange, we will find a way to ensure this as well," assured Zelenski.

This is why we asked the president of Ukraine to speak out and explain what happened. Is it a mistake and a failure of the system, is it a refusal of assurances and guarantees or is it something else?

Translated with https://www.deepl.com/Translator (free version)
(from t.me/NetGulagu/3789, via tgsa)

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017

GlassElephant posted:

Those stories match up with one of the versions of why he was handed over.

(from t.me/NetGulagu/3789, via tgsa)

Can you or someone break this down in a very simple way for me? I'm trying to follow the story but haven't been able to put everything together (too tired).

Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

NeatHeteroDude posted:

Can you or someone break this down in a very simple way for me? I'm trying to follow the story but haven't been able to put everything together (too tired).

A nazi group killed a man with a sledgehammer.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Bro Dad posted:

personally I think this whole war is freaking bullshit. russia didn't even have the good controller

loving Zelensky always plays as Oddjob. It's such bullshit.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

Dixon Chisholm posted:

A nazi group killed a man with a sledgehammer.

why did he have a sledgehammer

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017

Calibanibal posted:

why did he have a sledgehammer

It's can break through light cover

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Calibanibal posted:

why did he have a sledgehammer

god of war ragnarok unlocked, probably

Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

Calibanibal posted:

why did he have a sledgehammer

I don't understand the ways of orcs.

Meow Tse-tung
Oct 11, 2004

No one cat should have all that power
when all you have is a sledgehammer, everything looks like a thing you can hit with a sledgehammer

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Feral Integral
Jun 6, 2006

YOSPOS


snape kills dumbledore isnt really a spoiler imo its why he kills dumbledore thats interesting so why people act all beat up

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