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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Dec 13, 2022 19:14
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weren’t they in Azovstahl
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Dec 13, 2022 19:14
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It sounds a lot less spicy than that blurb.quote:At the beginning of the year, 45 Commando were taking part in exercises in Norway when they were rapidly redeployed to Poland to help with the evacuation. During their training in the frozen mountains and fjords above the Arctic Circle, temperatures dropped to minus 35C. I'll believe they're actually doing stuff when they start coming home in body bags.
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Dec 13, 2022 19:15
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Lol if the brits helped the Ukrainians blow up that bridge. the brits are really lving down to expectations on this one between the pipeline and bridge lol
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Dec 13, 2022 19:15
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Isentropy posted:If????? Only one country is so full of itself, dumb, and capable of naval operations UK might well have helped, especially regarding some of the drone boat shenanigans, but there’s not much terribly naval about “big bomb in a truck drives on bridge.”
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Dec 13, 2022 19:25
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:Look for high profile fuckups Can anyone find Liz Truss 😂
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Dec 13, 2022 19:29
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lol I was closer than I’d like to going into the RM, so good thing that got put to the side eh? It’s bad enough they don’t fly you home for leave and pay less. You have to blow up bridges in Ukraine? Pass.
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Dec 13, 2022 19:29
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Isentropy posted:Honestly it's interesting to note that sometimes it doesn't break down that way. FF is aware Nova Scotia and the Maritimes implemented heavy lockdown and a protective isolated barrier because they realized the Metropole didn't give a gently caress whether they lived or died it's very instructive. 
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Dec 13, 2022 19:35
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Its wild that Ukraine used a suicide bomber this year
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Dec 13, 2022 19:48
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Futanari Damacy posted:Can anyone find Liz Truss 😂 It would be super funny if the reason people pushed for Liz Truss for PM was so she could stamp all the extremely foolhardy military ops so they'd have someone to blame if/when they get revealed.
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Dec 13, 2022 19:51
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Lol if the brits helped the Ukrainians blow up
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Dec 13, 2022 19:53
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paul_soccer12 posted:Its wild that Ukraine used a suicide bomber this year I'm pretty sure that they blew it up remotely because the driver was just some random guy Incidentally, most articles about the truck bomb spend as little time as possible discussing the driver's identity
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Dec 13, 2022 19:57
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:The US is going to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine. US: Russia, Iran moving toward full defense ‘partnership’ quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is accusing Russia of moving to provide advanced military assistance to Iran, including air defense systems, helicopters and fighter jets, part of deepening cooperation between the two nations as Tehran provides drones to support Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The US says Russia are doing just that.
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Dec 13, 2022 19:58
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paul_soccer12 posted:Its wild that Ukraine used a suicide bomber this year I'm still under the impression that the guy driving the truck was a very unfortunate dupe who didn't realize what was going to happen to him. A murdered bomber if you will. Reportedly there is alot of chatter from the Russian side on telegram that Ukraine's defenses in Bahkmut are breaking up and the Ukrainians are blowing up bridges in the rear of the city to try and give themselves time to establish a new defensive line along the front of the towns of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Kostyantynivka. I really wish we got more reporting of what is going on in Bahkmut because the reports from both sides really seem to paint it as a bigger version of the fight for Mariupol and the defining battle of the war to this point, and yet unlike Mariupol we have gotten no real clue what conditions are like on the ground there or what is going on. **I guess for balance Ukrainian sources are claiming that tens of thousands of poorly trained Russian conscript soldiers have been massacred trying to attack the city in human wave attacks and thousands of tanks and other combat vehicles have been destroyed and it is the Russians who are being pushed back by a series of Ukrainian counter attacks in the areas adjacent to the city. People who are skeptical of these claims have pointed out that the Ukrainian propaganda mill has been oddly silent on the topic of Bakhmut whereas if there were great massacres of Russians and their equipment taking place we would surely be getting photographs of lines of Russian conscripts lying dead in the streets or fields of burned out tanks like that time when Russia tried to bridge their way across the river. Starsfan has issued a correction as of 20:18 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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Dec 13, 2022 20:01
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OhFunny posted:US: Russia, Iran moving toward full defense ‘partnership’ it's always funny how petulant the us gets whenever countries that they themselves have declared as their mortal enemies start cooperating
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Dec 13, 2022 20:02
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Starsfan posted:I'm still under the impression that the guy driving the truck was a very unfortunate dupe who didn't realize what was going to happen to him. A murdered bomber if you will. I absolutely bet on this having been the case. The hyper-devoted would not be able to keep up the ruse long enough and the rightly less committed would be harder to frogmarch to their remotely controlled death.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:06
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The UA seem to reward the true believers with not being put in harm's way and making cringe social media content for donations, vs. the would-be conscientious objectors intentionally being put in the line of artillery fire to have them silenced for good.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:08
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oscarthewilde posted:in the end, like so many things, it’s all hegels fault. I wish I could find a Hegel of today...and go kill him.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:21
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Politically, the Hegel of today is Francis Fukuyama Stylistically, it's... I dunno, probably the House of Leaves guy
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Dec 13, 2022 20:23
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PhilippAchtel posted:Politically, the Hegel of today is Francis Fukuyama Danielewski????
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Dec 13, 2022 20:28
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PhilippAchtel posted:Politically, the Hegel of today is Francis Fukuyama Oh, well then what's the point, nevermind.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:33
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As far as Bakmut, it seems like Russian forces are actually getting deeper inside the town and from the most part it seems like the Ukrainians were just being hammered there. It isn’t as decisive as portrayed, but at the same time the Ukrainians will likely have to give up their position to the north and it does allow the Russians to advance deeper through Ukrainian lines. If the Russians were planning for a larger operation, it would make sense they would want to clear out the most fortified positions in the Donbass.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:37
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Ardennes posted:If the Russians were planning for a larger operation, it would make sense they would want to clear out the most fortified positions in the Donbass. Taking Bakhmut is certainly a part of the Donbas offensive, which kicked off in early April.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:45
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Wasn't it leaked that the UK military wanted to destroy the bridge pillars in a dramatic frog man operation but that wasn't feasible so the Ukrainians went with the suicide patsy trucker
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Dec 13, 2022 20:50
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The way the truck bomb worked was that the materials were routed around the Black Sea into Southern Russia through a bunch of proxies. The guy who died in the truck likely picked it up somewhere after it passed a few hands, because he was a local contract driver who took jobs online.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:10
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:The way the truck bomb worked was that the materials were routed around the Black Sea into Southern Russia through a bunch of proxies. The guy who died in the truck likely picked it up somewhere after it passed a few hands, because he was a local contract driver who took jobs online. wait, it was heading east -> west into crimea? i didn't know that
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Dec 13, 2022 21:11
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mlmp08 posted:Taking Bakhmut is certainly a part of the Donbas offensive, which kicked off in early April. It is certainly part of a new push regardless of how you want to classify it.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:14
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https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1602640283916705794 Update on mobilization and artillery war; TLDR thing improved for the Russians and chaos got sorted out.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:15
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Ardennes posted:It is certainly part of a new push regardless of how you want to classify it. Bakhmut has been a major center of fighting for several month now, as a component of the April Donbas offensive. Kharkiv was dmall, comparatively, from a size of UAF/RF forces perspective. Kherson also likely smaller. Bakhmut has been the fall-back point for Ukraine since May. Started going much hotter in August, with first real shifts occurring in the past 1-2 months.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:18
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kind of relevant here i guess, an italian eurofighter crashed earlier today, pilot may or may not be okay https://twitter.com/cencio4/status/1602759680295854080 is the eurofighter any good? is it bad? unknown?
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Dec 13, 2022 21:25
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lobster shirt posted:is the eurofighter any good? is it bad? unknown? Regardless of how good it is compared with other fighters, I still wish that I had one. It is probably worth a lot of money.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:35
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mlmp08 posted:Bakhmut has been a major center of fighting for several month now, as a component of the April Donbas offensive. This a new push regardless of how you want to classify it.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:37
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Ardennes posted:This a new push regardless of how you want to classify it. https://youtu.be/wAlGJaYDEsE
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Dec 13, 2022 21:38
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Ardennes posted:This a new push regardless of how you want to classify it. yeah it was stressed in that interview with Douglass Macgregor that the Russian combat group in the south of Ukraine has been extensively reinforced and improved over what it was even a couple months ago. This is not to say that it's an entirely new army or anything, but what we heard before was that the Ukrainians had kind of mastered the process of dividing the attention of the Russians in the south and having the Russians stretch their limited resources too thin to really accomplish much of anything.. Whenever the temperature began to get too hot in Bakhmut the Ukrainians would launch an offensive at some other point on the map leading the Russians to pull away their best units out of the front and give the Ukrainians time to cycle in new defenders. Doesn't seem like the Ukrainians are capable of doing that right at this moment and it's pretty clear even from the reports of the Ukrainians that the pressure on Bakhmut has never been anywhere near like what the Russians are doing this last month.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:43
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Ytlaya posted:Regardless of how good it is compared with other fighters, I still wish that I had one. It is probably worth a lot of money. hell, same
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Dec 13, 2022 21:44
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"Lyrics please I love this new song from ur group blessings from above to all of u keep on praising the lord God have his faithful people from every race tribe and nation God loves us all"
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Dec 13, 2022 21:45
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Ytlaya posted:"Lyrics please I love this new song from ur group blessings from above to all of u keep on praising the lord God have his faithful people from every race tribe and nation God loves us all" Awww, that's sweet. It's like an octogenarian looking at a Thomas Kinkade painting for the first time.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:47
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Majorian posted:Awww, that's sweet. It's like an octogenarian looking at a Thomas Kinkade painting for the first time.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:48
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lobster shirt posted:hell, same I wonder how you would go about selling a Eurofighter Typhoon as a normal person, though. Alibaba? Just googling "how to get in contact with arms dealers"? Majorian posted:Awww, that's sweet. It's like an octogenarian looking at a Thomas Kinkade painting for the first time. Sometimes I find myself doubting the other races, but then I remember that every race tribe still has people devoted to The Lord Our God.
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Dec 13, 2022 21:50
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Starsfan posted:yeah it was stressed in that interview with Douglass Macgregor that the Russian combat group in the south of Ukraine has been extensively reinforced and improved over what it was even a couple months ago. This is not to say that it's an entirely new army or anything, but what we heard before was that the Ukrainians had kind of mastered the process of dividing the attention of the Russians in the south and having the Russians stretch their limited resources too thin to really accomplish much of anything.. Whenever the temperature began to get too hot in Bakhmut the Ukrainians would launch an offensive at some other point on the map leading the Russians to pull away their best units out of the front and give the Ukrainians time to cycle in new defenders. Doesn't seem like the Ukrainians are capable of doing that right at this moment and it's pretty clear even from the reports of the Ukrainians that the pressure on Bakhmut has never been anywhere near like what the Russians are doing this last month. The Russians really didn’t have enough forces on the ground to do much, Kharkov was abandoned mostly because there was nothing left to reinforce it and the Russians pulled back to a more defensible position. The Ukrainians you outnumbered the Russians could then reinforce positions and limit Russian progress until it was practically a stalemate. Kherson was about the fragility of Russian supply lines. With more reservists, the Russians how have the ability to concentrate their forces and start hitting strong points. The question is going to be the overall disposition of Russian forces. Are large about of Russian forces sitting in Belarus and north of Kharkov waiting? Putin claimed 150k have been deployed. drat Russkis figured out how to do a offensive Ardennes has issued a correction as of 21:56 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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