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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% |
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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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Atrocious Joe posted:This thread's unifying position is that the world would be a better place if Austria-Hungry transitioned into a multi-national federation instead of breaking apart into separate nation states. Eh count me out, it was time.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:29
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This thread's position is that the holy roman empire needs to return and replace artificial entities like the eu, the un and nato
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Dec 29, 2022 05:32
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Fivemarks posted:Is this the thread where people are all pro-russia? Also, it really isn’t, it just isn’t in the same mindset as the other threads are that is going to create more diversity of opinion. Also personally, the war has gone on long enough that I don’t think there are clear white and black hats in this thing and the best solution would be actual negotiated settlement in which whatever is left of the population is allowed to live in peace. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 05:48 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Dec 29, 2022 05:37
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the only way to achieve peace in our time is to marry pan-slavism and pan-arabism by bringing the turk and their anglo dogs to heel, we've been over this in exhaustive detail
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Dec 29, 2022 05:42
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Malleum posted:the only way to achieve peace in our time is to marry pan-slavism and pan-arabism by bringing the turk and their anglo dogs to heel, we've been over this in exhaustive detail Indeed, fought a few big wars over it actually IIRC.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:44
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Malleum posted:the only way to achieve peace in our time is to marry pan-slavism and pan-arabism by bringing the turk and their anglo dogs to heel, we've been over this in exhaustive detail Pulling a FF and just quoting a book description The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam Jerry Brotton Brotton (Great Maps), professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London, details the difficult diplomatic shifts Elizabeth I maneuvered in the wake of her excommunication in 1570. Having lost much of her previous access to Catholic commerce, Elizabeth found new connections in fellow Protestant lands as well as the Islamic world, notably the Ottoman Empire. An unstable triangle of Protestant-Muslim-Catholic alliances followed. Brotton successfully details the “unlikely” alliance through intriguing portrayals of England’s first ambassadors to Iran, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire, noting the uneven growth of trade between the island nation and Muslim powers. Thanks to the greater number of resources from the Western travelers, the narrative remains strongest when focusing on the East, but Brotton offers a glimpse of the impressions Muslim diplomats and traders made when visiting London. He also explores their impact on British culture through the evolution of characterizations in Elizabethan theater, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare. The book’s true action occurs in smoothly written descriptions of delicate negotiations set in the East, highlighted with the attempts by Protestant, Catholic, and Muslim rulers to pit rivals against one another. Brotton blends meticulous research with a deft touch of the mysterious, resulting in a fascinating shared history of East and West.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:50
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Atrocious Joe posted:This thread's unifying position is that the world would be a better place if Austria-Hungry transitioned into a multi-national federation instead of breaking apart into separate nation states. Someone needs to update the united states of austria in Kaiserreich.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:57
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Atrocious Joe posted:Pulling a FF and just quoting a book description The book sounds interesting, but it's worth noting that European powers allying with the Ottomans was not as unheard-of as this makes it seem.
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Dec 29, 2022 05:57
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It takes a special kind of politics-following moron for foreign policy to be the most important thing on their plate I imagine it's partly why socdems in the west get away with having such bad foreign policy: to the extent that they win elections, they don't "need" to be good on it
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Dec 29, 2022 06:45
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gradenko_2000 posted:It takes a special kind of politics-following moron for foreign policy to be the most important thing on their plate Time to post this classic that also applies to NZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18
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Dec 29, 2022 06:48
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Fivemarks posted:Is this the thread where people are all pro-russia? Yes. Welcome.
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Dec 29, 2022 06:54
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhCZmo_z8U I once encountered then-Lt Col. Milburn trucking through the darkness from the rec center in the Mojave on two beer night at the end of a training cycle. No cover, somewhat wobbly. He brushed past without a word before I realized who he was and before I could muster up an appropriate greeting. I suspect he had consumed more than two beers. Without condoning anyone killing anyone else- I do hope he is enjoying killing consenting combatants in his retirement. Semper Fi
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Dec 29, 2022 07:28
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Atrocious Joe posted:Pulling a FF and just quoting a book description This is a good book, but it doesn’t live up to its potential. For a similar scenario that brings the heat I would recommend: 
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Dec 29, 2022 07:29
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Fivemarks posted:Is this the thread where people are all pro-russia? Actually this is the thread where people are Ultra-Super-Pro-Russia-64-GigaPower.
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Dec 29, 2022 08:09
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https://twitter.com/BadSocialisms/status/1607905580823515142
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Dec 29, 2022 08:23
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Frosted Flake posted:More roving guns. Caesar battery should be 6 but this poor lil guy is on his lonesome. Don't need 6 when you have such transcendent skill and accuracy. The shell fired by that gun was perfectly aimed to destroy an entire battalion of Russian troops through a complex chain of events, like in the board game Mouse Trap.
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Dec 29, 2022 08:24
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crepeface posted:cspam is fairly out there on international issues. if you include the whole world I’d say anti American /imperialism is probably the majority opinion though
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Dec 29, 2022 08:34
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Ytlaya posted:Don't need 6 when you have such transcendent skill and accuracy. The shell fired by that gun was perfectly aimed to destroy an entire battalion of Russian troops through a complex chain of events, like in the board game Mouse Trap. I think you'll find it actually works like the film wanted wherein the genetically superior ukraimensch guide the shell onto the orcs by their iron will alone
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Dec 29, 2022 09:24
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Slavvy posted:This thread's position is that the holy roman empire needs to return and replace artificial entities like the eu, the un and nato its better than the first and the last one. Won wars too.
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Dec 29, 2022 09:43
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/12/29/russia-ukraine-live-lavrov-rejects-zelenskyys-peace-formula Another large wave to Russian missile strikes. Reportedly over 120 missiles. I think this is the largest barrage to date. 90% of Lviv has lost power. Edit: Sergey Lavrov said Russia is considering strikes on railway lines, bridges and tunnels to disrupt the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine. OhFunny has issued a correction as of 09:55 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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Dec 29, 2022 09:50
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OhFunny posted:Edit: Sergey Lavrov said Russia is considering strikes on railway lines, bridges and tunnels to disrupt the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine. It’s extremely funny (and horrifying) how they’ve come to this conclusion only after they’ve been solidly beaten almost everywhere and lost two thirds of all their progress. Anyways, it’s too late now, russia is beaten at this point and it’s just about negotiating a face saving exit from here on.
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Dec 29, 2022 10:04
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quick, someone throw some unpainted Warhammer figurines at him!
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Dec 29, 2022 10:10
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cant believe russia used up their last missiles on this.....
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Dec 29, 2022 10:15
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Fivemarks posted:Is this the thread where people are all pro-russia? No, this is the pro-Habsburg thread, where we want to restore the Dual Monarchy and Second Mexican Empire (Serious: my own opinion is that there's no good guys and it's bad with everything going on in domestic countries that money is being spent on proxy war, and that the war is being used as an excuse to make people's lives worse. See that story about cancelling a national holiday in Denmark to pay for weapons)
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Dec 29, 2022 10:26
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tbh tiny european ethnostates with a dash of ethnic cleansing is bad because some tiny prick country with population barely in the millions will have massive chips on their shoulders.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:04
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Small dog countries
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Dec 29, 2022 11:13
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Fivemarks posted:Is this the thread where people are all pro-russia? yeah, can't you see everyone cheering on the missile strikes
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Dec 29, 2022 11:19
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crepeface posted:my experience in australia is that the journalist libbrain opinions on international issues are very much in the majority. Once worked with a very nice Australian guy who sincerely told me that Joe Biden was a communist.
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Dec 29, 2022 11:32
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this is all you need to know about australian politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gUmHBeGfaE
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Dec 29, 2022 11:37
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some good news for the goon that posted about all the money the US used to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1608204398983012352?t=F9yMCttHA9Vo9FOrzoMUEQ&s=19
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Dec 29, 2022 11:40
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crepeface posted:quick, someone throw some unpainted Warhammer figurines at him! HIISSsssssssss *scurries away like a feral cat to his hobby desk*
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Dec 29, 2022 11:42
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now now, be nice to Al-Saqr - I started on miniatures/figurines again and it's a nice hobby 
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Dec 29, 2022 11:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:now now, be nice to Al-Saqr - I started on miniatures/figurines again and it's a nice hobby stop riding bikes and playing with dolls and get back to posting book excerpts. 
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Dec 29, 2022 11:58
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gradenko_2000 posted:now now, be nice to Al-Saqr - I started on miniatures/figurines again and it's a nice hobby i AM being nice, I'm giving him a nice toy to paint!
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Dec 29, 2022 12:06
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https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart963/status/1607841210596749314Zodium posted:stop riding bikes and playing with dolls and get back to posting book excerpts. I'm currently reading John B. Lundstrom's "First Team" about fighter combat in the first six months of WW2 in the Pacific, so there hasn't been a lot that's relevant to post, in basically any of the threads I frequent my only take so far is that there's this persistent image in histories of WW2 in the Pacific: "the Zero was the best fighter in the theater in terms of speed and maneuverability, but had problems with a lack of armor and self-sealing fuel tanks which made them vulnerable to even minor hits. American [naval] aviators were able to hold their own against the Zero by utilizing the ability of the Wildcat to simply dive out and away from any engagement that it didn't like, and then used superior group tactics when opportunities presented itself" but what I've been reading so far seems to show that Zeroes and Wildcats rarely encountered each other during this first phase of the war - Butch O'Hare earned his Medal of Honor shooting down unescorted G4M Betty bombers, and other early American aces like Jimmy Thach similarly cut their teeth on shooting down floatplanes and scouting flying boats. By the time you start seeing dedicated fighter-on-fighter engagements, the USN has Corsairs and Hellcats, which are much closer to the Zero in technical performance
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Dec 29, 2022 12:42
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Al-Saqr posted:It’s extremely funny (and horrifying) how they’ve come to this conclusion only after they’ve been solidly beaten almost everywhere and lost two thirds of all their progress. Anyways, it’s too late now, russia is beaten at this point and it’s just about negotiating a face saving exit from here on. 
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Dec 29, 2022 13:16
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CODChimera posted:this is all you need to know about australian politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tqXSPkDbX4 For anyone who doesn't get it, same politician.
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Dec 29, 2022 13:20
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart963/status/1607841210596749314 Quite a bit of common knowledge about WWII turns out to be poorly documented bs, when put under any scrutiny. Not unusual for history, but WWII was a pretty well-documented war so there's a lot discord between myths and reality.
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Dec 29, 2022 13:22
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who are you people
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Dec 29, 2022 13:51
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i am going to fight each and every single one of you. i will come to your house and just pulverise you with my fists. you will not survive my rage.
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