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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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Granted, part of me just wants to see a Bradley in conventional combat, the reputation of Pentagon Wars hangs in the balance. Also, throw some sunbaked Abrams tanks into the mud too. I want to be entertained.
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Dec 30, 2022 00:39
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I want to see a warthog crash into an osprey
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Dec 30, 2022 00:43
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https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914quote:The war has also put an end to the oligarchs being able to use their own media as one of their main tools of influence. The moratorium on the country’s political life, together with the information monopoly put in place by presidential decree at the start of the war (TV channels can only show “unified news” that meet guidelines drawn up by the president’s office) have turned the oligarchs’ media resources—loss-making even before the war—into a complete waste of money for their owners. Man I forgot about all the crazy poo poo that happened in this war. Not the censorship, but the oligarch assassination. quote:Right now, the only person on the Forbes list of the ten richest Ukrainians who can feel relatively confident is former president Petro Poroshenko.He doesn’t have any major assets in the southeast of the country, and his national-patriotic ideology is on point at a time of war. Yet all the new means of exerting pressure on the former president, from restrictions on travel abroad to closing down the armies of pro-Poroshenko propaganda-spreading bots, are a constant reminder that the arsenal Zelensky has at his disposal in the fight against his main rival is only growing.  quote:The Russian invasion has pushed the Ukrainian state to the brink of survival, but on the domestic political front, it has enabled Zelensky to solve most of his old problems. The main one—his standoff with the oligarchs—resolved itself on its own: the tycoons are now focused on salvaging the remnants of their capital rather than trying to bring down the president. quote:The deoligarchization of Ukraine looks set to be an irreversible process. Regardless of how the war ends, the conditions are simply not in place for the formation of a new class of the superrich: the Ukrainian economy has been too badly damaged by the war for any new oligarchs to emerge, while the ambitions of those who once had it all have been severely curtailed. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 00:50 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 00:45
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Ardennes posted:Granted, part of me just wants to see a Bradley in conventional combat, Gulf War already happened, but that was quite a while ago.
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Dec 30, 2022 00:47
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PhilippAchtel posted:In my experience, to the extent that most people part attention to politics at all, they just repeat what they see on television. thats not true sometimes they repeat things they read on the internet
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Dec 30, 2022 01:04
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Lostconfused posted:https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914 There is no incentive for the US to push for an end to the war. The more destruction of Ukraine the better as far as that's concerned for Blackrock. Also thanks for correcting my poorly recollected ukrainian a while ago, it gave me the urge to learn it in depth on duolingo and I have been doing so. Your posts from ukrainian and russian sources help also so thanks for that too.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:08
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Lostconfused posted:https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914 It is just going to be the US government either handing out their own money/looting Russian accounts to do mostly gently caress all. Honestly, oligarchs are pulling out because they know there isn’t going to be much of a country left one way or another.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:08
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Weka posted:My newest hot take for NZ's defence activities is that they are actually a defence against the USA getting salty and imposing tariffs or doing a soft coup. Look up “Defence Against Help”.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:10
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Seatbelts posted:https://twitter.com/IurasVictor/status/1608585527363608578?s=20 it looks so dumb
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Dec 30, 2022 01:11
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paul_soccer12 posted:I want to see a warthog crash into an osprey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coyIpZE3lOM Weka has issued a correction as of 01:14 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 01:12
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Frosted Flake posted:Look up “Defence Against Help”. Now that you mention it, it's probably your posts on it that stuck in my subconscious until bubbling up into my crudely formed hot take.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:14
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Cromulent_Chill posted:There is no incentive for the US to push for an end to the war. The more destruction of Ukraine the better as far as that's concerned for Blackrock. *mlmp08ishly* why do you just assume the US would just do whatever blackrock wanted, the whitehouse senior advisor to ukraine on economic issues is actually only the FORMER director of blackrock. https://twitter.com/TheErrantFriend/status/1608166965235060736?s=20
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Dec 30, 2022 01:14
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I don’t think it’s fair to assume that just Becuase American capital is involved there is necessarily massive crimes being committee
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Dec 30, 2022 01:16
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Chairperson of the Crimes Being Committee has the floor.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:17
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Some Guy TT posted:thats not true sometimes they repeat things they read on the internet That's what I do.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:18
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Committed. Sorry hahah
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Dec 30, 2022 01:18
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Tyvm
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Megamissen posted:it looks so dumb Yeah, I don’t know how it is going to fare in an something that isn’t a police action, where the enemy has the ability to sustainably fight back. As apart of a conventional conflict, it is going to face a lot of threats design to easily aimed at taking it out. They could use them as battle taxis but it seems pretty inefficient.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:19
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The twitter thread missed this gem from the article quote:More recently, we generously helped three prisoners at Guantánamo Bay kill themselves. “The manipulative detainees,” wrote Michelle Malkin soon afterward, “reportedly used the generous civil liberties protections we gave them to plot their suicide pact.” How dare they!!! I didn't think I could be surprised any more by the moral depths American political commentators could sink to but what do you know
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Dec 30, 2022 01:21
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crepeface posted:*mlmp08ishly* why do you just assume the US would just do whatever blackrock wanted, the whitehouse senior advisor to ukraine on economic issues is actually only the FORMER director of blackrock. i forget was there a time period under trump when libs acted like blackrock was bad or did it just not come up because trump didnt hire anyone from blackrock
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Dec 30, 2022 01:24
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anyway these last few pages have been really bad can someone post the tiktok from the gassed thread where lukashenko drives up next to a train that has putin, chika and a gnome in it and then guy and a cat fly by in a bathtub again e: it had this song playing in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lqvYoY7j8E Megamissen has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 01:26
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Lostconfused posted:https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914 lol at the lede quote:It’s true that Ukraine’s oligarchs corrupted the Ukrainian state and undermined effective reform and development, preventing it from escaping from its post-Soviet stagnation. But they were also a key protective mechanism against anyone else usurping power.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:26
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Megamissen posted:it looks so dumb That may be because it was suppose to look like this  But every branch wanted their wunderwaffe toys so instead its an APC, IFV, Medevac, Tank hunter, Gun carrier, etc etc
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Dec 30, 2022 01:26
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the closers pretty great tooquote:Ukraine didn’t just have two successful revolutions in 2004 and 2014 because of civil resistance. They also resulted from the considerable media and financial support given to the opposition by big business (no matter that that support was motived by self-interest). Now the war has enabled President Zelensky to concentrate an enormous amount of power in his hands, and it will be tempting for him to hold onto that power, even when peace is restored. When that time comes, there will no longer be a trade union of oligarchs ready to help civil society prevent such a turn of events.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:30
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, I don’t know how it is going to fare in an something that isn’t a police action, where the enemy has the ability to sustainably fight back. As apart of a conventional conflict, it is going to face a lot of threats design to easily aimed at taking it out. Gonna shock Ardennes if he ever learns about Desert Storm.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:30
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Cromulent_Chill posted:There is no incentive for the US to push for an end to the war. The more destruction of Ukraine the better as far as that's concerned for Blackrock. Yeah I've been catching up on a lot this year, and honestly wish this mess didn't happen and I could have kept ignoring it. Ardennes posted:It is just going to be the US government either handing out their own money/looting Russian accounts to do mostly gently caress all. Honestly, oligarchs are pulling out because they know there isn’t going to be much of a country left one way or another. There's just too many different interest groups in Ukraine right now imo. They all have their own idea of where they're going and are just looking out for themselves. I kinda get why someone might want to call it anarchy now.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:31
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trade union of oligarchs
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mlmp08 posted:I don’t think so. That question is long settled: Yes, it’s imperialist. what makes it imperialist
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Dec 30, 2022 01:35
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Seatbelts posted:That may be because it was suppose to look like this Are the headlights mounted on an ERA block?
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Dec 30, 2022 01:43
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crepeface posted:*mlmp08ishly* why do you just assume the US would just do whatever blackrock wanted, the whitehouse senior advisor to ukraine on economic issues is actually only the FORMER director of blackrock. I looked the claim that Blackrock is the majority shareholder of all defense companies up and it seems to be untrue. "BlackRock has tens of billions invested in the top military contractors in the United States. It is a top beneficial owner of Lockheed Martin (6.4%), Boeing (5.2%), General Dynamics (3.94%), Northrop Grumman (5.5%), and Raytheon (6.6%)." https://www.corporateaccountability.org/blog/blackrock-for-2022-corporate-hall-of-shame/
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Dec 30, 2022 01:46
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Weka posted:
If Russia still holds the river bank all the way to the nuclear power plant, I'm pretty sure they also have the canal under their control. Ukraine might have shelled it but at worse they would have to clear whatever was blocking it and it would flow. Looking at google map, I think the canal starts just beside Nova Kakhovka.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:48
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Weka posted:Are the headlights mounted on an ERA block? Of course it is; gotta sell headlight modules
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Dec 30, 2022 01:50
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1608598226063740928quote:The law dramatically expands the media regulator's powers and gives it the authority to shut down news sites that are not officially registered as media without a court ruling. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 01:54 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 01:51
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supersnowman posted:If Russia still holds the river bank all the way to the nuclear power plant, I'm pretty sure they also have the canal under their control. Ukraine might have shelled it but at worse they would have to clear whatever was blocking it and it would flow. Looking at google map, I think the canal starts just beside Nova Kakhovka. Also, the Dnieper itself is simply too large to fully block, there are dams obviously on it but they have a finite reserve capacity. Lostconfused posted:Yeah I've been catching up on a lot this year, and honestly wish this mess didn't happen and I could have kept ignoring it. They are also fighting for pieces of shrinking pie, with only money one way or another coming in from the West as Ukraine's actual economy is a wreck. Basically, one way or another someone in Washington is going to be signing their checks. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 01:57 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 01:53
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:trade union of oligarchs
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Dec 30, 2022 01:54
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Weka posted:I looked the claim that Blackrock is the majority shareholder of all defense companies up and it seems to be untrue. thanks for the correction mlmp08! edit: counterpoint, the claim was majority stakeholder. completely different.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:54
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I’m honestly of the opinion that calling this war Imperialist or not is almost totally worthless. Any sufficiently large, multi-ethnic and centrally governed country relies on projecting imperium both within and outside of its borders in order to legitimise itself. Being able to militarily punish Ukraine for attacking people in the Donbass that Moscow considers under their imperium (even though they’re outside its borders) is a projection of that imperial power. Likewise, the United States projects it’s Imperial umbrella over nations through NATO membership and the IMF in order to expand their own access to new markets, both for the liberalisation and thus pillaging of previously independent state assets, and for the selling of arms and other products US companies sell. Arguing over which of these is the actual true “imperialism” is pointless.
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Dec 30, 2022 01:55
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Endman posted:Arguing over which of these is the actual true “imperialism” is pointless. this is an Internet forum, nothing anyone says here matters it’s just funny to see mlp get heated over this level of needling
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Dec 30, 2022 01:57
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AnimeIsTrash posted:this is an Internet forum, nothing anyone says here matters for someone who hates being wrong he sure picks the dumbest hills to die on
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1608154249980170241 Ryber posted on Telegram on Dec. 27 that the AFU had lost 1,000 men over the last ten days around Bakhmut and that the Ukrainians moved the 113th, 127th, and 226th Territorial Defense Brigades from the Kharkiv front to reinforce the defense of Bakhmut. Then the 3rd National Guard Brigade from Zolochiv. He says the 60th and 63rd Bridges are also being redeployed from Kherson. https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1608528309519794179?s=20 The Suriyak twitter account says the Russians continue to advance on Bakhmut from the south and have closed to within firing range of the south district.
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