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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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Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011
Russia/Wagner seem to be making actual gains in Northern Bakhmut. Taking nearby villages of Krasna Hora, Paraskoviika and most of Yahidne while pushing into Bakhmut itself and another fortified town.

https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1628159997510307840/photo/1

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mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

loving löl
https://twitter.com/ylenews/status/1627685770742857728

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo
Faster, Democrat! Kill! Kill!

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

msnbc covers an anti-war rally
https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1627898461243998209

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Al! posted:

is "zelinsky" the microaggression or "zelinskyy"

Zelenskiy

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

i think having ron paul and a right wing folk singer do antivaxx songs and also the night of the wrong wives guy is what discredited that op more than a single guy waving a russian flag

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
i wanna know what the total cost for all the paid informants to attend this rally was

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

fits my needs posted:

i wanna know what the total cost for all the paid informants to attend this rally was

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1628108861415489553

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

fits my needs posted:

i wanna know what the total cost for all the paid informants to attend this rally was

They're salaried and under employed after already driving all their idealogical opponents off social media, so no notable productivity loss by dragging them out the office.

The real question is did anyone attend organically or was it hungry agents all the way down.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

euphronius posted:

I remember when this war started someone explained nazis is just what Russia calls everyone they don’t like in Eastern Europe. hahah yeah indeed

The Russians are really hung up on that one though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGDJ5-dXaI&t=5824s

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Lostconfused posted:

The Russians are really hung up on that one though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGDJ5-dXaI&t=5824s

that guy is so tired of listening to old hitler do his rants

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


lobster shirt posted:

the russia-aligned statelets in georgia are definitely not ethnically russian. abkhazians don't even speak an indo european language.

If that’s the case then ignore my weird musing; I’ve got terminal WW1 brain at the moment

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Just ordered this bad boy

Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011
Rumours are saying that Ukraine has been gifted with brand new western weaponry


https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1628160935448793088

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

the us is so air force obsessed that they have to call an artillery rocket a "ground launched small diameter bomb"

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1628190332147073024?s=20

Putin issues warning about future of Ukraine conflict

'They [West] intend to turn a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation. That is how we understand things and will react accordingly. Because the issue here is the existence of our state.'

https://on.rt.com/c986

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Yeah all that vulnerable and very expensive infrastructure lying around unguarded is going to become less reliable.

I mean anything could happen. If it's not actively guarded, literally anything. And it could be a frequent thing.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

On the one hand sure, on the other hand I'd like to think those train derailments are well deserved consequences of strike breaking and refusing to do anything to make that infrastructure even a tiny bit less lovely.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
That's the best part. Everything is already in a state of advanced decay. Everything can be plausible.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
foreign interference and sabotage is indistinguishable from our own incompetence and rapidly decaying infrastructure :stonklol:

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Cannot wait until the next train derailment is blamed on judeo-putinist sabotage.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Al! posted:

has china ever offered to refinance a country's imf debt or would that be considered an act of war against the united states

lol they did and western media got mad at them. someone posted a link about it recently in the asia thread

edit:

crepeface has issued a correction as of 02:46 on Feb 22, 2023

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Cannot wait until the next train derailment is blamed on judeo-putinist-berner sabotage.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Endman posted:

Just ordered this bad boy



It's a great book. If you like it, there's also The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

A Russian troll farm posted:

the us is so air force obsessed that they have to call an artillery rocket a "ground launched small diameter bomb"

There was once a plan for the Surface-Launched AMRAAM. A surface-launched air-to-air missile called SLAMRAAM.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Al! posted:

has china ever offered to refinance a country's imf debt or would that be considered an act of war against the united states

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

lmao

here's a non paywalled article

https://www.ft.com/content/f27a543b-7678-4130-9c05-db0492d9c240

quote:

“Beijing has tried to keep these countries afloat by providing emergency loan after emergency loan without asking its borrowers to restore economic policy discipline or pursue debt relief through a co-ordinated restructuring process with all major creditors,” said Bradley Parks, AidData executive director.

quote:

Commentators said China’s rescue lending risked exacerbating the problems of debt distressed countries. “I see these as a major impediment to crisis resolution,” said Gabriel Sterne, a former senior IMF economist now at Oxford Economics who argued that Sri Lanka’s current financial meltdown demonstrates that Beijing’s support is sometimes insufficient.

“The suspicion is that countries seek out the loan to avoid going to the IMF, which demands painful reform,” Sterne added. “There may be circumstances in which the gamble for redemption works, but generally — as in the Sri Lankan case — it just makes the adjustment more painful when it actually happens.”

Parks also said China’s approach often “postpones the day of reckoning”.

it's like an abusive partner ranting that only they know what's good for you and you'll come crawling back some day

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
slamraam is easier to say than slamrsam tho

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1627773493680001044

Financialization of Europe is going to be enriching a lot of compradors. RIP to everyone who dreamed of a social democratic paradise though.

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

mlmp08 posted:

There was once a plan for the Surface-Launched AMRAAM. A surface-launched air-to-air missile called SLAMRAAM.

Ok, that is a pretty good one

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
american short to mid range infrared surface AA is just 16 stingers in a trenchcoat. lame poo poo. make somethin new

Zeppelin Insanity
Oct 28, 2009

Wahnsinn
Einfach
Wahnsinn

mlmp08 posted:

There was once a plan for the Surface-Launched AMRAAM. A surface-launched air-to-air missile called SLAMRAAM.

The vaunted NASAMS is an AMRAAM as well. It definitely does not roll of the tongue as well as SLAMRAAM.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
They’re working on 16 AIM-9s in a trench-coat next


And America decided the N in NASAMS now means National not “Norwegian” for reasons

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

imo all weapons should either have an alphanumeric code designation or be named after either a cool animal or joseph stalin

e: what i mean to say is I do not approve of america's backronym-based naming convention. even the humvee. High mobility multiwheeled vehicle? What's the alternative to a multi-wheeled vehicle, a motorized unicycle? Why is everything Joint? Just call stuff fighting falcon or wolverine again

Ansar Santa has issued a correction as of 03:05 on Feb 22, 2023

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
"oh we wont need dedicated surface to air platforms. and way and we'll just use our planes. maybe mash together existing missiles as a hosed up joke like we did with m2s and even a mustang that one time"

sorta forgot about all the client states there

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Regarde Aduck posted:

from all the criticism it was apparently this threads job to predict everything with 100% accuracy and we really hosed it

and i'm sorry about that

50% accuracy would've been fine. think we're at like 0% so far though

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die



I’ll add it to the list, thanks!

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

CODChimera posted:

50% accuracy would've been fine. think we're at like 0% so far though

none of us were quite prepared for war in 202X

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
al-saqr's always been right

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Masno posted:


The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter entered service with the GUR of Ukraine.
(from t.me/NovichokRossiya/25276, via tgsa)

it probably needs a lot more blue and yellow to not get friendly fired

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Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

Regarde Aduck posted:

none of us were quite prepared for war in 202X

mega man is, you dolt

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