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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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With how much these clowns love Ruthenia/Galacia, you’d think they’d be glad to get rid of the Donbas considering it wasn’t a part of either.
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Mar 1, 2023 09:44
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Endman posted:With how much these clowns love Ruthenia/Galacia, you’d think they’d be glad to get rid of the Donbas considering it wasn’t a part of either. gotta fight'em over there so we don't have to fight'em over here
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Mar 1, 2023 09:45
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Cuttlefush posted:i dont know what the deal with the john mcintyre guy is, but he repeatedly says "im a communist", describes taking back america in a way that doesn't sound quite right. he also apparently brought a a fancy version of his... high school diploma with him? 6:33 in the video. he apparently did a 2-year enlistment, which I guess they did make a thing, but i've never seen someone reminisce about their enlistment with a smile like that. Maybe he wanted to move to Russia. I hate to stereotype white Texan troops, but maybe for bigotry reasons. Seems a hard way to do it though.
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Mar 1, 2023 09:50
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Cuttlefush posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukraine)?useskin=vector apparently this 
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Mar 1, 2023 09:52
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Weka posted:Maybe he wanted to move to Russia. I hate to stereotype white Texan troops, but maybe for bigotry reasons. Seems a hard way to do it though. Seems easier to drop everything and just take a bus out of the country, maybe he thought he could be a "Snowden."
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Mar 1, 2023 09:53
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Weka posted:Maybe he wanted to move to Russia. I hate to stereotype white Texan troops, but maybe for bigotry reasons. Seems a hard way to do it though. didn't really get that vibe. it's worth watch the two times i listed just for how weird those parts are. also making a point to say he had to call his family to scrounge $300 when he had been planning to infiltrate azov. just a weird detail that doesn't make much sense. Ardennes posted:Seems easier to drop everything and just take a bus out of the country, maybe he thought he could be a "Snowden." there are snippets of him taking video of the group he was with then little snippets of vlogs. i hope someone watches some of the video and can corroborate the weird vibes (or not). didn't seem like it was a rash unplanned decision though.
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Mar 1, 2023 09:56
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Cuttlefush posted:didn't really get that vibe. it's worth watch the two times i listed just for how weird those parts are. also making a point to say he had to call his family to scrounge $300 when he had been planning to infiltrate azov. just a weird detail that doesn't make much sense. Granted, it seems like a lot of the Westerns who came in go around with GOPros (not made by GoPro). It seems like a poor idea but at the same time they usually don't see much frontline fighting.
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Mar 1, 2023 10:02
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Cuttlefush posted:
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Mar 1, 2023 10:02
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Comrade Koba posted:so apparently wagner took out the literal Boris Johnson Brigade: the year is 2030 and the taiwan strait crisis is about to go hot. as the usn eighth fleet prepares to tangle with the plan east sea fleet, a provocation is prepared to keep the russians busy. the separate 14th special forces "joseph r. biden" brigade along with the reconstituted 24th separate "boris johnson" mechanized brigade are to advance onto east kiev from their west kyiv deployment garrison and overrun as much of the city as possible opposing them is a garrison consisting of a company of wagner pmc instructors, the 122 "iosef stalin" motorized rifle brigade, and the "vavilov" territorial defense battalion
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Mar 1, 2023 10:07
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Cuttlefush posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukraine)?useskin=vector apparently this sure is, that flag definitely says “boris johnson” though. not sure if it’s an official thing or just some local commander who’s a huge fan for some reason
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Mar 1, 2023 10:07
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Comrade Koba posted:sure is, that flag definitely says “boris johnson” though. not sure if it’s an official thing or just some local commander who’s a huge fan for some reason oh, i was just looking at the crest. lmao
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Mar 1, 2023 10:11
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Cuttlefush posted:I mean at minimum I'd assume it'd be the original Crima recognition, independent Luhansk/Donetsk. I assume a land bridge connecting Crimea is also necessary? Don't know.
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Mar 1, 2023 10:18
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Budzilla posted:Considering Putin already annexed the latter 2 oblasts along with another 2 oblasts in September last year I don't think they would settle for "independent". right, duh. my bad. I always thought of recognizing as "independent" before that was also just "recognize as not part of ukraine anymore". I assumed that the "independent" republics would function the same as federal subjects.
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Mar 1, 2023 10:26
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Russia only took Crimea so easily because it did it during the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately Putin didn't have another world event to use. Ukraine sent all of its troops to watch the Olympics, leaving the flag unguarded. Russia snuck in and captured it during the closing ceremonies. You can complain all you want but they should have had someone on flag duty back at base. yellowcar posted:also crimeans voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to join russia afterwards and there's been a history of secession of crimea from ukraine proper since at least 1991 Its always fun to ask dumb shitheads who think Crimea longs to return to Ukraine about what happened to the Crimean government in 1995
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Mar 1, 2023 10:27
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I don't see the Russians retreating from the "landbridge" voluntarily to be honest either, it is simply too important strategically to protect Crimea and provide a bufferzone for Russian facilities there.
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Mar 1, 2023 10:34
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looks like the ukranians are starting to come to terms with the defeat https://twitter.com/azgeopolitics/status/1630835288711868417?s=46&t=0s8Rg6OZZ8Y0cFP_E71c_g
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Mar 1, 2023 10:36
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https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1630817644277366785 time for a ukranian counter-attack?
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Mar 1, 2023 10:53
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Danann posted:the year is 2030 and the taiwan strait crisis is about to go hot. as the usn eighth fleet prepares to tangle with the plan east sea fleet, a provocation is prepared to keep the russians busy. Accompanying them is the HMS Ark Royale, still not equipped with planes or defensive systems. They're just there so they can pretend they're helping. It's support ships are a small flotilla of tugboats because the engines keep breaking.
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Mar 1, 2023 10:56
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CODChimera posted:https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1630817644277366785 I keep saying this. My army of mystical golden warriors just needs all the gold in the world everywhere and then they can beat back the demon hordes and save you all. No don't ask what the gold is used for or why I'm building ships loaded up with fresh woden crates instead of my famous golden soldiers. Have faith and keep giving me all your gold.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:00
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CODChimera posted:https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1630817644277366785 Arguably, it is the exact opposite, but it is the Atlantic so it makes sense.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:01
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CODChimera posted:"Providing Ukraine with the supplies it needs to force a Russian military collapse is the shortest path to peace." if the spigot of arms to Ukraine stops, and the Ukrainians no longer have anything to shoot with, then the fighting stops this is the same principle as applied to how the US is a prime factor in Israel-Palestine relations, because Israel would not be able to maintain its apartheid state without American support and supplies
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Mar 1, 2023 11:02
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apparently someone is stealing a bunch of swedish speed cameras and obviously it's the russians using the speed cameras in drones because the russians are out of DSLRs to put in their drones  https://www.thedrive.com/news/speed-cameras-stolen-from-sweden-may-be-ending-up-in-russian-drones-report e: dont ask about who DJI is or where they are based
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Mar 1, 2023 11:03
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:apparently someone is stealing a bunch of swedish speed cameras and obviously it's the russians using the speed cameras in drones because the russians are out of DSLRs to put in their drones It's okay the European industrial base will just make new ones. By which I mean they'll order more from China.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:04
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Some Russian spy put spoiled milk in my fridge and took the fresh milk I bought 4 months ago, I will get my revenge.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:06
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Ukraine should stop fighting because it is the option available to them that will lead to the least death of Ukrainians, destruction of Ukrainian cities, towns, villages and infrastructure and thus generally lead to the least amount of suffering for Ukrainians. This is true because this is not an existential war for the survival of Ukrainian people. It is doubly true because Ukraine lacks a credible path to bringing this war to an end other than defeat. Perhaps with the one exception of direct NATO intervention, which would however very severely risk nuclear war, and thus ought to be avoided at all costs. Now, I am under no illusion that the Ukrainian government will do this, and that is because the Ukrainian government is not attempting to minimize the suffering of Ukrainians, and thus not acting in accordance with the best interests of its own citizenry. This is a massive crime, in my view.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:10
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Ardennes posted:Some Russian spy put spoiled milk in my fridge and took the fresh milk I bought 4 months ago, I will get my revenge. A filthy Russian saboteur made my boot outsoles wear out after I walked on them for over a year. Imagine that. A sneaky Russian creeping into my home every night with a small file, whittling down the tread as I slept, making me seek help from a cobbler. I always knew it was them.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:20
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everyone should stop fighting and hug maybe kiss
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Mar 1, 2023 11:21
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Ardennes posted:Some Russian spy put spoiled milk in my fridge and took the fresh milk I bought 4 months ago, I will get my revenge. DancingShade posted:A filthy Russian saboteur made my boot outsoles wear out after I walked on them for over a year. Imagine that. A sneaky Russian creeping into my home every night with a small file, whittling down the tread as I slept, making me seek help from a cobbler. there was an actual story in swedish news a few years ago where a 300m tall tv tower suddenly fell over for no apparent reason. there were loving weeks of speculation in the media about secret GRU strike teams conducting clandestine sabotage operations, and everyone ignored the local technician who pointed out that the public budget cuts meant the site didn't get maintenance work done often enough and that the bolts holding the stabilizer wires in place could just have rusted through or worn out.
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Mar 1, 2023 11:26
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Death By The Blues posted:No way its 2k troops in Bakhmut. Someone stationed there admitted the average life expectancy for a new recruit is around 4 hours. jesus christ, they're sending newborns to the front
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Mar 1, 2023 11:55
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CODChimera posted:https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1630817644277366785 i mean the shortest path to peace is they surrender surely? Or both sides just stop fighting i'm sure we could workshop a bunch of ways that are faster than grinding the Russian army down i don't think the atlantic are writing in good faith
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Mar 1, 2023 12:07
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technically speaking the shortest path to peace is probably nuclear war
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Mar 1, 2023 12:09
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Turtle Watch posted:I actually don’t mind illegal on a technicality that under certain laws it actually is illegal, now whether either party is under the jurisdiction of the applicable international laws is less clear. Even less clear is who will prosecute and administer punishment. See generally when someone says "unprovoked" or "unjustified" I just chalk it up to probably not knowing all the facts, which is very easy to achieve when you're in the western media bubble. I think plenty of uninformed leftists are in that spot. Calling it illegal is generally just a high and mighty judgement and not something even remotely based on legal grounds because that would require effort to build the case for it.
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Mar 1, 2023 12:22
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Why have peace when there is profit to be made? Not for the innocent people caught in the middle, or the common folk elsewhere of course. gently caress them.
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Mar 1, 2023 12:29
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The Ukranians are calling it quits and giving up on Bakhmut. hope it was worth it for them to hold on this long... https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1630892053763706884?s=20
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Mar 1, 2023 12:31
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DancingShade posted:Why have peace when there is profit to be made? 50 years today: 
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Mar 1, 2023 12:31
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Leandros posted:Calling it illegal is generally just a high and mighty judgement and not something even remotely based on legal grounds because that would require effort to build the case for it. I can see that. For me calling it illegal almost seems to trivialize it somehow. Most people have probably done something ‘illegal’ in their life, even if it was just jaywalking. A lot of ‘legality’ is stupid. Calling the war illegal is gives me the same impression as someone trying to convince a murderer to stop killing people because it is against the law. It is an appeal to authority and not to any morality. Of course if you believe that the law and morals are the same thing, and the US is a good guy upholding International Norms I suppose this does not seem jarring.
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Mar 1, 2023 12:35
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Calling war illegal has the same power as going "hey that's theft! stop it right now!" to the gang of criminals loading your entire home into a truck as you stand by the front gate, tapping your foot in polite ineffectual anger. "I'm going to write a stern letter to the neighborhood watch newsletter!" you call out as they drive away into the night, leaving you standing in only your jocks as they took your clothes too.
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Mar 1, 2023 12:40
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Cuttlefush posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukraine)?useskin=vector apparently this Why does literally everything need to be named after an SS division.
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Mar 1, 2023 12:44
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Why does literally everything need to be named after an SS division. why not? name me one thing the SS did that was bad or unethical... edit : oh wow it looks like russian disinfo agents have been hard at work on wikipedia, the entire article on the SS was vandalized...
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gradenko_2000 posted:"illegal war" was a phrase that was used once upon a time to describe the invasion of Iraq, but it's a very Democrat-brained mentality because it assumes that invading would have been just peachy had it gone through the right committees and floor votes democrats supported Iraq. there was a declaration of war and everything. it didn’t get a un vote tho so if you think they all wars need UNSC approval then it wasn’t legal . but no one really thinks that
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