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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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though week for Ukraine. lost Bakmut and their northern offensive as immediately stopped.
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Mar 3, 2023 17:42
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Lord of Pie posted:with infrastructure like that the Ukrainians are becoming more American by the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTodK24KG6E
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Mar 3, 2023 17:43
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Frosted Flake posted:I think it was this thread that we went over how the official narrative of Kursk was written by Wehrmacht officers for the US Army in the 50's and that when the Soviet archives opened in 1991 it was discovered that the vaunted SS Panzers ran headlong into marked minefields, got stuck in the mud and that far from crashing waves of Soviet tanks overrunning those heroes the Russians were as often as not just perplexed by the German's actions while they plinked at them with dug in anti-tank guns. The shot they had in the NYT was the exact one we debated about earlier and it very much looked like most of those tanks were still operational. The Russians probably did get into an ambush situation and there are at least some confirmed vehicles but what was an fairly successful ambush needed to amped up into some calamity that stretches your imagination especially considering most of the forces involved were 1-2 brigades.
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Mar 3, 2023 17:44
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euphronius posted:though week for Ukraine. lost Bakmut and their northern offensive as immediately stopped. are you talking about the group of irregulars that snuck across the border and tried to kill a bunch of women and children in a small town before being driven off as the northern offensive?
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Mar 3, 2023 17:47
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Starsfan posted:are you talking about the group of irregulars that snuck across the border and tried to kill a bunch of women and children in a small town before being driven off as the northern offensive? That's pretty offensive if you ask me. I do occasionally feel like I'm going crazy because I remember the western public demanding Chechnya be carpet bombed after the Ossetia school siege, and that was only what, 2005?
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Mar 3, 2023 17:49
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Frosted Flake posted:That's pretty offensive if you ask me. Was that a thing? I remember a lot of "what mystery gas did Russia use to gas IT'S OWN PEOPLE" or am I thinking about a different thing? That was an opera, maybe? Edit: Weird, I really don't remember the school attack at all. genericnick has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Mar 3, 2023 17:55
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genericnick posted:Was that a thing? I remember a lot of "what mystery gas did Russia use to gas IT'S OWN PEOPLE" or am I thinking about a different thing? That was an opera, maybe? That was the Moscow theatre siege, which was quite a bit earlier iirc. e: Also, it was some inane romantic comedy or something, if I'm getting that right.
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Mar 3, 2023 17:57
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euphronius posted:lol that I’ve never heard of Blair Mountain . there was also the 1921 Tulsa pogrom in which bombs were dropped from aircraft onto the city and the 1919 Cleveland riot in which tanks were used and killed two people the US came dangerously close to civil war in the period immediately after WW1 and it’s been really effectively memory holed
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Mar 3, 2023 17:58
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Starsfan posted:are you talking about the group of irregulars that snuck across the border and tried to kill a bunch of women and children in a small town before being driven off as the northern offensive? is there another offensive?
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Mar 3, 2023 17:59
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At best that was a raid, and Beslan was in 2004. Anyway, the current talk of the town on the Western side is that Russia is out of gas essentially after Bakhmut since Wagner is the only effective unit in the Russian army. So time for SA to take its bets if this is true or not.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:02
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Ardennes posted:At best that was a raid, and Beslan was in 2004. russia is only now out of gas? I thought all their gas was stolen by naked conscripts and swapped for shoes and toilets?
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Mar 3, 2023 18:05
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Ardennes posted:At best that was a raid, and Beslan was in 2004. Are we in mud season already?
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Mar 3, 2023 18:07
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The last time an auxiliary took a big city (mariupol) it lead to the main russian army sieging severodontesk which as we all know culminated prematurely. And now we have wagner mercs taking bakhmut with the only thing left in the region being another twin city. So ukraine better hope that russia is out of gas or else they might get another premature culmination
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Mar 3, 2023 18:07
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bedpan posted:russia is only now out of gas? I thought all their gas was stolen by naked conscripts and swapped for shoes and toilets? Metaphorically speaking, but they are out of everything, and in the next couple weeks the combat capabilities of the Russian military are essentially finished at that point and the AFU will have the complete control over the situation. This is what I have been told by experts from these very forums. Their prediction is ironclad. genericnick posted:Are we in mud season already? Yeah and that is why the Russians have failed and pretty much have no hope at this point after their devastating defeat at Bakhmut. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 18:22 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Mar 3, 2023 18:12
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Ardennes posted:Metaphorically, they are out of everything, and in the next couple weeks the combat capabilities of the Russian military are essentially finished at that point the AFU will have the complete control over the situation. This is what I have been told by experts from these very forums. Their prediction is ironclad. Happy for ukraine
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Mar 3, 2023 18:14
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for maximum posting honor please remember to toxx your predictions!
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Mar 3, 2023 18:16
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paul_soccer12 posted:Happy for ukraine Time to breath easy
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Mar 3, 2023 18:19
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https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1631668680764293120?t=bO5tpO7sQCN3f56QXV8Ttw&s=19 When all you have are sanctions...
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Mar 3, 2023 18:21
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Ardennes posted:Metaphorically speaking, but they are out of everything, and in the next couple weeks the combat capabilities of the Russian military are essentially finished at that point and the AFU will have the complete control over the situation. This is what I have been told by experts from these very forums. Their prediction is ironclad. Ask those experts "what time is it in moscow," since they are obviously paid agents of Putin for spreading such enormous falsehoods. Combat capabilities of the Russian military have already been reduced to less than zero months ago. There has been lots of reporting on this. These experts could use some lessons in media literacy.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:26
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1631668680764293120?t=bO5tpO7sQCN3f56QXV8Ttw&s=19 I should sanction my laundry into cleaning itself, cool trick.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:26
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we have serious concerns about the game Pathologic 2 from Russian studio Ice Pick Lodge, whose company name glorifies Stalinist murder while the themes of the game promote organ trafficking and the asiatic barbarism inherent to the Russian character. mods?
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Mar 3, 2023 18:27
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Xi the heroin smuggler
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Mar 3, 2023 18:30
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https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1631643173054185477 hmmm so russia destroyed the pipeline so they wouldnt have to repair it a most devious scheme
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Mar 3, 2023 18:30
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Russia ran out of bullets months ago, and since the entire Russian army has been killed already we can only conclude that Ukraine is being haunted by spooky ghosts
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Mar 3, 2023 18:36
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If Biden want to expedite the Taiwan crisis, all he has to do is visit Taiwan himself.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:speaking of revolutions, do you have a take on the use of artillery in the suppression of civil strife, whether at a theoretical level or historical? I ask in the context of, our visual conception of revolts / riots / uprisings usually comes down to riot police, uniformed soldiers/infantry, and maybe tanks or other armored vehicles, but not artillery  
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Mar 3, 2023 18:44
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Zelensky... oh curse you you glorious bastard. He's... really doing it, isnt he? He's still loving fighting, after all this time. 
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Mar 3, 2023 18:48
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e; drat how do i even image host
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Mar 3, 2023 18:48
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Nix Panicus posted:Russia ran out of bullets months ago, and since the entire Russian army has been killed already we can only conclude that Ukraine is being haunted by spooky ghosts Ukraine has won every battle, Russia is out of everything and Ukraine has all the super weapons. but, Russia has unstoppable human wave attacks. given the above assumptions, Russia has lost 27842589432 people and Ukraine is doing great. now, the above series of beliefs would be hard to maintain if I let myself read any account from Ukraine or Russia. so, what if I just don’t do that and instead post memes and sick gore vids of soldiers I’m told are Russian? problem solved.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:51
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euphronius posted:lol that I’ve never heard of Blair Mountain . There's certainly a reason we never talk about it
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Mar 3, 2023 18:51
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1631668680764293120?t=bO5tpO7sQCN3f56QXV8Ttw&s=19 tfw you take your ball and go home and the other kids just get another ball.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:54
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 soon putin will try to get money out of his purse (because hes gay) and a moth will fly out
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Mar 3, 2023 19:00
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Nix Panicus posted:Russia ran out of bullets months ago, and since the entire Russian army has been killed already we can only conclude that Ukraine is being haunted by spooky ghosts yeah there’s a specter haunting Europe all right 
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Mar 3, 2023 19:05
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Lostconfused posted:The color revolution in Kyiv wasn't about east and west. afaik back in 2013/2014 during the protests Putin convinced Yanukovich to withdraw police forces in order to not escalate things further. This happened after talks with members of the EU and US. Right wingers abused the vacuum and stormed the rada. The US immediately accepted the new government as lawful and here we are.
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Mar 3, 2023 19:09
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lol, loving deripaska. still hasn’t gotten over that one time putin chewed him out in public https://youtu.be/48Kk7kobMQY
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Mar 3, 2023 19:11
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Ardennes posted:At best that was a raid, and Beslan was in 2004. Supposedly the regulars are pushing on Kupyansk, so we'll see.
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Mar 3, 2023 19:12
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Another video from Prigozhin in Bakhmut. Not sure about the whole showing off POW, but they are way too young and way too old. https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1631714181853454345
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Mar 3, 2023 19:18
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i like that the wagner dudes are simultaneously some kinda ragtag conscripted penal battalions and also tier one operators who are the best of the best 
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Mar 3, 2023 19:18
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euphronius posted:when has an insurgence in America even gotten to the point where artillery was needed. I mean besides the civil war Jackson Square in New Orleans has a cannon that was used against the KKK in the 1870s, before the KKK successfully seized control of the state in 1877.
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Mar 3, 2023 19:18
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bad news everyone https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1631636166901485573 russia is likely to reinvade ukraine at any moment
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Mar 3, 2023 19:19
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