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Cimber posted:Well, considering that reportedly the ammo supply was cut, I would imagine that either Putin ordered it, or jealous generals did it and Putin went along with it. It depends on who you believe. Prigozhin(sp?) claims they were cut off entirely while the MOD put out a statement/ inventory dispensation that says they were shipping Wagner the same supply counts that every other unit was getting, it's just far less than when Wagner was getting priority.
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A.o.D. posted:part of the reason why I develop an eye twitch every time I see black/red iconography. Makhno had the best flags  "Death to all who stand in the way of freedom for the working people!"
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Tunicate posted:I don't understand, why would the ambulances be leaving a hospital? Why do you think Ukraine needs more of them?!!
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I think it’s amazing that Luxembourg of all countries is supplying Ukraine with materiel. Russia is hosed.
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Lum_ posted:Makhno had the best flags digging the cyrillic isis vibe
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Coasterphreak posted:I think it’s amazing that Luxembourg of all countries is supplying Ukraine with materiel. Luxembourg has a total of approx. 1000 active military personnel. And they still out here trying to find any way they can to pitch in
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On the one hand congrats on not having your country captured by the MIC, on the other hand https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1634967489288232961
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Lum_ posted:I'm partial to "A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes, which begins with Czar Nicholas's shambolic collapse and continues on into the civil war era. This sounds like something you could make a GoT style multi season prestige show about.
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Oh I'm sorry did I give you the impression these weapons were for killing people oh excuse me no please let me explain
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https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:adv;d:2023-03-06..2023-03-12,2023-03-06;@38.0,48.6,14z While looking at the location of some prescribed burns near my home, I decided to take a look at the Donbass on NASA's FIRMS website. It's pretty accurate for forest fires but is probably useless for determining where artillery hits but I thought it was interesting enough to share. Check out the bank of the Dnipro, though: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:adv;m:advanced;d:2023-02-10..2023-03-12;@32.6,46.6,13z
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Alchenar posted:On the one hand congrats on not having your country captured by the MIC, on the other hand Each gun comes stamped with "For parade use only"
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MH Knights posted:This sounds like something you could make a GoT style multi season prestige show about. im still holdin out for one that follows the cannibalization of soviet industry and capture of various governments by the newly-minted oligarchs in the 90s
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They can do a Lord of War sequel now.
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Gaius Marius posted:They can do a Lord of War sequel now. Viktor Bout's schedule recently opened up
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A.o.D. posted:part of the reason why I develop an eye twitch every time I see black/red iconography. Depending on what subtype of black/red one is, it might have little to do with anything that happened in the infighting of the revolution. Syndicalism didn't have as much representation in that conflict, or was suborned into the other factions. Additionally, "Anarchists and Marxists are doomed to try to destroy one another forever and ever, never forget the betrayal!" is a great way for leftists never to never do anything productive. Like, okay 100 years ago (and then 90 years ago in the spanish civil war) MLs did some vile poo poo; since then capitalism has since pokevolved several times and is about to kill my near-homeless, disabled self right now. I'll take my chances with the dudes in red as long as they're not obvious fed plants (Red Guards Austin, etc). The fact of the matter is, at least in my opinion, 20th century leftism as a whole failed and capitalism took a 30 year victory lap that is killing the planet. I don't think the specific form of leftism that can/will topple capitalism exists yet (hopefully it is in the process of forming with the new wave of unionization and zoomers and millenials being absolutely exhausted with the economy trying to murder them), but i think it will be informed by, but not a direct continuation of, any specific form of 20th century leftist factions. At some point holding onto those old grudges has got to go, otherwise it turns into the political equivalent of boomers arguing about some Super Bowl referee call from decades ago. Gaius Marius posted:They can do a Lord of War sequel now. The stone head from zardoz but its vomiting out drones and armored vehicles as well. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 13, 2023 |
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Appreciate all the info about how awful collectivization was to other ethnic groups and cultures. Growing up in a city with a HUGE Ukrainian diaspora, you can imagine I was exposed to a fairly biased version of that period.
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Yeah, I kind of counted him as one of the crazy warlords supported by Japan. All of them (Ungern, Semenyov, and Kalmykov) had high pretenses but in actuality were just bandits that spent most of their time heisting trains and murdering civilians. Ungern got more of a historical footnote because he tried to take over Mongolia after the Whites got thrown out of Siberia and because he was *really* *really* insane. MH Knights posted:This sounds like something you could make a GoT style multi season prestige show about. "Fall of Eagles" is a BBC series that touches on some of the drama. Most notable for having a young Patrick Stewart cast as Lenin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles
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Casimir Radon posted:Russia and China seem like the worst places to attempt communism given their penchant for comically racist score settling. For a good long while after the collapse of the USSR (and probably still now), the common refrain among communists was that the Russians could gently caress anything up so don't judge
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1635102116741255169?t=fMz2_0FI1jCCQZS2iugL-w&s=19 My prediction is that Ukraine is now holding Bakhmut because they want to turn that pocket into a salient and push through it, and the weakened forces there, for an arm of their offensive.
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Murgos posted:My prediction is that Ukraine is now holding Bakhmut because they want to turn that pocket into a salient and push through it, and the weakened forces there, for an arm of their offensive. I think the fight there started as a defense, mutated into a large-scale fixing op, and then possibly mutated again from there into something else entirely? Still a fixing operation, but also a second part that boils down to a strategic aim of shutting down all Russian offensive ops? If they manage to shut down the sole Russian offensive in their entire country, that seems like a large victory beyond the military aspect (propaganda, political, and probably others too). Not sure how well I’m getting across that point, but the idea is that they’re turning the Russian army into an invading army that can no longer perform meaningful offensive operations. I’m not trained as an analyst of any sort, but that seems pretty bad if you’re an invading army!
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Lum_ posted:Yeah, I kind of counted him as one of the crazy warlords supported by Japan. All of them (Ungern, Semenyov, and Kalmykov) had high pretenses but in actuality were just bandits that spent most of their time heisting trains and murdering civilians. Ungern got more of a historical footnote because he tried to take over Mongolia after the Whites got thrown out of Siberia and because he was *really* *really* insane. This appears to be on YouTube btw
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Coasterphreak posted:I think it’s amazing that Luxembourg of all countries is supplying Ukraine with materiel. Every time I hear about Luxembourgish(?) military, I get an immediate flashback to a series of sketches from the 90s Finnish comedy group Kummeli, involving a Finnish invasion of Luxembourg by, uh "special" forces: "This mouse dropping here is Luxembourg, an area approximately the size of Forssa [a small town]. Even at this moment, they're talking poo poo about us. It ends now!"
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Loezi posted:Every time I hear about Luxembourgish(?) military, I get an immediate flashback to a series of sketches from the 90s Finnish comedy group Kummeli, involving a Finnish invasion of Luxembourg by, uh "special" forces: "This mouse dropping here is Luxembourg, an area approximately the size of Forssa [a small town]. Even at this moment, they're talking poo poo about us. It ends now!" It has a brilliant scene of the Luxembourgians insulting Finland by, among other things, sawing a cross-country ski in half.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I think the fight there started as a defense, mutated into a large-scale fixing op, and then possibly mutated again from there into something else entirely? Still a fixing operation, but also a second part that boils down to a strategic aim of shutting down all Russian offensive ops? If they manage to shut down the sole Russian offensive in their entire country, that seems like a large victory beyond the military aspect (propaganda, political, and probably others too). Dien Ben Phu speed run? In the 50s the Vietnamese trapped French forces at Dien Ben Phu and forced the French to overcommit forces to lifting the siege and crushed them. In the late 60s the US let themselves be lured into the same trap at Dien Ben Phu and then used that bait to force the NVA to overcommit to the siege and then crushed them. Of course, by defeating the NVA the US caused the North to go all in on guerrilla warfare and all the subsequent reporting that the war had become unwinnable.
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Murgos posted:My prediction is that Ukraine is now holding Bakhmut because they want to turn that pocket into a salient and push through it, and the weakened forces there, for an arm of their offensive. They also continue to effectively use it as a meat grinder against Russia.
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How effective is a meat grinder when the Russians are just sending poorly trained conscripts with weapons from the 60s?
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The X-man cometh posted:How effective is a meat grinder when the Russians are just sending poorly trained conscripts with weapons from the 60s? Given that they seem to be equipping all their fielded troops with the same....
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Luxembourg has a total of approx. 1000 active military personnel. And they still out here trying to find any way they can to pitch in
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The X-man cometh posted:How effective is a meat grinder when the Russians are just sending poorly trained conscripts with weapons from the 60s? Considering that isn't the force that Russia chose to start this war with, I'd say that it is somewhere between very effective and incredibly effective.
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Herman Merman posted:Plucky little Luxembourg also has the third largest GDP per capita in the world, which is perhaps the more significant figure here. Huge GDP-per-capita x tiny population = Not that much money on an international scale. Good on them for trying to find something to spend it on.
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Computer viking posted:Huge GDP-per-capita x tiny population = Not that much money on an international scale. Good on them for trying to find something to spend it on. And from a quick glance, they're basically gaming the system to appear higher in the rankings - a large body of workers who don't live in the city but work there, corporate taxes are low so lots of revenue is generated elsewhere but routed through Luxembourg, limited domestic labor pool and housing supply means wages and prices are inflated.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1635340216931328002?t=I54KU10UK96Xei2ZfBsQow&s=19 Pretty sure it's ''role'' will be in demining. 
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