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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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| 🦋 |
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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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Cpt_Obvious posted:I mean the obvious conclusion the Russians are going to make is to not return any more prisoners. seems unlikely since they keep doing it lol
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Of course, the subject of POWs brings me to yet another recent book on the total ineptitude of the Confederacy. @ Dreyland , is all of this scholarship coming out now because the Lost Cause is well and truly dead? I wonder if it's because the people who "just happened" to become huge CSA apologists during the Civil Rights Era, like Shelby Foote, are either out of the academy or dead. The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America. By this point in the war, the Confederacy was reeling from prison overpopulation, a crumbling military, violence from internal enemies, and slavery’s breakdown. The fugitive Federals moving across the countryside in mass numbers, Foote argues, accelerated the collapse as slaves and deserters decided the presence of these men presented an opportune moment for escalated resistance. During the closing days of WW2 a similar thing happened in Germany as both Soviet and Western Allied POWs broke out en masse, formed armed bands and began taking the fight to the Germans. I can't find any good books on it, but it's nearly always mentioned on books about the closing days of the war or immediate aftermath. Some of the bands of Soviet POWs were at battalion strength and had pretty serious weaponry. e: In both wars, deserters, CSA and German, also started ravaging the countryside and got up to some pretty heinous stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_zSFeHfglc ee: Based on a real guy. The end of the Third Reich was a doozy. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 17:32 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Puppy Burner posted:https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-ngo-qatargate-foreign-agents-law-disturbs-ngos/ quote:This question about funding “took a lot of people aback,” said Nick Aiossa, head of policy and advocacy at Transparency International, who said he participated in an oral questionnaire with the third party conducting the survey. “The guiding questions suggested they were evaluating whether Transparency International was a threat to democracy.” lol forever at Transparency International not being transparant about their funding. Very good.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:30
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That is a great film btw, the Nazi trial near the end is an incredible moment
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Mar 14, 2023 17:31
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Slavvy posted:That is a great film btw, the Nazi trial near the end is an incredible moment Well, it touches on what I was saying earlier about Ukraine creating all of these guys with TBIs and PTSD, civil society being sacrificed for the war effort, the rise of Political groups as basically the central focus of public life. All of those chickens will come home to roost, and we've seen the Ukrainian state shrug off Azov crimes as spontaneous outbursts of patriotism or whatever.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:35
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they might roost in places other than home too
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Mar 14, 2023 17:37
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ТАСС posted:Voronezh authorities warned about the delivery of summonses for data verification at the military registration and enlistment offices, the press service of the regional government reported.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:39
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Cuttlefush posted:they might roost in places other than home too Yeah all this poo poo is just going to go inwards in both Ukraine and the EU isn't it?
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Mar 14, 2023 17:40
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Frosted Flake posted:Well, it touches on what I was saying earlier about Ukraine creating all of these guys with TBIs and PTSD, civil society being sacrificed for the war effort, the rise of Political groups as basically the central focus of public life. All of those chickens will come home to roost, and we've seen the Ukrainian state shrug off Azov crimes as spontaneous outbursts of patriotism or whatever. What would Hitler do as a legal code
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Mar 14, 2023 17:43
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looks like ukraine is gonna make a big move to fight wagner https://twitter.com/azgeopolitics/status/1635651788509528066?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg i wouldnt be surprised if the russians fail to respond, theyve always given ukraine tons of time and ability to fight back.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:48
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If it were me, the chance to hammer 50k Ukrainian troops out in the open while they're stuck in the mud would be a godsend.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:50
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He is also claiming this https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1635681793188741121
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Mar 14, 2023 17:50
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CongoJack posted:he has to make it out alive for that and he is surrounded by some true believers who will make that difficult. yea, but if he starts acting in ways that can be construed as defeatist he most likely gets diem'd so putting on a good show and generally being valuable to his masters is his best shot Sound posted:The ones who were captured then traded back to Ukraine so they could be national heroes and then go back to fighting? Probably not the worst outcome for people at war tbh would you be willing to bet your rear end on the idea that russia will just let all pows go on home no matter what?
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Mar 14, 2023 17:54
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Al-Saqr posted:i wouldnt be surprised if the russians fail to respond, theyve always given ukraine tons of time and ability to fight back. also just so you know the doomerism works better when the russians aren't winning
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Mar 14, 2023 17:55
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Al-Saqr posted:looks like ukraine is gonna make a big move to fight wagner always bet on russian incompetence
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Mar 14, 2023 17:56
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Russia is now officially doomed, the war is over
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Mar 14, 2023 18:00
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game over. return of stalin
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Mar 14, 2023 18:02
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:game over. return of stalin they arent getting the good ending dude
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Mar 14, 2023 18:04
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mila kunis posted:always bet on russian incompetence What's the incompetence here?
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Mar 14, 2023 18:08
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https://twitter.com/Liz_Friden/status/1635685770601148422
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Cuttlefush posted:they arent getting the good ending dude game over. return of yeltsin
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Mar 14, 2023 18:08
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https://twitter.com/LMartinezABC/status/1635685820328714240?s=20 lol
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Mar 14, 2023 18:10
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environmentally unsound hahahah
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Mar 14, 2023 18:12
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lmao
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Mar 14, 2023 18:13
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respect to the russians for perfecting aerial teabagging
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Mar 14, 2023 18:14
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That drone had a family and you're laughing.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:14
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Cuttlefush posted:they arent getting the good ending dude Eurasia and East Asia put aside their differences and finally take out Oceania once and for all
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Mar 14, 2023 18:15
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i hope the drone operator is okay
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Mar 14, 2023 18:16
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fits my needs posted:i hope the drone operator is okay You die in the game, you die in real life Frosted Flake posted:If it were me, the chance to hammer 50k Ukrainian troops out in the open while they're stuck in the mud would be a godsend. Yeah, but there is a tweet from some idiot to the contrary…
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Mar 14, 2023 18:19
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah all this poo poo is just going to go inwards in both Ukraine and the EU isn't it? not the US's problem, maybe those countries security states should be expanded by spending lots of money on these arms megacorporations
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Mar 14, 2023 18:20
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:game over. return of yeltsin sounds more likely
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Mar 14, 2023 18:22
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Russian jet collides with US drone over Black Sea A Russian fighter jet has collided with a US drone over the Black Sea, forcing the US to bring down its unmanned aircraft, the American military says. It says the drone was on a routine mission in international airspace when two Russian jets tried to intercept it. The "unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians" nearly caused one of the fighter jets and the drone to crash, the US European command added. US and allied forces will continue to operate in the area, it said.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:22
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Pissed all over it huh
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Mar 14, 2023 18:24
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blacksea.cx
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Mar 14, 2023 18:24
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yeah the libs want open war over that drone, cool
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Mar 14, 2023 18:25
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John Charity Spring posted:sounds more likely The most likely scenario is some grey suit center-right type replaces Putin and the country bumps along with Chinese trade, but that is just the default ending on easy mode. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 18:30 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 18:26
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international waters in the Black Sea ? oh sure
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah the libs want open war over that drone, cool https://twitter.com/axios/status/1635693882997452820?s=20
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Mar 14, 2023 18:27
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Cerebral Bore posted:yea, but if he starts acting in ways that can be construed as defeatist he most likely gets diem'd oh yea I completely agree, he will just have to hold on until the end and hope that someone in the west cares about him enough to try and get him out.
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Why do they have predators over the black sea
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