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Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

R. Mute posted:

lol east and west kiev


excuse me, kyiv

east kiev and west kyiv

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

R. Mute posted:

lol east and west kiev


excuse me, kyiv

The kyiv

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
is there a pronunciation difference between Kiev an Kyiv

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

indigi posted:

is there a pronunciation difference between Kiev an Kyiv

Neither is as cool as new Stalingrad

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
https://twitter.com/azgeopolitics/status/1644799378769551364?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1644732956852797440?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

indigi posted:

is there a pronunciation difference between Kiev an Kyiv

there is a little one to my non-native ear but the difference is not as great as the english spellings would suggest. russians certainly don't say "key-EV" lol

russian: https://forvo.com/word/%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2/#ru

ukrainian: https://forvo.com/word/%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2/#uk

enjoy!

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeev

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Ukrianian sounds more pleasant than Polish and that's the extent of my opinion on it

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Keev Palpatine

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

i say swears online posted:

gen xi don't play

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/TBTM_Official/status/1644672486779355136

polish influencers are being attacked by chinese, italian, korean, and german bots! sound the nafo article 5!

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️
that's an insult to bots

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Weka posted:



I don't think it's real. I can't find it on any credible sites. It's not on China's actual peace plan here. Cedeing that territory to Russia would actually be a violation of the proposal.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202302/t20230224_11030713.html

I did some hunting and yeah it didn't show up in the plan, but it is from a twitter thread where the tweeter created the map from a "insider source." It really depends on if you believe him or not.

https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1628957901225336832

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 06:32 on Apr 9, 2023

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Ardennes posted:

I did some hunting and yeah it didn't show up in the plan, but it is from a twitter thread where the tweeter created the map from a "insider source." It really depends on if you believe him or not.

https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1628957901225336832

i for one would not believe some random account on twitter claiming to have inside information. but that is just me

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

R. Guyovich posted:

i for one would not believe some random account on twitter claiming to have inside information. but that is just me

Wow you'll get nowhere in Western Media

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
Anyway, regardless of the map, there is no particular reason for the Chinese to want the Russian not to get their strategic objectives. They very clearly are backing the Russians and don't seem very interested in meaningfully undercutting them no matter where the line is eventually drawn.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 10:20 on Apr 9, 2023

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
i have no idea what china's peace plan is, but given recent events i am 100% confident that it's the best one possible

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

What I've been thinking about is that one of the reasons that China's zero covid policy collapsed was that they reduced entry quarantines once Chinese politicians started to travel again and got annoyed. Still not sure if it was worth it, but it seems really doubtful they could have gotten a resolution to the Yemen war over Microsoft Teams. Hope it works out and they solve Ukraine while they're at it.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

genericnick posted:

What I've been thinking about is that one of the reasons that China's zero covid policy collapsed was that they reduced entry quarantines once Chinese politicians started to travel again and got annoyed. Still not sure if it was worth it, but it seems really doubtful they could have gotten a resolution to the Yemen war over Microsoft Teams. Hope it works out and they solve Ukraine while they're at it.

Yeah that may have been part of it along with just the amount of business that has to be done overseas and you are going to need people coming and going. I think the economic cost probably was the big one though since it is clear the Chinese economy has been speeding up since the end of COVID restrictions.

Obviously if the world had take serious precautions from the first place it could have been contained but the US very clearly treated it as a "Chinese matter" ala SARS and most of the world followed suit.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/TBTM_Official/status/1644672486779355136

polish influencers are being attacked by chinese, italian, korean, and german bots! sound the nafo article 5!

maxwells demon is real and his name is Xi Jinping. any empirical evidence that China is not bad is false a priori

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

commies have no respect for the second law of thermodynamics

Gresh
Jan 12, 2019


Orange Devil posted:

And it's not just a one time thing either. Venezuela, Afghanistan, now Russia. You'd be an idiot to ignore the trend and continue to think the dollar can act as a store of value if you are not American.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I do wonder if the Nordstream bombing was a tipping point for a lot of countries- that you can be America's ally, be their vassal, and they will still gently caress you over for literally any perceived gain or just out of spite- there is no longer any real incentive even to comply. Even for a white country.

Orange Devil posted:

A much better world is still possible.

Leader Xi will shred this world down to its last dollar. And then, with the subordinates we created for him, create a new one, teaming with life, peace, and prosperity that knows not what it has lost but only what its been given. A grateful world .

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
cryo-arithmethic engines are praxis

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
footage of Saudi Delegation meeting the Houthis:-

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1645140083517935618?s=20

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

Kassad posted:

I would say he can stay over there then, but nobody deserves Macron inflicted on them.

Daddy Xi still looks pretty cozy all things considered..

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/260565337722990593

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

"Xi!!!!!"

*click*

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

Marco is on the case

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1645081063230783491

An Jung-geun
Sep 2, 2022



lil' macro's not happy

Gresh
Jan 12, 2019


Really enjoying liddle marcos lamentations

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Gresh posted:

Really enjoying liddle marcos lamentations

:same:

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Vote.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Jupiter is right

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
we will steal jupiter, and take him for a ride across the galaxy

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

'Deal' in the 'make an agreement with' sense, very true

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1644759097596694529?s=19

Kindest Forums User
Mar 25, 2008

Let me tell you about my opinion about Bernie Sanders and why Donald Trump is his true successor.

You cannot vote Hillary Clinton because she is worse than Trump.
A part of me is wondering if the 3 letter agencies are using insane Republicans to carry the antiwar message so that war can be perceived as the Sensible option for the rest of the population. Especially since those Republicans will do a 180 on war when the situation is required

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1645075273170276353?t=VduPB-3vNertTVFTi6fDtQ&s=19

Macron said this one day after returning from Chins, I think a lot of countries outside the west will see it as Macron being persuaded by Beijing.

Although I have read an analysis that said this Macron visit was alot favorable to beijing than the Scholz's visit, I am not getting that impression. Macron has not said anything like he won't ban Huawei/Chinese companies either. So let's see if he will say anything regarding Ukraine negotiation in the next few days. If he says something like that then I will chart it up as a Beijing diplomatic success.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Macron comes across as like a less outwardly stupid trump in that he agrees with everything the last person he talked to said

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Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Kindest Forums User posted:

A part of me is wondering if the 3 letter agencies are using insane Republicans to carry the antiwar message so that war can be perceived as the Sensible option for the rest of the population. Especially since those Republicans will do a 180 on war when the situation is required

what’s happening imo is republicans are allowed to disagree with their party on foreign policy and dems aren’t. all criticism of the blob can only come from the wacky right cause post trump, liberal voters strongly identify with the feds and potential dissident dems like “the squad” are huge cowards a/o agree with the party on everything.

doesn’t feel great.

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