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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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gradenko_2000 posted:He is risen! Wishing the thread a joyful and peaceful Easter. May the Lord bless you and your families. Stalin, hello
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Apr 10, 2023 02:53
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Vomik posted:the massive loans to Ukraine are the poison pill to stop anyone from a nato country trying to seize parts of it. western Ukraine will be a denationalized zone where true unregulated capitalism can flourish. There's already been a firesale of state assets, even if Ukraine regains all its lost territory all it'll have left is to be a deeply indebted agri-export country. Grim stuff given the decent amount of legacy heavy infrastructure it had after the collapse of the USSR.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:57
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Frosted Flake posted:“The intelligence reports seem to indicate that the United States is also spying on Ukraine’s top military and political leaders, a reflection of Washington’s struggle to get a clear view of Ukraine’s fighting strategies.” The US can only bypass Russian disinformatsiya by tapping directly into Ukrainian channels. Without Ukrainian approval, of course, they might be compromised...
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Apr 10, 2023 02:59
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:thought there was a nuclear component to bunker busters you are thinking of mercenaries 2, a video game
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Apr 10, 2023 03:01
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I guess a 4500lb bomb with a nuclear version that we didn't use doesn't count. I hate this poo poo I'll just shut my dumb hole
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Apr 10, 2023 03:02
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Danann posted:... of course.... it was strategically insignificant, until they blew their strategically significant army there.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:03
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bedpan posted:you are thinking of mercenaries 2, a video game lol
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Apr 10, 2023 03:04
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1stGear posted:Maximum "comedy" option: the UKR did expend all of their planned offensive units in Bakhmut, but they're still going to attempt one anyway because they have to have some kind of aggressive action to keep the aid money flowing in. from an economic standpoint, things are looking dire for Ukraine. the lend-lease money and IMF aid they’re receiving is in the form of debt - the west is telling them that they will be strong enough to pay it back in “post war Ukraine” but the reality is that they are in the worst possible macro condition. countries experience default and hyper-inflation not because of money supply, but because they cannot pay foreign debts. as debts come due in the form of interest, paying it back to the US requires Ukraine to either expend their foreign reserves or buy it using their currency. both actions weaken their currency, meaning they will have to stabilize it by attracting additional foreign direct investment or burn through their foreign reserves to buy HRV on the open market. because their economy has contracted nearly -30%, they have lost millions of people as refugees and their young population is conscripted to fight and die, the west knows that it won’t be possible for this debt (we call it “aid”) to ever be repaid, given their currency will be stressed to unreal levels; the Ukrainians literally have no choice to continue being a war-time economy as they will most likely default if there’s ever peace. the oligarchs are especially scared of this, as the IMF loans all have liberalization clauses that will force the central government to sell off its state assets to western institutions to cover the debt payments - this is the meat we’re after, namely the soviet industrial heartlands infrastructure. for us in the west, we’ll be just fine as our institutions carve up ukraine economically and turn what was once the jewel of the soviet unions industrial power, with it strong worker protections and massive manufacturing ability, into another de-industrialized wasteland with privatized healthcare and labor weakening reforms
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Apr 10, 2023 03:04
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:In his book My Struggle, Mr. Hitler simply pleads his case for "living space" and a positive future for the German people, Hitler was just a guy political almost a hundred years ago, can't we just accept him as someone of his time?
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Apr 10, 2023 03:05
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:I guess a 4500lb bomb with a nuclear version that we didn't use doesn't count. I hate this poo poo I'll just shut my dumb hole Look the Iraq War was literally justified using evidence from watching a Michael Bay movie so you're in prestigious company
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Apr 10, 2023 03:05
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western media ftw 
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Apr 10, 2023 03:08
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lobster shirt posted:the best frederick forsyth book, relevant to this thread, is icon, which is about a former cia guy (who got booted from the agency because he was mad at aldrich ames) who is recruited to go save russia from a fascist winning the 2000 election through a campaign of sabotage and dirty tricks. ultimately russia is saved and becomes a nice liberal constitutional monarchy, voting in a referendum to bring back the tsar. it absolutely kicks rear end. You mean a literal monarchy, as in, they amend the constitution to make a new Tsar?
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Apr 10, 2023 03:08
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If Ukraine loses, they should just let themselves merge with Poland - bing bong, so simple!
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Apr 10, 2023 03:09
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and remember folks hitler was a unique evil that came out of nowhere not the culmination of western colonial racism and genocidal attitudes of the previous 150 years but applied on europe this time.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:10
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Al-Saqr posted:and remember folks hitler was a unique evil that came out of nowhere not the culmination of western colonial racism and genocidal attitudes of the previous 150 years but applied on europe this time. "The Nazis and Italian fascists literally ripped off US policies?! Bolderdash!"
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Apr 10, 2023 03:13
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tazjin posted:Yesterday morning I went to a banya that, during Soviet Times, was known for being mostly visited by famous/elite people and which was actually unavailable to the commoners (Усачевские бани for those interested!). On the first fresh steam call, after everyone got into the room, one of the employees said "Everyone shut up, let the priest speak!". The priest showed up, like everyone naked as God had created him, and gave a sermon about the Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox Easter is actually in a week or two). This priest was exactly as wide as he was tall, you could say he was spherical, and this in combination with his posture, beard and the golden cross he wore made him look like an orb of clergical power. Alright, I think this will be my new conspiracy theory. Lenin was actually a Secret Swede (descendant of the captives of Poltava) who was seeking to bring down Russian from within; the revenge of Karl XII
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Apr 10, 2023 03:13
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:I guess a 4500lb bomb with a nuclear version that we didn't use doesn't count. I hate this poo poo I'll just shut my dumb hole i think there was at one point talk about one of the newer penetrators maybe being depleted uranium you might be confabulating? not sure if any actually are depleted uranium or not. pretty sure the explosive parts are either normal explosive (the kind you want to get) or thermobaric (evil orcish technology)
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Apr 10, 2023 03:18
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Al-Saqr posted:and remember folks hitler was a unique evil that came out of nowhere not the culmination of western colonial racism and genocidal attitudes of the previous 150 years but applied on europe this time. all those wacky ideas he had about superior races and eugenics? that’s all him, he’s the one that started it. it’s not like California was euthanizing thousands against their will to promote a strong gene pool, or we had “scientific better baby” competitions or that the Carnegie institute advocated for the use of gas chambers as euthanasia and the Rockefeller foundation, Stanford, hell even planned parenthood, pioneered racial superiority politics 40 years before the Germans got there
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Apr 10, 2023 03:19
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Alright, I think this will be my new conspiracy theory. Lenin was actually a Secret Swede (descendant of the captives of Poltava) who was seeking to bring down Russian from within; the revenge of Karl XII That really isn't that much different from the whole "Lenin was a secret German agent" theory.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:19
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bedpan posted:so no counteroffensive this year? the nine brigades were spent in protecting bakhmut? massive NAFO reserves standing by chanting "who must go?"
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Apr 10, 2023 03:23
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Alright, I think this will be my new conspiracy theory. Lenin was actually a Secret Swede (descendant of the captives of Poltava) who was seeking to bring down Russian from within; the revenge of Karl XII Does anyone have that one meme arguing the Ukraine war is a conflict between the houses of Hardrada and Godwinson
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Apr 10, 2023 03:23
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Alright, I think this will be my new conspiracy theory. Lenin was actually a Secret Swede (descendant of the captives of Poltava) who was seeking to bring down Russian from within; the revenge of Karl XII secret swede sent on orders of secret denmark's intelligence agency
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Apr 10, 2023 03:23
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Actually Lenin was a Finnish Agent he literally popped out of Finland Station.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:23
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StashAugustine posted:Does anyone have that one meme arguing the Ukraine war is a conflict between the houses of Hardrada and Godwinson I always take out Miriam first because she always ends up being annoyingly strong if you let her be for any amount of time
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Apr 10, 2023 03:24
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1stGear posted:Maximum "comedy" option: the UKR did expend all of their planned offensive units in Bakhmut, but they're still going to attempt one anyway because they have to have some kind of aggressive action to keep the aid money flowing in. Omg.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:24
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Ardennes posted:I would argue it is less the history and a dramatic retelling of that history that is amp’ed up to 11 at all times. There is a cleavage but I believe it is primarily an artificial one. Technically all nations are political creations. Given another outcome from the revolutionary wars we could have seen an independent nation of Vendée (or some HoI4 mod level Bretagne-Vendée union)
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Apr 10, 2023 03:25
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Prigozhin isnt buying the leak story, says there's a big ukranian offensive imminent:- https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1645225759131201537?s=20
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Apr 10, 2023 03:28
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah if you make it happen Corky Romanovsky posted:It's ±1 Battle Rating (BR) from the player's highest slotted vehicle. So if they are within 1 BR then yes, frequently. Otherwise yes, but infrequently because the lower BR vehicle would have to be filler in the player's lineup. No offence friends, but if my 1939 Kharkov T-34 can't clown on a factory fresh Leopard 1 that might just not be the game for me
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Apr 10, 2023 03:30
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Al-Saqr posted:Prigozhin isnt buying the leak story, says there's a big ukranian offensive imminent:- Guy whose monetary fortunes relies on Chicken Littling everything in order to milk more funds/equipment/etc.? 
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Apr 10, 2023 03:32
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1stGear posted:Maximum "comedy" option: the UKR did expend all of their planned offensive units in Bakhmut, but they're still going to attempt one anyway because they have to have some kind of aggressive action to keep the aid money flowing in. and its a huge success
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Apr 10, 2023 03:35
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Either way, there is clearly a bunch of unaccounted for equipment that is going to be used somewhere. It could be some of Ukraine’s reserves were used or that 80,000 number isn’t close to accurate but we haven’t seen most of that Western equipment deployed.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:35
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Ardennes posted:Either way, there is clearly a bunch of unaccounted for equipment that is going to be used somewhere. It could be some of Ukraine’s reserves were used or that 80,000 number isn’t close to accurate but we haven’t seen most of that Western equipment deployed. That's because it's already been sold on the black market, OP.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:41
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Al-Saqr posted:Prigozhin isnt buying the leak story, says there's a big ukranian offensive imminent:- we've been definitely been  too long so the time is ripe for Ukraine to do an offensive and Russia to wilt away effortlessly, as history has shown
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Apr 10, 2023 03:44
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:You mean a literal monarchy, as in, they amend the constitution to make a new Tsar? yes and they invite someone from the british royal family who is unnamed but who wikipedia identifies as prince michael of kent. the reasoning in the book is like "communism didn't work, capitalism didn't work, maybe what the russian people need is god and the tsar" lol. as far as bad spy thrillers go its a very entertaining book, quick and fun read, but its deeply stupid. the fictional main character's backstory is that he was a super spy whose agents were all betrayed by aldrich ames, so he gets kicked out of the cia for beating the poo poo out of ames.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:48
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https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1645210354706726915
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Apr 10, 2023 04:05
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I hope they sent one of the spares to that museum full of other trophies.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:07
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Very long-shot thought, but did the nuclear threat analysis of the cold war influence non-nuclear military planning? Nobody expected to fight a war for more than two weeks, is the short answer. The longer answer is you would have to look up Atomic Battlefield theory and the Pentomic Division.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:11
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Form a new Federation with Poland and renounce all foreign debts. I mean it's a pretty good option at this point.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:12
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stephenthinkpad posted:Form a new Federation with Poland and
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Apr 10, 2023 04:14
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Well if you want to speed up global de-dollarisation that's certainly one way to do it.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:16
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