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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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genericnick posted:Is it though? Ukraine being destroyed and at least the Western parts getting nazified and deindustrialized by the IMF seems like a good result if your goal is to prevent the former USSR from forming any kind of cohesive political force again. Also diminishes Europe's potential to do the same. But then you zoom out two notches and suddenly the picture looks pretty bad for the West. From a Western perspective, they started this thing thinking the Russians were a gas station on the edge of collapse, and now are down to scotched earth tactics. I mean that is the thing they claimed Euromadian in 2014 with the hope it opening the door for a larger consolidation over the Soviet Union again and it fizzled. The US got some consolidation in Northern Europe, but seems to be taking it the teeth from every other angle.
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Apr 10, 2023 13:46
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seizing russian foreign assets was the dumbest move by far
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Apr 10, 2023 13:48
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Frosted Flake posted:I believe April 28th is the day we should all keep in mind. That whole photo looks like it belongs in Outcast: Second Contact.
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Apr 10, 2023 13:53
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the west literally upended the existing world order with the sanctions and seizing assets and trying to dictate oil price caps for foreign countries and all that, and the dumbest part is that this was an order where everybody let the west do the paperwork side of things and profit handsomely from it because it was assumed that they would keep the system stable for the big players
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Apr 10, 2023 13:54
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Frosted Flake posted:I believe April 28th is the day we should all keep in mind. lol just casually passed this thinking it was the monument from an angle until I zoomed in a bit
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Apr 10, 2023 13:57
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Cerebral Bore posted:the west literally upended the existing world order with the sanctions and seizing assets and trying to dictate oil price caps for foreign countries and all that, and the dumbest part is that this was an order where everybody let the west do the paperwork side of things and profit handsomely from it because it was assumed that they would keep the system stable for the big players It's the whole failsons of failsons thing. The builders of empire were long gone and the inheritors (not having the necessary skills or talent to build themselves) were completely unable to manage things beyond maintenance mode, thus squandered what they had when they started loving with the underlying mechanisms using flawed short term thinking.
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Apr 10, 2023 13:59
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DancingShade posted:It's the whole failsons of failsons thing. The builders of empire were long gone and the inheritors (not having the necessary skills or talent to build themselves) were completely unable to manage things beyond maintenance mode, thus squandered what they had when they started loving with the underlying mechanisms using flawed short term thinking.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTMLLADhL8
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Apr 10, 2023 14:07
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They've been pushing people around who can't push back for so long they've forgotten how to deal with people who can.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:08
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Ardennes posted:From a Western perspective, they started this thing thinking the Russians were a gas station on the edge of collapse, and now are down to scotched earth tactics. I mean that is the thing they claimed Euromadian in 2014 with the hope it opening the door for a larger consolidation over the Soviet Union again and it fizzled. I mean that was rhetoric. Policy was to move as fast as humanly possible into the former soviet space and burn everything you couldn't grab. And the scorched earth tactics are now applied in the former heartland of the USSR.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:09
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Cuttlefush posted:lol just casually passed this thinking it was the monument from an angle until I zoomed in a bit I didn't zoom in 
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Apr 10, 2023 14:11
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genericnick posted:I mean that was rhetoric. Policy was to move as fast as humanly possible into the former soviet space and burn everything you couldn't grab. And the scorched earth tactics are now applied in the former heartland of the USSR. Your assuming they weren’t expecting to stay, and that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a “raid” so to speak. The end of history was suppose to be absolute. Also, to be honest, I don’t even know if the destruction in Ukraine is such a bad thing for Russia to be perfectly honest. The resources and farmland is still there, and the destruction of towns if anything is a boon for Russian construction. Also, to be honest, depopulation is the probably not the worse thing either because it simply just means a smaller and probably more loyal population to handle.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:27
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Considering the new Marvel trailer has bombs going off in Russia or something, how long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? We had a decade of shooters set in the Middle East, with the Operator trend being a big part of that. Everybody knows the "Middle Eastern setting" video game music, enemies with Keffiyehs wrapped around their heads, AK-47s, AC-130s, UAVs, etc. What do you think they'll do here?
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Apr 10, 2023 14:39
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Frosted Flake posted:Considering the new Marvel trailer has bombs going off in Russia or something, how long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? We had a decade of shooters set in the Middle East, with the Operator trend being a big part of that. Everybody knows the "Middle Eastern setting" video game music, enemies with Keffiyehs wrapped around their heads, AK-47s, AC-130s, UAVs, etc. What do you think they'll do here? enemy will be neo-soviets combined with russian mobsters
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Apr 10, 2023 14:42
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If there's no FPS Azov whitewash psyop I will be very surprised
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Apr 10, 2023 14:45
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https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1645355337602457604
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Apr 10, 2023 14:46
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Cookie Cutter posted:If there's no FPS Azov whitewash psyop I will be very surprised brave, nonideological patriots rising up against the tyranny of neo collectivization and open corruption by cruel, Asiatic mobsters. you play John Operator, the man sent in by the US to help this tall, attractive people throw out the invaders and win freedom
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Apr 10, 2023 14:47
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Frosted Flake posted:Considering the new Marvel trailer has bombs going off in Russia or something, how long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? We had a decade of shooters set in the Middle East, with the Operator trend being a big part of that. Everybody knows the "Middle Eastern setting" video game music, enemies with Keffiyehs wrapped around their heads, AK-47s, AC-130s, UAVs, etc. What do you think they'll do here? Papers Please, but playing as an Eastern European logistician trying to supply troops while hiding shortages, dealing with graft, angry PMCs, secret police investigations, being begged for supplies by charities, being shipped lovely counterfeit goods, etc.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:48
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Frosted Flake posted:Considering the new Marvel trailer has bombs going off in Russia or something, how long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? We had a decade of shooters set in the Middle East, with the Operator trend being a big part of that. Everybody knows the "Middle Eastern setting" video game music, enemies with Keffiyehs wrapped around their heads, AK-47s, AC-130s, UAVs, etc. What do you think they'll do here? The most recent Call of Duty is already teed up for the 2023 edition to be about not-Wagner
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Apr 10, 2023 14:48
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Also the next season of Amazon Jack Ryan is literally going to be about foiling a plot to "bring back the Soviet Empire"
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Apr 10, 2023 14:49
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Frosted Flake posted:Considering the new Marvel trailer has bombs going off in Russia or something, how long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? We had a decade of shooters set in the Middle East, with the Operator trend being a big part of that. Everybody knows the "Middle Eastern setting" video game music, enemies with Keffiyehs wrapped around their heads, AK-47s, AC-130s, UAVs, etc. What do you think they'll do here? it's gonna be the 'heroic' version of events. So mowing down 8 billion VDV troops who, on landing, immediately start shooting civilians who live at the airport. An epic battle of Kursk style event to defend Kyiv and send the convoy packing. Battle of Mariupol where it turns out the reason they held out so long is because there was a tier 1 operator there and he held off 9 billion troops for 10 days, ends with you escaping the city in a buggy in an epic chase sequence where you drive the buggy off a cliff directly into the back of a secret stealth Chinook. Epic mission where you control a drone and call in HIMARS. Multiple missions where your the first to enter liberated towns and villages and find all 10 billion civilians dead. All of them Russian speakers. Final mission is a suicide mission to deliver a nuke directly into the center of Donesk city. A child will beg you to stop, let him and his family live, but when you turn away for a second he pulls a knife and you detonate the bomb.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:50
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Regarde Aduck posted:Battle of Mariupol where it turns out the reason they held out so long is because there was a tier 1 operator there and he held off 9 billion troops for 10 days, Oh man a sequel to 13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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Apr 10, 2023 14:53
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gradenko_2000 posted:Also the next season of Amazon Jack Ryan is literally going to be about foiling a plot to "bring back the Soviet Empire" haha I bet it doesn't even involve help from china. that has to be the dumbest show on TV.
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Apr 10, 2023 15:09
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https://twitter.com/DavidNorthWSWS/status/1645042529052639232?t=lrqLQkRSbQqypmKBuSEdTw&s=19
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Apr 10, 2023 15:12
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BitcoinRockefeller posted:haha I bet it doesn't even involve help from china. that has to be the dumbest show on TV. I loving wish China would help reestablish the Soviet Union. Chinese academics have done a great job studying and learning from the Soviet Experience and yet Russian remains liberal and capitalist.
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Apr 10, 2023 15:15
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mawarannahr posted:How Russia is using the fossil fuel propaganda playbook to win the war When the gently caress did the world start to run on the petro ruble and why didn't anyone tell me?
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Apr 10, 2023 15:21
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They're going to reskin that cod mission where you help Jonas Savimbi fight the Cubans.
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Apr 10, 2023 15:24
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Modern Warfare literally had a level in Chernobyl/Pripyat whatever. Ukraine was always a level in a video game shooter, it's just that nobody bothered to emphasize that it was a big beautiful democracy standing against the armies of darakness.
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Apr 10, 2023 15:36
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Frosted Flake posted:I loving wish China would help reestablish the Soviet Union. Chinese academics have done a great job studying and learning from the Soviet Experience and yet Russian remains liberal and capitalist. doesn’t the Russian communist party basically say they’re going to do a China thing if they ever take power? though that’s kind of a moot point unless Putin suddenly dies, which will happen any moment now according to all those western media reports about him no longer looking 35 while our leaders are visibly decaying
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Apr 10, 2023 15:37
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https://twitter.com/OleksiyDanilov/status/1645397186304196613
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Apr 10, 2023 15:45
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And I don't post "war porn" stuff because usually it's not that interesting for me. I'm more about social and economic stuff. But everyone should post whatever they think is interesting or important imo. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1645390662152404998
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Apr 10, 2023 15:51
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HiroProtagonist posted:it would unironically own if you never posted here again I'm sorry but no matter what diet I get on I doubt I could ever 100 percent give up pizzas.
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Apr 10, 2023 15:51
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Lostconfused posted:And I don't post "war porn" stuff because usually it's not that interesting for me. I'm more about social and economic stuff. But everyone should post whatever they think is interesting or important imo. Bring Back Warsaw Pact reason #482. I am curious about the NYT hanging Ukraine out to dry though. It was a single source leak on a Minecraft discord, it would have been very, very easy to deny, or simply not acknowledge. Federal government still has today off, but I've heard that reporting on the leaks will be in our media packet for tomorrow, which means it's something officially discussed at work now, probably in our first meeting of the week. The White House commenting on it too, this is a big departure. It's entirely possible (imo likely) Ukraine really did get suckered into a Przemyśl Fortress/Verdun situation and bled their army white in a battle of the Russians' choosing, but why admit that? Why admit Ukraine had 3 strikes' worth of SAMs remaining? They had already been soft peddling that Bakmut was insignificant, the Russians attacked with shovels and were out of shells, the Ukrainians had fought out the Russian army in a heroic defence etc etc. so losing the city this week would have not made too many ripples, I don't think. Could this be the result of the China-brokered Iran-Saudi deal or Macron's visit to China, and comments on return, causing a desire to pivot to other priorities? Strategically, even without the documents, the Ukrainian state and army did not look like they were going to see the next snowfall, but the media war and White House commentary have been divorced from reality this whole time. For them to admit something is up, before the much-vaunted offensive, that's a departure from norms. Idk, theories? e: I get the sense this has even caused a ripple on my wife's desk, though lol she scolded me for implying the Micheals worked for CSIS this weekend, so the world has not turned entirely upside down.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:08
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I would say the tell was how underwhelming the response was for new equipment and that in the end Ukraine at best is just going to have to make hodgepodge utilizing mostly older equipment. I don’t think the leak has helped as the response has been more negative than positive despite the Oryx numbers in it. Bakhmut was a painful lost, and at this point, it is clear the Russians are just waiting until they see an opening. It would be the worse time to start backing away and beating the war drums for Taiwan, the problem is it doesn’t seem anyone is into it either. Also, the US is probably going to have some significant internal issues in the not too near future, either from a banking collapse or simply persistent stagflation.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:19
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I have no theories, I only spent the weekend listening to some old russians rambling on about geopolitics. Anyway, history really did start moving again. There's a least several different geopolitical hot spots going on around the world right now like Turkey, Israel, France. Some of them directly involve Russia like transcaucasia and central asia. And China while not getting involved directly in the war is instead making diplomatic moves in other parts of the world, where maybe someone in America thought they had complete control. Maybe like Wagner drawing all attention to Bakhmut, Russia drew all of western attention to the war in Ukraine, allowing for freedom of action in other areas. Anyway, long winded way of saying "both sides hosed up". I've heard this somewhere else, so not my original thought maybe even here, but both sides miscalculated in this war. Russia expected a quick military victory, Europe/USA expected a quick economic victory. Neither turned out to be true, so both sides ended up involved in a protracted conflict. Maybe the west overcommitted to the war even more than russia. One thing that I haven't heard mentioned recently in relation to all of this is the nuclear Iran deal. It didn't go anywhere, but I'm not sure any side got what it wanted there either.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:22
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It makes me wonder what would have happened if the Russians pulled off the coup de main last year. Of course, their war in Afghanistan also opened with a beautifully executed, still taught at Staff College, coup de main. Certainly NATO has a lot less military equipment lying around than a year ago, not that it was going to be used for anything else. Nobody had a satisfactory plan for the MRAPs, for one thing. They parked a bunch of ours in a fenced off parking lot at the Ottawa airport lol.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:24
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Ardennes posted:I would say the tell was how underwhelming the response was for new equipment and that in the end Ukraine at best is just going to have to make hodgepodge utilizing mostly older equipment. I don’t think the leak has helped as the response has been more negative than positive despite the Oryx numbers in it. WW3 will help get us through a tough internal time like that.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:26
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Frosted Flake posted:Bring Back Warsaw Pact reason #482. they realize that they're gonna lose eventually and are laying the groundwork for the climbdown?
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Apr 10, 2023 16:27
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The Russians screwed up the initial phase but I really don’t think it really is going to hold them back like the overreaction from the West. To be honest, I think it would have been a mess even if they had come in hard, there were tons of nationalists ready to fight and they would have gotten a bunch of arms. The Russians would just be fighting more of a irregular war than a WW1 part 2.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:31
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I would say that the military failure isn't important to what happens in Ukraine but Russia it self. The failure and the western response is driving the need and desire for internal reforms. What Russia looks like when it comes out on the other side of this conflict is an interesting question. Edit: Important point is that there are reforms being done. The Russian government isn't entirely stagnant. But how much, how far, and where those reforms go is not clear and an serious question. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 16:41 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Apr 10, 2023 16:39
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I would say reforms to military and state industries, I would say it is going to take shape but I really don’t see major political or social reforms happening. If anything the big shift is that Russia has turn away from the West, and the liberal opposition has gotten a lot weaker.
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