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Nelson Mandingo posted:Lets see what else Global Thinker posts. He seems pretty on the ball. Is BRICS named after what Putin is currently launching into his diaper
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:48 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 13:29 |
Putin is a real piece of poo poo!
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:50 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Lets see what else Global Thinker posts. He seems pretty on the ball. Oh I wish NATO was as involved as these guys are making it sound.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:52 |
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FRIBSC
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:53 |
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Why do threadbans expire when the thread is rebooted after having the previous thread erroneously closed in the first place?
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:55 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymZGgjk-H4 Interesting little mini-documentary (with English subtitles) about a SPG-9 team deployed in Bakhmut. The ex-Azov guy has one hell of a character arc in 7 1/2 minutes. No blood or bodies. Just the SPG shooting rounds, interviews with the men and an artillery shelling.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:56 |
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A balding manlet who failed at being a spy, so he got a desk job, and is playing at being a dictator trying to rebuild the vatnik union in his image, who killed his political opponents and critics, was responsible for aggravating most of the messes in central Asia and Eastern Europe by way of the FSB, according to the confession of Igor Strelkov, is supposed to be the champion of the so-called multipolar world. Maybe we don't need such a so-called champion and champion nation of the multipolar world to have any influence. Just saying.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 17:57 |
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Raku posted:Is BRICS named after what Putin is currently launching into his diaper Forgot what BRIC was. Can you really call yourself an "emerging economy" if your country is a former power in terminal decline?
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:00 |
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Why do threadbans expire when the thread is rebooted after having the previous thread erroneously closed in the first place? Because no one really tracks who is actually threadbanned so it just falls on memory and most of the people who do get threadbanned don't ever come back Vengarr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymZGgjk-H4 drat that was really good. It's wild how much everything has slowed down to a halt in the last few months.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:01 |
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The BBC have a new 1hr documentary out, Ready for War?. (VPN+Free account should work), following a group of Ukrainians through the five week training operation in the UK. It gives an insight in to what training they get, but mostly it's a fairly bleak, emotional gut wrenching story of people.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:04 |
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Pekinduck posted:Forgot what BRIC was. Can you really call yourself an "emerging economy" if your country is a former power in terminal decline? Love when people pretend it is a real block when China and India have open border disputes spanning for decades
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:10 |
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Edit: Spending more time ignoring and reading the thread before commenting.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:15 |
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Terminal autist posted:The funniest bit is despite being surrounded by countries with universal healthcare they shipped his rear end back to the us and put in debt for the rest of his life lmao. Got my skull shattered by a rocket and all I got was this slava ukraina bumper sticker Its universal for citizens, not for tourists or mercenaries who arent citizens. Treating anyone who turns up is rige for abuse and just leads to health tourism If you're from an eu country the rates they charge eachother for healthcare are roughly equivilent so they comp eachother using EHIC, so traveling in the EU as an EU citizen means you'll still have coverage. United statesians in most EU countries would still need health insurance, as would EU citizens in the US If youre a foreigner you still have to pay, though at leasy in the UK every place will do emergency treatment and any follow up treatments before asking payment. The NHS routinely has court cases suing foreigners for not paying for treatment though usually they cant claim anything since theyve fled the country or disappeared.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:24 |
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The charges given to foreigners in EU countries are still nearly universally less than what an unemployed person is charged in the US. Guy should have applied for Ukrainian citizenship or at least residency as a part of volunteering.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:43 |
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fatherboxx posted:Love when people pretend it is a real block when China and India have open border disputes spanning for decades I mean they're a bloc in that they both agree human rights aren't worth poo poo and that we need to absolutely respect national sovereignty, a phrase which here means the dictator can terrorise whoever he wants without encountering whining from any western ambassadors
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 18:51 |
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fatherboxx posted:Love when people pretend it is a real block when China and India have open border disputes spanning for decades A common complaint from Indian Chuds i've seen is that the US is too friendly with China. From my relatively ignorant position on SEA matters, I don't think there's a lot of love lost there.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:02 |
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Listening to old art bell and in 2007, putin criticized the US for starting too many wars lol
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:04 |
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I mean, you're not gonna hear me defend the wars in the middle east. But even by then Putin had 2 wars in Chechnya and was almost certainly already planning the Georgian war
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:11 |
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Deki posted:A common complaint from Indian Chuds i've seen is that the US is too friendly with China. There's not a whole lot of love lost between India and China since the border war in '62, and the many incursions they've done at our borders since. It didn't help that USA and UK refused to sell advanced weapons to India at the time of this war, forcing the then government to deepen ties with the Soviets. Just between these things, and without going too much deeper into them, that's sufficient cause for grievance to fester among our local chuds, especially with the recent border skirmishes taken into account. And that's not even counting that there's no love lost among them for the UK over the British Raj.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:13 |
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Sedgr posted:Putin is a real piece of poo poo! He is misunderstood
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:15 |
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bratwurst massage posted:He is misunderstood Yeah! He’s a whole log of poo poo.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:17 |
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Why do we even have a UN security council? It can only act against countries that are A) Not a permanent member of the UN security council B) Not friends with a permanent member of the UN security council That doesn't leave much in the way of threats against world peace. Just dispense with the theatre, noone ought to be fooled by the thin veneer of legitimacy.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:18 |
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The UN's main job is to keep a major diplomatic channel open between the big boys to prevent WW3. Anything else is entirely secondary to that.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:25 |
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Philonius posted:Why do we even have a UN security council? It can only act against countries that are Nukes and WW3
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:25 |
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Deki posted:The UN's main job is to keep a major diplomatic channel open between the big boys to prevent WW3. Yes, but we have phones now. Just call. It's only a handful of countries that matter in this regard, no need to fly the representatives of the other 180 to New York.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:28 |
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User Terminal autism is a very bad person!
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:35 |
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You think WW3 is bad, just wait until you see WW4
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:37 |
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The UN exists to ensure that one guy doesn’t get his balls nuked
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:48 |
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teen witch posted:Time to find a Havana Club sub for my mai tais My partner did two stints in Costa Rica and became very fond of Flor de Caña.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:52 |
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General Bullshit>Ukraine War: Combat hobos sent to death
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Vengarr posted:The UN exists to ensure that one guy doesn’t get his balls nuked I've heard enough. Time to dissolve the UN.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:52 |
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In actual news, US believes Israel can be pressured to supply lethal arms to Ukraine: https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-leak-us-believes-israel-can-be-pressured-to-supply-lethal-arms-to-ukraine/amp/ Israel Times posted:The US believes Israel can be pressured or persuaded into changing its stance on Ukraine and providing Kyiv with “lethal aid,” according to a leaked Pentagon document seen by American media outlets.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 20:59 |
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Deki posted:A common complaint from Indian Chuds i've seen is that the US is too friendly with China. Legit one of the very worst cold war era US foreign relations fuckups. The Chinese and the Soviets start falling out, so US aligns hard with China to help it along, but because China is opposed to India in about nine zillion different ways, this necessarily means pissing in Indian cereal (dosa?). For the rest of the cold war, USA pulled off all kinds of really petty bullshit like blocking third-party weapons exports to India, causing India to align hard with the Soviets. If, instead, USA had aligned with India instead, maybe the world's largest democracy would not be sliding into fascism right about now, and there would be a very strong ally in South Asia.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:01 |
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Im listening to ep 36 of Lions Led by Donkeys episode on the Donbass War. This ep is from January 2019 so its got some insights years well before feb 2022.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:08 |
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Tuna-Fish posted:Legit one of the very worst cold war era US foreign relations fuckups. The Chinese and the Soviets start falling out, so US aligns hard with China to help it along, but because China is opposed to India in about nine zillion different ways, this necessarily means pissing in Indian cereal (dosa?). For the rest of the cold war, USA pulled off all kinds of really petty bullshit like blocking third-party weapons exports to India, causing India to align hard with the Soviets. Rice would probably fit better than cereal, for the sake of the analogy
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:12 |
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1646189749667758080 Well..... good loving luck, you're going to need it
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:25 |
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The historically close US-Pakistan relationship also played a major role. I still regularly see Indian chud equivalents bringing up the fact Nixon sent a carrier into the Indian Ocean during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 as a warning to India not to also decisively invade (then West) Pakistan. The gnashing of nationalist teeth here isn't so much that India was 'threatened', more that it was prevented from righteously finishing off Pakistan permanently.
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:25 |
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Toxic Mental posted:Terminal autist was threadbanned in the old incarnation, just ignore him and if he does it more then he'll get his old threadban status back Did you know that as mods, you might have the power to threadban people again instead of doing absolutely nothing?
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# ? Apr 12, 2023 21:25 |
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:Did you know that as mods, you might have the power to threadban people again instead of doing absolutely nothing? Yeah and if he posts some troll rear end poo poo one more time he's gonna end up paying a $10 tax every time he posts in the thread. That was kind of the point. Back on topic, thanks: https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1646242808750014464?s=20
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Tuna-Fish posted:Legit one of the very worst cold war era US foreign relations fuckups. The Chinese and the Soviets start falling out, so US aligns hard with China to help it along, but because China is opposed to India in about nine zillion different ways, this necessarily means pissing in Indian cereal (dosa?). For the rest of the cold war, USA pulled off all kinds of really petty bullshit like blocking third-party weapons exports to India, causing India to align hard with the Soviets.
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