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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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Frosted Flake posted:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pXaZXI6yMNDYBTA9ttjz4wun4dYvR1jtXAdSdfTKwvg/edit
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Lostconfused posted:Oh come one, find me a person who's phone isn't being tapped by US? Obama's best friend, Angela Merkel.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:03
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The tide has turned https://twitter.com/cuneytdil/status/1646226182512181266
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Apr 12, 2023 22:08
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Frosted Flake posted:Who the gently caress would want Market-oriented, competitive and opportunistic military leaders? Or soldiers, for that matter? Someone who wants to get couped by their military at the slightest sign of weakness, clearly.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:11
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Megamissen posted:is bakhmut an older name? turns out it is 1571–1924: Bakhmut 1924–1941: Artemivsk 1942–1943: Bakhmut 1943–2016: Artemivsk 2016–present: Bakhmut
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Apr 12, 2023 22:16
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Megamissen posted:1942–1943: Bakhmut 
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Apr 12, 2023 22:24
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Megamissen posted:1924–1941: Artemivsk  vvvv man being on the Ukrainian Jewish Committee must be a pretty thankless job. Starsfan has issued a correction as of 22:28 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Apr 12, 2023 22:25
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It keeps happening. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-738940 quote:The Kyiv City Council may be set to name a street after a Nazi collaborator and SS official, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky has reported.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:26
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FrancisFukyomama posted:didn’t one of the newer cods feature the highway of death but framed it as the Russians doing it bc it’d be distasteful for the US to do it Uhhhhh actually you loving tankie the highway of death wasn't a war crime at all because everyone who died there were combatants. Legitimate military target.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:34
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Megamissen posted:turns out it is Bakhmut season! Artemivsk season! Bakhmut season! Artemivsk season! Bakhmut season! Artemivsk season!
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Apr 12, 2023 22:35
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Slavvy posted:This but uzis or equivalent Here's my idea. You take thousands of guys, arrange them in a big square. And then you have them all shoot their automatic rifles into the air at an arc, like artillery. This results in a rain of bullets falling on the enemy. Z the IVth posted:Sell cosmetic gun skins to your troops. This will result in discrimination, where the troops who paid in ears get mad at the "pay-to-win" troops who paid in cash.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:35
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Frosted Flake posted:Bring Back Warsaw Pact reason #482. Throughout the war it was never entirely clear to me whether the war was drone piloted from Langley or the US had basically no control of what happened on the ground except by providing the inputs. Obviously Joe Brandon could snap his fingers and the country crumbles, but once you filled a government with psycho blood and soil nationalists it's hard to tell them to chill a bit. Did I imagine the US making unhappy noises about sending reserves to Bakhmut? Anyway, if we assume that the US sees advantage in having the war continue, they might have second thoughts about doing a big offensive that risks a big collapse and putting it in a leak avoids having to say in plane language that Ukraine's military is spent. Because Ukraine doing well is an essential part of the euro consensus. But Hootington's guess is more straight forward: Mr Hootington posted:I've seen the idea floated that the leak could have been on purpose to help fuel support for the atrocious internet surveillance and censorship bill the government wants to pass.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:41
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i dont think the usa put in this leak, i think sometimes people do stupid poo poo
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Apr 12, 2023 22:43
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Delta-Wye posted:just thinking about this turd and his rad pre-SMO donbass tour for no reason 
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Apr 12, 2023 22:43
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tazjin posted:What always strikes me about pre-war footage from Ukraine is that it generally looks like the most run-down provincial towns of Russia but like, everywhere. I've been in Kiev/Lviv a couple of times for work, years ago, and they look normal - but all the stuff east of Kiev seems to not have seen a kopek of investment since the 90s. It's very inconsistent. There's some new stuff here and there, with some stuff being new or at least getting a new coat of paint.      But also some stuff that looks like it's been that way since the 80s.    Sometimes you get a juxtaposition of both 
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Apr 12, 2023 22:46
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Is Zelensky an airhead? He's got a law degree even if he's never practiced. Maybe he doesn't have the understanding of realpolitik one would hope for, but who does with any power in a neoliberal state? It came up earlier that America using Oryx and Ukrainian MoD figures in it's briefings is shocking but to me it doesn't indicate that they don't have good estimates for these figures just that they are keeping them close to their chest, apparently for good reason. Enjoy posted:"To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." I guess that includes sponsoring a nazi led coup inititiating a civil war.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:46
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It is really loving weird that the times decided to drag a months old leak out into spotlight and confirm it.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:50
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Frosted Flake posted:
Imagine you're Zelensky. You get voted in as a peace maker, but they figuratively (or quite possible literally) hold a gun to your head and tell you there's not going to be peace. Now, you're a professional. They're looking for a war president, they'll get their war president!
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Apr 12, 2023 22:50
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Slavvy posted:In every possible universe in the quantum foam, seagal is exactly the same The movie "Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" but America Chavez is Steven Seagal
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Apr 12, 2023 22:53
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Frosted Flake posted:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pXaZXI6yMNDYBTA9ttjz4wun4dYvR1jtXAdSdfTKwvg/edit This seems to be saying Russia has 1x - 2x the troops in the area.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:53
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-uses-video-games-to-teach-public-the-art-of-war-lw0xft5xz Kriegspiel is back, in DreamWorks face form! quote:“Foreign policy matters once again, more than it used to,” Mirko Kruppa, the foreign ministry’s head of domestic public diplomacy, told a recent Civilization VI tournament. “We need places where you can exchange ideas and where it’s not just a matter of acting and presenting faits accomplis, but you have to justify yourself. We saw that with the UN general assembly’s resolution [condemning] the annexation of Ukrainian territory by Russia.” Just like in Civilization, some countries are just inherently warlike and disruptive. PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 22:56 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Apr 12, 2023 22:53
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Cpt_Obvious posted:It is really loving weird that the times decided to drag a months old leak out into spotlight and confirm it. They couldn't help that something got out with numbers that looked good for the Russians on it, and in turn, made it a far more embarrassing mess.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:57
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The idea that Germans need to be taught gaming as a concept is laughable in itself, but using Civ 6? Really?
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Apr 12, 2023 23:01
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-uses-video-games-to-teach-public-the-art-of-war-lw0xft5xz The primary reason players and AI declare war in Civilization is needing some lebensraum, so yeah, I guess that would resonant with Germans.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:05
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Weka posted:This seems to be saying Russia has 1x - 2x the troops in the area. They said Ukraine might have 30k troops to Russia's 29k, and also classified a bunch of Russian units are not participating or non combat units. e: but I agree, the golden rule is 3:1, and Russia has been advancing. Otoh, a 20:1 advantage in fires, that might do it.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:10
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Frosted Flake posted:They said Ukraine might have 30k troops to Russia's 29k, and also classified a bunch of Russian units are not participating or non combat units. Granted, in that case, that advantage didn't stay that way very long.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:17
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Delta-Wye posted:just thinking about this turd and his rad pre-SMO donbass tour for no reason do you want me to watch the video or not getting mixed messages when you call the tour rad but the guy who made it a turd
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Apr 12, 2023 23:23
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DandyLion posted:but this means you've never once got it in the toilet... 
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Apr 12, 2023 23:25
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Frosted Flake posted:
Market-oriented makes absolutely no sense to me unless they are thinking of subcontracting army jobs or procurement. Competitive I could see on lower echelon where they try to one-up each other. Of course, it means we have to not think about how that probably play out once they trying to one-up each other in a hot war... Opportunistic could be commander seizing initiative in the face of a developing situation when they see a good option. Of course, in real life, those trait are actually more prone to be used in a different way. Market-oriented people are usually looking to optimize stuff for shareholder value. Competitiveness will be displayed by cornering market for monetary gains. Opportunistic people will look for way to scam the system for personal gains.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:31
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tazjin posted:What always strikes me about pre-war footage from Ukraine is that it generally looks like the most run-down provincial towns of Russia but like, everywhere. I've been in Kiev/Lviv a couple of times for work, years ago, and they look normal - but all the stuff east of Kiev seems to not have seen a kopek of investment since the 90s. american cities looks like the donbass
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Apr 12, 2023 23:31
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Starsfan posted:
I'm sure they were thanked for their lists
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Delta-Wye posted:just thinking about this turd and his rad pre-SMO donbass tour for no reason the only thing that lets you know this wasn't set in the us is the train system. we're a failed soviet shitheap
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Apr 12, 2023 23:33
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Ytlaya posted:Here's my idea. You take thousands of guys, arrange them in a big square. And then you have them all shoot their automatic rifles into the air at an arc, like artillery. This results in a rain of bullets falling on the enemy. ff already went over this. cant remember when, but britain(?) used indirect fire from small arms.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:37
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Chillgamesh posted:They could easily improve upon modern tanks by giving them a big wedge on the front to flip over other tanks Ramming has already proven to be the next big step of aerial warfare. Looking forward to huge flying wings (the whole plane a single leading edge ram) cleaving through the autonomous drone fleets of the future like whales swallowing krill
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Comrade Koba posted:bored ape counterinsurgency club
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Apr 12, 2023 23:43
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bedpan posted:Around the time of Teresa May's downfall I remember hearing from a history podcaster based in western Europe that they were really sad Hillary didn't win in 2016 and that May lost her job because the podcaster thought having Merkel, Hillary, and May in office at the same time would unlock some magic sensible girlboss magic and solve the world's crisis.  dk2m posted:Germany was poised to start receiving cheap energy from Russia that would have made their manufacturing extremely competitive and with so much of their major companies having huge business in China (for example, Mercedes Benz sells more cars in China now than they do in Europe or NA), they had a lot of incentives to tap into Chinas now shifting middle class consumer spending economy. Pretty much PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 23:49 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Apr 12, 2023 23:47
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imo if rifles are small arms we shohld start calling howitzers Big Arms instead of artillery
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Apr 12, 2023 23:47
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That explains why Russia has them and Ukraine doesn't. They can't both have big arms. That would look ridiculous.
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Apr 12, 2023 23:51
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supersnowman posted:Market-oriented makes absolutely no sense to me unless they are thinking of subcontracting army jobs or procurement. Yeah tbh Idgi, which is weird because I was a subject for one of the Canadian studies therein. What professionalism means to me (and the Danes and Canadians interviewed!) does not line up with these guys at all. Does anyone speak bug?  "These modes are inspiration, opinion, domestic, market, industry, and civic. Modes do not appear out of nowhere. Some constitute classical discourses in political thought: The market mode (and the coordinating principle of competition) and the civic mode (and the coordination principle of community) derive from e.g. Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract (Boltanski and Thévenot 2006). " "A crucial point about each mode is its principle of coordination by means of which legitimacy and quality are evaluated. As a principle of coordination, competi- tion (linked the market mode) has completely different standards than the principle of tradition (linked to the domestic mode). In theory, coexisting modes are impossible because they are mutually exclusive. In practice, however, actors come to pragmatic agreements. In conventional sociological terms, such a coexistence constitutes a com- promise. Historically developed compromises allow a plurality of modes to exist side by side in the real world. From this perspective, the plurality of modes is a dynamic process through which new modes emerge and through which the hierarchies of modes undergo changes." "The lowest ranking modes were those of the market and the civic mode, which appear to be seen as inferior. (This was also the case in the examination of the senior officers. The averaged appearance of the market mode, between 1989 and 2014, lies at merely 1.3%) "Despite these differences, the three sources reveal the contours of the new, post-Cold War view of military organizational values. Traditional military values— those associated with the domestic and the industrial modes — are supplemented by other military values, those associated with the project and the execution modes. At the other end of the scale, we find an unequivocal rejection of values associated with the market mode and the civic mode. These observations form the basis of our two first hypotheses regarding the content of the moral modes of the modern officer: H1a: Person–organization fit requires, first, that the project mode, the execution mode, the domestic mode, and the industrial mode are the most important for the new cadets. H2a: Person–organization fit also requires that the market mode and the civic mode are the least important for the cadets." "Second, cadets with a civilian background scored items associated with opinion as importantly as those linked to the project mode and the execution mode. This is unexpected because the mid-level officers surveyed in 2016 and 2017 ranked opinion notably lower than the project and the execution modes. A similar discrepancy can be seen if we turn our attention to the lowest scoring modes. While the mid-level officers ranked the inspirational mode much higher than the market mode and the civic mode, the cadets surveyed here placed it at the very bottom. Moreover, while the mid-level officers ranked the market mode significantly higher than the civic mode, the opposite seems to be the case among cadets enrolled on the basis of their civilian merits" (I don't know what to make of this. Joe Civilian arrives at BMOQ with more military values than a major? Is this a generational thing?) Also, have a dose of ideology: "Professions are distinguished from occupations by a theoretical body of knowledge that informs the practical skills of professionals. Laymen, not commissioned as members of the profession, will find it difficult to acquire the knowledge and skills unique to it, creating a professional monopoly. Professional communities maintain their monopoly by controlling recruitment and selection and by establishing criteria for promotion. The state allows professional monopolies because they provide services the free market finds difficult to provide " I don't even know what the tldr is here, except there's a whole chapter about how neoliberal states tried to "reform" militaries from the 90's on but just aren't able to turn them into other jobs, go figure.
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish I had a way to save it but I saw some pictures of Ukrainian soldiers wearing Austro-Hungarian flags as morale patches during someone’s pptx. If they are waving around that fraudulent red-white-red/green naval ensign they deserve everything that's coming to them. Ukraine is part of Austria, not Hungary! PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 00:02 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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