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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

StashAugustine posted:

Germans just aren't civilized enough for self rule

the warlike peoples of the occident must be administered by more enlightened civilisations until they can be taught the means of peaceful self-governance.

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Lol no wonder the selfie with Zelenska was the only one she posted

https://twitter.com/_drinkzonr0x/status/1659003165185036288?t=k4vgK5tEuW-iGmnGYPdqcA&s=19

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Yeah was gonna post that. You can probably find a story by AP themselves a few weeks ago about how china is actively preventing the day of IMF reckoning from a lot of countries by giving them more favorable loans

Ah but see the IMF and World Bank aren't *technically* government lenders sooooo *fart*

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010


what was Stephen Harper up to, this seems like his kind of jam

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
I am trying to find out how money was changed hands to get the former Poland president and the Ukrainian first lady go to Asian Leader Conference?

Yoon got too many empty seats in his party?

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1658850365448527875

breaking news: america is aware of china's nefarious plan for america's downfall by just watching america fall apart an ocean away

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
another anti-muslim absolute loving sicko, what a surprise. wonder how many high fives she gave desantis

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

i always wonder how many libs are under the impression that berlin was the border line between east and west germany and not a besieged exclave 300 miles from the border, because that was my impression for a long time from the way the situation is explained in american public school

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

so why did people concentrate on berlin instead of trying to cross anywhere else?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

there was a lot of East Germans concentrated there in another city also called Berlin

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Doktor Avalanche posted:

so why did people concentrate on berlin instead of trying to cross anywhere else?

liberals love their monoliths

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Doktor Avalanche posted:

so why did people concentrate on berlin instead of trying to cross anywhere else?

it was more porous than the inner german border which was basically depopulated and razed to ensure that GDR internal troops could control it easily. in berlin you had things like the subway crisscrossing the city

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
I suspect the east camp didn't take over west Berlin was the same reason Mao didn't take over HK and Macau, to keep a convenient place for spy meet up and controlled trades.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/05/hard-truth-aussie-army-consuming-readiness-in-face-of-inflation-new-strategic-environment/

Consuming readiness is the new degradation.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Those brown people aren't going pay us to shoot em, you know?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Palladium posted:

Those brown people aren't going pay us to shoot em, you know?

Oh they will. Whether they want to or not.

Resource grabs are always in season.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BadSocialisms/status/1659352918359969792

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

stephenthinkpad posted:

I suspect the east camp didn't take over west Berlin was the same reason Mao didn't take over HK and Macau, to keep a convenient place for spy meet up and controlled trades.

also the whole risk of a shooting war business

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

stephenthinkpad posted:

I suspect the east camp didn't take over west Berlin was the same reason Mao didn't take over HK and Macau, to keep a convenient place for spy meet up and controlled trades.

Liberating West Berlin is like what kicks off most World War III scenarios or at leats happens within the first few hours or days

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010


If only they built highways instead...

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Look at this massive and not insane Canadian naval victory during the Korean War

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
completely done with this poo poo

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

KomradeX posted:

Look at this massive and not insane Canadian naval victory during the Korean War

the Philippines still loves to make a big deal out of the Battle of Yultong, our very own Thermopylae, where a single battalion of the Philippine Expeditionary Force To Korea held off two PVA divisions to cover the retreat of the US 3rd Division

never mind that the final outcome was a retreat, it's still a victory because they lost a little slower than they could have

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

KomradeX posted:

Look at this massive and not insane Canadian naval victory during the Korean War



Imagine being proud of doing this.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The fucken Alamo was a crushing defeat, context and outcomes are irrelevant

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

DancingShade posted:

Imagine being proud of doing this.

I used to think Australia was the most racist country on earth, did NOT expect Canada to take the lead

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I reminded of a us army tank that crushed a taxi cab post Iraq invasion to punish the owner for an alleged offense, thus destroying his livelihood. An officer even fired his pistol into the wreckage because why not I guess.

Ah, a fine and proud service.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Slavvy posted:

I used to think Australia was the most racist country on earth, did NOT expect Canada to take the lead

5 eyes nations are fairly similar culturally when you get down to it.

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

the Philippines still loves to make a big deal out of the Battle of Yultong, our very own Thermopylae, where a single battalion of the Philippine Expeditionary Force To Korea held off two PVA divisions to cover the retreat of the US 3rd Division

never mind that the final outcome was a retreat, it's still a victory because they lost a little slower than they could have

I can't imagine being proud of losing slower but also being used as a racist meat shield to protect white colonial masters

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

KomradeX posted:

I can't imagine being proud of losing slower but also being used as a racist meat shield to protect white colonial masters

How about losing entirely while aggressively invading another nation and spinning it into a point of national pride?

At least ANZAC biscuits are quite good.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

DancingShade posted:

How about losing entirely while aggressively invading another nation and spinning it into a point of national pride?

At least ANZAC biscuits are quite good.

Watching the Turkish movie about Gallipoli and seeing it treated similarly to the Russian defense of Moscow against the savage implacable Australians was a trip

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Slavvy posted:

I used to think Australia was the most racist country on earth, did NOT expect Canada to take the lead

the Polite Canadian has been the greatest trick pulled on the world

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The perfidious canade

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

yellowcar posted:

the Polite Canadian has been the greatest trick pulled on the world

Smiling assassins have long held a valuable role.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Whoever has killed more indigenous people in the last few decades wins the most racist country title.

Canada still has massive unresolved missing indigenous women serial killers cases.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

also mass graves of indigenous children hidden away on church-run residential schools

e: also the last residential school closed in the mid-90s

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1659074894796140545?t=EpfdY4lGJFOmjUTgShG1JQ&s=19

Looks like Wang Yi and Sullivan reached some kind of deal in the recent meeting. I wonder what the US agreed to give secretly to get those 4 visits.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Delta-Wye posted:

completely done with this poo poo


"Bro i am literally trying to catch some loving fish do you mind?"

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
I've got a large junk for Canada to capture if you know what I mean.

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Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1659411468155228161

incredible things are happening in china

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