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https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1670723829713215489?t=qOriKOBhomX9TM7QqXI3gw&s=19 Shame, there are probably still going to be Russian tanks to count in October
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Jun 19, 2023 10:31
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1670723829713215489?t=qOriKOBhomX9TM7QqXI3gw&s=19 Thats unfortunate, its a very useful site. Maybe with enough crowdfunding the creator might keep it going, or at least hire someone to do it for him? I'd presume during this war at least while the site is so high profile it wouldn't be hard for them to raise a few thousand a month if they do a donation drive.
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Jun 19, 2023 13:15
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Blut posted:Thats unfortunate, its a very useful site. Maybe with enough crowdfunding the creator might keep it going, or at least hire someone to do it for him? Oryx has a Patreon but it's got pretty weak support. They probably needed someone to take on the work of actually hustling for donations because it should have been possible to get way more than what they have. A fairly minor youtube channel that I used to watch that produces historical military content is taking in a minimum of 10k/month on their Patreon. Continuing on in the vague hopes of a job without taking steps towards monetization is not the greatest plan.
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Jun 19, 2023 13:54
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https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1670739818131718145?s=20 Jakub has been update the Ukraine war related lists for some time. (or at least the lists of Russian and Ukrainian equipment losses)
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Jun 19, 2023 15:08
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Fidelitious posted:Oryx has a Patreon but it's got pretty weak support. They probably needed someone to take on the work of actually hustling for donations because it should have been possible to get way more than what they have. Oryx has repeatedly said to donate to Ukrainian charities instead of him and his Patreon. It's not always about money.
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Jun 19, 2023 16:22
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Piatykhatky now confirmed liberated, after yesterday's contradictory reports: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3724646-ukrainian-soldiers-liberate-piatykhatky-maliar.html
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Jun 19, 2023 17:30
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Phlegmish posted:Piatykhatky now confirmed liberated, after yesterday's contradictory reports: Yeah my understanding was that the progression is:
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Jun 19, 2023 18:10
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drat Oryx is calling it quits that sucks. I was reading his blog even before this war started and he had really good articles on a lot of obscure military stuff. But after the Ukraine war started it was probably just too much to keep up with. And honestly it's a pretty dark subject, I'm sure counting up destroyed tanks on a daily basis has to take some kind of a toll considering it's human beings inside those tanks. While not anywhere near as detailed, thedrive.com (a great automotive website) has a section called the Warzone that has good articles on all things military.
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Jun 19, 2023 18:50
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Charliegrs posted:drat Oryx is calling it quits that sucks. I was reading his blog even before this war started and he had really good articles on a lot of obscure military stuff. But after the Ukraine war started it was probably just too much to keep up with. And honestly it's a pretty dark subject, I'm sure counting up destroyed tanks on a daily basis has to take some kind of a toll considering it's human beings inside those tanks. Apparently he has had recent health issues to add to things, the group did great work.
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Jun 19, 2023 21:03
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he had a severe health scare recently yeah
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Jun 19, 2023 22:17
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 St. Petersburg put up giant flags of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire.
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Jun 20, 2023 12:14
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That black-gold-white flag looks way better than present Russia one, that also seem to be "default Slavic template" one.
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Jun 20, 2023 12:30
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You know what’s awesome? Both the tsar and the people who murdered the tsar
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Jun 20, 2023 12:39
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Scratch Monkey posted:You know what’s awesome? Both the tsar and the people who murdered the tsar Do I contradict myself? Blyat, then I contradict myself, (I am big syka, I contain multitudes.) -- Уолтер Уитмен
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Jun 20, 2023 12:46
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Moon Slayer posted:
Interesting that Russia is by far the smallest of the three.
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Jun 20, 2023 13:38
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Blut posted:Interesting that Russia is by far the smallest of the three. They're all the same size, it's just further away.
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Jun 20, 2023 13:43
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Blut posted:Interesting that Russia is by far the smallest of the three. It's also the farthest. E: beaten like the kulak.
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Jun 20, 2023 13:44
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Blut posted:Interesting that Russia is by far the smallest of the three. https://youtu.be/MMiKyfd6hA0
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Jun 20, 2023 13:45
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Moon Slayer posted:
Only three flags? Sounds like an inferior theme park to me. 
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Jun 20, 2023 13:49
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I was just going to post it 
Dwesa fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Jun 20, 2023 13:51
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That classic came to mind for sure. 
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Jun 20, 2023 14:11
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alex314 posted:That black-gold-white flag looks way better than present Russia one, that also seem to be "default Slavic template" one. By "default Slavic template" are you referring to the colors or the fact that it's three horizontal stripes? Cause I'm looking at flags of various Slavic countries, historical and current, and they're all mostly some form of red, blue, and white. If you're referring to the three horizontal stripes it's like… one of the more common flag designs in the world. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Jun 20, 2023 14:27
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Boris Galerkin posted:By "default Slavic template" are you referring to the colors or the fact that it's three horizontal stripes? Cause I'm looking at flags of various Slavic countries, historical and current, and they're all mostly some form of red, blue, and white. If you're referring to the three horizontal stripes it's like… one of the more common flag designs in the world. The colors. Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia use those "pan-slavic colors". At least Belarus and Ukraine has decided to screw that noise.
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Jun 20, 2023 14:39
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alex314 posted:At least Belarus and Ukraine has decided to screw that noise.
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Jun 20, 2023 14:46
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 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/politics/russia-spy-assassination.html
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Jun 20, 2023 14:55
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alex314 posted:The colors. Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia use those "pan-slavic colors". At least Belarus and Ukraine has decided to screw that noise. USA is secretly panslavic 
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Jun 20, 2023 15:24
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Nenonen posted:USA is secretly panslavic The e got lost in the mail
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alex314 posted:The colors. Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia use those "pan-slavic colors". At least Belarus and Ukraine has decided to screw that noise. Bulgaria and North Macedonia don't use them either. It's kind of funny that the Pan-Slavic colours are just riffs on the Dutch flag though (Peter the Great was a big fan of the Dutch - a zeeaboo, if you will)
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Jun 20, 2023 17:38
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gently caress Russia, but that black yellow white flag is aesthetically cool.
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Jun 20, 2023 17:49
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Nenonen posted:USA is secretly panslavic And the UK and Australia and France and Liberia and Cuba and Paraguay and Luxembourg and Cambodia and Panama and Norway and the Dominican Republic and… Red, white and blue is a very popular color scheme.
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Jun 20, 2023 17:50
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mutata posted:gently caress Russia, but that black yellow white flag is aesthetically cool. Shame it's basically only used by unsavory far-right types these days.
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Jun 20, 2023 18:02
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Red, white, and blue have been "adopted" as Pan-Slavic colours during the 1848 Prague Slavic Congress. They made it onto the flags of the Slavic states formed after the Congress mostly for this reason.
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Jun 20, 2023 18:04
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a new development in what i find to be the utterly bizarre saga of the 11 pows released into hungarian custodyquote:Kyiv repatriated three Ukrainian prisoners of war from Hungary after a group of POWs was transferred there from Russia without coordination with Kyiv, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday according to Reuters. so at least some of the prisoners were willing to be repatriated. really not clear to me what the point of this stunt is
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Jun 20, 2023 18:48
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This seems like the rare occasion the Red Cross could actually be useful?
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Jun 20, 2023 18:50
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I'm probably overthinking this, but this Hungary/Ukraine POW affair smells of some kind of schenanigans. Like some kind of attempt by Russia to hand Orban a foreign policy 'victory' (albeit a small and very cheap one from their perspective) as a reward for his wise level-headed and sensible peacemongering. Or some kind of attempt to drive Hungary further away from Ukraine/the EU, as Ukraine will probably not be obsequesious enough in its 'gratitude' for this charade, therefore providing Hungary more propaganda material to use for its domestic media, further entrenching their anti-Ukraine/pro-Russia position.
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Jun 20, 2023 19:29
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Tigey posted:I'm probably overthinking this, but this Hungary/Ukraine POW affair smells of some kind of schenanigans. What I read is that they are from western Ukraine (Transcarpathia), which Russia is pretending is actually Hungary since Ukraine doesn't actually exist.
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Jun 20, 2023 19:34
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There are some conspiracy rumors that Orban was promised that part of Ukraine in exchange for support / NATO "sabotage".
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Jun 20, 2023 19:49
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OperaMouse posted:There are some conspiracy rumors that Orban was promised that part of Ukraine in exchange for support / NATO "sabotage". This is hardly a conspiracy, Russia was pretty open about their planned partition in the early days of the war.
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Jun 20, 2023 20:01
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Morrow posted:This is hardly a conspiracy, Russia was pretty open about their planned partition in the early days of the war. Was that before or after Lukashenko showed a map of their plans during a press conference?
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Tigey posted:I'm probably overthinking this, but this Hungary/Ukraine POW affair smells of some kind of schenanigans. Currently the "official" word in Hungary about said POWs is that this whole thing was the private doing of the Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary Zsolt Semjén, the leader of KDNP (Christian Democratic People's Party, the party you never hear about but they are "in coalition" with Fidesz since forever) with the Russian Orthodox Church. There is some weird technicality that according to the Geneva convention you can pass POWs to a third party country, but they have to hold them prisoners. But as said POWs arrived to Hungary as free people, it means they were no longer POWs, so Russia let them go and somehow they were brought to Hungary after their "release". Its all a big clusterfuck and the Hungarian government is keeping silent about this whole thing, only the above mentioned Semjén released a statement about his involvement and thanking the Russian Orthodox Church.
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