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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Putin does not act like a heartless paranoid dictator and jeet heer criticizes hil for appearing weak
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Jun 24, 2023 21:35
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I wonder how many billions it cost Putin to end this....
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Jun 24, 2023 21:35
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yunichel posted:"Peskov: No word on potential MOD leadership changes" Prigozhin saw that none of the military was actually coming over to his side and said oh poo poo I'm going to die.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:35
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TDepressionEarl posted:but the coup was merely a pump fake, prigozhin delivers a letter to the kremlin petitioning for russia to
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Jun 24, 2023 21:36
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:the next step is for half of wagner, under utkin, to declare that prigozhin must go and march on wagner hq. then half of that group splits off and says that utkin has betrayed them. a matryoshka coup
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Jun 24, 2023 21:36
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Lol the thread title
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Jun 24, 2023 21:37
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what an embarassing coup, if i was in charge this would have never happened
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Jun 24, 2023 21:38
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Libs are obsessed with humiliation because they can’t actually beat anyone, so they have to settle for that. "Ever since armed forces all over the world became intervention forces in the 1990s and conscription armies became professional armies, the model of the democratic ‘citizen in uniform’ has come under increasing pressure to adopt to new kinds of warfare – a development that had already begun in the US following the Vietnam War. This development reflects the transition from conscription to a professional army as well as a new self-image and growing self-awareness on the part of its members. The warrior is characterized by a strong attachment to personal status and desire for honour. The virtues that the warrior represents do not reflect the values of his or her particular society or community. They are not politically or ideologically biased, but spring solely from the warrior’s self-image . Their closest counterparts in history are the medieval knights and their self-perception as warriors from the social elite. John Keegan, one of the proponents of a new warrior image, explained the rejection of the values of civil society: war reaches into the most secret depths of the human heart, where the ego eliminates rational goals, where pride reigns, where emotions have the upper hand and instincts rule. One of Keegan’s models of the warrior was the Roman centurion. These officers were warriors through and through. They did not aspire to rise to the governing class. Their ambitions were entirely limited to success within what could be perceived, for the first time in history, as an esteemed and self-sufficient profession. The virtues of the Roman professional soldiers were idealistic rather than materialistic. According to Keegan, these virtues reappeared in the modern era: pride in a distinctly masculine way of life, being admired by one’s comrades, satisfaction in professional success and the expectation of an honourable discharge and retirement." The Democratic Warrior and the Emergence of World-Order Conflicts, Andreas Herberg-Rothe 
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Jun 24, 2023 21:38
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Wagner can't be nazis, Prigozhin is jewish
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Jun 24, 2023 21:38
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is Wagner all dead yet or what I haven't been following
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Jun 24, 2023 21:38
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:the lesson of that movie is that elite, highly educated noble dudes with ancient swords look lame as gently caress when theres a yokel with a Gatling gun and a sharp uniform on the other side briefly read this as yokai with a gatling gun
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Jun 24, 2023 21:39
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The real winners are the helicopter pilots that stayed home.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:40
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knights were known for politically unbiased agents, that is true
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Jun 24, 2023 21:40
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indigi posted:is Wagner all dead yet or what I haven't been following they're getting downsized and prigozhin gets to take the rest with him to belarus and possibly go back to fighting bush wars in the sahel
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Jun 24, 2023 21:40
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indigi posted:is Wagner all dead yet or what I haven't been following Alive and aquitted though this may be temporary.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:41
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Jun 24, 2023 21:41
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i do think that the wagner rank-and-file guys are valuable enough as troops that they won't be serving serious time
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Jun 24, 2023 21:41
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euphronius posted:knights were known for politically unbiased agents, that is true I'm assuming it means, politics as in live questions about the process by which economic resources get allotted (apportioned, assigned) to their particular uses for directly or indirectly satisfying human wants.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:42
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V. Illych L. posted:they're getting downsized and prigozhin gets to take the rest with him to belarus and possibly go back to fighting bush wars in the sahel he’s going to a big battlefield upstate where he can do as much war as he wants
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Jun 24, 2023 21:44
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i fully anticipate prigozhin falling out of a window sometime in the next twelve months
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euphronius posted:Putin does not act like a heartless paranoid dictator and jeet heer criticizes hil for appearing weak it is very funny how every dullard was like theres no way they get out of this alive then they all got out of this alive
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Jun 24, 2023 21:45
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Jun 24, 2023 21:46
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Jun 24, 2023 21:47
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DesertIslandHermit posted:*shoots a helicopter, watching it spin uncontrollably and make an explosive crash* Well it’s getting late. Time to go home. did this actually happen?
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Jun 24, 2023 21:47
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So the end result appears to be: - No MOD changes - Pringles is exiled to a farm in Belarus - Wagner gets nationalized anyways - Wagner mercs who participated in the coup are fired (no charges though) Seems like Prigo lost out on all fronts beyond "the guys who downed sone choppers aren't going to jail". Makes me assume Lukashenko's 'negotiations' were "if you march on moscow the Belarusian army will sandwich you".
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Jun 24, 2023 21:49
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"Network structures require a different relationship between combatants and civil society. Current warfare is characterized by ‘loose and diffuse organizational structures’ in which the underlying political will and mandate can no longer be imposed down to the lowest level of a hierarchical system. Rather, as in partisan warfare, individual political awareness is key. Due to the relative independence of soldiers in network-centric warfare, this type of warfare does not require an ‘archaic combatant’ (soldier of a nation state), but rather a democratic warrior. In the event of war, the actions of these combatants will be attributed to the political-cultural community on whose behalf they are acting." "At first glance, the concept of the democratic warrior appears self-contradictory. Indeed, it combines seemingly contrasting value systems in a single conception. However, the example of a magnet or the model, favoured by Clausewitz, of the unity of polar opposition between attack and defence illustrates that this type of conflicted unity is not necessarily a logical opposition, but can also be a dynamic relationship in a continuum. One end of the continuum represents democratic equality and non-violent conflict resolution, while the other tends towards the limitation of war and violence, enforced with military means if necessary. Hence, one end embodies a civilized society and the other a subsystem of society the identity of which is defined by martial honour." lol liberals have doomed us all / and/or, I look forward to becoming a dux bellorum
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Jun 24, 2023 21:49
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did they cancel the end of history yet
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Jun 24, 2023 21:50
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Neurolimal posted:So the end result appears to be: you can't march on Moscow from the south, especially via voronezh. Lines become too long and the march itself takes so long you always get politically and militarily out maneuvered. If Denikin couldn't do it this guy sure wasn't going to.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:52
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Jun 24, 2023 21:53
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Putin is still in power, trans rights are still being denied across the country, and I'm still far too lazy to do voice training?! So much for a happy Pride Week! Tommy need drinky
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Jun 24, 2023 21:53
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As always, it is the specter of communism which saves Russia In this case it took the form of a tubby general Putin lets run a potato mini-commune
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Jun 24, 2023 21:53
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The Ghost of Rostov once again defends their homeland.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:54
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So is Wagner gone in the Ukraine theater or just rumor? Part goes to Africa with Priggy and part sign up with the Russian military?
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Jun 24, 2023 21:56
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Queer Grenadier posted:Wikipedia moves Bikers think they own the road even in the middle of a civil war.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:58
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explaining to the kids that your pet sausage schizo-poster is now living happily at a potato farm in Belarus
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