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HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

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zone
Dec 6, 2016



Hey germans, toss the fifth columnist into prison already

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


what the gently caress is up with expats lol

why are so many of them like this

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Tiny Timbs posted:

what the gently caress is up with expats lol

why are so many of them like this
Lotsa folks who fled the USSR or 90s-era Russia who think that Putin brought greatness and stability back to Russia.

Shame they don't move back.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Play posted:

Lmao.

Would love to hear the rationale for that one. Can't be posted due to being too cringe? Too harmful for sensitive minds?

It's literally this, not even joking. Someone complained about NAFO being cringe in SAD and it was banned immediately afterwards.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Vodka

TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



Kung Food posted:

It's literally this, not even joking. Someone complained about NAFO being cringe in SAD and it was banned immediately afterwards.

The irony is that if they really banned cringe cspam would go the way of LF

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Do you think Russians don't eat or what?

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

beef stroganoff is Russian and tasty

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Lol you uncutlured swine never having had compensatory fishblock with mayo

Pot Smoke Phoenix
Aug 15, 2007



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Dinosaur Gum
Russian restaurant doesn't serve you, you serve Russian restaurant.

Every night is make your own knish and borscht night.

Bring your own beet.

And potato.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

imperial cuisine as usual incorporates good poo poo from former and current holdings - be it caucasian shashlik and khachapuri, siberian pelmeni, belarus potato draniki etc
or salads with criminal amount of mayo

personally the only 100% russian cuisine I tolerate is various freshwater fish (pike cutlets especially), cold soups and various pickles

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

There's a Russian place around here that does vodka infusions. Their horseradish and buckthorn variants are really good.

There are a lot of dumplings in Russian cuisine also. It can be pretty legit, shame about the kleptocracy currently squatting that cultural inheritance.

e:

fatherboxx posted:

imperial cuisine as usual incorporates good poo poo from former and current holdings - be it caucasian shashlik and khachapuri, siberian pelmeni, belarus potato draniki etc
or salads with criminal amount of mayo

personally the only 100% russian cuisine I tolerate is various freshwater fish (pike cutlets especially), cold soups and various pickles

yeah, the salads (especially the shaped ones) are weird as hell, but if that's the price I have to pay for pelmeni I happily do so

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr
Dec 22, 2018

I hope this is "battle" enough for you, friend.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blini

Ayn Marx
Dec 21, 2012

Lol does she beg the ministry to send paying customers to her restaurant?

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/FreeUkraine91/status/1678084938829111296
I too would like to know /s
The reason is obvious, my "anti-imperialist" 'friend.' They wanted to bring the vatnik union back into existence. Unfortunately for them, that wish doesn't look like it'll be fulfilled.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

TK-42-1 posted:

The irony is that if they really banned cringe cspam would go the way of LF

They ban it because it works lol. Funny how the rules that apply to us don't ever get applied elsewhere.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Tiny Timbs posted:

what the gently caress is up with expats lol

why are so many of them like this

So take the Old World Problem, whether it's a legit grievance or some bullshit (or a mix of the two). Now take yourself out of it entirely almost, till it's something gramps and gram deal (dealt) with if that.
Now through just hearing it in myth form from older gens, or through other fourth party sources like the internet, and the Old World Problem becomes a saturday morning cartoon, and you act like a nine year old star wars fan about it, instead of a grown rear end adult familiar with something ugly, tragic, and complicated.

tldr: distance in both time and space turns something from The Wire to Blue Bloods in certain expat/diaspora heads.

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

Tiny Timbs posted:

what the gently caress is up with expats lol

why are so many of them like this

Cugel the Clever posted:

Lotsa folks who fled the USSR or 90s-era Russia who think that Putin brought greatness and stability back to Russia.

Shame they don't move back.

Often the homeland of a diaspora starts to exist in a nostalgic past only. You get this funny cognitive dissonance where you're a proud ______n and your old home country can do no wrong, but you wouldn't move back even if someone paid you.

According to local papers she's lived there for 20 years, judging by the name she's married to a German and she doesn't look old enough to have moved out of Russia on her own, so Russia probably exists to her only as the place where Gramma lives.

Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Meat, potatoes, rye, butter, sour cream, dill, fish. It's pretty good, actually.

Our local Russian restaurants were subjected to a lot of harassment after the full-scale invasion started, but it seems to have stopped since the authorities asked people to knock it off.

Herbicidal Maniac
Jun 3, 2008

You will be the effigy I burn, infused with all the traits that make them the detestable little goblins they are.

tiaz posted:

There's a Russian place around here that does vodka infusions. Their horseradish and buckthorn variants are really good.



Is that Moscow in the Hill in St. Paul? Because that place is loving great and does the same thing. Ironically I'd go there with some Ukrainian friends of mine when we were all in the area.

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

Herbicidal Maniac posted:

Is that Moscow in the Hill in St. Paul? Because that place is loving great and does the same thing. Ironically I'd go there with some Ukrainian friends of mine when we were all in the area.

Nope, I'm way out west. Glad to hear there's other places doing it though, it really is great :buddy:

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

Lammasu posted:

What the gently caress do they serve in a Russian restaurant? Like what is Russian food?

Looks like shashlik and blini have been covered, so, uh, kvas and caviar?

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
right now I think they are eat a lot of CROW!!!! XD

FPzero
Oct 20, 2008

Game Over
Return of Mido

I invite everyone to watch Life of Boris's cooking videos if they're interested in Slavic cooking in general. Despite his presentation and larger than life personality the food sounds really good and I've definitely cooked one or two things he's made for myself.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbS0HkS8Xsorrdr3pPk4lP80tUAzfyxP1

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Russian Cuisine is pretty good actually because it's mostly just slight variations of Eastern European, Caucasus, Central Asian, etc dishes. Dumplings, hearty soups, shashlik, mayo-based salads, smoked fish, lots and lots of sour cream, etc.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1678140031842541568
If we can't have it, we'll break everything before we go. Same MO as in the Kherson retreat.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

Putin thinks sharks aren't smooth

they aren’t :confused:

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy


It would be pretty funny if Brandon proved him very wrong

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
lol I see Russia got it's poo poo pushed in at Adiivka going by the pictures eveywhere. Also twitter tankies crying about human rights for cluster munitions but have never mentioned it till now despite russia using tonnes of them. Hypocrites

Dr. Quarex
Apr 18, 2003

I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA

spankmeister posted:

Russian Cuisine is pretty good actually because it's mostly just slight variations of Eastern European, Caucasus, Central Asian, etc dishes. Dumplings, hearty soups, shashlik, mayo-based salads, smoked fish, lots and lots of sour cream, etc.
Whenever anyone asked me what Russian food was like after I studied abroad there for a few weeks, I recall my answer being "well my favorite thing is that they serve ice cream in cubes, I guess because they can. Also everything is at least baseline tasty because it is 50% butter." That pretty well covers it

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes


Lmfao

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
https://t.me/noel_reports/305

DailyHeil saying Gerasimov is sacked.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

lol That was fast

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots
Putin: Our great society has successfully withstood the test of an armed coup attempt. The traitors and liars have been exposed and imprisoned. Let us now stride confidently into the future as one people
Also Putin: we have fully complied with the demands of the traitors and liars

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Russia is winning btw

You might not like it but this is what the world's best military looks like

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Toxic Mental posted:

Russia is winning btw

You might not like it but this is what the world's best military looks like

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

On Ukraines Counter attack, it is not the time to fret, in bakhmut the vdv is lacking any strategic reserve, all of Russia's current manpower in combat power is on the front lines. So that means there is no ability for them to reallocate troops from one area to another depending on what Ukraine does. They are literally where they are stuck forever with no possibility of reserve status temporarily to recuperate troops. They are going to sit and die in their trenches as well as the cities that they occupy and. The big thing I talk about with the vdv is the fact that they have no strategic reserve. That is a major major issue for them, as it means there's nobody to allow them to conduct combat operations. So earlier in the week I stated that I thought a vdv surrendering might capitulate the war effort. It seems like that is ever more true as they are unable to leave Bakhmut without orders. And I highly doubt the command structure is going to order them to retreat at this time.

Things are really grim at this point for Russia. The ISW just stated that Russia lacks combat ready reserves and is not doing rotations so that's the source on that. So really truthfully they are on their absolute last legs, I mean I don't know that they're going to survive the next 6 months let alone the next year. Even if Ukraine captures 5 km a day we're talking 150 km a month, and that's assuming that Russia doesn't have any mass encirclements that cause large troop failures, because if the units do degradate there is no replacing or filling up those gaps. I'm very worried that the Russian government will now institute general / Mass mobilization as they have literally no other chance to plug these holes other than just abduct people off the streets of Moscow.

It feels like with this newest development the calamity is about to occur. Prigohzins efforts were in vain but that doesn't mean the next guy isn't going to be a lot closer to power than he was.

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GEEKABALL
May 30, 2011

Throw out your hands!!
Stick out your tush!!
Hands on your hips
Give them a push!!
Fun Shoe

mobby_6kl posted:

There's an old saying in Ukraine, probably in Russia too, "Deceive me once, shame on...shame on you. Deceive me—you can't get deceived again."

* Pete Townsend windmills*

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