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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join NATO after a year of blocking the move, citing Turkish security concerns.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday that Erdogan agreed to forward Sweden’s membership bid to Turkey’s parliament.

Frosted Flake posted:

It's so loving stupid, as if retention wasn't bad enough. They can barely get Reservists to stay and ride it out and the loving government is trying to cut the allowances and deployment tax exemption.

Neoliberals literally forget how and why things work in a way I can't really explain.



The Timmy Hoes in Kandahar was nicer, I'm not exaggerating.

e: also Gunners with beards posing for press photos, holding it in his goddamn right hand, while wearing his beret, Christ alive.

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Winter War: over 500,000 Soviet soldiers attack Finland, a country with a population of 3,700,000, and the Finns drive them back, inflicting 5 times their own casualties. Continuation War: the Reds return with a total strength of 1,500,000 - almost half of the entire Finnish population - and the Finns stop them again. Finland’s survival in these two brutal wars against an enemy so vast was a true historical miracle. A miracle of heroism and valor. A miracle of the Finnish spirit of liberty.

Regarde Aduck posted:

but is that a mistake in the long term? Like would have just going shock and awe have ended the war before Ukraine runs out of Gen X and Millennials? Genuine question, I have no idea.

Slavvy posted:

I thought you were doing an Insensitivity but then I realized that's probably just slang for a franchise that doesn't exist in my country

Also I assume the right hand must be free at all times for emergency jacking? What if he's a leftie??

OhFunny posted:

No word on what Erdogan got besides that, "Turkey and Sweden would work closely on “counterterrorism coordination” and boost trade ties."

Frosted Flake posted:

- Tim Hortons

- There is so much brass flying there for photo ops your hand might as well be glued to your head in a salute.

V. Illych L. posted:

the western ruling class is mostly directed from washington and NYC, but it resides in the capitals of all western countries and has a bunch of solidaristic organisations and clubs where they get together and meet. this is insanely expensive, but it's the most wealthy class in the history of the world so they can afford all sorts of quasi-academic conferences, semi-secret societies, seminars, symposia etc., which allows them to also make strong connections to the auxiliary classes and give them a taste

like, going to davos seems to be a pretty exciting thing for the busybody set. just the idea of getting to move in these circles is a very powerful motivator and disciplinary factor. the EU has a lot of the middle-to-upper-middle levels of this stuff, which you if you're serious enough can ride straight into the innermost circles of the western world.

V. Illych L. posted:

the idea, i think, is that military management is effectively the same as any other kind of management. there's a real utopianism here, a conviction that the optimally rational way of organising society is revealed to us through the leading edge of market actors and that this works. it ties into the more general liberal utopian idea of a society organised along purely formal (i.e. not substantive) evaluations - so e.g. you can say "religion should be respected", but not "lutheranism is the ethical principle of the state". this drive towards formalism locks it into a sort of detail-blindness where management is management. it doesn't matter that your job is to kill and die for your country, you're a middle-manager (or whatever) and with that follows a certain incentive structure which has been tested under the most rigorous circumstances, i.e. market competition.,

this also leads to stock exchanges determining alternative costs for social budgeting issues and a whole host of other things. it leads to maternity units throwing out new mothers as soon as they can, because they are governed as productive enterprises according to principles of enterprise management

celadon posted:

can they make a special version of the beret with a fake hand already glued to it in salute

Truga posted:

their currency is having a real bad time and eurobux would probably bring some stability

Zeppelin Insanity posted:

My favourite take on that was Arestovych actually, back while he was still Ukraine's golden boy. He said that if Ukraine doesn't defeat Russia, Russia will roll over all of Europe effortlessly because the Russian army will now be full of half a million Ukrainian supersoldiers.

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

see also: greece

Slavvy posted:

I thought you were doing an Insensitivity but then I realized that's probably just slang for a franchise that doesn't exist in my country

Also I assume the right hand must be free at all times for emergency jacking? What if he's a leftie??

Frosted Flake posted:

- Tim Hortons

- There is so much brass flying there for photo ops your hand might as well be glued to your head in a salute.

Fortaleza posted:

Turkey could never join the EU without a unified Cyprus and that ain't gonna happen

Joe Biden posted:

“I think we have to lay out a rational path for Ukraine to be able to qualify to be able to get into NATO,” Biden said, noting that he refused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands before the war for a commitment not to admit Ukraine because the alliance has “an open-door policy.”

“But I think it’s premature to say, to call for a vote, you know, in now, because there’s other qualifications that need to be met, including democratization and some of those issues,” Biden said.

Ripperljohn posted:

why would turkey joining the EU be a bad thing?

spacetoaster posted:

Ha I bet every cspammer thinks like this without even thinking about Russia's guilt HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacetoaster posted:

Ha I bet every cspammer thinks like this without even thinking about Russia's guilt HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacetoaster posted:

Ha I bet every cspammer thinks like this without even thinking about Russia's guilt HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacetoaster posted:

Ha I bet every cspammer thinks like this without even thinking about Russia's guilt HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacetoaster posted:

Ha I bet every cspammer thinks like this without even thinking about Russia's guilt HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacetoaster posted:

Новости клики Тито posted:

If you believe the channels, Surovikin rode in to the special block of the Sailor's silence - and this is Surovikin's second visit. The first time Captain Surovikin came to the pre-trial detention center in August 1991, immediately after the State Emergency Committee - it was he who commanded a unit of armored personnel carriers, one of which crushed three people in the tunnel under Sadovoye.
At that time, they settled things: Yeltsin personally apologized to Major Surovikin - and he came out of jail clean and with a promotion.
We will, as one foreign agent says, observe.

Kadyrov_95 posted:

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Here are the first fruits of the work of the legendary 4th brigade of the second army corps of the LPR and the special forces "Akhmat" in the Bakhmut direction. During the operational actions in the area of the settlement of Kleshcheyevka, five soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were captured. All this happened against the background of mass hysteria of the Ukrainian media that this settlement is under the fire control of the army of the Independent.
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As the prisoners of war themselves admit, Kleshcheyevka is controlled by Russian troops contrary to rumors and speculation spread by the CIPSO. Earlier, some Ukrovoyaks stated that they had not seen the Akhmat special forces in the Bakhmut area. I believe that the AFU soldiers either have serious vision problems, or they decided to move significantly away from firing positions for reasons we understand. Otherwise, how to explain the fact that the soldiers of the special forces "Akhmat" see them, but they do not notice them at close range.

Other Ukrainian channels are full of headlines that our special forces are suffering heavy losses in Bakhmut, which is also another information stuffing of the CIPSO. Against the background of an unsuccessful counteroffensive and defeats in almost all key areas, the Ukrainian media are trying to compensate for the negative with similar news that has nothing to do with the real situation. In fact, the situation is the opposite. Our units operate very smoothly and clearly. You can see the obvious proof of this in these frames.

I express my gratitude to Apty Aronovich and all the fighters for their brave and selfless work on one of the most difficult sections of the front! While the Ukronat troops are inventing victories for themselves, our guys will achieve them in real combat. Akhmat is power! ALLAHU AKBAR!

Death By The Blues posted:

If they get in does it mean Turks are now white?