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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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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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it's why in the best universe they realise this and immediately march on the EU that now has no ammo
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Jul 19, 2023 02:47
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Just as Reagan out spent the Soviet Union into bankruptcy... ... turnabout is fair play
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Jul 19, 2023 02:50
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BULBASAUR posted:The short version: 'the west' decided it didn't need to do this after the collapse and looted the country instead. Here we are today. Western analysts blamed the failure of Russian privatization on a lack of "rule of law," which was necessary to support markets and free enterprise. They primarily thought that because any enterprising and connected former nomenklatura could hire goons from the local gym to muscle out foreign capitalists who were buying up all the profitable industries like liquor distilleries. Not appreciating the fact that the relative lawlessness in Russia was a consequence of the kind of radical privatization that they had pushed on the Yeltsin administration in the first place. By the time the Putin administration had actually realized the kind of "rule of law" they wanted to support capitalist enterprise, they were already shut out from Russian industries and couldn't get a cut.
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Jul 19, 2023 02:50
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
i love the idea that the reason that theyre not advancing is that they havent sufficiently purged the soviet from themselves
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Jul 19, 2023 02:52
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Decommunization is hard work.
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Jul 19, 2023 02:57
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BearsBearsBears posted:Dahir Insaat already invented it and he did it better. bedpan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIe4oOzVs4 Ytlaya posted:drat this man is buying a huge amount of meat. 7 different slabs of beef/chicken, and later he gets some sausage. bedpan posted:four packages of sausage lmao BearsBearsBears posted:That's an improvement over the previous one which was the same concept of a grocery store you drive through but the first one was indoors. why is everyone acting like im supposed to know where these videos came from
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Jul 19, 2023 03:09
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Some Guy TT posted:why is everyone acting like im supposed to know where these videos came from how does it feel motherfuckerrrrrr
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Jul 19, 2023 03:10
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lets kill him
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Jul 19, 2023 03:11
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If you haven't had Dahir Insaat solutions in your life, have you ever even lived?
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Jul 19, 2023 03:14
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sum posted:Ukraine is down to firing "2,000 to 3,000" shells per day. Thankfully they plan to fix the problem in only a few years by incentivizing private manufacturers to expand capacity. Didn't we JUST have a discussion about how Ukraine supposedly managed to get artillery advantage in at least some part of the front? That does not add up as is tradition wit the reporting.
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Jul 19, 2023 03:27
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dead gay comedy forums posted:the sheer loving inability to executive order a national munitions plant lmao neolib brains look at very cheap chinese widgets and conclude they must be very easy to make solely of their price, instead of understanding they are a result of decades of tens of trillions in investments in infrastructure
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Jul 19, 2023 03:29
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DancingShade posted:I'm not sure I want to try shooting unguided rockets at a drone that's only slightly larger. A large bullet seems like it would do the job. Bring back punt guns
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Jul 19, 2023 03:30
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the vatican goons came to rattle joe up. the counteroffensive is taking too long! his holiness is anxious for progress on progetto galizzia. Readout of President Joe Biden’s Meeting with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of the Holy See | The White House www.whitehouse.gov posted:
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Jul 19, 2023 03:35
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
I mean, they can't outright print the real reason in the paper, which is that the AFU is incompetent at planning and executing a combined arms operation because there's a dearth of qualified officers and because the army has been watered down with barely-trained reservists and conscripts. So the best they can do is allude to it by saying their planning is "Soviet-style" (i.e. bad) and that the grunts should be pressed to demonstrate more elan.
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Jul 19, 2023 03:38
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
lol didn't they do the "western-style breach" attempt at the very start and it ended up with a lot of foreign hardware abandoned in minefields? what on earth do they need to do to "press harder"
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Jul 19, 2023 03:41
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HiroProtagonist posted:lol didn't they do the "western-style breach" attempt at the very start and it ended up with a lot of foreign hardware abandoned in minefields? what on earth do they need to do to "press harder" 1. unopposed airstrikes for a week 2. ???? 3. complete victory
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Jul 19, 2023 03:43
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dead gay comedy forums posted:the sheer loving inability to executive order a national munitions plant lmao The logic of neoliberalism has completely captured the US ruling class. The concept of state-directed industrial capacity doesn't even enter their brains, it might as well not exist.
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Jul 19, 2023 03:45
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HiroProtagonist posted:lol didn't they do the "western-style breach" attempt at the very start and it ended up with a lot of foreign hardware abandoned in minefields? what on earth do they need to do to "press harder" Shock and Awe
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Jul 19, 2023 03:47
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lobster shirt posted:Some US officials had hoped the Ukrainians would be relying less on artillery at this point and more on combined arms maneuvers, a more efficient and sophisticated style of fighting that the US has been training Ukrainian forces on for months. Why did they think this would happen, especially without air superiority? Was this supposed to be willed into existence by wishing for it hard enough?
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Jul 19, 2023 03:48
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VoicesCanBe posted:Why did they think this would happen, especially without air superiority? Was this supposed to be willed into existence by wishing for it hard enough? VoicesCanBe posted:The logic of neoliberalism has completely captured the US ruling class. The concept of state-directed industrial capacity doesn't even enter their brains, it might as well not exist. Palladium posted:neolib brains look at very cheap chinese widgets and conclude they must be very easy to make solely of their price, instead of understanding they are a result of decades of tens of trillions in investments in infrastructure so much for the arsenal of democracy. Ukrainians being told to git gud while being blown in idiotic moves for the sake of NATO-oriented grifting is ghoulish even for the institution's standards
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Jul 19, 2023 03:55
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some kind of lightning war
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Jul 19, 2023 03:56
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VoicesCanBe posted:The logic of neoliberalism has completely captured the US ruling class. The concept of state-directed industrial capacity doesn't even enter their brains, it might as well not exist. I wish I could post more about work, but I wasn't kidding when I was saying that the shell plant would prefer to make axels instead of expanding 155mm production and so all we can do is pay more for the same amount of shells from them in the next FY and hope that encourages them to expand production. So we're paying more, not for more shells, but to nudge them into maybe making more shells in the future. Which would presumably be at the higher price we're negotiating now to convince them to do that. What's the opposite of economies of scale? Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 04:03 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jul 19, 2023 04:01
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VoicesCanBe posted:Why did they think this would happen, especially without air superiority? Was this supposed to be willed into existence by wishing for it hard enough? I remember reading an interview with a western military source (can't recall if it was Miley or someone un-named) where they flat out admitted that Ukraine had no real hope for success on paper attacking to the south, but they were hoping for a collapse of Russian morale when the offensive got going leading to a widespread abandoning of defensive positions. Outright wishing for the best case scenario to make good on their promises.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:01
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 As mildly as possible, everyone with a policy background, as opposed to a military or academic background, believes poo poo like this. Read their loving stupid pablum books to understand how they think.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:03
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sum posted:I mean, they can't outright print the real reason in the paper, which is that the AFU is incompetent at planning and executing a combined arms operation because there's a dearth of qualified officers and because the army has been watered down with barely-trained reservists and conscripts. So the best they can do is allude to it by saying their planning is "Soviet-style" (i.e. bad) and that the grunts should be pressed to demonstrate more elan. One of the most important elements of the "combined arms" doctrine is air power, which Ukraine has none of. supersnowman posted:Didn't we JUST have a discussion about how Ukraine supposedly managed to get artillery advantage in at least some part of the front? That does not add up as is tradition wit the reporting. there's a lot of reasons that the UAF could achieve local superiority in the south. maybe the Russians have moved their guns to support Bakhmut and the attacks around Lyman, while the Ukrainians had massed guns "Soviet style" to try and force a breakthrough somewhere. When they were touting the amount of fires before, it was literally in the couple of thousands compared to the Russians popping off less than 1000.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:03
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mawarannahr posted:the vatican goons came to rattle joe up. the counteroffensive is taking too long! his holiness is anxious for progress on progetto galizzia. Mamma mia!!!
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Jul 19, 2023 04:09
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Frosted Flake posted:What's the opposite of economies of scale? boutique process
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Jul 19, 2023 04:12
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Frosted Flake posted:
my wife was reading Sunstein and Kahneman's "Noise" in that same milieu
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Jul 19, 2023 04:13
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the gently caress
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Jul 19, 2023 04:14
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blaming awful app for this fuckup
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Jul 19, 2023 04:14
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https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1681485922821341185?s=20 https://twitter.com/cirnosad/status/1681482591827013632?s=20 Haven't seen any footage or photos of the damage yet. Apparently Zelensky has been telling shippers to ignore the end of the grain deal and come to Odessa anyway.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:15
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Are we sure the motivation of the US military isn't that both sides are equally soviet and it's best to maximize the soviet body count? Going "I had no faith in that guy but you are different" like some penny arcade comic as a replacement for, you know, military power to convince more people to explode in gibs seems like there isn't really any gain otherwise.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:23
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killing Soviets is the point of nato yeah
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Jul 19, 2023 04:25
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Al! posted:blaming awful app for this fuckup Al! posted:the gently caress i saw it.  e: you should have left it up it would have been worth it
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Jul 19, 2023 04:30
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https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1681197896476000256?s=46&t=t5tiuHEdU31jr3-QGztGWg
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Jul 19, 2023 04:34
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1681197896476000256?s=46&t=t5tiuHEdU31jr3-QGztGWg Lmfao
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Jul 19, 2023 04:36
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https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1681028889399762945 https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1681036393122766848 just a few more on the "western talking heads predicting the destruction of cowardly orcs through western ubermensch maneuver warfare" pile
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Jul 19, 2023 04:39
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yeah i think at this point its a given that the ukranian counter offensive has failed, the problem for the russians is that they cant exploit that failure so the ukranians will just re-arm and try again later.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:50
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stephenthinkpad posted:Slav and Awe
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