ContinuityNewTimes posted:

The drugaya rossiya political program is surprisingly boring

іній posted:

And also that the three Ukrainians are a partisan detachment with a traitor.
No matter how we hid the "Canadian firmware" from moksha, it leaked to them. Moreover, in its modification, moksha cut out everything related to satellites in general, and therefore we have big problems on the Zaporozhye front.

іній posted:

you have, yes.

Frosted Flake posted:

Controversial Legacy

In Germany, under §189 of the criminal code, defamation of the memory of a deceased person is a criminal offence which upon conviction may attract a fine or a prison term of up to two years. The Burianek case hit the headlines again in 2012 and 2013 on account of a former Stasi officer, Colonel Wolfgang Schmidt, who used his internet site to describe Burianek as a "bandit" and as the "leader of a terrorist organisation". On 27 September 2012 Schmidt was convicted under §189 in respect of the matter by a court which evidently accepted that Schmidt's characterizations of Burianek had been false and defamatory. The court ordered Schmidt to pay a fine of €1,200.

The action against Schmidt had been triggered by Hubertus Knabe, the director of the Hohenschönhausen Memorial Museum on the northern edge of Berlin. It was not the first time Knabe and Schmidt had come across one another, Schmidt already having been fined €2,100 in 2009 for calling Knabe himself a "publicly unrestrained rabble rouser" ("öffentlich und ungestraft als Volksverhetzer") in connection with Knabe's earlier work on the Stasi.

Schmidt appealed against the €1,200 fine, imposed under §189 for defaming the memory of Johann Burianek, but on 18 March 2013 the District Court rejected his appeal.Knabe welcomed the court's verdict: "I am pleased that the Justice System stands up against historical revisionism from former Stasi operatives. Even today, we must not allow the perpetrators to denigrate their victims in public." He also stressed the significance of a court decision which, for the first time, extended §189 of the Criminal code to include negative portrayals of those convicted by the German Democratic Republic.

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Knabe is committed to not allowing the crimes committed by the East German government to be forgotten: "Not until the Communist dictatorship is as firmly in mind in Germany as the criminal regime of the Nazis will we really have succeeded in coming to terms with the legacy of Stasi minister Erich Mielke".[2]

Knabe has called for a more outspoken anti-communism in German society, and has particularly called upon the SPD party to identify with its anti-communist tradition and oppose PDS, democratic socialist successor of Marxist–Leninist SED, as part of its reformist legacy.[3] He has pointed out that social democrats were the first victims of the communist dictatorship in East Germany. According to Knabe, "every democrat is an anti-communist".

With the avowed intent to call the East German regime to account, Knabe supports pro-business and anti-socialist views. In a blog post, he criticized the Red–red–green coalition of the Berlin state government for kowtowing to the Left Party extremism of Die Linke, which he alleged to be riddled with former SED and Stasi personnel intent on bringing back the old regime to the city-state.[4]

Nix Panicus posted:

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1685630668867313664?s=20

Very strange that Russia would ever claim that NATO expanding into Ukraine was a security risk.

euphronius posted:

I like your posts fizzy but you kind of overuse the CIA blog. it has less than 0 credibility

Marenghi posted:

Colonialism redefined as when a country invades their neighbor for land. Which I guess means historically colonialism actually began with border disputes of ancient Sumer.

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1685697697049710592

Dixon Chisholm posted:

БОБР

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We've "depleted" obsolete stock that we weren't going to use anyway, and if we're giving anything new to Ukraine then it was already slotted for export. The operational stockpiles of the USM are fine. Absolutely nobody is willing to give up so much that they can't equip their own forces.

fizzy posted:

Bad news for euphronius's credibility -

fizzy posted:

Bad news for Russia - The Leopards are coming for them.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

We've "depleted" obsolete stock that we weren't going to use anyway, and if we're giving anything new to Ukraine then it was already slotted for export. The operational stockpiles of the USM are fine. Absolutely nobody is willing to give up so much that they can't equip their own forces.

Gresh posted:

Crazy thread, and unsurprisingly its totally believable.

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140558803140608

crepeface posted:

aren't the euros fairly depleted?

Al! posted:

yeah, i hope it's all true

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140936185675776

Gresh posted:

Crazy thread, and unsurprisingly its totally believable.

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140558803140608

ContinuityNewTimes posted:

Gorbachev is interesting because he schemed with the best of them to take supreme power then he pissed it away like a total loving idiot

Al! posted:

yeah, i hope it's all true

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140936185675776

KomradeX posted:

Well you see its the Ukrainians Slavic brain pan returning to vile Soviet human wave tactics, unlike the Superior NATO tactics developed by von Manstein, and Michael Wittman

Frosted Flake posted:

Also, they want to canonize him as a martyr on a technicality, since he lived comfortably in exile and as a celebrity for decades after being imprisoned. He was not killed by the communists, which took me a ridiculous amount of reading to get a straight answer on.



Paper Here

fizzy posted:

Bad news for Russia - The Leopards are coming for them.

Frosted Flake posted:

I keep saying that your destiny is calling to you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59hyEXn8MA

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1686071641225248774

shock and surprise that whiteness is a moving target

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Endman posted:

While this is good news for Ukraine, it's bad news for tank appreciators as the lighting makes it really hard to tell which version of the Leopard 2 this is.

fizzy posted:

Bad news for euphronius's credibility - There is not a single member of the CIA on the Board of the Institute for the Study of War. Did euphronius perhaps mis-read "Dr. Warren Phillips, Lead Director, CACI International" as "... CIA International"?


https://www.understandingwar.org/who-we-are

Our Mission

The Institute for the Study of War advances an informed understanding of military affairs through reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education. We are committed to improving the nation’s ability to execute military operations and respond to emerging threats in order to achieve U.S. strategic objectives. ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization.


Our Board Members

General Jack Keane (US Army, Retired), Chairman, Institute for the Study of War; President, GSI, LLC

Dr. Kimberly Kagan, Founder & President, Institute for the Study of War

The Honorable Kelly Craft, Former US Ambassador to UN and Canada

Dr. William Kristol, Director, Defending Democracy Together

The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman, Senior Counsel, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, LLP

Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer & Board Director, Mandiant

Jack D. McCarthy, Jr., Senior Managing Director & Founder, A&M Capital

Bruce Mosler, Chairman, Global Brokerage, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Retired), Partner, KKR and Chairman, KKR Global Institute

Dr. Warren Phillips, Lead Director, CACI International

Colonel William Roberti (US Army, Retired), Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Hudson La Force, former Chief Executive Officer of W. R. Grace & Co

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David Howell Petraeus (/pɪˈtreɪ.əs/; born November 7, 1952) is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011,[3] until his resignation on November 9, 2012.[4]

speng31b posted:

how is he still alive

Lostconfused posted:

Frosted Flake posted:

Filipinos are Catholics and named after Phillip II of Spain, one of the greatest of the Hapsburgs. They're practically Austrians.

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Dr. Kimberly Kagan founded ISW in May 2007, as U.S. forces undertook a daring new counterinsurgency strategy to reverse the grim security situation on the ground in Iraq . Frustrated with the prevailing lack of accurate information documenting developments on the ground in Iraq and the detrimental effect of biased reporting on policymakers, Dr. Kagan established ISW to provide real-time, independent, and open-source analysis of ongoing military operations and insurgent attacks in Iraq. General Jack Keane (U.S. Army, Ret.), the Chairman of ISW’s board, also played a central role in developing the intellectual foundation for this change of strategy in Iraq, and supported the formation of the Institute in 2007.

BadOptics posted:

Terrible news for fizzy!!!