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mobby_6kl posted:New stamps! At least I think they're new, haven't seen em before. Curious about the little part in french on the bottom right. It says "premier jour" which is "first day". Why does it mean?
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:31 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 07:35 |
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Sig Oil, mein monke
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:33 |
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rowkey bilbao posted:Curious about the little part in french on the bottom right. It says "premier jour" which is "first day". Why does it mean? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_day_of_issue
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:40 |
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Samovar posted:I've said it before, but it bears repeating. If Russia is still acting like Britain is in any way a world power after all the ways in which it has humiliated and degraded (and continues to do so) itself over the last few decades, that is indicative of just how perilous Russia's own position is. They both think they are still playing the "Great Game" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game both sides relying on past glories.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:00 |
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A Finnish newspaper interviewed Pekka Toveri, the former intelligence officer that often gets quoted in the Finnish news stories we translate. This time they talked about cluster munitions, and the hypocrisy of criticizing Ukraine for wanting them, when Russia has been using them to attack civilians for 9 years. Original story: IS.fi Journalist: Antti Virolainen IS.fi posted:Russia uses banned and controversial weapons against Ukrainians -- "All the time and widely".
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:23 |
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Finnish aerial recon has also revealed that Russia has been building extensive new networks of trenches and defences at the Eastern border. Another fun reminder that if the dice had fallen a bit differently, we might be currently under invasion.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:24 |
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Toxic Mental posted:Take off every sig You know what air defense doing?! Move sig
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:28 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Finnish aerial recon has also revealed that Russia has been building extensive new networks of trenches and defences at the Eastern border. Another fun reminder that if the dice had fallen a bit differently, we might be currently under invasion. Yes, but remember that we are being cringe and mentally ill if we expend any mental energy on this topic. In the end isn't that worse than being genocided?
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:41 |
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Ukraine just realized you can turn sigs off so you don't have to see em
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:45 |
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Set posted:Yes, but remember that we are being cringe and mentally ill if we expend any mental energy on this topic. In the end isn't that worse than being genocided? Yeah, stop fantasizing about the possibility to die in a war like our grandfathers did. Or whatever the gently caress that one hot take last time was to tell us that Finland does not matter so shut up about it.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:48 |
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Der Kyhe posted:Yeah, stop fantasizing about the possibility to die in a war like our grandfathers did. Yeah, holy poo poo that was a impressively stupid take. BTW thanks for sharing that article Shaman! I don't read a lot of Iltis so I had completely missed it. I remember even Yle had some really lovely takes about the topic earlier, so pointing out the hypocrisy here is important.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:57 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:They both think they are still playing the "Great Game" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game both sides relying on past glories. Eh? The UK isnt playing the 'great game', it is because it is in its own self interest to support democracies and it happened to be hawkish enough at the time to put some serious backing on it. If it doesnt, then Putin keeps its bullshit going. UK foreign policy is not decided by some old 'great game' thinking from over a century ago. Thats not how russia see's it either. Quoting 'great game' in respect to this conflict is ignorant coping BS from terminally online dumb trolls.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:43 |
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numptyboy posted:Eh? The UK isnt playing the 'great game', it is because it is in its own self interest to support democracies and it happened to be hawkish enough at the time to put some serious backing on it. As a UK resident you'd better start telling that to the Tories running this dump.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:56 |
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Barudak posted:Wait, the Zimmerman Telegram was real??? Yes, Zimmerman really did think that asking a country in the middle of it's own civili war to invade its northernly neighbhor was a good idea. Zimmerman may not have been the smartest fella.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:09 |
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A Festivus Miracle posted:Yes, Zimmerman really did think that asking a country in the middle of it's own civili war to invade its northernly neighbhor was a good idea. Zimmerman may not have been the smartest fella. I wanna see the alt history where he tried that poo poo with Canada, offering to help us out from the British Thumb and let us take territory lost in 1812(yes Inknow we didn't lose any). Actually if it had succeeded it had a much bigger likelihood of winning the war, what with the outsized affect Canadian and other dominion troops had on the British side Hell just throw a bone to Quebec separatists and promise them full recognition as a nation post war.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:13 |
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Set posted:BTW thanks for sharing that article Shaman! I don't read a lot of Iltis so I had completely missed it. I remember even Yle had some really lovely takes about the topic earlier, so pointing out the hypocrisy here is important. Yeah I don't either, I just noticed the headline about new fortifications at the Eastern border today at the shops and went looking for that, and then found a surprisingly decent interview article.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:29 |
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I would also like to see Mexico invade Canada
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:40 |
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One thing I have been learning is the Russian ministry of defense is working on closing loopholes inside of their own conscription laws. And I think they're doing this in preparation for a new mobilization.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:46 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I wanna see the alt history where he tried that poo poo with Canada, offering to help us out from the British Thumb and let us take territory lost in 1812(yes Inknow we didn't lose any). Canada developed such a plan a few years later. In short it was: 1) Bumrush south with everything they have and cause as much chaos as possible 2) Retreat 3) ? 4) hope for a miracle
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:55 |
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7263030785148603653
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:26 |
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HonorableTB posted:Ukraine enforcing sanctions: I know it's (probably) not gonna happen but even Total Bridge Death isn't as alluring as a vision of Russia getting succesfully blockaded by a country with no navy
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:39 |
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https://twitter.com/Vegasdave59/status/1687201663734665216?s=20
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Showing off their [semi] self propelled artillery.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:49 |
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RedSnapper posted:I know it's (probably) not gonna happen but even Total Bridge Death isn't as alluring as a vision of Russia getting succesfully blockaded by a country with no navy Obviously not going to a real blockade but if sanctioned supply ships keep getting hit, nobody will want to sail to rashka anyway so that's good enough
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:51 |
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Cheeky buggers or tit-for-tat? You decide! Military engagements must be expected in these areas and ships with potential military cargo can be targeted according rules of engagement and the law of war. Aside from official ships of the Russian Navy, the Russian coast guard, police units and Russian border troops, this also applies to commercial ships heading to Russian sea ports, including oil tankers, cargo/container ships, utility ships etc. and even passenger ships when transporting military cargo and/or military personnel. Civilian ships near military ships and military installations such as port areas can be affected by collateral damage and need to keep distance to those military targets. (@Tendar)
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:54 |
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Vaginaface posted:I would also like to see Mexico invade Canada Because they would have to cross the US twice to go there and go back? It makes more sense with the Mongols invading Poland.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:06 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:Showing off their [semi] self propelled artillery. Thanks for the explanation, Belarusian?
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:06 |
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1687745039168901120#m
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:33 |
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:56 |
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Does the US even have drone boats? They seem less useful than drone aircraft or regular missiles for basically everything except maybe loitering time. Seems like what you throw together when you need to fight a navy or enforce a blockade but you don't have a navy of your own.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:59 |
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RDM posted:Does the US even have drone boats? They seem less useful than drone aircraft or regular missiles for basically everything except maybe loitering time. Nice try, comrade
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:09 |
Just Another Lurker posted:Thanks for the explanation, Belarusian? It was a joke about how, in reality, self-propelled artillery means is an artillery piece that can drive itself around. Comparing that to the traditional shoddy equipment of Russia and Belarus, the artillery piece that came dislodged from the truck and traveling "on it's own" made it a semi self propelled artillery piece.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:14 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:It was a joke about how, in reality, self-propelled artillery means is an artillery piece that can drive itself around. Comparing that to the traditional shoddy equipment of Russia and Belarus, the artillery piece that came dislodged from the truck and traveling "on it's own" made it a semi self propelled artillery piece. No worries, i was totally lost.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:17 |
Just Another Lurker posted:No worries, i was totally lost. My bad, I thought if you were asking if I was Belarusian and excusing that. Speaking of, Belarus and Russia have a NATO type agreement right? If Wagner fucks around with Poland, Poland can't hit Belarus territory without risk of a Russian "article 5" type deal, right? pro starcraft loser fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Aug 5, 2023 |
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:18 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:My bad, I thought if you were asking if I was Belarusian and excusing that. Doesn't really matter because using Wagner troops to do anything against Poland or Lithuania would be considered an attack by Russia. But yes, Belarus and Russia has actually even closer ties than typical NATO countries; Belarus is basically a state of the Russian Federation, but one that because of near-history reasons is nominally independent. Especially after Putin rescued Lukashenko in 2020 from being toppled by popular upprising.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:28 |
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Russia's kind of busy atm so I wouldn't worry about that too much
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:29 |
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https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1687847062195335170 I think this is the first T-55 that got knocked out in combat. Seems like the cope cage worked against the RPG round too, before it was disabled.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:23 |
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It’s funny because they had a way to stop this and that was keeping the grain deal going. With the deal in place, the Black Sea was effectively neutralised as Ukrainian attacks on Russian ships would be against their own interests WRT keeping the grain shipments moving. Now the deals off which enables Russia to ??? In exchange for having to constantly be alert to seaborne attacks. Ukraine doesn’t really have a Navy to risk but it has a lot of cheap drone boats. Russia could potentially launch attacks from its ships but opens them up to massive asymmetric risk which they seem hesitant to take after the Moskva. Them pulling out of the deal was a losing play on multiple levels.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:30 |
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kemikalkadet posted:It’s funny because they had a way to stop this and that was keeping the grain deal going. With the deal in place, the Black Sea was effectively neutralised as Ukrainian attacks on Russian ships would be against their own interests WRT keeping the grain shipments moving.
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# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:49 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 07:35 |
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A good thread on the tanker that got demilitarized https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1687720467400916992?t=qd3CSxyJzMk6Zy9dtC8uNw&s=19
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