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Regarde Aduck posted:someone tell him he doesn't have to tweet if he doesn't have anything to say It's a Lost button pushing situation the Z man needs to post a new tween before the clock counts down to zero. He has his old writing team working around the clock for him but they are totally burnt out.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:41
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Frosted Flake posted:I was just reading that. Taiwan is honorary west.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:44
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stephenthinkpad posted:Taiwan is honorary west. Looking forward to visiting Taiwan (province of People's Republic of China) someday.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:47
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stephenthinkpad posted:Taiwan is honorary west. Has been since 1941.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:47
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The Artificial Kid posted:Which pat of what I said is wrong? I struggle to find anything you have said that isn’t wrong.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:47
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Frosted Flake posted:I was just reading that. in hopefully unrelated news, ive been starting to see ads for the selective service 
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Aug 15, 2023 00:48
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mlmp08 posted:Flying high as poo poo and level is the way to get the most range out of your glide bombs, if you want to fire them from behind your own front lines. nice tip! what other ammunition advice do you have?
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Aug 15, 2023 00:49
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Need to workshop more.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:49
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Dokapon Findom posted:Need to workshop more. you gotta throw a lot of poo poo at the wall and see what sticks
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Aug 15, 2023 00:50
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Falstaff posted:
I had a coworker repeat that yeonmi park line that North Koreans don't have ice cream. This is quite literally a thing that has existed since the Joseon era, why on earth would North Koreans not know about ice cream??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingsu
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Aug 15, 2023 00:51
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Al! posted:you gotta throw a lot of poo poo at the wall and see what sticks Certain people don't like me being constantly 100% correct about Ukraine so the bar for what's an acceptable post from me is a lot higher 
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Aug 15, 2023 00:53
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IRL I am Dmitri Medvedev and there isn't a goddamn thing any of you can do about it!!!
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Aug 15, 2023 00:55
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in this thread we hug and kiss putin. thanks
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Aug 15, 2023 00:59
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To Defy the United States, Fidel Castro Built the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Parlorquote:Castro was obsessed with ice cream. When he was still a young revolutionary in the jungle, a wealthy supporter, Celia Sánchez, sent him an ice-cream cake via mule for his birthday quote:novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez described Castro polishing off 18 scoops after Sunday lunch. His affection for ice cream was such that the CIA attempted to poison his milkshake. “That was the closest the CIA got to assassinating Fidel,” a retired state security general told Reuters in 2007. quote:the United States announced a total embargo in 1962, cutting Cuba off from the American dairy market (along with every other U.S. export), Castro found himself the leader of a milk-free island that was too warm for dairy cows. Undaunted, he demanded, in 1966, the construction of the greatest ice cream parlor the world had ever seen. Visitors to Havana can still eat there today. quote:Castro believed that developing Cuba’s own dairy industry was worth the expense. “We have known the bitterness of having to depend on others,” Castro said in a speech, alluding to the American embargo, “and how this can be turned into a weapon against us.” quote:In another speech, he explained that while capitalism made better products at first, it eventually produced lower quality goods than socialism. quote:Kept in a guarded, air-conditioned stable and constantly monitored by specialists, she produced, in one record-setting day, four times as much milk as the average cow, smashing the previous record set by an American bovine, Arleen. For Castro, who peppered his hours-long speeches with statistics about the triumphs of Cuba’s socialist economy, it must have felt like when Russia put a man in space before the Americans. Dairy was his space race. quote:“This is our way of showing we can do everything better than the Americans.” And, indeed, even visitors from the U.S. conceded that Coppelia was likely serving the world’s best ice cream. Coppelia had dozens of flavors and sent them, packed in dry ice, to dignitaries, international food festivals, and friends of the revolution, such as Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. quote:Castro never achieved his dream of dairy self-sufficiency, and, at times, that has meant that the poor economy and economic embargo led to Coppelia having fewer, or lower-quality offerings quote:Coppelia remains a singular place to enjoy ice cream. The line to order snakes outside each day, just as it has for decades, reflecting both the parlor’s popularity and the shortages that afflict Cuba. In One Day in December, Stout describes Coppelia as the type of place where you go on a first date or take your mother.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:03
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BearsBearsBears posted:To Defy the United States, Fidel Castro Built the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Parlor Is real fun going to a super market and seeing how much stuff is for sale that can't legally be called a flavor of ice cream
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Aug 15, 2023 01:16
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Capitalism as a mechanism to provide quality goods was destroyed the moment scarcity entered the equation. gently caress your frozen dairy dessert and give me some goddamn ice cream!!!
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Aug 15, 2023 01:20
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Well there is a bunch of videos of the village being slammed after the Russians withdrew. Also, there are also shots of a SU-24 supposedly sending their payloads pretty well within Ukrainian airspace, so I think their AD is starting to get pretty sparse. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 01:45 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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Aug 15, 2023 01:23
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ZOKA's Channel posted:
this is a pretty goofy looking ugv
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Aug 15, 2023 01:33
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BearsBearsBears posted:To Defy the United States, Fidel Castro Built the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Parlor This is probably one of my favorite ruler projects, Castro's love of dairy. I salute Ubre Blanca.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:35
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Danann posted:(from t.me/zoka200/14197, via tgsa) Russia finally researched ute technology
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Aug 15, 2023 01:36
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So called "freedom of choice" and I still can't get Blue Moon ice cream where I'm at. Capitalism is a failed system and a disgusting, embarrassing mess.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:38
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americans(me) need their treats or they throw tantrums
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Aug 15, 2023 01:47
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Danann posted:(from t.me/zoka200/14197, via tgsa) It looks like they figured out that a much cheaper UGV with older off the shelf components is a better idea, also the payload area in the back may just to stack TNT.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:49
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i will vote for a presidential candidate that can eat 18 scoops of ice cream in one go regardless of his platform BearsBearsBears posted:To Defy the United States, Fidel Castro Built the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Parlor
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Aug 15, 2023 01:53
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Popy posted:americans(me) need their treats or they throw tantrums I will never stop terrorizing the world until I have the flavor I want
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Aug 15, 2023 01:55
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Bad news for tankie and their balderdash about Russian economic resilience - The rouble has fallen to its weakest point in almost 17 months. On Monday morning, the central bank said it saw no threat to Russia’s financial stability from the rouble’s fall, but in the afternoon the Bank of Russia made the surprise announcement that its board of directors would meet on Tuesday to discuss the interest rate. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/14/rouble-falls-to-16-month-low-dollar-russian-exports-collapse-war-ukraine-russia-economy Russia’s central bank to hold extraordinary meeting after rouble falls to 16-month low Pjotr Sauer Mon 14 Aug 2023 13.23 BST Russia’s central bank has announced it will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss the level of its key interest rate after the rouble fell to its weakest point in almost 17 months. The currency has been steadily losing value since the beginning of the year and slid past the psychologically important level of 100 to the dollar on Monday morning. It has weakened by 26% this year as a result of a collapse in export revenues and growing military spending, making it the third worst-performing global currency in 2023. The decline has led to calls from senior Kremlin officials for higher borrowing costs. On Monday morning, the central bank said it saw no threat to Russia’s financial stability from the rouble’s fall, blaming the currency’s slide in value on a drop in export volumes and growing internal demand for imports. However, in the afternoon the Bank of Russia made the surprise announcement that its board of directors would meet on Tuesday to discuss the interest rate, with a decision to be published at 10.30am Moscow time. The rouble has had a period of turbulence since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, dropping to a record low of 150 to the dollar two weeks after the start of the war before sharply recovering after the Russian central bank imposed strict capital controls that limited the flow of money out of the country. By last summer the rouble had rebounded to a seven-year high as a rise in oil and gas prices, partly a result of the invasion, helped Russia raise export revenue while consumer imports fell. Russian oil revenues have been drastically reduced since western price caps and embargos were imposed, while imports have recovered. The government has spent billions on the defence industry to continue the war in Ukraine, with many critical goods still coming from abroad. The fall in the rouble accelerated after the aborted uprising in June by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group of mercenary fighters caused Russians to move money into foreign accounts. Dr Janis Kluge, a researcher who focuses on the Russian economy at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a thinktank, said: “The Russian rouble is still searching for its appropriate long-term war-sanctions exchange rate. Without capital controls, speculators would have priced in the poor outlook last year.” A senior Kremlin aide admitted on Monday that a weak rouble had a “negative effect” on the “population’s real incomes” but said Moscow expected the currency to bounce back shortly. “The current exchange rate has deviated significantly from fundamental levels, and its normalisation is expected in the near future,” Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser Maxim Oreshkin said in an op-ed for the Tass news agency. “It is in the interests of the Russian economy to have a strong rouble.” Last week the Russian central bank took steps to stabilise the rouble, holding purchases of foreign currency until 2024 “to reduce volatility”. But the move did not immediately stop the currency’s decline, raising worries among Russian policymakers of the possibility of significantly higher consumer prices. In the short term, a weaker rouble could help the authorities to fund its extensive war spending. Russia sells its oil in foreign currency and the current exchange will buy more roubles at home. A government document reviewed by Reuters this month showed that Moscow had doubled its 2023 defence spending target to more than $100bn (£79bn), a third of all public expenditure. But the sliding rouble could trigger memories in Moscow of the battering the currency took during the 1998 Russian financial crisis and has already led to rare public criticism of Russia’s central bank. The influential TV host Vladimir Solovyov said last week: “The bloody central bank isn’t even explaining why the hell the rouble exchange rate has jumped so high that they’re laughing at us abroad, at our rouble being one of the three weakest currencies. “What is happening in this country!? How did this exchange rate come about? Eventually, this will lead to a rise in consumer prices, and it will coincide with the election campaign,” Solovyov added, referring to the Russian presidential election scheduled for March 2024. The Kremlin has boasted about Russia’s economic outlook while the central bank has predicted that the economy will grow by up to 2.5% this year, despite crippling western sanctions. Despite the weakening rouble, Russia’s statistics agency, Rosstat, announced last week that the economy grew year on year by 4.9% in the second quarter of 2023, the first increase in 12 months. Experts said much of the economic recovery was artificially driven by government spending on the war, raising the prospect of an economic slowdown if the conflict was halted.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:59
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mlmp08 posted:Flying high as poo poo and level is the way to get the most range out of your glide bombs, if you want to fire them from behind your own front lines. love how you try to neg the entire Russian military "nice bombing run, for someone that needs to fire them from behind their own lines"
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Aug 15, 2023 02:02
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If it's only a 16-17 month low we must infer that the ruble was actually doing worse before the war
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Aug 15, 2023 02:02
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Americans don’t even have Orange Pineapple or Tiger Tail but think they’re free smh
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Aug 15, 2023 02:03
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Regarde Aduck posted:love how you try to neg the entire Russian military It’s not negging; that’s just a good and safe way to do it!
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Aug 15, 2023 02:05
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Frosted Flake posted:Americans don’t even have Orange Pineapple or Tiger Tail but think they’re free smh OG blue licorice is the real GOAT but they started adding ribbons of black licorice to it and now it sucks 
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Aug 15, 2023 02:07
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“Experts said much of the economic recovery was artificially driven by government spending on the war, raising the prospect of an economic slowdown if the conflict was halted.” Keynes wept
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Aug 15, 2023 02:08
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Dokapon Findom posted:OG blue licorice is the real GOAT but they started adding ribbons of black licorice to it and now it sucks I think you have to go to Winnipeg or Brandon.
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Aug 15, 2023 02:10
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mlmp08 posted:It’s not negging; that’s just a good and safe way to do it! I don't think glide bombs can out range an s300 but maybe I'm wrong
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Aug 15, 2023 02:18
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Ardennes posted:“Experts said much of the economic recovery was artificially driven by government spending on the war, raising the prospect of an economic slowdown if the conflict was halted.” Isn't that the exact thing these same people say ended the Great Depression, because they cant admit the New Deal worked?
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Aug 15, 2023 02:20
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KomradeX posted:Isn't that the exact thing these same people say ended the Great Depression, because they cant admit the New Deal worked? I think it is one of those right v left knife fights that doesn't make any sense because both the New Deal had an effect, but unemployment only had went from 25% to 15% from 1933 to 1937 while it had dropped from 15% to around 3% from 1940 to 1943. War economies do have an effect. The New Deal stabilized the country, but the war is what brought unemployment back to pre-crisis levels. It just comes down to how much government was spending and the jobs created by it. You could probably have have such a effect but states generally don't leverage themselves unless they feel their existence is threated. Slavvy posted:I don't think glide bombs can out range an s300 but maybe I'm wrong They can outrange older 1980s era s300 systems. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 02:34 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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Aug 15, 2023 02:30
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Good news for Ukraine - One of the world’s foremost military intelligence experts David Petraeus said the Ukrainian counteroffensive would be “very impressive” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...0ce50cd994145dd Why can’t we be honest about Ukraine’s counter-offensive? By ADAM CREIGHTON 12:00AM AUGUST 15, 2023 In early June one of the world’s foremost military intelligence experts David Petraeus said the Ukrainian counteroffensive would be “very impressive”. But to date it has been a disaster – one that should question the wisdom of providing further military and rhetorical support for the war, which could ultimately weaken Ukraine’s bargaining position in peace negotiations. In more than two months Ukraine has retaken little territory at an unknown cost, despite months of Western training and total NATO military and economic aid since January 2022 of €165bn ($279bn – more than five times Australia’s annual defence budget), according to the Kiel Institute. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians have lost one or more limbs since the start of the war, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month. Even before the counteroffensive began, Ukraine had lost some 100,000 soldiers, according to US General Mark Milley. The reality could be even worse given Western media has generally created the impression that Ukraine is “winning”, even though more than five million Ukrainians have emigrated, the nation’s infrastructure has been crippled and more than 20 per cent of its territory is occupied. In the Vietnam War the US, which then had a population over 200 million (more than five times that of Ukraine), lost around 60,000 soldiers. It lost 2400 in Afghanistan over 20 years. Last year Elon Musk was derided for suggesting Russia be allowed to keep Crimea and the UN hold referendums on the status of the four annexed provinces in eastern Ukraine. “This is highly likely to be the outcome in the end – just a question of how many die before then,” he said, prompting accusations the world’s richest man was on Vladimir Putin’s payroll. Almost a year on, having instead heeded the wisdom of foreign policy experts, that looks like a best-case scenario. Russia’s military advantage appears insurmountable in troops and artillery without mobilising, and sanctions appear to have failed. Eight in 10 Russians say they haven’t personally been affected them, according to a recent survey by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. Crimea – supposedly under threat from Ukrainian military – is currently overflowing with Russian tourists. Moreover, by promising to welcome Ukraine into NATO after the war ends (something Russia launched its invasion to prevent), Moscow has an incentive to keep the war going and even seize more of the country to make its ultimate NATO membership less of a problem. The promise of “Ukraine in NATO” created ample opportunities for virtue signalling but may have extended the war for years. In May, Donald Trump was mocked by foreign policy experts during a CNN Town Hall interview for refusing to say whether he supported Ukraine “winning”. “I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” he said. Experts were furious but his opinion may increasingly reflect that of the US public. A CNN poll last week found 55 per cent of Americans opposed sending further aid – well up from 17 per cent in February 2022 when Russia launched its invasion. Yet the Biden administration asked congress last week for another $US24bn in aid for Ukraine – fully backed by top Republicans. “We haven’t lost a single American … Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons … So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead,” Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said, batting away criticism. However much a boon for the US defence industry the war is, it’s not clear ordinary Ukrainians want it to continue. Opposition parties have been banned in Ukraine. Elections have been suspended. And all media and journalists have been under state control since January. For months, social media has been awash with videos of young Ukrainian men being dragged into trucks to be sent to the frontline. Last week President Volodymyr Zelensky sacked 24 senior enlistment officers after it emerged wealthy Ukrainians were paying up to $US10,000 to avoid the draft, according to The New York Times. Governments and their citizens’ interests diverge sharply during wartime, given the costs of fighting fall mainly on the latter. In 2008 Putin privately told George W. Bush Ukraine would be dismembered if it sought NATO membership, according to John Mearsheimer’s 2018 book, The Great Delusion, which chronicles the disastrous unintended consequences of US foreign policy since 9/11. If I went to a dangerous part of Washington late at night and told a random gang I could do whatever I want and there’s not a drat thing they could legally do about it, I would probably be bashed or killed. That’s not fair or right, but it’s the world as it is, not as it should be. The sad reality is Moscow’s interests and arguments, whether we agree with them or not, will need to be taken into account in Ukraine, at least as much as Washington’s. If that means the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine become part of Russia, or even if Ukraine has to promise not to join NATO, perhaps that’s preferable to another 100,000 young Ukrainians dying or losing their limbs, and Moscow and Beijing becoming even closer allies. It may not be forever: Russia won’t be able to hold on to the territories it has annexed if the people don’t want to be part of Russia. Time will tell. Israel’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said the US and UK scotched a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia in early 2022, hundreds of thousands of deaths ago. If another opportunity arises, the terms won’t be as good, but they could well be better than what’s available at the end of this very unimpressive counteroffensive.
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Marenghi posted:The Blue House Raid also thought me about the Souths retaliation plan, 'Unit 684'. It was a secret mission composed of almost 3 dozen petty criminals and delinquents put through 3 years of harsh training on a small island, with the end goal of infiltrating the north and assassinating Kim Il Sung. The mission was cancelled and these secret soldiers were convinced they'd be murdered to hide the project, so they went rogue and killed their guards. They then escaped to the mainland and stole a bus but were eventually stopped. 20 died at their final standoff and the 4 survivors sentenced by military tribunal to death and executed. The project was hidden and the reason for this rampage suppressed. There was a movie about in 2003 which forced the government to admit about the project and mutiny in 2006. this reminds me of the Jabidah Massacre in 1967, the Marcos [Sr.] regime began training a cadre of young Muslim men for Operation Merdeka, which was supposed to be a false flag operation whereby they'd be sent to the Malaysian island of Sabah, and commit attacks that would serve as a justification for the Philippines to invade Sabah, whose ownership had been contested for many years due to Britain's haphazard decolonization when the trainees found out what they were being trained to do, they mutinied, and the military men guarding them had them all killed. There was only one survivor, and he managed to swim from their camp at Corregidor island to the Philippine mainland, and trekked all the way back to the south of the country. Upon reuniting with his community, he told the story of what had happened, and it sparked a Muslim separatist movement that the government is fighting to this day
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Mandoric posted:So on a practical level of "what did the working-class Korean diaspora do when they had a choice", the answer is that the South has never been attractive on even a Taiwan level while the North did get a significant number of takers (~100k out of a population that started around 600k) until Soviet support began to dry up. (Though it is true that the 2000-on standard is a South Korean passport for international travel, but never moving there and losing permanent residency in Japan.) someone was mentioning learning about korean history through movies and on this note ode to my father is probably the most complete film in terms of the eras it deals with it basically goes from the korean war all the way up to the present day forrest gump style i bring it up because theres a section that takes place in the sixties about a major labor program that involved shipping koreans off to west germany how this is relevant to this particular post im replying to is that the movie clearly implies that most of the koreans in this program were patriots who couldnt wait to get back home and rebuild korea but a majority of people in the actual labor program actually stayed behind and sought west german citizenship now ode to my father is a right wing revisionist movie to be sure (so was forrest gump lol) but this really gets at how south korea has always been a very sad and discouraging place for people and a lot of the popular narratives around it have to do everything they can to avoid addressing the actual data to try and bolster the south korean states legitimacy this is why statements to the effect of "well everything would be fine if the kims died!" are just so insultingly drat ignorant south korea might have been able to absorb north korea like west germany absorbed east germany if they had a functioning government that everybody on the peninsula didnt think would pointlessly stab them in the back scorpion and frog style at the first possible opportunity but the fact that such a government did not does not and never has existed in south korea never even enters into the conversation because people who know very little about north korean politics know even less about south korean politics
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