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Kchama posted:Big planners or not, they wouldn't want to fight the US and uhh, you'd need a lot more troops then they could easily ferry over to pacify Taiwan. Sorry, I was talking about what China would do if they replaced Russia in this UA/Russia war
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Nov 3, 2023 03:03
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Tai posted:A rifle and 2 mags of ammo. Maybe some warm clothing if you're lucky I've skipped a lot of the war for mental health reasons, but what's this about fish blocks?
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Nov 3, 2023 03:47
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:can Ukraine create slagmountains faster than Russia can climb them? Not if Russia takes the coke plant behind the slagmountain, then it's game over Avdiivka.
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Nov 3, 2023 03:55
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Tai posted:Sorry, I was talking about what China would do if they replaced Russia in this UA/Russia war China would have given Ukraine loads of loans and just owned their economy like they have been doing in Africa and Sth Pacific. China wouldnt use a gun at all. And whats happening in Afghanistan as there is a shitload of rare earth stuff that China would love to exploit
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Nov 3, 2023 04:01
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Beachcomber posted:I've skipped a lot of the war for mental health reasons, but what's this about fish blocks? Russian waregild
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Nov 3, 2023 04:05
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Pretty sure China is in active border disputes with nearly every neighbour it has, and has invented a bunch of maritime ones. There may not be many shots fired, but they are definitely using their military to take land and sea. I would imagine they would just keep taking chunks out of Ukraine, and judging how much pushback they are getting to if they should hold it or back off.
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Nov 3, 2023 04:09
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China just dumping piles and piles of sand onto Ukraine and claiming they're Chinese-owned islands.
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Nov 3, 2023 04:12
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the loan situation is far more idiot chinese investors being taken for a ride in the international debt markets, because sovereign debt is a market for lemons every sovereign was (and still is) an outrageous credit risk because if they say "we are not paying our debts" and you ask them with which army, they point to their fuckin army bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Nov 3, 2023 04:46
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Beachcomber posted:I've skipped a lot of the war for mental health reasons, but what's this about fish blocks? When mobiks die for Putin the overlord, their families receive a, they call it a death benefit, composing of the most random stuff you could think of, ranging all the way from fur coats to fish bricks (blocks of ice full of frozen fish) to circus tickets. In many cases, it's all just done for photo ops and whatever they get is taken back by the authorities.
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Nov 3, 2023 04:47
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Since they lost the technology used to preserve Lenin the soon-re-deceased putin will be commemorated by a a massive fishbloc containing several dozen whalesharks, oar fish and manta rays. The most awe-inspiring monument to a russian visionary leader.
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Nov 3, 2023 05:06
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Ubik_Lives posted:Pretty sure China is in active border disputes with nearly every neighbour it has, and has invented a bunch of maritime ones. There may not be many shots fired, but they are definitely using their military to take land and sea. I would imagine they would just keep taking chunks out of Ukraine, and judging how much pushback they are getting to if they should hold it or back off. More like China is using an eye watering amount of money to support a lovely surface fleet whose military action is 100% comprised of harassing Filipino fishing boats. There's the news about China building/fortifying little islands in the South Pacific as encroachment into Filipino waters, but thats more opportunistic than a planned strategy. From my understanding China's only real military focus is Taiwan, which leads to:  . China also very much isn't in active border disputes with nearly every neighbor, because it has 20+ neighbors. Nepal & Butan are big ones obviously, and the aforementioned Filipino harassment, but China isn't doing much with the 'Stans or Vietnam or Laos. You just here about their dickery a lot in the news. I could see China trying to get heavily involved in Ukraine reconstruction, but it seems incredibly doubtful they're going to provide much military support to either side, although with NK providing artillery to Russia it could be argued that China is still supporting the invasion
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Nov 3, 2023 05:28
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Vampire Panties posted:I could see China trying to get heavily involved in Ukraine reconstruction, but it seems incredibly doubtful they're going to provide much military support to either side, although with NK providing artillery to Russia it could be argued that China is still supporting the invasion I doubt China will get into Ukraine reconstruction because the military lend-lease and sweetheart deals with MIC graft all play into eventual leverage for reconstruction, and China hasn't done a thing for Ukraine more than any non-military country(hell, Japan sent some of their innovative low-resource emergency sheltering planners, on top of non-military aid). Given that China also likes to offer some sketchy contracts with their seemingly good initial offers, it's not gonna fly when an allied and supportive contractor makes a similar offer and they're owed one.
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Nov 3, 2023 06:03
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Yeah, I was exaggerating with the number of neighbours it has disputes with, but there’s enough that we can infer how they would act if they were in Russia’s position. They lay a claim to the area, build up forces in the region, then just take a section of it and see if they get away with it. Sometimes they can, but sometimes like with India, they get pushback. They aren’t really big on the idea of ceding territory they believe belongs to them. This is based on the assumption that when we talk about how China would act if they were in Russia’s shoes, they have inherited the same motivating factors.
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Nov 3, 2023 06:08
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zone posted:When mobiks die for Putin the overlord, their families receive a, they call it a death benefit, composing of the most random stuff you could think of, ranging all the way from fur coats to fish bricks (blocks of ice full of frozen fish) to circus tickets. In many cases, it's all just done for photo ops and whatever they get is taken back by the authorities. The fish bricks weren't a death benefit, they were an enlistment bonus in Sakhalin. the Moscow Times posted:The most generous offer to date comes from the Siberian republic of Tuva, which began a blitz of payoffs to every new soldier’s family last week. The rewards being handed out to the relatives of those enlisting include one live sheep, 50 kilograms of flour, two bags of potatoes and cabbage "in the required amount."
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Nov 3, 2023 07:27
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Vampire Panties posted:More like China is using an eye watering amount of money to support a lovely surface fleet whose military action is 100% comprised of harassing Filipino fishing boats. There's the news about China building/fortifying little islands in the South Pacific as encroachment into Filipino waters, but thats more opportunistic than a planned strategy. From my understanding China's only real military focus is Taiwan, which leads to: Uh.... China and India dont get along all that well and it's very possible for wars over water to happen with them in the future.
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Nov 3, 2023 07:32
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China and India have border clashes where a bunch of soldiers from both sides climb a mountain and beat each other with sticks. It's weird af
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Nov 3, 2023 07:37
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Just remembered the bread financing with APR
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Nov 3, 2023 07:46
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spankmeister posted:China and India have border clashes where a bunch of soldiers from both sides climb a mountain and beat each other with sticks. It's weird af WW4 has begun.
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Nov 3, 2023 07:46
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spankmeister posted:China and India have border clashes where a bunch of soldiers from both sides climb a mountain and beat each other with sticks. It's weird af just imagining Garret in a PLA uniform sneaking up on an Indian soldier and smacking him with a blackjack
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Nov 3, 2023 07:53
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spankmeister posted:China and India have border clashes where a bunch of soldiers from both sides climb a mountain and beat each other with sticks. It's weird af the first time i saw a video of this i thought it was some kind of insane flash mob thing but no, it's genuinely something that indian and chinese soldiers do on the border, they just walk up to each other, awkwardly swing sticks or throw hands for a few seconds, stagger backward, make some loving insane-looking "well come on then" motions, and then everyone walks back to their respective border outposts and smokes cigarettes. i've seen more intense struggles over a spilled drink at a bar.
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Nov 3, 2023 08:24
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IIRC it's high enough up that even a couple of awkward punches is serious effort.
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Nov 3, 2023 08:33
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Coolguye posted:the first time i saw a video of this i thought it was some kind of insane flash mob thing but no, it's genuinely something that indian and chinese soldiers do on the border, they just walk up to each other, awkwardly swing sticks or throw hands for a few seconds, stagger backward, make some loving insane-looking "well come on then" motions, and then everyone walks back to their respective border outposts and smokes cigarettes. There's been like 60+ dead soldiers from those clashes in the last few years. People fall off cliffs and poo poo
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Nov 3, 2023 08:35
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Scorchy posted:There's been like 60+ dead soldiers from those clashes in the last few years. People fall off cliffs and poo poo yeah that fuckin scans
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Nov 3, 2023 08:36
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Chinese and Indian soldiers are just repressed football fans. They need to release their inner danny dyer.
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Nov 3, 2023 08:58
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Jippa posted:Chinese and Indian soldiers are just repressed football fans. They need to release their inner danny dyer. Its a stick off init
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Nov 3, 2023 10:12
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China and India have an agreement to not use firearms at their border. Instead they use spiked clubs. The Indians recently developed a taser club. China's weapon of choice:  India's taser clubs: 
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Nov 3, 2023 10:21
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McGavin posted:China and India have an agreement to not use firearms at their border. Instead they use spiked clubs. The Indians recently developed a taser club. Dark Souls rear end geopolitics.
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Nov 3, 2023 10:25
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Has either side deployed elephants?
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Nov 3, 2023 10:25
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China accuses America of meddling after a Republican slips India “a gun”
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Nov 3, 2023 10:27
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The Lone Badger posted:Has either side deployed elephants? Now I'm thinking of a war elephant swinging around a loving morningstar in its nose.
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Nov 3, 2023 10:27
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Three elephants tied together by their trunks being swung like a morningstar
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Nov 3, 2023 10:58
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In Leonard nimoy voice You have invented... taser club
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Nov 3, 2023 11:22
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Alan Smithee posted:China accuses America of meddling after a Republican slips India “a gun” A gun club?
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Nov 3, 2023 12:57
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Decrepus posted:In Leonard nimoy voice Yeah in hindsight that was a mistake. I'm not going there anymore.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:06
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Spazzle posted:A gun club? im a big fan of their idiot waltz
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Nov 3, 2023 13:09
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Spazzle posted:A gun club?
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Nov 3, 2023 13:12
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC it's high enough up that even a couple of awkward punches is serious effort. Yeah just visualise a pair of goons trying to fight.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:21
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Have they stopped lobbing shells at each other? I seem to recall there was some similarly lackadaisical bombardment going on every other Tuesday or so a few years back.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:55
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McGavin posted:China and India have an agreement to not use firearms at their border. Instead they use spiked clubs. The Indians recently developed a taser club. 
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Nov 3, 2023 13:59
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC it's high enough up that even a couple of awkward punches is serious effort. That's what the sapper punch gloves are for:  Hopefully they don't get too much wet weather.
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