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15 | 3.71% |
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:It's that or pay the licensing fee. that entered public domain with steamboat willie
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Weka posted:I'm reading this as you yourself are a master of projection. Sure.
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webcams for christ posted:indistinguishable in form, content, and quality from Shen Yun look bud, i'll have u know that the authentic national culture can only be preserved by a bunch of bitter rightwing political emigrés also it's a complete coincidence that said national culture inevitably ends up being near identical to that of germany circa 1935-45
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Jan 3, 2024 14:35
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Cerebral Bore posted:look bud, i'll have u know that the authentic national culture can only be preserved by a bunch of bitter rightwing political emigrés  Alberta appears to be cursed.
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lol claiming a 3rd order connection to von Karajan wow you and me and almost everyone else in classical music
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continuing my reading of "Contesting the Origins of the First World War", apparently there's a debate among WWI historians about the Schlieffen Plan. on the one side we have the "traditional" understanding of the Plan: Germany would attack through Belgium, sweeping right to left into Paris, etc.; but more importantly, is the assertion is that there is a clear through-line from its original conception by Schlieffen in 1904, with various modifications until we get to 1914. And as a corollary, that the preparation, update, and inculcation of the Schlieffen Plan into and by the German General Staff is proof that Germany had been readying itself for an aggressive, preventative war against France + Russia for that entire decade on the other side is the revisionist view: that Schlieffen wrote a memo in 1904 that was never really a fully fleshed-out plan, and that even the contents of this plan concerns itself with counterattacks against French and Russian troops entering German soil, and that this plan was assuming a 96-division German Army, at a time when they only had about 64 available, so it was unrealistic because a full third of the assumed manpower were simply "ghosts". And this is significant because if there was never really any kind of "Schlieffen Plan" as prior historiography has understood it, and that what was used in August 1914 was more of a "Moltke Plan", then it undermines at least some of the asserted aggression and militarism that's been imputed upon Germany I found this particularly interesting because the primary advocate of the latter view is Terence Zuber, whose "The Mons Myth" I read in 2022, while on the other side of the debate is Gerhard Grosse, whose "The Myth and Reality of German Warfare" I read last year. It's not everyday I find myself having read so much about a topic to be in the middle of an on-going scholarly contention
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Jan 3, 2024 15:56
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I have stridently refused to ever meet with the man, personally.
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1742150234149449915 Did Germany really only give them 18 Leopard 2s
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Jan 3, 2024 16:01
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that's an equivalent of 36 leopard 1s
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1742150234149449915 did germany move their tank repair capabilities into one of the nato baltic tripwire states? doesn't seem like something you'd do if you were genuinely concerned about the muscovite hordes overrunning evropa
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Jan 3, 2024 16:19
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Its still more tanks than challengers or Abrahams. Its incredible how little these have actually accomplished. The US abrahms apparently died before even getting close to the frontlines do to transportation mishaps
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Paging punished turtle https://twitter.com/SpaghettiKozak/status/1742547444448031216?t=ub7tpAZJ-9lJdiROlX-tTg&s=19
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gradenko_2000 posted:Paging punished turtle if the Kinzhals all got shot down how do they know they were aimed at apartment buildings?
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Jan 3, 2024 16:35
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gradenko_2000 posted:Paging punished turtle lmao, if you click through the quote of "Hey, @NYTIMES, or new orc times,..." it's just page after page of NAFO dog-avatar account quoting one another over and over posting up the same copypasta, some of whom have very few followers/following, but they're like 70% ukraine flags and fella accounts.
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1742150234149449915 German army is experiencing unforeseen problems in repairing tanks damaged fighting the Russians. Feel like we've done this one before.
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The idiotic German government also thought they would have Navalny in office and everything wrapped up by Christmas, just like in 41.
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German AFVs as finicky garage queens chronically short on spare parts, some things never change
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1742199109996392852?s=20 aww its a little pinwheel  i bet if you spin it looks like a rainbow
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These free market folks are going to be so happy that there's going to be competition for the sole superpower.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:49
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they could call it the nu-s.s.r.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Paging punished turtle loving LMAO
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Known tankie "newspaper" The New York Times
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dead gay comedy forums posted:If he wants to use the USSR as "actually we could consider it a Great-Russian feat", to employ it's symbolic representation to chauvinist means, it becomes a contradiction in reaction - a "nostalgia for revolution" that subverts the original intention. The reason for it being is that the USSR was greater than the Empire in the absolute sense, which leaves the Russian reactionary in this poor position. It's a very, very interesting historical situation I think the rwapodcast reactionary freaks people linked in here are incapable of coming to terms with this, that the greatest (in every sense) russia has ever been was under the auspices of and because of communism and communists. owned
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Starsfan posted:some good news for Ukraine to brighten all of your days: Every Ukrainian downing of Russian hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with the Patriot missiles will improve the Patriot missile intercept algorithm - and increase accuracy for all Patriot systems, a benefit for the US, the rest of NATO, and other Patriot AD users. The same goes for any RUS aircraft that is shot down. Data quality is high because it is live tested; it is not a desk job or theoretical calculation; this is data from a successful intercept. The value of the data is really high as it can kick the success rate in the long run from, let's say, 85 % to 99 % against a type of target, so if RUS in a continued war launches 20 low-yield tactical nukes using 47M2 Kinzhal against NATO targets, with improved data likely no missile makes it to target. If the data had been unimproved - 3 would have made it through AD and detonated. Therefore, providing UKR with Patriot missiles is an investment in any provider's defense and gives high defense ROI as the improved algorithm upgrades its existing systems.
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genericnick posted:Russia isn't in Kiev at this very moment and they're still shelling poo poo in Donbass. Russia isn't in my house either, but that doesn't mean that I can win a war against them! Frosted Flake posted:Are people ITT going back to the office on the 8th? ??? Do other places normally get the week after New Year's Day off? I get more time off for holidays than most people due to working at a university, and it's still just Dec 22 - Jan 1 (this year, it can vary depending on the day of the week Jan 1 is). Ytlaya has issued a correction as of 20:49 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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does this cover ukr psyops? Ukrinform, Center for Countering Disinformation launching joint project ‘About the War’  www.ukrinform.net posted:Ukrinform National News Agency of Ukraine and the Center for Countering Disinformation are launching a new joint project, About the War, which will cover the issues related to the front, fake news stories, influencers’ posts, and the urgent war-related problems.
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I enjoyed the Waldo books when I was a kid, despite being bad at them. Really feels like you've done something special when you find the hiding Waldos.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/01/vladimir-putin-has-declared-a-cyber-war-on-britain/ Putin has declared a cyber war on Britain Thankfully we are ahead of the pack when it comes to protecting our elections quote:If you are already bored by the pre-election electioneering being mounted by UK political parties, then standby for global pre-election electioneering. This year over 2 billion people will vote for new governments across the globe: the US, the UK, Iran, India, Pakistan, Mexico, EU, Russia (a joke), Indonesia and a host of European nations. In short, a combined population of 49% of the world.
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it is wild to me that people think vladimir putin, who quit the KGB as a colonel in Leningrad to support Sobchek during the failed 1991 coup to save the USSR, has any interest in communism. he literally owes everything he has to picking a side right then.
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Officer Sandvich posted:Every Ukrainian downing of Russian hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with the Patriot missiles will improve the Patriot missile intercept algorithm - and increase accuracy for all Patriot systems, a benefit for the US, the rest of NATO, and other Patriot AD users. The same goes for any RUS aircraft that is shot down. Data quality is high because it is live tested; it is not a desk job or theoretical calculation; this is data from a successful intercept. The value of the data is really high as it can kick the success rate in the long run from, let's say, 85 % to 99 % against a type of target, so if RUS in a continued war launches 20 low-yield tactical nukes using 47M2 Kinzhal against NATO targets, with improved data likely no missile makes it to target. If the data had been unimproved - 3 would have made it through AD and detonated. Therefore, providing UKR with Patriot missiles is an investment in any provider's defense and gives high defense ROI as the improved algorithm upgrades its existing systems. How much more can the algorithm be improved? Ukraine is already shooting down basically all the Kinzhals. The problem is the slovenly American crews that cause the Patriot to underperform when tested. Ukrainian Patriot crews under combat conditions are vastly outperforming American Patriot crews under test conditions.
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"Ukraine's dwindling supply of Leopard 2 tanks aren't being repaired because Europe doesn't have enough spare parts, German politician says" https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-leopard-tanks-russia-war-not-repaired-sebastian-schafer-germany-2024-1 Behold the mighty industrial heartland of Europe.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:it is wild to me that people think vladimir putin, who quit the KGB as a colonel in Leningrad to support Sobchek during the failed 1991 coup to save the USSR, has any interest in communism. he literally owes everything he has to picking a side right then. Russia = Communism That is it Also he was a crony of Boris Yeltsin and was seen at the time by the west as a "safer" alternative to actual communists
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8 years of Minsk accords clearly demonstrated that to be true.
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Lostconfused posted:8 years of Minsk accords clearly demonstrated that to be true. and that is the real hilarious part of the matter!
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mawarannahr posted:thank you for your analysis Thank you  mila kunis posted:the rwapodcast reactionary freaks people linked in here are incapable of coming to terms with this, that the greatest (in every sense) russia has ever been was under the auspices of and because of communism and communists. owned lmao. Yeah, I mean, it's squaring a circle -- Great-Russians have to talk about WW2 as a feat only their Motherland could do, they bring up that even Stalin employed Orthodox symbolism as an argument (the restitution of the Order of Alexander Nevsky etc), but that line of thinking is strictly cultural in its presumption of some inherent supremacy that justifies Great-Russian thinking. They conveniently forget that Eisenstein directed Alexander Nevsky in 1938; Nevsky wasn't some exclusively Orthodox bit of history, it had become folklore, which the Soviet Union was all about working with (each Soviet republic had, for example, their own film production center which put a lot of effort into turning popular stories into movies) JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:it is wild to me that people think vladimir putin, who quit the KGB as a colonel in Leningrad to support Sobchek during the failed 1991 coup to save the USSR, has any interest in communism. he literally owes everything he has to picking a side right then. You mean in opposition to it then? IIRC, this Sobchek guy was the one who worked with Henry loving Kissinger in a transition commission or something of the sort
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I really enjoy your posts.
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yes, i realize i phrased that strangely. should not have assumed a reader would remember sobchek and his views. putin was in east germany when it unified, then in leningrad when his boss tried to take over the country and he noped the gently caress out. rode sobchek's coattails to yelstin and then ... the rest is history
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1742150234149449915 https://twitter.com/Historian_Matt/status/1742214237429157935 Because we all know tanks are just "off the shelves" items you order and they arrive next day in the truck with a smile on it.
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1742150234149449915 drat things must be truly bad if Poland can't even handle repairing a few tanks
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Jan 3, 2024 23:52
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Its so funny they had 8 years to prepare and didn't bother any industrial planning
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DancingShade posted:"Ukraine's dwindling supply of Leopard 2 tanks aren't being repaired because Europe doesn't have enough spare parts, German politician says" Time to transform itself to a high fashion luxury good tourism economy.
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