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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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are we winning?
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Jan 18, 2024 09:01
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*registers clinking with russian money in the background* xi: Z who?
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Jan 18, 2024 09:04
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fart simpson posted:are we winning? lets see: - nato bigger than EVER before! swedens, finns! everyone wants to join! big EPIC win for america - russia is running out of shells, and planes! soon they will have nothing left, big win coming!! - more and more tanks are coming to the aid every day! europe is united! - NAFO conference 2024 is happening next week in latvia! vatnik propaganda cant shut it down - we killed some chick with a car bomb deep inside enemy territory! huge win, putler is increasingly vulnerable - more and more conscripts are filling the rosters thus the counteroffensive 2.0 is being rebuilt to WIN this time. it cannot fail, it can only be failed big winning energy
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Jan 18, 2024 09:12
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Xaris posted:yeah sure. You forgot "F-16s!" which are of course superior to any cast iron scrap jet crudly hammered together by barely sentient Russians who know neither toilets nor street signs. edit - you know if everyone had bought F-16s instead of those boat anchors they call an F-35 "The West" might be in a better position today, given the total reliance on air power. But alas we know what happened there. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 09:26 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jan 18, 2024 09:17
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-17/war-in-ukraine-drains-nearly-half-of-accessible-russian-reserves War in Ukraine Drains Nearly Half of Russia’s Liquid Assets quote:Russia’s government has tapped almost half of the national wealth fund’s available reserves to shield the economy against the fallout from its almost two-year war in Ukraine, leaving it vulnerable to future shocks.
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Jan 18, 2024 09:30
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Russia is losing dollars and euros, but I'm guessing their position in yuan is growing lol
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Jan 18, 2024 09:40
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Considering that Russia barely had a deficit last year, and is selling most of its oil just under spot prices for Brent, it isn’t really a major issue. At the end of the day, the National Wealth Fund exists as a rainy day fund mostly to support pensions and budget deficits but could be refilled by the Central Bank if it ever got too critical. The D&D used to go crazy over it because they thought it was all the reserves that Russia had, they probably still do.
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Jan 18, 2024 09:59
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(Rapidly types several zeroes into an excel spreadsheet cell) As you can see our Western economiy is booming, furthermore
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Jan 18, 2024 10:04
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It honestly makes sense for the Russians to invest in infrastructure than simply having the money sitting around at a certain point especially since they have other sources of liquidity.
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Jan 18, 2024 10:07
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Sorry I as a superior big brained Westerner only understand how to inflate tech stock pyramid schemes to swindle venture capital out of spreadsheet money. I don't quite get this concept of "infrastructure" or "physical production". It's all just make spreadsheet go up.
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Jan 18, 2024 10:10
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using your National Wellbeing Fund to fund national wellbeing???? that's a sign of a collapsing state (unlike collapsing infrastructure)
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Jan 18, 2024 10:22
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https://twitter.com/VoCommunism/status/1747646935429677554
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Jan 18, 2024 10:28
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Jan 18, 2024 10:31
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Snyder particles going off the charts
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Jan 18, 2024 10:32
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Dang just counting people in Auschwitz as victims of communism is a ballsy move. How long until Stalin did the holocaust?
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Jan 18, 2024 10:50
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Weka posted:Stalin did the holocaust
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Jan 18, 2024 10:53
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Weka posted:Dang just counting people in Auschwitz as victims of communism is a ballsy move. How long until Stalin did the holocaust? I wouldn't be surprised if I saw in the next few years a New York Times op ed saying Stalin was responsible for the holocaust somehow. I wouldn't be surprised, but I think I would be fairly overcome with despair.
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Jan 18, 2024 10:58
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Slavvy posted:Good news! Modern technology means the officers are telling the conscripts what to do via tablet, always safely away from danger Frontline -- Fascist blocking brigades -- Commanding officer
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Jan 18, 2024 10:59
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Organic robots to clean up the Chernobyl disaster. Organic robots to march forward into Russian artillery, drones and minefields. Sensing a theme here.
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Jan 18, 2024 11:01
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reminder they also count the perpetrators of the holocaust as victims of communism as well lol
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Jan 18, 2024 11:02
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comedyblissoption posted:reminder they also count the perpetrators of the holocaust as victims of communism as well lol are they wrong?
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Jan 18, 2024 11:03
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Weka posted:Dang just counting people in Auschwitz as victims of communism is a ballsy move. How long until Stalin did the holocaust? I don't blame you for not watching the video, but it says quote:Wanda Wos Lorenc was captured in August 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising, a Polish resistance attempt to liberate Poland from Nazi Germany. so we're already there: because Stalin purposefully let the Warsaw Uprising get put down (a claim we had previously discussed last October), then he is also responsible for everyone who got killed in the concentration camps afterwards
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Jan 18, 2024 11:04
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If you're on the losing side of history, does it matter if you re-write the history books you own?
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Jan 18, 2024 11:06
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Endman posted:I wouldn't be surprised if I saw in the next few years a New York Times op ed saying Stalin was responsible for the holocaust somehow. it's already a mainstream talking point, blaming molotov-ribbentrop for everything bad the nazis did because they allied with the ussr you see didn't even need a nyt oped
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Jan 18, 2024 11:13
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history is written by the victors, and boy howdy there's a lot of nazi-apologia and double-genocide history that's been written
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Jan 18, 2024 11:18
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't blame you for not watching the video, but it says I did watch the video, without noticing the source. I was pleasantly surprised at how it was mostly about nazis being bad then got a jump groan (like a jump scare) from that bit at the end about Stalin and instantly guessed VoC. The level of guilt being claimed here is rather tenuous though, we may aswell blame Stalin for not destroying America or at least the libs of western Europe. I think in most of our lifetimes there will be a more direct sort of guilt being allocated to the USSR, almost complete revisionism. Stalin personally pulled the Zyklon B lever.
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Jan 18, 2024 11:21
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The best part about re-writing history is its a process that never has to stop. You re-write history, they re-write history, someone else does it again in another 50 years. It never has to stop!
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Jan 18, 2024 11:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't blame you for not watching the video, but it says correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the soviet army was at its logistical limit and needed to regroup and reorganize to campaign. especially so with Warsaw and where it is located in relationship to the rivers.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:28
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Cpt_Obvious posted:They get pink packaging. It also costs more
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Jan 18, 2024 12:29
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bedpan posted:correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the soviet army was at its logistical limit and needed to regroup and reorganize to campaign. especially so with Warsaw and where it is located in relationship to the rivers. Yep. Also they got sledgehammered by panzers just outside Warsaw.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:37
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bedpan posted:correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the soviet army was at its logistical limit and needed to regroup and reorganize to campaign. especially so with Warsaw and where it is located in relationship to the rivers. https://bigserge.substack.com/p/mechanized-stalinism This guy gets into this in detail. Author here is a right wing anticommunist but still refutes the idea that the red army purposefully stalled in Poland. quote:Taken by surprise from multiple directions, Rokossovsky’s army would lose some 550 of its 800 armored vehicles in the ensuing firestorm, forcing him to withdraw to refit. mila kunis has issued a correction as of 12:50 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jan 18, 2024 12:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yep. Also they got sledgehammered by panzers just outside Warsaw. Which kept happening. Every time the Soviets did an offensive right at the end of their logistical reach the Germans would mass and counterattack and give them a bloody nose. That if anything, is an argument for the Soviets trying to go *too fast* rather than too slow.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:51
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Wasn’t DDay in like 1944
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Jan 18, 2024 12:52
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The soviets exhausted themselves getting to poland and basically lost an entire tank army to a massive counterattack, and this was weaponized during the cold war and beyond as them "letting" the germans bulldoze warsaw. However, this is nothing to be upset about - history is written by the victors, and the Communists have only themselves to blame for losing the cold war.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:52
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Source: Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/18/7437787/ Ukraine's Defence Minister unexpectedly cancels his visit to France, citing "security considerations" EUROPEAN PRAVDA, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 2024, 11:18 Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umierov has cancelled his trip to France at the last moment, citing "security considerations," and will participate in the planned events online. Source: Le Monde, citing the French Defence Ministry’s official statement, available to the editorial staff. Details: The statement that reached the media in the evening mentions that Umierov cancelled the scheduled trip on 18 January "due to security considerations" and will join the events with his French counterpart, Sébastien Lecornu, via video conferencing. During Umierov's visit, an "artillery coalition" was expected to be announced within the Ramstein-format meeting, involving 20 states led by France and the USA. Lecornu and Umierov had planned to visit one of the facilities of arms maker Nexter in Bourges, where self-propelled howitzers including the CAESAR are produced, as well as the MBDA missile factory. The detailed program of the visit was published for the media on 15 January. Background: As is known, Ukraine received 18 self-propelled artillery units Caesar from France, and Paris has already been able to partially replenish its artillery systems stock – thanks to the arrival of previously ordered howitzers. The creation of the artillery coalition and its launch were announced in December, with the implementation set for January.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:52
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Source: Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/18/7437798/ Assistant Secretary General: NATO is fully capable of defending itself against Russia UKRAINSKA PRAVDA, EUROPEAN PRAVDA — THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 2024, 12:09 NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Security Policy Boris Ruge has assured the public that the Alliance is sufficiently powerful today to defend itself against Russian aggression. Source: European Pravda, citing Boris Ruge in an interview with LRT Details: Ruge noted that since 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine and occupied Crimea, NATO's main task has been to enhance deterrence and defence. "So, over the past ten years, we've been working on better deterring Russia and, if necessary, defending against any kind of Russian aggression," said the NATO Assistant Secretary-General. He added that Russia is currently considered the number one threat to the Alliance, and that NATO has a comprehensive set of military plans for deterrence and defence. Ruge emphasised that NATO takes the support of allies on the eastern flank and protection against any possible aggression very seriously. "Ultimately, NATO, soon to have 32 members, is a very powerful alliance. We have very strong economies and cutting-edge technologies. We are fully capable of defending ourselves against Russian aggression," Ruge said. Background: On 15 January, the Bild publication reported that it gained access to a secret Bundeswehr document – a training scenario that step by step describes how a military conflict between Russia and NATO could unfold. The scenario outlines the actions of Russia and the West month by month, culminating in the deployment of hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers and the inevitable onset of war in the summer of 2025. Jānis Sārts, Director of the NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications, said that the story by the German tabloid Bild, which says NATO is preparing for war with Russia, is based on a training scenario document. The Office of the President of Lithuania and the Ministry of National Defence of the country, against the backdrop of Bild's publication, stated that they are not changing their assessment of the threats in the region.
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Jan 18, 2024 12:54
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Source: Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/18/7437812/ France to produce 78 Caesar howitzers for Ukraine in one year EUROPEAN PRAVDA, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — THURSDAY, 18 JANUARY 2024, 12:44 France can produce 78 Caesar self-propelled howitzers for Ukraine by early 2025. Source: European Pravda; French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu in an interview with France Inter Details: Lecornu noted that in the coming weeks, Paris will supply six Caesar howitzers to Kyiv, with plans for the delivery of another 72 by early 2025. In total, around 78 howitzers are expected to be produced over the course of just over a year. "Currently, there are 49 of them [Caesar howitzers – ed.] in Ukraine, which has led to tactical success. Our initiative aims to produce 78 Caesar howitzers in 2024, and we encourage Europeans and other allies to co-finance the effort," Lecornu said in an interview with Le Parisien. Lecornu noted that Ukraine bought the six howitzers at its own expense. The creation of a French and American-led artillery coalition, aimed at strengthening Kyiv’s capabilities, is to be announced in Paris on Thursday. Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov was scheduled to visit the French capital, but his trip was cancelled for security reasons. He will join the planned events online. Lecornu added that the Caesar long-range self-propelled howitzer, the flagship of French artillery pieces, costs between €3-4 million, a price he believes is "acceptable" to Paris' allies. Lecornu also said that the delivery of about 40 additional SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine, promised by President Emmanuel Macron, will begin soon and will take a year, according to a schedule he did not elaborate upon. Macron had previously announced that he would visit Ukraine in February to finalise a bilateral agreement on "security guarantees".
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Jan 18, 2024 12:56
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Source: Kyiv Post https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/26769 OPINION: Food for Thought By Andriy Kurkov January 18, 2024, 10:42 am ... Over the past two years, Ukraine and Russia have become the main buyers of drones on the world market, and they will soon become the largest manufacturers of drones too. Produced for battle, these essential tools will have a short life, and production must be on a huge scale. By the end of 2023, Ukraine was producing 50,000 drones per month. Russia produces about 300,000. Recently, Zelensky promised that Ukraine would produce 1 million drones per year. A year ago, only seven drone production companies existed in Ukraine. Now there are 70. How many will there be in a year? Secrecy around the subject makes it hard to gather facts and figures, but Ukraine is gradually transferring its economy to a war footing. The last two years have revealed a great deal of talent and goodwill inside Ukraine, and it has been matched by more of both from abroad, as our Japanese hero proves. Ingenuity has become the middle name of most people in the country, but I can’t help worrying about how much of that Olivier salad reached somebody’s festive table before it went bad. Could they have used drones to get to the front line more quickly?
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Jan 18, 2024 12:59
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fizziester posted:Source: Kyiv Post [stepan universe] 2 years after the war started, Ukraine is gradually transferring its economy to a war footing
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Jan 18, 2024 13:00
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We're sending your new artillery pieces. Great thanks, it'll really help. So uh, how much ammo do we get with these? (click)
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Jan 18, 2024 13:01
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