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Sekenr posted:IMO the reason for Macron posturing is EU leadership thing. As in Germany's response to threats is to back down, our response to threats is to threaten back. That's about it. He got russians somewhat rattled at least. The French are right up there with Russians and the British when it comes to nostalgia for great power status. Macron tried to play the peace broker and got rudely brushed off. This made him appear weak, so now he's trying on a different tack and it seems to be working. A while ago the Kremlin didn't care about France at all, now it can't stop talking about it.
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Mar 21, 2024 11:07
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Right now Britain is nostalgic for being part of EU.
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Mar 21, 2024 11:09
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beer_war posted:Alright, the "election" is over, time to go die in the trenches for Dear Leader. that's a lot of cannon fodder  excellent 3-day SMO, supported by 107% of Russian voters, please clap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0jhdbHsgFo
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Mar 21, 2024 11:23
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DiomedesGodshill posted:I always park my mini subs on concrete. It saves gas or whatever. Rahu posted:The one in the water is the decoy and the one on the pavement is real. They simply have a bunch of burly men pick it up and drop it in the water when it needs to leave. silly west doesn't understand advanced submarine warfare  on foot on land on foot underwater
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Mar 21, 2024 11:26
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The Song of the Volga Submarinemen
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Mar 21, 2024 11:29
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1770758630951813320quote:Vladimir Putin addressed Russians after the presidential elections, expressing gratitude for their ’support’, which he deemed more important than a formal victory. He commended the intensity and responsibility of the campaign and praised voters for understanding the elections’ significance and respecting civic duty. Putin thanked election commissions for their ’competence and adherence to laws’. He pledged to justify the voters’ trust and promised to consider all candidates’ ideas for Russia’s development. Putin concluded by highlighting the unity displayed during the elections, depicting Russia as one big friendly family.  
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Mar 21, 2024 11:47
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Dwesa posted:I don't think this is going to work. The one on the left is fake because the blue part is obviously land. Also, Submarines once, Submarines twice. STORM SHADOW! JESUS loving CHRIST
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Mar 21, 2024 12:02
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the real victory was the votes we made along the way
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Mar 21, 2024 12:30
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1770771415030980791
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Mar 21, 2024 12:53
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Dwesa posted:that's a lot of cannon fodder “Thank you for the vote of confidence. Now take this rusty AK and charge into that minefield in a golf cart.”
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Mar 21, 2024 12:58
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CommieGIR posted:....that doesn't seem very effective? Remember that time when they covered their airplanes in old tyres? Yeah.
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Mar 21, 2024 13:54
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Remember that time when they covered their airplanes in old tyres? Yeah. Or that time they plated a truck (i.e. a light vehicle) with ERA bricks. 
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Mar 21, 2024 14:10
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1770785146414792988 Mein monke.....
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Mar 21, 2024 14:15
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haddedam posted:Right now Britain is nostalgic for being part of EU. Our price to rejoin the EU will be (correctly) quite high, drat all the idiots who voted yes.  No more little benefits for the Brits. edit: ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Or that time they plated a truck (i.e. a light vehicle) with ERA bricks. There is an enormous amount of stupidity in that picture... verging on caricature. 
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Mar 21, 2024 14:56
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Just Another Lurker posted:Our price to rejoin the EU will be (correctly) quite high, drat all the idiots who voted yes. And that wasn't the only instance of such so-called battlefield engineering either.  I thought the invaders were killed seven times over? Why are they now calling for a general evacuation?
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Mar 21, 2024 15:23
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Zombies are in again.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:27
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Russia closing in on the prize of the dumbest army to have ever existed
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Mar 21, 2024 15:40
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Or that time they plated a truck (i.e. a light vehicle) with ERA bricks. It's fine. Someone stole the explosives inside them long ago
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Mar 21, 2024 15:51
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Or that time they plated a truck (i.e. a light vehicle) with ERA bricks. Dehumanize yourself and front towards enemy.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:57
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LordArgh posted:It's fine. Someone stole the explosives inside them long ago I'll never forget both the instances of wooden TNT and rubber ERA from 2022.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:59
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zone posted:I'll never forget both the instances of wooden TNT and rubber ERA from 2022. Or the guy with the old MacBook instead of a armor plate.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:57
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:Or the guy with the old MacBook instead of a armor plate. From what is said in this book, it seems they'd have difficulty springing for the "P-p-p-Powerbook!", let alone a MacBook.
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Mar 21, 2024 17:00
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In other news, the Russian navy continues to suck and be its own worst enemy… https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1770882967339987248#m
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Mar 21, 2024 22:28
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Japanese sub successfully defeated
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Mar 21, 2024 22:36
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Galler posted:Japanese sub successfully defeated *Torpedo boat
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Mar 21, 2024 22:51
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Baltic Fleet seeing the Black Sea Fleet having all the fun, so they're showing them how it's really done.
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Mar 22, 2024 04:40
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they're going to turn their entire economies into a giant crypto scam.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/digita...sh=3d0d19dc71a5 quote:Now, as Tesla billionaire Elon Musk and legendary investor Warren Buffett name the "true currency," China and Russia have teamed up to create a payment system based on bitcoin's blockchain technology—with one respected economist warning it could be "more dangerous for American hegemony than nuclear weapons." imagine changing the entire basis for how money works in your economy based on what loving elon musk thinks. 
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Mar 22, 2024 04:46
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A trawler? Ukraine knows no limit to its savagery going after Russia's already overtaxed fishbloc infrastructure. Let a boat cube fish and other assorted marine life in peace please.
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Mar 22, 2024 05:44
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https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1771043226352275595?s=20 lol gently caress all the way off
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Mar 22, 2024 07:00
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beer_war posted:https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1771043226352275595?s=20 gently caress off idiots, how else are they going to pressure vatnikstan enough to make them stop, especially after you morons ballsed it up with providing military aid?
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Mar 22, 2024 07:03
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https://twitter.com/Je5usaurus_Rex/status/1771065927963983958 Ugh, that sounds plausible, that its not just defacto neoliberal 'spend as little as possible' having grotesque effects, but actively trying to maintain a hideous status quo. As always its hard to determine the specific ratio of incompetence vs active realpolitik malice.
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Mar 22, 2024 08:15
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beer_war posted:https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1771043226352275595?s=20 Ok we'll stop attacking refineries the exact second all that military aid you promised shows up.
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Mar 22, 2024 08:27
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Ronwayne posted:https://twitter.com/Je5usaurus_Rex/status/1771065927963983958 That's not true, though... The US admin doesn't want the Russian government to fail catastrophically, as in be toppled due to its failures, but nobody in any position of authority anywhere wants that. They would like Russia to lose, but in the form of a negotiated withdrawal based on a cost benefit analysis. Which is perhaps naive, but there really isn't any other option.
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Mar 22, 2024 08:36
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scale of the last missile/drone attack beer_war posted:https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1771043226352275595?s=20 fuckers more concerned with oil prices than lives Dwesa fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Mar 22, 2024 09:44
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The venn diagram overlap between "russia does not implode" and "russia unwilling/unable to continue persecuting the war" is a very small area, sadly
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Mar 22, 2024 09:46
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If only the US was providing significant military aid right now, then they might have a foot to stand on.
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Mar 22, 2024 09:48
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Ronwayne posted:The venn diagram overlap between "russia does not implode" and "russia unwilling/unable to continue persecuting the war" is a very small area, sadly That's just brinkmanship with extra steps. If the US response to russian aggression and expansionism is to chicken the gently caress out, that's going to have some consequences for international relations. Some very beneficial to Russia, and not so much the US.
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Mar 22, 2024 10:43
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steinrokkan posted:That's not true, though... The US admin doesn't want the Russian government to fail catastrophically, as in be toppled due to its failures, but nobody in any position of authority anywhere wants that. They would like Russia to lose, but in the form of a negotiated withdrawal based on a cost benefit analysis. Which is perhaps naive, but there really isn't any other option. Yeah some people are desperate to find secret masterplans that prove they were right about AmeriKKKan intentions toward Ukraine all along. The simplest explanation is that its an election year and Biden is scared that high oil prices will hurt his prospects. He's right on that. But he has lost leverage over Ukraine due to the shenanigans in the House, so needs to find a way to provide Ukraine with other means of hitting Russia back. Right now they have no incentive to stop.
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It's the purest expression of US and European middle class attitudes to the world. The government exists to protect us from all forms of inconvenience except the soul crushing career grind. We should never even have to know a war is on except if we choose to read the news, for entertainment.
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