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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% |
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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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not the collapse of american resolve...no... please...
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May 3, 2024 05:05
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ukraine defense against genocidal, full scale unprovoked invasion that would topple democracy and lead to Poland and the baltics getting invaded: $61 billion dollars googles stock buyback plan for this year: $70 billion dollars American resolve!
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May 3, 2024 06:07
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Even if it was all going to shells that were all headed to the front, it's hard for me to believe it'd make a difference at this point. the armchair analysts have been making a big deal about the fact the russians have used the word "offensive" so maybe they're going to start doing some major operations now that the ukrainian lines seem to be collapsing. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-weapons-production-sergei-shoigu-ukraine-summer-offensive-1896077 quote:"To maintain the required pace of the offensive and ensure the build-up of the combat strength of troop groups for further actions, it is necessary to increase the volume and quality of weapons and military equipment supplied to the troops," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, according to comments published by Moscow on Wednesday. i wonder if the western war planners know this too and are planning to blame any possible big swings in territory on the china's "overwhelming supply" of russia's "military base"
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May 3, 2024 07:16
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I have heard speculation that Xi warned Biden not to send Ukraine serious war fighting weapons, else China would start selling Russia real weapons too. I believe this rumor, why else would the US stop talking about the F16? These two had a phone call in early Apr, before that they met in person in San Fran in Nov. Edit, maybe the warming was against NATO troops entering the war, to make the great power involvement more parallel to the Korean war. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 08:06 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 07:57
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https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6680573?from=top_main_2 lol
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May 3, 2024 08:01
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https://www.ft.com/content/90d977e6-ea05-4e49-a725-09234eecd147quote:Europe is “sleep walking” into becoming dependent on Russian fertiliser, just as it did with gas, says one of the largest producers of crop nutrients. was curious who yara international are so i went to the website https://www.yara.com/this-is-yara/our-history/ quote:Our History love it when your history jumps forward 120 years after the founding. went to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara_International quote:Yara International ASA is a Norwegian chemical company. It produces, distributes, and sells nitrogen-based mineral fertilizers and related industrial products. Its product line also includes phosphate and potash-based mineral fertilizers, as well as complex and specialty mineral fertilizer products. lmfao norway again!?!? is there a pipeline of fertilizer from russia to europe that we should be watching
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May 3, 2024 08:02
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stephenthinkpad posted:I have heard speculation that Xi warned Biden not to send Ukraine serious war fighting weapons, else China would start selling Russia real weapons too. I believe this rumor, why else would the US stop talking about the F16? Did they? Seems more that overall interest waned after the summer offensive failed and the big brains are mostly thinking Israel now.
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May 3, 2024 08:05
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stephenthinkpad posted:I have heard speculation that Xi warned Biden not to send Ukraine serious war fighting weapons, else China would start selling Russia real weapons too. I believe this rumor, why else would the US stop talking about the F16? maybe they're not talking about the f-16s cos they suck and they're all getting owned
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May 3, 2024 08:05
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The clash over whether to commandeer Russia’s frozen assets Confiscating hundreds of billions of foreign reserves could transform Ukraine’s war. But the US and Europe disagree on how far to go.   
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May 3, 2024 08:35
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Homeless Friend posted:The clash over whether to commandeer Russia’s frozen assets they're going to do it and then freak the gently caress out when China does the same to them eventually over Taiwan
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May 3, 2024 08:42
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Can't wait for the flamboyant changing of the guard faceoff videos.
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May 3, 2024 08:54
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it’s the leveraging the 3 billion per year from the extraordinary payments on the seized assets into something worthwhile that gets me the recent reluctant ukraine aid bill at 60 billion would essentially be 20 years of war payments, russia is going to make ukraine ask for that principle money back at the end of the war, what on earth would happen to all those complicated Collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in a couple or so years
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May 3, 2024 09:04
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the merch https://nafo-ofan.org
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May 3, 2024 10:16
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So what ere they going to do with the money? Start shelling Russian positions with cash?
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May 3, 2024 11:17
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no one has made that clear
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May 3, 2024 11:18
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samogonka posted:So what ere they going to do with the money? Start shelling Russian positions with cash? they're going to buy villas in Miami and flats in London.
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May 3, 2024 11:22
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If I was Ukraine with 60 billion, I would pay 60 thousand Russian troops a million dollars each to switch teams
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May 3, 2024 11:29
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Egg Moron posted:If I was Ukraine with 60 billion, I would pay 60 thousand Russian troops a million dollars each to switch teams $60B, except pendantic_media_literacy.txt
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May 3, 2024 11:34
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Egg Moron posted:If I was Ukraine with 60 billion, I would pay 60 thousand Russian troops a million dollars each to switch teams OK, but turns out you don't have 60b, so what's the plan b
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May 3, 2024 11:34
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Egg Moron posted:If I was Ukraine with 60 billion, I would pay 60 thousand Russian troops a million dollars each to switch teams They are mostly spreadsheet accounting for expiring weapons, you would have to pay each Russia a box of Himars wheel or a Bradley windshield.
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May 3, 2024 12:15
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samogonka posted:So what ere they going to do with the money? Start shelling Russian positions with cash? Start paying back the IMF
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May 3, 2024 12:19
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:
You can't jam a steel container full of gunpowder landing in your general vicinity. Just make a hundred dumb shells instead of the one guided shell and saturate an area. bookmarking this for later to laugh at people with
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May 3, 2024 12:35
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Homeless Friend posted:Start paying back the IMF An article was posted not too long ago about how a recent tranche of loans to Ukraine, totalling 800+ million, was mostly spent (700+ million) to service the previous loans. The article also suggested that Ukraine may be unable to continue paying people pensions soon (though I don't think there was any source for that statement other than the journalist themself).
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May 3, 2024 12:40
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Dancer posted:An article was posted not too long ago about how a recent tranche of loans to Ukraine, totalling 800+ million, was mostly spent (700+ million) to service the previous loans. well they’re not even paying for people who had their legs blown off so i can absolutely imagine they’re going to start embezzling the pension money before it’s too late
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May 3, 2024 12:44
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https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1786335279764078645
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May 3, 2024 12:51
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You could argue that EU and US aid at this point is mostly there so Ukraine can pay back what it previously owed and keep its military in operation but little else. I do think the song and dance about Ukraine possibly defaulting was just a smoke screen, they can’t cut off Ukraine completely. That said, they will just lay the burden on average people who are going to get jack from their government. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 14:18 on May 3, 2024 |
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May 3, 2024 12:55
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1786367936770310238 I'm sure it doesn't mean anything that Western arms production facilities keep catching fire
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May 3, 2024 13:14
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Ardennes posted:You could argue that EU and US aid at this point is mostly there so Ukraine can pay make what it previously owed and keep its military in operation but little else. I do think the song and dance about Ukraine possibly defaulting was just a smoke screen, they can’t cut off Ukraine completely. Goal #1 is to keep Ukraine from collapsing before the election. They might have some delusions about a grand offensive in 2025 but behind closed doors I think at least some of the western ruling class sees the writing on the wall.
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May 3, 2024 13:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1786367936770310238 When team blue factories burn it is efficiency at work. When monster of the week factories burn it is incompetence and brilliant sabotage and grassroots unrest.
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May 3, 2024 13:28
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:Gradenko, do you know anything about the French memory of the Crimean War or how the French actually made out there? I can see British politicians referring to the Thin Red Line and Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, but does France have the same sort of cultural memory Macron could be playing to?
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May 3, 2024 13:43
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Ardennes posted:They don't really mention it (for good reason) but I know a lot of Russians were shocked when they went to the US and learned you had to pay out of the nose for health care, wages were already garbage for the cost of living, and you barely got any time off; no one informed them about the real world. We have three Ukrainian refugees (afaict not Nazis) and they were absolutely incensed when I explained to them how American healthcare/health insurance work.
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May 3, 2024 14:18
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DeimosRising posted:We have three Ukrainian refugees (afaict not Nazis) and they were absolutely incensed when I explained to them how American healthcare/health insurance work. how are people still this blissfully unaware of American healthcare. It's the design neoliberalism has for the entire world. It's important people know what the fuckers have planned for all of us.
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May 3, 2024 14:27
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Toplowtech posted:Lol it's Napoleon III's wars, they were all poo poo and not particularly well remembered, you may has well hope the french people remember the war of the league of Cambray (1515!). I mean that one was memorable for literally every major participant switching sides at some point in the war
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May 3, 2024 14:29
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DeimosRising posted:We have three Ukrainian refugees (afaict not Nazis) and they were absolutely incensed when I explained to them how American healthcare/health insurance work. Did you mention the ambulance charge?
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May 3, 2024 14:30
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Regarde Aduck posted:how are people still this blissfully unaware of American healthcare. It's the design neoliberalism has for the entire world. It's important people know what the fuckers have planned for all of us.
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May 3, 2024 14:33
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its not working
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May 3, 2024 14:33
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DeimosRising posted:We have three Ukrainian refugees (afaict not Nazis) and they were absolutely incensed when I explained to them how American healthcare/health insurance work. American propaganda is incredible. People outside the country have no idea what it's actually like here -it's honestly not that great!
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May 3, 2024 14:35
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knew a guy from Germany that moved here for work; he didn’t know about healthcare here. he didn’t know how expensive housing was. he complained about the white collar working culture constantly, esp because a lot of his fellow computer toucher colleagues were expected to respond to emails and messages after hours he moved back after a year, when I asked him why he came here at all, it was because the salary “looked” way bigger than what he could make in Germany. yeah that’s only because employers have insanely high cost structures to deal with since housing is expensive, healthcare is privatized, education is expensive, there’s no pensions so you have to save for retirement, all the random insurance adds up, etc Europe is going to look like this at some point as the only way for number to go up is to make everyone go into debt for the finance and banking sector. welcome to democracy bitch
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May 3, 2024 15:19
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yep. life in the occident is going to get very bad.
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Zodium posted:yep. life in the occident is going to get very worse.
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