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In more positive news, the floating dry dock that was used to service Admiral Kuznetsov sank, damaging Russia's only aircraft carrier with a falling crane   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/russias-only-aircraft-carrier-damaged-as-its-floating-dry-dock-sinks/ Seems like one worker is still missing so hopefully he's ok and just getting drunk somewhere.
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the russian obsession with having a navy is so funny. They have to make up movies with stories of how they totally are not a quasi-landlocked state in the west and the navy is V important
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So majestic
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Losing that floating drydock means that they no longer have facilities for heavy duty maintenance of large warships, because they don't have large enough drydocks in theiir ports -- so this may very well condemn not just the Kuz, but also their cruisers and most of their subs. That's quite the embarrassing single-point of failure.
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Rinkles posted:I take it there's no footage of this happening? Admiral Kuznetsov's dashboard camera
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Cat Mattress posted:Losing that floating drydock means that they no longer have facilities for heavy duty maintenance of large warships, because they don't have large enough drydocks in theiir ports -- so this may very well condemn not just the Kuz, but also their cruisers and most of their subs. It was the only drydock of its size in Murmansk, supposedly there is also another one in the Black Sea. It is debatable it can fit their carrier but it should fit other larger surface ships and subs. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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Oct 31, 2018 10:18
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Everyone who is susceptible to gestures of national power will love you when you pull a big ship out of mothballs or build a new flashy one but nobody is ever gonna give a poo poo if you blow your yearly acquisition budget on a drydock and the old one is working so eh it'll be fine.
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Nenonen posted:Admiral Kuznetsov's dashboard camera Thats gonna be one hell of a "Blyat!"
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I hope they buy a new mobile dock, a couple of new cruisers and a carrier or two. The more money Russia sinks into instruments of old timey power projection the less is left for conventional army, air force and black budget.
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alex314 posted:I hope they buy a new mobile dock, a couple of new cruisers and a carrier or two. The more money Russia sinks into instruments of old timey power projection the less is left for conventional army, air force and black budget. They will just cut civilian spending to compensate.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:They will just cut civilian spending to compensate. Another cut to Russian pensions surely won't sour the mood of the people any further ...
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Another cut to Russian pensions surely won't sour the mood of the people any further ... Just cut road funding, Russians are used to gravel anyways.
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alex314 posted:I hope they buy a new mobile dock, a couple of new cruisers and a carrier or two. The more money Russia sinks into instruments of old timey power projection the less is left for conventional army, air force and black budget.
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Oct 31, 2018 12:12
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https://twitter.com/roadtowar1914/status/1057595539099766785
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46043424 Anarchist teen attacks Arckanglsk police HQ with bomb, killing self. what year is it??
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Russia declared lots of new sanctions against Ukraine. https://twitter.com/business/status/1057927299474042880 quote:“Headline-grabbing from Moscow, but unlikely to have any meaningful economic impact, as the volumes of trade with Russia have collapsed in recent years,” Tim Ash, strategist at Bluebay Asset Management in London, wrote in an email. “Few of the companies of individuals sanctioned have much meaningful business these days with Russia.” Just making noise to make some noise and this war costs too much, make it stop.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Russia declared lots of new sanctions against Ukraine. To be fair, trade has actually begun to improve recently. In 2017 there was a 27% increase compared to 2016. Of course, it's still roughly one third of pre-2014 volumes.
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So it is mostly political posturing then any real attempt to hurt Ukraine economically. What does Russia hope to gain by announcing these sanctions?
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:So it is mostly political posturing then any real attempt to hurt Ukraine economically. What does Russia hope to gain by announcing these sanctions? Shore up popular opinion/basic tet-a-tet instinct.
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Nenonen posted:Admiral Kuznetsov's dashboard camera
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Shore up popular opinion/basic tet-a-tet instinct. Popular opinion ignores the issue for a good couple years now. We have our own poo poo show with pension age, talk of gas prices rising (again), the works.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:basic tet-a-tet instinct. Not sure what you're trying to say. Closest I can get is French phrase for face-to-face conversations. Did you mean "tit-for-tat" instead?
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chesnok posted:Popular opinion ignores the issue for a good couple years now. We have our own poo poo show with pension age, talk of gas prices rising (again), the works. Yes, so you can try to divert attention back to the matter to see if it sticks. Mostly this is just a formal eye for eye, tooth for tooth thing from Russian perspective. Cat Mattress posted:Not sure what you're trying to say. Closest I can get is French phrase for face-to-face conversations. Did you mean "tit-for-tat" instead? I was just misremembering, see my reply to chesnok. E: https://theins.ru/news/125385 Interesting take, if a bit too much intergalactic 5D chess to my liking. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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I saw this, so now you'll have to as well: https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1059720768450387968 OddObserver fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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OddObserver posted:I was this, so now you'll have to as well: лмао
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All I got was "Let's go voting on the 6th. Don't let democrats destroy country" or something. My eyes slide right out off the longer words written in Cyrillic. Anything interesting later on?
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alex314 posted:All I got was "Let's go voting on the 6th. Don't let democrats destroy country" or something. My eyes slide right out off the longer words written in Cyrillic. Anything interesting later on? Democrats are communists who are bringing the migrant caravan of barbarian criminal drug dealer rapists to give birth to anchor babies
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Nov 6, 2018 18:04
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awesome to know a literal immigrant or refugee wrote that
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HorrificExistence posted:awesome to know a literal immigrant or refugee wrote that Allegedly Brodski supported Vietnam war, because it was a war against communism. He also didn't like American civil rights movement for being 'too ungrateful'. Living under a dictatorship can gently caress you up for life.
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That Agris Baumanis clip. 
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Paladinus posted:Allegedly Brodski supported Vietnam war, because it was a war against communism. He also didn't like American civil rights movement for being 'too ungrateful'. Living under a dictatorship can gently caress you up for life. Yep, the kind poet supported dropping a hydrogen bomb on Vietnam, because those who lived there "weren't people at all". HorrificExistence posted:awesome to know a literal immigrant or refugee wrote that Immigrants who secure their position frequently get extemely FYGM, especially if they are white or white-passing.
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Fleeing one flavor of oppression does not mean you can't be in favor of one or several of all the other flavors of oppression
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Even the same form, when you're not the one being oppressed. People are really loving dumb like that.
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The mayor of Warsaw has just banned the annual "Independence March" (ostensibly a march to commemorate Poland regaining its sovereignty in 1918, but actually an opportunity for fascist cunts to peddle their hateful ideology), I'm eagerly awaiting for the shitstorm. The ongoing police protest will just make things even spicier.
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Oh she did? Nice! Can't believe pis failed to accomplish anything substantial for the big date by the way
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Wrocław has banned the march too. And it looks like the city is hit even worse by the Police protests. By some anonymous Policeman "let's hope there are no bigger disturbance, because we don't have poeple to form an prevention unit" 
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pigdog posted:Does a mayor of a city have any legal authority to ban a political demonstration? Yes, section 14 of the law on demonstrations, but the ban can be overturned by courts.
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