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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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The result he says has been “getting into a war of attrition with Russia who we pushed into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power”. Thread title?
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May 18, 2024 15:08
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gradenko_2000 posted:CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS—In Ukrainian the word for victory is “peremohe,” перемога, which literally means “over-might,” or overcoming ability to make the impossible possible. It’s an inspiring and challenging idea. In Russia, the word for “victory” is pobeda, победа, which means something like “after the calamity," or "after the terrible poo poo." lol i love this poo poo
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May 18, 2024 15:09
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https://x.com/JamesKroeger5/status/1791783168745288014 "It's important to understand that Ukraine became "The Most Corrupt Nation In Europe" because of the extraordinary efforts the CIA & MI6 made to corrupt it People think the CIA is all spies & hi-tech gadgets but 99% of what the CIA accomplishes is by throwing LOTS of money around. That's what they did in Italy & Iran in the 1950's, Ukraine since 1991, & Georgia today... It was CIA/MI6 money that enabled the Nationalists to become super influential in Ukrainian politics by 2014. They always had tons of [CIA/NED/USAID] money to throw around to gain influence over not only Ukraine's political class but also its info spaces Everyone in Kiev understood where the Nationalists' money came from; they knew these Russia-hating extremists had the CIA's backing It took $billions of CIA bribes, but that's the kind of money you need to pump into a country if you want to corrupt its govt, destroy its democracy, & incite a civil war that you know Russia will eventually intervene in..."
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May 18, 2024 15:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've always had a weird soft spot for media where people discuss a topic and think about it logically, following through on points and building on each others' premises, even if they are idiots. Especially when they're idiots. you should check out the 8 show on netflix its basically squid game except designed entirely by incentive structure and negotiation where dying is explicitly against the rules take a wild guess whether this results in more or less horrific outcomes
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May 18, 2024 15:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/888418586473136128?t=WnZ3df5MgSOe-x_Uqhjf8g&s=19 it really is horribly discouraging the degree to which we allow these perfidious foreigners influence in our political process to the extent that our leaders even marry people from other cultures anyway back on topic whats the latest with the georgia protests about the foreign agent registration law im just so drat sick and tired of those authoritarian russians trying to bully other countries into unthinking xenophobia
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May 18, 2024 15:58
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:pretty hard to do scholarship otherwise to be honest communism
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May 18, 2024 17:16
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:pretty hard to do scholarship otherwise to be honest Study in China
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May 18, 2024 17:27
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thinking of the vid with putin and xi hugging. feel like pure poo poo just want him back x
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May 18, 2024 17:42
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:https://x.com/JamesKroeger5/status/1791783168745288014 Victoria Nuland said this openly in 2013. $5 billion spent from 1991-2013, all for this.
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May 18, 2024 18:09
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aaaaaaahhh theeeeere it is 
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May 18, 2024 18:22
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Anyway, teeth to tail came up, and it is very possible the Ukrainian army may still be 350-400k in it, while its front line strength is also down to 50k-80k. In addition, Ukrainian frontline brigades are rather strange in that they are quite small (1.5-2k) and don’t have a lot of their own support elements including logistics, artillery, and air defense. Usually estimates get messed up because there is an assumption Ukrainian brigades are the size of NATO brigades when they are often the third of the size. The argument was suppose to be that they are “small and agile” but the reality seems to be that Kiev always wanted to centrally control most of the prized assets. Also, most of this war has been a cycle of the aforementioned brigades being smashed up and being fed with first reservists, militia, volunteers and finally now support staff and conscripts. The tail is being replaced with whomever they have. The Russians have also their own limits concerning teeth to tail, and even if they have 550-600k on main section of the line, only a portion are going to be active in combat. It is just that the Russians have clearly a large number of reserves and can apply pressure as they see fit. That said, the Russians can’t really just overpower the Ukrainians in raw numbers except certain areas. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:25 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 18:24
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Cerebral Bore posted:not gonna lie, the more self-aware fash having a meltdown over realizing that they've completely hosed themselves is never going to get old
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May 18, 2024 18:30
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for extra comedy its worth remembering that Dominic Cummings was essentially the power behind the tory throne before an internal power struggle overthrew him and he was the brains behind turning British politics into even more of a joke than normal. He loves when a nation is a 'corrupt shithole' because that means little regulation which means 'disruption'. Dickheads like him will keep getting blindsided because they're only half aware of the machine they're in.
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May 18, 2024 19:10
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Dominic seems to not understand things as they are happening but his post-mortem analyses are always impeccable. It's just surprising someone so close to the center of power could be so earnestly surprised- but then again, that's most of them
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May 18, 2024 19:37
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The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia Map of San Marino.  stolen from this tweet. https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1791995373352894568
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May 19, 2024 02:05
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Dokapon Findom posted:Dominic seems to not understand things as they are happening but his post-mortem analyses are always impeccable. It's just surprising someone so close to the center of power could be so earnestly surprised- but then again, that's most of them i can't believe this defending liberal democracy thing everyone agrees about on a vocal basis is a loving lie
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May 19, 2024 02:16
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BearsBearsBears posted:The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia Lmao come on
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May 19, 2024 02:21
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Russian interference in Sealand will not be tolerated
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May 19, 2024 02:21
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AmyL posted:Study in China hilarious that through the miracle of socialism, even mckinsey does useful work in china
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May 19, 2024 02:30
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Ukraine's now mobilization law is off to a good start. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/110891 quote:🇺🇦 In Dnepropetrovsk region, a man stabbed a recruitment officer with a knife, and of course...
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May 19, 2024 02:31
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Is this the thread to discuss Azerbaijan apparently funding a colour revolution in the French territory of New Caledonia, for... some reason?     NATO getting hoist by their own petard, creating this playbook for NGOs and everything else, is kind of funny.
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May 19, 2024 02:35
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:Is this the thread to discuss Azerbaijan apparently funding a colour revolution in the French territory of New Caledonia, for... some reason? What the heck lol
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May 19, 2024 02:37
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DaysBefore posted:What the heck lol France tried to lure Armenia away from Russia, hence why Armenia has been taking L after L for the past decade, the but Azeris apparently took this seriously and are mad? So they have been using the same playbook that was used to flip Georgia and Ukraine... on a French territory, in retaliation. There have been huge riots for the past little while, prompting Azeri diplomats express concern about a French crackdown on peaceful protesters, and Azeri NGOs give out money to civil society organizations and pro-democracy activists. 
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May 19, 2024 02:39
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crepeface posted:hilarious that through the miracle of socialism, even mckinsey does useful work in china i like the joke but McKinsey does useful work to the people they serve
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May 19, 2024 02:41
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might be true, but who else actually hires mckinsey to do anything useful on the scale of made in china 2025?
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May 19, 2024 02:44
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crepeface posted:might be true, but who else actually hires mckinsey to do anything useful on the scale of made in china 2025? seeseepee trolling them by agreeing their advice but doing the opposite every time
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May 19, 2024 02:47
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BearsBearsBears posted:The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia lmao
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May 19, 2024 03:22
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:Is this the thread to discuss Azerbaijan apparently funding a colour revolution in the French territory of New Caledonia, for... some reason? i wouldn't call it a colour revolution, the independentists represent the interests of the population.
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May 19, 2024 03:28
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https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1791500008253981078 1. Civilizational war... interesting way to frame that. Sounds pretty fashy! 2. What exactly is the "job" that she is calling on the West to do?
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May 19, 2024 03:43
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:Is this the thread to discuss Azerbaijan apparently funding a colour revolution in the French territory of New Caledonia, for... some reason? lmbo everyone owning the French
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May 19, 2024 04:05
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:NATO getting hoist by their own petard, creating this playbook for NGOs and everything else, is kind of funny. anti-French protester seen being armed with NATO 5.56 AR-15s is extremely funny. Now who might be doing that from within NATO??? hmmm!
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May 19, 2024 04:24
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May 19, 2024 05:20
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wheres the lie
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May 19, 2024 05:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:anti-French protester seen being armed with NATO 5.56 AR-15s is extremely funny. Now who might be doing that from within NATO??? hmmm! Not directly related to the France stuff but I bet Turkish arms dealers are making a fortune buying US gear from Ukranians and selling them to Hezbollah lol
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May 19, 2024 05:58
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code:quote:When Germans were forced out of Silesia into exile after WWII, many kept the keys to their homes. They still have those keys to this day— passing it down with each generation— the belief is that strong in that they will return; that it's promised and only a matter of time. let's check in on how the Germans let go of this never-ending grudge:    
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May 19, 2024 06:12
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also the small matter of Germans being forced into exile after they killed 40 million people
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May 19, 2024 06:21
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gradenko_2000 posted:anti-French protester seen being armed with NATO 5.56 AR-15s is extremely funny. Now who might be doing that from within NATO??? hmmm! I mean literally every country* has been making AR15 clones or derivatives at this point, including China, Russia and Iran. While the AK was designed to be easy to produce on a massive scale once you properly set up big factories dedicated to making them, the AR is a design that can easily be made in small batches in shops that have access to even not top of the line CNC machines. *not literally ''every'' country, really. Like I bet the autocratic authoritarian hellhole of Zan Marino doesn't
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May 19, 2024 06:48
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supersnowman posted:Ukraine's now mobilization law is off to a good start. Yeah supposedly it is also having a chilling effect on public life across the country, or at least there are claims of sp. Kharkov seems deserted from video but that may be more of its current situation than just the law. Also truckers are being targeted by it and there are claims of huge back ups at the Polish border from the Ukrainian side as well. Either way, the Ukrainians need to extract more bodies than they are getting and if the Russians keep on expanding the front, it is going to get more lopsided. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 07:34 on May 19, 2024 |
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May 19, 2024 07:10
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Ardennes posted:Yeah supposedly it is also having a chilling effect on public life across the country, or at least there are claims of sp. Kharkov seems deserted from video but that may be more of its current situation than just the law. two different, but related things i assume? they’re not press ganging truckers queuing with goods at the border are they?
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May 19, 2024 08:52
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Jel Shaker posted:two different, but related things i assume? they’re not press ganging truckers queuing with goods at the border are they? Truckers are included in the mobilization law, things aren't going well.
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