Eastern Europe: Olivier's sphere of influence

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C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Murgos posted:

I think Russia's GDP is about the same as Italy's not their defense spending.

But yeah, restarting (new improved) Alpha production, recommissioning Kirovs, committing to huge production runs of 5th gen fighters and a B-21 analogue while also fielding tanks that can't be penetrated and weapons systems that can't be defeated. All by a country who has as much in it's savings account as a healthy teachers pension program.

Doesn't pass the sniff test.

Maybe it's reverse star wars? Scare NATO into over committing to it's own defense spending in an attempt to cause disruption?

Orders for the PAK-FA have been quietly cut from enough to theoretically match the F-22 in numbers, down to 12 airframes. They've been having trouble finding export sales because it's really just a Su-27/35 with a bondo'd on stealth kit of questionable performance, and the Indians are reportedly upset because they feel the Russians sold them a bill of goods and are supposedly looking for a way to divest themselves of the program.

The plans for a new strategic bomber have been pretty much defunded from what I recall.

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C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

So what's this I hear about how Serbia has deported a couple of Russian spies in connection to a terror plot that got stopped in Montenegro earlier this month?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2016 02:57

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Lichtenstein posted:

There's, like, medieval texts of foreign merchants already bitching about the sorry state of Poland's road network.

but you see, black plague cannot infect you if there are no roads for it to spread by.

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C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Eastern Europe: Bishop Hilarion and the Chamber of Schisms

# ¿ Oct 16, 2018 07:43

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

HorrificExistence posted:

totally natural confession you got there

https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1067345468953427968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg

# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 00:08

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

It's a bit soon for the first Entartete Kunst centennial.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-says-rap-should-be-controlled-russia-not-banned-n948471

quote:

larmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of controlling, rather than banning, the popular music.

"If it is impossible to stop," he said at a St. Petersburg meeting with cultural advisers Saturday, "then we must lead it and direct it."

But Putin said that attempts to ban artists from performing will have an adverse effect and bolster their popularity.

Putin noted that "rap is based on three pillars: sex, drugs and protest." But he is particularly concerned with drug themes prevalent in rap, saying "this is a path to the degradation of the nation."

He said "drug propaganda" is worse than cursing.

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C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

Anything interesting come out of the DDoS Kremlin leak yet?

https://twitter.com/Spy_Stations/status/1089199024002027521

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