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FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Slovenia completely covered by the line, as it should be


no talking about vladivostok tho

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FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

samostroy is an ancient tradition




FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

szary posted:



On the other hand, this is still being built in the middle of a pristine forest, despite the fact that the people who gave the go ahead are on trial on corruption charges.

literally sorokin reality at this point

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/Kazakhstan/status/1521884877234348035



Ulytau has big long massachusetts energy; they also cant seem to agree on its shape

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

advanced statsman posted:

Also if you ever have the chance there’s a castle/museum in Kuressaare in Estonia that’s a mix of Swedish medieval poo poo and Soviet occupation and its p hilarious, on the first floor there is a loving stuffed bear and on the second floor there’s like gulag memorabilia

there needs to an effort to preserve Eastern Europe's/fmr USSR regional museums. They're truly one of a kind.

My personal favorite will always be Tashkent's Museum of Olympic Glory and every one of the surely over 100 airplane graveyards pretending to be aeronautical museums.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Nenonen posted:

Is that the VDV training facility?

no, its training normal people in case they need to fly aeroflot

I like that they made it just high enough to be 100% serious injury when the slide fails

FishBulbia fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 13, 2022

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021


https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1538438969658064897

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

CMYK BLYAT! posted:

kazakh dude in a tank top, man bun, and pixelated hitler mustache sure is an aesthetic

https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211/status/1539086797518655488

The narrative really doesn't work in Kazakhstan lol, for a lot of reasons!

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

huh I do wonder what the position of that war is in the Ukrainian nationalist historical memory. As with all, it seems to alternate between a vague pan-slavic thing and an anti-Russian. Sorta like how polish nationalist and russian panslavists both celebrate Grunwald.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Happy upcoming summer solstice celebrations! (Pretty sure that Baltics are the only EE countries tha celebrate it.)

resisting christianity since 1171

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Mr. Apollo posted:

Somewhat related, but I just learned the other day that Old Believers don’t worship the pre-Christian gods.

You can find isolated, old, old believer communities.

But some things are better left unspoken.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Mr. Apollo posted:

”old gods” is an expression used to refer to pre-Christian gods so I assumed that “old believers” were their followers.

There are Russian pagans but like all neo-pagan movements they are heavily inspired by uhhhh perhaps what we could charitably call nietzschean attitudes toward Christianity.

Some very isolated indigenous communities that have preserved or resurrected pagan practices for cultural reasons

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

CMYK BLYAT! posted:

kazakh dude in a tank top, man bun, and pixelated hitler mustache sure is an aesthetic

https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211/status/1539086797518655488

https://twitter.com/ia_panorama/status/1539212657500123136

fyi, this story has basically been source to the russian equivalent of the onion

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Wow they just come out with it

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

I gotta wonder what the plan for future georgia is for the protestors currently chanting against "EU cultural marxism and LGBT grooming"

might as well be waving the tricolor

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

I'd be okay with the CIA doing a coup in Turkey, Hungary, Poland too, also maybe the UK and France

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

slavic food is good wtf guys

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Mokotow posted:

Stuffing poo poo into cabbage rolls is popular all over Asia and the Levant and there is no indication it came from EE.

All food is good

there I said it

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

mushrooms (all of them) are basically the single greatest thing, great poison, great drug, great food

all around versatility

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1554798241245446144
https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1554831915630202885https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1554852639086678017

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Mokotow posted:

My dad born in ‘53 was all over the nostalgia thing though, he’d frequent the places that would do the faux-60s communist reality that never existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehv43wUFq4c

(satire)

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1565289279760355328


everything but checked his watch

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/travelgov/status/1569666433738473473?s=46&t=uee4AeeplG5qJdSqasrsmw
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1569589439185432576

This fighting in Armenia proper, not NK.

FishBulbia fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Sep 13, 2022

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Clashes resumed in Armenia today. Prime Minister Pashinyan announced that 105 soldiers have been killed and Azerbaijan has seized areas of internationally recognized Armenia (i.e. not NK)

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1570035233537286144?s=20&t=dG54xGw7GhJrcd_CNJYIcw

Russian media is reporting that they've invoked or inquired about invoking Article 4 of the CSTO which would call Russia to intervene militarily.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

mobby_6kl posted:

I talked to an Armenian friend, she happened to be out of country but her daughter in in NK and the region's been sealed off. She doesn't seem to have more detail but also said that Azeris are attacking Armenia proper. I dunno if we have any leverage over Azerbaijan to get them to chill.

Just gonna post this here under the "ex-soviet = eastern europe" rule

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1570034869761179650

I hope she stays safe. Azerbaijan is going to use the collapse of Russia's forces and the EUs dependence on Azerbaijani oil to take as much as they can.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1570023513095868418

Seems bad man!

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

mobby_6kl posted:

That's what she said too :( I offered support but not sure there's anything we collectively or I personally could do as there's probably no way of getting out at the moment.

Do you have a clear idea of what specifically they want? Is it about a corridor to Nakhchivan or a buffer are? I have the other war to worry about so I haven't been able follow this closely.

Well it's better than attacking Armenian targets, but definitely a good way to kick something off

I think the official claim is about Armenia failing to open the corridor. But I think they're going to probably try to take all Syunik (the 'tail' part of the country). Either way, it loving sucks that Armenia's existence was essentially dependent on Russia's ability to project power. I'm not confident that Azerbaijan and Turkey won't just try to eat the country whole.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Just so everyone can see how big of an existential deal this is for Armenia, the green polygons are confirmed advances since morning.

FishBulbia fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Sep 14, 2022

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

There is a rumor on the internet that Pashinyan surrendered Artsakh and protestors are flocking downtown in Yerevan.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

For when people ask in a few years how the world could've stood by and let this happen

https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1549008925806268416?s=20&t=2oSXgqq6MjzxnKm90PS11A

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Doctor Malaver posted:

Another reason might be that Armenia occupied a part of Azerbaijan, and their puppet state Artsakh has never been recognized by anyone. I know that Azeris' attacks are hitting Armenia proper too but the bottom line is that they are fighting to reclaim their own territory. It's hard to oppose that while supporting Ukraine in reclaiming Donbas.

Principles of self determination are dead? I guess?

Regardless, Azerbaijan can make the international law argument once it stops lopping the heads off of any Armenian civilian that doesn't flee from its advance in time.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021



A map of speculative positions as of the ceasefire. Obviously the Azeris did not take very much, but there simply isn't very much Armenia, so not much Salami tactics needed. No populated points captured though.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

I think a lot of people just can't comprehend how officially racist the Caucasus are. Now, I'm not saying if Armenia took over Azeri land they would treat civilians with the dignity and respect all humans deserve, but I know that the Azeris won't, and they're far far more likely to take land.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Well for starters the Azeris have already invaded Armenia proper.

The city of Aghdam which you cite is kind of a case in point. Aghdam - itself used as a launching point for indiscriminate artillery attacks and military raids - was brutally destroyed in revenge for the massive destruction done to the town of Martakert earlier in the war. The war itself seems to be an escalating cycle of violence that really kicked off when the Azeris dissolved the autonomous government of NK, a point which they continue to refuse to compromise on - articles i've read state that currently the Azeris plan to extend 'limited cultural autonomy', with 'perhaps a say in local government' to the Armenians in the area. Not exactly encouraging.

Fun fact: Azerbaijan named the newly-retaken economic region on the Armenian border 'East Zangezur'. There is no West Zangezur; it was a rather naked statement of their intent to create one by conquering Armenian territory.



Yeah, this is the new claim circulating around on social media. It would probably mean the end of Armenian statehood. The shaded green would be a demilitarized zone patrolled by Azeri "peacekeepers."

Of course, you can find equally absurd nationalist maps from the Armenian side, but its just like how Ukrainian claims on the Volga are not as much of a concern as Russian claims on Kharkiv.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Yeah wild that really attempting to entirely extinguish an identity makes people into nationalist hardliners

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/jhaboush/status/1570554472555810817

The US is taking Armenia's side in principle, probably not in practice.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Oh yes no doubt. I'm not saying that Azerbaijan is going to invade Iran tomorrow but it just gives the Iranians another border to worry about in case they get into a conflict with another major power. Plus I wonder how Iranian Azeris generally feel about "Greater Azerbaijan"

Iran doesn't like Azerbaijan out of fear of prevoking Azeri nationalism in the north east, where stalin tried to expand Azerbaijan in the 1940s. The US considers them as a potential ally against Iran for this reason too.

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FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/HovhanNaz/status/1571052270552510469

Pelosi's tour of doomed places countinues

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