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pantslesswithwolves posted:Is anyone watching Biden's speech right now, and if so, is it just me in thinking that he doesn't sound great right now? Seemed like he's mushing/slurring some words together at points. I listened to it on SiriusXM and the dude is almost 80 and sounds more Presidential than Trump could ever hope to. E- He's also laughing in the face of Peter Doocy's dumb questions. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 24, 2022 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yeah same. If absolutely nothing else, I'm sitting here thinking of what  's speech in the same situation would've been and it would've been some combination of a) jerking himself off with one hand and Putin with the other while b) calling out the "fake news" and c) casting doubt in the integrity of the media outlets he doesn't like because they were big mean doodoo heads to him, which is exactly what Putin would do.
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Feb 24, 2022 20:18
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Lviv goes dark at 11pm local per CNN.
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Feb 24, 2022 20:32
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Source This has to be a stunning upset the Russians couldn't have seen coming, right?
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Feb 24, 2022 22:23
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Taking their war strategy straight out of Goldeneye, I see.
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Feb 24, 2022 23:10
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A friend sent me this which is long, but seems to provide some more insight as to what's going on: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=327365416022555 She suggests Putin is coming down harder on Navalny than usual because he's weak at home and the corruption in Russia is starting to come back on them.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:50
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Zamujasa posted:My zero-knowledge take is that the US is trying to stay largely uninvolved so that we don't aggro Russia, because Putin is a dope in control of more nukes than he has brain cells. And he's a man running a country and war with all the composure and reasoning of someone who's downing a bottle of Stolichnaya per half-day.
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Feb 25, 2022 03:47
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CNN is reporting that the caretakers of the sarcophagus over the Chernobyl plant have been taken hostage. Jesus Tap-dancing Christ.
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Feb 25, 2022 04:05
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1497045091831197696?s=20&t=ViK7gvUNtgnmnjLcyxbq3A Who the gently caress would be insane enough to go to Ukraine to be a hired gun fighter pilot having to go up against the Russians? Like, I can see a couple hardcore oorah dudes who just got out and think it's a great idea, but 140?
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Feb 25, 2022 05:33
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facialimpediment posted:om nom nom, me like war crimes Between this and "rogue Russian threatens to weaponize satellites meant for another purpose", this really IS Goldeneye.
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Feb 25, 2022 16:07
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/peterawolf/status/1497223306189094916?t=EFag1FwSiG-qzTeMQUjSWg&s=19 This one line from Snatch seems a bit fitting here from the Russian perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDW-tqm4Lo&t=90s
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Feb 25, 2022 17:12
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ASAPI posted:I was wondering what they were up to. I'm very interested in what else they start releasing. Yeah, seriously, it'd be loving mindblowing if the Russian Ministry of Defense had a bunch of classified info somehow compromised by Anonymous. Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1497217276742979591?s=21 Hail Saint Javelin.  Naked Bear posted:Well, that's why I'm wondering: this is pure speculation on my part, but I've got a weird feeling that day might not be very far off. I'm also fascinated as to dragging this on long enough leads the populace to go "gently caress this" and try to overthrow Vlad.
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The first result that comes on on YouTube when you search NLAW is a metal as gently caress promotion from Saab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hupsUq-fzq8 No dialogue, no text, just a promotional version of "SAY HELLO TO MY LIL FRIEN'". CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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Feb 25, 2022 21:39
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The US sanctioned Putin and Lavrov.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'm just continuously amazed at the increasingly bizarre nature of this whole fiasco. It's like they're saying "We're fine, we're gonna go in and  them and we'll have Putingrad up and running at the end of the week!" without any actual solid strategy or legitimate high readiness personnel or soldiers that knew what they were actually getting into as if their supposed reputation alone would win them this.It's getting to where I wish this were some small, cocky republic which could be brought to its knees with a dose of precision-guided whoopass as opposed to Russia with drunk/coked up Vlad and his cache of nukes.
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Cythereal posted:You asked, and the news provides via a fairly serious war crime. Aren't these the dudes who took down the Charlie Hebdo shooter inside the grocery? Because if so, god drat, all of those dudes got some that day and those dudes do not gently caress around.
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Feb 26, 2022 02:48
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Marshal Prolapse posted:The video of that is always a pro click. Mag Dumping and actually Revolver dumping since it’s GIGN. That guy flew up in the air pretty much. The best explanation of GIGN I saw on here was "This is a video of GIGN negotiating".
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Feb 26, 2022 02:52
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facialimpediment posted:It's an AP article: What was the last time a major world power hosed up an invasion this badly? They've had a ton of armor, aircraft, vehicles, and manpower destroyed/killed and they haven't even gotten to Kyiv yet, which sounds like it's going to be an urban warfare hellscape for whatever actually gets there. It's still David vs. Goliath, but holy poo poo, it's going to be a pyrrhic victory if there ever was one in modern times.
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Feb 26, 2022 06:16
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USAF saying "Hi! We're here!" https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1497423812618555396
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Feb 26, 2022 06:23
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CNN showed Zelensky's message to the people and Putin's counter-programming in which he bangs on about Neo-Nazis and drug addicts and, holy poo poo, does it sound a lot like 's verbal diarrhea about fake news, the radical left, the big lie, etc. "My word is gold. I am omniscient and you should listen to me!"
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Feb 26, 2022 06:38
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Pretty good commentary on how long standing Russian military flaws are manifesting - a couple main ones being: "I love war! I know more about war...than the generals." - Also, holy gently caress if we get pissed off Russian equivalents of like an E3 busting caps in officers because they were sold a bill of goods.
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Feb 26, 2022 16:28
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CNN says the US believes Putin has "50% of his total assembled power" in Ukraine as of now.
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Feb 26, 2022 17:26
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Ukraine's Defense Minister is telling Reuters that the march on Kiev is "not advancing". I guess this was countered by Russia spouting some bullshit about pausing to afford peace talks.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:57
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:has the ukraine invasion displaced brexit as the biggest self-own globally yet? Pissing off the entire world while getting ~3,000 of your own soldiers killed in an invasion less than three days old when said entire world figured you'd just tap-dance into the end zone and spike the ball? Yeah, I'd say so.
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Feb 26, 2022 23:21
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Cythereal posted:Also: Ukraine's winning the poo poo out of the PR war with moves like this. Speaking of moves: https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/1497382464213241857 drat, getcha some.
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Feb 26, 2022 23:24
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https://twitter.com/AlitaNicholas/status/1497596012919427072 There are just some people in this country (and world) with incurable brain worms.
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Naked Bear posted:The Russian people are not completely cut off from the outside world (well, outside of this particular moment in time). They'll learn what their government did and why they're feeling the hurt, too. Good point. The difference between this and post World War II Germany is people can learn very quickly that their leader offed himself in a bunker as opposed to dying in battle as was initially advertised to the people.
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quote:the solution of the Ukrainian question Yo, the last time we had "the solution of the (insert Ethnic Group or Country Name here) question", things got hellaciously bad.
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orange juche posted:If the US has confirmed a shootdown, then yeah they probably got shot down then. When I saw the tweets it hadn't been substantiated by a third party yet. Supposedly AWACS operating over the Polish border saw it go in.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498018857318944771 Holy gently caress, if true.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Their economy is dead, their banking system is dead, foreign capital is fleeing, you can't even fly out of Russia on Aeroflot now, the only country standing with you is Belarus and even China and India are noping out of this. The rouble is going to crater as soon as the market opens and there are going to be absolutely massive bank runs. Oh and they're still involved in what seems to be an unpopular war. Don't forget they invited Kazakhstan to send troops and they went "lol no".
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Some travel-related items: https://twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1498019697232597008 Doha via Qatar Airways is another escape route. https://twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1498050391363182593 https://twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1497979632989220864 https://twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1498030576128909314 CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Grand Fromage posted:So what were airline routes like during the Cold War? Did the Soviets allow airliners to fly over? I assume not because of KAL 007 but I don't know if that was normal behavior or particularly high tension. Whenever I've gone back and forth to Asia the route went over Russia. Going to Seoul you did a big loop into the Yellow Sea to avoid North Korea. How would you fly from, say, Chicago to Incheon without crossing Russia? Not sure about transiting Soviet airspace but, believe it or not, there were even nonstop Pan Am and Aeroflot flights between JFK and Moscow. It looks like the first run was 1968-1978 for Pan Am (with Aeroflot tossed by Reagan in 1981), with resumption around 1986-87. https://www.panam.org/the-jet-age/509-pan-am-warms-up-the-cold-war-3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...3-0af669fbbec9/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/01/Pan-Am-Aeroflot-jointly-set-first-New-York-Moscow-non-stop-flights/3493560059200/ Completely useless trivia. The flight number was 30 and Delta's JFK-Moscow flight for many years kept that number after they bought the Europe network from Pan Am. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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aphid_licker posted:It's a they're gonna nuke Kyiv rumor / hysteria, not a they're giving up one. I think. Wasn't there something about Kyiv being the cultural heart/center of the Russian "Empire" and Putin destroying (let alone glassing) it would probably do even more harm than he already has at home?
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Grand Fromage posted:I may be fooling myself but it's not like Putin has a "nuke" button on his desk that just instantly fires missiles. If he lost it enough to order that, the people below would still have to agree to carry it out and it's hard for me to imagine the generals thinking yeah, let's end Russia and/or civilization over Putin being butthurt that Ukrainians aren't greeting them as liberators. I would think that order would more likely end with no more Putin than an launch. Or when this allegedly happened literally just over a year ago with .
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nullscan posted:If the Ukraine invasion is any rubric, the ICBMs headed for the states would run out of gas halfway over the ocean. Yet another Goldeneye reference. "It will burn up somewhere over the Atlantic.  "
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Jokers Gamble posted:Hahaha holy gently caress. You know boys, the last two times we tried to drop paratroopers the transports got smoked with all hands aboard, but they say the third time's the charm. "At least they're not our guys this time, so we can tell people that Glorious  not suffer any casualties!"
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Thread with arguments as to why Russia gon' lose dis: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204
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Mr. Nice! posted:The Trump White House would be in open support of Putin's actions regardless of whatever the rest of the world says/does. I'm sure Flynn would be involved in an official capacity. I find it interesting that, other than his genius comment on that podcast and speech at CPAC, he's been completely muted about this publicly. His handlers are probably smart enough to know that him publicly waxing poetic about his BFF is prime attack ad fodder for literally everyone else.
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