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Crab Dad posted:Lol stupid gaff saying what everyone is thinking. Whatever. Like Putin is actively invading countries on his border bombing hospitals and threatening nuclear retaliation. Oh no don’t say out loud what everyone has on their mind. look i know the biden presidency hasn't been exactly chummy with Saudi Arabia as of late but we haven't been publicly saying the world would be happier were MBS deposed either. there's a gap between reasonable statements and official policy
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Taerkar posted:https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1510648066403143683 Ukraine thread: using emojis to
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zoux posted:Let's say Putin had a sudden cerebrovascular event that killed him (this is not unprecedented among Russian rulers): who the hell takes over? Or does the country immediately fall apart? Article 92 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation posted:3. In all cases when the President of the Russian Federation is incapable of fulfilling his duties, they shall temporarily fulfilled by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. The Acting President of the Russian Federation shall have no right to dissolve the State Duma, appoint a referendum, and also provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. so Mishustin, though i'd expect a power struggle pretty quickly
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imagine a happier outcome yall. in a decade or so some farmer will have made a nice food truck-esque setup out of abandoned T-84 carcasses and it'll be a nice neighborhood lunch spot slava ukrainian doobie
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highme posted:Conscripts being unable to legally deploy outside of Russia hasn’t been much of a deterrent so far. keep score at home and bet on which russia violates more often: a) laws of war as defined by international treaties signed by the russian federation b) the laws of the russian federation
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Cimber posted:Seems the FSB isn't the only group out there that can hit foreign targets. psydude posted:Honestly I'm more willing to chalk it up to just sheer Russian incompetence at this point. regular brain: ukrainian security services are executing sabotage attacks within russia's borders expanding brain: buildings in russia just spontaneously catch fire all the time because of poor construction and/or incompetent staff tossing lit butts into wastebins galaxy brain: disgruntled FSB agents have returned to their traditional area expertise, attacking domestic targets, to cripple their own war effort because they think putin has lost it
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Apr 22, 2022 00:59
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hell, even if you don't wanna go full conspiracy you could still look at something like the dubrovka siege or beslan and come to the reasonable conclusion that the FSB personnel assigned to protect these important strategic sites somehow managed to set them on fire despite the best of intentions
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Apr 22, 2022 01:32
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Will Ukraine bomb and fire upon targets inside Russian borders? Sure. But they won't move troops in or try to hold territory. There's no point. Ukraine doesn't want Russian territory, they want Ukraine. i, for one, support ukraine blowing up the kerch strait bridge bonus if they can make a new denomination of hryvnia banknote featuring that on one side and the snake island quote on the other
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May 12, 2022 05:00
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FrozenVent posted:If Turkey is that important to NATO maybe Erdogan could be convinced to… step down? the turkish military, actually known for doing coups successfully, already tried and failed, so i have not much hope for the famously incompetent CIA
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May 18, 2022 18:39
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:That's all fair and good but riddle me this: what reason does a Russian grunt have to fight the Stalingrad of his time? per local propaganda, nazis then and nazis now!
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May 21, 2022 07:28
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Alan Smithee posted:we literally bred 4chan lol as much as i understand what you mean, lol this particular phrasing
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May 23, 2022 19:42
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in lighter  news, а сейчас я вам покажу blemish-free skin courtesy of стронк русский гриб, no gay NATO cosmetics here https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1529002586111631360
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May 24, 2022 20:15
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BobHoward posted:Insofar as Kissinger believes in anything, he seems to believe that the way to be a great statesman is to achieve a balance of power between powerful states. i see no problem with this. russia is a demonstrably weak state, and we can achieve balance by dividing it into EU and chinese spheres of influence. most of the former soviet union is already a OBOR dig site, so we may as well give china the siberian gas fields and norilsk while europe makes good on that UK foreign minister's statement that Russia should not be free to move troops as they see fit through the rostov and voronezh regions
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May 25, 2022 06:42
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strictly speaking, as of feb 24 ukraine did not recognize russian control over crimea or the independence of the DNR and LNR (and the president of ukraine lacks the authority to change this) in practice, eh, yeah what the gently caress is the rada gonna do if a peace settlement doesn't involve the wholesale withdrawal of russia from de facto ukrainian territory circa 2014, demand the remaining russian troops keep up the fight?
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May 25, 2022 07:50
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The X-man cometh posted:This might be a little off-topic, but is Georgia still fighting South Ossetian "rebels"? Georgia (for quite some time) accepted that they weren't going to win and agreed to a cease fire with de facto Russian control over/"independence" for the breakaway republics. They then built a giant maxi pad in Tbilisi to commemorate this. Russia likes to pull some poo poo by moving their border fences slightly forward overnight but it's not an active combat zone.
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May 27, 2022 05:22
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wtf are all these nice lost luggage stories aeroflot into nazarbayev international gave me gently caress all and made me travel back to the airport to pick up the lost bag on my own dime, and then it took like an hour wandering between various service desks to figure out which of them actually handled lost luggage
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Jun 7, 2022 06:35
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mom, can we we stop at макдоналдс? we have at home: https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1535913431081095169
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still not tired of this meme https://twitter.com/KermlinRussia/status/1536222789899849728
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FrozenVent posted:Russia is defaulting on some foreign bonds. it's not actually changing much, isn't? Russia already wasn't able to issue new debt in markets where it's sanctioned, and per the article the ratings agencies there aren't even rating its bonds anymore. it might mean something when the war/sanctions end, but for now the Bank of Russia isn't in a much more hosed up mess than it was already
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A.o.D. posted:It would be difficult to administer. There are no Japanese or Ainu people left there. but whatever 🎶 JAPAN 🎶 CAN TAKE 🎶 THE ISLANDS 🎶
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watch luka https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1543278082227933187
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Jul 2, 2022 18:38
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GD_American posted:Does Ukraine have a national drink? I assume vodka is pre-eminent based on the actual situation on the ground in kyiv, the ukrainian national drink is coffee that said, there's "horilka", which is basically a generic word for liquor, but i guess in modern days refers more to the sorts of infusions you wouldn't typically find otherwise, in particular spicy peppers (an old, traditional drink, despite only existing because of the post-1500s columbian exchange)
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AFAIK talking directly to babies or not is just a cultural divide that crops up in a variety of places and has no effect on language acquisition: if you just talk around kids they learn the same as if you talk to them specifically. don't think that'd affect literacy either way, reading and writing are their own skills that have to be taught, nobody just learns them through osmosis like language in childhood
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Jul 20, 2022 20:23
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ulmont posted:I think One Day In The Life of Iván Denísovich gets you halfway there faster but I concede the point. also unless something changed the ebook versions of gulag archipelago are TERRIBLE
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Jul 31, 2022 01:36
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Defenestrategy posted:There's no way this "think tank" isn't just astroturfed dudes getting paid right? i wouldnt be surprised if some of their funding came from uh... unofficial state-backed sources, but you don't really need to astroturf it. the true believer "america bad, all opponents of america therefore good" tankie crowd is plenty sizeable on its own
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Russians looking for new ways to plug gaps in their lines. drat, i never expected scald to wind up fighting in ukraine
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psydude posted:Those are clearly Russian IFVs shooting at something. The question is what/who, because it's not regular UKA. more WWII-era tanks mounted as stationary monument props
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in other news, russia is unhappy about the bridge https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1579357513455370241 https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1579359020946980864
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's why I can't help but look at this non-believer who thinks daddy Xi won't come save us from the risen imperialist menace they will make many animes about the heretofore unseen levels of ML thought he channels to end the era of american darkness and establish the grand new world of one belt, one road, one people under communism
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whenever someone who thinks they have the means to smugs out about "I'll just go to [country/place] if the US goes full fashy."
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Tiny Timbs posted:I don't understand the part of being "generally anti-war" that has people doing things like protesting "NATO aggression" while being far less passionate about Russia not engaging in genocidal, fascist invasions (and allowing nations to non-violently deter said invasions). I do not think the main ideology at play for folks like Chomsky is "war bad." chomsky's maybe a bit of an outlier as an established outspoken public figure rather than yet another twitter rando, but for the latter category russia has recognized and capitalized on crowds' spectacular ability to propagate bullshit. if you spread talking points in a community long enough, at least some of them will probably catch on and spread organically. they target communities with fringe views (on both the right and the left) and let the message propagate and eventually get laundered away from its original origins.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw gently caress off you fuckers you do not get to ruin kino like that that aside they're basically dadrock to the elder zoomers getting mobilized, so i suppose i can at least laugh at that aspect. nirvana's dadrock at this point, right? somehow, it's seemingly still less bad than Tops In Blue
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A.o.D. posted:We're a decade away from Nirvana showing up on oldies stations. i mean yeah, but hopefully not as a halfhearted attempts to boost recruit morale Stultus Maximus posted:Given the lyrics for that particular song... for further reading, yes, given that you can read the lyrics as a conscript musing over getting blown up in afghanistan it's a bit of an odd choice for this particular event
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Nov 9, 2022 03:39
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Sad King Billy posted:I might have to visit. How similar is Ukranian cuisine to Russian. one country is frozen wasteland known for conquering a large expanse of frozen swamps. the other is some of the most fertile land on the planet bit of an exaggeration, but generally ukrainian food isn't gonna be worse. also more raw bacon, which you should go for despite first impressions from the description both countries have adapted shaurma (gyros) as their de facto national fast food though along with the rest of the former USSR. shaurma conquers all
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McNally posted:Are you loving kidding me? but hey, this seems like a good opportunity to mention that the excellent yale open ukrainian history course has gotten through the 1930s-1960s in the last few weeks, so if you want the more complicated messy version of the historical era everyone loves to fixate on, it's right there!
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Slashrat posted:The one thing to keep in mind about nuclear bombs is that making a nuclear explosion is Hard, and bombs only make it happen through a lot of very precise mechanisms doing a lot of things in the correct order across a very short span of time on the order of milliseconds. Falling short of that, they're just regular bombs packed together with a few dozen kilograms of radioactive material. There'll be a hazmat cleanup job afterwards and probably some roadblocks within a kilometer of the location, but the fallout will be almost entirely political. good ones anyway. i can't imagine a modern implosion weapon accidentally detonating, but maybe you could maybe make a gun type bomb accidentally go off if you somehow inadvertently triggered the firing explosive? i figure anything that would has a good chance of busting the tube also and preventing the reaction masses from actually meeting properly, but it seems at least plausible that something could gently caress up and unintentionally set it off successfully
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is it supposed to be like that https://twitter.com/kolezev/status/1601078745917685762
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GD_American posted:Any decent war sources on Mastodon? I finally pulled the plug on Twitter most people i recognize haven't been using it much. https://journa.host/@EilishHart/following has a bunch of the journos and academics that are sorta maintaining a dual presence https://medium.com/@nayloraliide/mastodon-a-guide-for-the-lost-eurasianist-1c9af116bef0 is a longer list but a bunch of those post even less
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RFC2324 posted:For a second I wondered why Ukraine would want j6 insurgents hey, we don't want them around, and shipping dissidents to russia is a time-honored strategy to get them to disengage from a war ready the sealed trains, we got a job for baked alaska
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