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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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euphronius posted:Post the whole thing if you are going to post them . come on The op: quote:I thought it was a bad idea to seize Russian reserves before the US congress had voted on the Ukraine package. It gave too easy a way to Congress to vote no and pass the buck. Now that they have voted, it is hard to think of good reasons not to seize. Yes, it will create a precedent: Countries will know that if they go to war against a country or a friend of a country where they have reserves, they will likely lose them. So what? The reply: quote:So what? I spent my early career globalising US Treasuries as liquid central bank reserves, bank reserves, margin, and collateral assets.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:53
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Countries will know that if they go to war against a country or a friend of a country where they have reserves, they will likely lose them. So what? lol at the bolded part
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Apr 25, 2024 15:55
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euphronius posted:I think they are trying to force China into picking sides becuase they think the USA can win a war against China They also want to do it quickly, while they still have a (perceived) military edge (which they increasingly see as technological edge anyway) because all of their forecasts of Chinese shipbuilding, aircraft production etc etc are unbelievably bad, so if they can't contain China with a victorious war now, they'll never get that chance again.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:55
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the high priests of capitalism go through a rigorous, decades long period of education, training, and examination by their peers and institutions just to advocate for the things that will destroy them and their system utterly
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Apr 25, 2024 15:57
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Zudgemud posted:One of the other Ukraine threads it was claimed that this guy proudly described the KGB op as "Chekist", is there a direct quote for that in Russian? quote:"Комитетом госбезопасности при взаимодействии с коллегами из других силовых структур в последнее время проведен ряд острых, чекистских мероприятий, который позволил предотвратить нанесение ударов боевыми дронами с территории Литвы по объектам в Минске и в его пригородах", — сказал руководитель комитета.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:57
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let her cook
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Apr 25, 2024 15:57
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:They also want to do it quickly, while they still have a (perceived) military edge (which they increasingly see as technological edge anyway) because all of their forecasts of Chinese shipbuilding, aircraft production etc etc are unbelievably bad, so if they can't contain China with a victorious war now, they'll never get that chance again. drat russia isn't losing fast enough and it is delaying the war I really want with China!
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Apr 25, 2024 15:58
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The “Indo-Pacific” thing was because in the early 2010’s they calculated that India’s military plus their own could maintain the favourable military balance, but from what Tankbuster said, the Indians are not so stupid as to get subordinated to a project they get no benefit from whatsoever. Peeling India off from Russian was supposed to be done by 2010 but the US kept loving them on military deals and openly discussing how Indian dependance on US arms would give the US soft power over Indian foreign policy. Sometimes I wonder if they don’t realize other countries can read English.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:59
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bedpan posted:the high priests of capitalism go through a rigorous, decades long period of education, training, and examination by their peers and institutions just to advocate for the things that will destroy them and their system utterly Toynbee wrote three 700 page volumes on this, one of which tragically keeps using Austria-Hungary as a case study.
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Apr 25, 2024 16:02
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:They also want to do it quickly, while they still have a (perceived) military edge (which they increasingly see as technological edge anyway) because all of their forecasts of Chinese shipbuilding, aircraft production etc etc are unbelievably bad, so if they can't contain China with a victorious war now, they'll never get that chance again. Totally not a May 1914 scenario with dumber failkids running everything
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Apr 25, 2024 16:04
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The “Indo-Pacific” thing was because in the early 2010’s they calculated that India’s military plus their own could maintain the favourable military balance, but from what Tankbuster said, the Indians are not so stupid as to get subordinated to a project they get no benefit from whatsoever. The China analysts can't read Chinese, so why would we expect them to read English
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Apr 25, 2024 16:06
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The “Indo-Pacific” thing was because in the early 2010’s they calculated that India’s military plus their own could maintain the favourable military balance, but from what Tankbuster said, the Indians are not so stupid as to get subordinated to a project they get no benefit from whatsoever. according to the law of profit, no matter how much two parties may benefit by an exchange one party is always defrauded it ended like that and will continue to end like that because the basic unit of liberal, international diplomacy is to colonize and defraud the people across the table. this feels ordinary and normal now after the passage of decades and with the hegemony of western, liberal though so the disconnect of on the one hand claiming to be India's new friend while on the other hand bragging about how India will be kept into a pattern of underdevelopment that takes them down a road they cannot easily go back is converted from a disconnect to a policy that is based on "real world evidence" or some other formulation like that it is the rules that you be poor and exploited and I be rich and prosperous bedpan has issued a correction as of 16:09 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 25, 2024 16:06
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bedpan posted:according to the law of profit, no matter how much two parties may benefit by an exchange one party is always defrauded Well put, and I imagine the dream of the end of history was that they could telegraph their intentions years or decades out, like Iraq (2), Syria and Libya, and nobody could do anything anyway. You almost get the sense they enjoyed toying with Libya for as long as they did, dangling reproachment, or invasion, back and forth.
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Apr 25, 2024 16:11
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KomradeX posted:The China analysts can't read Chinese, so why would we expect them to read English itd be a funny joke if it weren't true
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Apr 25, 2024 16:16
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was strained and ultimately fell apart by the British getting huffy that the Japanese had read what they wrote about them in newspapers, including “well obviously we won’t really support them against American interests”, “yes we promised to support them in China but if the Chinese give us more concessions we’ll just cut off the Japanese supply of oil and rubber and that will be that.”
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Apr 25, 2024 16:21
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Apr 25, 2024 16:21
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was strained and ultimately fell apart by the British getting huffy that the Japanese had read what they wrote about them in newspapers, including “well obviously we won’t really support them against American interests”, “yes we promised to support them in China but if the Chinese give us more concessions we’ll just cut off the Japanese supply of oil and rubber and that will be that.” all they had to do was dial back just a tiny, tiny bit the racism and/or be a bit more discrete and 40 years later they wouldn't have had to sell their empire for obsolete destroyers or be forced to buy imports they couldn't afford and didn't need as first condition of the negotiations
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Apr 25, 2024 16:54
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US diplomacy is like a 5 year old trying to trick their parents into sitting on a whoopie cushion
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Apr 25, 2024 16:55
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https://www.ft.com/content/06a48bab-2eb6-4cc4-9d9f-e72a22ba5d7e Ukraine to increase long-range strikes in Russia, says UK defence chief quote:Ukraine is set to increase long-range attacks inside Russia as an influx of western military aid aims to help Kyiv shape the war “in much stronger ways”, the head of the UK military has said. 
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Apr 25, 2024 16:57
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say, for example, that the elite in the United Kingdom of the 19th and early 20th centuries decided that they wouldn't openly say the vilest of racial slurs when talking with the english-speaking aristocrats of ancient lineage and enormous wealth from the upper echelons of Indian or Japanese society who were already sending their children and heirs to english public schools to become good, english public school boys and just wanted to be treated civilly when getting a drink at the club or buying first class train tickets they'd still have the empire bedpan has issued a correction as of 17:08 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 25, 2024 17:00
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Delta-Wye posted:itd be a funny joke if it weren't true Got to disagree I think its hilarious
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Apr 25, 2024 17:12
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was strained and ultimately fell apart by the British getting huffy that the Japanese had read what they wrote about them in newspapers, including “well obviously we won’t really support them against American interests”, “yes we promised to support them in China but if the Chinese give us more concessions we’ll just cut off the Japanese supply of oil and rubber and that will be that.” wait what?
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Apr 25, 2024 17:18
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:It always kills me how open American officials were about this, and France and Germany still let them expand NATO! Germany was always under the US's thumb but France is a surprise. Why do they let themselves get clipped by America even when they told them what was going to happen?
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Apr 25, 2024 17:23
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bedpan posted:say, for example, that the elite in the United Kingdom of the 19th and early 20th centuries decided that they wouldn't openly say the vilest of racial slurs when talking with the english-speaking aristocrats of ancient lineage and enormous wealth from the upper echelons of Indian or Japanese society who were already sending their children and heirs to english public schools to become good, english public school boys and just wanted to be treated civilly when getting a drink at the club or buying first class train tickets wouldn't be very British without those slurs tho
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Apr 25, 2024 17:25
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Isizzlehorn posted:wouldn't be very British without those slurs tho 
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Apr 25, 2024 17:26
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bedpan posted:all they had to do was dial back just a tiny, tiny bit the racism and/or be a bit more discrete and 40 years later they wouldn't have had to sell their empire for obsolete destroyers or be forced to buy imports they couldn't afford and didn't need as first condition of the negotiations The racism is the point. They can’t function as a society without a group punching bag.
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Apr 25, 2024 17:36
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https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1783439646426337580?t=-NEYfP5L3fkG7aKJG54imA&s=19
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Apr 25, 2024 18:38
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Apr 25, 2024 18:39
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Every single loving time hat idiot Zelenskyy does a long range strike inside Russia, Ukrainian civilians eat poo poo so loving hard
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Apr 25, 2024 18:40
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1783439646426337580?t=-NEYfP5L3fkG7aKJG54imA&s=19 Its not russia's fault my dude
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Apr 25, 2024 18:42
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1783439646426337580?t=-NEYfP5L3fkG7aKJG54imA&s=19 
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Apr 25, 2024 18:44
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Still remember how Xi hoped that Europe would turn into a counter weight for the US before 2019 and then they all collectively commit suicide while acting indignant that no one is taking them seriously.
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Apr 25, 2024 18:53
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there has been a consistent thread lately of non western leaders overestimating the humanity and rationality of the West
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Apr 25, 2024 18:54
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bedpan posted:say, for example, that the elite in the United Kingdom of the 19th and early 20th centuries decided that they wouldn't openly say the vilest of racial slurs when talking with the english-speaking aristocrats of ancient lineage and enormous wealth from the upper echelons of Indian or Japanese society who were already sending their children and heirs to english public schools to become good, english public school boys and just wanted to be treated civilly when getting a drink at the club or buying first class train tickets 100% Tankbuster posted:wait what? Alliance In Decline: A study in Anglo-Japanese relations, 1908-23 is a series of episodes where every British diplomat says the sort of thing Prince Phillip did when he was a little too drunk at an embassy ball south the the equator, or they go to Japan on a diplomatic business, run into an old boy from public school who works for a newspaper, and mention that they don't quite have Japan where they want them, but the Japanese steel industry can't be allowed to further undercut Manchester. For instance, in the collected Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs: External Policy 1931-39, an analyst wrote this assessment: "Since the close of the century two things diminished British security. The first was the relative decline in the power of the Royal Navy itself. In the face of the Japanese and German naval construction, and the parallel and astonishing growth of American naval strength, the two-Power standard could no longer be maintained. Of that the Japanese Alliance of 1902 was the first implicit admission. Britain unaided could no longer patrol the Seven Seas. Yet this relative decline, whose consequences were mitigated for some twenty years by the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, was not in itself disastrous. Britain was replaced as the greatest naval Power, not by a European Power traditionally envious of her vast overseas possessions, but by the United States of America who cast, it is true, no approving eyes upon colonialism but with whom, none the less, ‘war was unthinkable’. Here indeed was a striking vindication of Bismarck’s insight in discerning so early that the most important fact in the modern world was that the language of the United States was English. Had it been possible in 1921 to reconcile America to the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the security of the Commonwealth from attack by sea would have remained virtually unimpaired. But despite the bluntly expressed anxieties of the Australian Prime Minister Mr. W. M. Hughes, lest a failure to renew the Alliance would leave the Pacific vulnerable to Japanese aggression at a time of tension or war in Europe, Canadian opposition to renewal decided the Commonwealth in favour of the American point of view. There is no doubt, whatever the merits of the argument, that as a result the security of the Commonwealth, particularly in the Pacific, was sensibly diminished after 1921." Not that Australia did anyone any favours. Remember that they, and Japan, were to jointly administer the former East Asian territories of the German Empire: "Australia’s first ordinance for the territory for which she was made responsible barred the door to Asiatic immigration by extending to Asiatics the application of the Commonwealth Immigration Act. This action evoked a protest from Japan, who maintained that the principle of the ‘open door’ should be applied in all fairness to ‘C’ class mandates. Only after protracted and acrimonious debate did the Japanese government, prompted by ‘a spirit of conciliation and co-operation, and their reluctance to see the question unsettled any longer . . .’, concede the issue, carefully recording that their assent was not to be considered ‘as an acquiescence on the part of His Imperial Japanese Majesty’s government in the submission of Japanese subjects to a discriminatory and disadvantageous treatment in the mandated territories’; nor as discarding their claim that ‘the rights and interests enjoyed by Japanese subjects in these territories in the past should be fully respected’."
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Apr 25, 2024 19:02
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All but a few houses in Ocheretyne are under Russian control. Russian troops have marched into Soloviove and raised the flag. I believe it is correct to say that Ukriane's second defensive line west of Avdiivka has been broken. I think there are three scenarios for future Russian advances. 1. A push right up the highway between Avdiivka and Kostiantynivka. This would put a great deal of pressure on the AFU units attempting to hold Chasiv Yar. 2. A continued northwest push aimed at cutting the highway between Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk. 3. A westward push toward Pokrovsk. The transportation and supply hub for AFU forces on the Donbass front.
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Apr 25, 2024 19:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1783439646426337580?t=-NEYfP5L3fkG7aKJG54imA&s=19
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Apr 25, 2024 20:26
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humiliation for russia as they haven't taken the literal worthless sinkhole yet
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Apr 25, 2024 20:28
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OhFunny posted:All but a few houses in Ocheretyne are under Russian control. Russian troops have marched into Soloviove and raised the flag. it seems like some initial attacks to the west continuing along the highway 511 / railway line towards Pokrovsk have already occurred, as the AFU reported yesterday that they had repelled a Russian advance "in the vicinity" of the town of Prohres, which was somewhat confusing because that town is a good 4km up the road from where Russian forces are currently agreed to be located... may just be that the Ukrainians meant that the Russians were attacking in that direction. It's not clear if that's a signal however that the Russians are planning to continue their offensive along that line, or if it was just an ambitious local commander trying to exploit the surprisingly weak Ukrainian defenses around Ocheretyne.
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Apr 25, 2024 20:29
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Genuine question: have they been unable to dislodge it, or are they intentionally leaving it open because they can just blow up all the Ukrainian troops who keep going there?
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