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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Lostconfused posted:Organic programming capability tbf i think having someone who knows computer in the standard complement of a formation of a certain size is probably a good thing in the modern day and age
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fair play this is pretty good propaganda
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May 2, 2024 21:48
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:To the point of retiling floors with mosaics, repainting murals, it's a whole thing. isn't the bloke going to die soon anyway seems like something it should be straightforward to economise
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May 4, 2024 14:10
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Virtual Russian posted:I'm seeing more and more ground captured, are we at the "hundred days" stage? i don't think so. i think where we're at now is something like the nivelles offensive without the incredibly prohibitive casualties for the attacking side - russia's expending steel instead of flesh for their advance. they have the formula, and are making a formulaic series of attacks for formulaic gains. the important part is that the russians really do seem to have found a way to turn up the pressure in certain sectors beyond what the ukrainians can contain even when they deploy their heavy reserve units. this creates a big problem for the ukrainians, because those units are completely critical to their ability to actually do much of anything and if the russians can keep them in place and attrit them away, they have to be reconstituted from scratch and increasingly hard-to-come-by donations. if those units are permanently destroyed, the russians can start exploiting local breakthroughs &c with much less fear. at that point, all else equal, we're in the hundred days. CN CREW-VESSEL posted:When this started and Ukraine started handing out AKs to everyone who asked, I went through the literature on the Volksturm and Werewolf. The problem is that when a nation is totally destroyed, and the Political types are killed, there's not much enthusiasm to keep things going. The political ideology and government are discredited, and people have no appetite for war. gene sharp made a big deal of studying the norwegian tripartite resistance structure: military (official guerilla with a formal military structure going all the way up to the king in exile), civilian (broad, diffuse resistance movement without a centralised leadership but with a broad mandate and rooted roughly in civil society, in particular the labour movement) and sabotage (terrorism and assassinations, based largely on a militant communist network set up by the comintern agent wollweber to be something like a comintern gladio). the sabotage organisation had by far the most violent activity, but the military organisation carried out some real headline-grabbing stuff and the civilian resistance really had some quite impressive results doing malicious compliance and social ostracisation of collaborators, etc. curiously the civilian resistance has been coming under increased criticism in recent years, in particular for the ostracisation and civil-society sanctions against collaborative behaviour, which is seen as infringing upon individual liberty. see also https://fpress.no/boker/pa-aren-los
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May 5, 2024 19:36
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:She's not just a landlord, she's reportedly a Junker and has some sort of schloss, with a country home, gardens, and tenant farms. shouldn't this make you more sympathetic to her???
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May 6, 2024 20:23
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yeah smart money seems to be on this being another straw on the back of an increasingly worried-looking camel
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May 11, 2024 00:02
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Nix Panicus posted:How is Russia dealing with its own demographic pinch? Just a bigger population to draw on? Permissive attitudes towards migration? partially they're also using their own older guys. they also have a bigger population, as you mention, use foreigners at least to some extent and also got out of the post-soviet collapse in a way that the ukrainians just didn't, so iirc the demographics are less apocalyptic
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May 11, 2024 00:29
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bedpan posted:you mean they did literally steal all the money? I remember reading about this and joking about it a few months back but only being partially serious but if the early reports were in fact true and the supposed multiyear construction project built villas in Italy and France instead of trenches in Ukraine then they are screwed. part of it will be a measure of corruption, another part simply that ukraine really doesn't have a lot of properly trained low-level officers and have presumably been prioritising officer replacements for more active fronts instead of having them direct the construction of fortifications in territory which isn't that important anyway. samogonka posted:Nuland is a Western Supremacist who has no problem deceiving the public as long as it serves the cause this is basically official ideology among the western talking classes atm, thence the very public angst about "combating disinformation" or "information warfare". loyalty to the liberal geopolitical project must be maintained because it is Correct. the problem is that the most important maneuver the liberals have had since forever has been to discourage substantial evaluations and think of things in purely formal terms, which means that this position is instinctively and very obviously untenable - and so it just doesn't really stick. anyway i don't think the russian objective is kharkiv at all, i think that the russian objective - to the extent that they have a geographical objective - is izyum. if they could take izyum they can resume flanking pressure on slaviansk, which at that point would probably actually fall without too much trouble. that would in turn unlock a lot of the front. i still don't think that this is a big land-grab offensive, though, the point of contact seems a bit peculiar for that.
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May 13, 2024 19:43
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Al-Saqr posted:sorry havent been keeping up is something major happening in Kharkiv? ive been reading headlines and news of russian advances that are preceding a giant planed one, whats going on? the russians have activated another front and had some success in the initial phases following what appears to have been very bad preparation from the ukrainian side. they're now trying to seize an important town to pierce a line of defences. what they're actually trying to accomplish is unclear; it could just be upping the pressure on the ukrainians (this is what it looks like atm imo), or they could actually be preparing a major offensive with big arrows and everything.
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May 14, 2024 19:21
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most of the levers of control that the capitalist class are things like capital strikes/flight, unfavourable loan conditions etc. i doubt that the cabal of german bougieboys would've gone down to hitler's office in any event; they would've just started putting their money elsewhere, emigrating etc. i tend to agree that in fascism there's a degree of central discipline imposed on the bourgeoisie (it is made very difficult for them or their money to leave, for one thing) by the strongman in charge, but that scenario isn't fair imo
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