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Brazil is working with other South American countries on a potential new currency of their own, something they confirmed earlier this year, so it makes extra no sense that they would join this random assemblage of countries in some stupid monetary project. E: the source is pretty funny, it amounts to one guy going "wouldn't it be cool if there was like a digital currency or something?" steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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Apr 1, 2023 12:38
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Athas posted:Is there a place on these forums where the Americans don't go and the leaks can be discussed in detail?  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3954051
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Apr 8, 2023 12:33
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Nobody on Ukraine's side is going to be making meaningful accurate statements on the scope, timing, goals etc. of any coming offensive, regardless of their access to information. It's just bluster.
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May 2, 2023 18:26
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If the Russians had bombed themselves, they would have killed a bunch of people on purpose.
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May 4, 2023 09:17
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The thing is also that a missile may be 20× more expensive than a drone, but the thing the drone is trying to hit may be 1000× more expensive. Same thing with javelins, sure they may cost as much as the tanks they are destroying, but if they ensure the defenders can keep their positions and avoid casualties, it's more than worth it
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May 4, 2023 19:10
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Ynglaur posted:
Not sure I buy it. The fact he's objectively had access to massive quantities of other for this past year, as well as sanctioned recruitment channels of his own, makes me think this is just PR theatre for public consumption. Theatre which may backfire and antagonize people who are higher on the pecking order, but which doesn't accurately reflect his poor standing at this moment.
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May 7, 2023 17:14
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Michael Koffman makes this very point in a recent Warcast episode (a subscription podcast from
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alex314 posted:I'm really happy more people made the "potato beetle" comparison to that yellowish black ribbon Kremlin uses. It was a whole genre   "How do you do, native friend, which way to the countryside? We are here to promote Atlantic culture"  "Truman's HQ"  "American high command gives you, potato beetles, the mission to sabotage agriculture in the name of the Freedom Initiative" And so on and so forth
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May 9, 2023 15:28
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If there's going to be a switch to a new NATO standard, i think it's gonna take decade(s?) and be far too slow to have material significance for this war.
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May 9, 2023 18:18
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Djarum posted:So wait… they spent like 9 months and god knows how much blood and treasure to just retreat? Well they only fought for Bakhmut to drain Ukraine's manpower through attrition, so says Prigozhin So because they don't need the city, they can retreat and conquer it again to inflict even more attrition on Ukraine. Rince and repeat
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May 10, 2023 18:13
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Djarum posted:Yeah but as others have said if that was the stated goal they did poorly. In the current Russian military state the last thing they should be wanting to do is attrition at all  Realistically though the best the Russians can hope for is to stay put in the rubble of their conquest, conserve strength and hope that Ukraine is as stupid as them and will waste resources on direct counter attacks at Bakhmut. That can't be very good for morale of the troops there, to have achieved such a costly goal for no immediate benefit and no improvement of their situation in the future.
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May 10, 2023 18:30
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Nenonen posted:Tracks are just wheels that you put over multiple wheels. Tracks are just very small roads custom made for you wheels
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May 12, 2023 10:40
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Paladinus posted:He's 'fine'. Thank God he's there to provide guidance for A Guy in A Forest
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May 15, 2023 16:02
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Shifty Pony posted:Don't forget that Russia has buddied up with Iran and is buying weapons from them, which in the past has been an extremely effective way to get on SA's poo poo list. Just because the Saudis and the Ayatollahs haven't been calling each other the scum of the earth for a hot minute doesn't mean they've forgotten their respective geopolitical interests.
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May 19, 2023 15:28
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I think, in light of the recent unpleasantness, that Russia isn't just a boogeyman.
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May 19, 2023 17:46
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Are they the same guys who went on a field trip to a Russian town some months ago?
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May 22, 2023 13:18
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Boris Galerkin posted:I’m perfectly fine with paying taxes and participating in society? Just don’t wanna get sent to die. Hth. Indeed, other should did instead (followed by me when the "liberators" reach my town)
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May 23, 2023 09:32
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I think if your organization gets a quota to provide a certain number of bodies, you underestimate the brutality with which Russian authorities will treat you if you refuse to contribute. Good luck getting a job or any benefits for your family with "sabotaged national defense" in your permanent record
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May 24, 2023 14:43
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saratoga posted:Dumb question but its been known for over 100 years now that torpedoes work best underwater where they're harder to shoot at and the damage will be more catastrophic. Why do these travel and then explode on surface? Because they are radio controlled and it's effectively impossible to make a radio controlled submerged torpedo
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May 25, 2023 19:25
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Djarum posted:I thought that the best place to hit was right at the waterline as it allows air to escape faster so water rushes in more quickly. The best way to "hit" is to detonate just underneath the centerline so the cavity of the explosion creates a localized difference in flotation, leading to twisting forced that can literally break the ship in half. E:fb saratoga posted:Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought these are actual US-made devices, not improvised like aerial drones? Surely a US defense contractor could figure out how to stick up an antenna out of the water. Or even better, stick up an antenna until you get close (or submerge only during the attack), retract it, and then home in via sonar without guidance. steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 19:39 on May 25, 2023 |
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May 25, 2023 19:37
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And you can accept that words have different connotations in different languages and English speakers shouldn't jump at every opportunity to enforce their instinctive semantic conclusions as universal.
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May 28, 2023 13:00
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If they blew it up on purpose without calculating the impact, that would be an act of historical incompetence, a whole new level of gently caress up. If they just neglected it until it failed on its own, it would be merely an act of baseline incompetence expected of the Russian.
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Jun 6, 2023 12:19
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The best thing to do re. the offensive is not to twist your brain trying to build a narrative from tiny fragments of information from uncertain sources. That just leads to doomscrolling.
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Jun 9, 2023 16:21
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beer_war posted:I'm in Germany and I can confirm I froze to death in the dark last February. RIP me. All our accounts have been taken over by CIA sock-puppets to cover up the fact that we are dead because Europe is now a corpse-strewn wasteland ruled by pestilence and perpetual winter E: oops, i wasnt supposed to say that
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Jun 10, 2023 20:55
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WaltherFeng posted:How is Wagner supposed to operate without the army's logistics network? They still need ammo, fuel and food. Or are they literally looting army bases. Yes, they beelined for military objects in Rostov and Voronezh. As for non military stuff such as fuel and basic provisions, there's little an army of sociopaths can't get in a city of over 1 million.
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Jun 24, 2023 08:16
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That's not what the realist school is or why is called that though.
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Jun 24, 2023 09:21
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:educate me on it, i'll be paying very close attention https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-intl-relations/ Realism just means the reality in which actors make decisions exists independently on their will / intentions / cognition / ethics etc, as opposed to idealism.
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Jun 24, 2023 09:31
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Tbh, he was in Ukraine, at the front, out of reach for the Russian state apparatus. I think he could have easily smuggled himself out of the region and hosed off to some obscure place in Africa with stationed Wagner "peace keepers" before surfacing at idk the Cayman Islands once the waters calmed down . But obviously that would have been too much of a humiliation.
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Jun 24, 2023 11:46
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khwarezm posted:I'm curious about this too for two reasons: In one of his recent missives, Prigozhin claimed Russian casualties were extremely high and the government was concealing the scope of the carnage that was going on, hiding corpses of dead soldiers etc. Though that may have been just a lie to lend himself legitimacy, or describing the normal situation and not indicative of a breakthrough.
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Jun 24, 2023 12:28
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Paladinus posted:Little bro really thinks he's cooking. It's the right thread
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Jun 24, 2023 12:51
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Hryme posted:Isn't it a reasonable move to relocate top leadership from an area that can develop into an active combat zone? I don't get this he fleeing so he is a coward stuff. Shows that the situation is very uncomfortable though. Maybe it's reasonable according to some criteria, but even worse from the symbolic blow it represents, it never should have come to it. The fact that leaving the capital and preparing for a siege can even begin to appear reasonable is a failure of an unimaginable magnitude.
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Jun 24, 2023 14:24
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Djarum posted:Evidently Channel 1 is just playing commercials. It's a sad statement on the state of the arts in capitalist society that traditional Swan Lake showings have been replaced with endless commercial blocks.
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Jun 24, 2023 16:48
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Dog Friday posted:Accepting any "deal" at this stage from Putin would surely be suicide for Prigozhin? Hard to imagine otherwise.
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Jun 24, 2023 18:33
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Randarkman posted:Eh, I think they had already been mostly pulled from the frontlines. Yeah, but they wanted to reintegrate their manpower into the army. Since i doubt there's a call for 25k Russian mercenaries in Africa, i feel like Prigozhin is going to surrender all his wartime recruits anyway and only keep the core or veteran fighters.
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Jun 24, 2023 20:31
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Well see a month from now when the loyalists of the current military leadership try to force the removal of the new picks.
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Jun 24, 2023 21:05
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"I think it's pretty clear what happened here"
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Jun 24, 2023 21:35
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Charlz Guybon posted:Eh, what could the oligarchs have done if he had actually marched into Moscow and more and more of the miltiary kept flipping his way, seeing a winner? Presumably the flipping part wasn't going to happen and he knew it
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Jun 25, 2023 14:04
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The fact that there seemed to be roughly 3 helicopter pilots between the border with Ukraine and Moscow who were willing to try and stop the rebel army does not exactly scream "Putin enjoys the support of his armed forces". I bet those pilots were told to just check on the situation and that there would be no danger involved, lol (?)
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Jun 25, 2023 17:25
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Chalks posted:Here's a former KGB agent calling the government "weak" on state TV That sounds a lot like manufacturing consent as a basis for backtracking on the supposed deal. After all, the tsar can't go against the will of the people.
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Jun 26, 2023 17:55
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DarklyDreaming posted:Ok I was going to make a jokey guess at this but everyone responding to that tweet seems to know more about tanks than me and they're all going "What the hell is that?" so I'm just going to re-iterate: It looks like a decoy of a western style tank (probably meant to be a leopard with it's frontal applique armor). The markings on the hill are Russian, but it makes little sense why Russians would make mock ups of Ukrainian gear - so it'd say it's either a captured Russian tank turned by Ukraine into a decoy, or maybe Russians are doing this to fool Ukrainians into thinking they are looking at a friendly tank?
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Jun 28, 2023 18:23
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Not entirely sure about how competent they might have been overall, but they were the ones who wanted to change things and it's hard to imagine changing the Russian army for worse. Iirc "general Armageddon" who is allegedly in deep poo poo now was originally dismissed in Ukraine because he wanted to do crazy things like retreat to defensible positions and consolidate.
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Jun 29, 2023 11:41
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