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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13381 on: April 23, 2023, 05:46:57 AM »
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1650048051942227968

What kind of cocksucking headline is this? ::) :lol
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« Reply #13382 on: April 23, 2023, 07:44:17 AM »
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1650034236982976513

Looks like after we ran from Afghanistan we're running from Africa next.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13383 on: April 23, 2023, 08:01:03 AM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.
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« Reply #13384 on: April 23, 2023, 01:37:39 PM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.
The most interesting part is that both the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces hit the pause button on their conflict to help the French evacuate.
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« Reply #13385 on: April 24, 2023, 02:00:17 AM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.

but the chinese are evacuating as well?


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« Reply #13386 on: April 24, 2023, 04:23:20 AM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.
The most interesting part is that both the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces hit the pause button on their conflict to help the French evacuate.

It's what the French do...
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13387 on: April 24, 2023, 12:30:53 PM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.
The most interesting part is that both the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces hit the pause button on their conflict to help the French evacuate.

It's what the French do...

They did a much better job than the Brits at Dunkirk.

And before you tell me "bu-bu-but I'm Australian", you aren't, you're just a Brit whose ancestors were convicted criminals :yeshrug.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13388 on: April 24, 2023, 02:45:00 PM »
Let the Chinese have it. They will soon find it's harder to exploit these places than it looks and the locals will discover that maybe there is a worse thing than being colonised by evil white guys.
The most interesting part is that both the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces hit the pause button on their conflict to help the French evacuate.

It's what the French do...

They did a much better job than the Brits at Dunkirk.

And before you tell me "bu-bu-but I'm Australian", you aren't, you're just a Brit whose ancestors were convicted criminals :yeshrug.
Lol. No. Imagine being so ignorant you think Australia is a monocultural country.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13389 on: April 24, 2023, 03:08:05 PM »




I rest my case  :hmph

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« Reply #13390 on: April 24, 2023, 03:10:13 PM »
Cool. Anyway, about those French pussies...
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« Reply #13391 on: April 24, 2023, 03:31:13 PM »
Cool. Anyway, about those French pussies...

Deliciously soft and wet  :drool

Not full of sand and deadly spiders like aussie ones.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13393 on: April 25, 2023, 01:30:37 PM »
I gotta say, IRL Resident Evil wasn’t on my bingo card for this year.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13394 on: April 26, 2023, 03:00:34 AM »
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-weighs-value-for-money-of-returning-to-eu-science-after-brexit-hiatus/

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The European Commission confirmed it would not require the U.K. to pay backdated participation fees for the two years it had missed of the current seven-year Horizon Europe funding initiative.

But the U.K. government wants a bigger discount. London argues the two-year hiatus has left British-based researchers and businesses in a weakened position compared with their peers across Europe.


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« Reply #13395 on: April 26, 2023, 07:28:23 PM »
Erdogan has suspended his campaign for health reasons.

Chinese media says heart attack, Turkey says stomach bug.
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« Reply #13396 on: April 26, 2023, 07:35:46 PM »
Erdogan has suspended his campaign for health reasons.

Chinese media says heart attack, Turkey says stomach bug.

why not both
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13397 on: April 26, 2023, 07:43:01 PM »
What's exactly the point of a campaign where you aren't going to allow anyone else to win? We don't talk enough about just how fucking weird authoritarians always are. (What's weird about Xi is how normal he seems to be for one.)

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« Reply #13398 on: April 26, 2023, 07:53:53 PM »
Polls have both Erdogan and his rival tied at 45%
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« Reply #13399 on: April 26, 2023, 07:55:25 PM »
Polls have both Erdogan and his rival tied at 45%
Oh, I didn't know that media polls were binding in Turkey. Erdogan probably wished he hadn't overlooked changing that law.

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« Reply #13401 on: April 27, 2023, 04:58:26 PM »
Erdogan has recovered and called his best friend. They both look very healthy.

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1651589862435201024

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13403 on: April 29, 2023, 02:49:43 PM »
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« Reply #13405 on: May 03, 2023, 06:53:36 AM »
School shooting in Serbia.

14 year old shooter at least 8 dead :fbm
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13407 on: May 03, 2023, 03:53:06 PM »
Fake news fabricated by liberal Brazilian truckers. Next.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13408 on: May 03, 2023, 06:04:46 PM »
Zelensky, the most wanted man in the world just arrived in the Netherlands for a surprise visit.

My man should find a nuclear bunker on a remote island instead.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13409 on: May 03, 2023, 06:15:06 PM »
Nintex getting nuked :rejoice
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13410 on: May 05, 2023, 07:04:17 AM »




Stop talking, just do it.




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« Reply #13411 on: May 05, 2023, 07:40:42 AM »
Zelensky, the most wanted man in the world just arrived in the Netherlands for a surprise visit.

My man should find a nuclear bunker on a remote island instead.

Finland has the best bunkers. 6 months of provisions guaranteed too. He left the country too soon.

But really, Russia is all bark, no bite.


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« Reply #13412 on: May 05, 2023, 12:04:02 PM »
Zelensky, the most wanted man in the world just arrived in the Netherlands for a surprise visit.

My man should find a nuclear bunker on a remote island instead.

Finland has the best bunkers. 6 months of provisions guaranteed too. He left the country too soon.

But really, Russia is all bark, no bite.
There's plenty of examples of the FSB/GRU killing Russian nationals abroad with poisoning and broken windows.
The plots are often almost laughable but still dangerous. Like that time they poisoned a small town in the UK.

Prigozhins statement has nothing new but the presentation is quite shocking. Standing near a pile of corpses calling out Shoigu and Gerasimov.
I wonder if they'll let him leave Bakhmut or block his retreat. It seems that it's starting to dawn on Yevgeny that he's just the 'fall guy' for a bunch of war crimes and a botched operation to take the city.
The so called 'General Armageddon' that was recently fired from running the special military operation has joined Wagner as deputy commander though, so either he's there to control Wagner on behalf of the military or also in open revolt against the Russian MOD.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13414 on: May 06, 2023, 06:33:10 AM »
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1654792157385961474

Looks like Kadyrov will replace Wagner in Bakhmut. Just before the supposed 'counter attack'.
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« Reply #13415 on: May 06, 2023, 01:17:31 PM »
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« Reply #13416 on: May 06, 2023, 05:27:36 PM »
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1654954845277679616

"Shoigu where is the fucking ammunition"  :lol
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« Reply #13417 on: May 06, 2023, 06:23:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/chrisgolds/status/1654826042329055232

Seems like she's overqualified tbh  :whew
Isn't a British PM's job to fall on their sword?
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« Reply #13418 on: May 07, 2023, 12:17:24 AM »
She's not PM though?

She did a fantastic job being a walking ad tho.

https://twitter.com/FrankChickens_/status/1654818411011092482

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« Reply #13419 on: May 07, 2023, 12:45:24 AM »
She's not PM though?

 :whoo

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Surely a future PM?
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« Reply #13420 on: May 07, 2023, 12:55:29 AM »
Mordaunt has repeatedly advocated that the British National Health Service should fund the availability of homeopathy.[93][94] In 2010, she signed a Parliamentary Early Day Motion that claimed there was "overwhelming anecdotal evidence that homeopathy is effective" and called for the government to "maintain a policy of allowing health commissions to refer to homeopathic doctors and approved homeopaths".[93][95]
:nope

When receiving the Speech of the Year award at The Spectator magazine's Parliamentarian of the Year Awards in November 2014, Mordaunt said that she had delivered a speech in the House of Commons just before the Easter recess in 2013 on poultry welfare so as to use the word "cock", as a forfeit for a misdemeanour during Naval Reserve training.[37][38] She used the word "cock" six times and "lay" or "laid" five times. Following her comments, she was accused by Labour MP Kate Hoey of trivialising parliament.[39]
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« Reply #13421 on: May 07, 2023, 05:07:03 AM »
Time for a leadership contest methinks :rejoice
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« Reply #13422 on: May 07, 2023, 05:32:37 PM »
Early voting has started for the Turkish elections in the Netherlands

https://twitter.com/mustafaadeniz/status/1655299036750987265
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« Reply #13423 on: May 09, 2023, 08:25:31 AM »
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« Reply #13424 on: May 09, 2023, 10:52:06 AM »
No fly-over and just 1 tank  :girlaff

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1655845431006429186

Budget cut day.

Tanks missing? I can understand. A large chunk of them are in Ukraine, either in use or destroyed.

But the planes too? They've been largely MIA in this war, much like the navy.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #13427 on: May 09, 2023, 07:43:24 PM »
Wagner says they will retreat from Bakhmut May 10th
Russian army starts taking over positions from Wagner
Kadyrov vows to replace Wagner as the lead assault unit in Bakhmut
Russian MOD promises ammo and shells to Wagner
Kadyrov sets up shop behind Bakhmut, tells Yevgeny to hand over his troops to him
Yevgeny refuses, Wagner stays in Bakhmut waiting for promised ammo
Russian MOD doesn't deliver
Ukraine counter attacks, Russian 72nd brigade flees
Wagner loses 500 troops in the chaotic retreat
Yevgeny big mad at Putin

https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1655916277565730816

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1656064355539058688
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« Reply #13428 on: May 09, 2023, 09:17:23 PM »
oh boy here we go again

https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1655904988151808001
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« Reply #13431 on: May 11, 2023, 05:58:29 AM »
https://twitter.com/majorgauravarya/status/1656491377830789122


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hmm, how come everyone sharing the hashtag has an indian flag in their bio?  :thinking

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« Reply #13432 on: May 11, 2023, 10:10:41 PM »

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« Reply #13434 on: May 13, 2023, 08:23:10 AM »
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1657345778421997576

https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1657340615850446849

Russian airplanes shot down over Russia  :lol


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"To cut off rumors. Two Mi-8s, one Su-35 and one Su-34 were shot down in Bryansk region. We will avenge everyone, we will kill everyone"

At least the new Russian President is as memeable as the last one.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1657043242347577346
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« Reply #13436 on: May 14, 2023, 01:02:16 PM »
only time i've seen anything from the russian air force since the start of the war, and its them getting more of their shit shot down  :lol
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« Reply #13438 on: May 14, 2023, 01:40:32 PM »
https://twitter.com/amlivemon/status/1657797685724819461

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Another red mirage (or red crescent mirage). I hope. If not there's still the second round.

 :walkaway

Slovakian government collapsed last week.

Lukashenko is now in a hospital bed (if he's gone, Russia's annexation of Belarus more likely)

Not looking good.


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« Reply #13439 on: May 14, 2023, 02:01:58 PM »
There was the expectation that if Ukraine went tits up for the Russkies (and it did) that they would try and distract attention by taking Belarus instead to have an easy victory and open a second front.
I read that doctors from Moscow were on their way, probably to make sure he doesn't wake up.

Lukashenko famously said that Putin would outlive them all and attend all their funerals.  :doge
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