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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10803 on: March 07, 2022, 05:32:52 PM »
I don't want to be alarmist, but I feel like there is no chance of this not turning into a nuclear conflict now.  The west has escalated this too far.

https://twitter.com/ASB_Breaking/status/1500917237611388936


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« Reply #10804 on: March 07, 2022, 05:41:41 PM »
Two weeks from now, Russia will just be a bunch of nude men squatting around a barrel fire. 

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« Reply #10805 on: March 07, 2022, 05:43:27 PM »
I don't want to be alarmist, but I feel like there is no chance of this not turning into a nuclear conflict now.  The west has escalated this too far.

https://twitter.com/ASB_Breaking/status/1500917237611388936


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« Reply #10806 on: March 07, 2022, 05:46:07 PM »
No one is talking about it, but Russia has also clearly lot the cyber war.

They only managed to take down Doodle
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« Reply #10807 on: March 07, 2022, 05:52:05 PM »
No one is talking about it, but Russia has also clearly lot the cyber war.

They only managed to take down Doodle

The Russians don’t have a 500 lb man laying on his bed (aka Benji)  :trumps
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10808 on: March 07, 2022, 05:54:15 PM »
If adibas sales were halted, I'd be looking for the nearest bunker immerdiately.

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« Reply #10811 on: March 07, 2022, 06:01:00 PM »
I never thought the Toyota War would look like advanced technology. What has Russia been doing the last thirty years?

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« Reply #10812 on: March 07, 2022, 06:05:01 PM »
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1500959244421640194

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500959074653024259

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« Reply #10813 on: March 07, 2022, 06:07:20 PM »
I never thought the Toyota War would look like advanced technology. What has Russia been doing the last thirty years?

Putin: Go buy me newest adidas tracksuit for $50

Military guy returns with $5 adibas tracksuit, keeps the change.


 True story.

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« Reply #10814 on: March 07, 2022, 06:07:42 PM »
Two weeks from now, Russia will just be a bunch of nude men squatting around a barrel fire.
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« Reply #10815 on: March 07, 2022, 06:14:53 PM »
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Obligatory Friedman

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During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Friedman wrote the following in The New York Times on April 23, 1999: "Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation (the Serbs certainly think so), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too." Friedman urged the US to destroy "in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge [and] road", annex Albania and Macedonia as "U.S. protectorates", "occupy the Balkans for years," and "[g]ive war a chance."

"Be advised, these are weak, tribalized states that can fall apart in our hands. Albania is non-country country. It is a country where police estimate that more than half the cars on the road were stolen from somewhere else in Europe, where everyone has a gun at home and where just two years ago the whole banking system was based on pyramid schemes and three-card monte."

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10816 on: March 07, 2022, 06:29:38 PM »
at this rate I'm worried they will cancel the war and go home, leaving an entire generation thinking Russia is a military laughingstock, as they quietly modernize and become a force to be reckoned with

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« Reply #10817 on: March 07, 2022, 06:34:33 PM »
Last summer I matched a Russian girl online we talked for a bit but she was very shallow

Wonder what she's up to
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« Reply #10818 on: March 07, 2022, 06:48:53 PM »
Transcript of the call that the Ukrainians intercepted. The Russian encrypted communications rely on 3G apparently and they well, blew up all the 3G towers.
https://twitter.com/dimrub/status/1500972750105714693

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500978613113524229
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« Reply #10819 on: March 07, 2022, 07:03:33 PM »
Smart to stay away from 5G towers though. :putin

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10820 on: March 07, 2022, 07:08:03 PM »
Last summer I matched a Russian girl online we talked for a bit but she was very shallow

Wonder what she's up to

I went out with a Russian girl a while back, we went to Friendly's for some ice cream... it was weird since her mother kept calling her the whole time on the date to check up on her.
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« Reply #10821 on: March 07, 2022, 07:27:53 PM »
I keep wanting to ask my Russian coworkers what their thoughts are but last time I went out drinking with them out there they started talking politics and… yikes. So I think not.

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10824 on: March 07, 2022, 11:09:45 PM »
Shitposting in the UN. Love to see it.
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« Reply #10828 on: March 08, 2022, 12:58:45 AM »
CRISIS ACTOR
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10831 on: March 08, 2022, 03:29:56 AM »
https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1500920633538064385

I feel 99% certain that poster is from the American west coast.

twitter profile said Columbus, OH

From America was correct though, which was my guess  :teehee

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« Reply #10833 on: March 08, 2022, 03:42:50 AM »
Yeah, I peeked afterward, and was surprised to see a midwesterner spouting that kind of nonsense. Maybe she moved there.

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« Reply #10834 on: March 08, 2022, 03:45:44 AM »
the dumbest people in california are usually from out of state tbh  :snob
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10836 on: March 08, 2022, 04:04:33 AM »
Trump was reading someone else's prediction there. The dude couldn't even be bothered to read his daily security briefs, let alone do a deep dive on Eastern European energy strategy.

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« Reply #10837 on: March 08, 2022, 04:10:43 AM »
either way, the germans can eat shit  :trumps
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« Reply #10838 on: March 08, 2022, 09:13:32 AM »


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« Reply #10843 on: March 08, 2022, 12:15:50 PM »
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« Reply #10844 on: March 08, 2022, 12:22:31 PM »
The Dutch folding like a deck of cards

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Shell to halt buying Russian oil and gas and close all service stations in country

Firm apologises for crude oil purchase last week as it moves to end all Russian dealings

Shell has announced plans to withdraw from Russian oil and gas and close all of its 500 service stations in the country, as the boss of the FTSE 100 company apologised for buying Russian crude oil last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/08/shell-to-halt-buying-russian-oil-and-gas-and-close-all-service-stations-in-country
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« Reply #10845 on: March 08, 2022, 12:34:43 PM »
Shell thought no one would notice if they bought some Russian oil with a nice discount :trumps
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« Reply #10849 on: March 08, 2022, 01:19:14 PM »
They’re just giving Putin that authentic USSR feeling that he craves.

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« Reply #10850 on: March 08, 2022, 01:27:37 PM »
Theyre going to market this as for Ukraine but its probably because they cant source the ingredients they need due to sanctions and the collapsing rubble.
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« Reply #10851 on: March 08, 2022, 01:38:33 PM »
https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1501261009385787396

JAMES?? JAMES!???!!

If Gas and Oil go on this list we must fire the nukes



Guy that worked for Putin: "He's going for Poland and everything else"

Typical English scholar: "Oh he would hardly do that my lad!"


If you think Putin is going to stop at Lviv I've got a bridge to the Crimea to sell you.
Ukraine is a practice run.
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« Reply #10852 on: March 08, 2022, 01:45:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1501261009385787396

JAMES?? JAMES!???!!

If Gas and Oil go on this list we must fire the nukes

I’ll only panic if this includes mail-order brides  :-\
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« Reply #10853 on: March 08, 2022, 01:47:41 PM »
Has to be a bluff, otherwise, I don't see how Putin doesn't get walked out of a 6th story window after a few weeks.  Also, assume that it only applies to Ukrainian-aligned countries. 

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« Reply #10856 on: March 08, 2022, 01:55:19 PM »
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We will rebuild our country with no trace of Russia, vows Volodymyr Zelensky
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rebuild-country-no-trace-russia-120706050.html

"Gotta hand it to Hitler..." - Zelensky
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« Reply #10857 on: March 08, 2022, 01:55:22 PM »
https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1501268895939837954

Ukraine getting dem migs  8)

Here's how it works
- Poland trades old jets with 'newer' US jets (probably F16's)
- Polish jets get a paint and maintenance job at Rammstein (US airbase in Germany)
- Ukraine pilots come to pick up Polish jets

Now the question is, will Putin accept this or will he bomb the US airbase in Germany.
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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #10858 on: March 08, 2022, 01:56:11 PM »
TheBore server runing on a modded Nintendo Wii in a basement instead of these modern services sure has its benefits: :klob

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« Reply #10859 on: March 08, 2022, 02:10:46 PM »
TheBore server runing on a modded Nintendo Wii in a basement instead of these modern services sure has its benefits: :klob

Is it just me or do tweets take forever to load these days on here?
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