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[Ironbunny]

 

[jonnyp]

Quite ironic that Germany would produce another Chamberlain

 

[M1chl]

What a hero

 

[TwinB242]

Yeah right. Nothing Pootin says can be trusted.

 

[FunkMiller]

Germany and France are going to get more Ukrainians killed.

 

[funkygunther]

Germany and France are going to get more Ukrainians killed.

cede territory, debt trap what’s left, four Lidls in Kyiv by Christmas

 

[Lux77]

There is a docu coming, this time from Russian side

 

[Kraz]

Germany and France are going to get more Ukrainians killed.

Since it's the weekend...in my more wild speculations kept separate from the main files there's one that has these nations in on the invasion from the start at some level of traditional control. Too many connections between those nations and Russia for them not to have known. Money and history. Imperialism, French aristocracy and German Uradel and Hochadel. Keeping power at any cost, but their own, as technology changes civilization putting more real power in the hands of individuals. There was some room planned for political maneuvering based on public and world reaction. But unexpected was the Ukrainian resistance, world response and Russian failure.
These corrupted entrenched parasites of the old Imperial order in France and Germany need Ukraine to lose something to keep, as the Ukrainians pointed out, the Imperial basis of the Russian threat alive. If everything goes back to before February 24th then that may not ever be a threat again by permanently crippling that branch of aristocratic Christianity.

 

[TwinB242]

There is a docu coming, this time from Russian side

Ill pass, im not watching Russian propaganda that tries to glorify and justify their war crimes.

 

[TwinB242]

Germany and France are going to get more Ukrainians killed.

I remember when people celebrated Macron winning re-election because the presumption was that he would now be able to shift his focus to supporting Ukraine. Oh how wrong we all were.

 

[FunkMiller]

Since it's the weekend...in my more wild speculations kept separate from the main files there's one that has these nations in on the invasion from the start at some level of traditional control. Too many connections between those nations and Russia for them not to have known. Money and history. Imperialism, French aristocracy and German Uradel and Hochadel. Keeping power at any cost, but their own, as technology changes civilization putting more real power in the hands of individuals. There was some room planned for political maneuvering based on public and world reaction. But unexpected was the Ukrainian resistance, world response and Russian failure.
These corrupted entrenched parasites of the old Imperial order in France and Germany need Ukraine to lose something to keep, as the Ukrainians pointed out, the Imperial basis of the Russian threat alive. If everything goes back to before February 24th then that may not ever be a threat again by permanently crippling that branch of aristocratic Christianity.

I’d balk at a notion that France or Germany had prior knowledge of any planned Russian invasion, but I certainly grow more and more convinced it suits Germany and France to prevent Russia being weakened any further. It also suits them for this war to end with Ukraine ceding land to Russia.

Macron and Scholz look to have more readiness to put time and effort into their relationship with Putin than they do Biden or Johnson. And that is frankly sickening.

Fuck anyone who continues to support the words of appeasement coming out of the Elysee and the Reichstag. History will hopefully not forget this.

 

[Tams]

There is a docu coming, this time from Russian side

Remove this Russian propaganda.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Probably my favorite

 

[Aggelos]

 

[mxbison]

I remember when people celebrated Macron winning re-election because the presumption was that he would now be able to shift his focus to supporting Ukraine. Oh how wrong we all were.

Well, half assed support is probably still a lot better than what Le Pen would've done.

 

[M1chl]

Went on Twitter reacted with "fucking tankie trash" and it told me that I should not tweet that.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Went on Twitter

 

[Airbus Jr]

 

[Rentahamster]

Hopefully it's more rapid than they think.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Hopefully it's more rapid than they think.

Nah, I want him alive to see whats going to happen to his country the next few years.

 

[Forsete]

I want to crowdfund a TB2!

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I want to crowdfund a TB2!

Fucking shameful what France and Germany are doing tbh... but no one is hounding them.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Gives me "Ghost of Kiev" vibes.

 

[TwinB242]

Not entirely on topic, but there are huge anti-regime protests going on in Iran at the moment and its a bit frustrating to know that Russians could be heading out to the streets in similar numbers to protest the war yet they choose not to. Yes there are risks to it but the Iranians are also facing huge risks.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

Podcast Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 05/25/2022 · 2h 49m

podcasts.apple.com

I’m not sure if this has been posted or not but this was a fascinating convo I listened to while on a long ass drive this week

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

 

[ShadowNate]

Well someone watched Season 4 finale of Breaking Bad

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

Hope it is true and more to come!!!!



Fuck Putin

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

 

[Tams]

#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine

Podcast Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 05/25/2022 · 2h 49m

podcasts.apple.com

I’m not sure if this has been posted or not but this was a fascinating convo I listened to while on a long ass drive this week

A shame. His content may* often be good, but I simply can't stand listening to him. His voice drives me to levels of dullness and boredom like no other.

*I have no idea as I simply can't listen to him.

 

[Ironbunny]

A shame. His content may* often be good, but I simply can't stand listening to him. His voice drives me to levels of dullness and boredom like no other.

*I have no idea as I simply can't listen to him.

It had the same effect on me first but then I checked few podcasts of him that really interested me and got hooked. Kotkins episode was good though.

 

[akimbo009]

Dead Russians.

 

[GymWolf]

 

[M1chl]

A shame. His content may* often be good, but I simply can't stand listening to him. His voice drives me to levels of dullness and boredom like no other.

*I have no idea as I simply can't listen to him.

His podcast is only bearable, when he does not have there pro-Russian idiots and you are doing something which you find joy in, while listening to it.

 

[M1chl]

 

[nemiroff]

I found that this guy gives a good dose of aggregated updates from the war, and he's giving both the bad and the good news mostly like it is within the constrains of what's possible to fact check by a single Ukrainian in a basement with ruzzians raping and pillaging around him.

 

[M1chl]

This is also good video:

 

[winjer]

 

[M1chl]

Really good video about food crisis.

 

[Gp1]

Finally some action around Kherson. Time to at least push the Russians to the river

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...counterattack-against-russian-forces-underway

 

[TwinB242]

Really not sure what Biden is trying to gain by coming out and saying this. We've already seen that trying to appease Russia benefits nobody.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Really not sure what Biden is trying to gain by coming out and saying this. We've already seen that trying to appease Russia benefits nobody.

In fact they understand attempts to appease as weaknesses.

In other news tomorrow is may 31 - reportedly a significant amount of orcs are on a short 3 month contract that expires tomorrow. Wether their masters will allow them to leave is unknown and what will they do when that happens also unknown. Reportedly some have begun already asking for release papers. Evolving situation.

 

[akimbo009]

Really not sure what Biden is trying to gain by coming out and saying this. We've already seen that trying to appease Russia benefits nobody.

It's not appeasement. US MLRS systems can fire ballistics, ~300-500km. That would be giving the Ukrainians something that really would escalate - especially if they did start targeting behind the line targets. Would probably trigger further escalation within Russia itself and cause other issues. Plus, they aren't heavy ordinance like the typical missiles used - which is more what Ukraine needs and also go ~120km which meets to exceeds what the Russians have. Definitely more accurate and not cluster munitions which Russia uses (which have a high failure rate - Ukraine will be using far superior missles).

Anyway - Biden has done anything but appease Russia.

 

[Denton]

The soundtrack to this war should be

 

[Atrus]

Good French investigation into Russian war crimes (execution and possible sexual assault) of POWs. (Blurred for dignity of the dead but heed the their caution).

 

[TwinB242]

It's not appeasement. US MLRS systems can fire ballistics, ~300-500km. That would be giving the Ukrainians something that really would escalate - especially if they did start targeting behind the line targets. Would probably trigger further escalation within Russia itself and cause other issues. Plus, they aren't heavy ordinance like the typical missiles used - which is more what Ukraine needs and also go ~120km which meets to exceeds what the Russians have. Definitely more accurate and not cluster munitions which Russia uses (which have a high failure rate - Ukraine will be using far superior missles).

Anyway - Biden has done anything but appease Russia.

Biden's terminology is pretty vague and it hasn't really been said that he's sending over systems with shorter range capabilities either. The whole 'reach Russia' tidbit is confusing because most weapons can reach Russia if they're deployed close enough to its border.

Anyway I hope the administration will be clarifying this soon.

 

[akimbo009]

Biden's terminology is pretty vague and it hasn't really been said that he's sending over systems with shorter range capabilities either. The whole 'reach Russia' tidbit is confusing because most weapons can reach Russia if they're deployed close enough to its border.

Anyway I hope the administration will be clarifying this soon.

I mean, a grenade could. I think this just means no ballastics. Like I said, normal armament here is a huge upgrade with the risk associated with introducing undeniably offensive oriented weapons.

 

[mxbison]

Read a comment by a specialist who said the description "Rapidly progressing and 3 years left to live" doesn't really fit any form of cancer.

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking involved. Let's just hope we can get rid of him as soon and painful as possible in whatever way.

 

[Wildebeest]

Really good video about food crisis.

Not sure about these China takes.

He says China officially has a massive amount of food reserves. Is this a tactic to use food as a diplomatic weapon? As a weapon, it might not be so good because like Russia, China also has a lot of corruption and petty theft. If those food stockpiles get audited or opened up to ship across the world, they might just accidentally burn down first. Who knows what is actually in them? Another thing is that there is no reason to think the stockpiles are not there because the CCP is not shitting itself over the state of internal agricultural and the fear of a revolution if people start to go hungry. It would be much better PR for them internally if there actually were global famines, but life in China went on normally due to the forward planning of the CCP. This was the propaganda strategy they used for the pandemic, which is failing now, like their food security strategy would probably also fail.

 

[Tams]

Wildebeest The PRC struggle to feed their population in peace time, even now.

And they have much of the same institutional corruption that Russia has. Why else would things like buildings falling down be far more common there than in many other countries? It's all about saving face, makign money, and looking good to the Communist Party.