14 days ago
14 days ago
I mean the game “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” predicted the Russian-Georgian-war of 2008. The first mission even takes place in “South Ossetia”. It’s as if Putin was thinking to himself: I’m gonna make myself a Tom Clany-villain.
The Pope: Please show white flag-courage
Petr Pavel: Here’s some 155mm courage
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Does anyone have a link to the news story? Can’t find anything unfortunately.
Russia withdrawing from the 2+4 treaty would be another dog whistle to the German right. In the 2+4 treaty, Germany dropped its claims on its former eastern territories in Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia. Thus Russia would signal towards the German far right: “We got your back when you want to have your former territories back. All you have to do is accept our claims in eastern Europe.”
Yeah, it’s just another step in the playbook from “Foundations of Geopolitics”.
In case anyone wondered: Phalcon is short for Phallus Container.
It’s a pre-series Ka-60 Kasatka with inflight-refueling capability.
From the article:
Most recently, on Wednesday, a “congress of deputies of all levels” convened in Tiraspol, Transnistria’s nominal capital, and passed a resolution to ask Russia for protection in the face of “increasing pressure” and the “economic war” unleashed by Moldova.
Vadim Krasnoselsky, the “president” of Transnistria and Sheriff’s former head of security, accused the authorities in Chisinau of “genocide” against the people of Transnistria.
I’m disappointed by Russian propaganda. They should have thrown in the word Apartheid and accused Moldova of illegal settlements. Are the Russians even trying? Common, you can do better exploiting the suffering of other people!
Wow, designing a WW1-tank during the WW2-era is kind of like using a T-55 in a modern war!
When I joined Lemmy it felt so nice. It felt like the early Internet; all the bullshit I got used to on Reddit, it wasn’t here. It was like feeling at home.
Nowadays, whenever I see toxic bullshit and sedition disguised as leftism, it’s someone from lemmy.ml; my Lemmy-experience got a lot better after blocking the lemmy.ml-instance. But I will start blocking more aggressively and I hope things get better after the US-elections.
How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?
It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.
John Oliver: Today the German Navy shot down a Houthi-drone with one missile, except it wasn’t a Houthi-drone, but it was an American drone, except the drone wasn’t shot down because the missile failed, except it wasn’t one missile that failed, but it was two missiles that failed!
To add one more aspect: When someone writes a reply asking for a source, did they actually do a short Google-search related to the claim? It basically takes the same time to just look at the summary of the search results as asking for a source. So I assume if someone asks for verification for an easily searchable fact, then they are acting in bad faith.
Also one more thing: If you notice someone acting in bad faith, don’t engage with them. Downvote them, move on. This is especially true for the next few months until the US elections are over. You will notice it a day after the elections that the quality of discussions will increase because the bad faith actors will take a vacation. What happened on Reddit in 2016 is happening here right now.
But instead he spent his time talking about a perverse Russian history that some how blames Poland for Hitler’s aggression.
This was a message towards German fascists; he’s dangling the Königsberg-carrot (and other former German territories in the east) in front of them. He’d really like Germany to be on his side.
It becomes more clear what Russian strategy is when you consider Medvedev’s interview where he speaks about Lviv and he mentions how Poland could support an Ukrainian remnant with Lviv as its capitol. Complete and utter bullshit, the message is simply “Poland and Lviv”.
And I’m betting that Putin promised Orban he gets the south-western parts of Ukraine.
That’s not a dog, that’s a viper… which makes this a snake under a plane.
It’s one of Putin’s strategies: To make it look like it is a conflict between the US/NATO and Russia, not between Ukraine and Russia. He also tries to diminish Ukrainian sovereignity by making it appear as if the US is the overlord, as if Ukraine is an American puppet. It’s all about making Ukraine look like it isn’t its own country. That’s why we get those bullshit historic lessons by that pathetic man-child.
Hope the good governor gets cancer of the anus talking that kind of shit.
Nobody respects a man with a bleeding rectum
It’s probably some bullshit like: “It’s a threat to Russia because it strengthens Poland’s independence and sovereignty.”
Can someone explain to me why this shootdown is even news instead of a statistic?
It’s a military airplane shot down in a shooting war. Does Russia now call the UN security council when Ukraine destroys a transport truck? Why is the media constantly falling for Russia’s bullshit behaviour?
I think last year there were demonstrations against a mosque in Moscow. The Czechens were not amused and published a video threatening action against Moscow.