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biglads posted:Thanks. I find his acquittal quite shocking. I find it very hard to believe he wasn't complicit it any way.    And some flag burning pics from a recent gallery of his "antics since returning from the Hague". (his earlier release for medical reasons, not the acquittal)   Far as I can tell, only minor parties and NGOs are condemning the aquittal in Serbia. Lots of commentary in the vein of "But Ante Gotovina was acquitted too!" Ugggh, that's enough Serbian politics for today. AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Grouchio posted:I just read an alternate timeline somewhere in which a Russian-Estonian bar-room brawl started WW3 between NATO and Russia and the majority of the urban western world went up in smoke. Next loving year. "Winter-safe Deterrence: The Risk of Nuclear Winter and Its Challenge to Deterrence" (2015) posted:A larger nuclear exchange involving American and Russian arsenals would cause further disruption. An exchange of about 1,200 weapons could produce about 50 teragrams of smoke, causing temperatures to fall by about 4°C. For 4,000 weapons – around what New START prescribes – there could be 150 teragrams of smoke, with a temperature fall of about 8°C. Agriculture failure would be so severe and widespread that it becomes easier to count the survivors than the fatalities. Climate scientist Alan Robock, who has led many of the recent nuclear winter studies, expects some survivors ‘especially in Australia and New Zealand’. While this is hardly a cheerful evaluation, even this may be too optimistic. Hopefully some people somewhere would find some way to survive. But the conditions would be harsh enough that survival is no guarantee. 
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Interesting article on the far right in Croatia.
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Baronjutter posted:I hope Trump is elected president and it turns out he's way poorer than he brags about and has massive secret debts to Putin who then ends up controlling the US president. 
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anilEhilated posted:Was it? I thought Stalin alone managed to rack up a higher kill count than the Nazis, not to mention all the suppressions that followed.
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T minus 5 posts to Suvorov/Icebreaker.
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Remember how ridiculous the idea of the GLA was when C&C Generals came out? 
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Can anyone post that Russian Eurovision song with Ukraine footage edited in?
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katlington posted:Is ukraine really unsafe for gay people or something? Seems pretty bad even by EE standards, but laughably hypocritical for Russia to be calling them out for it. AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 03:19 on May 16, 2016 |
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OddObserver posted:Is that a Chomsky joke?
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Isn't South Ossetia pretty safe/friendly too? I would be skeptical of any "bus accidents" in Syria, but don't see a reason to get all  over this.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Der Spiegel (and RAND Corp.): Russia can win a war against NATO in the Baltics within 72 hours. 
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slavatuvs posted:Maybe it is in the same place where your political rivals vanish to.
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steinrokkan posted:That kitten was Hitler's familiar, and his soul jumped into it when he committed suicide. Currently it's wondering the earth, like Cain, sentenced to experience the infinity of human folly.
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I hope that Ukranian leaders realize that they must not allow a tractor gap! 
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First Crimea, now being humiliated by Northern Ireland, poor Ukraine. 
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Tevery Best posted:Those banknotes are super ugly and boring. 
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BattleMaster posted:I hope it's not like a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits type of thing where the "computer" is actually a human brain taken from a person who went missing. 
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Poland is reviving the Międzymorze.
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Tevery Best posted:No, it's a revival of the Promethean Movement - a 1920s initiative of providing support for cultural and political projects of Soviet-conquered nations (mostly from the Black Sea area) in order both to preserve their national continuity and spread dissent in the fringes of the Soviet empire. That project was spearheaded by Tatar and Georgian émigrés, but included many other nationalities - Ukrainians, Azeris, I think Abkhazians, Chechnyans and Cherkes as well. 
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Discendo Vox posted:Brown Moses is the coup. Enjoy your new position as Ataturk II: Electric Boogaloo, BM!
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Constant Hamprince posted:Breaking: Turkish President Brown Moses presses 'Form Byzantium' button, all Turkish flags immediately turn purple.
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Bip Roberts posted:So I wonder what the US is doing to keep Turkish Intelligence from assassinating Gulen?
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slavatuvs posted:Sadly he's 94 and has cancer. I think him and the tsar of Bulgaria are the only two leaders from WW2 still alive, although Simeon II was like 6 when he got the throne.
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Sinteres posted:I really don't understand why some leftists love Putin so much.
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Pussy Cartel posted:I loved his writing for NSFWCorp, but he always came across as being something of a nihilistic rear end in a top hat more interested in bringing down AmeriKKKa than in actually creating a better world.
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Jygallax posted:Would it be conceivable that if the Republika Srbska became independent that it might join Serbia? I don't know enough about the politics of that region to know if that's plausible or even something anyone wants. 
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Nenonen posted:As a result of all this Sweden has now decided to make the unit of 150 soldiers on Gotland permanent immediately instead of 2018, and Swedish commander has been openly saying that Russians are threatening Sweden's security (without telling how) while Russia ofc disapproves such false insinuations.  edit: Looks like there is a Home Guard battalion usually stationed on Gotland too.
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Vintage  70s racism story from my dad (not the poster):Libyan exchange student in Zagreb being beaten and forced to climb a tree and beg for bananas. 
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Discendo Vox posted:Racism.  Whoops, guess you're right.
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Well, it's finally happened, Trump has had his "Slobo did nothing wrong" moment. http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-apologizes-serbia-yugoslavia-bombing-509417
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Speaking of the former Yugoslavia, who else is hyped for Republika Srpska's independence referendum in 2018? 
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Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:shouldn't 152mm artillery rounds pulverize a building? the pictures make it look like a bunch of kids threw some rocks at the windows. Here's a random photo of WW2 152mm shell damage from our very own EE: 
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alex314 posted:Anyone can confirm recent russian boasts about their massive wheat production? Their TV says sanctions were the best thing ever, now their agriculture is totally self-sufficient and exporting. quote:While low international prices are expected to encourage larger imports by several countries, the Russian Federation is envisaged to emerge as the world’s biggest wheat exporter in 2016/17.
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There's also a record crop in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan though. Here's the Financial Times piece. Don't worry, Russia is still bad at these things. quote:On top of strong output growth around the world, a lack of good quality storage in Russia will mean that this year’s competition on the wheat market will be especially fierce. With storage limited in the face of a record crop, Russian farmers and grain handlers will turn to overseas markets, leading to heavy exports especially in the months immediately after the harvest, says Arthur Marshall, analyst at AHDB Market Intelligence. “The scale of Russian wheat exports may be particularly large in the first part of this season,” he says. AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Russia is taking over a lot of the grain and certain areas of Eastern Europe. And I said you take away their wheat, that you go and knock the hell out of the grain, take back the grain. We take over the grain, which we should have done in the first place. quote:The issue for US wheat this year is its quality, as the cool and wet temperatures have increased yields but protein levels, key for some types of wheat flour, have fallen, according to analysts.
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Saddest aspect of the nutria thing is that it's just a recycled foodie trend that was a thing in the US 10 years ago afaik edit: guess it's still a thing Invasive Species Cookbook entry 
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"Waste perfectly good potato to try catch rat?"
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Welp, the ultimate proof will be the actual exports in 2017 I guess? Can't fake those. edit: Hybrid grain warfare edit2: meant to say 2017 AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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