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>>2660071GESTURE OF GOODWILL TO WASHINGTON edition
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Takes all sorts I suppose.
>>2671139they can't defend artillery, thus they rely on the use of drones. but drones will never replace artillery. for various reasons.
>>2671152Like what reasons. You can attach a gun to a drone.
>>2671153artillery can contain advances, drones can't. drones can disrupt here and there, but will never break a complete large column, dugout, cover and larger places.
This is an inter-imperialist war
>>2671159Idk about that. The use of drones is largely why both sides have had to refrain from large scale mechanized attacks in favour of small scale infiltration and stormtrooper tactics isn't it?
OP here. Can confirm that RT and X links are postable again in OP posts as well as non-OP posts, so there's no need to do that (dot) shit now when baking new threads.
For those who are curious what happened, I found after much dicking around on /meta/ that there were regex blocks on x\.co and t\.co for Twitter shorteners that weren't properly bounded and so obviously matched any .com domain ending in 'x' or 't', such as rt.com.
Just to allay the fears of NAFO infiltration that some folks had…
>>2671165Artillery is an area of denial weapon, it's able to send large volleys of shells over a wide area for a sustained period. You can have as many drones, but while an artillery crew and push out multiple shells a minute, a single drone requires a single operator to guide the drone for potentially kilometres at low speed.
What I think is often missed, is that FPV drones are used with ambush tactics, the Ukrainians often cut the footage until the drone is already on target but the Russian footage demonstrates drones often being in a ditch or amongst some debris on a road waiting for its target.
>>2671165Drones can definitely stop armored advances, but they are less versatile. They do shit against static fortifications, or even really some civilian structures and are less cost effective against squads of infantry spread out in a larger area than shells. Also shells can't be jammed.
>>2671182Why didn't Peskov simply deny it? He's denied US/Ukro lies in the past…
>>2671172how many of these hit something?
The best scenario here is that Drumpf is lying and the Kremlin doesn't want to call him a liar. That would be pusillanimous behavior in its own right, but at least it wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as actually giving him the ceasefire because the Banderite testicles are freezing.
>>2671173I think ironically the Top Gear Chernobyl Special is probably more demonstrative of why armoured assaults are infrequent, it's very wide, very flat and large settlements are few and far between.
Given that kind of environment, you're vulnerable to FPV drones, anti-tank missiles, aircraft, minefields, artillery, basically everything designed to destroy a tank.
The Ukrainians hype up the FPV drones as a particular menace of armour because, of that list, it's the only thing they produce themselves and are therefore unlikely to run out of, but at the same time, of that list, it's possibly also the least efficient given they're slow, the easiest to jam, dependent on good weather and not fire-and-forget.
I suspect if this conflict did involve WW2 levels of "churn", FPV drone operators would be quickly overwhelmed after all the ambush drones had been used and now they have to slowly fly from wherever they're operating from.
CUCK RANK CHART
0. Trump is too scared to lie. Chad-tier.
1. Trump is lying. Call him on his lies. The Chinese MFA approach. Respectable.
2. Trump is lying. Say "no comment" instead of calling him on his lies, letting rumors linger. Timid.
3. Trump isn't lying. Grab the cuck chair right now.
>>2671184I don't believe Trump lied… but if Trump lied about that he and Putin
made a deal, then Americans and Ukrainians could be abusing and pushing their luck, knowing the fact that they know Putin and the Russians still need Trump and US on side to have any sort of long term deal over European security.
So Trump would rely on Putin, Russian government or Peskov not wanting to call Trump liar publicly and embarrass him over a week of them not bombing Kiev. That or knowing Putin not wanting to be seen breaking his word to Trump and being seen as unreliable and a liar himself.
>>2671202That second scenario is interesting. Let me know whether I understand you correctly: Trump lies but Putin doesn't want to expose the lie and so refrains from energy attacks anyway, giving Trump what he wants.
Even if it were true that Russia is as dependent on Trump as you believe, it would still be stupid to show such weakness. Trump abuses displays of weakness.
>>2671170Artillery is predominantly an anti-personnel weapon though. It won't do much damage to a mechanized formation unless the shells score direct hits, which is very unlikely. This is why mechanized warfare was the solution to the stalemate of WW1, since a mechanized attack is too tough and mobile to be stopped by artillery barrage the way a massed infantry charge could be. Drones by contrast essentially function as ATGMs, but much cheaper and more versatile than a Kornet or Javelin. They're very effective against armored units and have essentially negated the negation that mechanized forces once offered to barbed wire, artillery, and machine guns. It's all very Hegelian.
>>2671172The reason why artillery has become so important in this war is because drones have made mechanized maneuver or massed mechanized attacks impossible. Those artillery scarred landscapes are a result of drones forcing a return to WW1 tactics which basically consisted of tons of shelling and stormtrooper raids/infiltration (at least once commanders figured out mass assaults were pointless).
>>2671206It wouldn't of course work if they call Trump out on his bullshit, but if they stay silent and keep striking, then it would be seen as Putin being an liar. Not very likely though.
When did Russia last hit some energy facility? I have noticed a sudden drop in reports the past few days, but Zelensky was saying Russia is planning a new massive strike, so I assumed something was in the pipeline.
>>2671206>Trump abuses displays of weakness.It's literally only this thread that ever pays Trump this much reverence, anywhere else the prevailing opinion is that he is ineffectual as a politician and motivated entirely by optics, which is no doubt the opinion of him in the Kremlin as well.
Like, concerning Ukraine, there's friction between the US and the EU that wasn't there during the Biden-era and what did Russia really have to sacrifice for that? A few kind words? A trip to Alaska? Give Ukraine 5 minutes to demonstrate they're institutionally incapable of diplomacy?
>>2671213Trump abuses displays of weakness and backs down when punched in the nose. There's no reverence here. He picks on the weak and TACOs when he faces resistance.
China has demonstrated how to handle Dump. Playing nicely with him simply encourages him. Russia needs to learn from China instead of behaving like the EU. Actually, I don't think even the EU has a Kirill Dmitriev-type figure out there giving that kind of deepthroat, posting Qanon quotes on X, talking about Trump's royal bloodlines, etc., yet that is the best the Putin school of diplomacy can offer.
Everybody relax… I'm sure we'll see the usual energy strikes in a day or two! Very sure! Super sure! Remarkably sure!
>>2671210Even if a tank can survive driving through artillery fire provided it doesn't get directly hit, it's certainly not the ideal scenario you can carelessly drive through, near misses can still destroy a track or the running gear and modern tanks have all sorts of useful optics and sensors that can get damaged by shrapnel. Then also tanks aren't lone wolves, there's a lot of support vehicles that are much less armoured.
>Drones by contrast essentially function as ATGMs, but much cheaper and more versatile than a Kornet or Javelin.Gonna have to disagree, they're more like what they look like, flying IEDs. Anti-Tank Missiles pack much larger charges intended to penetrate the front of the tank where the armour is thickest and move a lot faster while still being man-portable, in comparison FPV drones have to hit weakspots on a moving target with no doubt a significant amount of input lag, so I don't think it's as easy as the curated footage released suggests it is. Even despite the curation, a lot of "successful" FPV drone footage dubiously implies there was a hit before cutting out with static or the footage just ends before the drone impacts, I wouldn't be surprised if there is vastly more "unsuccessful" footage than successful footage.
>>2671188do you see ukrainians in Crimea? (not vacationing, or ex-ukrainians). take a guess.
>>2671230That looks sexy. Where was that? Could that be the thing that made Trump request a ceasefire?
>>2671230nm, that was an oil depot. I've been following the TPP strikes and whatnot.
If any attack spooked Trump (his handlers rather), it would've been the Zircon attack on the Rivne NPP substation some days back.
If this war is still going in 2029, the Kremlin isn't likely to rim Vance this much, right? It's because they see Trump as an unhinged madman, right? I'm not worried about the scenario in which Newsom/Dems win, because they'll take the boot heel to the dreams of the Russian Westophiles.
>>2671223China has the economic strength. Russia was pursuing the same strategy up until the 2022 sanctions because they thought EVROPA wouldn’t be economically suicidal as to move off Russian gas. Since then they’ve just been posturing about military attacks because they can’t be sure that an actual attack won’t cause escalation.
>>2671228>a lot of "successful" FPV drone footage dubiously implies there was a hit before cutting out with static or the footage just ends before the drone impactsThat static is just the drone's "death rattle". The camera has to process , encode and send what it sees, but when the impact comes the drone is already gone and so is the data it was processing at that moment. So the receiver doesn't get the last second to couple hundred milliseconds, only static. They usually leave that part or cut it out.
>>2671215He backs down when Ukraine gives him what he wants, which is to play cold-hearted, stoic colonialist with their resources for his chud fanbase.
He achieves that by doing the unthinkable during the Biden era of openly challenging Ukraine to prove they're capable of ending the conflict either diplomatically or militarily themselves and the EU states don't appreciate that because prior to Trump, surrendering to Russia was not discussed as an option at all and thus no choice for the expenditure despite the pre-existing economic issues, now however increasingly that is being scrutinised by rising populist parties.
It's not catastrophic for Ukraine's lifeline yet, but no doubt one day historians and copesters will point to this as the reason why the conflict ends in 202X rather than 203X or even 204X.
>>2671260I think it depends, there's cases where the signal is gradually lost as the drone approaches which is indicative of EW, the other cases where the signal cuts near instantly about 30cm from impact is more likely to be what you're describing.
>>2671159Nah that ain’t it. The primary advantage of artillery is time to target. Ie an artillery shell or rocket flies faster than a drone. The secondary advantage is that multiple rounds can be fired while an FPV operator is flying one drone. This latter issue can be addressed with additional systems which fly FPV drones automatically to a coordinate and the operator can switch over quickly to fly them to target. But this is not yet standard.
So artillery can cover a wider section of front but requires observer support to be accurate. Drones are slow to get on station but when prepositioned in large numbers can easily stop any assault. You can’t jam fibre optic drones.
Order of events:
1. Zelensky goes to Davos begging for an energy truce.
2. Lavrov reports that Russia isn't interested in temporary ceasefires. So far, so good.
3. Trump claims: "I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kiev and the towns for a week, and he agreed to that. And I have to say it was very nice. A lot of people said don't waste the call. And he did it and we are very happy he did it."
4. Peskov, when asked about this claim, refused to comment.
>>2671270listen, this debate should be over, but I don't know what you want to keep it going. on what basis? that drones can replace artillery on the grand scheme of these wars? it was zelya who asked the west a supply of millions of artillery pieces a year,
givas 2 millions of artillery pieces per year, which was met with a 'lol, what? best I can do is give you drones''. then the propaganda has been: OH YEAH DRONES ARE THE BEST. they aren't for disrupting advancing armies, columns, etc. as it's been shown for all the retreats and failed counteroffensives. ukraine simply can't operate artillery, as much as they want, because they don't have the aerial control of their space to avoid bombardments.
>>26712735. hours of conjecture in addition to years of conjecture that Russia is going to sign effectively a surrender any day now
I'm going to convert to Christianity if Putin manages to defy his history of signing bad deals.
Conversion requirements:
- complete capture of the four oblasts added to the Russian constitution in 2022
- the Zelensky regime out of power
>>2671275No my argument was that artillery has the advantage of time to target which gives it a role. Drones have already mostly replaced medium mortars because they can get the same shell on target more accurately and without exposing the operator.
Ukraine doesn’t field much arty because their allies can’t supply sufficient munitions or guns/launchers. The Russians aren’t running air tight air defence and regularly lose guns/launchers and munitions stockpiles, but have so far kept replacing what is lost.
>>2671267So MSC seems of the opinion that Russia announced this "ceasefire" for a number of reasons, but in particular that it doesn't disrupt Russia's current maneuvers, it provides some semblance of relief to Ukrainian civilians over the next several days of extremely cold weather, and that it coincides with the negotiations happening in UAE.
So, what exactly is the downside for Russia supposed to be? It's unlikely that they'll be able to effect meaningful repairs to what's already destroyed in the mean while, and if all it supposedly takes to topple the Kiev regime is knocking out the power, what difference is a month going to make? Certainly the NPPs aren't going anywhere, and I doubt a meaningful number of Patriots are suddenly going up spring up, either.
It seems more like a symbolic "ceasefire" that underscores Russia's negotiation efforts and plays to Russians at home who probably don't relish the thought of their Ukrainian relatives freezing to death.
And is Ukrainian participation in this even necessary? They've been attacking Russian energy infrastructure for months, but what is there to show for it? I guess they damaged some refineries, but that doesn't seem to have impeded the war effort at all, and it looks like it won't be Russian civilians freezing this winter.
>>2671293lmao, you're great
Speaking from personal experience as a turbo psycho, if I imagine myself in Trump's shoes and see the Russian leader giving me these so-called gestures of goodwill, I'm going for Iran and Cuba. That's just a fact!!!
>>2671301I think state level activities are more the product of institutions and material abilities/necessities rather than great man vibes but that's just me.
>>2671307>this poster again, long timeYou forgot to throw in "Nietzschean nonsense" like you usually do when you're misinterpreting Marxist thought and telling yourself that state leaders have precisely zero freedom of movement, that you can't replace 2026 Putin with anyone else alive or dead and get more optimal performances.
>>2671316It's really kind of you to let that anon live rent free in your head anon, but I'm not really interested in hearing about your old arguments and non sequiturs. You're welcome to try engaging with anything I actually said though.
>>2671301♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ. unilateral ceasefires ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ
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♬⋆. I hope the whore of anchorage retires ♬⋆.
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<During [Vladimir Putin's] first winter as President [in 2000], entire towns and villages across the far east of the country counting as many as 400,000 inhabitants, lost heating for the lack of coal. A serious crisis emerged with mines shutting down, workers out in the streets and even hospitals ceasing to function because of the cold. But the coal for heating was available in Russia, only most of it was already allotted for export. Vladimir Putin didn’t think that Russian people should suffer freezing conditions all winter in order for that coal to be exchanged for American dollars. He decreed that export of coal be stopped immediately and that all available quantities be sent back to Siberia to fuel the boiler stations. … in Putin’s world, well-being of the people takes precedence over financial profits of the investor class. This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners who for a generation had been brainwashed with neoliberal economics where profits trump any and every other concern, including health and well-being of the people. Nonetheless, I believe that beyond the brainwash, every normal person – even western-educated economists – would agree that in a crisis, the decent thing to do would be to take care of the people and let the oligarchs cope with one quarter or a year of impaired profitability of their enterprises. https://politnavigator.news/u-nas-vanna-zalita-govnom-poshli-vbrosy-pro-ehnergeticheskoe-peremirie-ukraina-poluchit-peredyshku.html
>“We have a bath full of shit.” There were stuffing about the “energy truce”. Will Ukraine get a break?
>The popular Belarusian Silovik TV channel reported that an “energy truce” between Russia and Ukraine is being introduced from today. Allegedly, an agreement was reached on this at the talks in Abu Dhabi. There will also be a new exchange of bodies of the dead. >There is no official confirmation of this data. However , against the background of the catastrophic situation in Kiev, the Ukrainian media have already seized on the information, which needs an urgent “anti-crisis” to cheer up the population. >Just the day before, the Hromadske TV channel issued a new report from Kiev’s Teremki, where apartments are flooded with feces due to pipes broken in the cold, and residents are forced to defecate in buckets and throw it all right in the courtyards. >“They ask you not to use the sewer, our bath is filled with shit. Everything was frozen, the pipes broke, the sewer system on the fourth floor is generally clogged, you can not go to the toilet. We go in buckets and take them outside… Can you imagine what it will be like in the spring? It will be diphtheria and such infections that we will all die here, ” complains local resident Angela. >Military commander Alexander Kots notes that for the first time during the negotiations, Russia ” did not limit itself in any actions at the front and in the Ukrainian rear “. >>2671284>The Russians aren’t running air tight air defenceoffensive yes. the fact that ukraine begs for hundreds of fighter jets, etc. it's a clear signal.
everything else, drones can't replace artillery.
>>2671184because that's how trump works. he declares an unilateral shit, and no one knows if it's true, if it's to push for something, or what. he's a crazy man, that places tariffs then removes them declaring victory without proving the US had a 'better deal'.
it might be possible that there's a negotiation behind scenes, and he meddles including that.
>>2671412
fuck off.
>>2671416Keep coping buddy. She has completely sold out to the United States. You're going to kill yourself when there's no other way to face this but to accept reality as the evidence continues to stack up over time. Enjoy your seething whole shoving your head in the ground tard
>>2671417You have severe mental health issues.
>>2671421The ones that have severe mental issues are the ones following along with people like Ben Norton telling them that she's against the United States and to keep believing that this is chavismo while absorbing hours of material telling them this constantly deluding them further and further
You can call me any insult you want. You can't say I am lying or I am inaccurate because you're going to continue to see overtime how much she sells out.
>Delcy Rodríguez confirms call with Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and says they are "taking important steps." "Let all the airlines the come here, let all the global investors and companies come to Venezuela. Come here and invest" >>2671417no, fuck off with you skitzo spam. all lpol doesn't need to see your obsession with proving wrong people using western media.
>>2671427The Russian government is directly associated with the Venezuelan government through ties that they have economically in alliances and in supposed opposition to the West, although delcy has completely sold out to the US now. You can't refute a single thing that I have said so cope and seethe you absolute retard
>>2671427Also, I can provide a ton of sources that are not from the Western media at all. I'm the person that has shared the vast majority of source is about the Venezuelan government and conflict. I have read heavily about this situation and how it has progressed. You're only refutation is saying oh that's Western sources. It's all BS. I can find you other resources if you want and it'll say the same thing. But you don't care about that. You just want to deflect cuz you want to live in your false reality that they are actually opposing them. Also, the Colombian government is going super hard against farc
Just keep giving it time. Kid there'll be no way for you to avoid reality. Eventually let's see where things stand in 6 months
>>2671424Why did you stop taking your meds?
>>2671417>i love imperialism and blaming its victimsya, we know
>>2671412
wait when the US collapses what military power will pressure venezuela? I would ride the wave until US civil war, easy peasy.
>>2671412
Thanks for this update. It's important to stay realistic - I've seen a lot of hopium. But isn't it the wrong thread? You're in the Ukraine thread.
>>2671436They're moving on Cuba next by the looks of things because they don't have Soviet hard-ballers holding them back anymore.
>>2671443not that anon, but is there an easy way to block all flags, or do you have to add them one by one?
ok, I may have figured it out without having to use dumb extensions.
[Options] -> Filters -> dropdown list Flag -> click regex checkbox -> enter .* as the filter (period followed by asterisk) -> click Add
surely that works, right?
>>2671457>moralizing rather than an actual argumentchampagne is that you?
This is an interimperialist conflict
>>2671521 (me)
I bet you'd fucking love that.
Watching Venezuela go the way of Syria until every last bit of the state has crumbled to dust and some based fucking nobodies make the federal
Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northenr Venezuela. Then you can surely support them from NATO against "the cartels" or whatever horrid subhuman rot decades of NATO subversion has managed to create by then.
Oh and imagine what sort of terrible governance would there be by then in the central government eh? Fuck me not worth preserving surely. Such tyranny, if only they had turned to socialism and abandoned commodity production in time… tsk tsk, now the oil serves a better purpose at least.
>>2671172Artillery is still the undisputed KING on the battlefield.
>>2671524you're a whining little bitch, and everything you thought would save you is just as traitorous as ever, you're punching the air and still losing
It's great when they get angry enough about "tricks" and "moralising" that the mask falls and they have to go off-topic and start celebrating US/NATO imperialism prevailing elsewhere instead.
Ultimately, I realise that cucktinism-NAFOism is just a multi-year attempt at whataboutism. NATO supposedly existed to deter Russia from moving westwards and ideally make them collapse, Russia "cucked" NATO by invading westward anyway and ever since these rightoids have been coping with
>Whatabout the red lines?
>Whatabout the diplomacy?
>Whatabout the trankers?
>Whatabout US imperialism in other continents?
desperately trying to prove to themselves that NATO has managed to "recover" from their own "cucking", but of course every day Russia continues to be in Ukraine, the humiliation for NATO mounts.
I do pity the idealists. Imagine being so obsessed with cuckoldry that your world view revolves around it and you spend years trying to prove who has and hasn't been "cucked".
>>2671559>NATO supposedly existed to deter Russia from moving westwards and ideally make them collapse, Russia "cucked" NATO by invading westward anyway Is Russia more or less westward than they were in, say, march 2022? The answer may surprise you!
>>2671562>Whatabout the regrouping in the East?Thank you for your input
>>2671607Here we have a another cucktin poster going mask off and totally not trying to troll and demoralize.
>porkovsk holds!
rofl
fucking cuckin why don't you keep bombing power plants until everyone in kiyivyiyv turns into a popsicle? fucking cuck.
>>2671641kiev is going to fall so why not preserve the bombs for later? putin is smart.
However..
Zelensky lashes out at West over missile shortages>Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has blamed Western backers for critical military shortages, stating that air defense systems lacked missiles during recent Russian strikes.<Speaking to Ukrainian media on Friday, Zelensky claimed Patriot and NASAMS air defense systems were unable to repel recent attacks, framing it as a failure of Western logistics and financing. >Zelensky’s complaint continues a pattern of public friction with Western backers. Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he went on a tirade, accusing Europe of weakness and indecisiveness, prompting sharp rebukes. https://swentr.site/russia/631757-zelensky-complains-missile-shortage/So the damage has certainly already been done and I don't mean to Kiev's plumbing.
>>2671662You know the situation is dire if you have to encourage weebs to join the army.
But at least they're not shoving people into vans like hohols do.
>>2671662Lets hope you do.
>>2671687It’s seemingly quite common these days for militaries to push recruitment campaigns that essentially claim “anyone” can be a solider, including le gaymers and le animu enjoyers.
The “Calling all tough guys! Prove yourself in the Military!” angle doesn’t seem to work as well these days.
>>2671443Good idea. Flagtards are low-key namefags who rely on their flags not to be attacked by other flagtards for their dumb arguments. It's ultimately cliquish, cowardly behavior. Trying out the universal filter too.
>>2671182>>2671376The Kremlin 5th column has confirmed it now, big guy. Trump was telling the truth. Total "MAGAcom" (lmao) victory. It's time to move those goalposts to the dates involved. Trump probably remembers his 30-day ceasefire that the Kremlin 5th column extended for months unasked. Will he get the same gesture of goodwill? Or will we get bangers on Feb 2? Stay tuned for the next episode of
Christcucks Appeasing Hegemon! LOL
>>2671498>ok, I may have figured it out without having to use dumb extensions.>[Options] -> Filters -> dropdown list Flag -> click regex checkbox -> enter .* as the filter (period followed by asterisk) -> click Add>surely that works, right?Looks like it works. Immediately collapses all flag posts, so you don't see the posts, but you still see the flags.
My tech is rusty, but I imagine some user CSS hide mojo can do something ever better.
Honestly that’s actually preferable if NAFOids choose to ragefilter, perhaps the thread can be about the conflict again rather than their hurt butts about all the times they lost arguments to flags over the last few years
>>2671857If my grammar bothers you..
>[Options] -> Filters -> dropdown list Flag -> click regex checkbox -> enter .* as the filter (period followed by asterisk) -> click Add Oh no! What will the Westy radlib shills have to do if their flag signal and "I'm a post-2022 regular, bro" strategy fails and they have to stand on their own two feet with their drooling posts, taking huge cross-fire?
>>2671862It was a grammar dork who caused your extremely rare mental breakdown earlier this year (full on spamming), so no Internet warrior worth his salt is going to ignore that potent tool. There's obviously something going on there.
>>2671876Yeah, I won’t submit my imageboard posts for the Pulitzer Prize just yet
>>2671882I heard Machado is getting the next one for her brilliant Twitter posts.
>>2671885I can only assume her grammar is second to none
>>2671876Also if you mean “earlier this year” as in this month, then the issue wasn’t a “grammar dork”, it was a chud trying to mock anons essentially for not being native speakers. I merely pressed them for an answer to whether they’re a native English speaker and if so, which other languages they spoke. They pled the fifth, as they say in their likely country of origin.
If you filter the flags then you've got to be retarded. Without them this thread is just morons whining about how Putin is winning wrong.
>>2662163>It's been a year now of these diplomatic talks in which Zelensky says no to everything, and the US is clearly happy to have him say no to everything, otherwise it would remove him via NABU. >So why does the US bother with the talks? It wouldn't bother if it didn't get anything. I believe that the moment Cuckler gets to have some talks with his Western partners, he slams the brakes on any positive directions in which the Russian General Staff is going.Confirmed. I'm expecting Trump to keep floating the truce idea while the pointless talks occur. The good news? Given that the Kremlin now has to play coy with its Trump appeasement and hope that he doesn't open his big mouth, it may not be politically tenable to keep indulging him this time.
NATO creating bank to prepare for war with Russia – media>Member states are seeking to use the structure to bypass legal constraints on military spending, Izvestia reports<Western officials and media outlets have speculated that Russia could be in a position to attack NATO within several years, with the bloc’s chief, Mark Rutte, designating the country as an “enemy.”https://swentr.site/news/631772-nato-bank-prepare-russia-war/But why would this be necessary? NATO has the infinite money cheat, they all pay their tribute to the US MIC, this conflict and the money they've handed to Ukraine was merely pocket change. Right?
When the server went down, I lost my flag in /games/, and suddenly people were calling me a retard left and right. In hindsight, they were justified in doing so. What I learned is that I'd been coasting by on a flag shield for really retarded comments. People recognized me and had friendly feelings toward me and didn't want to call me out when I was being a retard.
>>2671714Thank you for explaining to us everything, thank you for your service.
>>2671939>Russia could be in a position to attack NATO within several yearsIt's a killing-social-programs scam. They don't actually believe this. They know that Russia right now is in a position to attack NATO. They also know that Putin doesn't have the chutzpah to attack a NATO country even if there were some benefit in doing so, but frankly, there's no benefit in doing so with the way that NATO countries are roping themselves.
>>2671946The vast majority of my posting (and my posting is also vast) isn't replying to other flags, nor are my posts often replied to by other flags. My typical interaction ITT is pointlessly arguing with anons who intermittently switch between having an encyclopedic knowledge of my posting history and being a random pass-byer totally new to the thread and making a cold read on my personality, as is the privilege of anonymity.
Perhaps Ushanka, FARC and the dearly departed IntBrig think I'm a pathetic wanker for constantly feeding the trolls and it tiresome that on average I make up about 50% of each thread by volume, I wouldn't disagree with them if they do, but you gotta do what you do for your own reasons and that's why I own up to my own posts with a flag.
>>2671968I'm not filtering flags, but you never know what people really think while you're using one. It likely doesn't matter all that much in political generals, because as long as you're vaguely for or against a particular position, people aren't going to bother with the details, but it does matter on boards like /games/ and /tech/, where topics are fast-moving and people are prepared to jump at minutiae over tech specs, character details, etc.
>>2671980It's an irrelevancy, in terms of being sheltered by friendly feelings, since very little of my interactions are with other flags.
Perhaps anons would be more open minded with my posts if I didn't use a flag, but it's impossible to go back now even if I wanted to. The server reset where this flag was briefly lost was indicative of that.
>>2671990other flags and well-wishers*
>>2671559Assume that The Champagne didn't use a flag for this post. Would people be none the wiser? Of course not! These overwrought, verbose posts full of neurotic fixations and wonder are a digital fingerprint, and people were pestering him to use the flag when they recognized him so easily (make up your minds!).
The Champagne, by using a flag, is offering a humane service to those who don't want to read his… output (easy filter) – and also a humane service to his fans like me who enjoy giving /ukr/ a scroll every few days to see the latest… techniques.
>>2672001Thank you for your patronage.
I'm still not letting this thread turn into just another intellectual shithole for western chauvinists, when there is so much of the internet for that already.
>Russians regard Poland and Lithuania as their greatest enemies among a list of 12 countries (not including Ukraine) presented to them in a survey by the Levada Center, an independent polling organisation.
>Asked how they assess the countries, 62% of respondents said that Poland and Lithuania are “enemies”. That was more than for the United Kingdom (57%), Germany (50%), Sweden (40%), United States (27%), Israel (25%), Turkey (3%), Iran (2%), North Korea (2%), China (1%) and India (1%).
>Meanwhile, only 2% of Russians see Poland as a “friend”, the same proportion as for the UK and Sweden. The figure was even lower, at 1%, for Lithuania, Germany, and the US. Russians were much more likely to see China (29%), North Korea (28%), India (24%) and Iran (18%) as friends.
Based. Special depolonification operation when
>>2672086That's actually insane that Lithuania attracts more ire than the UK
>>2672029
King Lear is not MIA. Once a month he drops by to shove his map of fascist ethnic nationalism - oops, sorry, "self-determination" in everyone's face claiming it is the only way communism can be achieved.
Also what the fug does the DPRK have to do to win over more Russians? Surely that should be 62% at least
>>2672086>Asked how they assess the countries…27% said the US is an enemyYup Russia is 100% cooked if less than 30% of the Russian population thinks America is an enemy.
>>2672090Baltoids are pretty hateable
>>2672101Yeah but London tries really hard to be hateable
I know we make fun of Putin's history lectures, but I'm convinced you can't actually piss off Russians. Poland and Lithuania are top of the chart by tradition, even Germans sending Cat-named tanks to Kursk again failed to stir 50% of (interviewed) Russians into considering them an enemy.
But tbh I already knew this having met Russians, the idea that they're these ravenously aggressive and bloodthirsty beings was always hilarious next to the westoids I've had to suffer suggesting mass bombings of random countries is humanitarian
Which country is russia invading next?
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