Seedorf81
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More clues on suspected influence Ukrainians on Nordstream2.
I do not really know what to think about this, but researchers are no jokers as far as I know.
Interesting read.
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Tensions between Ukraine and Poland getting bigger.
Not helpfull at all, I think.
Origins of dispute in link:
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Shouldn't "World War" be about the number of participants (lot of countries all over the planet) and the simple fact that pretty much the entire world is directly and substantially influenced by it? (Even neutral countries in both previous world wars couldn't sail, or drive or fly anywhere they wanted. Huge parts of the world were battlegrounds or would-be batllegrounds.)
In theory you could have a World War with less than 10.000 casualties.
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Had to look twice, because I couldn't comprehend what I saw on CNN ticker:
"Russian peacekeepers evacuate people from Nagorno-Karabach".
Talk about the best example of an oxymoron..
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Azerbeidzjan attacks Ngorno-Karabach.
Air attacks, border-crossings.
Even Russia "concerned" about this escalation.
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1 hour ago, Astrophel said:
It is a shame that the CIA seems to be a shadow of its former self, otherwise we might be welcoming revolutionary coups happening throughout this new russian empire. As the CIA is today we witness less than nothing, not even in Georgia.
You may be right, but the best intelligence-work is done when we, "the public", do not know about it. (Until decades later, perhaps.)
I bet they ain't doin' nothin'.
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On topic again..
The Danish government announced new aid-package for Ukraine (The twelfth.)
780.000.000 Euro's for 2023, 2024 and 2025.
For tanks, ammo, air-defence etc.
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7 minutes ago, Centurian52 said:
Colonizing Mars isn't insane. The insane part is that he thinks it can be done in a decade or two (he has absolutely no sense for what sort of timescales these things take place on). But, as an Isaac Arthur fan, I do think we'll colonize every planet, moon, asteroid, comet, and grain of dust in this (and every other) solar system eventually (assuming we don't blow ourselves up first, but feeling optimistic).
Well, if we do colonize Mars, it will at least be very difficult for us humans to f#ck up that climate, too.
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Just saw this, thought it was a hoax, but it's the BBC, they do not makes things up. It is unbelievable.
Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66784638
One snippet:
Mr Putin said: "We acknowledged a long time ago that that part of the Soviet policy was mistaken and only led to tension in relations. One must not do anything in foreign policy that comes in direct contradiction with the interests of other peoples."
How crazy is this???
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5 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
How mother nature protects its territory. I had one making its home in my attic. But had to call in the council ranger. Orangutans don't have that problem. Possums are protected lol.
Is the orangutan Ukrainian and the possum Russian??
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8 hours ago, Fenris said:
Some out of the ordinary footage. Seen from both first person and drone camera (with sub-titles)
Here's a link the full 13 minute video
Just imagine that pilot on his debrief: "Eh, well yeah, me and my multi-million dollar super high-tech jet got defeated by a few guys in rubberboats."
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"Four oilrigs have been recaptured by Ukraine special forces."
Petro Hodovalets, Ukraine, Tavrida en Syvasj are the names, pretty close to Crimea.
Wasn't mentioned here yet, I think.
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Well, this turned sour quickly.
I was about to say how I admire the way most people on this forum give room to people who, let's say it gently, have "a different outlook" on one or more discussed items. That is, as far as my pretty extensive experience with discussions on all kinds of topics with all kinds of people goes, pretty rare.
Even when posters repeatedly showed factual ignorence, persisted in refusing to corroborate their unsubstantiated claims or statements, shied away from being reasonable, the average Battlefrontforum-poster stayed civil and patient. The administrators on this forum showed an even more lenient attitude towards "dissident" posters; also when those posters ignored CLEAR warnings that they were becoming a disruptive presence.
This forum is one of the most democratic and most reasonable "places of discussion" I have ever experienced.
If one poster gets multiple posters this annoyed, then there is no other conclusion that this poster wants to antagonize. Usually there is an underlying reason that has to do with things like loneliness, lack of self-esteem, unresolved anger, mental issues and what not.
But whatever the reason is, disrupting a perfectly decent and exceptionally high-leveled forum in this way, is reprehensable.
What a shame.
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1 hour ago, Kinophile said:
Frankly, you're very naive about this.
1. Russia is not occupied. There's no population crying out to know whays true, what's going on outside, if there's hope.
2. They have the internet and, controlled as it us, they can access BBC.com any time they want. They've had very wide access since D0.
3. External media has nothing on the RusGov control and manipulation of domestic media. It's a fart in the face of a hurricane. Russian domestic propaganda is relentless, pervasive, omnipresent and backed by legal authority, criminal prosecution and determined political direction.
4. UK is not at war with Russia. There's no military or political imperative to inform the Russian population about anything. Investing in BBC WS is pointless.
5. Russian population is not going to be swayed in any shape, way or form by the BBC world service. They don't care about western narrative or values.
Few months ago two Dutch entrepeneurs, who had businesses in Russia (I don't what kind or how long, and I was pretty shocked that they would keep on doing that), were interviewed about their experience with "average" Russians.
I was very surprised when they said that NOBODY gave a flying f*ck about the war with Ukraine. The interviewer (Dutch) couldn't believe that and asked them to elaborate. Well, as if it was the most normal thing ever, the entrepeneurs explained that in all of their contacts with all kinds of people from different backgrounds, the sentiment was the same: absolutely nobody cared!
And to make things even more surprising, when the interview ended, one of the businessguys said: "I'm going back to my business now (Few hundred kilometers east of Moscow, I believe) and I just wanna tell you one more thing: I have lived for years in Russia now, but I also do not give a **** about that war with Ukraine. Why would I?"
I hardly could believe it. Even though I understood that centuries of endless repression and terror create this kind of childlike behaviour (when young children see something scary or awful, they close their eyes and put their hands in front of their face, because they assume that if you ignore something unpleasant, it may as well not exist at all), I hadn't expected it to be so bad.
But it does indicate that Western "righteous information" or "propaganda" being brought upon Russians (or however you will call it) will not make any difference at all. It's like giving information to a stone, and expecting the stone to become less hard because of the info.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66763868
US army chief Milley and UK chief of defence staff Radakin being interviewed today.
One thing Milley says: Ukraine has about thirty days left before weather will seriously hamper further offensive actions.
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More bloody unneccesary intentional horror..
At least 16 deaths, 20 plus wounded, Russian rocket on crowded market.
Kostjantynivka, deathtoll will probably rise.
Civilians again.
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1 hour ago, FancyCat said:
Totally sounds like a leader recognizing the only way forward now for Russia and Ukraine is negotiations.
I'm 61 years old, thought I had seen it all, heard it all, but this shocks me to the bone.
I really thought: "This has to be a joke! Nobody can be such an ignorant idiot."
WOW.
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4 hours ago, kevinkin said:
I do know. But that would a subject of different thread. I live an breath these issues. Once the Sudanese debacle intersects with the Ukraine debacle maybe we can all solve the problems together. And hold hands.
Yeah, wouldn't be very wise to say something else.
For someone who "lives and breaths these issues", you have a pretty uncompromising attitude.
All the persons I met in my life that I know to be considerate and/or compassionate, and who have a reasonable amount of empathy, are usually not belligerent at all. They are full of doubts, do not want to hurt other people, refrain from aggression and sometimes even from assertiveness. They think and learn, wonder and discuss. And doubt again.
I like those people. We need those people. They are the ones that can bring us better times. Not the spitefull or aggressive ones, not the ones with the big ego's or the oh so confident ones.
To me, you do not seem to be a doubter. And where I totally understand the rage, anger and bloodlust from the Ukrainians, I have a bit more difficulty with your "assertive" way of posting. You are, according to your profile, in the USA, so not directly involved in the war, but your posts sometimes give the impression that you are on the frontlines.
In more than 12 years on the Battlefront-forums I only used my ignore button once, because I think people should be able to say what they want. But even after Battlefront-Steve asked you very polite to be just a little bit more agreeable, I do not see a nicer KevinK.
I don't like myself for it, but your posts seem to keep on triggering some sort of annoyance with me, so I am gonna use the ignore-button for now.
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2 hours ago, kevinkin said:
So how would NATO win the war and stop the killing? The current approach might, but with a huge human cost. There are other ways to defeat Putin. Watching videos of soldiers being blown up is not productive. It does not advance the conversation. Very few people on planet Earth know a war of this scale is going on. We care. Too few don't. They are oblivious.
Underlining and Italic by me.
I have my doubts whether you "care" as much about the Sudanese war.
From last April at least 6 to 10 thousand killed, 3,8 million displaced, and another million fled abroad.
Not very small scale, I reckon.
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1 hour ago, Haiduk said:
Scenario for a movie.
Recently Russians claimed their jets have sank four UKR RIBs near Tarkhankut. Unknown it was a fake or some grian of salt took place, but one Ukrainian soldier turned out in the sea. Our RIBs tried to resque him, but Russian jets have been flying over one by one and shooting with a guns, forcing our boats to maneuver and withdraw. When boats couldn't reach a soldier, TB2 Bayraktar was sent to find him. It has found lost in the sea by his thermal trail. When UAV found him, operators locked on the man and tracked him until next attempt of boats was successfull. The soldier was resqued after 12 hours in the sea
This is why Ukraine is not gonna loose.
The Russians wouldn't consider such a rescue-effort for one guy. They probably even can't imagine such a thing!
Somewhere in the late '70's of the last century, while the Cold War was raging and the USSR was perhaps at it strongest, my father assured me that he was absolutely adamant that the USSR would collapse. Because, he said, evil empires never last.
My father's long gone, but he would say: Putin's Russia will not last.
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39 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Heh... well, you must have missed all the discussion about the Russian forms of racism, including one of their favorite terms for their "little brothers" - khokhol. Not that Ukraine's favorite term for Russians (Orcs), is much better
Steve
Well, to be honest, I had a bit of a suspicion that it might have come up earlier (almost ALL subjects and ALL topics seem to end up in this thread, sooner or later
), but I didn't have the courage to go back and check the..
TWO THOUSAND EIGHTHUNDRED and FOURTEEN previous pages.
(And of course, I hoped no one would find out. Didn't realize our Battlefront-Boss sees it all, reads it all and knows it all!)
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"Surprise, surprise",
The Russian government stated today that it does not want an international investigation into the Embrear-crash.
The Brazilian aviation authority CENIPA was already denied access into the investigation, even though the Embraer is a Brazilian-made plane.
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10 hours ago, Vet 0369 said:
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These terms are nothing more than labels that people apply to others to allow themselves to feel superior to the “subsets” in some way. That practice is more commonly known as RACISM. And yes, the Americans have engendered more than enough of that, but probably no more than any other existing country in the world.
A testament to the quality of this thread:
it took 2814 pages before the subject of racism popped up. That must be a worldrecord for any thread on any forum these days.
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Reuters:
"Russian planned joint strategic excercise, ZAPAD 23 scheduled for september, highly likely canceled. Reason: too few troops and equipment available." Source British MoD.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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The article itself mentions that possibility, but not as the most likely one.