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« Reply #22250 on: May 28, 2023, 04:24:48 PM »
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« Reply #22251 on: May 29, 2023, 12:46:13 AM »
Quote from: CumbrianLefty on May 28, 2023, 09:38:53 AM

Well the good thing there is that the original Cultural Revolution didn't last that long, was afterwards seen as a disaster, and its architects discredited if not actually put on trial.
Ten years with a hot phase of two years. Just like Putin's wars.

And the Gang of Four was condemned more in the course of the struggle for Mao's inheritance than in actual lustration. It is as if in post-Nazi Germans condemned Bormann, Goering, Goebbels and Eva Braun, but continued to worship Hitler. Pol Pot's hell, decade of semi-hybrid warfare against Vietnam and crushing students with tanks were carried out as if Mao was still alive.
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« Reply #22252 on: May 29, 2023, 03:09:17 AM »
« Edited: May 29, 2023, 03:15:21 AM by Woody »
This (might) be the largest drone attack so far in this war. Iran is really pumping out those drones. Also, some cruise missiles were launched.




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« Reply #22253 on: May 29, 2023, 03:11:35 AM »
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« Reply #22254 on: May 29, 2023, 05:11:45 AM »
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« Reply #22255 on: May 29, 2023, 05:57:32 AM »
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7641035/quake-felt-May-28-2023-Near-Bucha-Kyiv-Ukraine.html

"Unconfirmed earthquake or seismic-like event: Kiev, 25 km southwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 5:21 am (GMT +3) - 1 day 9 hours ago"

It seems the scale of Russia's missile attacks and Ukraine's interception missiles in Kiev was so great it might have caused an event that was mistaken for an earthquake.  Or there was a real earthquake at the same time as a Russian missile attack
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« Reply #22256 on: May 29, 2023, 06:06:47 AM »
Quote from: jaichind on May 29, 2023, 05:57:32 AM
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/7641035/quake-felt-May-28-2023-Near-Bucha-Kyiv-Ukraine.html

"Unconfirmed earthquake or seismic-like event: Kiev, 25 km southwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 5:21 am (GMT +3) - 1 day 9 hours ago"

It seems the scale of Russia's missile attacks and Ukraine's interception missiles in Kiev was so great it might have caused an event that was mistaken for an earthquake.  Or there was a real earthquake at the same time as a Russian missile attack
Has anything of this kind ever happened before?
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« Reply #22257 on: May 29, 2023, 09:41:30 AM »
« Edited: May 29, 2023, 09:48:18 AM by Storr »

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« Reply #22258 on: May 29, 2023, 10:23:03 AM »
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Well, the Motherland Monument, which, in a way, is seen as a protector of Kyiv is facing Moscow and the east, not the west. It too was designed by the Soviets.
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« Reply #22259 on: May 29, 2023, 10:40:45 AM »
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You don't need a translation to understand how terribly cheesy this 2008 recruitment ad is:
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« Reply #22260 on: May 29, 2023, 01:12:48 PM »


Slava Ukraini
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« Reply #22261 on: May 29, 2023, 02:30:30 PM »
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100 is probably an exaggeration, but even killing half of that number in one strike is significant:



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« Reply #22262 on: May 29, 2023, 08:56:24 PM »
This dumbass didn't even get his own country's genocidal propaganda right. The Kremlin line is that there is no Ukrainian language, not that there shouldn't be one.






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« Reply #22263 on: May 29, 2023, 09:36:33 PM »
Meanwhile in "Free Europe" it is pretty clear that Denmark just went ape s**t crazy when it came to military donations for Ukraine.
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« Reply #22264 on: May 29, 2023, 09:41:45 PM »
Quote from: Storr on May 29, 2023, 08:56:24 PM
This dumbass didn't even get his own country's genocidal propaganda right. The Kremlin line is that there is no Ukrainian language, not that there shouldn't be one.


In fact, the Kremlin always tries to veil and disguise its messages from the uninitiated, and in order to understand the real meaning, one must listen to petty radical politicians and unofficial propagandists.

By the way, it is significant that Didenko has a 100% Ukrainian surname. Russians are effective in forced assimilation.
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« Reply #22265 on: May 29, 2023, 09:53:31 PM »
Quote from: NOVA Green on May 29, 2023, 09:36:33 PM
Meanwhile in "Free Europe" it is pretty clear that Denmark just went ape s**t crazy when it came to military donations for Ukraine.


$2.6 bn is enough for a small non-belligerent country, but in a conflict with Russia sponsored by the PRC and Iran, it's not much. It is literally two modern air defense batteries or two squadrons of modern fighters.
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« Reply #22266 on: May 29, 2023, 10:58:13 PM »
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Quote from: Storr on May 29, 2023, 08:56:24 PM
This dumbass didn't even get his own country's genocidal propaganda right. The Kremlin line is that there is no Ukrainian language, not that there shouldn't be one.


In fact, the Kremlin always tries to veil and disguise its messages from the uninitiated, and in order to understand the real meaning, one must listen to petty radical politicians and unofficial propagandists.

By the way, it is significant that Didenko has a 100% Ukrainian surname. Russians are effective in forced assimilation.

I looked him up and yep: Didenko was born in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. His father (also a politician in Russia) was born in what's now Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
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« Reply #22267 on: May 30, 2023, 01:07:13 AM »
« Edited: May 30, 2023, 01:20:21 AM by Storr »
It seems both combatants are stepping up their drone attacks. Russia attacked Kyiv three times in the last 24 hours (a first since February 24th) and now Moscow's getting targeted. I guess when there has been little to no movement of the frontlines for many months, all the two sides can do is launch kamikaze drones at each other:







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« Reply #22268 on: May 30, 2023, 07:08:29 AM »
Russia is, of course, calling this "terrorism". Oh my sides.
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« Reply #22269 on: May 30, 2023, 08:32:51 AM »
« Edited: May 30, 2023, 08:36:40 AM by Red Velvet »
South Africa is granting diplomatic immunity to all BRICS heads of state ahead of the BRICS meeting in August, opening the door for Vladmir Putin to go despite ICC condemnation, organization which South Africa is a member of.
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« Reply #22270 on: May 30, 2023, 09:23:13 AM »
Ya clearly the ICC is the corrupt institution here and not the government inviting the guy who’s committed genocide to their country to own the West
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« Reply #22271 on: May 30, 2023, 09:36:28 AM »
How can India be in both BRICS and the Quad?
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« Reply #22272 on: May 30, 2023, 10:15:42 AM »

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« Reply #22273 on: May 30, 2023, 10:21:09 AM »
Quote from: Estrella on May 27, 2023, 12:35:06 PM
Чемодан-вокзал-Россия!



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« Reply #22274 on: May 30, 2023, 10:30:14 AM »



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