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[statsman 5,473]

3 hours ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:

If this war action by Putin can instigate a sequence of events that leads to a more fractured east/west global economic system, then it will have accomplished quite a bit for Russia. Dollar hegemony, western geopolitical influence, balance of trade, these are goals Putin and xi seem to be aligned on.

I have seen this argument proposed by Russian apologists on other forums. I categorically reject it. If Russia and China desire a replacement for the USD as the global reserve currency (“solar hegemony”), the way to accomplish that is by shoring up domestic economic systems, in transparency and regulation, and not by rolling ranks across the border. 

[MillerEP 30,492]

 

[MillerEP 30,492]

minus Russian tanks 

[Ghost of LL 15,539]

5 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

minus Russian tanks 

The clearest signal Kazahkstan has ever sent concerning its orientation toward the West vis-a-vis Russia came a few years ago, when it changed the official alphabet of the Kazakh language from Cyrillic to Latin.

One wonders whether this is something the Ukrainians would undertake in the near future.

[MillerEP 30,492]

Bakhmut direction, good strike from #93ombr #vsu

 

[utee94 15,835]

14 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

The clearest signal Kazahkstan has ever sent concerning its orientation toward the West vis-a-vis Russia came a few years ago, when it changed the official alphabet of the Kazakh language from Cyrillic to Latin.

One wonders whether this is something the Ukrainians would undertake in the near future.

Maybe, but I think it's currently advantageous for them to understand spoken and written Russian.  Unless/until the Russian state is completely destroyed, it will always pose an imminent danger to Ukraine (and many other countries).  Probably better for them to be able to understand and listen in, the next time Russia decides to be a piece of dick.

 

[Schulz2.0 28,967]

Russian Mi-8 shot down. Also, some nice lady in the comments.

 

[Brisketexan 105,161]

I'm PRETTY sure I've mentioned around here how much Annalena adores me and wants to be with me, right?

Next time the wife and I are in Berlin, she's definitely getting an invite to join us for dinner.  And if one thing leads to another, then so be it.

[MillerEP 30,492]

Kherson region, the enemy hid the tank in the house, but it didn’t help

 

[TexasEd 8,067]

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Then there's that whole Turkish thing where if you fight well, they love you, even if they are fighting you back. The Ukrainians have proved worthy.

 

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

This phrase can cover SO much ground.....

[MillerEP 30,492]

Video of work with resets of the Soldiers of the 30th OMBr Glory to Ukraine! Death to the Russian invaders!

^First video is gruesome, just in time for Halloween 

 

[pops 7,005]

6 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Video of work with resets of the Soldiers of the 30th OMBr Glory to Ukraine! Death to the Russian invaders!

^First video is gruesome, just in time for Halloween 

 

The bank shot was lovely!   Kissing it high off the glass 

[MillerEP 30,492]

Probably, Russian self-propelled guns got a little sick 

 

[blacklab 11,941]

This is a thread on Ukraine. Take the chinese cheerleader shit somewhere else.

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

For doing so poorly in combat, and having to recruit prison inmates, Wagner seems to be taking in the bucks

 

[MillerEP 30,492]

 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

 

Not even the best military in Ukraine and talking about taking over other countries. 

 

[MillerEP 30,492]

25 separate Sicheslav Airborne Brigade send a "flaming salute" to the Russian invaders! The enemy infantry fighting vehicle and infantry were destroyed by well-aimed shots! Each hit target is another step towards victory. For brothers and sisters, for the people, for Ukraine! We will win!

 

[Macanudo 12,994]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I'm PRETTY sure I've mentioned around here how much Annalena adores me and wants to be with me, right?

Next time the wife and I are in Berlin, she's definitely getting an invite to join us for dinner.  And if one thing leads to another, then so be it.

I see  a NowThis kind of night in your future.

[RDCanecutter 26,454]

45 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Not even the best military in Ukraine and talking about taking over other countries. 

 

Belgium fixin to go mannekin pis all over whatever Russians manage to get through Poland and Germany... uh...

OK, all over whatever Russians manage to cross Poland.

[ABSR 5,319]

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

 

This is like the Nazi’s short bus cousins.

[staboner 4,984]

10 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

It's only been a few hundred years since Istanbul ruled what is now pretty much all the Ukrainian coast. That's like a week ago if you drink coffee with lots of grounds in it. I've never met a Turk, Greek, or [insert Balkan ethnic group] who wasn't constantly mulling over How Things Used To Be. Turks surely must consider the Black Sea their pond to patrol, and the Russians as heathen intruders.

Then there's that whole Turkish thing where if you fight well, they love you, even if they are fighting you back. The Ukrainians have proved worthy.

 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

Interesting

 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

[KYHorn 17,096]

12 hours ago, MillerEP said:

Video of work with resets of the Soldiers of the 30th OMBr Glory to Ukraine! Death to the Russian invaders!

^First video is gruesome, just in time for Halloween 

 

 

12 hours ago, pops said:

The bank shot was lovely!   Kissing it high off the glass 

I've seen both before but not with this quality. In the second, the grenade hit that dude in the leg and he just thought the sky was falling for a few brief moments.

[Schulz2.0 28,967]

Lol

 

[Post Oak 20,251]

14 hours ago, MillerEP said:

Video of work with resets of the Soldiers of the 30th OMBr Glory to Ukraine! Death to the Russian invaders!

^First video is gruesome, just in time for Halloween 

 

 

14 hours ago, pops said:

The bank shot was lovely!   Kissing it high off the glass 

 

[Schulz2.0 28,967]

 

[Schulz2.0 28,967]

 

[956 Worldwide 34,728]

15 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

The clearest signal Kazahkstan has ever sent concerning its orientation toward the West vis-a-vis Russia came a few years ago, when it changed the official alphabet of the Kazakh language from Cyrillic to Latin.

One wonders whether this is something the Ukrainians would undertake in the near future.

I am firmly against this for a number of reasons. 
 

First, the Cyrillic alphabet is objectively better suited for most Slavic languages (it was designed for them, after all). Take a look at the clunky consonant combinations of Polish or multiple odd diacritical marks in Czech which are elegantly solved with one letter in a Cyrillic alphabet. 
 

Second, Kazakh is a horse of a different color. Kazakh is a Turkic language written in a borrowed Arabic script for centuries until the Soviets imposed a Cyrillic reform. A move to the Latin script is in line with what their Turkish linguistic cousins did, and Cyrillic was never a pillar of literary or written Kazakh. And it doesn’t really signal integration with the West; Kazakhstan remains firmly authoritarian and balanced between China, Russia, Turkey with a wary eye to the Muslim world and an transactional approach to the far-away “West.”

Most importantly, Cyrillic belongs as much to Ukraine, if not more so, than to the Russians. Ukrainian has never known another alphabet.  The language grew organically from Old East Slavonic to Ruthenian, to Ukrainian and the alphabet with it. It’s use in literature and holy texts and images— whether in the Eastern Rite Church (where the Slavonic liturgy was a hard won and jealously guarded compromise with Rome) or in Orthodoxy (which has deeper roots in Kyiv than Moscow).  Ukraine had a right to this heritage. It’s theirs, it’s not Russia, and they can belong to the community of Western ideas and still be Ukrainian. That’s the whole idea. 

[Schulz2.0 28,967]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,205]

10 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

 

[RPM 26,326]

Drones shooting down drones? Wasn't that an episode of Bob's Burgers? 

[Chad Fuck 17,687]

Drones shooting down drones? Wasn't that an episode of Bob's Burgers? 

Same tech evolution of air warfare as manned aircraft, just 100+ years later.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

4 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Same tech evolution of air warfare as manned aircraft, just 100+ years later.

With his fifth intercept, some software developer shows up to the office with his ACE badge. 

[Parliament 14,263]

13 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

With his fifth intercept, some software developer shows up to the office with his ACE badge. 

 

[Chad Fuck 17,687]

With his fifth intercept, some software developer shows up to the office with his ACE badge. 

He was already dressed as “Maverick” in a flight suit he bought out of a bag from Spirit.

*Parliament beat me to it.

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

41 minutes ago, RPM said:

Drones shooting down drones? Wasn't that an episode of Bob's Burgers? 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Lol

I remember earlier this year when Putin the gambler decided to gut the training groups to get more soldiers into Ukraine, and one of the analysts mentioned that if Russia had to mobilize and train up large numbers, they were screwed.

Here we are in November and Putin needs Belarus to train his mobilized conscripts.

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

 

[atomheartbevo 89,735]

 

[Dahobbs 17,625]

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I am firmly against this for a number of reasons. 
 

First, the Cyrillic alphabet is objectively better suited for most Slavic languages (it was designed for them, after all). Take a look at the clunky consonant combinations of Polish or multiple odd diacritical marks in Czech which are elegantly solved with one letter in a Cyrillic alphabet. 
 

Second, Kazakh is a horse of a different color. Kazakh is a Turkic language written in a borrowed Arabic script for centuries until the Soviets imposed a Cyrillic reform. A move to the Latin script is in line with what their Turkish linguistic cousins did, and Cyrillic was never a pillar of literary or written Kazakh. And it doesn’t really signal integration with the West; Kazakhstan remains firmly authoritarian and balanced between China, Russia, Turkey with a wary eye to the Muslim world and an transactional approach to the far-away “West.”

Most importantly, Cyrillic belongs as much to Ukraine, if not more so, than to the Russians. Ukrainian has never known another alphabet.  The language grew organically from Old East Slavonic to Ruthenian, to Ukrainian and the alphabet with it. It’s use in literature and holy texts and images— whether in the Eastern Rite Church (where the Slavonic liturgy was a hard won and jealously guarded compromise with Rome) or in Orthodoxy (which has deeper roots in Kyiv than Moscow).  Ukraine had a right to this heritage. It’s theirs, it’s not Russia, and they can belong to the community of Western ideas and still be Ukrainian. That’s the whole idea. 

Cyrillic is also decidedly not Russian in origin, but rather Bulgarian (with some borrowing from the alphabet created by Cyril and Methodius from Byzantium/current Greece). 

[Parliament 14,263]

Well feel free to fuck off and die

 

[Bevo 13,580]

2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Well feel free to fuck off and die

 

I think you are being a little harsh on the cryillic alphabet.

[Trey3216 15,349]

6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

She's just a fuck

I can't explain it cuz I think she sucks

I'm taking pride

I'm telling her to fuck off and die.  

[Kyrie Eleison 9,312]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I am firmly against this for a number of reasons. 
 

First, the Cyrillic alphabet is objectively better suited for most Slavic languages (it was designed for them, after all). Take a look at the clunky consonant combinations of Polish or multiple odd diacritical marks in Czech which are elegantly solved with one letter in a Cyrillic alphabet. 
 

Second, Kazakh is a horse of a different color. Kazakh is a Turkic language written in a borrowed Arabic script for centuries until the Soviets imposed a Cyrillic reform. A move to the Latin script is in line with what their Turkish linguistic cousins did, and Cyrillic was never a pillar of literary or written Kazakh. And it doesn’t really signal integration with the West; Kazakhstan remains firmly authoritarian and balanced between China, Russia, Turkey with a wary eye to the Muslim world and an transactional approach to the far-away “West.”

Most importantly, Cyrillic belongs as much to Ukraine, if not more so, than to the Russians. Ukrainian has never known another alphabet.  The language grew organically from Old East Slavonic to Ruthenian, to Ukrainian and the alphabet with it. It’s use in literature and holy texts and images— whether in the Eastern Rite Church (where the Slavonic liturgy was a hard won and jealously guarded compromise with Rome) or in Orthodoxy (which has deeper roots in Kyiv than Moscow).  Ukraine had a right to this heritage. It’s theirs, it’s not Russia, and they can belong to the community of Western ideas and still be Ukrainian. That’s the whole idea. 

[Bateshorn 9,928]

Cyrillic alphabet talk not going away.

[Chad Fuck 17,687]

4 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Cyrillic alphabet talk not going away.

Thread title is Cyrillic, after all.

[Post Oak 20,251]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I am firmly against this for a number of reasons. 
 

First, the Cyrillic alphabet is objectively better suited for most Slavic languages (it was designed for them, after all). Take a look at the clunky consonant combinations of Polish or multiple odd diacritical marks in Czech which are elegantly solved with one letter in a Cyrillic alphabet. 
 

Second, Kazakh is a horse of a different color. Kazakh is a Turkic language written in a borrowed Arabic script for centuries until the Soviets imposed a Cyrillic reform. A move to the Latin script is in line with what their Turkish linguistic cousins did, and Cyrillic was never a pillar of literary or written Kazakh. And it doesn’t really signal integration with the West; Kazakhstan remains firmly authoritarian and balanced between China, Russia, Turkey with a wary eye to the Muslim world and an transactional approach to the far-away “West.”

Most importantly, Cyrillic belongs as much to Ukraine, if not more so, than to the Russians. Ukrainian has never known another alphabet.  The language grew organically from Old East Slavonic to Ruthenian, to Ukrainian and the alphabet with it. It’s use in literature and holy texts and images— whether in the Eastern Rite Church (where the Slavonic liturgy was a hard won and jealously guarded compromise with Rome) or in Orthodoxy (which has deeper roots in Kyiv than Moscow).  Ukraine had a right to this heritage. It’s theirs, it’s not Russia, and they can belong to the community of Western ideas and still be Ukrainian. That’s the whole idea. 

Beat me to it.