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Should be a wild four years.

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The U.S. is NATO. Some backup.
We actually got some NATO backup here in the USA after 9-11. We were short of AWACS planes due to expanded requirements and some NATO birds helped out for a while.


On another subject, saving a double post, this war has played hell with both Ukraine and Russia demographically. Heavy losses in combat, plus thousands crippled for life, plus everyone in both countries who has departed for foreign lands. Both countries were already in the shit demographically but this accelerates matters.

Basic Russian demographics. Not good...for them.


Basic Ukrainian demographics. Even worse than Russia.



And basic US demographics.

 
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Unsurprising. It's fucking Vermont, The New England state that is bluer than even Massachusetts. Place is full of rich, white NIMBY progressives and fuckin' BOINIE SANDUHS is one of their senators.
I probably hate Vermont more than any other state, they exemplify the worst aspects of New England. It's a state of self-hating whites voting for things that destroy the rest of the country while they sit back in their ivory tower away from it all and get to feel good about themselves. All of New England is like this, they don't have to deal with the consequences of their actions at all thanks to their location and mostly white population.
 
British PM Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to 'patch things up with Trump' - Telegraph

This shit is so embarrassing, dude. European leaders make this grand gesture saying "We stand with Ukraine!" shit but in the end they send him back to daddy for help.
 
British PM Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to 'patch things up with Trump' - Telegraph

This shit is so embarrassing, dude. European leaders make this grand gesture saying "We stand with Ukraine!" shit but in the end they send him back to daddy for help.
Did he really say that? lmao
 
>tfw you haven't seen your ukraine nerdbro for a couple of years

I keep hoping it's just because there's bigger things for him to worry about than watching cartoons and wrasslins with the gang...
There's a pair of Eurojank RTS/RTT games made by Germans, published by Russians and modded by Ukrainians I've gotten into, the Men of War: Assault Squad series. One of the most impressive mods made for it was one for the Russian Civil War, with 700+ historically accurately armed & attired units (viewable in their online unit encyclopedia) spread out over nearly 20 factions (besides Red and White Russians, who are respectively divided into 2 and 5 subfactions, there's also the various independence-seeking nationalists such as the Poles/Ukrainians and two entire foreign invader factions - Czechoslovaks & Japanese - represented). Alas the original creator of the mod, a Ukrainian soldier, was killed in a skirmish in the Donbas all the way back in 2019, before the full Russian invasion was even underway and hostilities had been limited mainly to those two easternmost oblasts. His team is still trying to carry on his work, somewhat recently they added the Baltic nations and it seems they're working on Azerbaijan's unit roster so presumably the Caucasian ones will follow, but obviously they haven't been the same since.

Then there was that STALKER 2 dev Volodymyr Yezhov, who was killed in the Battle of Bakhmut, and so on. God knows how many past, present & future Slavjank dev auteurs from both sides were pointlessly killed and will continue to die in this war. If nothing else, I really hope for this war to end before many more Russian & Ukrainian gamedev talents perish in a trench instead of actually making & profiting off of vidya that would blow most if not all Western AAA offerings out of the water. Feels like the Russo-Ukrainian War is to gaming what WW1 was to the writers & poets of Tolkien's generation, he was one of the lucky ones and a lot of his similarly creative friends never got to realize their full potential & make suitable companions to LOTR because of a random German shell, bullet, disease in the trenches, etc.
 
I probably hate Vermont more than any other state, they exemplify the worst aspects of New England.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, etc are full of lower income whites who think they're super sophisticated just because they live in New England. Snotty assholes.

It's the weirdest thing. They'll be living in their grandma's old house, with the roof caving in and a cracked foundation. They'll be unemployed half the year and almost get their electricity cut off for non-payment. But they act like they're American royalty if an outsider dares to talk to them.

The rudest service I've ever had traveling was in New England. Even waiters in small town restaurants treat tourists like shit. Guess who is keeping you in business, moron?
beyond all of that, aren't most drugs semi-legal that people are using? most of the opioid crisis can apparently be traced back to real prescriptions. Whats stopping the pill mills?
I don't think that's true anymore. The pills on the streets are mostly counterfeit pressed pills. Grandma might be selling her pain pills, but that's only a tiny bit of the supply. Most druggies are taking street benzos and fentanyl.
 
Alas the original creator of the mod, a Ukrainian soldier, was killed in a skirmish in the Donbas all the way back in 2019, before the full Russian invasion was even underway and hostilities had been limited mainly to those two easternmost oblasts
the global neighborhood really has been a hell of a thing
 
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It's all faggy theatre. America is full of theatre kids, but europe is fucking ran by them! :stress:

Iceland does not have a standing military. It is one of the few countries in the world without its own armed forces. Instead, Iceland relies on its membership in NATO, particularly with the United States, for its defense. Today, Iceland contributes to its defense through a small, civilian-led Iceland Coast Guard (Landhelgisgæsla Íslands), which handles maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement in Icelandic waters and airspace.
 
British PM Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to 'patch things up with Trump' - Telegraph

This shit is so embarrassing, dude. European leaders make this grand gesture saying "We stand with Ukraine!" shit but in the end they send him back to daddy for help.
TBF, "we stand with Ukraine" doesn't mean "We will support a civvy-wearing coke-head being disrespectful to international statemen".
Trump and Vance should have kept their demeanour as well and the jab about "do you own a suit, zelensky?" was such a hollywood zinger as to be embarrassing, even if we all think it, they are not the people who should be saying it.

The EU and world-powers have always maintained a level of decorum and decency and, for the EU and the UK especially, to see someone (Zelensky) act in such a disrespectful manner, goes against everything we believe in and practice, day in, day out in our political affairs. It's no surprise that Starmer has told him to fix his shit.
 
Europe isn't like America, where we have an immense MIC constantly bribing politicians for contracts. They have scattered good parts- intel, special operations teams, good tech, etc, but they have no real powerful industrial weapons and vehicles manufacturing base and even in a best-case scenario they're far away from it. Remember that until recently only America, the UK, I think Spain and Estonia were the only countries hitting the NATO minimums. They literally presumed the burgers would fix any problems and let shit fall apart.

Not many people know this...

The biggest army after America in NATO.

Are the Turks.

And those double faced double crossing kebabs are doing their own gay ops in the middle east like propping up Al Qaeda in Syria and now want to join the EU again.
 
I probably hate Vermont more than any other state, they exemplify the worst aspects of New England. It's a state of self-hating whites voting for things that destroy the rest of the country while they sit back in their ivory tower away from it all and get to feel good about themselves. All of New England is like this, they don't have to deal with the consequences of their actions at all thanks to their location and mostly white population.
New Hampshire is the only one with a lick of political common sense, but barely hanging on by a thread.

But yeah. I have a particular loathing for the likes of Markey and Warren since they're a pair of deeply corrupt and sanctimonious slimeballs. They doth protest quite loudly at DOGE in particular. Gee, I wonder why?
 
you know the Brooks Brothers is right there in DC and could probably fit Zelenskyy for a suit in like an hour. Probably a nice blue suit with a yellow hankerchief. Trump specifically asked him to wear a suit before, so I really think that pissed him off a lot more than is understood.
I think the suit thing is more a clear message. The tracksuit is Zelinsky playing an army man character, a suit would at the very least him signaling he’s serious about peace.

I’ll never respect Zelinsky though. He’s an actor who did incredibly gay shit and I do not think he’s his own man.
 
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"Here to defend Ukraine." Did they recently change the Ukrainian flag to a rainbow/trans flag? 'Cause that's all I saw.
Saw a few Ukrainian flags but mostly saw the deviant flags. Figure the odds of ANY of those flag-wavers going to Ukraine, putting on a uniform, and fighting on the front line.

Been thinking about the situation some. Believe fairly soon someone's going to show Zelensky just how much support actually comes from the USA vice Europe and just how long Ukraine could hold off the Russians without that support. Then we'll see Zelensky meeting President Trump and maybe also Vice-President Vance for some public reconciliation, followed by the start of armistice talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the USA. Again am reminded of Korea, where while the armistice talks were ostensibly between China and North Korea on one side and the USA and South Korea on the other, the actual main players were the USA and China. Here, my best guess is the USA working as an honest broker to address each side's concerns in an armistice. These talks could take some time; hopefully get a cease-fire in place before or soon after the talks start.
 
It's all faggy theatre. America is full of theatre kids, but europe is fucking ran by them! :stress:
Thanks for chiming in Iceland! I'm sure your performative tweet will make the orange man rethink things.

Man, I totally forgot how gay everyone acts when Trump is in office. I have my criticisms, but damn all the theatre kid energy is just peak neo-liberalism.
 
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