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#61251

Japan : Nato ::  Missouri : SEC east

 

But if it pisses off Putin, I'm for it

 

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    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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#61252
13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Speaking of NATO, Japan is opening a NATO liaison office, the first one in Asia.   Japan is liable to wind up in NATO somehow.  NAPTO?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/asia/japan-foreign-minister-hayashi-nato-intl-hnk/index.html

Way to fucking go Putin

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they can't. only European states can apply for membership.

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Article 10

The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.

 

#61253
- "Ukrainians are the first in history to shoot down an air-launched ballistic missile" - a leisurely morning sipping “Earl Gray", taking a bite of a delicate shortbread cookie that a grandmother baked the night before. https://t.co/j87EAuoDAp

 


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There isn't a shortage. We are just using ammunition dumps to successfully intercept Ukrainian HIMARS missiles.
Ukrainians making some strong claims about their effectiveness in destroying Russian forces in Bakhmut. Wiping out whole units and retaking a large piece of ground. It does seem more and more that they believe that followed exactly the right strategy there.

 

#61254
24 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
- "Ukrainians are the first in history to shoot down an air-launched ballistic missile" - a leisurely morning sipping “Earl Gray", taking a bite of a delicate shortbread cookie that a grandmother baked the night before. https://t.co/j87EAuoDAp

 

 

 

Cool.  Now let's see what they're gonna do with Bradley's, Abrams..ses and F goddamn 16's.

#61255

Japan may not be able to be in NATO, although I'm sure we could amend the charter somehow. At the same time, I'm sure NATO could unilaterally sign some form of wholesale treaty with Japan/Australia/South Korea that makes it basically the same thing. Might as well get to work on the problems in the Pacific as well, right?

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#61258
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#61260
52 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Japan may not be able to be in NATO, although I'm sure we could amend the charter somehow. At the same time, I'm sure NATO could unilaterally sign some form of wholesale treaty with Japan/Australia/South Korea that makes it basically the same thing. Might as well get to work on the problems in the Pacific as well, right?

nobody would care about that alliance unless the big dog was in.  and we might be interested to contain china.

 

edit - thought you were saying the pacific states only.  missed the part where you said nato joined.  oopsie

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#61261
This move would align Britain with the views of Estonia, Lithuania and FranceIt should restrict Yevgeny Prigozhin's ability to weaponize British courts against those who investigate Wagner's activities. Critical after the Elliott Higgins Bellingcat case https://t.co/OLxGHr2t1f

 

#61266
1 hour ago, The Dog said:

they can't. only European states can apply for membership.

 

What if someone gave Japan an island or some acres of land so that they could claim it as part of Japan?  

 

What if Japan bought some of those square feet for sale from Scotland ( https://www.scotlandtitles.com/ )... I mean NATO can't refuse a Scottish Lord, right?

#61268
seems like the 3rd brigade is giving payback to the 72nd and wagner... thats the good news...better news is that there are 8 more assult brigades like them out there not fully fighting yet

 

#61271
12 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

It's not like there is going to be some sort of official announcement, but I think we can safely say that the counteroffensive has begun, right?

We can say with confidence that the Ukrainian counter-offensive began about a week ago. https://t.co/OBLn578QZu

appears so.

i'd say it's more they are attacking targets of opportunity due to Russian attrition.

#61272
1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Japan may not be able to be in NATO, although I'm sure we could amend the charter somehow. At the same time, I'm sure NATO could unilaterally sign some form of wholesale treaty with Japan/Australia/South Korea that makes it basically the same thing. Might as well get to work on the problems in the Pacific as well, right?

We used to have that, it was called SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization), but it got disbanded in 1977: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/seato#:~:text=In September of 1954%2C the,gaining ground in the region.

#61273
Commander of the Ground Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky, reports on the situation in the Bakhmut area."We are conducting effective counterattacks. In certain sectors of the front, the enemy was unable to hold back the onslaught of the Ukrainian defenders and retreated…

 

#61274
Another summary from Prigotzhin on Bakhmut as of 10 May: no ammunition given despite the instructions of the past few days; says Bakhmut was necessary for the Russian army to regroup. Does not add much context as to why the shell hunger might be happening apart from…

 

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#61275
3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

 

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The Kaliningrad thing is really interesting.  It is home to a huge military base--primarily navy.  But much of that garrison has been sent off to Ukraine.  And of what is left there . . . doesn't want to be sent to Ukraine.

Historically, Russian revolutions start with or are fueled by naval mutinies.  The Potemkin in 1905, the Kronstadt mutiny in February 1917, the Aurora in October 1917--they reflect pretty clearly that the navy has always been the most politically suspect of all of the services.  And the Soviet Union recognized that--the Soviet Navy had a zampolit on every boat, and the navy was never really trusted.

You have to wonder how much of this sentiment had made its way inside the Russian Navy base at Kaliningrad.  Certainly the easiest way for these sailors and marines to ensure that they don't get sent to Ukraine is to . . . be in the Koenigsberg Navy rather than the Russian one.

And from a practical standpoint, if it were to happen, I don't think there's a lot Moscow could do about it in the near term.  There's no overland route to the Kaliningrad Oblast.  So any ground expedition to retake it would have to be amphibious.  And that would be pretty impossible if the local garrison were supporting the secessionists.

But that's of course a big "if."  And it's an "if" that probably depends entirely on the military's morale and present sense of how things are going (and are likely to go) in Ukraine.

#61276
2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Japan may not be able to be in NATO, although I'm sure we could amend the charter somehow. At the same time, I'm sure NATO could unilaterally sign some form of wholesale treaty with Japan/Australia/South Korea that makes it basically the same thing. Might as well get to work on the problems in the Pacific as well, right?

I would not be surprised to see NATO evolved to be a new version of the UN without Russia and China and with more bite when it comes to stopping wars and genocides.

#61278
"All against all...complete disunity of the front" - Russian volunteer Anastasiya Kashevarova explains what happened between Wagner and the 72nd Brigade in Bakhmut in a long Telegram post. She says Russian Forces are not allowed to communicate with Wagner. Wagner was forced to…

 

#61279
Russia will formally withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)Sergey Ryabkov has just been appointed as President's official representative during Parliament's deliberations over denunciation of CFERussia suspended participation in CFE in 2007
The Times reports that the #UnitedKingdon added the #Wagner PMC to its list of terrorist organizations.

 

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#61281
19 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Historically, Russian revolutions start with or are fueled by naval mutinies.  The Potemkin in 1905, the Kronstadt mutiny in February 1917, the Aurora in October 1917--they reflect pretty clearly that the navy has always been the most politically suspect of all of the services.  And the Soviet Union recognized that--the Soviet Navy had a zampolit on every boat, and the navy was never really trusted.

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#61282
i would be shocked if some russian commanders are not on the phone with ukr commanders cutting deals right now to be bypassed or trenches not manned in return for giving up.

 

#61283
⚡️President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili at a briefing called for the introduction of three-month visas for citizens of russia.
She added that the cancellation of russian visas and the resumption of air travel will cause a violent reaction among Georgian society. According to her, the Georgian authorities need to understand that tussia does not respond to concessions with concessions.

 

#61285
1 hour ago, MillerEP said:
"All against all...complete disunity of the front" - Russian volunteer Anastasiya Kashevarova explains what happened between Wagner and the 72nd Brigade in Bakhmut in a long Telegram post. She says Russian Forces are not allowed to communicate with Wagner. Wagner was forced to…

 

 

#61288
⚡The Russian Federation has stopped paying wages to the occupation administrations in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region. It is reported by the Center for National Resistance.

 

#61290
4 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

It’s starting to feel like the Russian occupation could collapse much faster than I thought was possible.

Military operations often fail the same way that people go bankrupt: very slowly....then all at once.  Failure and collapse are very contagious.

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#61291

^NSFW Warning: Blew his own brains out over a broken leg. During my entire time in the Marines the thought that my buddies wouldn't do everything in their power to save me if I was injured is just unfathomable. This tells you a lot about the Russian Army and the situation they put themselves in.

 

#61292
11 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

It’s starting to feel like the Russian occupation could collapse much faster than I thought was possible.

Like a supernova 

#61293
some Russian troops decide to sneak into Ukranian defense line only to find out it was a bad idea.it was a lesson hard-earned.

^Didn't fly as high as yesterday's video

ISW congratulates @nytimes for its #PulitzerPrize winning investigation identifying the Russian unit behind the Yablunska Street killings during the #Bucha Massacre & is honored to have contributed insight that helped expose Russian atrocities in #Ukraine. https://t.co/Lnvm4GSCz9

 

#61294

Some serious big-brain shit from Hungary’s CHOD.

1939 was a “local German-Polish War” and WWII could have been avoided if they just worked out peace. USSR is not on the scene. 
 

"Let's think of the Second World War, in 1939 the German-Polish war started as a local war, and what was the end? That escalation was not caught - if I can put it like that - in time by a peace process, and it led to the Second World War," Gábor Böröndi, the new Chief of the…

 

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#61295
5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

 

I mean, guys...I didn't tell y'all EVERYTHING that happened while I was in Finland.  A gentleman is discrete.

Okay, but then why are YOU being discrete?

#61296
#Russia's army took just 6.8 square miles of Ukrainian territory in April, less than a 0.02% increase, US think tank says, as military losses mount https://t.co/XsaBcq7f3N
Whenever posterior protection obsessed prattlers from the pusillanimous DC think-tank claptrap circle publish op-eds about Ukraine's chances I am slightly infuriated as they consistently denigrate Ukrainians, which soldier for soldier are the BEST FIGHTING FORCE on the planet now

 

#61297
2 hours ago, Auto Driller said:

It’s starting to feel like the Russian occupation could collapse much faster than I thought was possible.

Man. It looks like everything is a rotten house of cards with them at this point. "How are you a superpower?" seems pretty prophetic.

I'm here for it.

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#61298
4 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
#Russia's army took just 6.8 square miles of Ukrainian territory in April, less than a 0.02% increase, US think tank says, as military losses mount https://t.co/XsaBcq7f3N
Whenever posterior protection obsessed prattlers from the pusillanimous DC think-tank claptrap circle publish op-eds about Ukraine's chances I am slightly infuriated as they consistently denigrate Ukrainians, which soldier for soldier are the BEST FIGHTING FORCE on the planet now

 

Tap the brakes, Thomas. 

#61299
2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

^NSFW Warning: Blew his own brains out over a broken leg. During my entire time in the Marines the thought that my buddies wouldn't do everything in their power to save me if I was injured is just unfathomable. This tells you a lot about the Russian Army and the situation they put themselves in.

For me, watching him trying to stand on his broken leg and it collapsing was way more cringey than watching him take his life a few seconds later. 

#61300
5 hours ago, Parliament said:

Don't they own the Rockefeller Center already?  American soil.  Application approved.

I know they don't teach geography in school anymore, but I'm pretty sure that America is not part of Europe.

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