pomdapi

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by pomdapi 4y ago
Both his parents are compliance lawyers, his father a professor at Stanford. How delusional could he and they be considering he bought them 130M of real estate ?
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by pomdapi 4y ago
How do they know if said thingamajig is unidentified ?
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by pomdapi 4y ago
Does he mean the one when Chamberlain convinced Czech Republic to give its larger army to Germany, it's superior tank factories, concede territory to both Germany and Poland, to rescind the security guarantees the SSSR gave to Czechia
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by pomdapi 4y ago
It's good never to underestimate your enemy out of pure spite, it prevents loss in battle and war. I also think you entire missed the tense of my answer, which is that they are _getting experience_ in the present, while staying freshly
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by pomdapi 4y ago
It's got about half of that combat troops, according to IISS Military Balance 2021, of which 400K are ground troops. What they do however is rotate them very often. Reportedly they spend a week at a to,e on the battlefield, then they g
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by pomdapi 4y ago
Bureaucracy
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by pomdapi 4y ago
If I'm not mistaken about the solar plant we're talking about, not quite : That Canadian-financed solar plant has basically been held hostage for the last 3 years by president Zelensky's political financier Mr. Kolomoyski. Af
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by pomdapi 4y ago
> Which countries' oil supply do you think would no longer reach them if Turkey refused to allow transit? - Current oil and gas from the Caspian Sea Basin, from the Azeris and Iranians[0] - Future oil and gas from the Caspian (Azer
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by pomdapi 4y ago
Except this isn't a competition of popularity, but geographic-politics. If you lose Turkey, consequences are: - Lose in max 20 years for good all of the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaidjan, etc) and the access to oil and gas which US and UK
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by pomdapi 4y ago
Legends die hard.
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by pomdapi 4y ago
We already stepped in it. A number of pundits and public figures have been tweeting (I know, ironic) sentences in substance similar to "Free speech advocates are the promoters of white supremacy and white colonialism", also said e
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by pomdapi 4y ago
> it like how all of the Mckinsey types who turned into counter-terrorism consultants around 2004. If you look at a number of developping political scandals, it seems they turned to pandemic consultants two years ago in at least France,
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by pomdapi 4y ago
That all nice and well. Not to sound to much of a "doomer": But, in the meantime, how are you going to manufacture all of the necessary inputs for the eco-transition if half of europe's manufacturing capacity is offline for l
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by pomdapi 4y ago
Or a horrible witch hunt if it isn't.
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by pomdapi 4y ago
> I'm not GP, but thanks for this comment. No problem. Thanks for reading it. It was somewhat cathartic to write. > It just shows how we just see one side of the picture in the West. Yes, and feel I could only make sense of the d
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by pomdapi 4y ago
(sorry, it's a long one, you caught me on a day off, so I wrote long) > Don't they have a right to decide? So why not let them take that risk if they wish? Of course they do, they are recognized as a sovereign nation. And again
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Did I get this straight : The article says in essence says he supposedly replaced in his houselhold both known knowns and known unknowns with unknown unknowns in the interest of improving security and thwarting poisoners in the direst time
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Fair enough.
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by pomdapi 5y ago
A caveat concerning my position: The Rubicon (or RubiDon would be more apt) has been crossed by Russia. Nobody in charge is actually interested in rehashing the morality of any recent past. A new cold war is on, and all of this will disappe
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by pomdapi 5y ago
I saved the article for later reading, but I can't fail to notice the formulation of the title. Merriam-Webster defines "rogue" as: <<... of or being a nation whose leaders defy international law or norms of internation
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Erm, not excusing this horrible invasion in any way, but c'mon, this is a near parody of a propaganda rewriting of recent history, but from the other side... They sought all ways of agreements continuously for 15 years, and which reque
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by pomdapi 5y ago
> The second best time is now? I don't disagree. I was merely pointing out it's going to be bad a lot until it gets good again.
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Also, the guy is/was from the 77th, like Twitter's guy in charge of content moderation, or Facebook's, who was an aide to Nato's deputy secretary, so, take all of this "we wuz champions of Information Operations, wh
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Duplicating factories takes time.
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by pomdapi 5y ago
A response to the 2-in-1 superposed/slanted N-Z- of Azov I guess ? /s But more seriously, Z was for Zapad troops which were from the Western military regions (Belgorod, Rostov barrack setc), others had V for Vostok from the Siberi
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Babel.
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Who's to say god isn't (a) hydrogen atom(s) ?
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by pomdapi 5y ago
Fear and Loathing in Western Ukraine, is the point of that title's framing.
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by pomdapi 5y ago
There's plenty of concern trolling to go around. And Poroshenko sending the army and battalions of neo-nazis to attack Ukraine's own citizens wasn't a first punch thrown by a bully ? Why didn't NATO nations or the UN rea
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by pomdapi 5y ago
> BBC might be biased but it is not straight propaganda and lies as RT. How do you know that ?

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