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Damn , Poland is serious with replacing their old tanks and planes with new tanks, howitzers and planes. They ordered a huge amount of tanks and self propelled howitzers in South Korea and/or the license to build them in Poland which is a heavy expenditure for this country. I wouldn't have a problem if Poland would get some extra money from other EU countries for this. They are EU's first and maybe most important defense line after all.



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Ryuu96 said:

Lol. Alaska, again. 😴

And a couple other countries.

So I can make out Ukraine and Belarus have been annexed on that map, and presumably Transnistria as well (but its so small its hard to make out). Which others?



SecondWar said:

So I can make out Ukraine and Belarus have been annexed on that map, and presumably Transnistria as well (but its so small its hard to make out). Which others?

It seems to be a copy-paste of the outlines of a map of the Russian Empire during the 19th century. Which includes things like Finland, Alaska, central Asia and parts of what is now Poland, but that also means they apparently mean to give Kaliningrad back to someone (though the creator of this t-shirt probably wasn't intelligent enough to notice this).



Ryuu96 said:

"No Cancel Culture" Unless you're gay or you criticise our leader, then we'll beat your ass.

Isn't no cancel culture about being able to attack gay people without being shunned for it though? Well that's how some homophobes see it based on comments you see online that they been shut down and not able to speak their mind.



 

 

Ryuu96 said:

Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia.

An MP from the Serbian Progressive Party, Serbia's largest party, wrote on Twitter earlier today that Serbia will be forced to begin the denazification of the Balkans but he follows up that denazification can be done through education, he is ranting a lot about denazification though. Of course, he is just one MP though and every country has their odd crazy bastard MP so he's probably Serbia's.

Will try to keep an eye on it but it's probably just sabre-rattling. There is a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo and I doubt Serbia would do much to distract from Ukraine. I don't think NATO would have much issue backing Kosovo against a non-nuclear country either, not the slight reluctance they have in helping Ukraine too much in fear of provoking Russia cause they have nukes.

That could be more dangerous than it appears at first glance though as it could be a spillover conflict that ends up widening the scope of the War in Ukraine. The Nato force in Kosovo is small and would likely be bolstered if an attack was expected, but it would drag Nato into active conflict, particularly if Russia send some of it own forces to support Serbia. Also, would an attack in a Nato peacekeeping force trigger Article 5?

This is the sort of thing that would escalate into a World War.



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Ryuu96 said:

Seems believable. Especially the video-evidence, I mean, speaks for itself.



Ryuu96 said:

Sounds like the Russians have hired Padib to run their PR campaign.



Ryuu96 said:
S.Peelman said:

Seems believable. Especially the video-evidence, I mean, speaks for itself.

Can't tell which is worse, the HIMARS in the second floor of a building or this...

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JFC...HIMARS really has them shook.

The good news is that they apparently don't even know what the HIMARS look like.