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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-22 13:47 [#02616668]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Creveld
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RussellDust
on 2022-02-22 14:18 [#02616669]
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Ukraine on the brink probably You still can’t share a link properly
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-22 14:24 [#02616670]
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The Transformation of War Edit Of particular significance is his 1991 book The Transformation of War (UK: On Future War), which was translated into French, German (New German edition in 2004), Russian, and Spanish. In this treatise of military theory, van Creveld develops what he calls the non-trinitarian theory of warfare, which he juxtaposes to the famous work by Clausewitz, On War.[4]
Clausewitz's trinitarian model of war (a term of van Creveld's) distinguishes between the affairs of the population, the army, and the government.[5] Van Creveld criticizes this philosophy as too narrow and state-focused, thus inapplicable to the study of those conflicts involving one or more non-state actors. Instead, he proposes five key issues of war:
By whom war is fought – whether by states or by non-state actors
What is war all about – the relationships between the actors, and between them and the non-combatants
How war is fought – issues of strategy and tactics What war is fought for – whether to enhance national power or as an end to itself
Why war is fought – the motivations of the individual soldier
Van Creveld notes that many of the wars fought after 1945 were low-intensity conflicts (LICs) which powerful states ended up losing. The book argues that we are seeing a decline of the nation-state, without a comparable decline in organized violence. Moreover, in his view, armies consistently train and equip to fight a conventional war, rather than the LICs they are likely to face. Consequently, it is imperative that nation-states change the training of their armed forces and rethink their weapon procurement programs.
The book's significance is attested to by the fact that until the middle of 2008, it was included on the list of required reading for United States Army officers, and (with Sun Tzu and Clausewitz) the third non-American entry on the list.[6] Van Creveld's Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton is now included on the list as well.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-22 15:26 [#02616671]
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even my aphex site is getting politically hot this afternoon
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-23 03:09 [#02616678]
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LAZY_TITLE looooooool
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2022-02-23 11:14 [#02616680]
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LAZY_TITLE
i was right essentially from start to finish here but no one really seemed to care so i haven't kept returning with updated predictions.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2022-02-23 11:16 [#02616681]
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LAZY_TITLE ~ it is not trivial to link specific points in specific threds on xlt.
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2022-02-23 14:46 [#02616685]
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What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
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DADONCK
from here on 2022-02-23 20:19 [#02616686]
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im trolling this YouTuber kid who is whoring out his Russian identity for years to get clicks and subs and now is too afraid to give a real statement about the situation. he just deleted my comment calling him out on it, calling him a 90s homeshopping channel. ah, my mere existence…
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-24 07:32 [#02616687]
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putin couldnt sell a switch on tv
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-24 07:56 [#02616688]
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seriously? looked up the pro russian referendum of 2014 in east ukraine.
wikipedia tells a different story. guess there is always two sides to it, but im not buying it.
look at the numbers: 2014 75%pro russia in donbass
1991 75% pro independence in all regions including the ea...
i find it hard to believe that the same families that voted for independence in the east changed their mind and rather be part of a oppressive system. on the other hand if putin found a way to get the votes without breaking peoples legs, he might have an argument.
is it an option to let donbass be russian? and what is to gain from that? im really just starting to get into the matter. the news havent sufficiently concluded this matter to me.
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2022-02-24 08:40 [#02616689]
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sooo it looks like this is going to be a full on invasion then. "denazification" is the russian line; 5 ukrainian planes and a helicopter downed already. fuck
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 09:42 [#02616690]
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I think this is going to be harder than the Russians realise, they will get a bloody nose from this economically and otherwise, going to be a very costly war from them
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 10:12 [#02616691]
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Ive seen people on facebook parroting Kremlin propaganda that Ukraine government are nazi enablers. Sure there are groups of Nazis in Ukraine but seems like its vastly overstated as a pretext for war
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-24 12:40 [#02616692]
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30 years of progress down the drain. and for what exactly? im quite shocked about the planes. not a good sign at all.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 12:58 [#02616693]
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If he attacks a NATO country it will be WW3, this is brown trouser time, I hope its the end of Putin, this will trash Russia in several ways. e
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2022-02-24 15:54 [#02616694]
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brutal timing
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 16:00 [#02616695]
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fucking hell lol
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 16:01 [#02616696]
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The fear they have put into children, evil isn't the word
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 16:01 [#02616697]
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LAZY_TITLE
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-24 16:15 [#02616698]
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hopefully that isn't a propaganda vid by the way
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-24 17:03 [#02616702]
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10545641/Putins-gi ves-chilling-warning-West-early-morning-TV-broadcast.html
Putin's speech in fullhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10545641/Putins-...
the america and its satellites bit scared me the most and the bit about what happened in libya, syria, iraq etc.im sure putin could take out the western governments quite quickly. what will happen then is chaos everywhere as people fight for power. everyone against everyone.
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-24 17:05 [#02616703]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_warfare
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-24 17:51 [#02616704]
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what scared me most was his face uttering the threats psycho
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-24 17:54 [#02616705]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W57I2mzAr9c
Putin's speech in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W57I2mzAr9c
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-24 17:55 [#02616706]
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ah wait the audio on that is shitty
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2022-02-24 18:22 [#02616707]
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what u are experiencing is feelings related to the end of the unipolar world order
it's fine
it's not a problem
also, justin trudeau owes putin a thank u note
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-24 18:54 [#02616708]
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i thought it was multimegapolar until now
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2022-02-24 19:01 [#02616709]
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my brain is melting
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Advocate
on 2022-02-24 19:33 [#02616710]
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right in ur cranium
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Cliff Glitchard
from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2022-02-25 00:30 [#02616712]
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It's ok, Biden has got this.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 00:56 [#02616713]
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the controls to his stairmaster?
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 03:01 [#02616714]
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saw a funny comment on youtube live cam amongst the racial slurs and stuff
"Biden is Mason Verger"
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 03:30 [#02616715]
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Peter Hitchens has a turnip for a brain
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 03:33 [#02616716]
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He's right about the bbc though
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 03:35 [#02616717]
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Weird how he totally avoids the question about Prince Andrew
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recycle
from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2022-02-25 07:32 [#02616720]
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We invade Putin…the end.
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-25 07:34 [#02616721]
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There's no way anyone can defend Putin now
It's like Biden kept punching a bear in the face then wondered why the bear scrammed him with his claws. Biden is a fucking mong. I even said this would happen if Biden got in.
But Putin has crossed the line now. It's too late to stop the war. tens of millions will die.
the survivors will have to pick up the pieces.
uk is so divided brexit vs pro brexit, trump vs biden etc
there will be civil wars all over the place
look at iraq, libya, afghanistan and what happened there. private military companies, people fighting for their families, for their rights, for resources, for food, to impress women, fighting for whatever
i can see boris and biden and their crews being first to be killed, putin will aim the nukes at the leadership.
there's no way this war will end soon. it's going to spread like wildfire
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-25 07:39 [#02616722]
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he´s yet to attack a nato country. just pray that wont happen. until then its sanctions all the way.
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recycle
from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2022-02-25 07:41 [#02616723]
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Third World War We All Die
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recycle
from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2022-02-25 07:42 [#02616724]
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I’m glad our country is just at war will poor Mexicans trying to get in and escape their lives
And Country Canada who…. Yeah America’s Hat is coo
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-25 07:43 [#02616725]
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im afraid poland could be drawn into this and then we can kiss our asses goodbye
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2022-02-25 07:49 [#02616726]
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during the cold war the ussr had a plan to use nukes under the ocean on the west and east coast of the usa to cause radioactive tidal waves and tsunamis. this tactic would work even better on an island... the uk.
my friend in kiev had no plan... she's still there now
this war aint going away, time to make a plan now, wherever you live
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2022-02-25 07:59 [#02616727]
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just seeing the ukrainians made me think, what i would grab and where i would go. its not working out though. and millions of cars going the same way in my area.
hope your friend is alright.
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Roger Wilco
from Mo's Beans on 2022-02-25 09:47 [#02616729]
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I like Peter Hitchens, I don't agree with everything he says, and he is a pompous, seemingly non-self aware, humourless, oversensitive windbag... but I don't hate him.
ANYWAY. My take on Ukraine situation? Get ISIS in there.
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big
from lsg on 2022-02-25 11:30 [#02616733]
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That's pretty good. Western imperialism on display.
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big
from lsg on 2022-02-25 11:33 [#02616734]
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The West is the worst. I'm not gonna support another imperial power, but am happy to help bringing down the one I live in. 'Reform' it though socialist revolution (of the more anarchic kind).
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2022-02-25 13:23 [#02616736]
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"My take on Ukraine situation? Get ISIS in there. "
Ah well now, that only works where the terrorists are indigenous.
"The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army," explains a former CIA analyst. "The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia." In a certain sense, the Cold War is still going on. For years Graham Fuller, former Deputy Director of the National Council on Intelligence at the CIA, has been talking up the "modernizing virtues" of the Islamists, insisting on their anti-Statist concept of the economy. Listening to him, you would almost take the Taleban and their Wahhabi allies for liberals. "Islam, in theory at least, is firmly anchored in the traditions of free trade and private enterprise," wrote Fuller. "The prophet was a trader, as was his first wife. Islam does not glorify the State’s role in the economy."
- Richard Labévière, Dollars for Terror, 2000
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 14:02 [#02616737]
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Oh yeah I don't hate him, i find him quite amusing, he is right on some stuff and terribly wrong on others!
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-02-25 14:02 [#02616738]
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But aren't we all
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