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Hi guys! Just posting from our hospital room. Not even sure what day it is, but I’m all up in this thread now, after the arrival of my first and last born spawn at the spry age of 49. Do I get an oldest dad award or anything?19 points
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I heard Blinken may have thrown some shade at Russia. Anybody got the story on that?16 points
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Well, I believe it's hard to measure those kinds of things in real time. Off the top of my head I'd say blunders that result in the end of civilizations or ruling classes probably rank higher. For example, Hannibal invading Rome - while brilliant, and I do think could've resulted in an ultimate victory had he been supported by his capital better - ended up with the complete annihilation of Carthage as a civilization. Cleopatra siding with Marc Antony ended with the massacre of her family and the ending of Ptolemaic rule and the Hellenistic domination of Egypt. The leaders of the Khwarazmian Empire probably should've traded with Genghis Khan rather than attack his caravans and behead his ambassadors. The Fourth Crusade sacking Constantinople didn't really do the Christian West a whole lot of favors in the long run. Charles XII invading Russia probably wasn't the best idea in retrospect. The Ottoman Empire siding with the Axis powers. Germany invading Russia and Japan attacking Pearl Harbor weren't great decisions at the time, but Germany is in great shape in many ways as a country/society, as is Japan. The War of 1812 didn't look like such a hot idea when Washington D.C. was being burnt to the ground and the British Navy was making plans to do the same thing to Baltimore (thanks Fort McHenry!). Probably the decisions that led to the breakup of the Soviet Union - such as the invasion of Afghanistan - rank higher in some senses than this right now, simply because the Soviet Union was more powerful and a greater existential threat even beyond their possession of nuclear weapons. But a lot of these - maybe all of them - are foreshadowing dire circumstances which would have come into play eventually anyway. There are a lot more that are more obscure that I'm leaving out. Lots of civilizations have come and gone in existential competition with neighbors, many of them after starting a war they thought they could win, or at least had to start on their own terms because it was "them or us." But as of this moment, it sure seems like one of the great all time geopolitical blunders. Certainly within modern times. They had a nice lucrative trade going on with Europe. The countries there were loathe to do anything to piss Russia off for fear of the consequences. They had possession of Crimea, and no real consequences for taking it, and no one was going to do anything to force them to give it back. The country that would seem to benefit from this the most is China, since they have ambitions to lead the world in their vision of a new world order, and Russia's setbacks take them away as a potential rival to the West, while also drawing so much condemnation and enmity that they're forced to become vassals to the Chinese in many respects.13 points
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Could be, given where Russia was seen prior to February of 2022, as the second most powerful country in the world. And being this is 2022-2023, it’s particularly bad given the interconnectedness of the world’s supply chains, economies, etc. as well as how high-tech things are - economic sanctions have an incredibly powerful bite now versus say a century ago. They can’t even put fucking airbags in their Lada shitboxes. They struggle to make more than a few dozen tanks a month, they are firing off nearly as many cruise missiles as they make every month. Gone are the days of peasants cranking out T-34 parts in low-tech factories. Now the parts they need for just their tanks rely on other countries’ manufacturing capabilities, which makes it harder for Russia. As the former second most powerful nation in the world, this really has to sting for them. I’d consider these things major factors in your calculations of biggest blunder: They’ve put their economy on the path that could break Putin’s grip on power. Economic problems doomed previous Russian governments in the 1910s and after the Afghanistan war (and US’s SDI) in the late 80s. Russian demographics heading into 2022 were already suffering. Now they are inarguably worse as the prime male population has taken a hit with deaths and injuries. And many of those returning from the war will be broken and looked down upon, just as they were in Afghanistan and the two Chechen wars, and will struggle to provide for families. And they’ve lost potentially 750,000 young men in their prime who fled the country’s mobilization. Russian influence on surrounding countries, including former Soviet republics, has been greatly weakened, and these countries even mock Russia. NATO is strengthened and has been given a brand spanking new lease on life. NATO is also expanding in a way that has shocked everybody - Russia forced Finland and Sweden to drop their neutrality, which is stunning. Ukraine is going to be left much, much stronger in the long run. Putin has gutted Russia’s conventional military. They no longer have a reserve they can rely on. They could not stop a conventional invasion before it reached Moscow without nukes. They’ve lost so much institutional knowledge. Putin has made Russia a vassal state of China, and India to a lesser extent. This is the biggest blunder. The Chinese will take advantage of them, and are. Given Russia’s power in the world prior to last year, I feel like it could be the biggest blunder., especially since it was mostly an attack on a single neighbor a third it’s size, and not a full-on war of conquest against an entire continent.11 points
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What's wrong with me? There is a video that perfectly conveys my point: I never seem to tire of it.11 points
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My son searches river and creek beds for arrowheads, he's found several hundred. He's quite good at finding them. Built this for him to store and show off some of his better ones. Made it with cherry wood and inlayed bocote wood on the top and made the drawer pulls from bocote as well. The top section has a removable tray.11 points
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65681806 Good quick summary. As someone upthread said these are groups whose interests are currently aligned against Putin so they are working together. There's also the National Republican Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Army_(Russia) who are responsible for attacks deep within Russia and take responsibility for killing Dugina (which many find dubious). Anyway there's a whole rabbit hole you can go down but if these groups manage to coordinate and work together they can cause problems. Right now Ukraine is using them to make Russia move forces out of Ukraine to defend its own borders from Russian rebel attacks. Ukraine doesn't really care what they stand for as long as they help get Putin's Russia out of Ukraine.10 points
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Things not only getting more heated around the border but also in the studio. Gotta love this one guy's "bitch please" looks when arguing with these morons.10 points
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Like "not a cultural fit" is an insult to us.9 points
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I just want to give a preemptive “fuck you” to any other show writers or filmmakers that use “Father and Son” during a pivotal and emotional parental reconciliation scene. The first four notes came on and my wife loudly said “goddamnit!!!!” while I had already started tearing up like a little bitch. Fucking dickheads.9 points
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