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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

We need to stop trying to make a peace deal until Moscow wants to.  This is ridiculous.

This.  Full stop.

I've negotiated with plenty of irrational, maximalist opposing parties.  And once they have given you enough indications that is their approach, your only appropriate response is "fine.  You know how to reach us when you're ready to talk."

Then, you do two things.  First, you stand fast against everything they throw at you.  Don't back down.  Second, counter-attack and score some wins: bloody their nose.  

Opposing parties like this don't come to the table until their pain threshold is exceeded.  It is the only thing that will motivate them to seek a deal.  Any moment until then doing anything else -- and any moment that you are not devoting to doing the only thing that will advance the ball (that is, punching them in the nose repeatedly) -- is a waste of time.

Russia will deal either when Russia breaks/Putin dies, or when the pain becomes too much to bear.  And they can bear a lot of pain, so you need to inflict a lot of pain.  Well-to-do Russians freezing in their apartments in Moscow this winter, that sort of shit, is how you advance the ball.

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3 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

1) Russian dressing is the only proper dressing on a Reuben.  Putting Thousand Island on it just turns it into a kosher Big Mac.

2) Russian dressing isn't proper Russian dressing unless it has caviar in it.

3) Aside from Katz's, the best Reuben I've ever had is at Scholz's.  Damn--I'm hungry.

Katz's is great. Langer's in LA ftw. Better bread and more tender pastrami. 

there was a holy shit moment in Dublin

 

Do Trump's negotiators listen mainly to Russia? SPIEGEL has the transcript of a crisis switch, which shows how deep the distrust is among Europeans - also among Chancellor Merz and President Macron.

https://archive.is/k0bq8

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1 hour ago, morehornsepower said:

Putin apparently clarified his 'peace plan' today: "Give us what we want, or we'll continue to try to take it by force."

Fuck this guy. And fuck anyone who tries to justify taking his side.

What kind of fucked up simulation are we in where we don't even pretend to be the champion of democracy or the rule of law anymore?   😡😡😡

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

Is this even a real question?  They literally took Russia's "peace" plan, put it on WH stationary, and sent it out as the US plan.  You tell me.

I think they refrain from assuming that the reader knows everything alleged about the machinations, and provide the perspective you're looking for. I'd say that's a good thing. 

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While the Europeans always publicly praise Washington's new initiative, the paper shows that in addition to Merz and Macron, other participants of the Schalte do not trust the two US emissaries.

 

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59 minutes ago, Chopper said:

in addition to Merz and Macron, other participants of the Schalte do not trust the two US emissaries.

I'd think poorly - as in, so poorly they could never recover in my eyes - of anyone who DID trust those two absolute in-over-their-head clowns.

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Posted (edited)
15 minutes ago, B00M said:

How much of Russias gold reserve has been sold? How much money do they have left? 

Putin Laughing GIF by euronews
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve

Note that while Russian gold reserves are listed as 2,332.7 tonnes, of the 405.7 tonnes held by the National Wealth Fund at the beginning of the war, only 173.1 remained as of November 2025. From November Russia started selling physical NWF gold on the internal gold market, whereas it had previously sold it to the Central Bank, to maintain NWF liquidity while preserving physical reserves

Supposedly $215 billion earlier this year on hand.

Edit: last month it was mentions they had to dump a shitload of money into their rail infrastructure because it was losing a lot of money.  They probably had more gold than publicly known, but things are probably worse than publicly known.

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covering a jeep in mines/C4 charges and ghost riding it into a bunch of enemies is PEAK Battlefield

Former Battlefield dev here: Can confirm

Only thing that comes close is ejection seat + RPG + return to plane
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Posted
1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

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That has to be the fourth or fifth drone strike on Syzran since August.  I think that name has been coming up an awful lot the last six months

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30 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

That has to be the fourth or fifth drone strike on Syzran since August.  I think that name has been coming up an awful lot the last six months

They hit it multiple times in 2024, and hit it this year starting in February

Russia's Syzran oil refinery suspended operations following a drone attack, sources say | Reuters - February this year

Drones attack energy facilities in Russia, Syzran Oil Refinery hit - November this year

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The Syzran Refinery in Samara region is part of the Samara group of refineries acquired by Rosneft in May 2007.

The plant’s crude distillation capacity equals 8.5 mln tons (65.1 mln barrels) per year. The refinery processes West Siberian crude (produced by Yuganskneftegaz) as well as feedstock from Rosneft’s oil fields in the Samara region (Samaraneftegaz). The plant’s deep conversion facilities include catalytic reforming, fuel hydrotreatment, light hydrocracking, catalytic and thermal cracking, isomerization, bitumen production, and gas fractioning units. Syzran Refinery produces a wide range of petroleum products, such as high-quality motor fuels, jet fuel, bitumen, etc. The construction of the Syzran Refinery began before the Great Patriotic War, and the first batch of oil products was produced in 1942. In early 1970’s, the plant capacities were expanded and modernized: the crude oil distillation capacity grew by 40%, hydrotreatment and bitumen production capacities grew by more than 70%.

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The enterprise continues implementing activities aimed at reduction of non-recoverable losses. As a result, non-recoverable losses have been reduced to 0.66% of the summary processing volumes.

In 2014, 7.14 million tons of oil were processed at the Syzran Refinery, an increase by 3.8% versus 2013, and 6.8 million tons of marketable commodities were produced. The refining depth was 65.99%. Gasoline and diesel fuel of the grade Euro-4 and 5 are being manufactured.

 

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