Malcador

Tropico has put the part from 5:51 in the back of my mind for years

https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-tells-african-leaders-moscow-is-studying-their-ukraine-proposal-2023-07-28/ Good for them to try, but too early still.

Came in and found that a DB job has been failing every day for 6 months, and no one has noticed. Head dev asked pertitent question of "What does this job actually do then ?" I am beginning to think that 90% of operations in my company don't actually DO anything

God damn forum. Yep, I mean if France or whoever decided to go on a training exercise that would be the reasoning given. Not sure it'll come to that, though, is a far off conflict

They can always invade, as per the rules based international order.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/26/world/russia-ukraine-news/this-is-the-big-test-us-officials-describe-a-new-ukrainian-effort-to-sever-russias-hold-on-the-south?smid=url-share It has begun. For real this time

Sinead O'Connor

Solution in search of a problem.

Doens't really seem like he wrote that. Sure is being marketed to me as yet another reason this war is a global struggle and no nation can shrug their shoulders at it, heh. Price impacts would matter, though.

Should just have called it the Black Sea Agricultural Initiative.

https://www.un.org/en/black-sea-grain-initiative/data Neat breakdown, and people always talk crap about the UN.

China probably wants the grain they were getting from Ukraine.

Because Satan's power was waning.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/24/russia-says-it-foiled-a-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-moscow Guess they missed with one

Well, don't worry, it'll be fixed by DLC

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-lack-of-weaponry-and-training-risks-stalemate-in-fight-with-russia-f51ecf9 ( https://archive.is/D6CQZ ) "When Ukraine launched its big counteroffensive this spring, Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons—from shells to warplanes—that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day." Sort of a comic way to start off the article. Seems like lay people's expectations were way too high for the counteroffensive, the marketing worked too well.

I'd thought this was to buy it, but seems like it's just to activate what you paid for? Pretty tame for a scam all said.

Canada and the US wouldn't mind making a buck off this crisis.

They should do the Battle of Nuremberg, the Mineirazo next

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66266344 Okay, this was a unny way to mess with news sites

He went off on Putin recently and has taken shots at him, the MoD, etc. a lot in past. People used to wonder how he was still around. Is a funny juxtaposition with Prigozhin, though

Probably should have restricted that percentage to Ukraine, could be 50/50, 70/30, 10/90.. Will eagerly anticipate the US media interpretation of Girkin's arrest, maybe they'll trot out that clown McFaul for insight.

I thought there'd be a boycott