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Imagine...
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The allies of Germany (except Bulgayria which did an amazing performance considering it’s size,population and the fact that they had two fronts or even three if you consider Greece and Serbia as separated fronts) sucked big time. Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had serious problems handling the Russians, if I recall correctly Germany had to send troops to the Galicia-Lodomeria/Carpathians front because the Russians pushed the Austrians back. The Ottoman Empire had a Southern front as well so they had a better excuse. Of course, Austria-Hungary had also other fronts like Italy, Romania and South Balkans but if they military was not that incompetent they could have steamrolled the balkans (this includes Romania) and focus on Russia (Italians were also extremely incompetent so they were not a pressing matter).
Also, never trust Italians.
BO when will you give me access to wherever bernd.group is hosted I want to try to train an AI to remove obvious pedoposts.
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It's so fucking over for us, German bros.
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Scenario 1:
You go for a walk in the forest and enjoy your afternoon.
<Zero economic activity.
Scenario 2:
You drive around in your car to get an ice cream and run over a child riding a bike. Thankfully, it only breaks a leg and doesn't die, but the child's leg and bike are broken, the car needs repairs.
>Ice cream and sugar industry sales
>Bike shop gets to sell a new bike
>Car repair shop gets business
>Hospital gets business for treating the child's leg
>Insurance companies increase rates
>In short: Lots of economic activity, solely created by suffering
not so over like these ones
>be cUcK/FRance
>win both wars
>germany is still better than you
i remembar japan also was about to surpass USA economy in 1980, so they forced them to sign plaza accord
Idk why is being the largest economy in the world is so important, maybe is a relevant nowadays because your products dominate the market
how did humans lose the tail?
through skating i have discovered that there are way more muscles (grip-muscles i'd guess) in my legs and especially my foot than i would have assumed. thinking about it i would have preferred having a tail then not having a tail. this would be quite useful for balance, assuming it would be at least somewhat strong. maybe not as strong as an arm but with a little bit of strength i could use it to push myself off walls or hold myself to a streetlight. a third weak arm on the back? yes please! might be annoying during sleep though.
ever since thinking about a tail more, i noticed i have muscles where my tail used to be. i can imagine clearly how it would be. there are just muscles above the bunghole that i can flex to move the tail around. i either have those muscles or maybe it is some genetic memory of having had them in the past.
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>do you wear a helmet while skateboarding?
no. it's not a bad idea to wear a helmet. when you are still new and don't know what to expect. when i do something dangerous or something i have not done before or when i feel like it then i do, otherwise not.
i've never been injured skating. i had one absurdely dangerous fall. i was riding very fast (not downhill but still fast) free skates and a particularly unfortunate configuration occured where a large pebble was whirled up by the wheels, got stuck in between the skate and the wheel, blocked the wheel while my weight was on it and the skate just broke off the path i had intended for it to go. so i was on one wheel while my weight was on the wheel that was drifting to the side.
and then this thing happens what you lovely involuntary celibate gentlemen are still in denial about and call me schizo for: time slowed down. and since time was slowing down i took my time and have a debate on how to handle the situation. i was calmly and carefully weighing all my options and decided to extend my arm upwards, swing it forward, and make a roll like sonic. WORKED PERFECLTY! from full speed i suddenly toppled over arm first, then the head then the back. basically breakdance quality move. i rolled over, dispersing all the momentum into a roll. no injury, all i did was scratch the top of my shoe a bit.
onlookers must have believed i died when they saw the speed with which this must have happened outside of the slowdown but of course nothing happened. i got up, got back on the skates and continued my ride as if nothing happens. lol similar things have happened quite a bit. when people see me fall, they always think it is dangerous catasrophe and rush towards me believing i must have suffered catastrophic injury, but no. the injury from skating does rarely come from accidents, it is always from overconfidence.
when you progress slowly, not doing stuff that is too risky and focus on developing a sense of balance then accidents barely happen because you can see them a mile away and you have plans for everything and if you don't then time still slows down when you need it to.
>i know very well what you mean with time slowed down in dangerous situations because i ride my racing bike like an idiot and i still somehow manage well
might be the nervous system overclocking the internal processor to allow for reaction time. i think some people are on edge all the time as if this had some advantage over a relaxed state of mind but clearly the relaxed state of mind can continue to be relaxed even in dangerous situation. the danger then expresses itself not through fear or reflex but through perception of time.
>still, thinking that you are in controll 100% of the time is, perhaps not a sign of schizophrenia, but very well a proof of stupidity
bitch i skate with an umbrella, you wanna pretend i believe i control the wind that drags me around? that's nonsense. it is a combination of knowing most dangers, early detection and preventing dangerous situations from occurring, seeking for ways to diffuse the danger if it happens, having the benefit of time slowed down, ability to minimize damage during fall and then protective gear.
that's so many layers of preventing danger. though this idea of 100% in control is important because when you injure yourself on a skatethingy you can see it as simple as this: you either did something wrong or you failed to prevent it. either way it is your fault, either way it was unnecessary. let that sink in.
tree falling on top on you when you were skating. is that your fault? yes. because you lacked the environmental awareness to dodge the tree. when you are near a tree you have to know in advanced that it might fall or that a branch might fall. it's all your fault, everything is. branch drops and slaps you in the face, knocking out a teeth. that's your fault for not seeing it coming.
>that profile description
Damn bernds, that german anon who was always saying "women are too pure for this world" was right
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don't ignore car maintenance, Brent
this could have easily or injured or killed me if it happened at a higher speed
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Question to anons from the US. Recently, some interesting news came from the US regarding UAP. Although almost all major publications wrote about it, but I have a suspicion that the topic did not cause much noise in the American public sphere, and 99% of Americans missed it, although I’m not sure. If we talk about ordinary people (for example, your parents), did they come across this news, do they know who David Grusch is, and that there will be hearings in Congress on July 26
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The Moscow Times has since spoken to one of the individuals directly involved in these talks. The former U.S. official agreed to speak on condition of anonymity given the confidential nature of the discussions.
“There is an eminent need for track 1.5 diplomacy when the world gets closed off as it has now,” the former official said.
Meetings between the U.S. and officials in the Kremlin have been taking place at least twice a month, often through an online format.
“I have been visiting Moscow at least every three months,” the former official said.
When it came to the Kremlin’s willingness to lay its cards on the table, the former official stated: “We were given some access to the Kremlin’s thinking, though not as much as we would have liked.”
From his vantage point, sitting across from senior Kremlin officials and advisers, it was apparent that the greatest issue was that the Russians were unable to articulate what exactly they wanted and needed.
“They don't know how to define victory or defeat. In fact, some of the elites to whom we spoke had never wanted the war in the first place, even saying it had been a complete mistake,” he said.
“But now they’re at war — suffering a humiliating defeat is not an option for these guys.”
“It was here that we made clear that the U.S. was prepared to work constructively with Russian national security concerns,” the former official added, breaking from the official U.S. line of squeezing Russia financially and isolating it internationally so as to prevent it from continuing its war against Ukraine.
“An attempt to isolate and cripple Russia to the point of humiliation or collapse would make negotiating almost impossible — we are already seeing this in the reticence from Moscow officials,” he said.
“In fact, we emphasized that the U.S. needs, and will continue to need, a strong enough Russia to create stability along its periphery. The U.S. wants a Russia with strategic autonomy in order for the U.S. to advance diplomatic opportunities in Central Asia. We in the U.S. have to recognize that total victory in Europe could harm our interests in other areas of the world.
“Russian power,” he concluded, “is not necessarily a bad thing.”
On the subject of Russia's deepening relationship with China, the former official acknowledged that completely severing ties between Moscow and Beijing was unrealistic. However, efforts should be made to limit the extent of this relationship, he argued. Washington’s goal is to strike a balance that prevents an overwhelming consolidation of Russian power while fostering diplomatic opportunities in Asia, where Moscow plays a significant role.
“This does not mean we are abandoning Ukraine or Europe,” the former official was quick to note. “Rather, we want to find ways of guaranteeing Ukraine’s independence while bringing Russia back as a more creative player in European security.”
Both the U.S. and Russia should have used greater strategic imagination in the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the official argued further. In recent years, Moscow has become especially resentful after the Biden administration did not prioritize efforts to rebuild strained U.S.-Russia ties.
The Biden administration thus realized — albeit too late — that Russia sought to be taken seriously, with its military build-up at Ukraine’s borders in 2021 a tactic to gain attention.
“There has been a severe lack of sustained U.S.-Russia dialogue on European security,” the former official said, “and our negotiations in early 2022, prior to the full-scale invasion should have remained confidential, but the Russians proceeded to leak the details. This made the negotiation process far more difficult.”
He admitted, however, that no matter how much work the U.S. might now undertake, sooner or later Russia and Ukraine would have to sit down together at the negotiating table.
“We suggested setting up a number of diplomatic channels in order to satisfy the desires of all the parties involved,” he said. “There firstly needs to be a serious U.S.-Russia channel, as these are the only two countries powerful enough to negotiate security in Europe. There must of course be a channel between Ukraine and Russia, another between Russia and the EU; and one between Russia and the Global South.”
During the discussions, it became evident that Ukraine’s chances of regaining its occupied territories were extremely slim. Crimea remains a particularly contentious issue, as Ukraine asserts its intent to reclaim the region which Russia annexed in 2014.
“If Russia thought it might lose Crimea,” the ex-official said, “it would almost certainly resort to [using] tactical nuclear weapons.”
He noted that Washington had also offered to help conduct fair referendums in the Russian-occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, in which residents would vote on whether they wished to be part of Ukraine or Russia.
Russia apparently declined this offer and claimed to have annexed the territories in September 2022 following referendums widely viewed as a sham.
But the former official expressed a sense of impasse in the ongoing secret talks. “In Russian diplomacy, everything is now linked, all built around the locus of the war making it impossible to do any productive forms of diplomacy.”
The problem was less with the Russian elite as a whole than it was with Putin specifically, he explained.
“Putin is the major block to all progress,” he said. “The U.S. administration has made at least one attempt to speak with the Kremlin but Putin himself refused.”
For this reason, he argued, Washington “should begin reaching out to the anti-war Russian elite and begin making progress with them.”
If there was support among the elite for another leader, he said, “ousting Putin would not be impossible.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/26/us-official-shares-details-of-secret-track-15-diplomacy-with-moscow-a81972
tl;dr
>US wants to preserve a strong puccia to counteract china and EU
>US wanted to cooperate with the anschluss referenda, but puccia declined and went on without US involvment
>putin huilo, "colour revolution" on schedule as soon as suitable leader is found
thots?
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Europe can't conquer Russia because the Anglo will prevent it by chipping in and helping Russia out. It can only come from mutual decision. If a joint Afro-Europe started to choke Russia, the US would intervene and prevent it.
Also some of what you wrote is just semantic wordplays, and cannot be taken seriously.
I understand you have an emotional bias for whatever reason, but you should take a look at it, because it makes you blind.
>Also some of what you wrote is just semantic wordplays, and cannot be taken seriously.
Thanks for noticing, it was written in direct mockery of your arguments.
>Europe can't conquer Russia because the Anglo will prevent it by chipping in and helping Russia out. It can only come from mutual decision. If a joint Afro-Europe started to choke Russia, the US would intervene and prevent it.
I said choke, not conquer. It's about cornering and isolating.
There is no need for conquest when it will fold on its own in a couple generations.
>your direct parallelism of my argument is not an argument, this somehow doesn't demonstrate that my own argument is equally void
ok
>Why would you isolate something that would make you get elevated to world power?
Europe already is world power.
>You posted in OP that the US wants to preserve Russia... It won't fold on its own.
It will. Russia is in EU's zone of influence. US cannot "preserve" Russia without turning on the EU. (Which should be the real goal here)