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It's almost like he's a monumental cúnt with a God complex.

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Longest losing streak in history by a nominally Tier 1 side?

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Flockwitt wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:48 pm There's turmoil behind the scenes in China at the moment. The comment may well have been for internal audience rather than external.

There's been rumour floating around about Xi's health.

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Exclusive | China tells EU it does not want to see Russia lose its war in Ukraine: sources Wang Yi speaks of concern that US could shift whole focus in China’s direction in talks with top EU diplomat Beijing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that B...

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Ah shit. RIP.

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Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Major General Mikhail Gudkov, has been killed in a strike on a command post in the village of Korenevo in Kursk. He was the former commander of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade that has committed numerous war crimes.

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Unconfirmed reports on Russian Telegram that the chief of staff of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Ildar Akhmetov, has been killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Crimea.

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Whats the craic there? The Russians arrested a bunch of Azeris in Yekaterinburg a couple of days ago and beat two so badly in custody that they died. The Azeri government went apeshit and proceeded to raid and shut down a Sputnik media office and arrested the staff as FSB agents; cancelled all Russ...

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Germany is launching the largest air defense modernization program in the history of the Bundeswehr, focusing on mass and layered defense against missiles, drones, and aircraft. The trigger was the wars in Europe and the Middle East, where even irregular or special forces demonstrated the ability t...

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Azerbaijan is not fúcking around in response to what happened in Yekaterinburg. Whats the craic there? The Russians arrested a bunch of Azeris in Yekaterinburg a couple of days ago and beat two so badly in custody that they died. The Azeri government went apeshit and proceeded to raid and shut down...

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Azerbaijan is not fúcking around in response to what happened in Yekaterinburg.

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Major General Freuding will be appointed Inspector General of the Heer in September.

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Arms manufacturer expects order boom after NATO summit By expanding its capacity, the tank transmission manufacturer is preparing for orders from the German Armed Forces. Renk CEO says in an interview that 1,000 new wheeled armored vehicles are needed by 2035. Markus Fasse June 30, 2025 - 2:48 PM T...

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A Su-34 crashed near Nizhny Novgorod. That's a 6th lost in five days.

Edit: landing gear failure, navigator died.

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Russian Telegram is reporting that the acting commander of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, Col. Ruslan Goryachkin, was killed in the Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG strike in Donetsk yesterday.

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He's just threatened to found a new political party to take on the "Democrat-Republican uniparty" if the bill is passed.

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Now confirmed that 4 Su-34s were destroyed at Marinovka.

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Two Su-34s were destroyed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Marinovka airfield in Volgograd Oblast.

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Australian M1A1 Abrams in Poland are visually confirmed (camo patterns) to be in Poland.

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Germany has finally approved export of Eurofighter Typhoon to Turkey.

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According to a new opinion poll, 65% of Germans approve of increasing defence spending to 5% of GDP. By voter breakdown: CDU/CSU: 85% FDP: 78% SDP: 71% Greens: 67% AfD: 46% Die Linke: 41% BSW: 14% The Die Linke number is the most surprising for me given they are pinko anti-Westerners, though most of...

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Russian oil tanker "shadow fleet" activity has halved since the start of June.

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The Russian finance minister has officially denied the Russia is in recession, rather a "planned cooling".

So Russia has now entered both a recession and stagflation.

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In the vein of things not being entirely good for Ukraine I've heard reports that while artillery ammo is being managed the barrel supply is not all that is required and at this point impacting effectiveness. No surprise after the years of war. Something that's being kept very much under wraps, it'...

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Russian Banks Fear Debt Crisis Is Coming as War Strains Economy By Bloomberg News June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM UTC Russia’s economy faces a worsening outlook that is graver than publicly acknowledged, with a credible risk of a systemic banking crisis in the next 12 months, according to Russian banking...

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In the vein of things not being entirely good for Ukraine I've heard reports that while artillery ammo is being managed the barrel supply is not all that is required and at this point impacting effectiveness. No surprise after the years of war. Something that's being kept very much under wraps, it'...

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The Ukrainian General Staff is reporting that the front line has stabilized. Sumy in particular seems to have seen the Russians stall out and be pushed back in places.

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The Bundeswehr plans to invest more than 20 billion euros in the procurement of ammunition of various categories in the long term until 2037. According to the current draft budget of Germany for 2025, 3.048 billion euros will be allocated for these purposes from the regular budget this year, as wel...

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No Eden Park, no A team... Without joking though, this is the best we can do... and it's been the case for years now. If you want to play a full french team, don't do that in July... it's just not possible. Of course it’s possible. The players still exist and are fit. You just haven’t picked them. ...

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German defence spending will increase to 2.4% of GDP this year.

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Take this shit elsewhere. This is not the thread for it.

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https://i.imgur.com/5UxULub.jpeg there are a lot of these coming out of the woodwork He'll jump on the next ultra-selfish bandwagon. MAGA is a cult. Yanks love being in a cult, for some reason. There's no mystery to it, the America has always been Europe's dumping ground for political and religious...

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She even made a video. This fellow gives it a critique. Also explains why some of you ladies are so difficult to understand. Happy to be on my side of the fence. Very. :thumbup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw1s8RQ-7Vo Don't mistake American liberals for actual liberals. Indeed. American liberal...

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So the bombing of sites across Israel, particularly in Tel Aviv and Haifa, were always part of Israel's pan? The Israelis expected at least 5,000 civilian casualties in the first two or three days. Really? Sounds like something the Israeli propaganda machine would say after the fact. The truth is w...

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It appears that Israel completely under-estimated the will and ability of Iran to strike-back against Israeli air strikes. This is already extremely messy, and if the USA do formally enter the fray this will be massive, and the 3rd World War. That is not even remotely true. So the bombing of sites ...

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:45 pm It appears that Israel completely under-estimated the will and ability of Iran to strike-back against Israeli air strikes. This is already extremely messy, and if the USA do formally enter the fray this will be massive, and the 3rd World War.

That is not even remotely true.

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:07 pm What's it launched from? Truck launcher like HIMARS/ATACMS?

A TEL system.

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Ukraine has successfully field trialled their Hrim-2 missile system taking out a Russian command center with it. This is the next level up from the single missile HIMARS in terms of warhead, equivalent to the Iskaners, range 3-400km. So Ukraine has another hole in a complete weapon suite sorted. Ge...

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France is investing €717m in Eutelsat.

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https://scottishrugby.org/obituary-ian-mclauchlan/

RIP

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