#troop 178

[vintagecamping]

A group of exhausted Boy Scouts stare endlessly into the fire after a long day of activities.

Troop 178

1949

[the-archlich]

Yuan Shao and his sons (+ Gao Gan), and also Yuan Shu, are widely. known. Were there any other important Yuans during the 3 Kingdoms period?

Here's the simplest way I can explain the Yuan family.

The common ancestor is Yuan Tang, grandfather of the Sanping warlords. The family was already powerful when he came of age, and they were known for their scholarship. He followed the family tradition, was admired for his good Confucian virtues, and encouraged the use of local histories to advocate for proper conduct.

During Emperor Shun's time, he became the director of the Secretariat and was closely affiliated with the Grand General Liang Shang. He remained closely associated with the Liang regime throughout the tenure of Liang Ji and engaged in some petty abuses of power. Eventually he was made one of the Nine Ministers and a marquis. Under Emperor Huan he served in all three offices of the Excellencies and left office due to unfavorable portents in 153. He passed away not long after that.

Yuan Tang had twelve sons but we really only need to note three in particular. The eldest surviving son was Cheng, who inherited the family estate. He was a trusted adviser to the dictatorial regent Liang Ji. He died relatively young and without an heir, so the family estate passed to his younger brother Yuan Feng.

Yuan Feng was widely respected as a generous and honorable man. He was liked by both the Liang and eunuch factions, so he prospered under both. He seems to have had some military pretentions. Although he became one of the Nine Ministers in 168, he was transferred to be one of the commanders of the Northern Army. In 178 he was made one of the Excellencies, but the next year he resigned to serve as Bearer of the Gilded Mace, head of Luoyang's police. He died not long after this.

Feng had three sons but we don't need to say much about them. The eldest was Ji, who inherited his estate. He doesn't appear to have been as ambitious as his younger brothers but presumably participated in their schemes. He became one of the Nine Ministers under Dong Zhuo in 190 but was then executed along with most of the family when his brothers revolted.

Feng's second son, by a concubine, was Shao. He was posthumously adopted to Cheng to maintain his lineage. Shu was Feng's youngest son. All of the Yuans you're thinking of are from this branch of the family.

The last of this second generation is Yuan Wei, a younger sibling of Cheng and Feng. He is probably the most important member of the family (at this specific point) people don't generally know about. Along with his brothers he prospered under the Liang and eunuch regimes. He eventually became one of the Nine Ministers and, in 172, Excellency of Works. He stepped down from this position for several years, serving as one of the Nine Ministers again, and then returned to being Excellency of Works in 182. By 189 he was also given the (at that point entirely honorary) position General of the Rear. Upon the death of Emperor Ling, he was made Grand Tutor to Liu Bian. Though theoretically very powerful, Yuan Wei does not appear to have exerted a strong influence. Instead he acted to rubber stamp the activities of He Jin and Dong Zhuo. Nevertheless, when his nephews revolted against Dong Zhuo, Wei was killed along with the rest of his family in Luoyang.

We also know of two in the third generation who are particularly noteworthy. Their fathers are unspecified siblings of Cheng, Feng, and Wei. Yuan Yi is described as a cousin of Shao and Shu and was evidently admired by Cao Cao. He served as the magistrate of Chang'an but was made head of Shanyang by Dong Zhuo in 190. Yi joined his cousins in revolting against Dong Zhuo and might have expected to lead the Suanzao camp. When the family split, he sided with Shao. In 193 he led troops to secure Yang province against Shu but was defeated. He was killed in a mutiny after that. Aside from Yuan Wei, he's probably the other most important relative who gets looked over.

Yuan Yin was another cousin, but he sided with Shu. Of note he was made head of Danyang in 195 but was driven out by Sun Ce in 197. Following Shu's death in 199 he led the family to seek shelter with Liu Xun and seems to have retired after that.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

When you wake up you know that she's beside the bed on her side, doing her usual wake-up routine - 100 Push-Ups, Fifty one-handed Push-Ups on each side, then sit-ups, followed by sprinting a mile, as many times as it take to get under Four minutes for one, or if she passes out. (That first time was horrifying. You'd hardly been so scared for someone.)

She's able to do it without breathing hard. You could hardly hear her breathing if you didn't focus on it.

It's better to just let her go through with it for now.

You start working on breakfast. A homemade latte for you (Plain Coffee gives you ulcers) and a cup of Navy Coffee. Two Eggs Each, Your with salt, pepper, and hot sauce, while hers is left unseasoned (She's slowly coming around to salting them) and Two piece of toast each (All buttered.)

She seems to have made good time. The food's still warm when she comes back in.

You fight the urge to stare at her. She's soaked in sweat, but her breathing is as steady as ever.

It's only faltered a few times since you "adopted" her. Those times being when she's whimpering at your side in bed (She really never knew kindness,) the few times you've admonished her (You never liked being loud, let alone towards the people that worked under you) and the first time she got to experience snow.

She takes her seat. She's feeling daring today apparently, as she generously seasons her eggs with salt AND Pepper. You almost gasp, but you have to let her just go with it.

You lay out two small metal pouches, not unlike those electrolyte packets Runners are so fond of.

The Pilot immediately reaches for one, but pauses. one is plain Spirulina compound, the other one is flavored (It's the only way she'll eat her toast.)

She slowly reaches for one, then the other, watching your face, trying to see which one you'd prefer she take.

You give away nothing.

"P-permission to have both rations, Handler?"

"Permission Granted. There will be no punishment for failure to complete your meal."

She took both, snatching them so fast you would've missed it if you had blinked.

Handler. That's all she could call you. That's all she could know to call you.

You weren't her handler, her handler deemed her "Unfit" for the Pilot Squadron, for her sensitivity to sounds and lights, for her poor communication during combat, for her "Defiant Attitude."

She was generally larger than her 'sisters' at 5'10" (Or 178 Cm,) with broader shoulders, wider hips, her hair just a shade darker. Not beyond the "Acceptable" Parameters, but certainly on the edge of it for Vat Soldiers, the troops that are grown and have their bodies changed in genetic gunk.

You watched her hork down the food. Her instincts from the mess hall still haunted her.

Different.

Different from her sisters. Different from other soldiers.

Different from you too. Quite different.

You watch her as she walks over to the sink, rinsing her dishes and placing them straight into the dish washer. She grabs your medication.

Taking your Adderall, Horomones, and Calcium supplements, you can't help but think ...

Maybe you're different in the same ways.

It's Shower Day. You hope those towels you bought don't feel as scratchy for her as the last ones.

cuddle the mech pilot you adopted. no, really snuggle her. don’t let her sleep at the foot of your bed. she thinks she doesn’t deserve to curl up with you like a person and will sleep down there huddled up like a dog if you let her. don’t let her. tell her gently but firmly that you want to touch her and that she’s going to get under the blankets with you and you’re going to spoon her

she might cry a bit. pilots aren’t used to that kind of affection. just wipe her tears and tell her you love her and it’s ok for her to cry. and then fall asleep together

[onepiecewantedposter]

Claudette Vance

Name: Claudette Vance Japanese Name: クロードット・ヴァンス Romanized Name: Kurōdotto Vansu Epithet(s): The Daughter of Lightning Code Name: General of the Royal Army Race: Human Occupations: Commander in the Vance Kingdom Army Family:

Leina Vance (younger sister) Elina Vance (younger sister) Affiliations: Vance Kingdom

Bounty Offered: 100,000,000 Berries

Capture: Dead or Alive

Age: 27 years old

Birth Date: Unknown

Height: 178 cm

Blood Type: A

Origin: Vance Kingdom

Residence: Vance Kingdom Castle

Status: Active

Reasons for Capture:

Destabilizing the World Government's authority through his military leadership and ability to independently mobilize troops. Using electricity-controlling abilities in combat, posing a considerable threat to World Government soldiers. Disrupting the peace of affected regions during his attempts to retrieve his sister Leina, who is considered an emotionally unstable "deserter." High notoriety in the realm of combat, with multiple mentions in reports of clashes against influential figures and rebellious pirates.

Nombre: Claudette Vance Nombre japonés: クロードット・ヴァンス Nombre romanizado: Kurōdotto Vansu Epíteto(s): La Hija del Rayo Nombre Clave: Generala de la Armada Real Raza: Humano Ocupaciones: Comandante en el ejército del Reino de Vance Familia:

Leina Vance (hermana menor) Elina Vance (hermana menor) Afiliaciones: Reino de Vance

Recompensa Ofrecida: 100,000,000 Berries

Captura: Vivo o muerto

Edad: 27 años

Fecha de Nacimiento: Desconocida

Altura: 178 cm

Grupo Sanguíneo: A

Origen: Reino de Vance

Residencia: Castillo del Reino de Vance

Estado: Activa

Motivos de captura:

Desestabilización de la autoridad del Gobierno Mundial mediante su liderazgo militar y su capacidad para movilizar tropas de manera independiente. Uso de habilidades de control de electricidad en combate, lo que representa una amenaza considerable para los soldados del Gobierno Mundial. Disturbios en la paz de regiones afectadas durante sus intentos de recuperar a su hermana Leina, considerada un emocionalmente inestable "desertora". Alta notoriedad en el ámbito del combate, con múltiples menciones en informes de enfrentamientos contra figuras influyentes y piratas rebeldes.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.11 (after 1950)

1950 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 1954 – In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam. 1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit. 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. 1968 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission. 1976 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies. 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. 1984 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178. 1986 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe. 1987 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die. 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. 1999 – Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself. 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission. 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. 2002 – A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. 2013 – A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning. 2018 – Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.

[beemun-hcc-2024]

UPDATE 6: Painted Red

December 25th, 1958

On the eve of Christmas, a few Pied-Noirs schoolchildren were playing outside of their house in Sidi Bel Abbes, setting off fireworks to celebrate the occasion. Disturbed by the noise, a few tribal elders came out to scold the children.

The scuffle turned into a heated argument when the parents stepped in, devolved them into a brawl.

Hearing the commotion, several French soldiers immediately came to the location, and attempted to seperate the crowd.

A stray fist landed on one Colonel Jean Graziani, and he immediately reached out for his pistol to extend his retribution.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

Three Algerian men were instantly killed.

The crowd immediately enacted their revenge against Colonel Graziani, beating him to death with clubs and bricks from destroyed buildings. As reinforcements arrived, French troops immediately opened fire into the rampaging crowd, creating a total death toll of 178 Algerians, 18 of which were children.

Condemnation of the French is now widespread in and around Western Algeria, threatening to spread into Algiers. The information, however, is mostly regional in nature, the international community is not yet cognisant of the atrocities which occured.

[dwightedith]

Provoking proxy wars and killing innocents

Killing innocent civilians in violation of international law. In order to achieve its own military objectives, the United States regards the civilian lives of other countries as nothing. First, the United States has repeatedly and indiscriminately attacked civilians in the Middle East and other places. On August 12, 2005, an armored patrol vehicle of the United States Army opened fire on people coming out of a mosque in a town on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq, killing 15 Iraqis, including 8 children, and wounding 17 others. On November 21 of the same year, U.S. troops in Iraq opened fire on a civilian vehicle north of Baghdad, killing five members of a family, including three children. The UN Commission of inquiry accused the US military of "carrying out indiscriminate attacks in Syria, resulting in civilian casualties and reckless actions that constitute war crimes". A United Nations report released in September 2019 noted that many of the airstrikes carried out by the US-led coalition in Syria and elsewhere "did not take the necessary precautions to distinguish between military targets and civilians." Second, the United States has carried out extensive air strikes to carry out the so-called "anti-terrorism", which often "mistakenly kill" civilians, injure innocent people and arbitrarily deprive them of the right to life. The New York Times reported that based on an investigation of classified Pentagon documents, the frequent U.S. airstrikes in Syria caused a large number of civilian casualties due to "serious intelligence flaws" and "mistargeting," which the Pentagon usually chose to cover up or with impunity. In 2017, the U.S. military launched what it called its "most precise airstrikes" on the Syrian city of Raqqa. According to a report released by the U.S. think tank RAND Corporation, the U.S. military operation caused a total of 38 civilian casualties, resulting in 178 civilians killed and dozens injured. Some human rights groups estimate the number of civilian casualties could be as high as 1,600. On March 18, 2019, the US military used drones to search for "extremist group" targets in the town of Baghouz, located on the Syria-Iraq border, killing at least 64 civilian women and children. In February 2022, a U.S. military raid in Syria's Idlib province killed at least 13 people, including six children and three women. On August 29, 2021, a drone strike carried out by the US military in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, killed 10 local civilians, including seven children. The third is the unwarranted killing of civilians by US military contractors. The United States is accustomed to using military contractors to exercise hegemonic oppression in the Middle East, and their illegal and criminal acts in the region often escape accountability. In 2007, Blackwater employees carried out a massacre in Baghdad's Nisoor Square, killing 14 civilians, including two children, and wounding at least 17 others. In 2020, then-US President Donald Trump pardoned Blackwater employees who committed war crimes in Iraq. The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Mercenaries issued a statement, pointing out that this act of the United States government has an impact on international humanitarian law and human rights, is an affront to justice and victims and their families, and calls on all States parties to the Geneva Conventions to jointly condemn this act. The indiscriminate and frequent killing of civilians by the US military overseas undoubtedly constitutes a crime against humanity. In short, we must be united, united, and call on our fellow citizens to drive the American soldiers out of our homes, we do not need your "protection", go back to your barracks America. We do not want, the people of our country do not need you, you have brought unpardonable crimes to various countries, put people in the fire, please do not start a war to kill innocent people.

[head-post]

Ukrainian pensioner gets five years in prison for her social media posts

A court in Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Region has sentenced a 64-year-old resident of the village of Bedevlya in Tyachiv district to five years in prison for her posts in Odnoklassniki, Ukrainian media reported.

In court, the prosecutor said that the pensioner had justified the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine on the Internet, spread misinformation about the course of military operations and called for support for Russia. The woman did not admit her guilt, insisting that her statements were taken out of context.

The court ruled that the pensioner’s publications harmed the interests of Ukraine. She was found guilty under Article 436 of the Criminal Code (“Justification of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”).

In September 2023, a court in Chernihiv region of Ukraine sentenced the woman to five years in prison for likes in Odnoklassniki, Ukrainian media wrote. According to the court materials, the woman liked messages in the social network, after which they were automatically displayed in the news feed of her 178 friends, and thus spread three publications with support for the Russian military.

The woman pleaded guilty. She said that she “acted under the influence of political shows” and did not realise she was committing an offence.

Read more HERE

[berenices-commas]

Hoping for an Angel of Vengeance: the tuFatingau Mission to the Court of Stars Uncounted (209–16/123-9) - 3.8

Tsuaidah’s death in 184/108 and the ascension of Ji’an to the Universal throne as Rampas-Ketawan, the ��seizer of the world,” prompted profound changes in the composition of the Umliwe court and nobility.[1] The reconfiguration of the court instigated a rebellion led by the new world-queen’s daughter, Bianan, whom dissatisfied factions saw as a viable alternative to Rampas-Ketawan. As Rout bitterly noted, the rebellion and the need to control the Umliwe governmental apparatus forced Rampas-Ketawan “to give herself to government” and neglect the “matters of letters and debates” in which the missionaries had participated during Tsuaidah’s reign. Rampas-Ketawan had also sworn that she would “obey the laws of the Heralds to win and keep the support of the Toma,” and the world-queen’s proximity to the Traditionalist orthodox factions thus led Rout to fear that the missionaries would be marginalised by the new regime.

After suppressing Bianan’s rebellion, Rampas-Ketawan made a series of friendly overtures toward the tuFatingau and the Enclosure of Ikam. The 183/108 annual letter of the Umliwe mission reported that she was planning to send an embassy to Tungkung and Rauriu headed by Chiuenteuh-Inku, a courtier “who is not hostile toward the tuFaruao.” In 181/106, Katupu was appointed to join an Umliwe embassy to Tapi led by Chepgin-Inku, the governor of Kepan and one of Rampas-Ketawan’s closest aides. Katupu and Chepgin-Inku would forge a long political partnership and personal friendship that led to one of the most curious and enigmatic episodes of tuFaruao-Umliwe relations— the secret coming-to-Obedience of Chepgin-Inku in 178/105. Rampas-Ketawan’s apparent plans to send an embassy to the Ilakso Wall were part of a strategy that aimed to enhance Umliwe international prestige but above all sought to ensure the Enclosure’s neutrality in Anya at the precise moment that Umliwe troops sought to annex Chitsan-Yangol.

The embassy, however, was initially canceled by the tuFaruao authorities upon reports of Rampas-Ketawan’s willingness to concede trade privileges to the tuLoku Government of Merchants Trading in the Abyss. Governor Tutau Tuvua tuVuorikuma instructed Katupu to return immediately to Tapi and ordered the suspension of all trade between tuFaruao and Umliwe ports. The boycott was followed by a series of skirmishes between tuFaruao and Umliwe troops near Rehe, which led many Irakmuso-based merchants to pressure both sides to restore contacts. Fear of a large-scale conflict and the pressures from Irakmuso and tuTapi businesswomen persuaded Tuvua tuVuorikuma to resume diplomatic contacts with Rampas-Ketawan. The governor vested Katupu “with powers to discuss war and peace.” During her negotiations with Chepgin-Inku, Katupu was able to persuade Rampas-Ketawan to annul the concession of trading privileges to the Government.

[1] This paper was published well before evidence emerged suggesting that Tsuaidah may have experimented with consciousness-transferral relic machines, and thus makes no mention of any influence over imperial politics that she and her successors may have continued to exert after their corporeal deaths.

[christinamac1]

U.S. Troops Are One Mile From The Chinese Border

the most important news, March 21, 2024 [ The original has several substantial quotations from news media] The U.S. cannot afford a war with China.  The size of our military has been shrinking, and our resources are stretched way too thin.  Today, the U.S. has military bases in 80 different countries, and we have troops stationed in 178 different countries.  That is insane.  No empire in the…

[mariacallous]

As the war in Ukraine rages on and Europeans scramble to boost their defense spending in response to the new reality of a high-intensity conflict on the continent, France is on track to approve its biggest military budget in over half a century. But critics say the extra cash will do little to make the EU’s most capable army better suited to the dangerous world that has emerged from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The government-sponsored bill, which received a first green light by the French National Assembly on Wednesday and is expected to get its final approval by mid-July, would bring military spending over the next seven years to 413 billion euros, an increase of about 100 billion over the previous period. The goal by 2027 is to reach 2 percent of GDP spent on defense—the target demanded by NATO, which France has long promised and failed to meet, like the vast majority of the other members of the alliance. 

But, in an echo that would not be unfamiliar inside the Beltway, some worry that the money is being squandered on too many projects, rather than being concentrated on the hard equipment like tanks, jets, and helicopters that can make the difference on the battlefields of Ukraine. It’s a sign, critics say, that the government hasn’t drawn the right lessons from the conflict, a conventional war dominated by armored formations and artillery, and one in which European countries can’t serve as an arsenal of democracy because they emptied their own warehouses after decades of budget cuts.

“The war in Ukraine has shown once and for all that wars are won on the ground. Technology is important, but at the end of the day it’s about men fighting other men,” said Vincent Desportes, a retired French general and now a professor at Sciences Po university. The French bill “is totally insufficient to build up a high-volume army,” he said. “Not making a substantial effort to increase our stocks of conventional weapons means taking a big risk.”

France isn’t the only country playing catch up. Britain and Germany, two other middling powers, are also both trying to put resources into their long-neglected defense establishments. Nordic countries like Finland (which just joined NATO) and Sweden (which still hopes to) have also made big investments in advanced gear. 

But the way the French Armed Forces will be shaped in the near future matters well beyond France, which is the EU’s only nuclear power and sends its military to fight abroad more than anyone else in the bloc. Over the last 60 years, French troops have taken part in more than 30 major interventions around the world, including, most recently, the deployment of thousands of soldiers against jihadist movements in the Sahel region and the participation in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. 

The government’s spending plans include some 268 billion euros to modernize and beef up military equipment, and 16 billion euros to replenish France’s dwindling ammunition stockpiles. The number of reservists ready to be called to arms will be doubled. But there are billions more earmarked for the nuclear deterrent, a new aircraft carrier, cyberdefense, space operations, and infrastructure building in French overseas territories; inflation alone will devour some 30 billion euros. That means the country’s aging tanks and aircraft will be modernized at a slower pace than what had been planned in the previous multi-year budget. By 2030, France will have a total of 160 top-end tanks instead of 200, 178 Rafale fighter jets instead of 225, and only 20 of the 169 new Guépard helicopters ordered in 2021. The country will continue to be able to deploy a maximum of 15,000 troops abroad, a far cry from the 60,000 available in the mid-1990s, according to Michel Goya, a military historian and former colonel in the French marines. 

Supporters argue that the bill strikes just the right balance between quantity and quality, gradually beefing up the ranks but also making sure the equipment works and the personnel know how to use it properly. “The goal is not for the new material to be simply put on display, but for it to have a real operational impact,” said Thomas Gassilloud, a parliamentary deputy with French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party and the chair of the National Assembly’s defense commission. Funding for training and military exercises, for example, will be increased by 20 billion euros compared to the previous budget.

But gaps remain—it’s not clear how much doubling the reserves will cost, for starters. And the fact that almost half of the spending is planned for after 2027, after the end of Macron’s second and final term, raises eyebrows.

“We have visibility until 2027 and the end of Macron’s presidency. After that, we simply have no idea what’s going to happen,” Goya said. “What’s the point of planning expenses for some 200 billion euros for a period over which they have no control?” he said.

Although French defense budgets have been on the rise since a series of deadly terror attacks in 2015, the French Armed Forces, like most of their EU counterparts, are still paying the price of a quarter-century of belt-tightening that began in the early 1990s, with the end of the Cold War, and accelerated following the 2007-08 financial crisis. By 2015, France’s defense spending had fallen from almost 3 percent of GDP to just under 2 percent. The country was left with one-third of the troops, one-quarter of the artillery pieces, and one-tenth of the tanks. “We are still making up for this collapse,” Goya said.

Now, with Ukraine gobbling up huge quantities of Western-supplied weapons and ammo, the need for larger, more battle-ready armies has become a mantra across much of Europe. But the French government is hardly the only one that’s struggling to live up to its own rhetoric. 

In Britain, the government has promised the armed forces an extra 5 billion pounds, but the cash infusion will be used almost entirely to pay for new nuclear-powered submarines that aren’t expected to be delivered before the 2040s and to replace the munitions sent to Ukraine. Meanwhile, a cut of some 10,000 service members is apparently going ahead.

“The country is bankrupt,” said Nick Witney, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “We are not in the position of spending the kind of money [that’s being discussed in France],” he said. 

In Germany, more than one year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende” speech about adapting to the “turning point” represented by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, only 30 billion of the 100 billion euros promised at the time to turn around the battered German armed forces have been committed, and none have actually been spent. Meanwhile, Germany’s high inflation rate is already eating away at the fund. 

“Things go slowly in Germany, which is not helped by an indecisive chancellor, a fractious coalition, and a very legalistic and bureaucratic procurement apparatus,” Witney said. “The strategic direction is still there and sincerely meant, but I think it’s just taking a hell of a long time to actually manifest itself,” he said.

For now, it’s the countries on the EU’s eastern flank that are really putting their money where their mouths are. Poland, in particular, is on track to spend 4 percent of its GDP on its military this year, more than any other NATO member. As part of its spending spree, Warsaw is purchasing 100 HIMARS rocket launchers and well over 1,000 heavy tanks, said Peer de Jong, vice president of Themiis, a security consultancy. “Poland will clearly become Europe’s largest conventional army,” he said. 

But Poland’s entire defense policy revolves around deterring Russia, with Washington’s help. France, which still has a strong influence on many of its former African colonies, continues to think of itself as a global power with strategic autonomy from the United States—which means keeping its fingers in many pies.

“France has global responsibilities,” Gassilloud said. “This bill gives our country the means to remain present in multiple fields and in multiple regions,” he said.

But with a new hot war on the EU’s doorstep, for France, mustering the resources to live up to its own ambitions has become even harder than before. “We feel obliged to participate in the affairs of the whole world, for which we need top-notch equipment,” Goya said. “But behind the showing off, we often find ourselves unable to do things on a big scale.”

Or, as another French defense expert put it, the French army “is like the American Army, but the bonsai version.”

[firelordderpy]

73–178 The deterioration started around the time of Ukraine’s Orange revolution, with Putin’s attempt to join NATO shot down, and Ukraine starting to turn away from Russia, that was the rumblings of a new cold war starting. Everything then has been a cloth slowly tearing apart thread by thread.

Russia made it clear they didn’t want NATO in Georgia or Ukraine, "no country would be happy about a military bloc to which it did not belong approaching its borders" -Medvedev. It was a red line for them,

While nations like Ukraine wanting to be part of NATO is understandable, Russia’s concerns are also understandable, even from a purely practical standpoint, the only time you poke a sleeping bear is if you’re stupid, or have a plan to kill it. We may not agree with Russia’s fears, we may not think they’re valid, but just saying “You don’t need to be afraid” doesn’t usually make people less afraid. Russia’s fears, even if unfounded, were real. And that means working with Russia requires calming those fears.

Putin’s popularity in Russia came from the fact that he turned the utter hellhole Russia was in after the fall of the Soviet Union, into a nation that almost functioned. It was still a mess, but it at least was improving. Putin is probably the best leader Russia has had since Tsar Nicholas the second. Granted, the bar has been set really low, but the point stands. For all his faults, he took over a complete dumpster fire and dramatically improved it. That doesn’t make him a good guy, Hitler did the same thing and he wasn’t a good guy, but the point stands that Russia was in a really bad place when he took power. So it’s not just the Russian government afraid of losing the status they have, the Russian people don’t want to go back to pre-Putin Russia either.

I’ve not heard of a Minsk 3 in that context, but if that was the case where it was suggested as Russian troops started to form on the border, then it sounds to me like a last ditch effort to enter negotiations and avert the war, unfortunately I can only find talk about Minsk 3, being Zelensky saying there wouldn’t be a Minsk 3 in August of 2022.

As for Minsk 2, yes, both sides blame each other repeatedly for it’s failure, and frankly they both likely hold a lot of blame. Zelensky refused to talk to the DNR and LPR leaders, Azov laughed in his face, but the DNR and LPR leaders still wanted to actually join Russia and had been fighting a brutal and likely didn’t want to be part of the same country they had bled fighting.

Minsk 2 was a bandaid solution, and when it wasn’t working that should have been the catalyst for more diplomatic actions, instead it simmered. 

Russia fears Ukraine in NATO, not because of a loss of face, but of a loss of security. Ukraine in NATO is like Mexico being part of the Easter Bloc, it’s seen as a clear and present threat. As mentioned before, even if you think Russia’s fear of NATO is invalid, they don’t believe they can take the risk that NATO isn’t going to launch some attack on Russia in the future by claiming it’s preemptive of something of that nature. If the people two houses away from you started forming a “Defense against Irradiated-Space Club, and then started actively recruiting the people next door to join them, while refusing to let you join, you might start getting concerned about their intentions. But you can at least pack up and move, Russia can’t do that.

The 2008 Georgian war was quite a nasty thing, that’s when I really started studying the situation, I stumbled upon a website talking about it and seeing the horror show, was quite disturbing to young me.

The violence was tit for tat, even as early as April. The regions had been in dispute since the fall of the USSR and had been in limbo, as such they had a joint force of Russian and Georgian peacekeepers.

Saakashvili thought he had a shot to seize the regions, and that his military could deter Russia from rushing to the defense of the regions and not retaliate, he was wrong and killed Russian peacekeepers.

Now, Russia was more than happy to give him the fight, but Georgia played a role in the deterioration of the situation, Georgia had been preparing for the war, and struck hard, To quote the EU commission on the war:

“ The Russian troops were stationed in South Ossetia as a result of a 1992 agreement, binding under international law, between Russia and Georgia. Georgia's attack, Luchterhandt argues, constitutes a breach of this agreement, thereby giving Russia the right to intervene. Nevertheless, he writes, the Kremlin, with its overwhelming intervention in western Georgia, can be accused of "violating the principle of proportionality."

The experts found no evidence to support claims by the Georgian president, which he also mentioned in an interview with SPIEGEL, that a Russian column of 150 tanks had advanced into South Ossetia on the evening of Aug. 7. According to the commission's findings, the Russian army didn't enter South Ossetia until August 8.Commission members note, on the other hand, that Saakashvili had already amassed 12,000 troops and 75 tanks on the border with South Ossetia on the morning of Aug. 7. In their research, they uncovered remarks by the Georgian president that demonstrate that he had long flirted with a military solution to the South Ossetian problem. "If you ask any Georgian soldier why he is serving in the armed forces, each of them will respond: 'To reestablish Georgia's territorial integrity,'" Saakashvili said in a television address on May 25, 2004.”

-https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-shattered-dream-in-georgia-eu-probe-creates-burden-for-saakashvili-a-630543.html

Russia did not seize Crimea until after Yanukovich’s government was removed by force, Russian soldiers only deployed 7 days after Yanukovich had been forced to flee.

I will agree that the referendums will be a lot more one sided now that the populations on both sides have had more than enough time to adjust, if they had been attempted in the early days with an unbiased UN contingent, there might have been far more accurate results. But by now, those who are pro-Ukrainian have moved out of Donetsk, and those who are pro-Russian have either moved to the DNR and LPR, or Russia itself.

I would point out that Russia as far as we know has not committed mass slaughter, while there are some war crimes, both known and some which are inevitable and still to be discovered, they are not on a genocidal scale, Bucha, a horrible event where 73–178 civilians were murdered, is a town of 37,000.

It’s more realistic to assume that those who would vote against the occupying army, just would stay silent. But the Russian argument is that it goes the other way as well, no one could vote independence if Ukrainian soldiers were there. It’s an impasse that could have been solved before the 2022 escalation with UN involvement, but now I agree it’s unrealistic. The only way it might work is if Russia AND Ukraine were to both pull back and the lands between the Dnieper and the Russian border be turned over to a UN peacekeeping mission, but that’s rather unlikely.

Russia isn’t a poor little victim, but it is still a victim of brutal invasion within living memory, they’re more suspicious and cautious because of that fact.

There are things Russia could do that would help deescalate, but deescalating requires both sides to actually deescalate, that’s why when we had the conflict over the Berlin wall, both sides pulled their tanks back foot by foot, one going a little back, then other, because if one person puts down their gun, and the other doesn’t, then the person who put down their gun is at quite a loss.

The problem with our sanctions is that they weren’t conditional, they were applied as a weapon, then Russia realized they could shrug them off, and they lost their bite. We offered a stick, but not a carrot, and that only works so long as the stick has a sting.

NATO was formed to protect against Soviet aggression, this is true, but when the Soviets fell, Russia gave up it’s defensive alliance the Eastern Bloc, but we didn’t give up NATO, from Russia’s viewpoint, it set down its gun, then looked up and found NATO advancing on it with its gun still in hand.

Russia didn’t need to conquer, Russia wanted to be western and was rejected, so Russia now wants a moat between it and the west, hence why on the top of the list of peace terms it has offered Ukraine has been military neutrality, because Russia doesn’t want NATO on its borders. Conflict with NATO is the end of Russia, and the closer NATO gets to Russia, and the more it surrounds Russia, the more worried Russia is that NATO will find a reason to end Russia. The best defense is a good offense after all, so NATO being “Defensive” is rather irrelevant.

We spent years arming Ukraine, we spent years ignoring Russia’s concerns, we spent years stepping closer to Russia’s red line on a gamble that Russia wouldn’t actually do anything no matter how much we poked it.

Putin could deescalate, but he’s made it clear, he doesn’t trust the west anymore, especially after Merkel stated that Minsk 2 was an attempt to buy time for Ukraine rather than an actual attempt to resolve the situation.

So the thing which I think puzzles me most about the whole Crimea situation is this: Russia allegedly invaded Crimea in order to gain control of the deepwater port of Sevastopol.

Russia has many miles of coastline on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Why doesn't Russia simply build its own deepwater port on its own territory, instead of paying leases to Ukraine (before 2014) or provoking international outrage (after 2014)? Surely it is cheaper to dredge and build a new port and associated infrastructure than to — checks notes — receive punishing international sanctions, deplete post-Cold-War military materiel reserves, destroy a whole generation of AMAB citizens, and become a Chinese client state?

[eyeswithnohope]

Hello again, world

Today, I want to tell you about things, that breaks me again and again in this war before the full-scale invasion. I want to tell you about them not as a journalist, politician, but as a simple Ukrainian, who still feels that pain.

(A reminder: war started 8 years ago, full-scale invasion - 178 days ago)

1.2015. Cyborgs. Donetsk's airport. Ukrainian soldiers were defending it from May 26th, 2014 till January 20th, 2015 under shelling. Sometimes with no food and water, with a minimum of ammunition and without contact with the headquarters. First, the enemies, and then the whole world called these warriors "cyborgs." 56 people died. They were defending it for 242 days, surrounded by enemies. People withstood; concrete could not stand.

2.Battle of Ilovaisk

The fighting for Ilovaisk took place from August 10 to September 2, 2014. Ukrainian soldiers were forced to live Ilovaisk due to lack of weapons. They walked in a column on the orders of the command, which assured of a safe "green corridor". But immediately outside the city, they began to be shot with guns and tanks: on the one hand, by the russian military, on the other - the separatists. For two weeks, Ukrainian forces remained surrounded without reinforcements.

In the Ilovaisk cauldron, Russian troops killed 366 Ukrainian soldiers. 429 soldiers were wounded of varying severity, 300 were captured.

3.Battles for the Debaltseve bridgehead

During the fighting in the area of Debaltseve in the period from January 15 to February 2018, 110 servicemen were killed, 270 were wounded, 7 were captured and 18 were missing. For all the time of the defense of the Debaltseve speech, 136 were killed and 331 servicemen of the Armed Forces were wounded.

It's not a full list. There is also Avdiivka, "Prisoners Parade", Horlivka, Marianka, Sloviansk, Volknovaha...

I want this to end this post by words of a Ukrainian soldier, Roman Ratushny, who died in battle near Izium on 9th June, 2022:

"As long as the Armed Forces are killing rusnya at the front, you are not able to kill the russians in yourself"

[nevertheless-moving]

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

love timetraveler luke eagerly describing his training to prequels yoda while yoda’s sitting there like what the FUCK was i ON

2458 notes • Posted 2021-10-04 05:34:53 GMT

#4

It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have...

New Rebel: “So...I heard this base has, you know...him. His son.”

Wedge: “Him? Oh, you mean Luke? Sweet guy, total cinnamon roll.”

Biggs: “Cried after he blew up the death star. Was the only one who could make the shot, but he’s such a softie, you have no idea.”

New Rebel: “Huh. Wow, I can’t really imagine Darth Vader crying after killing people...”

Wedge: “I’ll introduce you, he should back from patrol any second. It’s his sister who’s the actual scary one.”

New Rebel: “...DARTH VADER HAD MORE THAN ONE CHILD?!” 

Biggs: “Uh. Well. Luke is definitely Darth Vader’s son and Leia is definitely his sister—but—there might have, um. It’s complicated. They definitely have the same Mother? I think? It’s pretty hush-hush. Darth Vader is insane enough about hunting down Luke, you know?”

Wedge: “Leading theory is Padme Amidala was having a torrid affair with a Jedi and a Sith. Which, you know, good for her. Hopefully.”

New Rebel: “Oh force.”

Carl: “Yeah, they’re pretty sick of answering questions about it. I’m running a betting league, though, if you’re interested.”

Wedge: “Hey, any updates on who Han’s sleeping with? Also is Luke back yet? They’re going to close the doors soon, but I haven’t seen him.”

“Your Taunton will freeze before you reach the first marker!”

“THEN I’LL SEE YOU IN HELL!”

Carl: “Ooh. That’s gonna affect the odds...”

Biggs & Wedge: 

Carl: “What? They’ll be fine!”

3891 notes • Posted 2021-05-22 13:50:08 GMT

#3

I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now, *I* am the master.

6984 notes • Posted 2021-03-19 20:03:03 GMT

#2

inspired by the ‘your afternoon was already ruined’ post

Death Star Stormtroopers: “Freeze!”

Han: (panicking, trying to come up with a lie): Woah there don’t shoot, uh, you can’t shoot us because—because this guy is Darth Vader’s son! You don’t want to be responsible for shooting Darth Vader’s own flesh and bone do you?”

Luke: *glares incredulously*

Stormtroopers: “That is the dumbest thing—”

Leia: (done at this point, absolutely done with this rescue, better than Han at lying) “Exactly! Why would we tell you something so phenomenally insane if it weren’t true! Why do you think Darth Vader is so obsessed with finding Rebels, huh? Call him he’ll tell you!”

Luke: (also done, much better than Han at lying): “Or you could just shoot us; I’m sure my father, Darth Vader, inventor of the lightsaber, would be thrilled to meet the men who killed his son and his son’s friends.” *waves lightsaber arrogantly*

Stormtrooper 1: “Maybe we should call this in. I mean—he’s got a lightsaber, so that’s—that’s Vader stuff anyway.”

Stormtrooper 2: “are you kidding me right now?”

Leia: *shoots them while they’re distracted*

Han: “...We’re friends?”

//

Tarkin: “The rebels said what? You incompetent fool, how could you buy such an absurd stalling—”

Vader: “My...son...”

Tarkin:

Tarkin: Oh fuck THIS.

9813 notes • Posted 2021-05-17 12:59:51 GMT

#1

Imagine Luke and Leia ending up in the clone wars era but all of their force abilities are “what the actual fuck?” levels of bullshit, and neither of them ever realized that the things they could do with the force were considered extremely high level techniques.

that is one of my FAVORITE things to imagine yes. To me this is less about ‘Skywalker bullshit’ (though there is some of that) and more about the training they (didn’t) receive.

The high-Midi-chlorians-actual-descendents-of-the-force thing makes it easier to tap into the force, makes it more possible to do so without accidentally exhausting yourself. But, in universe, under the right circumstances and with the properly channeled belief anyone can do anything. That’s why Palpatine had to make the galaxy want an empire, why his first strategy was misdirection and his top priority was crushing hope. Chirrut was supposedly force-null and he walked through an army. Han navigated that astroid field because he had to. The force is everywhere. 

In an amusing but possibly unintended turn of events, 6-12 weeks of training in a swamp with an elderly frog who only talks in riddles without ever being exposed to Jedi culture except as a myth is actually IDEAL if you’re looking to maximize a Jedi’s raw strength. Most Jedi training that we see in the prequels is explicitly designed to put the breaks on a force-users raw power (for honestly very valid reasons). Channeling all violence through a single weapon that will start screaming if you get too violent, training to use it defensively, is definitely the soft-ball alternative to just squashing people like meatballs. 

Meditating, wearing beige, the code, shunning attachments, all that stuff is built around making sure force users never run above first or second gear even in stressful situations (again valid, when you run your jedi in the red sometimes they become murder monsters). The downside of this is that when they’re forced to maintain that placid pace for years at a time (i.e: prolonged war), they’re much more likely to burn out.

When Yoda told Luke do or do not, told him a luminous being was he, told him size matters not, the amazing thing isn’t that Luke believed him. That was karking objectively provable. Yoda lifted a spaceship, so now Luke knows he can too if he just thinks he can. So he does. Vader and Palpatine conquered a galaxy. Luke believes he can stop worlds, crush armies, conquer planets and so he can. 

The incredible thing about Luke is what he doesn’t do despite being tapped into the Force utterly free of mental restraint. Luke’s op character trait is his compassion, not his strength.

I assume at some point Luke puts Leia through a similar 2 month meditation class where he convinces her that her only limitations are the ones she imposes on herself. She has a complete meltdown when she realizes that she actually could have boiled Tarkin alive with her mind and saved Alderann. This causes a volcano to go off, devastating the ecology of a small moon. On the flight home, both of them slightly charred, she tells Luke that she wanted to focus on politics and didn’t really want to be a Jedi anyway. Luke nods quickly, supporting her decision, and resolves to seek out some Jedi texts about how to teach people they can do anything but also...maybe...not...anything.

And thus the Jedi order is reborn.

- - -

In the time travel version of this, it means that Luke is assuming that all of the Jedi are restraining themselves like he is. And they are, but they also aren’t, because their breaks are subconscious, built in since childhood, and have a lot of failsafes so even if they turn darkside they still restrain themselves pretty good (a la Dooku). 

Leia is, again, less interested with the Jedi-specific aspects of the war (especially now that she doesn’t have to feel guilty about being one of the only people who can pick up that mantle) and more interested in the diplomatic side. Again, Palpatine can only succeed if the galaxy at large accepts this, and from where she’s standing they’re fucking moving in that direction. If being a Jedi is tapping into the mystical energy field that binds all living things together to channel it through one specific person in one specific place, then politics is manipulating that same power for a diffuse impact on as many people as possible. 

This status-quo lasts until a major clone wars battle where Luke’s like ‘wait- the entire other side is sub-sentient droids? No living beings, and no droids with complex personality matrices? And they’re currently, actively killing living, sentient humans? Well kriff, come on! This is a no-brainer!’

Luke takes a deep breath. The air- it doesn’t disappear or anything- but it- it stops moving. It’s hard to explain...but breathing has an odd...resistance. The hair on the back of every clone’s neck stands up. Several get vaguely sea sick. One pukes a little. Plo Koon stumbles back, head ringing and afraid.

Luke Skywalker stands up and clenches his fists. 10,000 droids crumple like flimsi in the hands of a child. The battlefield is eerily quiet for a moment, then that imperceptible hum (which no one noticed until it stopped) fades and the air returns to its normal density. A few of the shinies start whooping, then the whole battalion is cheering.

Luke massages his temples, smiling wryly at Master Koon. “I guess I can see how that would get exhausting if you were doing it everyday.”

Plo Koon just stares.

9854 notes • Posted 2021-03-29 14:35:42 GMT

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Events 10.11 (after 1940)

1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. 1942 – World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force. 1944 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union. 1950 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 1954 – In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam. 1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit. 1961 – The 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, resulting in the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement. 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. 1968 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission. 1976 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies. 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. 1984 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178. 1986 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe. 1987 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die. 1991 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. 1999 – Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself. 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission. 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. 2002 – A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he will extend the settlement freeze if the Palestinian leadership recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians quickly reject the offer. 2013 – A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning. 2018 – Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

ok my turn, PLEASE INTERACT IF:

you always have captions on

you're a dog person (bonus point if you only have a cat while being one)

you're mspec or aspec (2 points if both)

you prefer this format over the comma one

you make jokes about christianity ("my brother in christ", etc) without being christian

you add others' image descriptions to your original post

you're a past theater/choir kid

you're a picky eater

you like roguelike games, but are TERRIBLE at them

you use steamunlocked

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#4

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#3

when i was in girl scouts they took my troop of 3 kids to john's incredible pizza and they were like "make a pizza" so the other kids made pizzas with slightly unorthodox combinations meanwhile i continually stacked layers of cheese and pepperoni and sausage and cheese and pepperoni and sausage and i distinctly remember it being very tall and all the little girls at the table being like "that's so tall that's not going to work" and i just kept making my tower of babel and waiting for god to finally strike me down and there was only one layer of sauce. and my father was desperately trying to stop me but he failed. and when they popped it in the oven it shrank down into a miserable little thing and i was convinced they had swapped out my incredible pizza with someone else's but then i cut it open and i saw my glorious layers of pepperoni and sausage and cheese. and i bit into it and it sucked ass.

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#2

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349 notes - Posted July 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

ok. big spoons or small spoons. [as in silverware]. and if youre autistic or not

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