Good lord. I hope this ends peacefully.

Do Chinese billionaires, Jenine Añez, and Shinzo Abe count?

Interestingly enough, people mostly don’t associate it with the Germans. The majority of people here don’t know about the fact. I’d doubt it would get any love if that was the case.

If anything, it’s very fitting that we have knock-off German anthem in this era where we don’t have any sovereignty.

Serbia is a close second, in my opinion. It’s just a simpler version of The Emperors hymn by Haydn, with lyrics that consist of begging god to save the country. The fact that it replaced the old anthem (Hey, Slavs) irritates me to no end. We used to be a country

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The Americans had enough juice and a team consisting of superstars that managed to just push them over the edge. A little bit more luck and a bit of brain in the refs heads would have sent us through, but alas. I’m still very proud of our boys though, hopefully we get the bronze.

In their defence, maybe they didn’t think that they had much of a choice regarding this attack. Russian bloggers have been saying that their side was amassing forces in that area since the penetration into the Kharkov region. This might be a sort of situation where they attacked preemptively.

I’m struggling to find information online. There’s some stats on Russian Wikipedia but translate is not working well on it. The images on google maps show that the canal itself is some 20 meters wide, with sloped sides that take up another few dozen meters. I don’t know how much water is in the canal now, so it may be easier to ford. Regardless I doubt that the Russians will even start any offensive operations until they clear their side of the canal, which will likely be done in a week or two.

I measured the width to be around 70 to about a 150 meters on google maps, almost none of which is water, but the canal itself. It’s not impossible to cross, especially because it’s quite a long stretch of land that the Ukrainians need to guard, but it will delay and complicate Russian offensive actions for a bit.

Sorry comrade, but nothing ever happens. Them’s the rules.

That’s a bit of an overreaction, there’s still a pretty big barrier in the shape of a canal between the central part of the city and the parts that Russia controls. They need to break through a good chunk of the line around the town to get in a position to threaten it. With the current tempo of the Russian army in the countryside, it’s going to take at least a few weeks before everything is in position for an assault of Chasiv Yar itself.

Nah, the flag on the photo belongs to Hezbollah.

There was a terrorist attack in Belgrade earlier today apparently. A cop was seriously wounded protecting the embassy form a weirdo that recently converted to Wahhabism.

Literally zero seconds, as they are carrying a nazi flag and are actual members of Azov. And on top of that the piece of shit on the left is wearing a patch of a prominent member of the OUN. The only thing missing on this photo is Hitler himself.

Edit: Here’s a comment from the news mega about the visit

Chinese investors revived serbian steel industry that was plundered by US investors post-yugoslavia, very interesting article: https://www.obserwatorfinansowy.pl/in-english/business/incredible-rise-of-serbian-steel-industry/

Yes, I know. It was pretty big news here when it happened since the factory employes so many people in Serbia, and Smederevo in particular. It’s certainly a reason why Serbia likes China. A company from there also bought up our biggest copper and gold mine in the east of the country, when it was still a net loser. All of these acquisitions helped the economy here greatly, although I’m not a fan of giving out our strategic resources to any countries, even if friendly.

But that is only part of the Serbian-Chinese dynamic. The other part is the diplomatic support that China has shown us throughout the years. Even as Vučić’s masters in the EU increase pressure regarding the recognition of Kosovo, China has (along with Russia) always shot down any propositions regarding the region in the UN.

Also thanks for the video recommendation, i didn’t know Norton talked about us. I’ll check it out soon.

Hahaha yes they are, people opposing the government here often make fun of them.

Ugh, my condolences to the people of China who had to watch this clown. Although it’s interesting to see that he has the same weaselly melodramatic tone when speaking to foreign audiences as well.

Churches from Cologne to Brandenburg displayed (and many still display) a Judensau, the image of a female pig in intimate contact with several Jews shown in demeaning poses. The same type of sculpture can also be found in Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and the Low Countries.

Western Europe is a fucked up place

It’s a pleasure to be of help :)

His anti-EU statements are only statements and there’s not a lot of bite behind the bark, ultimately. The only times he does something that isn’t 100% neolib bs is when it goes against public opinion in Serbia so much that it would be political suicide to do the opposite. One thing you have to understand is that the public here is massively against western imperialism (particularly NATO) and he is an EU client. So he has to do this balancing act, where he is forced to make moves that aren’t totally awful is because of that. In return he gets to rule the country like a Batista, Somosa, Noriega etc. and not be considered a dictator by the “freedom-loving” EU.

Thanks to being a little dictator, our foreign policy also deeply depends on him, and he has not proven to be a negotiator in any capacity, being fully humiliated by the US, EU and Kosovo. The Serbian Progressive Party also can not offer any other cadre to replace him in that role because it’s a bunch of the dumbest, most servile clowns gathered around him. Thanks to those two reasons there is no hope for Serbia to escape the EU’s grip in the near future.

Not happening, Serbia’s govt is a bunch of opportunists, but they’re a bunch of dumb opportunist. They have no idea when to jump ship and the opposition consists of a dozen pro EU parties along with a monarchist and kinda eurosceptic one with a 5% support.