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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #60 on: March 16, 2014, 08:24:06 AM »
I was studying at the uni when Chernobyl happened. As physics students, none of us was particularly worried but me and a mate wanted to sell umbrellas wrapped in tinfoil to the public. There was money to be made.

I was hiking all day, with a friend in shorts and tank-tops. When we came home in the evening, we heard we should have been inside all day, or at least covered up well.
One of my flatmates refused to eat fresh vegetables for over half a year. She became a zealous believer in tinned food. Made cooking for all just a bit harder.
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #61 on: March 16, 2014, 11:50:31 AM »
There was money to be made.

Capitalist!

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #62 on: March 16, 2014, 11:02:50 PM »
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #63 on: March 16, 2014, 11:14:26 PM »
I was studying at the uni when Chernobyl happened. As physics students, none of us was particularly worried but me and a mate wanted to sell umbrellas wrapped in tinfoil to the public. There was money to be made.

I was hiking all day, with a friend in shorts and tank-tops. When we came home in the evening, we heard we should have been inside all day, or at least covered up well.
One of my flatmates refused to eat fresh vegetables for over half a year. She became a zealous believer in tinned food. Made cooking for all just a bit harder.

For months, there was a heated debate in Sweden about what to do with the livestock that was exposed to the fallout from the accident. The general opinion was based on fear--people didn't want to eat meat from the poor animals, worrying about cancer and whatnot. Some of the more vocal members of the public worried about mutations. ::)

As physics students, we pointed out that the meat could feed the elderly for years. Cesium 137 has a halflife of 30 years or so.
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #64 on: March 17, 2014, 01:06:05 AM »
I was studying at the uni when Chernobyl happened. As physics students, none of us was particularly worried but me and a mate wanted to sell umbrellas wrapped in tinfoil to the public. There was money to be made.

I was hiking all day, with a friend in shorts and tank-tops. When we came home in the evening, we heard we should have been inside all day, or at least covered up well.
One of my flatmates refused to eat fresh vegetables for over half a year. She became a zealous believer in tinned food. Made cooking for all just a bit harder.

For months, there was a heated debate in Sweden about what to do with the livestock that was exposed to the fallout from the accident. The general opinion was based on fear--people didn't want to eat meat from the poor animals, worrying about cancer and whatnot. Some of the more vocal members of the public worried about mutations. ::)

As physics students, we pointed out that the meat could feed the elderly for years. Cesium 137 has a halflife of 30 years or so.

You brute, feeding that to the elderly.

Look what has become of them, most are now dead.  :bodie:
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #65 on: March 17, 2014, 10:04:11 AM »
There was money to be made.

Capitalist!

Capitalism never existed. What kind of nonsense is this? :nerdy:
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #66 on: March 17, 2014, 11:35:05 PM »
I was studying at the uni when Chernobyl happened. As physics students, none of us was particularly worried but me and a mate wanted to sell umbrellas wrapped in tinfoil to the public. There was money to be made.

I was hiking all day, with a friend in shorts and tank-tops. When we came home in the evening, we heard we should have been inside all day, or at least covered up well.
One of my flatmates refused to eat fresh vegetables for over half a year. She became a zealous believer in tinned food. Made cooking for all just a bit harder.

For months, there was a heated debate in Sweden about what to do with the livestock that was exposed to the fallout from the accident. The general opinion was based on fear--people didn't want to eat meat from the poor animals, worrying about cancer and whatnot. Some of the more vocal members of the public worried about mutations. ::)

As physics students, we pointed out that the meat could feed the elderly for years. Cesium 137 has a halflife of 30 years or so.

You brute, feeding that to the elderly.

Look what has become of them, most are now dead.  :bodie:

That was the plan. :zoinks:
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #67 on: March 17, 2014, 11:37:50 PM »
There was money to be made.

Capitalist!

Capitalism never existed. What kind of nonsense is this? :nerdy:

That's interesting, considering how it is the dominant system in the western world today.
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #68 on: March 18, 2014, 08:14:53 AM »
Annexation is complete, uneventful
But Ukraine is still mobilizing, so it now is up to them to make this violent. Weird turn of affairs...

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #69 on: March 19, 2014, 12:58:35 AM »
It's surprising how fast the whole thing went. Putin didn't waste any time.

I have to say I find that 97% figure in favour of joining Russia quite ludicrous. There's no way the vote wasn't rigged.
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #70 on: March 19, 2014, 06:28:41 AM »
It's surprising how fast the whole thing went. Putin didn't waste any time.

I have to say I find that 97% figure in favour of joining Russia quite ludicrous. There's no way the vote wasn't rigged.

Such distrust :(

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #71 on: March 20, 2014, 10:28:39 AM »
It's surprising how fast the whole thing went. Putin didn't waste any time.

I have to say I find that 97% figure in favour of joining Russia quite ludicrous. There's no way the vote wasn't rigged.
Damn CIA manipulating election results.  It just goes to show Putin is weak compared to glorious leader Kim Jong Un.

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #72 on: March 20, 2014, 11:55:55 PM »
The situation is quite scary now. I have to say, I did not believe that this is how it would turn out to be. :(
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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #73 on: March 16, 2023, 11:31:20 AM »
But my position is that, why bother letting Crimea be independent and risk constant outside interference, when annexing makes it so if anyone tries anything, it'll be seen as an attack on Russia directly? So annexing it would be a more appealing option to further enforce its security. Not to mentioned as I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of shale gas within the region of Crimea borders which becomes Russian resources upon annexing.

But I can see the alternative of independence being a compromise option if Russia feels it's under too much pressure. Problem is, Russia has its gas exports to leverage against the EU, so the EU doesn't really have a position of threatening Russia with significant sanctions enough to warrant that. The U.S isn't in too much of a position to threaten Russia either, considering how aggressive Russia can retaliate economically.

That's probably why Russia will be rather bold about their moves. They're not in a position to be severely threatened right now (at least not enough for the west to risk doing so) and they know it.

Where did he go anyway?

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Re: Will There Be A War?
« Reply #74 on: March 17, 2023, 02:34:27 PM »
Where did who go?
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