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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 25th, 2021, 11:10 pm

If there are trees nearby and little to no border control at the current point, I'll pay you 50.000$ now and another 250.000$ once the tunnel is finished.
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 26th, 2021, 10:26 am

Rooms for rent, less than 100m away from the Swiss border. PM me your bids.
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 26th, 2021, 12:09 pm

All the reasons (global economic crisis stimulating international competition, nationalisms) and mechanisms (countries grouped into camps like EU and America vs Iran-China-Russia - which would pull one after another into the conflict) for the world war are in place most of the time. Just a spark is enough to trigger it - it's a complex system with self-organised criticality. Or is the self-organised critically fad over? Anyway, triggering the conflict is IMHO not a matter of the spark being big enough but about giving it many enough tries. Maybe it's 1 per 1000 now and was 1 per 100 before the previous WWs - probably it decreased, but if we keep trying the fire will start.

Paul, I'm not at all hysterical about it... *plucks the strings of the fiddle*
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 26th, 2021, 12:38 pm

Rooms for rent, less than 100m away from the Swiss border. PM me your bids.
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PM me NOW if you want to have a chance to qualify for a VIP room with view on CERN's LHC facilities!

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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 26th, 2021, 3:27 pm

can I buy cheap heating oils and fireworks?


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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 26th, 2021, 11:32 pm

Tagoma, I think that sounds like a star deal, what are your prices? Can I pay in Bananas?
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 31st, 2021, 6:48 pm

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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 31st, 2021, 6:59 pm

They make a lovely couple.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgetd17XTOY
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

May 31st, 2021, 7:41 pm

Jimmy Kennedy also wrote the lyrics of this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqnb_nU7RBE

and this ...
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

September 13th, 2021, 10:36 pm

Zapad 2021 military exercise, or Belarus and Poland as the arena of the future proxy war between USA and China:
https://www.timesnownews.com/india/arti ... sia/811345
Nobody will even notice when Russia takes Ukraine :-(
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

February 11th, 2022, 9:42 pm

Isn't it sweet in the whole situation how nobody cares that Russia invaded Belarus?
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

February 11th, 2022, 10:25 pm

Whom should we support?
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

February 11th, 2022, 10:59 pm

My closest experiences with Belarus is probably a tie between once finding myself there in Geoguessr and some family connections to the Norwegian superstar biathlete who dumped his Italian wife for his Belarusian female counterpart. That being said, having had a Putin puppet regime in place for a rather long time, invasion may or may not be the right term.

I’m vaguely reminded of a joke: a German comes to the passport control and is asked: Occupation? The answer - Nein, nur Urlaub!
 
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Re: those belligerent Belarusans

October 4th, 2022, 11:06 am

Lukashenko announces overall mobilisation as Belarus struggles with steep price increases

Belarusian President Lukashenko announced that he will mobilise school children in order to harvest vegetables so that people in his country can eat and help keep prices down.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said that school children can be used to harvest potatoes, beetroot and flaxseed, and claimed the decision would bring his people together.