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  1. Surprising to no one Russian state tv has declared Putin the winner of the presidential election. According to russian prognosis he gets ca 88% of the vote and over 75% of russians went to vote, both are record numbers not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union... I guess Kiriyenko gets a pay raise...
  2. Haha i do have some tongue twisters in my language as well that both German and English speakers would struggle with… I agree he has maneuvered himself into a corner that he can’t come out now without losing face somehow… still it would have made more sense to use the Biden defense again and say Germany doesn’t deliver Taurus until USA delivers AGM 158 JASSM, that would have given him time until 2025 at least and possibly forever if Trump is elected…yeah baerbock or habeck were the best candidates around… hell I come to think that given the rather terrible performance of this coalition when it comes to ecology, social and financial issues (which I hoped could actually get something done after the 16 years of sleepwalking under merkel) if not a chancellor laschet would have been the better option…
  3. Question: Do you guys think that the Supreme Court overruling Chevron by July will have an impact on the election? Or is it the kind of thing that is too „technical/complicated/abstract“ for the majority of people, so they don’t know and/or don’t care?
  4. If Scholz really wanted he could have sent them already, he doesn't so he comes up with all kinds of excuses, he could just say I don't want to send them basta, and we wouldn't have that whole drama. Germany has 300 Taurus ready and another 300 in storage. By refurbishing those in storage or by making an alliance/ringtausch of some sort with the other two nations that have TAURUS: South Korea (260 pieces), Spain (48), all these issues could be fixed, hell even the UK agreed to get german Taurus in exchange of Storm Shadow to Ukraine...
  5. Isn’t that generally the conundrum of conspiracy theories? if you ignore them there’s something suspicious otherwise you would just go out and say they’re bollocks, and if you’re going out and say they are BS, then something must be iffy othewise you wouldn’t waste time and effort to defuse them? As a lifelong republican (Not the American kind) I don’t care at all what William might have done in his personal life. Plenty of people cheat on their partners, it’s not a criminal offense. This again shows that this whole idea of a Rf that is somehow „above and beyond“ etc is just BS, and the harder they try to convey that feeling the more they will be criticised…
  6. Not trying to derail the topic, but to say XY isn’t Christian(insert here Religion of your choosing) is not honest imho. Cyril and others see themselves as christians, they might not be your version of Christians but they’re Christian nonetheless, Christianity is a diverse religion… The Czechs have apparently „discovered“ other things that could be bought and brought to Ukraine such as missiles (mostly for anti air) and drones.
  7. Two reasons: first internal German politics, second USA hasn’t sent their long range cruise missile either.
  8. Yes backtracking now would make him looking even more like the fool he is… so probably nein, or should I say njet ? that assessment makes a lot of sense… thanks for your intel… i still hope though that macron and some of the more proukrainian countries could form some sort of coalition, especially since the USA seems to fall away until 2025 and even further than that if the democrats don’t win the trifecta… Yes there are the names of a number of countries mentioned in the passing weeks: South Korea, South Africa, Turkey, Pakistan, Argentina…
  9. Has that been proven to be real? If yes it confirms my view that Macron especially but also the other western leaders (Biden, Scholz, Johnson, Zelensky, etc.) did everything they could to persuade Putin to stop the invasion prior to 24.2.2022, thanks for posting
  10. I meant more that I could see Ty becoming as good in sc1 as rain etc. more like he seems to have the ability to kind of follow the footsteps of former sc2 pros like soulkey, not that I consider Soulkey etc an sc2 pro. Just that they were able to reach the top in both games at one time, and the little I saw/know from Ty makes me wonder if he could pull that stunt as well. Since it seems something that while possible it’s really hard to pull off. Flash for example who dominated sc1 was never able to achieve success in sc2 and that’s seems more the norm rather than the being successful in both games… i mean there’s a lot of people who have either an Oscar or a Grammy but not that many with both…
  11. Only ro24 is best of one. Ro16 to Finals is from bo3 to bo7. A lot of people dislike the ro24 for that reason but there are/were two main reasons to this: in the pre sc2 era a lot of TvTs were long, drawn out and uneventful something that was made worse by the fact that pre remastered there was no zoom function for observers so that you only saw either parts of the tank line either attacking or being attacked and never the whole battle/picture. Since there could be groups with let’s say 3 terrans and 1 Protoss they chose to go for best of one to minimize total game length. the second reason that still applies today is that in a best of one a „dark horse / newcomer / outsider“ has much more potential for an upset compared to a series . This increases the competitiveness and suspense since all the players in the ro24 can be killed off by everyone…this season was actually unusual for two reasons: Zerg underperformed, they are usually the most consistent at least in the early stages of a tournament and of the title contenders only Rain was eliminated. We had seasons where 3-4 of the very best players went out in the ro24, thus giving other less known players the chance to shine… it’s a bit like every other sport I think you want to have your Tom Brady’s, roger federers etc in the tournament but the best story’s are often when a nobody like Iceland makes it into a World Cup… still imho they should make at least the losers match into a bo 3 since it can literally be that a player gets 4pooled twice in a row and ends up playing like 6min of StarCraft at an ASL… For beginners I generally recommend watching the later stages of the tournament, not the finals though, since while when they’re good they’re epic but often they’re underwhelming, which mirrors my experiences with other pro sports such as football/ American football, where for every Argentina-France, Patriots-falcons Final you get your spain-Netherlands patriots-rams… I agree that TYs games were the among the most entertaining ones. He certainly brings something unique into the game. I am excited to see how he develops, especially since both rain and Soulkey came from sc2 and are among the very best of their races in sc1… you’re general assessment that the games in this ro24 were one sided/decisive with little comeback potential is spot on imho, but I would say that’s not how sc usually unfolds! It can be but it’s not the norm.
  12. Yes but he‘s not what he used to be most of the time. He does have his moments when the old JD shines through… Flash and Bisu are more on the level they were back in the day (flash is inactive atm)… a lot of the „old“ players are still active to some degree at least…
  13. Well Putin doesn't use the internet apparently so he probably still plays with tin soldiers and more sadly with real ones...
  14. I can totally understand that, I would actually appreciate if Blizzard/Microsoft would do that but for SC:Remastered as of now that's a pipe dream. In this case I recommend watching replays from games rather than live games such as ASL, at least for the beginning, because in replays you do have production tabs on the top left and worker/supply size on the top right. Once you get used to it, and have more knowledge of the game it becomes much less of an issue. https://www.youtube.com/@ArtosisCasts does daily casts of mostly replays(thus with those tabs), he has two other channels about SC2 & other RTS as well Artosiscast2 and ArtosisTV(if you're into Artosisrage and toxic chats). Artosis is a very technical, analytical commentator with an encyclopedic knowledge about brood war... if you prefer more casual, color commentating https://www.youtube.com/@FalconPaladin is a good call or https://www.youtube.com/@Tasteless_TV who has also other RTS related content. There's quite a lot of other quality content such https://www.youtube.com/@jinjinBW who translates a lot of Korean pro content, https://www.youtube.com/@SaiyanKCM does the KCM race survival series if you don't like the brood war mirror matchups, in https://www.youtube.com/@StarCastTVENG you do have alot of generally more technical/analytical commentators for a more advanced audience, ranging from strong amateur players such as Nyoken to Korean Pros like Scan... About the Reaver scarab not hitting always like it should, I recommend to watch this segment, it's from the current season of ASL 17: Snow is the best Reaver user in the world, no doubt about it, but the following 5 min segment shows that it would literally break the game if it would work properly: Starting at 20:05 min until 25:40, the audio/video quality is kinda shit since Tastosis recorded it in a Hotel room in LA, but for 5min it's ok..
  15. First why should Russia be unable to stop that? Prigozhins advance was because he went from Russia (Rostov) to Russia (Moscow) by using hugely popular russian troops, never crossing a Ukrainian border that was actually guarded by hostile troops... Second due to the occasional border skirmishes/attacks Russia has almost certainly increased security in the border regions. Third to ammass enough troops to capture/destroy huge chunks of Belgorod Oblast you would have to concentrate them somewhere f.e. Charkiw, which would then make them easily be spotted by satellites, drones, aircraft. This would give the Russians time to divert troops there and they could be easily targeted by russian long range weaponry. Fourth Urban warfare is a mess, so you would sustain high casualties, something Ukraine can't really afford. Fifth it would strain Ukrainian manpower &equipment by opening up a whole new front, when they are already short to man & equip the fronts they have right now. Sixth: Look at a map, almost all the railway lines, major highways, ports, airports that russia uses to reinforce the current frontlines are located in the south & east (Rostov, taganrog, Kertch, etc.) not in the north around Belgorod, so capturing/destroying it would have no effect on the war itself. Eight: it would make a huge emotional and propagandistic victory for Putin: look ukraine and the global west are imperialistic, fascistic, aggressive, nazi-barbarian invaders, thus turning the general public (in Russia and probably parts of the west/world) against Ukraine, local resistance rather than the support they enjoy in Ukraine could then put a further strain on Ukrainian troops. Ninth: Again support from the west would either completely stop or be curtailed massively, which would inevitably lead to the fall of Ukraine. Tenth even if Russia loses Belgorod with little Ukrainian casualties: So what? if there's two things that Russia can spare it's territory and people. They have done that in almost every war since the early 18th Century. Belgorod Oblast is of no "real" value to Russia. Ukraine lacks logistics, equipment and manpower to attack/destroy and hold large swaths of Russia, which could force the Russians to sue for peace. Eleventh Ukraine wants to get its own territory back not conquer/destroy russian ones. 12: If Ukraine would ammass such a force the US & the West would know about it and if they fail to persuade the Ukrainians to stop such action, they might inform the russians because of fear of escalation and unforeseeable consequences of such a strategy. https://deepstatemap.live/en#11/49.9771/38.0237 To the map part above: this "pocket" of Russia between Topoli (Ukraine) and Demyno-Oleksandrivka (Ukraine), where a significant railway line goes through is IMHO the only part of Russia that would make sense to attack and hold. I am definitely not advocating for it! There are a significant amount of caveats, but I could see some benefits to it...
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