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Poe
Cancer is awful.
Sam
Eric Portapotty
Sorry mate.
Carroll.
Franck
Fuck man.
KEZ_7
Vercoe
Shedender
Jonas
How well do you know the world? Play Geoguessr to find out!
http://url.geoguessr.com/6z09
Well proud of the Lousiana one (watching True Detective actually helped me recognise the landscape), but then I fucked up big time with the one in Russia and Australia.
Slashman X
Deano
Franck
You do realise these are different every time right, so we have no idea what you're talking about.
Anyway, I find it pretty easy to guess which country you are in based on road markings, post boxes, signs, utility poles etc. The difficult thing is guessing the location within that country.
Jonas
Zoom in on the map on the link I provided, smartass.
Pfft, those hints are like cheating. Try getting them right without doing that.
Franck
Shola
Franck
\o/
Eric Portapotty
the_urban_lemon
Eric Portapotty
And good fucking riddance, not touching Fieldbus ever again.
Slashman X
again
King Luis
Sears
Sears
Those who say it isn't necessary to understand history are totally wrong - just look at what's occurring in Ukraine at the moment.
Ukraine's ousted President, Viktor Yanukovych asked President Vladimir Putin to use Russia's armed forces "to establish legitimacy, peace,
law and order, stability and defending the people of Ukraine." Let's go back in time to WW2 - remember when Hitler wanted 2 control Austria?
He forced the Austrian leader, Kurt Schuschnigg, to appoint Arthur Seyss-Inquart as Minister of Interior. Seyss was a Nazi sympathizer
Hitler had threatened Schuschnigg with military action if he did not comply. Anyway, Schuschnigg shortly resigned after this incident.....
Who became the new leader of Austria? BOOM. You guessed correctly - Arthur Seyss-Inquart. And what was the first thing he did?..........
He invited Hitler and his army to march into Austria and thus take over the country (Anschluss)... And isn't the same thing happening
In Ukraine as the ousted Ukrainian President asked Putin to sent Russian troops to Crimea? Crimea has a Russian majority as well by the way
It was part of Russia till 1954. Then it was given 2 Ukraine. History always repeats itself because many refuse to learn from past mistakes
A special mention must go to @efitz6 as he thought me all the WW2 history stuff about Hitler and Austria. All I did was connect the dots
Slashman X
A quick remix was made
Sears
http://www.policymic.com/articles/81873/experience-just-how-big-the-universe-is-in-one-mind-blowing-interactive
Slashman X
Ninja
If I may, I think you're drawing the wrong parallels.
Yanukovych is an elected official, pro-Russian yes, but there's been little to suggest his election was fraudulent. Although his actions since have led to him being kicked out I think you're drawing the wrong parallels between him and Seyss-Inquart, him asking Russia to intervene is about restoring his power, not handing Russia an excuse to invade the Ukraine.
Russia's action has been limited to the Crimea, too, and thats important. You recognise that Crimea is historically and ethnically Russian, but you miss that Crimea is strategically important to Russia, if you're looking for parallels look at stuff like the London Straits Convention and the Treaty's of the Dardanelles. Russia's black sea fleet is historically very important, by a freak of geography Russia's access to warm water ports has been historically low and in Sevastopol they have their only warm water port on the black sea (I think they're building/have built another one at Novorossiysk but there's negligible strategic value to that site atm).
For Russian interests in the middle East and Eastern Europe the loss of Sevastopol would be pretty devastating, yes the Black Sea fleet is becoming increasingly obsolete, but Russia paid about £42bn for access to that port until 2042 4 years ago. It's obvious they will protect that investment.
I also think there's an extent to which Putin is poking the American response. He won a huge diplomatic victory over Syria and left Obama with egg all over his face, Russia's resources are much poorer, but America's response to crises recently has been dithering. Whether Crimea becomes Russian or not, this is about showing that, in reality, Russia has as much of a claim to Crimea as the Ukraine, if not more.
Put simply, it's more complicated than the Cold War rhetoric of 'RUSSIA BAD/WEST GOOD' there's a lot more complicated themes of strategy, politics and a whole host of post-Soviet issues of integration of Russian speakers into former-USSR states like Ukraine, Georgia (see the South Ossetia conflict), Estonia and so on.
EDIT: South Ossetia is a good example. Because Russia got involved, America shouted a lot and then an independent commission found that it was started how Russia said, by a bunch of Georgians artillery striking Russians.
Sam
Slashman X
Awesome from Neymar and Brazil