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XorXor

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31. There is PESCO

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:41 PM

Nov 2022

I'm not too well informed on it since I've yet to find any trustworthy authoritative analysis of it, but the brief wikipedia-level understanding of it makes it seem like something that is evolving toward that. If you're unaware of what PESCO is, then it's worth the effort to do some quick reading on it

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Russia's Wagner Group sends bloodied sledgehammer to EU [View all] speak easy Nov 2022 OP

gee, how would terrorists react? Maybe sending a weapon threat? We'll never know ZonkerHarris Nov 2022 #1

Something about a violin case that rings a bell, speak easy Nov 2022 #2

Old gangster movies. In the days of 'speak easies' back during Prohibition. PatrickforB Nov 2022 #3

Maybe it's not wise to encourage the EU to start considering having its own army again. DavidDvorkin Nov 2022 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author speak easy Nov 2022 #5

It does. Its called NATO. oldsoftie Nov 2022 #16

NATO is not the EU DavidDvorkin Nov 2022 #25

Well, much like the UN,NATO is pretty much toothless without the US oldsoftie Nov 2022 #29

There is PESCO XorXor Nov 2022 #31

That sounds like the beginning of it DavidDvorkin Nov 2022 #32

It is interesting that the Trump administration seemed to have taken issue with it XorXor Nov 2022 #34

How long before a few Republican groups start using... NullTuples Nov 2022 #6

Ask Tom DeLay :) speak easy Nov 2022 #8

No, a bloody AR-15. sop Nov 2022 #19

Thank you Turbineguy Nov 2022 #7

Didn't the mafia send a dead fish wrapped in newspaper. BigmanPigman Nov 2022 #9

Those fascist fuckwits just proved the EU's point. SunSeeker Nov 2022 #10

Absolutely! SheltieLover Nov 2022 #11

Send the authoritarian soviet-wannabes a sickle. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #12

Favoured by authoritarian thugs and RW assassins in SF Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #13

Yep. It's all the same. paleotn Nov 2022 #21

How come thugs are never as cool as they think they are? Biophilic Nov 2022 #14

Or as Smart Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #26

Sounds like something terrorists would do IronLionZion Nov 2022 #15

Time to go ahead and call them what they are; terrorists & war criminals. oldsoftie Nov 2022 #17

See. They aren't terrorists prodigitalson Nov 2022 #18

Funny, since the Wagner thugs are being ground to dust. paleotn Nov 2022 #20

Russia is basically ISIS with nukes at this point. Oneironaut Nov 2022 #22

In Russia, that is what passes as diplomacy. Chainfire Nov 2022 #23

Translation: Yup, we're terrorists and proud of it. Martin68 Nov 2022 #24

The EU should declare the Wagner Group a terrorist organization. ancianita Nov 2022 #27

A Russian Nazi is still a Nazi. LudwigPastorius Nov 2022 #28

Fucking barbarians. Isn't it time to stand up to these blood-thirsty terrorists? Martin68 Nov 2022 #30

Answer ... pbmus Nov 2022 #33

Well done, Mr. Reinsalu Mysterian Nov 2022 #35

Things a terrorist group would do ck4829 Nov 2022 #36

Too bad orangecrush Nov 2022 #37

Waste of a perfectly good violin case. truthisfreedom Nov 2022 #38