Meanwhile in Ukraine

[Armpit_Sweat]

Well, golden toilet is a myth, they didn't find it in his residence. Still it doesn't make him any better.

He took it with him to Moscow 

[Tibe]

Unfortunately he has to share with Putin. Yanukovych being the seatwarmer and Putin doing the dumping.

[Torben]

btw, good news from Russia: ex-minister of defence accused of corruption found not-guilty. Seems like all money were stolen by Magnitsky, which he paid to prison officials to force them to torture & kill him(Magnitsky).

I pitty you guys,  this is so fucking sad...  my parents fled communism in the seventies from two different countries,  and the corruption,  injustice, the total scorn for human life they told me about was so sickening,  and this just shows so many paralells to it :/

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This. So many times.

It seems to me that a lot of you forget that we have peace and stability in Germany for easy over 50 years. That is the head-start Germany has.
You seem to expect that you get a similar system and get the same shit in 10 years. What kind of silly equation is that?

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There is a saying in German about the generations of a family and their wealth:

Der Ersten den Tod, der Zweiten die Not, der Dritten das Brot.

Translation:

For the first the death, for the second the need, for the third the bread.

I hope the meaning comes across. The reason why it appears that Germany has so much stuff is that my grandparents already started building the "family wealth" after the war. Building houses out of ruins, starting shops. My parents took over where my grandparents stopped, continued working. I am in the more or less fortunate situation to gain the most yet. If you consider that it's going downhill for a few years now, my generation has it's very own problems though but that would go quite off-topic now.

yo but one more thing we had the past seventy  years:  a system in which the people can thrive,  where every single man has equal rights that are being upheld by a stable, powerful state governed by its people.  (generelization here,  ofc we had our problems)

leshy:  dont know if you really meant what you wrote up there or if its a joke,  but that was a good piece of bullshit.  upright fucking offensive.  One extreme example:  Germany's (flawed) system even allows any european without a job to come here and get welfare for the whole family without ever having payed a cent into germany's social system,  without effectively looking for a job,  the state meanwhile cracking up trying to teach them german,  integrating them and trying to find work for them (also generalization,  but wtf).  thats just so far beyond what you are insinuating. 
read on while listening to the best piece of music ever written (next to anything of frank zappa ofc) 

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  Its just like this:  germany wants a strong Europe,  because in the long term non of us small states can keep up with the world alone.  there is no more single european superpower like before WWI.  We need each other not only to thrive,  but to merely survive the future.  and we need each other strong.
this,  is why Europe is a good Idea.  Because its the only way we can survive as free men in the next few hundred years. 

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come and join us.  we are the bjord.

[Torben]

Unfortunately he has to share with Putin. Yanukovych being the seatwarmer and Putin doing the dumping.

yany refused his golden shithouse to putin and instantly got an "heartattack" :'D

[Vovka]

We need each other not only to thrive,  but to merely survive the future.  and we need each other strong.
this,  is why Europe is a good Idea.  Because its the only way we can survive as free men in the next few hundred years. 

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come and join us.  we are the bjord.

Still a little bit of Muslims and children from Africa and Europe will be stronger than ever 

[Kuujis]

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  Its just like this:  germany wants a strong Europe,  because in the long term non of us small states can keep up with the world alone.  there is no more single european superpower like before WWI.  We need each other not only to thrive,  but to merely survive the future.  and we need each other strong.
this,  is why Europe is a good Idea.  Because its the only way we can survive as free men in the next few hundred years. 
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What we NEED is a fucking common, mandatory and enforced military budget and a common fucking army. (in which separate batallions can't talk to each other  , but who gives a fuk, aye?  ) But this needs a separate topic with voting option: do you support United Federal States of Europe akin to bad-old-US of A or not 

[Oberyn]

Still a little bit of Muslims and children from Africa and Europe will be stronger than ever 

And it's people like this unironically calling others chocolate chip cookies. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so fucking sad.

[Torben]

What we NEED is a fucking common, mandatory and enforced military budget and a common fucking army. (in which separate batallions can't talk to each other  , but who gives a fuk, aye?  ) But this needs a separate topic with voting option: do you support United Federal States of Europe akin to bad-old-US of A or not 

ye and then we send our forum vote to EU parliament,  its about as justified as crimean parliament decision haha 

[Christo]

[Torben]

fucks sake,  hopefully not more people die...

[Xant]

Well, that guy is suicidal. He's lucky that the Russians didn't just take him and his crew to some alley and shoot them all. "Your only authority is that gun!" As if that's not a better authority than a piece of paper.

[Christo]

Well, that guy is suicidal. He's lucky that the Russians didn't just take him and his crew to some alley and shoot them all. "Your only authority is that gun!" As if that's not a better authority than a piece of paper.

Or he just really wants a raise from VICE 

[Vibe]

YOLO reporter

[DaveUKR]

Crimean "anti-nаzi" forces first beat a journalist from Bulgaria then take his camera and cell phone. This happened yesterday in the very centre of Simferopol. Also yesterday these forces captured TV stations and replaced Ukrainian channels with Russian channels.

Also, Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to provide lists of people to make referendum in Crimea possible. So you can only imagine how they will vote: there will be more votes for making Crimea a part of Russia than there are people in Crimea including Russian military forces (like in typical Russia with 146% of votes). Also there is no such thing as local referendum in Ukrainian law and you can't announce such questions there. They also changed dates from 25th of May to 30th of March and to 16th of March recently. So this will be completely illegal and useless.

[Kafein]

Well, that guy is suicidal. He's lucky that the Russians didn't just take him and his crew to some alley and shoot them all. "Your only authority is that gun!" As if that's not a better authority than a piece of paper.

That's a Vice reporter in a nutshell. Also given that they have to face hairy situations like this all the time, they have probably set up quite a few defense mechanisms. I'm pretty sure they are streaming via satellite non-stop, carry GPS beacons etc. making sure that if shit goes down, everybody knows about it.

Anyways, shouldn't the Ukrainian military shoot on these "unknown forces", given that precisely they are "unknown" ? It seems weird to me that at least when the invasion began, none of the bases defended themselves against unmarked personnel entering restricted areas.