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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 02:30:25 AM

#2

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - Today at 02:28:44 AM

Operation Mincemeat - Well known story but not seen the film before. Too much on drama, romance, bits and bobs for the people setting it up. Should have had a lot more about the spy events in Spain. Show the German side and how they analysed it

It's the kind of stuff that probably would make for a brilliant documentary (the story is incredible - what with the washed corpse and all) but you need to add too much extraneous shit to make it work as a regular movie.

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Off the Record / Re: The Shooting Gallery: Poli...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 01:46:00 AM

Some more lawlessness:

Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees

#4

Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3

Last post by Syt - Today at 01:43:02 AM

Seen in an observer game:



Two things:
1. Independent Mordvin country in Russia.
2. Landlocked Mordvins are obsessed with ... Clippers.

#5

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 01:42:43 AM

DoL social media feed has been regularly pumping out this Nazified neo-Vichy shit for a while now.  Place must be overrun by crypto-fascists.  It's the same gang that rolled out the Big Brother-style giant Trump banners.

Crypto as in they are really into crypto-currency?  Cause they certainly aren't "crypto" as in hidden.  I thought I understood politics, I really did.  This is all twilight zone shit.  Like Hitler's ghost is advising people.  I don't understand any of it.

Well, Trump was aparrently born in 1946, so he might actually be

#6

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 01:36:18 AM

The Danish DoD is trying to figure out what happens to the 100ish Danish soldiers currently training or working at US military installations in the event of a war. Going directly from ally to enemy will present some odd scenarios for sure.

They would instantly become POWs.

And if the rest of NATO sides with Denmark, there are quite a lot of US military/dependents who could be POWs as well.  Not to mention the untold billions of impounded military hardware. 

And pretty sure there is still a not-small nuclear stockpile stored in Europe?  (though for their part, I am guessing Turkey would distance themselves from the whole thing whatever happens)

Offer these Americans asylum. Build an army of Free America as well as a government in exile.

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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 01:15:49 AM

Oh...

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government's deportation drive, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.

The U.S. Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-readies-1500-soldiers-possibly-deploy-minnesota-washington-post-reports-2026-01-18/

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 12:41:09 AM

Don't worry, it'll all magically resolve at the ballot box in November, which will be a totally fair and balanced election. All the nazis will take off their uniform and burn them.

#9

Off the Record / Re: Go Persians, go!

Last post by Valmy - January 18, 2026, 11:58:51 PM

As far as I know we have no idea what is going on besides lots of people have been killed.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HisMajestyBOB - January 18, 2026, 11:14:01 PM

I remember thinking the depictions of USA-turned-fascist, like the Earth government in Babylon 5, in the 90s always felt hokey. Sometimes you'd even have them blatantly throwing sieg heils or directly aping the Nazis. It always felt so hamfisted and cliched. And yet now it's all there on full display.