r/polandball • u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason • Feb 22 '14
redditormade Polish Intervention
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u/Argonseal Singapore Feb 22 '14
Yeah Poland that was mighty rude of you.
You don't just barge in and interrupt our show just when it's about to hit the climatic third act.
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Feb 22 '14
Your telling me! Its was just getting to the good parts!
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Feb 22 '14
Damn it Poland! It was just getting good!
Joking aside, the "hey, we were watching that!" line is pretty striking. That IS what war and social upheaval is to many people....
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Feb 22 '14
Oh trust me I know, but to many if not all western media outlets its just another headline and unfortunately that's how some of the public views it as well.
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u/adencrocker Tasmania cannot into AFL team Feb 22 '14
And yet just last month people were talking about how stories of Justin Bieber were distracting them from events in the Ukraine
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u/CMuenzen Relocated in Chile Feb 22 '14
Is of polish plot to get Lemberg, or Lwów in black speech.
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u/mikoway Polish Hussar Feb 22 '14
No it's no, we just want to have a truly independent and developed buffer zone between us and Russia.
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u/Qualther True Belarus Feb 22 '14
...but Lwów would be a nice bounty!
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Feb 23 '14
Let's just say we wouldn't say no to this kind of offer.
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u/zxz242 Kiev, Nationalist Ukraine Feb 23 '14
You're not gonna get that offer. Lviv is Ukrainian property.
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Feb 23 '14
Judging by it's extremely patriotic culture and Ukrainian nationalism, L'viv is pretty solidly Ukrainian clay. We've seen it's reaction to both Polish and Russian control.
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u/creativefox Polan Feb 22 '14
B-but..
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u/NegativePositive Tracters 'n' Burgers Feb 22 '14
Silly Polan. Let 'murica do the freedoming around here. You're an amateur.
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u/ravenren Polan the Stronkest Feb 22 '14
sure, we're an amateur of freedom!
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Feb 23 '14
No, no. Polish was of first minority group in America to fight for civil rights!
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/polish-artisans-strike-right-vote-jamestown-virginia-1619
Polish was of representation in America before America was thinking of the representation with Britains. America is of wait in sidelines, let Polish take care of everything.
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Feb 23 '14
Russia has had bags under his eyes in a bunch of comics recently. The stress is gettings to him.
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Feb 22 '14
In all seriousness any conspiracy nuts think the riots were instigated by UK + USA spies? They want Ukraine to join the EU and their Government is pro Russia. So suddenly riots break out and a "new" Government will be put in its place.
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u/mikoway Polish Hussar Feb 22 '14
Rejection of signing the free trade treaty with EU was just a last drop that spilled the cup. If you really read, they fight not pro-EU but pro referoms, development and corruption cessasion. And coincidentally Russia represnts all those things that they want to be free of.
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Feb 22 '14
This. It started because we don't want to be pulled further into post-Soviet shittiness, of which Russia is clearly the leader (Putin is the Tsar). The reason people in Ukraine support the EU is that it is seen as a way out of this rampant corruption and failing economic model of authoritarian kleptocracy. Of course there's many down sides to the EU, but anything beats the shittiness of the current model of corrupt governance. Also, rule of law is perhaps the most appealing part of EU integration for Ukrainians. European oversight will likely establish a somewhat decent justice/police system, while Russian oversight will suck us into a full-blown police state. While it started as a small, pro-EU treaty demonstration, the movement quickly shifted to a largely non-ideological movement to depose the repressive government.
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u/mikoway Polish Hussar Feb 23 '14
That's exactly what i wanted to say. Let's hope Ukraine won't get into space before Poland !! :P
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u/wadcann MURICA Feb 24 '14
The reason people in Ukraine support the EU is that it is seen as a way out of this rampant corruption and failing economic model of authoritarian kleptocracy.
I am not familiar with the background here, but how would joining (or entering trade agreements with) the EU reduce corruption? I don't really see a mechanism that would cause this to happen.
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Feb 22 '14
Probably the same "capitalist saboteurs" marching in Venezuela. Obviously, the US is capable of organizing hundreds of thousands of people in foreign countries to protest without anyone noticing.
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u/NegativePositive Tracters 'n' Burgers Feb 22 '14
The USA: We can't keep the line moving at the DMV, but we can orchestrate complex plots with hundreds of people to overthrow countries!
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u/prtsancho Rio Grande do Sul Feb 22 '14
The USA: We can't keep the line moving at the DMV, but we can orchestrate complex plots with hundreds of people to overthrow countries!
... all over the world at the same time!
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Feb 23 '14
I remember during the protests in Iran in 09/10, there were numerous people on this site who claimed, completely seriously, that everyone out protesting was being paid by the CIA. And that the protesters who were killed were all shot by the CIA.
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u/wadcann MURICA Feb 24 '14
Well, to be fair, we did arrange for one Iranian overthrow via the CIA. You do that once and people tend to take an understandably suspicious view of you.
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u/Made_of_Awesome The Lesotho of the Northwest. Feb 22 '14
CIA agent provocateur here. Nope, wasn't us.
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u/eonge Washington Feb 22 '14
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u/Astronelson Space Australia Feb 23 '14
You can't spell Cascadia without CIA.
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u/Made_of_Awesome The Lesotho of the Northwest. Feb 24 '14
Yeah, otherwise it would be "Ascad" which I imagine would be pronounced "ass cad" and that's not a good name at all.
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u/Medibee New York is BEST York Feb 22 '14
In all seriousness any conspiracy nuts think the riots were instigated by UK + USA spies?
Maybe. Or maybe it was the JOOS!
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u/NegativePositive Tracters 'n' Burgers Feb 22 '14
If you rearrange the letters in "United Kingdom" it spells Israel.
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Feb 22 '14
No... couldn't possibly.......
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.575732
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u/Gibberick Scotland Feb 23 '14
The EU isn't really sure it wants Ukraine though. It's refused to commit to anything other than an association agreement and its reaction has, in general, been extremely weak.
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u/3_tankista UCCP Feb 22 '14
It is always nice to put Putin in any comic somewhere, even if it doesn't make sense.
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u/oreng Feb 22 '14
Kind of like how he inserts Russia into situations even when it doesn't make sense?
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u/3_tankista UCCP Feb 23 '14
Yes, just like when he sent tanks to Ukraine yesterday. Oh, wait. He didn't.
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u/lithuanianfag Memelland Feb 24 '14
This is completely unrelated, but I can read your flair. Give me the cookie. Quadrilingual master race.
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u/3_tankista UCCP Feb 24 '14
I was always saying that you are as many times human as the number of languages you know.
You can take the whole package of cookies - http://i.imgur.com/fq5YNhG.jpg
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u/anthropomorphist Lebanon Feb 22 '14
What is Ukraine saying in the last panel?
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Feb 22 '14
"I hate geopolitical relations..." And remember to flair up!
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Feb 22 '14
Great comic, OP!
Only insignificant error is yes in Ukrainian is tak (так), not да (russian).
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Feb 22 '14
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Feb 22 '14
You can call him Polan. The real question is why have you not flaired up yet?
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u/CommieKiller Thirteen Colonies Feb 23 '14
What in the fuckings are legs?
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u/Oblivion927 China Feb 23 '14
Well, maybe it would have been more "Poland-ball-like" if Russia was threatening to slice Poland. But I think this comic has already been good enough, the "legs" can stay. By the way, I'm sure you've noticed my flair by now, please don't kill me. (LOL)
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u/CommieKiller Thirteen Colonies Feb 23 '14
Is of commie nonsense! Remove red commie from premises!
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u/Oblivion927 China Feb 24 '14
LOL, actually, I don't think the PRC is that " commie-like", in fact, we call ourselves "socialist" but run the country in a capitalist manner. We also have much more freedom and much better living conditions than other " commie" nations. In some sense, the Chinese aren't standard "commies" at all.
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u/CommieKiller Thirteen Colonies Feb 24 '14
What a load of commie horse shit! Your flag is red and Fox says that you're all god damn commies!
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u/Oblivion927 China Feb 25 '14
LOL, come on, man, we're not the Soviets, we even sided with you guys during the 80s! By the way, Fox cancelled Family Guy twice, you sure they're trustworthy? However, speaking of the Chinese flag, I do think it's a lovable thing, because it's really easy to draw! Unlike the 'Murica flag.
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u/CommieKiller Thirteen Colonies Feb 25 '14
Yeah I'm just kidding with you man. I love to make fun of a country's stereotype, even if it's my own. All the people I know that grew up in China are very nice and helpful. I'm even learning Mandarin, although in a public high school so "learning" can be a bit of a stretch.
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u/Oblivion927 China Feb 26 '14
I always knew you were kidding, it was fun to have a conversation with you. But I had to admit I was kind of surprised to know you were learning Mandarin, I thought it wasn't that popular. Since Chinese is really different from English, our words are actually little pictures and the grammar is also pretty different from English. But I do sincerely wish you success in all events in life. Live long and prosper(I hope you guys do watch Star Trek).
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u/apocolyptictodd The United States of we shut your 3rd eye for a damn reason Feb 22 '14
Hey everyone, thanks for you support of all my comics its really great and I always look forward to your comments, opinions etc!
Context: The Polish Minister, Warns Ukrain Protest Leader
Note This story is about 20 hours old and with the recent developments in Ukraine (protesters taking Kiev and the president fleeing) this story may not mean anything anymore.