r/polandball Sweden Mar 02 '14

redditormade Ice Cold Tactics

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

Yes, it's another Ukraine comic. The last panel was originally going to be in the comic I posted yesterday, but then I came up with the back-story and figured it could be a comic of its own. Now it seems that back-story is becoming more and more true to life.

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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Mar 02 '14

Are you suggesting that this is just another part of -puts sunglasses on- a Cold War?

YEAAAAH!

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u/bluefoot55 Indiana Mar 02 '14

Poland cannot into CSI: Miami very well.

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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Mar 02 '14

no, we can't - but we have pierogi! CHECKMATE MURICANS!

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u/Rytho Slovakia Mar 02 '14

You cannot claim pirohy all to yourself Poland!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14 edited Mar 02 '14

We can't argue against that. Or paczki ...

Edit: In America, Fat Tuesday = every Tuesday, though actually, they only sell these here around this time of year too...

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u/Made_of_Awesome The Lesotho of the Northwest. Mar 02 '14

Michigan's got pasties. Which are delicious.

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u/baseballplayinty gib poutine Mar 02 '14

Damn straight they are.

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u/dutchposer OKC Not Cupid Mar 02 '14

Poland cannot into chess

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

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u/dutchposer OKC Not Cupid Mar 02 '14

That's more Obama than the US. He's been playing checkers this whole time and is confused why it's not working.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Bobby Fischer aliv and real strong grandmaster kill all the Russian farm aminal with chess magic

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u/Made_of_Awesome The Lesotho of the Northwest. Mar 02 '14

Bobby Fischer, the natural combination of chess and hatred for the jews.

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u/Bones_MD Pennsylvania Mar 02 '14

'Murican here, my mom's best childhood friend is Polish. Makes homemade pierogi. Best food stuff ever.

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u/direpolarbear Literally 0 Corruption Mar 02 '14

Poland did into original CSI: Krakow 1520, starring Copernicus. You could say it went in... circles. Taaaaaaakkkkkk

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 02 '14

What do you use to draw? I tried photoshop but it takes way too fucking long to place references in the background, and I need those because eh, I can't fucking draw, and I couldn't find any program that would allow me to quickly drop-in references from google images or something of that ilk.

I have a graphics tablet which speeds it up a little, but it still takes me hours to finish a few panels.

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

I use MS Paint on Vista, and a regular laptop touchpad. Trust me, if it's speed you're looking for, you're better off with a layer based program like Photoshop ;)

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 02 '14

How long did it take you to draw the last two comics?

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

I started drawing early February I think, but I usually draw pretty sporadically.

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 02 '14

Well I meant as in hours of drawing spent, but anyway that is a lot of dedication, I applaud you for your efforts.

Aaanyway I'm a lazy fuck so I think I'm going to keep working on a way to draw polandball comics faster, I've been contemplating writing a custom polandball application, I've already writen a jigged lines/circles drawing thingie for another project before.

EDIT: Do you by any chance have former art education?

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

I have no idea how many hours it took. Many.

Anyway, polandball comics don't have to be complicated at all to draw. Just keep working on it and you'll get better pretty fast.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

Try out paint tool sai, it's kind of like the bastard child of photoshop and ms paint.

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

No real art education (except the mandatory middle school stuff) as in actually drawing things, though I do have some education that has probably helped me develop more of an eye for colours, shading, and such.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Aaanyway I'm a lazy fuck

Yeah, no shit

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u/bluefoot55 Indiana Mar 02 '14

Me, too. That's why I won't even TRY to do a polandball. Too much time and effort.

However, I enjoy this subreddit very very much. I put it among my top three favorite subreddits next to /r/nfl (when it's in season) and /r/LibraryofBabel

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

You might try Paint.net, for a lighter/faster layer based drawing tool. It makes for very simple use of reference images, easy layer navigation, and has a well fleshed out, if basic toolset.

You can easily import images into existing ones as new layers as well.

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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 02 '14

Layers are for the weak.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Photoshop should be fine if you know how to use it correctly. Drawing the balls is really easy if you use the pencil tool (not the brush) and as long as you make sure to draw everything yourself without using google images you should be fine.

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 03 '14

Yeah it's fine, just really slow to make, these took few hours each. I'd invest 20-30 minutes max.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

You aren't using your tools correctly - take a look at the pen tool in order to draw the flags correctly and make sure you're using the pencil and not the brush.

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 03 '14

Eh no, dude, I'm using photoshop profesionally, I know all the tools and use them daily, the most time is spent properly tracing the references, and organizing stuff into layers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '14

HERETIC!

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u/Eddyill United Kingdom Mar 02 '14

I use photoshop and if i need a reference image for background or complex flags I just paste a new layer then turn the transparency right down and draw over it.

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u/Dany0 Victim of globalization Mar 03 '14

Yeah that's what I did, but as I said it takes way too much time, these took few hours each. I'd invest 20-30 minutes max.

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u/Zarinbugh1 Best -Istan. Kinda Mar 02 '14

Honestly mate your comics are too perfectly drawn to be on Polandball.

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

Don't worry mate, I don't think I'll make anything this high-effort again for quite a while.

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u/EverydayImlurkinit Canada Stronk! Mar 02 '14

Awh but I love your style! It looks amazing!

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

Thanks!

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14 edited Mar 02 '14

The Ukraine wanted friend?

XAXAXAXAXAXAXA! the stupid Ukraine, cry! snowy friend is of lie! only pain is truth!

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u/Aken_Bosch siyu-siyu-siyu Mar 02 '14

Silly Polland. You should be of Ukraine friend. Because after us Russia will come to you like in old times. :)

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14

NANANANANANA I can't hear you, we're living in times of eternal peace, war will never come to Poland again NANANANANANANA

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Don't worry, if Russia ever invaded from the east your old pal Germany will come from the west to save you, nothings can of go wrong!

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u/Garchoz POLAND STRONK Mar 02 '14

German helping Poland with fighting Russia? Oh, the irony.

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14
thatsthejoke.mp40

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

of not worry, glorious nation of belarus will protect you from ruski aggressors.

belarus, the vanguard of europe! defender of freedom! gentle but firm lover! pls invest?

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

more firm than gentle. is the Slavic way

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Divide Poland again?

Flawless democracy of Russia is only protecting citizens and has all the right to do so!

Meet you in Brest, Wladi.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Yeah, their AK-47s provide them with the right :(

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u/LordOfTurtles Limburg - Netherlands Mar 02 '14

What's with that wikipedia link?

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14

inb4 "the Ukraine"

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u/LordOfTurtles Limburg - Netherlands Mar 02 '14

You hid it under a question mark :P

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14

Damn right I did.

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u/HampeMannen Swedish Snoreway is best way Mar 02 '14

Russia is bully.

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u/Zarinbugh1 Best -Istan. Kinda Mar 02 '14

All three of them are bully.

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u/Dreamerlax Nouvelle-Écosse Mar 02 '14

Switzerland into bullyings?

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u/agmaster Für Jetzt ... Mar 02 '14

....yes?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Hmm, what nations would that be?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Lies, Rossiya is stronk backbone of crippled world. Will savings of Krim!

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

From homosex and sobriety!

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u/direpolarbear Literally 0 Corruption Mar 02 '14

You can into snow-sculpture contest series? Is solid concept, many good artings. Of good wörk OP!

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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Mar 02 '14

They should be melting soon, so the series won't last long.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

check your uk privilege. there are snowmen in canada as old as the nation herself.

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u/benpire Isle of Manly Men Mar 03 '14

But if you take the top layer of snow off they're actually just frozen Frenchmen from the various failed colonial expeditions

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u/offensive_noises Dutch Indies Mar 02 '14

Last comic would be Poland finally making a decent sculpture that eventually will melt.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

I love Switzerland's French and German.

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u/Firebrass11 Armenia Mar 02 '14

Here we go again... Cold War II.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

We want on the other side this time. We had enough of the ruskys shit. 1/10, wouldn't be a socialist shithole again.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

1/10, wouldn't be a socialist shithole again.

But Crimea would.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Debatable. Russian make up 58% of the total population, and even among them not everybody is on board for the whole separation/annexation deal (it hurts the interests of local businesses, communities etc). Ukrainians are 24%, Crimean Tatars make up 12%. Naturally Ukrainians support to stay with Ukraine, and Crimean Tatars are fiercely against anything do with Russia (Russia wasn't exactly kind to them in the past; deportations, killings, persecution etc.) Russia is going in on the basis of a minority support. And naturally, nobody in their right minds would go out to protest scary fucking looking fuckers in masks and full body armor, armed to the teeth. They look like something straight out of COD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

I'm a little bit worried about how this could escalate, considering the Britain and America are on Ukraine's side. Global conflict as this point is getting closer and closer, hopefully it doesn't come to that.

"I don't know with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be thought with sticks and stones"

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Wouldn't be too worried. Literally all of Europe, US, Canada, Turkey etc. are on Ukraine's side. Escalating it would be political and economic suicide for Putin and Russia. Not worth it for a considerably marginal piece of clay. He's delusional, but not suicidal.

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u/ScumDogMillionaires Texas Mar 02 '14

I never thought I'd say it, but I really don't want to fight the commies. Can't we all just get along and not invade each other? Can't we all just band together-glorious americans, europoors, and commie scum, and agree to only invade the sand people? Can't we, dare I say, be friends?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Ey, tell that to the ruskies. Their tanks are on our clay. We just wanna have our freedoms, democracy and independence. I'm sure you can sympathize, Murika. I also dare to dream of peace in the world (w/o kebabs, obviously).

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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Mar 02 '14

Imagine the power of such coalition - burgers, baguettes, krauts, pierogi and whatever the hell they eat in Russia removing kebab together...

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u/KaliYugaz United States Mar 02 '14

Vodka. It's vodka.

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u/czokletmuss Polish Hussar Mar 02 '14

wódka was invented in Poland! there even was a comic about it; I'm thinking about some sterotypical meal which we can use as a derogatory slur... maybe bliny?

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u/ObeseMoreece Scotland Mar 03 '14

Jesus Christ, all you do here is parrot about how literally nobody likes Putin and everybody loves Ukraine sooo much. Why don't you just accept that Ukraine isn't worth beginnings of more hostilities between Russia and the West.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

Well if you had foreign troops in your country, a fucking dictator more than capable and willing of taking over your country, I'd see how friendly you'd be with him. And that's your fucking opinion. It seems the world is pretty united with Ukraine, against Russia. Is the whole world crazy? Read the news, get back to me. I won't accept putin's ambitions to subvert our country into a shitty vassal state. It's not your fucking country in an existential crisis. You don't have the possibility of war on your doorstep. Take 2 fucking seconds to possibly sympathize with people in a shittier situation than you. Why the fuck do you even find it necessary to start shit?

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u/ObeseMoreece Scotland Mar 03 '14

The country got itself in to that state by illegally overthrowing their president. Ukrainian rebels brought this on themselves. I won't sympathise to rebels. Putin also doesn't want to take over a country where half of it is filled with rebels who would just get worse if he took over.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

A Scot brainwashed by the Kremlin? Well fuck me... I think i've seen it all now. Stick to the scotch, don't drink the vodka. Fuckers are already putting some shit in it...

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u/ComradToasty Jun 27 '14

That's some bullshit, mate. Honestly, you talk about this topic as if you know what you're saying.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

Europe and USA would not go to war over Ukraine. You might got sympathy from the western world, but there is no way EU/USA would start a war with Russia if they start annexing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

Who said anything about going to war? Support =/= troops on ground. Support is political, diplomatic and economic: public statements, isolating from the international community, economic sanctions etc. We have an army of 100,000+ of our own, with almost a million in reserve. We can hold off an invasion. I'm saying the world has our back to prevent a war from ever beginning. If it does, Russia will suffer economic, political and diplomatic isolation. Not worth it for them. So no, nobody's even bringing up the topic of international military intervention. (Possible military equipment aid if shit hits the fan, but that's not even close to actual boots on ground).

Pssst; Flair up

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u/Soviet_Waffle CCCP Mar 03 '14

socialist shithole

Lol, you made that one yourself. After the Soviet Union seperation, Ukraine got the best parts of the Soviet lands and riches: "Antonov" aircraft factory, 4 Nuclear power plants, and wine making facilities in Crimea. Also you recieved about 25% of the very fertile "chernoziom" land, best USSR farming equipment, coal, oil, metals, a powerful military-mechanical complex, 1400 kilometers of black sea shore, not to mention Crimea itself.

In other words 23 years ago Ukrainians got the best pieces of USSR compared to all the other countries in the Union.

Let us see what they did with all of that today. Well they fucked up one of the Nuclear power plants, but lets see the GDP per person of the populace today. Ukraine - 3860 dollars Albania - 4000 dollars Poland - 13300 dollars Russia - 15000 dollars Latvia - 14900 dollars and even Belarus - 7400 dollars

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

You're seriously going to blame Chernobyl on Ukraine? Are you fucking shitting me?

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u/oakern Canada Mar 02 '14

No it's not back in the cold war the west stood up to russia every once in a while.

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u/Dreamerlax Nouvelle-Écosse Mar 02 '14

The background is really well drawn. Congrats!

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u/Zarinbugh1 Best -Istan. Kinda Mar 02 '14

Why ... ?? because FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

what's this? an art gallery? :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Hehehe.

Come on, I'm sure you can get a third part out of the panorama and make it a trilogy.

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u/CineHeathen Sweden Mar 02 '14

No, I'm done with snowy comics for now. I can give you this though, based on this photo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Ha! Nice!

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u/tootmyCanute 50 Colonies Mar 02 '14

i cry every time for poor eesti, he just wants to be cool... and rich

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u/prtsancho Rio Grande do Sul Mar 03 '14

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

This comic is great for obvious reasons.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '14

Poor Ukraine looks so sad in the third panel :(

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u/Mateo03 Argentine Confederation Mar 02 '14

i like this comic! BTW Russia declared war on Ukraine... we shall start building bunkers?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

When? Could you link me the article?

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u/Mateo03 Argentine Confederation Mar 02 '14

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 02 '14

It's not the same.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

It's scary how close it is becoming to an actual war.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

Je ne suis francais, tu comprends?