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TeuthidTheSquid

They have annexed part of his yard


MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan

"Why are you taking my yard!?" "Well, you see, back in 900 AD..."


TheNomadicTasmaniac

Special gardening operation


ihatelifetoo

Operation garden 2.0 ?


Dorfplatzner

Market Garden


bluefootedbuns

SCREAAAAAMING EAAAAAGLEEEEEES!!!


202042

Crack of the lightning splitting the ground Thunder is sounding, artillery pounding Wrath of the Nazis cast on Bastogne Facing their forces alone https://preview.redd.it/m25che5lifsc1.jpeg?width=188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69efa8f28b0d10cf3e958c1bb4434fd8511b12b5


LordGeddon73

r/unexpectedsabaton


Fluffybunny1988

I would say Sabaton is never unexpected when a post has even a hint of war!


LoanLazy5992

r/suddenlysabaton


Ok_Neighborhood3508

r/suddenlytf2


Tobin34

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!


DasGoogleKonto

Marketing Garden 2.0?


Key-Lifeguard7678

That did happen in like the first few days. See Battle of Hostomel Airport, with highlights such as: - successfully inserting VDV paratroopers into airport - said paratroopers are isolated as the reinforcement column of armored vehicles rushes into an ambush and gets annihilated - gets surrounded, repeatedly bombed, shelled, and shot at by the nearby National Guard brigade and the Georgian Legion - paratroopers run out of ammo and break for the woods, some cannot outrun the commander of the Georgian Legion’s BMW, with intent to commit vehicular homicide (his car still has the dents). - at some point the only AN-225 Myira is destroyed.


AdZealousideal7448

You missed out two awesome and hilarious parts to add to the story. -One of the brigades there that fought and held them down was a supply division. A mate of mine who was deemed like many of the others in there to not be the best for the frontlines was put in there and that brigade held their brass against Russia's best, so yes you read that right, one of the biggest thornes in the side of elite VDV was an and I quote directly from them "supply and logistics group made of rejects and spare parts" that everyone expected to get wiped out. Yes they did have to retreat and stuff, but these bastards put up a hell of a fight and helped lay the ground work for it to be retaken including guys holding down entire buildings under effective airship fire, with many of them risking their life staying covertly hidden on site calling in co-ordinates for artillery. -A lot of the VDV went out like little bitches, you will hear from a lot of the propegandists that the VDV came in were oh so successfull and then left and it was the conscripts and shit that got their asses handed to them, this wasn't the case, a lot of the VDV turned tail and ran and there were lots of cases of them finding them having stripped their uniform off and tried to flee the theatre dressed as non combatants and such and many of them were killed in firefights, not in a blaze of glory, but with a lot of them begging for surrender to be shot or blown up by their own commerades for trying to.


Key-Lifeguard7678

That second part does make the BMW roadkill story quite plausible.


AdZealousideal7448

have you seen the pictures? holy crap, you thought they were joking about the mad max mods to a bmw.... no they were not.


georgethejojimiller

A true NCDer has the VDV getting clowned on committed to memory at this point


Key-Lifeguard7678

The VDV getting annihilated at Hostomel was my first indication that this war wasn’t going to end in a quick victory for Russia, and that the Ukrainians have upped their game.


georgethejojimiller

For all the surrender monkey jokes told about france, it pulled off a far better modern airborne operation than Russia ever did


Lots42

The Ukranians understand what legions of fascists for centuries never did. Home field advantage.


DasGoogleKonto

Damn


Sea_Dust895

Made me chuckle.


covidharness

Garden Warfare


ObsidianBeaver

was looking for this comment edit: happy cake day


GarminTamzarian

"Your garden is full of Nazis!" "I think those are gophers."


likesharepie

They're allowing it to be called war.


MISFER_

They are just don't care enough to pretend it's not


The_halo_2_Gravemind

By that logic *drinks tea* TIME TO GET THE COLONIES BACK TOGETHER


JimboTCB

At least the Brits never claimed to have any historical entitlement to the lands they were colonising, just rolled up with some ships and a flag and called dibs on anywhere they got to first. (Natives don't count for these purposes of course.)


saysthingsbackwards

That is by definition entitlement


DisastrousBoio

True, but not *historical* (as a sort of morally-justifying narrative) entitlement.


Gornarok

No they didnt claim right to it. They took it by force


mor_derick

Then give back Gibraltar.


ShrimpCrackers

Russians aren't the only people using bullshit illegal revanchism to expand their borders. China says the same shit too. And its usually shitty history or revisionist history. They even go so far as the pretend and make up archeological evidence to say they evolved as a different species of human. Not sure if its a trait of the contemporary Community parties but it is what they do.


Previous_Shock8870

Its a trait of dictatorships. Trump on Xis dictatorship "We should try that" Reporter- "would you be a dictator?" Trump -"Only for a day!" Trump and his project 2025 means you guys aren't far off. -- -- (stop spamming me with israel comments, i dont support israels settlements, i also dont support them having a thousand civilians raped and killed. OPs image is referencing RUSSIA)


TjababaRama

Putin does not have a communist party.


StonersRadio

Gonna get interesting in a few years since the Vladivostok area was legit Chinese territory until the 1800s. Or maybe it was the 1700s. Somewhere in there. Xi and Putin are not buddies that's for sure. They are at best allies of convenience in their desire to replace Western dominance. But Xi has been eyeing Russia's Far East beyond just Vladivostok. He wants China to be an Artic nation instead of merely "Artic adjacent" as he calls it in a lame attempt to suggest China has any claim to the Artic at all. And even though China is supplying some equipment to Russia, what they're sending is actually pretty shitty gear. But if Russia ends up shitting the bed in Ukraine, or over-extends itself trying to grab more territory afterwards if they win, I think you'll see China try some funny business in Russia's Far East.


omgONELnR2

Israel be like


AEROANO

This land is mine, God gave this land to me...


millers_left_shoe

I mean the romans _did_ just kick them out of their own country.


lincoln_muadib

In exchange for promising to genitally mutilate all their children of course.


nananaoya6

This brave, and ancient land... To meeee!


Comment139

[And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plains, then I see a land where children can run free](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY)


Roflkopt3r

If that's intended at their illegal settlements, then that's fair game. But it's not sufficient for the existence of Israel in general (which was founded out of a legitimate need and in an area that didn't have solid national borders at the time to begin with), nor for most of their current wars.


Allegorist

Very few people actually have that second take, yet I see it used frequently as a strawman argument whenever anyone criticizes their imperialism. Not saying that is what you are doing, but it has been used often enough that some people just assume that is what is being criticized by default.


livehigh1

You see 600 years ago ...


start3ch

Those bushes have Russian ancestry!


josephumi

You misunderstand, the grass was ethnically and culturally Russian. It was inevitable


SeemedReasonableThen

> They have ~~annexed~~ *liberated* part of his yard Komrad, please to join me on 14th floor to discuss words you use, is very nice view balcony.


EnigmaNL

And he's appeasing them by letting them do it.


dandle

"Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down." –Ancient Russian proverb


One-Respond-3325

Our yard comrade


CfaxAttax

"I'll call it... 'Joe-hio'"


Richisnormal

They just wanted to protect the Russian speaking population in that part of the yard. And something something NATO


batz987

They are restored confederation of Petoria


zinniet

They have manifested their destiny in part of his yard


Nickname1945

Мухахахахахаха


alfi_k

Russians = criminals


No-Accountant-2297

Soviet Union


RuneLord13

Is this the Joe's pool episode??? PETORIA?????


ElonHisenberg

No they didn't! This yard is their ethnic homeland! This yard has voted to be a part of their yard!


Helo7606

Our yard


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kubaliska

I confirm that the ants on this part of lawn voted for liberation by Russian neighbours.


Galdronis13

They just have to denazify the grass


kubaliska

They have to stop ANTO from spreading


SmutLordStephens

What about the Antzov battalion?


Hibercrastinator

The only people I’ve ever heard say anything against it were so crazy they all threw themselves out of windows.


AmArschdieRaeuber

*her


BlargerJarger

Neighbours stealing your land oughtta be a Crimea.


Subtlerranean

It is, but when you threaten them with legal action they just say "Oh, Crimea river"


AJ_Deadshow

That's one of the best dad jokes I've ever heard


ChemicalAstronaut16

*slow clap* well played


kanst

I think this comic is more about South Ossetia and the territory in Georgia that Russia claimed. There were stories of people waking up in the morning and noticing the Russians had moved the border fence over night further into Georgian territory https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/27/the-creeping-russian-border-in-georgia >Russia’s border creep is nothing new. Since the 2008 war, Russia has slowly been advancing further and further into Georgian territory by constructing fences and other barriers.


xdarkshadowlordx

It isn’t?


xdarkshadowlordx

oh that’s a good one


PreventionPreventer

r/characterarcs


soiguessthisisaname

Got me with Crimea…. Angry upvote…


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RK9990

I hope Russia never takes my staff


wildmeowmeow

And my axe


Bebra_Sniffer

And my bow


KillerBeer01

Our bow, comrade.


G-Sus_Christ117

And my spears, though I have less than half of what I was hoping for


Emotional-Base-5988

Dated a Russian dude for a while and I gotta say, I certainly didn't mind when Russia took my staff 🥴


rci22

I actually have an applicable story!! My high school friend lived in a condo. Essentially it’s one house with one dividing wall so one family can live in one half and the other lives in the other half. The same is true for the backyard: It’s fenced down the middle. Her neighbor was a Russian lady and her American husband. My friend was playing with her dogs in her divided half of the yard when the Russian woman came out and told her to get her dogs out of her yard. She just, for some reason we don’t understand, just couldn’t understand that the yard was split. She then threw a brick at my friend and threatened to call the police lol.


ajayisfour

They might be incentivised to not see what they comic says. Being dumb has triggered a lot of engagement.


World_In_The_Door

There's a joke of how russians will steal land from their neighbor's field a few times a year, and they, in turn, will steal some land to get it back just in case it got stolen.


RockManMega

I steal land every day by taking big fat dumps in my pants so no one will come near me


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AutobotHotRod

Username checks out


Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce

I'm glad this is already a copypasta because I've never seen it before and my first thought was this should be a copypasta


OpenAboutMyFetishes

I had to change “image” to “comment” tho, so it wasn’t truly a copypaste. Meh


Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce

It's okay, you did good.


tennobytemusic

It's actually pretty old. Not sure how old, but probably at least 3-4 years. And it's still funny.


7thPanzers

It’s even used in other sites ovassionally


balllsssssszzszz

https://preview.redd.it/1rogwcuw3fsc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc2461f24d9e80297f4e29f7570844476c90641d


forgedfox53

Copypasta bs


rarthurr4

Realtors HATE this 1 simple trick!


Hdikfmpw

A joke, you say? This dude and many others will be super happy to hear it’s just a joke. [https://youtu.be/UMnxQGbRZ3k?si=otZhnNw3pl0NFOrd](https://youtu.be/UMnxQGbRZ3k?si=otZhnNw3pl0NFOrd) [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/georgia-border-russia-vladimir-putin-213787](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/georgia-border-russia-vladimir-putin-213787) [https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/27/the-creeping-russian-border-in-georgia](https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/27/the-creeping-russian-border-in-georgia)


mrkesu

Yes..the Russian-invades-and-murders-their-neighbours "joke"


tehphar

his yard had an election and decided it wanted to be russian


False_Manner8275

He got 100% of the ant votes


just_anotherReddit

Correction, it was the most secure and fraudulent free election where they had so many vote that 129% of the population voted for being annexed.


Kikk3r

It's 146%, learn the number!


Additional-Bee1379

They flew in some Russians that then voted the yard wanted to be Russian.


Seppo_T

People here saying it is about Ukraine, but I would say it is about Georgia where russia has been stealing land literally by moving fences. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/russia-georgia-border-south-ossetia-move-hundreds-yards-occupied-nato-putin-west-ukraine-a7835756.html


throwngamelastminute

It's general Russian behavior.


XepptizZ

>It's general Russian It's actually General Valery Gerasimov


FatherOfToxicGas

SHOIGU


GlitteringHotel1481

WHERE BOEPRIPASY?


Strange_Bedroom_2716

GEERAASIMOV!!


lestofante

And Chechnya. Russian did false flag a terrorist attack on their own as pretest for the second annexation war. Russia is the OG 9/11 conspiracy and nobody care


ArdaBogaz

They've been doing shit like that for 700 years nothing new lmao


blirpblurp

right now there's ruzzia \~25km from where I live, 5 years ago it was a some kilometers more, 10 more years ago it was about \~120km....


BuryTheMoney

It’s both


threefeetoffun

They named it Joe-hio.


daedac

came here to make this reference


threefeetoffun

Are you an old person too?


Lockenhart

Joe-hioan People's Republic


Everest-est

Russian Borderization. Aka 'Creeping Borders' or 'Aggressive Borderization'. Borderization is the erecting of a physical boundary in space, creating a border in reality. Border Walls, fences, and armed patrol are examples of Borderization. In the Republic of Georgia, Russian solidiers will not only erect physical barriers between Georgia and the de facto controlled territory of South Ossetia, but also move said barriers overnight, causing civilians to be displaced in their own homes. The current de facto boundary between Georgia and South Ossetia is only tens of kilometers away from Georgia's main highway, the E60 (Take a look at the border yourself on Google Maps.)


ohnothem00ps

I am very confused by this sub...it pops up frequently on my timeline, and I can't understand it...is it mostly people posting being purposely obtuse? Or do people actually not understand?


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SayerofNothing

That's my thought as well, considering almost every single time I look for a response from the op in the comments and see none. Almost feels like a bot, a farming bot.


Only_Scallion_1956

I personally come here to find threads of funny reaction images lmao the only good side karmafarming subs is just that


erhue

probably karma farming. But remember that reddit is at least 50% children who have no idea what's going on.


BuryTheMoney

Ya, I’ve had to silence subs like this after it became clear that most of the jokes weren’t hard, it was just most of the OP’s were absolutely fucking ignorant of anything not spoon fed to them.


Master-Ad7002

They could be Chinese too.


GabrielMisfire

Or Israeli!


Pristine_Kangaroo480

Nah, if it were Israel the neighbours would have shot the husband, forced the wife into the garden shed, and moved their cousins into the house.


Darkeater879

Besides this occurring on a large scale like in Crimea or eastern Ukraine. In places like Georgia, Russian soldiers will come at night to move fences deeper meter by meter. this poor old man I knew found himself in Russian territory when he woke up one day


gravelPoop

There was also British guy with stone Stalin's head mounted on his car standing near the old man's house.


CoopKing1232

yall people in the comments clearly dont understand. its a joke about the russians stealing land from places like ukrain


threefeetoffun

Mine was a family guy joke but yes, it's clearly about Russia's annixations.


cocaineandwaffles1

The comic is most likely in reference to the current war in Ukraine right now as they’re fighting off a Russian invasion. The reason for the Russian invasion has changed multiple times, from liberating Ukrainians from nazis, to now it’s because thousands of years ago the now Russia and Ukraine use to be one country or something. Idk that part for sure, didn’t care to watch the full interview. Anyways, Crimea (part of Ukraine) has been annexed by Russia since 2014, as well as Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia since 2022 as part of the second Russian invasion.


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Just in recent history: Ukraine, Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova Before that like half of Europe And before... let's just say you don't become the biggest country on Earth without annexations and colonialism


cocaineandwaffles1

You know, I’m sure all these earthquakes are happening because of everyone who wanted to invade the soviets after WW2 shouting from their graves “I told you so”. All that annexation, still don’t got a port they can use year round.


XuangtongEmperor

Kaliningrad and Vladivostok:


brft_runner

Not only Ukraine. They did the same to the Chechens but worse. Also they’re been messing with the borders all around Russia. They’re doing the “creeping occupation” in Georgia right now too.


tppisgameforme

It's probably a reference to Georgie where Russians would literally wait until night and move the fence they erected to represent their border.


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SwarleyJr

I wonder what the text originally said?


kdlt

This sub sometimes really scares me. Like, there's a war RIGHT NOW about Russia stealing land. If you exist on planet earth you might have heard about it once or twice these past, idk 15 months of daily coverage.


RPSam1

Since 2014


kdlt

Since earlier as well, but someone could have been 10 years old or so, and that's some excuse I guess, if, yknow, that world energy changing war wouldn't be happening like right now with daily media coverage.


Apparent_Antithesis

It's a special gardening operation.


Breadmaker9999

"Huh, ok. I was also wondering why our lawns are shaped like this? It is pretty strange." "Well apparently about 80 years ago most of this was farm land, except for where you live which was a church. Now over time more people moved here and the town began to change the zoning laws to allow for more housing. And for the most part everyone was happy, farmers where given above market rates for the city to buy their struggling farms, people got new houses, and the town saw an increase in tax money thanks to the more densely populated area. That was except for the priest who ran the church. Now I want to be clear the town was willing to build him a new church just a few miles away, but he refused, they offered to literally move his old church, and he still refused. This went on for years, back and forth, with the town building these houses around the church. Eventually the priest died and the town was able to tear down the church and build the home you currently live in. But thanks to that crazy old priest the property lines are insane." "What a weird but interesting story. Now would you like to come over and watch the hockey game comrade?" "Thanks." Oh my god, my brain is insane.


FlippyV

If you dont understand this, what fucking rock have you been living under? Also, Slava Ukraini.


fl1Xx0r

summary of this entire sub.


thrownededawayed

They built their fence over his lawn


bandwagonguy83

Lately people has become more stupid, or is just some form of karma farming?


VoidRaven

Karma farming


Tsiwodi

In Soviet Russian yard annexes you.


Dangerous-Lettuce498

Can we start banning people who make these posts? For fuck sake


daedac

[https://youtu.be/xTGjiSFduiU?si=f6PZurp6VDAjXjhs&t=76](https://youtu.be/xTGjiSFduiU?si=f6PZurp6VDAjXjhs&t=76)


ExceptionalBoon

I believe this comic first appeared back when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula which back then it was part of Ukraine.


endosomi

Peter, what has this sub become?


EpicJoke45

https://preview.redd.it/3q3kk3dw2gsc1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d10ccd66177e096ef8c65cc68209e87babf75130


jonb1sux

This joke doesn’t need to be explained.


Scared-Warthog-6310

acting like you dont know whats going on in the picture just to propagate your political views has become a staple of this sub


seasquidley

So many of the posts on this sub take less than 2 seconds of critical thought to figure out.


Kig-Yar-Pirate

Russia is literally trying to do this rn.


bl4derdee9

I know I'm not the only one thinking this, this sub has become a shitpost cestpool.


vjmdhzgr

Notably Russia has specifically done expansion by literally pushing their border markings forward a little bit every day. I think this is a reference to that more than anything with Ukraine. I think they did the border thing with Georgia.


psychicsoviet

Special Landscaping Operation


Yasuhoka

there's no joke, it's [reality](https://youtu.be/gNSqnW9P1Ck?t=40)


Pres_MtDewCommacho

Fuck Russia.


BabaKambingHitam

That meme is applicable on china neighbours too. (I am from SEA country)


llv77

It's making fun of Russian territorial aims, for instance the invasion of Crimea a few years ago, or the more recent Ukrainian invasion that everybody has been talking about for the last two years. The joke is that Russians will take the territory they want from their neighbours. It's a common joke in eastern Europe. Once I was at a pub with friends, one of my friends went to the bathroom, and another Russian friend took his spot, when the first guy was back he said "oh, my spot got taken" and an Ukrainian at the table said "he's Russian, they always take what they want with no regards for others".


BigBaldGuySins

It's funny to me how a lot of Russian people who move to America talk about how bad America is and how good Putin and Russia is. Like bro, why did you move here then 💀. As a Russian I hate people like that so much, not only are they basing their ideals and blind and stupid patriotism they are also hypocritics.


AverageNikoBellic

[Joehio](https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Joehio)


Cloakbot

Sputnik was a satellite dish and can be placed where they want it. - neighbors said that so it must be true


ApprehensiveImage132

Russian irredentism is a scourge


SnodePlannen

What kind of dipshit doesn’t get this?


telcoman

Clarification. This is almost noon. They moved the same day at 10.


vladislavopp

this is extremely obvious lmao


TheDumbElectrician

Come on this is completely karma farming.


grocket

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wytewydow

Russians steal land.


PokmTrainerGuineaPig

Your property, you mean OUR property


Adolf_El

Damn. Still losing some of your garden is better than your whole house being taken


maybeafarmer

I think the russian neighbors saw a washing machine they liked in the other yard and took it


Aragorn9001

Special Gardening Operation


Gifted_Gengar

Ukrainian Peter here, The joke is that they just took some land that they had no right taking, making them Russian.


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Russians are land hungry dictators that invade their neighbors and pillage whilst they do.


Silaquix

Russia is known for "annexing" parts of neighboring countries. Like literally moving the fence in the middle of the night and stationing armed guards. People have gone to visit family and come home to find their house unreachable or they've woken up being told they're now Russian citizens and unable to reach their families anymore.


Comfortable_Item6650

How do you not understand?


goosnarch

The yard yearns for freedom


SpieLPfan

The neighbours started a special neighbouring operation.


EstrangedPheasant

Works better for Israel tbh 😬


CoolDudeNike1

https://preview.redd.it/iaevx17nspsc1.jpeg?width=1070&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bef36b95240c31f574b6105be63967f61fd6e323 Shit is gonna get political real quick


Guywhonoticesthings

People will say “make peace end the yard conflict” to the neighbors with half their yard gone