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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:it;s 100% correct beyond the speculation about LGM in CSPAM What's LGM
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Putin invading Ukraine because Ukrainians are just confused Russians but forgot how hard it is to invade and occupy Russians.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What's LGM
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Oh poo poo, they went there. https://mobile.twitter.com/Eurovision/status/1497243799889711104
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https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088?s=20&t=v9jh8XUgHXUmdQTtIwm8Ow Three ships harassed and one hit with a missile in the Black Sea
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088?s=20&t=v9jh8XUgHXUmdQTtIwm8Ow God the Russian military makes the idiots thread look like a bunch of MIT grads. I’m just waiting for them to accidentally bomb a third country on land now for the full incompetent military bingo win.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:God the Russian military makes the idiots thread look like a bunch of MIT grads. I’m just waiting for them to accidentally bomb a third country on land now for the full incompetent military bingo win. Given that they're surrounded by NATO countries, that could be... bad.
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They hit a Turkish ship earlier right? Good luck using the Black Sea ports now. Also Russian media is saying they’re stopping Ukraine from getting WMDs lol Seriously this like speedrunning every dumb GWOT move we did but like in the span of hours at ten times the scale with a fraction of the economy and popular support
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Cugel the Clever posted:Little green men. In this case, intentional operatives spreading misinformation and a mindset that impedes critical thinking. I think the problem is pretty simple. It's just the echo chamber effect mixed with irony posting. If we all were ~ironically racist~ and dropped N-bombs in our posts, we'd probably end up with a bunch of racist shitheads posting here unironically, and eventually, the majority of it wouldn't be ironic anymore.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Given that they're surrounded by NATO countries, that could be... bad. I'm actually very worried Belarus is going to take advantage of this to attack Poland or Lithuania in retaliation for harboring their opposition leaders.
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Bored As gently caress posted:And they permabanned him. gently caress that sucks. Strictly speaking he was already perma'd and they were permabanning an alt, which is what's always done. But yeah, the optics of it are bad and that's something the admins have never been good with.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Given that they're surrounded by NATO countries, that could be... bad. Correct, but hey it’s Russia…I wouldn’t be surprised if “police units” used “riot control devices” like Ukraine was a giant Opera House.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/25/ukraine-invasion-russia-news/#link-AZZQA2VO2ZHXZDAWXSTQ6PP65Uquote:The Russian military has lost momentum in its offensive on Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday, cautioning that could change in coming days.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088?s=20&t=v9jh8XUgHXUmdQTtIwm8Ow I know very little about international/maritime law as it applies to this kind of situation. How quickly will these attacks draw action from various countries? Would a move like this on a US flagged merchant ship draw a kinetic response from us? Do merchant ship flags work like that?
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Not going line by line on that screed but it rings pretty true for CSPAM. So much shitposting extremely dedicated to screaming BUT NATO, NATO THING, THING BAD RUSSIA GOOD BECAUSE NATO no matter how many times it gets proven to be bullshit.
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psydude posted:I'm actually very worried Belarus is going to take advantage of this to attack Poland or Lithuania in retaliation for harboring their opposition leaders. Look, it's not like a minor partner in a system of alliances has ever done anything rash and led to disaster. ASAPI posted:I know very little about international/maritime law as it applies to this kind of situation. If we think we can respond without getting our noses bloodied, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
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ASAPI posted:I know very little about international/maritime law as it applies to this kind of situation. Yeah I don't get it, seems like killing sailors from neutral powers would further wreck your global standing and make sanctions more likely. And there seems to be no purpose to it, if they actually believed the ships were carrying supplies to Ukraine why not use your overwhelming naval superiority to board and search the ships? Protests about sailors being briefly detained would be nothing next to killing neutrals that have nothing to do with aiding your enemies.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah I don't get it, seems like killing sailors from neutral powers would further wreck your global standing and make sanctions more likely. And there seems to be no purpose to it, if they actually believed the ships were carrying supplies to Ukraine why not use your overwhelming naval superiority to board and search the ships? Protests about sailors being briefly detained would be nothing next to killing neutrals that have nothing to do with aiding your enemies. Yeah, if Russia wanted to close the Black Sea by force, it'd be easy. Using weapons on ships is a whole "WTF".
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So quick question how does a tankies cope with the cognitive dissonance of saying Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis, when it’s president is a Jew?
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psydude posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/25/ukraine-invasion-russia-news/#link-AZZQA2VO2ZHXZDAWXSTQ6PP65U It looksl ike the Russian force totaled around 190,000 troops, but does anyone know what percentage (probably following contemporary Russian doctrine) of that would be support/rear echelon vs. frontline combat? Because it seems if it was 190,000 combat arms, Ukraine forces would be in for a much harder time than if it was 40-50K combat and the rest were transport/HQ/support
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, if Russia wanted to close the Black Sea by force, it'd be easy. Using weapons on ships is a whole "WTF". Granted it’s entirely possible Turkey could just try and close the straits themselves and holy gently caress will that be bad.
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Suicide Watch posted:It looksl ike the Russian force totaled around 190,000 troops, but does anyone know what percentage (probably following contemporary Russian doctrine) of that would be support/rear echelon vs. frontline combat? Because it seems if it was 190,000 combat arms, Ukraine forces would be in for a much harder time than if it was 40-50K combat and the rest were transport/HQ/support Russian formations are based around armor and mechanized infantry, so an operation of this size would have to have a sizeable combat support and service support element attached. I'm trying to find one of the articles from before the invasion, but had a pretty good breakdown of what their force composition was. Edit: here we go https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/01/31/how-big-is-russias-military-build-up-around-ukraine Economist estimates from before the invasion out the total number of BTGs at around 100. Each battalion tactical group has its own combat support attached. From Wikipedia: Each BTG has approximately 600-800 officers and soldiers, of whom roughly 200 are infantrymen, equipped with vehicles typically including roughly 10 tanks and 40 infantry fighting vehicles.: pp. 11-13 So of those 190,000 it's safe to say about 40% at most are actual trigger pullers. psydude fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088?s=20&t=v9jh8XUgHXUmdQTtIwm8Ow You'd think Russian sailors wouldn't want to start poo poo Japan.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So quick question how does a tankies cope with the cognitive dissonance of saying Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis, when it’s president is a Jew? Wonder if it's similar to during the 2020 primary how some tried to accuse Bernie of anti-semitism. I suspect they know their argument is absurd but are giving it a go to see if it gets traction.
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Barcley posted:This is a insane commute All that time training in video games paying off
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We've worked with Goon Loden Taylor on a gangtag for the D&D Ukraine Relief thread:
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I laughed very, very hard at the answer below https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1497270872129908745?t=fhRPh5ZdrQ7zDi7Tl-6ROw&s=19 all nine panels plus an extra 27 to your left, right, and rear. And for today's Extra Content, we have this dead fascist. He doesn't look very dangerous, but he could come back alive and attack at any time, so we must deal with it. *brrrrrt*
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Stultus Maximus posted:Look, it's not like a minor partner in a system of alliances has ever done anything rash and led to disaster. Simply put: Russia's surface navy is not particularly strong or numerous, but their submarine force is at least a peer adversary to every other sub fleet on the planet. Entering a naval shooting war with them would be....interesting, to put it mildly.
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Finland's the complete package: a hot prime minister and a terrifying thirst for Russian blood.
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Cythereal posted:https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1497217148267253760?t=7bZqV6oRXiXJBlPpmccp0w&s=19 Best response: https://twitter.com/Kivelart/status/1497232550447796224?s=20&t=K6RRziouQ22vw8N-ISyW-w
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McNally posted:Strictly speaking he was already perma'd and they were permabanning an alt, which is what's always done. But yeah, the optics of it are bad and that's something the admins have never been good with. Ah, ok. Didn't know he was already permabanned.
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waydownLo posted:Area 1488
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That Works posted:https://twitter.com/root_nomad/status/1497254180108570633?s=20&t=ebNXlOBL0KNVznT1cW7uNA drat, Russia can't have anything at all... First their planes and armor get wrecked, then no Eurovision, then no World Cup, THEN no porn?!?
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post/username combo https://twitter.com/LeMayAllTheWay/status/1496988556442718211 gently caress curtis lemay
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https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/...ghtmode%3Dtrue9 Nikita Mazepin a Formula 1 driver, who's father is an oligarch in charge or Uralkali, had this to say, https://twitter.com/nikita_mazepin/...ightmode%3Dtrue Magugu fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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