Ukraine War: "20 months of war for a used car."

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fatherboxx: Mar 25, 2013

Pekinduck posted:

My posting station.

(Fbi photo of discord leakers bedroom)

From thumbnail it looks like leopard print leisure suit larry rear end den, actual photo somehow worse

# ? Apr 27, 2023 17:26

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 09:50

Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

Sir John Falstaff posted:

The Hill hasn't been close to left for like a decade, not since this guy took over: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/media/jimmy-finkelstein-the-hill-ukraine/index.html

(Apparently he sold it in 2021, but the new owners must think right-wing clickbait still sells.)

It's weird, they had god leftist content with Krystal & Saagar, but then someone ostensibly even more leftist (Gray) came in and it took this insane horseshoe turn

# ? Apr 27, 2023 17:32

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Play posted:

Unless they go pillaging and raiding on longships, they can't be vikings. 'Viking handicrafts' is a big time misnomer and your high school history teacher ladies should know that

Store Norske posted:

Viking er i moderne språkbruk en handelsmann, landnåmsmann eller sjøkriger fra Norden som deltok i reiser til Vest- og Øst-Europa for å handle, bosette nytt land eller plyndre i perioden mellom cirka 800 og 1050. I dagligtalen anvendes ofte betegnelsen viking om befolkningen i Norden i vikingtiden.

(ref)

A viking is in modern usage a trader, settler or sea warrior from the nordic countries, who travelled to Western or Eastern Europe to trade, settle new land, or plunder in the period between ca 800 and 1050. In daily speech, the teem viking is often used about the population in the nordic region during the viking age.

:colbert:

Though you're also not entirely wrong. We have a combat group that wail on each other in blunt but period-correct gear, and an association with a group that's building a viking ship with time-appropriate tools and methods ... but it doesn't really count unless we use the fighters and ship to sail to Brighton and rob the tourists.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:14

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Handicrafts? That's where I'm a viking!

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:16

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1651620888247238660

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:40

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

The_Franz posted:

"Well, you are a fine, upstanding member of the community with no debt or drama that could be used to leverage you, but you have dual citizenship with a friendly EU country, so clearance denied."
"Oh, you're an immature edgelord who 'jokes' about leaking documents and turning your mom's car into an "assassination van" that you will use to murder innocent people? Sounds good, clearance granted."

I recently finished a book on WW2 and Cold War intelligence blunders and it was basically an unbroken list of refusing to investigate people who blatantly resented their job, regularly got caught with documents they shouldn't have, and mysteriously showed up one day with a sports car.

"This poor doxxed man only wanted to strike a blow against evil intel goons and resist psychopathic military worship"

Pekinduck posted:

My posting station.

(Fbi photo of discord leakers bedroom)

"Ah, well, nevertheless..."

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:49

GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1651620888247238660

Welp, there you have it. My guess would be that the EU(parliament and some governments even) will follow suit soon and then the pants shitter is gonna be a government certified genocider�, which will have some pretty interesting consequences. Denying a genocide in a public setting is a criminal offence in Germany.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:56

Tuna-Fish: Sep 13, 2017

Lammasu posted:

I am honestly surprised that more of these failed generals aren't defenestrated. Seems kind of weird that it's reserved for oligarchs and the political dissidents get poisoned while failed military commanders just get fired.

Repeat after me: Loyalty trumps competence.

Putin's regime works on the basis that so long as you remain completely loyal to Putin, you don't need to fear for your life. You can be absolutely dogshit at what you do, and the worst you can expect is to be fired. But if you are in a position of power you say one word against your dear leader, you fall out of a window.

These generals are being fired for being bad at their jobs, not for betrayal.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:56

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

MrQwerty posted:

Dang $35k an engine

cheaper than a telluride, probably less reliable

# ? Apr 27, 2023 18:57

Kung Food: Dec 11, 2006; PORN WIZARD

MrQwerty posted:

Dang $35k an engine

I kinda want to have one on my front lawn and have it be the ultimate white trash flex.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:01

Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Tuna-Fish posted:

Repeat after me: Loyalty trumps competence.
...
These generals are being fired for being bad at their jobs, not for betrayal.

IIRC there used to be a saying in USSR that went something like "At worst they give you a brigade in Kamchatka", meaning that even if you royally gently caress up you'll get reassigned to poo poo job but that's pretty much it if you were party loyalist.

So the "Loyalty trumps competence" isn't even a new thing.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:02

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

Kith posted:

he's seriously one of the weirdest looking human beings i've ever seen

russian attrition and defenestration has gotten bad enough they are filling empty seats with Stable Diffusion

also the prompt for that was "normal Russian war criminal"

armpit_enjoyer posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1651494541503913985

Which one of you bought one. Reveal yourselves and don't make me go into the car threads.

Killdozer 2.0 is gonna be lit

# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:19

Cabbages and VHS: Aug 25, 2004; Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

Kung Food posted:

I kinda want to have one on my front lawn and have it be the ultimate white trash flex.

I would volunteer to help all my neighbors with stump removal at that point, and behind my back they'd say "sure he seems real helpful, but I think he just wants an excuse to drive that drat thing"

e: not saying how i'd remove the stumps, it would depend on the condition of the turret. My firm belief is that replacing the turret with a 2.4" diameter black powder cannon that shoots small aluminum cans full of concrete would be 100% legal, since black power weapons aren't guns and smooth bore cannons < 2.5" are not destructive devices. STUMP MAYHEM

# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:23

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Cabbages and Kings posted:

russian attrition and defenestration has gotten bad enough they are filling empty seats with Stable Diffusion

also the prompt for that was "normal Russian war criminal"

Killdozer 2.0 is gonna be lit

Killdozer 2.0 will break the siege of bakhmut and send the ukrainians all the way back to lwow

Melitopol air base is being cratered right now.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 19:55

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

I think Russia can turn this around with a single well timed drop onto Chornobaivka airport. Go on lads!

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:01

Mr.Pibbleton: Feb 3, 2006; Aleuts rock, chummer.

Computer viking posted:

(ref)

A viking is in modern usage a trader, settler or sea warrior from the nordic countries, who travelled to Western or Eastern Europe to trade, settle new land, or plunder in the period between ca 800 and 1050. In daily speech, the teem viking is often used about the population in the nordic region during the viking age.

Though you're also not entirely wrong. We have a combat group that wail on each other in blunt but period-correct gear, and an association with a group that's building a viking ship with time-appropriate tools and methods ... but it doesn't really count unless we use the fighters and ship to sail to Brighton and rob the tourists.

Huh, this documentary had a slightly different take on that historical period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg&t=797s

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:07

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Strategic Tea posted:

I think Russia can turn this around with a single well timed drop onto Chornobaivka airport. Go on lads!

Yesterday was the anniversary of Chernobyl. Work that into it somehow.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:10

cynic: Jan 19, 2004

Cabbages and Kings posted:

I would volunteer to help all my neighbors with stump removal at that point, and behind my back they'd say "sure he seems real helpful, but I think he just wants an excuse to drive that drat thing"

e: not saying how i'd remove the stumps, it would depend on the condition of the turret. My firm belief is that replacing the turret with a 2.4" diameter black powder cannon that shoots small aluminum cans full of concrete would be 100% legal, since black power weapons aren't guns and smooth bore cannons < 2.5" are not destructive devices. STUMP MAYHEM

I had a guy come to remove a bunch of giant oak stumps from my back yard and what he bought was a remote controlled tracked vehicle with a bunch of circular saws mounted on a pneumatic arm and a scaled up version of that would be super fun.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:12

Kith: Sep 17, 2009; You never learn anything
by doing it right.

The_Franz posted:

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1651419432319688704?s=20

"a big if"? what the gently caress other context could there be??? the most plausible context i could imagine is talking about a game, but zero of the games that are about/feature mass shootings involve any mechanics that could be linked to any of that

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:24

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

Kith posted:

"a big if"? what the gently caress other context could there be??? the most plausible context i could imagine is talking about a game, but zero of the games that are about/feature mass shootings involve any mechanics that could be linked to any of that

committing treason and mass murder, in minecraft

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:28

zone: Dec 6, 2016

Terrorist Girkin started lamenting again about how Mighty Russia is no good on the battlefield, says Prigozhin is an idiot who can only spend lives for marginal daily gains, and keeps begging for ammo that they don't have. He makes reference to how Zhukov attained victories at any cost, while Rokossovsky, who was better, at least tried to save his men's lives and his allotted equipment.

quote:

Strelkov Igor Ivanovich #KRP
In connection with yesterday's yet another "lament of Yaroslavna" over the shortage of shells, I would like to ask Mr. Prigogine why, under such circumstances, meat assaults in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) are needed at all. After all, even Prigozhin himself admits that they have no strategic significance and will not lead to a turning point in hostilities. Why, in the absence of artillery support, fill the enemy with the corpses of Wagner fighters? Prigozhin justifies this by the need to grind the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But after all, judging by his own statements, the reverse process is also taking place - the grinding of Wagner's manpower. And it is not known in whose favor the final tragic score of this grinding will be? In my naivety, I have always assumed that one of the indicators of effective warfare is the ratio of enemy losses to our own. And if there is superiority over the enemy, primarily in the means of fire destruction, then we advance. If this superiority does not exist, we defend ourselves.
But a bad impression is created that in Artemovsk, on the blood of PMC fighters, a PR campaign is being carried out in favor of Mr. Prigozhin, that it is the Wagner PMC that is the only formation of our group capable of fighting effectively. And the rest of our army is not capable of anything, and all command must be immediately sent to the court of a military tribunal. I do not deny serious problems with the combat effectiveness of our grouping and the competence of its command. But something tells me that it's not that simple. And the tragic experience of the Great Patriotic War comes to mind, when, for the sake of a worthy meeting of this or that public holiday and the desire to show themselves as great commanders, some military leaders filled up well-fortified German positions with corpses. And it was not without reason that the front-line soldiers spoke of two methods of war - the method of Marshal Zhukov and the method of Marshal Rokossovsky. The first one achieved victories at any cost, and the second one also won, but at the same time tried to save the lives of its soldiers. Maybe it's time to abandon the cannibalistic principle "Women give birth to new soldiers" and stop conducting "meat assaults" in Artemovsk without artillery support. Especially just for publicity.

https://t.me/strelkovii/4646

# ? Apr 27, 2023 20:59

Infidel Castro: Jun 8, 2010; Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice

CommieGIR posted:

Yesterday was the anniversary of Chernobyl. Work that into it somehow.

So it seems yikeseroo was trying to claim the title of Biggest April 26 Meltdown of All Time.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:14

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/JKaarsbo/status/1651650991341576200
What a surprise! it turns out Russia after all are the ones responsible for the sabotage of Nordstream, who'd have thunk it?

# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:18

Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/JKaarsbo/status/1651650991341576200
What a surprise! it turns out Russia after all are the ones responsible for the sabotage of Nordstream, who'd have thunk it?

Why did NATO hijack Russian support vessel to do this?

# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:19

Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

The_Franz posted:

How the hell did this person get a security clearance?

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1651419432319688704?s=20

"Well, you are a fine, upstanding member of the community with no debt or drama that could be used to leverage you, but you have dual citizenship with a friendly EU country, so clearance denied."
"Oh, you're an immature edgelord who 'jokes' about leaking documents and turning your mom's car into an "assassination van" that you will use to murder innocent people? Sounds good, clearance granted."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OniMoOWFo

lol god drat the hill blows so much

# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:22

Bertha the Toaster: Jan 11, 2009

Pekinduck posted:

My posting station.

(Fbi photo of discord leakers bedroom)

Just realised that's a can of gas for airsoft guns on the bookshelf, specifically WE green, with what looks like a few bottles of BBs.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:46

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

Pekinduck posted:

My posting station.

(Fbi photo of discord leakers bedroom)

Now imagine his dumb rear end staggering around walking into walls trying to find the toilet

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:02

Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Karate Bastard posted:

Now imagine his dumb rear end staggering around walking into walls trying to find the toilet

I, for one, also want to be the one to start my day by rolling in the bed and kicking my foot to the cabinet.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:06

Sashimi: Dec 26, 2008; College Slice

Karate Bastard posted:

Now imagine his dumb rear end staggering around walking into walls trying to find the toilet

That's why the tank is there, so he can orient himself in his own bedroom.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:09

Pekinduck: May 10, 2008

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Just realised that's a can of gas for airsoft guns on the bookshelf, specifically WE green, with what looks like a few bottles of BBs.

Hah thanks, I noticed that bottle and was wondering if it was some putrid new energy drink.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:09

DiomedesGodshill: Feb 21, 2009

Der Kyhe posted:

Why did NATO hijack Russian support vessel to do this?

Why hijack the vessel when you can use the Los Angeles class sub that was tailing it?

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:15

Jamsque: May 31, 2009

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/JKaarsbo/status/1651650991341576200
What a surprise! it turns out Russia after all are the ones responsible for the sabotage of Nordstream, who'd have thunk it?

drat can you imagine how awkward it must have been when this crew bumped into the Ukrainian ex-pat amateur saboteur team on the floor of the Baltic Sea?

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:48

Pekinduck: May 10, 2008

The air force has closed the intelligence wing the leaker worked for.

Edit: Oops broken link

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/military/2023/04/24/massachusetts-air-national-guard-joint-base-cape-cod-teixeira-leak/70133760007/

Pekinduck fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Apr 27, 2023

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:51

Pine Cone Jones: Dec 6, 2009; You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

Pekinduck posted:

The air force has closed the intelligence wing the leaker worked for.

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/military/2023/04/24/massachusetts-air-national-guard-joint-base-cape-cod-teixeira-leak/

Broken link unfortunately

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:52

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/JKaarsbo/status/1651650991341576200
What a surprise! it turns out Russia after all are the ones responsible for the sabotage of Nordstream, who'd have thunk it?

Can somebody explain why Russia would want to blow up their moneymaker pipe?

# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:57

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr: Dec 22, 2018; I hope this is "battle" enough for you, friend.

Karate Bastard posted:

Can somebody explain why Russia would want to blow up their moneymaker pipe?

Putin said it was for a multi-polar world.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 23:00

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

It's the last thing they'll expect!!!!

# ? Apr 27, 2023 23:00

GundamHealer: Jul 23, 2022

Looks like they just suspended the commanders and pulled their classified access

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-intelligence-unit-leaders-suspended-air-force/

# ? Apr 27, 2023 23:05

tiaz: Jul 1, 2004; PICK UP THAT PRESENT.

Zelensky's Zealots

Karate Bastard posted:

Can somebody explain why Russia would want to blow up their moneymaker pipe?

At the time, Russia was crowing about how Europe would freeze in the upcoming winter and lose their resolve. I no longer have the link to hand but I believe someone replied to me in here or in one of the previous threads pointing out some contract chicanery as well - e.g. Russia voluntarily shutting off deliveries put them in breach whereas a tragic accident oh no the pipeline blew up for no reason at all [smirk] notionally got them out of said penalties.

Also consider that by the time the pipelines exploded Germany was going pedal to the floor on divestment, reducing demand, replacing natural gas demand with renewables, finding other sources. It's probably fair to say it was no longer the moneymaker pipe it had been.

# ? Apr 27, 2023 23:09

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 09:50

OzyMandrill: Aug 12, 2013; Look upon my words
and despair

Russia wanted nord stream 2 switched on, so first the pumps on 1 'failed', then when the dodgy pump was serviced and returned in full order, it wasn't plugged in. Shortly after, both pipes of ns1 and only one pipe of ns2 get destroyed. Master chess move - if you want more gas, you must complete nord steam 2!

# ? Apr 27, 2023 23:21

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