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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Fair dos.

Edit: what a way to start a page...

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Pot Smoke Phoenix
Aug 15, 2007



Smoke 'em if you gottem!
Dinosaur Gum

A GIANT PARSNIP posted:

It's made by old white boomers for old white boomers. Soviets = bad was drilled into their heads for decades.

If you don't get it you're not the target audience.

I put on my combat boots for 10 years in the US Air Force, 3 of them while the Soviet Union was still in existence and we were reminded every day about the Red Menace.

I'm not a boomer, but the Soviet threat was a very real thing for 21 years of my life- the fact that so much of my entire SOCIETY seem to have forgotten that fact and instead have seemed to EMBRACE Putin while listening to the treasonous lies of the Republican Party is mind boggling.

The threat to the world is still very real if Trump gets re-elected and continues to ally himself with Putin, Soviet or otherwise.

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer

Samovar posted:

Well, that is the Lincoln Project - remember, they're conservatives themselves.

Also, the rhetorics of it are very... All over the place and stupidly action movie trailer esque. There's no support for communism or socialism from Putin's Russia, so why would they say they're trying to reestablish the Soviet Union?

Russia is the villain here, but this is... This is made for political purposes beyond just defeating Russia/supporting Ukraine. Sorry if this makes me sound bitchy, but... I couldn't NOT comment on that.

"Reestablish the Soviet Union" is a less-than-accurate "reacquiring the old Rus Empire" which is a historical reference to subjugated areas--of which Ukraine was at one point--and I'm sure one of the idiot philosophers(like Dugin) is promoting with euphemisms.

There's motivations, but even with the extraneous context, the facts of territorial acquisition are indisputable considering Crimea and the attempt of Donetsk/Luhansk, the latter two being forced into sham "autonomous zones of freedom and liberty that just so happen to want to join Russia" political arrangements as war broke out.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
lol the only thing putin gives a gently caress about in regards to USSR is how big it was. He gives zero fucks about anything else about it.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
It's a political ad, it doesn't have to make sense beyond "you loving dunces, get off your rear end and badger your congressman into voting against the russkies!"

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





MrQwerty posted:

the variable-wing airplane is a very endangered species

lmao imagine hearing "an F-111 Aardvark got shot down" in 2024

More equivalent to a B-1 really.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001



Sounds like it's confirmed (that he died anyway, I dont know about the rest)

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1781343156287541311

I think Bentley had correspondence with some of the big pro-Z english speaking twitter accounts like snekotron so him getting kidnapped and murdered by his own side is a shock

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Flavahbeast posted:

Sounds like it's confirmed (that he died anyway, I dont know about the rest)

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1781343156287541311

I think Bentley had correspondence with some of the big pro-Z english speaking twitter accounts like snekotron so him getting kidnapped and murdered by his own side is a shock

I wonder whether it was purely because the dude was from the USA so everything else was irrelevant or he wasn't right-wing and violent enough for his comrades to make him think he was truly one of the good ones.

Philonius
Jun 12, 2005

Flavahbeast posted:

Sounds like it's confirmed (that he died anyway, I dont know about the rest)

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1781343156287541311

I think Bentley had correspondence with some of the big pro-Z english speaking twitter accounts like snekotron so him getting kidnapped and murdered by his own side is a shock

Reading poo poo like this is a good reminder to never take your sanity for granted.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
lol Mearsheimer did some debate where he did his usual ''great powers'' realism bull poo poo and twitter tankies are high fiving each other in some weird check mate thing.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Samovar posted:

Well, that is the Lincoln Project - remember, they're conservatives themselves.

Also, the rhetorics of it are very... All over the place and stupidly action movie trailer esque. There's no support for communism or socialism from Putin's Russia, so why would they say they're trying to reestablish the Soviet Union?


I mean, how much actual support was there for real communism in the soviet union?

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

The USSR gets a lot of benefit of the doubt for being notionally socialist. It inherited the tsarist imperial project and never stopped - IMO it's just the russian empire all the way down.

Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.

MrQwerty posted:

lmao imagine hearing "an F-111 Aardvark got shot down" in 2024
As an Australian I can imagine that, there were some circles that wanted to keep raiding the boneyards in Arizona to keep those flying well past the point of insanity.

The Locator posted:

More equivalent to a B-1 really.

That's the Tu-160.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Flavahbeast posted:

Sounds like it's confirmed (that he died anyway, I dont know about the rest)

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1781343156287541311

I think Bentley had correspondence with some of the big pro-Z english speaking twitter accounts like snekotron so him getting kidnapped and murdered by his own side is a shock

not really. my guess is he was loud rear end in a top hat who pissed off alot of people by grifting and making enemies, so they butchred him. there is no loyalty in chud mob state politics.

winnydpu
May 3, 2007
Sugartime Jones
I was wondering if the US could give Ukraine the RQ-170 stealth UAV. Iran already has one, so presumably there is no additional risk of turning secrets over to the Russians. Perhaps Ukraine has a stealthy drone equipped with heat seeking missiles and the SAM stuff is a cover story? Don't actually think this is what's going on, but...

zone
Dec 6, 2016
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-russian-federation-is-preparing-its-energy-infrastructure-for-ukrainian-attacks/

quote:

n Russia, energy companies are preparing to protect their own infrastructure against possible drone strikes.

The Agency publication reported on this with reference to the internal documentation of the companies.

Russia’s largest power company, Rosseti, has announced an auction to develop standards for protecting power substations and other equipment with a capacity of more than 35 kilowatts from drone attacks.

The document, which is to be developed by May 1, 2025, describes the likely risks associated with interference with the operation of power grid facilities and damage to expensive electrical equipment “as a result of UAVs strikes.”

Project for the protection of energy facilities
The future protection standard envisages the development of a system, in which the active component will be represented by means of detecting drones (radar, radio frequency, acoustic and optical) and further countering them.

The draft also mentions the use of “automatic patrolling systems using UAVs” without specifying the details of this concept.

Passive protection involves the construction of protective structures made of concrete blocks and anti-fragmentation nets around the facilities to minimize damage in the event of a drone strike.

The construction of engineering structures around Russia’s critical infrastructure has been noticed before, but then it was mostly about oil and gas facilities.

In particular, in early March, after the attack on the oil depot of JSC Belgorodnefteprodukt in the Belgorod region, eyewitnesses published a photo of the damaged tank, which was surrounded by anti-drone nets.
Day 786 of the 3 day Special Military farce: Russia desperately tries to protect its own infrastructure from long-range enemy drones

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

The last private army worked so well the Russian government decides to make more of them.

Putin dying in anything even remotely unforeseen without heir massaged in will cause the country to go from North Korea to Mad Max in a week.

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Budzilla posted:

That's the Tu-160.

The Tu-22M is well over twice the weight and length of the F-111, with 4 crew on board. It's still smaller than the B-1B, but a lot closer in size.

The Su-24 is the F-111 analog.


They also lost one of these during their invasion of Georgia while... dropping iron bombs from high altitude on a city.

Warbadger fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Apr 19, 2024

zone
Dec 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1781371708147937645
Let's get dangerous.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

I mean that's assuming they don't vacate Johnson right?

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Toxic Mental posted:

I mean that's assuming they don't vacate Johnson right?

The vote on the bill will happen tomorrow, and the vacate thing takes a couple days before a vote.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Toxic Mental posted:

I mean that's assuming they don't vacate Johnson right?

As I understand it it's too late for that, and they don't have the votes

e: which won't stop them from trying. MTG lives in bizarro land

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Toxic Mental posted:

I mean that's assuming they don't vacate Johnson right?

Democrats will save him this time, if he fails to deliver then its deadlocked Congress because getting a new Speaker will be impossible task.

EDIT: But as others mentioned MTV happens after this one if it ever happens.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






If this passes Dems have gotten everything out of congress they wanted before the elections later this year. So it won't really matter if the GOP decides to have another circus voting for a new speaker

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Hopefully we can just wrap this poo poo up then because holy poo poo it's taken like 6 months longer than needed to do the most basic poo poo

zone
Dec 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1781352437825056860
Nobody cares, you can't do anything to hinder the EU any more.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


lol at the first power station clad in 2 square km of stolen tin shack walls and fixed in place mattress frame cages.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

shadow puppet of a posted:

lol at the first power station clad in 2 square km of stolen tin shack walls and fixed in place mattress frame cages.

Can you imagine the hilarity of a giant cope cage built over an entire substation?

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
As we speak Russians are deconstructing the Chernobyl sarcophagus to put it around an oil refinery

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Flavahbeast posted:

Sounds like it's confirmed (that he died anyway, I dont know about the rest)

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1781343156287541311

I think Bentley had correspondence with some of the big pro-Z english speaking twitter accounts like snekotron so him getting kidnapped and murdered by his own side is a shock

i too hope the degenerates who did this (the NKVD tracksuit detachment) pay for this

lol at anyone using degenerate unironically

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Alan Smithee posted:

lol at anyone using degenerate unironically

This is Letterkenny erasure.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
dude should have just have run a podcast but when you look like this


instead of a 30ish microbrew owner, people dont find you saying racial and homophobic slurs as funny

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Alan Smithee posted:

dude should have just have run a podcast but when you look like this


instead of a 30ish microbrew owner, people dont find you saying racial and homophobic slurs as funny

Microbrew owner who has a Youtube channel about his hunting and fishing trips and especially gunsor lures used, with clear but unspoken alignment with some Qanon or Trumpist bullshit.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

SirJohanna posted:

Maybe another 12 years will do the trick.

Scott Ritter just shook his head

Kchama
Jul 25, 2007

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1781352437825056860
Nobody cares, you can't do anything to hinder the EU any more.

I wasn't paying attention to stuff for a while, did something happen with regards to Hungary and the EU?

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS
Dec 10, 2003

...blyat

Der Kyhe posted:

This is Letterkenny erasure.

I'll watch mobiks fall down all day I don't give a poo poo about your mobiks

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Kchama posted:

I wasn't paying attention to stuff for a while, did something happen with regards to Hungary and the EU?

Orban finally had to knuckle under and allow the EU to pass a 50 billion Euro assistance package over several years for Ukraine assistance. It wasn't for military aid though, that's separate

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

shadow puppet of a posted:

Russia’s lack of a competent, decorated Hilux division is holding it back tactically. And I am glad of it.

their lack of Tesla coil based troopers making soviet era reform puns is telling

zone
Dec 6, 2016

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Philonius
Jun 12, 2005

shadow puppet of a posted:

lol at the first power station clad in 2 square km of stolen tin shack walls and fixed in place mattress frame cages.

I eagerly await the first refinery to be coated entirely in ERA bricks.

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