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Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
AP reporting this now

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-probing-did-russia-take-part-in-chem-weapons-attack/ar-BBzvA6V?li=BBnb7Kz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JA1ffd5Ms

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CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde

remember when he was running for president? Lol would've been better than trump too

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

remember when he was running for president? Lol would've been better than trump too

Larry Flint would be a better president

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
You ain't got me on tape saying a mother loving thing but mother gently caress.

https://twitter.com/iduncan/status/850385469066051585

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/850425431899680768

WAY TO SHOW EM, DONNIE!

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

:smugdon:

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

MD has the best corrupt politicians.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

Good work, Mr President.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEwB5lfhp-Y

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

$120m on a publicity stunt.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

psydude posted:

$120m on a publicity stunt.

69 Senators tripped over themselves for dictatorial dickwaving. We'll be in 'invisible moving enemy city' territory before long.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Who knew war was so complicated?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Casimir Radon posted:

Who knew war was so complicated?

Either they purposefully targetted random points in the countryside, or there was a high failure rate on those missiles.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 7, 2017

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

psydude posted:

MD has the best corrupt politicians.

We do our best!

Ed: Re tomahawks, Either way the Navy should be doing some serious thinking about the situation.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

CommieGIR posted:

Either they purposefully targetted random points in the countryside, or there was a high failure rate on those missiles.

Given the shenanigans that went down before the strikes, I am strongly leaning towards the former. Of course, it could be both.

ded redd fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 7, 2017

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/850449389214683138

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Responsible Gun Owners.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Okey dokey

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/850453148300955649

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
I bet South Korea would tell them to gently caress right off with those nukes.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
how is stationing nukes in SK anything? I mean all it does is piss everyone off it's a terrible idea, but how is that any different than boomers and CVNs floating around, which presumably have nuclear weapons, which also isn't nearly as antagonistic?

CHICKEN SHOES fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 7, 2017

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

how is stationing nukes in SK anything? I mean all it does is piss everyone off it's a terrible idea, but how is that any different than boomers and CVNs floating around with being nearly as antagonistic?

Do you think the US would put up with China putting nukes in Panama?

Same poo poo really.

China and Russia would both flip out with good cause.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
Staging nukes on the ground is a big escalation, where as floating platforms that 'may/may not' have them is meh.

Look at how screwed up we were in the early mid 80's with Able Archer

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
Cuban Missile Crises 2.0 with Trump instead of Kennedy lol

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
I'm phrasing that wrong, it's a terrible idea to put land nukes in SK. Why would you do something that horribly antagonistic and retarded when you could just kinda move the fleet around, nukes are probably withing a few hundred miles of the Koreas via a sub or something anyway is all I'm saying.

edit: Oh duh they're trying to be pointlessly antagonistic durr

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
Ya that thing was talking about putting nukes IN RoK. Not off the coast or 'maybe in subs nearby'. Our whole government is a bunch of chucklefucks.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

It just said he was presented with options, and the guys figured to present him all options he could possibly do. Probably also included Send Kushner to Korea after figuring out mid east problems and summoning Lothrak the 12th Dimensional Devourer to eat all of Korea.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

ded posted:

Our whole government is a bunch of chucklefucks.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ded posted:

I bet South Korea would tell them to gently caress right off with those nukes.

Well there always was a strategy based around trolling the Norks to make then waste precious jet fuel and other resources. But that was part of a larger overall plan that deals with the lead up to and involves rolling back a Northern attack.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

I'm phrasing that wrong, it's a terrible idea to put land nukes in SK. Why would you do something that horribly antagonistic and retarded when you could just kinda move the fleet around, nukes are probably withing a few hundred miles of the Koreas via a sub or something anyway is all I'm saying.

edit: Oh duh they're trying to be pointlessly antagonistic durr

He did just launch a poo poo ton of missiles as a PR stunt. Homey either wants a war to be a popular war time president or wants the appearance of one.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde

bird food bathtub posted:

He did just launch a poo poo ton of missiles as a PR stunt. Homey either wants a war to be a popular war time president or wants the appearance of one.

Yeah sorry for some reason I forgot who the president was for like 2 minutes

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



KildarX posted:

summoning Lothrak the 12th Dimensional Devourer to eat all of Korea.

This should have been the only option :colbert:

Hexyflexy
Sep 2, 2011

asymptotically approaching one

Casimir Radon posted:

Who knew war was so complicated?

I'm guessing they basically had no prior plan to target what they were asked to. They're pretty mature weapons but you do actually need to tell them where to go and when (Can't even imagine the amount of planning you'd need to do in a "Hmm, GPS may get jammed over this bit of the flight path, and our ground radar is going to get spoofed here" - ballache basically). I suspect "You've got 2 hours to program the missiles and fire them from a couple of platforms you weren't expecting to use" really doesn't help the planners very much.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

CNN: when Trump stepped into the summoning chamber, and read the litany, he became truly presidential

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

orange juche posted:

This should have been the only option :colbert:

hey now just eat the north, let the south be a chill island, it can be chill with Jeju and DOKDO WHICH IS 100% NOT JAPANESE AT ALL.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



MA-Horus posted:

hey now just eat the north, let the south be a chill island, it can be chill with Jeju and DOKDO WHICH IS 100% NOT JAPANESE AT ALL.

Dude eldritch horrors from the 12th dimension care not for mortal concerns like not killing the good guys. Their desires and methods are beyond mortal reckoning.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





MA-Horus posted:

hey now just eat the north, let the south be a chill island, it can be chill with Jeju and DOKDO WHICH IS 100% NOT JAPANESE AT ALL.

thought you were talking about nz for a minute and got really confused

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

KildarX posted:

It just said he was presented with options, and the guys figured to present him all options he could possibly do.

Proof that the Pentagon cannot be loving trusted.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/850444122095837184

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
From the trump thread in dnd

farraday posted:

Oh there's some evidence from the rest of Sputnik pictures people ignore while just posting the ones of a few intact airframes.

http://sputnikimages.com/en/site/search/?startfrom=0&q=Voskresenskiy&field=author

There's also ISI's initial assessment based off their commercial satellite information. Unfortunately their website got hammered but the images are elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/850395078459871232/photo/1

Unfortunately its easier to believe all the missiles fell into the sea or were targeted into an open field or the airfield was empty.

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Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Looks like that Syrian airfield at the business end of the Tomahawk barrage is already back in action.

https://mobile.twitter.com/undefined/status/850425431899680768

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