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Continuity RCP posted:Dude is an English teacher yeah amazing how much smarter he is than bbc or npr bleach huffing morons considering he’s an “amateur” - probably helps that he’s not literally grifting money from gulf funded foundations and idiotic think tanks like most of the Serious pundits out there
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the gently caress was brown moses before he became a loving "expert"? a computer janitor?
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Darkman Fanpage posted:the gently caress was brown moses before he became a loving "expert"? a computer janitor? https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/eliot-higgins-syria_n_4269417.html?ri18n=true quote:After a temporary job reviewing orders at a ladies' lingerie maker came to an end in February, he dispensed with looking for another so that he could devote himself to blogging full-time. His wife admits she does not read his blog and yearns for a time that he will return to "a real job." But as Higgins sees it, he is consumed with the realest job of all, sifting through a digital goldmine disdained by those who lack the patience for the work. quote:Born in 1979 to a Royal Air Force engineer and a caterer, Higgins describes himself as an avid gardener and budding cook, but his core passions have always centered on a fascination with screens: During his schooling years, he engaged in marathon sessions playing video games and argued ceaselessly on Internet forums. These two pursuits trumped his attention to schoolwork, filling his report cards with Cs. quote:After dropping out of university midway through a media studies degree, Higgins moved through a series of jobs with no relation to munitions, Syria or blogging. He worked as a data entry clerk at Barclays bank and then managed invoices for a process management firm. When that task was outsourced overseas, he helped asylum seekers find housing. His next, and most recent, job was working on women's undergarments.
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yellowcar posted:https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/eliot-higgins-syria_n_4269417.html?ri18n=true lmao
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yellowcar posted:https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/eliot-higgins-syria_n_4269417.html?ri18n=true oh my god
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say what you will about brown moses: he is a goon.
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dude just continued evolving into the ultimate goon
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War nerd is good but the podcast is 2 hours long and literally the first hour is Gary complaining like an old woman (with respect to old women, he just has serious grandma energy) about some small thing that happened to him that week. I think one time he got stuck in a toilet and started screaming lol Then Mark will start talking about something that happened to his kid and I'm frantically skipping forward for the war stuff
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It rules that the news always talks about the Iranian backed houthis like they're getting anywhere near the supposed the Saudis are from far richer countries
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Shakenbaker posted:Saudi Arabia is the UAE of the middle east The Dark Souls of Middle Eastern conflicts
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Jose posted:It rules that the news always talks about the Iranian backed houthis like they're getting anywhere near the supposed the Saudis are from far richer countries Lol last time I listened to bbc news it was the "Iranian backed Houthi rebels" against the "legitimate government of Yemen" Haven't listened since the houthis started seizing territory tho
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Darkman Fanpage posted:say what you will about brown moses: he is a goon.
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MBS is gonna be on 60 Minutes tonight, god willing it will be his last US media appearance
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Atrocious Joe posted:MBS is gonna be on 60 Minutes tonight, god willing it will be his last US media appearance god willing it will be his last appearance anywhere. 
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Jel Shaker posted:the War Nerd guy is very good at explaining the intricacies of asymmetrical warfare in mountains if you have a few bucks spare and dont mind spending an afternoon listening to someone who knows what theyre talking about rather than an "expert" on CNN What's a good War Nerd episode for this
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someone posted an hour long video of the "battle" in the dnd thread that i won't crosslink because gore features prominently at some points but holy poo poo whatever force the houthis hit is beyond incompetent to "i'm not legit sure if the commanding officers military training was limited to fortnite"
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Watching the video in D&D and CODChimera posted:Probably torched it all. They don't need that poo poo to win You were right lol they really are just burning poo poo.
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Sep 30, 2019 02:56
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i mean, after a point i suppose it really is just more equipment to suck gas and dilute a limited pool of spare parts
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christ this video is the great marianas turkey shoot but for APCs
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Raskolnikov38 posted:christ this video is the great marianas turkey shoot but for APCs im gonna read the room and not post the timecode but for the record: im everytime a guy runs out of steam halfway through the insanely long victory chant and starts talking shop because they'd done it so many times after so many vehicle kills they just feel tired even while filming propaganda vids. god is great. death the america. death to israel. curse the jjjjeeeeeyyyaaaaaaaaahhhh you get the idea, okay lets set up on the next hill
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jesus christ these people fighting for the "coalition" are wearing civilian clothes and i'll eat my entire rear end if some of these captured kids are a day older than 16
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Houthis: MY LIFE A MOVIE RIGHT NOWTrilliontonNixon posted:You were right lol they really are just burning poo poo. they may keep the APCs with the vulcan guns on them, because those things can shred any helicopter that gets near them. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 03:38 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Willie Tomg posted:jesus christ these people fighting for the "coalition" are wearing civilian clothes and i'll eat my entire rear end if some of these captured kids are a day older than 16 Yeah it's pretty hosed up. There's like maybe one uniformed Saudi for like every hundred kids in raggedy t-shirts. You'd think that someone here in the US would go "hey maybe we shouldn't be backing a nation that uses teenagers as cannon fodder" but lol.
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Quick question- is there a "right" way to get all these APCs through that sort of terrain? Cos whatever the Saudis are doing does not appear to be the correct method.Willie Tomg posted:jesus christ these people fighting for the "coalition" are wearing civilian clothes and i'll eat my entire rear end if some of these captured kids are a day older than 16 Yeah, it's not a great look. Where do all these teenage "soldiers" come from, anyway?
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Tree Bucket posted:Quick question- is there a "right" way to get all these APCs through that sort of terrain? Cos whatever the Saudis are doing does not appear to be the correct method. South Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea
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Tree Bucket posted:Yeah, it's not a great look. Where do all these teenage "soldiers" come from, anyway? Sudan and other parts of Yemen. here are some articles to get real steamed about https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/africa/saudi-sudan-yemen-child-fighters.html?login=facebook quote:Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2019/03/exclusive-yemeni-child-soldiers-recruited-saudi-uae-coalition-190329132329547.html quote:In the southern city of Taiz, Al Jazeera spoke to 16-year-old Ahmad al-Naqib and his family at the end of 2018, and the family of Mohammad Ali Hameed, 15, in February 2019. Both boys left their home, chasing promises of a regular paycheck and non-combatant roles.
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The Houthis also use child soldiers, but for them this is an existential conflict while the Saudis are conscripting kids from around the Arab world just so they can control the Yemeni government.
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Tree Bucket posted:Quick question- is there a "right" way to get all these APCs through that sort of terrain? Cos whatever the Saudis are doing does not appear to be the correct method. "don't put a fireteam where you haven't put a scout, don't put a squad where you haven't put a fireteam, don't put a platoon where you haven't put a squad, don't put a company where you haven't put a platoon, don't put vehicles where you haven't put a company" I might be reading too much into discontinuous footage that could be from a bunch of different places but it seems like the order of things are --assaulting a series of hilltops (because high ground isn't a very big advantage in an age where flying robots can see for twelve miles in every direction, spotting for missiles that can hit a warm basketball from two miles away) --raggedy rear end retreat --raggedy rear end coalition counterattack "reinforcing" positions that were already lost --shooting gallery.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:What's a good War Nerd episode for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6Tzij-Pbs
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Willie Tomg posted:Sudan and other parts of Yemen. here are some articles to get real steamed about I can't handle this stuff. I have friends who've been working with Sudanese refugees, spending years teaching and running clinics and building schools. They've risked everything to help out. Meanwhile a bunch of fat corrupt millionaire failsons are sending those same kids off into battle with no shoes, all so they can boast about being a brigadier general. They're literally deploying humans like units in an RTS. Just sickening. Willie Tomg posted:"don't put a fireteam where you haven't put a scout, don't put a squad where you haven't put a fireteam, don't put a platoon where you haven't put a squad, don't put a company where you haven't put a platoon, don't put vehicles where you haven't put a company" Okay, that makes sense.
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Tree Bucket posted:Quick question- is there a "right" way to get all these APCs through that sort of terrain? Cos whatever the Saudis are doing does not appear to be the correct method. given how poorly trained and how poo poo their morale is I would only try after putting the most elite division in the entire saudi army along the entire route
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drat, was way better when it wasnt child soldiers
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I'm guessing that they've been planning Operation Victory of God for the better part of a year. When they occupied southern Najran earlier this year they must've mapped out all the best spots to launch an ambush from before withdrawing back across the border. Then when they were ready to launch VoG they snuck back across the border and gave the Saudis the impression that the Houthi presence wasn't significant. That's probably why they kept sending in vehicle after vehicle. Saudis have lost big all the time in Yemen but never something on this scale, usually because they're slightly more cautious expecting to engage the Houthis on their own lands, but this time they were caught completely off guard in their own turf. At this point Ansar Allah probably knows southern Najran better than the Saudis do. e: the guy with the captured FN F2000 @ 26:00 is extremely lmao Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 04:15 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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I wish I could get my head around Saudi internal politics. Surely there's got to be some kind of internal reaction to losing Najran and having an oil terminal blown up and losing a big pile of troops and vehicles in their own territory.
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All the tribal leaders, capitalists, and Saudi royals must be hopping mad right now - but we're not gonna hear about it because they can't speak out in public without getting visited by the secret police.
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Tree Bucket posted:I wish I could get my head around Saudi internal politics. Surely there's got to be some kind of internal reaction to losing Najran and having an oil terminal blown up and losing a big pile of troops and vehicles in their own territory. yeah the internal logic is mbs is loving up big and they're hosed lol
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