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mlmp08 posted:People are allowed to keep these bad thoughts to themselves. I'm ashamed of our war actions and will fully go to the Hague if that's what it loving takes to feel even slightly better about supporting the horror we inflicted on the people of Afghanistan, and around the world.
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maffew buildings posted:https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1499804332090441732?cxt=HHwWiIC-7f-FsNApAAAA I don't think you're pro Russia or anything, but that twitter account has been straight up peddling Russian propaganda as well, so maybe don't cite them specifically? I also have no doubts that kind of poo poo is happening at the borders and it's incredibly hosed up.
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psydude posted:Eastern Europeans are unfortunately not known for their enlightened views on race or ethnicity. Neither is Western Europe.
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That's the same twitter account that said that Ukrainians would never EVER resist russian soldiers, they would lay down their arms and welcome them as brothers. A few months ago.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Woah! Fascinating if that holds up, wonder if he's still uneasy about his grip on power and nervous watching domestic unrest in Russia and doesn't think he could survive that again. It seems like his grip on power has been tenuous. He's presumably propped up by Russian money and resources, but it seems like both of those are going to be in very short supply for a while and I suspect he'll find himself near the back of the line. How excited will his military and police be to hold the line if they stop being able to make payroll and food starts becoming scarce? That's not even to mention actually marching over the border to fight a war that seems to be going very poorly. No idea what the historical relationship is between Belarus and Ukraine is, but I don't recall hearing about any strong animosity between the two, which makes going to fight even less popular.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I don't think you're pro Russia or anything, but that twitter account has been straight up peddling Russian propaganda as well, so maybe don't cite them specifically? https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europe/students-allege-racism-ukraine-cmd-intl/index.html
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Handsome Ralph posted:
The video will give you context but basically there was a website online that seemed to be run by an open pedophile that seemed to deal in hitmen jobs; they listed jobs in coded phrases, and some dates of their jobs lined up with the big coordinated assassinations, including Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhuoh. It was also linked to ammunition sales in that those assassins used credit cards from Lake City UT, down the road from the ammo plant there. It's also possible it's bullshit fiction of a Mike Adams, who has a Goodreads list that reads books with plots like this, and all domains involved originated under the same person at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoaeY4bKbbc It wouldn't be the first hoax I got caught up in lol Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1499827604861374466?s=21
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Belarus with a sudden, shocking face turn.
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Wasabi the J posted:The video will give you context but basically there was a website online that seemed to be run by an open pedophile that seemed to deal in hitmen jobs; they listed jobs in coded phrases, and some dates of their jobs lined up with the big coordinated assassinations, including Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhuoh. Ah I got you, I just didn't know if the quote was a callout somehow and I was confused by it. We're cool. maffew buildings posted:https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europe/students-allege-racism-ukraine-cmd-intl/index.html Yeah as I said, incredibly hosed up.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Belarus with a sudden, shocking face turn. They would be more if somebody did a face turn on Lukashenko with a Makarov.
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mlmp08 posted:People are allowed to keep these bad thoughts to themselves. Was the thermobaric hellfire variant not used in Iraq as well or are they just being dumb.
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hobbesmaster posted:Was the thermobaric hellfire variant not used in Iraq as well or are they just being dumb. Well he's saying that European humans are more human-ey them Asian humans and thus shouldn't be subject to thermobarics, so I feel confident to say he's just dumb.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Neither is Western Europe. Or pretty much anywhere. As a species we kinda suck. Would've been better if we'd evolved from a nearest common ancestor of gorillas instead of chimpanzees.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:No idea what the historical relationship is between Belarus and Ukraine is, but I don't recall hearing about any strong animosity between the two, which makes going to fight even less popular. I think historically they've had a a quite close relationship, but it has obviously deteriorated during Lukashenko's presidency.
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CommieGIR posted:Effectively already has, part of the referendum was basically giving Russia the leeway to station forces, including their nuclear forces, in Belarus. The referendum removed the ban on Russia stationing nukes in Belarus, but it's still up to Lukashenko to agree to such a move. Which I'm not sure he will do any time soon.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Or pretty much anywhere. As a species we kinda suck. Would've been better if we'd evolved from a nearest common ancestor of gorillas instead of chimpanzees. Bigfoot is out there, waiting in the forests for us to gently caress up, so they can roll in and re-plant the forests we've destroyed to build urban jungles.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Neither is Western Europe. Very true, they're just less open about it.
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Torrannor posted:The referendum removed the ban on Russia stationing nukes in Belarus, but it's still up to Lukashenko to agree to such a move. Which I'm not sure he will do any time soon. Lukashenko openly said he opposed Russian troops being in Belarus for too long. I don't really believe Lukashenko has a say anymore. He's a figurehead.
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Handsome Ralph posted:
they literally said there would be no invasion then again I guess this isn't an invasion
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https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1499740290650890241 I feel like a Democratic rep would know better than to call for something this stupid but it’s 2022 in the worst timeline.
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Nah we're solidly in the "score cheap political points" phase of the war
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1499740290650890241 weekend voice: LETS GOOOOOOO
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1499740290650890241 "What do you mean we'd have to train them to fly them and it would take months to do so? Aren't all aircraft essentially the same?"
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I'm normally in favour of more BBRRRRRRRRRTTTTTT but this dumb
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Handsome Ralph posted:"What do you mean we'd have to train them to fly them and it would take months to do so? Aren't all aircraft essentially the same?" “Volunteers” from the US.
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Slava Ukraini
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Handsome Ralph posted:"What do you mean we'd have to train them to fly them and it would take months to do so? Aren't all aircraft essentially the same?" There was a commercial pilot that lied about having experience with a French fighter type and just started flying for some middle eastern country. There’s probably at least one Ukrainian ATPL that has some hours in DCS A-10. What could go wrong?
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Point nose at tanks, push butan
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1499740290650890241 We could just mount GAU-8s to Ladas. Minimal training and 50 percent of them might even end up airborne!
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Marshal Prolapse posted:“Volunteers” from the US. As much as I'd love an inverse of what happened in the Korean War, it's not 1950 anymore. Zero chance that ruse would fool anyone let alone would the Russians play along with it. hobbesmaster posted:There’s probably at least one Ukrainian ATPL that has some hours in DCS A-10. What could go wrong? What starts playing in my head every time I see that stalled out convoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnfviQF0wNo Maybe you could get volunteers from the DCS thread... Comrade Blyatlov posted:Slava Ukraini
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Naked Bear posted:Point nose at tanks, push butan Fighter jets are basically video games. Just do the tutorial 15 minutes, then bomb the starter convoy. Bing bong so simple.
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mrmcd posted:Fighter jets are basically video games. Just do the tutorial 15 minutes, then bomb the starter convoy. Bing bong so simple. Its ironic too as lack of flight time is likely partially why the Russian Air Force is scarce right now.
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Handsome Ralph posted:
Oh oh! Pick me! I only overheated the APU and burned my plane to the ground three times as I was trying to work through the manual and preflight.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Nah we're solidly in the "score cheap political points" phase of the war https://twitter.com/LifeOfTimReilly/status/1499816865916493834?t=lIzcCizUdw-GOOlb6R4HNA&s=19 Pretty clear that Donnie would either have started WW3 by threatening to blow up Moscow or would've done absolutely nothing, just depending on how the news would've covered it.
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/LifeOfTimReilly/status/1499816865916493834?t=lIzcCizUdw-GOOlb6R4HNA&s=19 As long as Putin had enough sense to plan ahead and send a few waves of Russian diplomats to stay at Mira Lago with hefty bills and maybe hosted trump and explained to him and a few evangelicals how he's protecting Christendom he'd be all set. Not even exaggerating, there was that ridiculous report about how Putin put extra attractive aides in the room when meeting with trump to distract him, it was that amateurish (and effective). Ukraine definitely have gotten less support from the EU as they'd (rightly) not trust trump to not betray them or NATO, and Ukraine would have had far less effective defense without NATO weapons and intelligence.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Fun fact: these codes ("bort numbers," meaning "side number," although the Russian references I have never use that phrase) only represent the aircraft's number in its individual unit. So in the entire VKS, there could be a 5-10 different "04 White"s of various types flying around. This is actually a thing used to confuse intelligence agencies and has been known since WWII. In statistics it's called the German tank problem and picking random values from a set of a million numbers is one of the ways to prevent estimates of how many aircraft they actually have.
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https://twitter.com/SkyAndyHughes/status/1499863194575200268 Everyone walks away from this but Jesus...
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Imagine how pissed Putin must be to have spent all this money psyoping us with this Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge poo poo and then gets no return on it when he cashes in on all those good will chips he got from not being the US
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