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M_Gargantua posted:Oligarchs are cartoonishly evil. Let's not be rude to the general populace. Does anyone else see the irony in how we call the russian billionaires oligarchs, yet spare that term of endearment for the likes of Jeff Bezos?
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McNally posted:How many of them even have bayonets? And were trained on how to use the wire cutter? poo poo, I handled bayonets more than most. That was only due to the fact that I had 99 of them in a sealed box in my arms room. There were touched once a year when they were laid out, counted, placed back into the box with a seal.
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One of our mechanics bought his own bayonet and put it right there on the front of his IBA. When we were doing live fire convoy training in Kuwait just before OIF2, the retired Delta instructor mercilessly mocked him in front of the whole company for it. Treasured memory.
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GD_American posted:One of our mechanics bought his own bayonet and put it right there on the front of his IBA. “What are you gonna do, stab them?” Quote From Man Never Stabbed
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https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1502290493157298190?t=-QkZwk7ib-dmmcbCQFPI3Q&s=19 Same as when Russia was claiming Ukraine was going to attack DPR/LPR while they were on the border, I am sure Ukraine is just itching to attack Belarus right now
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Mar 11, 2022 15:49
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1502287487552606209 What everyone is failing to realize is that Russian armor doctrine is vastly superior and well adapted for this terrain. Here they demonstrate the ability to go hull down in an open field without having to prepare fighting positions before hand.
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The funniest thing would be the army mutinying with a leftist bent and starting the ussr v2 pissing off the cia and the tankies both
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I was infantry so we always had to carry the loving things. Their greatest purpose is opening MREs. Mine fell off my MARINE CORPS MARTIAL ARTS PROGRAM TAN BELT belt when I was pulling my MOPP pants up after a lengthy and brutally hot sauna poo poo in a 2003 Iraqi porta-shitter and it fell into the poo poo and looked like the sword in the stone before sinking to the depths of the poo poo and i came out of the shitter brown to the shoulder reaching for it. Anyway that's my bayonet story thanks for readin' Eason the Fifth fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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Mar 11, 2022 15:52
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Milo and POTUS posted:The funniest thing would be the army mutinying with a leftist bent and starting the ussr v2 pissing off the cia and the tankies both The tankies would be apoplectic if they marched under a black banner instead of a red one.
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How good are Syrians at fighting in cold, muddy pine forests on a scale of 0 to 10
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Churchill posted:Just had a shower thought that veers far to much in to clancy territory for my liking, but: We all know how revolutions and drastic change in Russia often follow (not necessarily entirely caused by) failed military operations or wars, e.g the Russo-Japanese war, the February Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union post Afghan invasion. Much of russia's organs have been affected. FSB is intact.
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Icon Of Sin posted:At least one of them went to the front of the doom-convoy and was yelling at people when a sniper took his shot. Doubt he recognized who his target was, but if people are scurrying around you and you look like you’re yelling, that’s getting marked as “some type of leadership” and suddenly you’re the priority target. The javelins get all the attention but nytimes mentioned Ukrainian snipers happily unpacking a shipment of Barretts. Farking Bastage posted:Does anyone else see the irony in how we call the russian billionaires oligarchs, yet spare that term of endearment for the likes of Jeff Bezos? He gets called that all the time in forums that don’t matter. On the pages of the Washington post he bought for less than 1% of his divorce settlement, less so.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1502294983033958403?t=EJitjiT2Mg0snbwEXorkdA&s=19 I came here to post similar. You and another are seeing the same as I. I haven't seen anything that would confirm this, but there a BUNCH of posts all the sudden talking about this in the past 30 min or so. I'm having a hard time understanding some of the choices being made by all parties at this point. Yeah, I know, crazy guy with nukes. But at this point doesn't more need to be done?
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Tiny Timbs posted:How good are Syrians at fighting in cold, muddy pine forests on a scale of 0 to 10 Probably worthless, but I could see them brought into the Southern theatre to relieve forces occupying Crimea, allowing those to be transfered to the Northern and Eastern fronts. Though given how coordinated the whole assault is, I expect them to be thrown into the grinder wherever is closest to their gathering point.
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Mar 11, 2022 16:18
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How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? e: I should say "disconnected from the evolving situation," but "out of touch" works, too.
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ASAPI posted:I came here to post similar. You and another are seeing the same as I. From the Ukrainian Armed Forces - they post all their stuff on Facebook, its interesting. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1502300202471931911?t=OwYAFwOQg4RFHJoHVGKI3g&s=19 Translation 
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Naked Bear posted:How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? At this point they are putting on the play for a captive audience that is eating up a lot of what they say, sadly.
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Naked Bear posted:How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? The inertia of old people with old ideas facing new situations is massive 
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Defenestrategy posted:Why choose bioweapons of all things? We already have covi... They saw Donald Trump spend the last two years blaming China, so they figure why not?
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Farking Bastage posted:Does anyone else see the irony in how we call the russian billionaires oligarchs, yet spare that term of endearment for the likes of Jeff Bezos? I would not spare bezos the preferred fate of oligarchs
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https://twitter.com/TsybulskaLiubov/status/1501862686396661764?t=hhm4x9sIxopzc-LRZIHSug&s=19 Sources are apparently real estate agencies listings for the week
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KitConstantine posted:From the Ukrainian Armed Forces - they post all their stuff on Facebook, its interesting. Wait... Russian soldiers are occupying two towns in Belarus, their ally, in an effort to make Belarus believe that Ukraine is attacking them, causing them to assist Russia with their invasion of Ukraine. This has got to be a movie plot, right? Nothing about this even remotely makes sense.
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Farking Bastage posted:Does anyone else see the irony in how we call the russian billionaires oligarchs, yet spare that term of endearment for the likes of Jeff Bezos? 'American Oligarchs' should very much become a thing
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ASAPI posted:Wait... Russian soldiers are occupying two towns in Belarus, their ally, in an effort to make Belarus believe that Ukraine is attacking them, causing them to assist Russia with their invasion of Ukraine. I’m not sure that this is how deep battle doctrine is supposed to work.
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Naked Bear posted:How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? We've all known that one pathological liar who would keep digging themselves deeper into the lie well after the truth had been exposed. That's Putin. He doesn't care. He bet big that he could strongarm the international community into complacency, but now that that isn't happening he's doubling down and trying a riff on Nixon's "madman" play. The wildcard here is whether he's enough of a socio-psychopath to try and burn the world rather than be held accountable for his actions.
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The US just yanked Russia's favored trade status, putting them on the same plane as Cuba and North Korea.Naked Bear posted:How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? They're probably aware and yet going, with fingers in their ears, "LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALA" while closing off access to all free speech from the rest of the world and blaring their propaganda hoping their people will buy it.
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Time to play everyone's favorite game. USEFUL IDIOT OR RUSSIAN PLANT!!
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Cugel the Clever posted:Agreed entirely, I accidentally dropped the sentence from my post where I intended to emphasize the short-term success of backing down very possibly giving way to regime collapse in the medium-term as the damage done to the Russian economy proves irreparable in our lifetimes. I dunno, wasn't that armored BTG we saw on drone going nuts to butts down the road from one of the Guards dvisions?
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Tucker and Glum Grimwald are aggressively amplifying Russian propaganda about Ukrainian "bio weapons" to justify Russian atrocities, transforming the mundane "Ukraine has biological research facilities where diseases are stored and researched" into the apocalyptic "HERE'S WHAT AMERIKKKA AND THE CIA DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW: PERFIDIOUS UKRAINE IS A ROGUE BIO WEAPON PRODUCING NAZI STATE. WAKE UP SHEEPLE". Really hoping he'll finally eat a Twitter ban over this. Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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psydude posted:Double posting because this is juicy: we have captured so many of these superior weapons oh i cant even count how many we captured
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Assad has a ton of amnestied rebels technically in the SAA. many of whom even know how to work anti-tank launchers, or, yknow, drive trucks. oh good, they've been looking for people to screen those RPG-7s for the tanks
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Alan Smithee posted:oh good, they've been looking for people to screen those RPG-7s for the tanks You mean like ablative infantry armor for the tanks?
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Cugel the Clever posted:Tucker and Glum Grimwald are aggressively amplifying Russian propaganda about Ukrainian "bio weapons" to justify Russian atrocities, transforming the mundane "Ukraine has biological research facilities where diseases are stored and researched" into the apocalyptic "HERE'S WHAT AMERIKKKA AND THE CIA DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW: PERFIDIOUS UKRAINE IS A ROGUE BIO WEAPON PRODUCING NAZI STATE. WAKE UP SHEEPLE". He won't, if you have a massive follower count who generate a lot of engagement (even just yelling that you're wrong) that's a lot of eyes and time spent on the site driving up ad views. Even alex jones didn't get banned until he showed up in DC at a congressional hearing to yell at the twitter CEO in person. Reminder that twitter is fully aware of who the nazis are because they have to block their accounts in France and Germany. They could block them everywhere but have chosen not to do that. Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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Naked Bear posted:How loving out of touch with reality are Putin & co? Do they not have somebody pointing out how quickly the west keeps calling their bullshit? Most of that bullshit is likely for internal consumption.
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A.o.D. posted:You mean like ablative infantry armor for the tanks? naw it's ERA the truck gets hit by RPG, and explodes, leaving the tank unscratched or that too i guess
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Cugel the Clever posted:Tucker and Glum Grimwald are aggressively amplifying Russian propaganda about Ukrainian "bio weapons" to justify Russian atrocities, transforming the mundane "Ukraine has biological research facilities where diseases are stored and researched" into the apocalyptic "HERE'S WHAT AMERIKKKA AND THE CIA DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW: PERFIDIOUS UKRAINE IS A ROGUE BIO WEAPON PRODUCING NAZI STATE. WAKE UP SHEEPLE". It'd be nice but I think unfortunately he toes the line as far as Twitter is concerned. Petty, but I've been calling that dude a piece of poo poo for years because aside from the Snowden leaks, he's always been a loudmouthed contrarian dickhead. So it's been nice to see most people realize what a massive piece of poo poo he is over the last couple of years. Anyone still citing him at this point is just telling on themselves at this point. Even beyond this, his TERF poo poo, him outing messages he had with Chelsea Manning because she called him out on his cozying up to Alt-Right dickheads, and repeatedly appearing on Tucker Carlson really should be a massive neon sign that he's not a leftist nor is he an ally. And yet...
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ASAPI posted:Wait... Russian soldiers are occupying two towns in Belarus, their ally, in an effort to make Belarus believe that Ukraine is attacking them, causing them to assist Russia with their invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin is increasingly desperate, because apparently they bet the house of Ukraine just rolling over and surrendering in front of the martial might of Russia. It turns out the forces they brought were completely undersized and underequipped to wage offensive war against an opponent the size of Ukraine. They've also sold this misadventure to the Russian population as a minor intervention rather than a brutal all-out war, so they can't just start drafting men, because the public loves wars until it has to fight them. Besides, Russia's massive reserves are of questionable quality, in terms of combat skills and fitness. It's equally questionable whether they have the logistical capability to mobilize reservists quickly enough. They tried calling on Kazakhstan, got snubbed, had the Belarusian military call it off and they got only small reinforcements from Kadyrov's private army in Chechnya. That's the most likely explanation why the Kremlin has resorted to calling on random fighters from the Near East and goading Belarus to join the war. They need someone, anyone, to send them combat-ready, active duty soldiers now to break the stalemate. The Kremlin's worst nightmare is ending up in a repeat of the Argentinian summer of 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfker6cK3SM
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