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SerthVarnee
Mar 13, 2011

It has been two zero days since last incident.
Big Super Slapstick Hunk

ManMythLegend posted:

Yeah the Danes are very good at the spooky stuff. That is true.


This feels like bait...

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Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





ManMythLegend posted:

Yeah the Danes are very good at the spooky stuff. That is true.

Oh this is excellent

Armacham
Mar 3, 2007

Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?
Especially Great Danes

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635?s=20&t=nse4-6R_Bldb_P7tRaeq4Q

https://twitter.com/Kontakt642/status/1571543273503707137

very nice find

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

ThEy'Re HoLdInG tHe GoOd TrOoPs AnD wEaPoNs In ReSeRve

Chopstix
Nov 20, 2002

A.o.D. posted:

ThEy'Re HoLdInG tHe GoOd TrOoPs AnD wEaPoNs In ReSeRve

Technically not wrong now that the Ukrainians have it

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously


Whoa! Would something like that be across the Polish border before they begin sharing photos? Would guess Ukraine has an agreement to send stuff like that in exchange for ongoing NATO goodwill.

Gotta wonder how much super secret stuff/personnel have been captured that Ukraine/NATO is keeping quiet.

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012


If nothing else, it's a reminder that the end result of any arms embargo is stimulating the local arms industry of the embargoed party. That's how Iran, Israel, South Africa, and North Korea became weapons exporters.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>
how many atacms you think they can get for it

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

I'll bet it had been sitting in Izyum for months awaiting repair.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Flikken posted:

And they are at war with Norway according to Jeremy Clarkson.

The scene at the ski resort is one of the funniest that they've ever done.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1571437997106794497?s=46&t=WdZkIbWNDOGrZUp-camrLg

Rest in Piss shitheads

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009



I like that it's wearing a comfy blanket

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/tpyxanews/status/1571604245543292928?s=46&t=A_eyzE9-vH_gS2n2R0__ZQ

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Biden doing the Trump thing better than Trump ever could.

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

They've been continuously pushed into the worst of the fighting, most likely to kill them off. This isnt justice, this is disposing of the evidence.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

How absurd and sad to see an impoverished ethnic brigade sent to commit rape, torture, and then be slaughtered. Russia is an insanely sick society

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the constant annoying din of telephone calls and RFIs from American venture capitalist and banking firms who keep investing in my country regardless of the terrible ALLEGED things we've done because they don't care that I'll eventually tell them to gently caress off and keep their money because they know you'll bail them out."

golden bubble
Jun 3, 2011

yospos


For all those war thunder players, they couldn't afford the good ammo for their top of the line tank either.

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1571550542773604357

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Gotta wonder how much super secret stuff/personnel have been captured that Ukraine/NATO is keeping quiet.

I would imagine the Ukrainians have quite nice selection of Russian EW assets by now, probably ranging from intact to severely shot up. They captured at least parts of a Krasukha-4 AWACS/radar satellite jammer complex back in March.

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

lightpole posted:

They've been continuously pushed into the worst of the fighting, most likely to kill them off. This isnt justice, this is disposing of the evidence.

We don't know what exactly their orders were, but even they had the explicit order to commit a host of war crimes in Bucha, they still had a choice to carry out these orders, or refuse them (with potentially deadly consequences to them, granted). They do deserve their fate.

That said, this is also a correct take:

Tiny Timbs posted:

How absurd and sad to see an impoverished ethnic brigade sent to commit rape, torture, and then be slaughtered. Russia is an insanely sick society

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

Torrannor posted:

We don't know what exactly their orders were, but even they had the explicit order to commit a host of war crimes in Bucha, they still had a choice to carry out these orders, or refuse them (with potentially deadly consequences to them, granted). They do deserve their fate.

There are plenty of examples disproving this, child soldiers are the easiest one. Simple indoctrination and creating a group identity will easily push people into these decisions.

No simple dickhead lower enlisted created this and the Russian military doesn't allow them the capacity or individuality for them to. It is very possible they lack the ability to refuse those orders and are literally being thrown out like trash while anyone that does most likely hasn't left Russia.

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine
Can anyone slightly further down the too-online road than myself clarify what "NAFO" and "NAFO Twitter" are?

My guess is that it's NATO but with an "F" for fascist, and that "NAFO Twitter" is the tankie/greyzone types that would use that unironically. But it's just a guess!

Lovely Joe Stalin
Jun 12, 2007

Our Lovely Wang
Uhh, NAFO is basically anti-Russian disinformation that stinks of being an infowar op.

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

Discussion Quorum posted:

Can anyone slightly further down the too-online road than myself clarify what "NAFO" and "NAFO Twitter" are?

My guess is that it's NATO but with an "F" for fascist, and that "NAFO Twitter" is the tankie/greyzone types that would use that unironically. But it's just a guess!

It's the opposite of tankies but still intensely cringe, as everything on Twitter is. Half are just terminally online weirdos living vicariously through war porn and thirsting over the Finnish PM (President?) because she's one of the few world leaders under 80 and not male.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

lightpole posted:

There are plenty of examples disproving this, child soldiers are the easiest one. Simple indoctrination and creating a group identity will easily push people into these decisions.

No simple dickhead lower enlisted created this and the Russian military doesn't allow them the capacity or individuality for them to. It is very possible they lack the ability to refuse those orders and are literally being thrown out like trash while anyone that does most likely hasn't left Russia.

The stories coming out of Bucha suggest a lot of the murder was due to happenstance (e.g. some old guy telling then to gently caress off), not any kind of systemic extermination camp. They had a decision to make and they made it. Russia is a bad place, but it's not the DRC - they had agency, they volunteered for the Russian military (they're all contract soldiers), and they wantonly murdered civilians. There's no excuse for that.

psydude fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Sep 19, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

psydude posted:

The stories coming out of Bucha suggest a lot of the murder was due to happenstance (e.g. some old guy telling then to gently caress off). They had a decision to make and they made it. Russia is a bad place, but it's not the DRC - they had agency, they volunteered for the Russian military (they're all contract soldiers), and they wantonly murdered civilians. There's no excuse for that.

"We'll be greeted as liberators, have gifts and women showered upon us, and come home rich! And if we're not greeted as liberators, we'll brutally inflict ourselves on our 'lessers' in heinous ways to distract us from our lovely go-nowhere, do-nothing lives in a brutal autocratic/authoritarian plutocracy, steal some swag, and come home with a washing machine. Besides, we're big stronk Russia and they're puny little Ukraine!" :smug:

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!


lightpole posted:

There are plenty of examples disproving this, child soldiers are the easiest one. Simple indoctrination and creating a group identity will easily push people into these decisions.

No simple dickhead lower enlisted created this and the Russian military doesn't allow them the capacity or individuality for them to. It is very possible they lack the ability to refuse those orders and are literally being thrown out like trash while anyone that does most likely hasn't left Russia.

"Just following orders" as they line people up in trenches to gun them down wasn't a defense in the 1940's and it isn't one now.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BadOptics posted:

It's the opposite of tankies but still intensely cringe, as everything on Twitter is. Half are just terminally online weirdos living vicariously through war porn and thirsting over the Finnish PM (President?) because she's one of the few world leaders under 80 and not male.

The other half are normal and cool.

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

Uhh, NAFO is basically anti-Russian disinformation that stinks of being an infowar op.

:lol:

Would any self respecting infowar op ever allow me to be within 10 feet of it…let alone being a pa

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

Discussion Quorum posted:

Can anyone slightly further down the too-online road than myself clarify what "NAFO" and "NAFO Twitter" are?

My guess is that it's NATO but with an "F" for fascist, and that "NAFO Twitter" is the tankie/greyzone types that would use that unironically. But it's just a guess!

It's a bunch of lame nerds fighting for Ukraine on the battlefields of Twitter by being as cringy as possible basically. It's too goofy to be an op though.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

my kinda ape posted:

It's a bunch of lame nerds fighting for Ukraine on the battlefields of Twitter by being as cringy as possible basically.

:black101:

Also Goddamn it they shut down the GBS thread or well for the night apparently. Goddamn CSPAM

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

Marshal Prolapse posted:

The other half are normal and cool.

Nobody on Twitter is either "normal" or "cool" let alone both.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BadOptics posted:

Nobody on Twitter is either "normal" or "cool" let alone both.

By Twitter standards.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Discussion Quorum posted:

Can anyone slightly further down the too-online road than myself clarify what "NAFO" and "NAFO Twitter" are?

My guess is that it's NATO but with an "F" for fascist, and that "NAFO Twitter" is the tankie/greyzone types that would use that unironically. But it's just a guess!

A bunch of folks on Twitter using chanology tactics on Russian disinformation sources. Similarly to chanology, it's only marginally effective and has no hope of taking down or drowning out any official disinformation sources, but it's good enough for drowning out bots and troll farms.

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

Discussion Quorum posted:

Can anyone slightly further down the too-online road than myself clarify what "NAFO" and "NAFO Twitter" are?

My guess is that it's NATO but with an "F" for fascist, and that "NAFO Twitter" is the tankie/greyzone types that would use that unironically. But it's just a guess!

Some Russian mouthpiece on Twitter misspelled NATO as NAFO and people latched onto it like covfefe and created the North Atlantic Fella Organization. They mostly harass and mock tankies and Russian mouthpieces on Twitter and churn out Pro-Ukrainian memes. Pretty wholesome stuff, really.

In other news, Russia fired missiles on the Mykolaiv NP. Sources say the reactors are undamaged, though.

AStrangeDuelist
Nov 27, 2013

psydude posted:

Ukraine Goodfellas'd a bunch of Russian puppet officials today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...f083f878e70ef20

“There is. A house. In New Orleans. They call the Rising Sun. And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God I know I’m one.”

sic semper proditoribus I guess.

How far are Ukrainian from Luhansk now?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Some Russian mouthpiece on Twitter misspelled NATO as NAFO and people latched onto it like covfefe and created the North Atlantic Fella Organization. They mostly harass and mock tankies and Russian mouthpieces on Twitter and churn out Pro-Ukrainian memes. Pretty wholesome stuff, really.

In other news, Russia fired missiles on the Mykolaiv NP. Sources say the reactors are undamaged, though.

Apparently it was about 300 meters from the the reactors.

https://twitter.com/alexkokcharov/status/1571757711481503744?s=46&t=or02vPj7aYqTdjSrbFHTNw

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Russia is mad so they are throwing a tantrum because they have nothing left.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Apparently not even missiles that will hit their target

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BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

not caring here posted:

Apparently not even missiles that will hit their target

Well they are having to resort to missiles meant to hit aircraft carriers (i.e. big things on a relatively smooth surface with very apparent radar signature) because they had only a handful of their fancy propaganda weapons. So basically any big building ends up confusing the guidance system. The incompetence would be amazing except for the fact that the main purpose of the Russian military, except maybe for the strategic rocket forces, is to enrich corrupt officers and contractors rather than fighting/winning wars.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-secretive-long-range-bomber-operations-against-ukraine

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