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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Neurolimal posted:

Trump thread posters get punished because they are the worst and most aggro posters in a cspam thread not currently locked in the mod forum

ill agree with u on the worst but aggro? thats outrageous

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Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Regarde Aduck posted:

Lol that this gets you perma'd, from cspam of all places

Just gonna hollow this place out till its just trump thread?

Yup, it's gonna be epic.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Danann posted:

(from t.me/Slavyangrad/19654, via tgsa)

Russian evacuation done, mostly intact.

These are all sure looking like numbers and I am sure they are all correct.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Calibanibal posted:

thats correct, I agree that the mod/admin staff has been unfairly lenient towards the most irritating and stupid group of posters in the entire forum

We aim to lead by example itt.:hai:

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

evilmiera posted:

These are all sure looking like numbers and I am sure they are all correct.

Yeah by now Ukraine would've thrown up photos and videos if a disaster happened.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
if there’s one thing the Russians have been good at in this war it’s withdrawing so I believe them.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Majorian posted:

NAFO are some of the dumbest, most bloodthirsty morons I've ever encountered, and I used to live in DC.

Trust me the baying for orc blood is fading but still omnipresent everywhere

Much like in NYC there are doors and yards with Ukrainian flags in them still

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Al-Saqr posted:

if there’s one thing the Russians have been good at in this war it’s withdrawing so I believe them.

haven't they been really bad at that though? leaving intact vehicles behind...

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum
A few new books on Russian tactics and strategy came by my desk at the Jubal E. Early Warfighter Training academy where I teach the cadets macroorconomics I’ll summarize some of them for you as it might help in understanding the latest maskirovka at play:


First is Ensnared by the Orc, a treatise on Russian defense in depth and elastic defense doctrines by Rear Admiral (ret) Tara Philips. Probably nothing anyone here doesn’t know, but the thesis seems to support telegram OSINT that the so called Kherson ‘retreat’ is brilliant deception and the fresh soldiers just might end up whetting Putin’s insatiable orceptite


The Admiral returns with a book analyzing trends in Russian and Soviet peace treaties, from the late Hyborian Age to today. She contends that far from the heavy handed brute it is thought of, Russian land and population swaps as part of peace negotiations,even in wars where they were victorious have been unusually generous, often sacrificing their own territory and citizens in order to make peace. Special analysis of the Brest-Litovsk and Ogre Kingdom DMZ, and Winter War treaties are handled here in a depth you usually don’t see.


Lastly in Claimed by the Orc, the history of Russian Imperial territorial claims in Eastern Europe and especially Ukraine is examined. It is a gripping tale of the unsated ambition of a large and powerful conquerer, whose repeated thrusts into the interior of Europa brought the world to its knees. Honestly it was a lot drier than the other two books and I’d only recommend it to real history aficionados.

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

no

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

this is an excellent bit, goddamn

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Turtle Watch posted:

A few new books on Russian tactics and strategy came by my desk at the Jubal E. Early Warfighter Training academy where I teach the cadets macroorconomics I’ll summarize some of them for you as it might help in understanding the latest maskirovka at play:


First is Ensnared by the Orc, a treatise on Russian defense in depth and elastic defense doctrines by Rear Admiral (ret) Tara Philips. Probably nothing anyone here doesn’t know, but the thesis seems to support telegram OSINT that the so called Kherson ‘retreat’ is brilliant deception and the fresh soldiers just might end up whetting Putin’s insatiable orceptite


The Admiral returns with a book analyzing trends in Russian and Soviet peace treaties, from the late Hyborian Age to today. She contends that far from the heavy handed brute it is thought of, Russian land and population swaps as part of peace negotiations,even in wars where they were victorious have been unusually generous, often sacrificing their own territory and citizens in order to make peace. Special analysis of the Brest-Litovsk and Ogre Kingdom DMZ, and Winter War treaties are handled here in a depth you usually don’t see.


Lastly in Claimed by the Orc, the history of Russian Imperial territorial claims in Eastern Europe and especially Ukraine is examined. It is a gripping tale of the unsated ambition of a large and powerful conquerer, whose repeated thrusts into the interior of Europa brought the world to its knees. Honestly it was a lot drier than the other two books and I’d only recommend it to real history aficionados.

Add those books to the required reading list for modern military officer cadets.

Weka
May 5, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 15 hours!

Calibanibal posted:

thats correct, I agree that the mod/admin staff has been unfairly lenient towards the most irritating and stupid group of posters in the entire forum

I love the occasional serious Calibanibal post.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Frosted Flake, you owe it to us to read those Orc Romance novels and tell us how it relates to the Siege of Vienna in 1654

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:

Al-Saqr posted:

Frosted Flake, you owe it to us to read those Orc Romance novels and tell us how it relates to the Siege of Vienna in 1654

Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum
Man, there are just so many of these, what a time to be alive. Fellas if you are looking for love just paint yourself green, somebody wants it bad.

e: also ladies, the femorc is also in demand

Turtle Watch has issued a correction as of 09:12 on Nov 11, 2022

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
CATO in the streets, Orcish in the sheets

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Al-Saqr posted:

Frosted Flake, you owe it to us to read those Orc Romance novels and tell us how it relates to the Siege of Vienna in 1654

orc warlord thrusts in too eagerly and at the climax he gets taken by surprise in the rear

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Suleiman the Magnificent was the butch bear Thrall, while Nicklaus Graf Salm is the Femboy Varian

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Al-Saqr posted:

Suleiman the Magnificent was the butch bear Thrall, while Nicklaus Graf Salm is the Femboy Varian

What beautiful lovechildren they would have made, if only history had been a little different...:smith:

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Calibanibal posted:

thats correct, I agree that the mod/admin staff has been unfairly lenient towards the most irritating and stupid group of posters in the entire forum

this is pretty charitable to the glenn thread

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

Al-Saqr posted:

Suleiman the Magnificent was the butch bear Thrall, while Nicklaus Graf Salm is the Femboy Varian

thatfatkid died for this

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
Hmm, I wonder what's going on behind the scenes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/10/ukraine-urged-grasp-window-opportunity-peace-talks-russia/


quote:

The US is urging Ukraine to use a "window of opportunity" for peace talks to end the war, as world leaders prepare for a showdown with Vladimir Putin at next week’s G20 summit.

A top US general said a lull in fighting over winter might open the door to a negotiated settlement, as White House officials hold direct talks with the Kremlin.

It comes as Russia started a major withdrawal from Kherson, allowing Ukraine to advance on the only regional capital Moscow captured earlier this year.

Joe Biden’s administration has been privately telling Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, to drop his refusal to talk with Russia, it was reported last week

On Thursday, Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, denied pressuring Ukraine to make concessions. But the senior Biden official has made a surprise visit to Kyiv in recent days and has been speaking directly with the Kremlin, according to US media.

Cpt Soban
Jul 23, 2011

Danann posted:

(from t.me/Slavyangrad/19654, via tgsa)

Russian evacuation done, mostly intact.

"mostly"

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Good!

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

lumpentroll posted:

thatfatkid died for this

Surah Al – Baqarah, 2:154

“And say not of those who are slain in God's cause, “ They are dead”: nay, they are alive , but you perceive it not.”

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:

uh mlmp debunked this, chud

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Um wow excuse me the word "demand" does not show up there so therefore,

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

МИГ posted:


Антоновский мост под Херсоном сегодня утром. Точнее, его отсутствие

https://t.me/mig41/22121
(from t.me/mig41/22124, via tgsa)

Antonovsky Bridge demoed by Russians.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Danann posted:

(from t.me/mig41/22124, via tgsa)

Antonovsky Bridge demoed by Russians.

Which is located... where?

Edit - nevermind google told me. Eh, bridges are so 2021 anyway.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
good job losing the only regional capital you managed to capture in your entire dumb war Russia 👍

it’s starting to feel like this war is Soviet-Finland all over again, the Russians MAYBE will get the bare minimum slice of territory, but they’ve been completely demolished as a credible military power and won’t come back from this for twenty years, now their strategic outlook is permanently crippled with a full Nazi Ukraine on their border.

militarily speaking they are off the world chessboard for the next few decades.

Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 10:06 on Nov 11, 2022

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Al-Saqr posted:

they’ve been completely demolished as a credible military power

Yet how many countries are currently panicking and ordering more of everything from Korea or wherever?

Maybe every country that isn't the USA has a clown car military and this is just one ring of the circus. And a lot of bystanders went "oh my god we can't even match Russia's poo poo show performance".

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
yes, the soviet finland war, where the finns won by...hang on

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
My nation's military is lacking. Time to build some more Gloster Meteors and get the knight cavalry some fresh lances and horses.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

DancingShade posted:

Yet how many countries are currently panicking and ordering more of everything from Korea or wherever?

Maybe every country that isn't the USA has a clown car military and this is just one ring of the circus. And a lot of bystanders went "oh my god we can't even match Russia's poo poo show performance".

well america has a clown car military but it’s full of Pennywise clowns, they’re actually good at killing.

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

Al-Saqr posted:

it’s starting to feel like this war is Soviet-Finland all over again

you mean ukraine will be overwhelmed and forced to accept a humiliating peace and permanent loss of major parts of their territory? wow, this must be the famous al-saqr flip-flop everyone keeps going on about

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


Tankbuster posted:

yes, the soviet finland war, where the finns won by...hang on

also where they "won" by still losing land

tbh this war would be very different if Russia had taken all of the Donbass by now. That's their main goal and yet they're still stuck trying to capture Bakhmut. I can see this going like the Winter War too.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Al-Saqr posted:

good job losing the only regional capital you managed to capture in your entire dumb war Russia 👍

it’s starting to feel like this war is Soviet-Finland all over again, the Russians MAYBE will get the bare minimum slice of territory, but they’ve been completely demolished as a credible military power and won’t come back from this for twenty years, now their strategic outlook is permanently crippled with a full Nazi Ukraine on their border.

militarily speaking they are off the world chessboard for the next few decades.

I'm sorry Al-Saqr I'm not going to yell at you too loudly but that is a complete garbage understanding of history because the Finns ended up having to give up more territory than the Soviets were originally gunning for at the precipice of that conflict

the whole point of anticommunist propaganda surrounding the Winter War is that it proved the Soviets sucked at warmaking by only ever focusing on the first half of it and never mentioning the end result

one might argue that what Russia has achieved so far, and what they may end up having to settle for, represents far less than what they would have wanted - a land bridge to Crimea and whatever they could bite out of the LPR and DNR sectors isn't worth all the casualties and hardening of hearts against them, but at the minimum that makes this worse than the Winter War, not a close analogue

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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
Given that the russian political class is absolute smol bean tier when it comes to using their soldiers its not going to be like the winter war. The russians gave up socialism to wear blue pants and rip each other to shreds. They aren't going to go fight for some epik Russian Imperial project.

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