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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Al-Saqr posted:the japanese are talking sense lol
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DancingShade posted:lol every time. Haven't they heard of pen names? lol someone ITT is married to someone who used to work at Wilson, but I won't say who so you don't make fun of them.
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Jan 25, 2023 22:52
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Al-Saqr posted:news that sounds cool but probably wont amount to much That currency? Bitcoin.
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Jan 25, 2023 22:54
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1617374364927774721 https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1617339804785512451 wew lad that last tweet. this war is breaking people.
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Jan 25, 2023 22:55
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supersnowman posted:Why not just no train new cavalry? Did they still expect the trench warfare to stop at that point in the war? Our dudes on foot keep getting mowed down by artillery and machinegun fire but if only we had dudes on top of large horse to make them move faster, surely they would somehow dodge the bullets and barb-wires. Well first, because the Palestine campaign required large numbers of them, second, they were useful for dismounted auxiliary duties in the static phase, and third because they were invaluable in the breakout during the Hundred Days. They were needed as an exploitation arm - despite their vulnerabilities - just like we need the armoured branch today. They were also needed to act as screens and reconnaissance should manoeuvre warfare return, and of course this is why we retain armoured cavalry - also vulnerable in their LAVs and equivalents - today as well. Ultimately, you do need both Heavy and Light Cavalry, for breakthrough, exploitation, screening and scouting. What form that takes, chariot, lancers, hussars etc. changes with time and technology but the concept remains essential.
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Jan 25, 2023 22:55
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Best Friends posted:I’ve been mulling on how Ukraine is white enough that invading them is a unique historical evil to other white countries (zero westerners supported arming the Iraqi insurgency or the NVA). but, they’re on the periphery enough that we in the west are still allowed to coup them, and if they ban a bunch of political parties core white countries can go “it’s different there.” Aryan in the streets, Slav in the sheets
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Jan 25, 2023 22:56
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1617374364927774721 how does the incredibly dense metal stop shells? Dark anglo-sciencemagiks
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Jan 25, 2023 22:59
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Are we making DU specifically to put in tank armor or is it entirely a byproduct of nuclear fuel production?
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Jan 25, 2023 23:02
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Regarde Aduck posted:how does the incredibly dense metal stop shells? Dark anglo-sciencemagiks Uranium is magical, like mithril.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:05
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If you look at the Union army during the ACW, they had tremendous difficulty both finding cavalry mounts and training riders, and that's despite inheriting much of the infrastructure of the peacetime Federal military. It's much more costly and time consuming to train riders, this is part of why in Feudal society knights had to train from childhood and a large-ish segment of the population was engaged only in that instead of productive labour. In Feudal Japan, the samurai started out as mounted archers and similarly were unproductive otherwise around the period of the Genpei War. It's a bit different in pastoral societies where herding is both productive labour and cavalry training of a sort, produces cavalry mounts, but for the most part in pre-industrial society providing riders and mounts was a large scale state project. For example, when the Union finally did get better, and by 1864 most historians agree they were superior to the "natural horsemen" of the South who had been riding since childhood, it was the result of a massive training project, organizational reform, search for skilled officers etc. It's also why Unionist Cavalry in Missouri and Tennessee were invaluable, providing riders for rear-echelon and light cavalry duties the Union could not yet carry out. The biggest Union horse depot, at Giesboro near Washington, D.C., covered 600 acres and had stockyards, stables, and forage warehouses to keep 30,000 horses.Throughout the war the Confederate army relied on its soldiers, especially its cavalrymen, to provide their own mounts. There was no official organization to keep its army supplied with mounts. There you have why the Union won in a nutshell.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:08
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imagine, if you will, if we put the magic metal in between layers of other materials, to form some kind of eldritch combination. A forbidden composite of metal and ceramic. God is dead.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:19
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Regarde Aduck posted:imagine, if you will, if we put the magic metal in between layers of other materials, to form some kind of eldritch combination. A forbidden composite of metal and ceramic. God is dead. There's probably just export controls on nuclear materials. I remember this came up in the context of safety, though I'm struggling to remember what the radioactive thing in question was, it might have even been radium or whatever they use for illuminated sights these days. e: Tritium. Thanks. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 23:23 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Jan 25, 2023 23:20
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Frosted Flake posted:If you look at the Union army during the ACW, they had tremendous difficulty both finding cavalry mounts and training riders, and that's despite inheriting much of the infrastructure of the peacetime Federal military. It's much more costly and time consuming to train riders, this is part of why in Feudal society knights had to train from childhood and a large-ish segment of the population was engaged only in that instead of productive labour. In Feudal Japan, the samurai started out as mounted archers and similarly were unproductive otherwise around the period of the Genpei War. It's a bit different in pastoral societies where herding is both productive labour and cavalry training of a sort, produces cavalry mounts, but for the most part in pre-industrial society providing riders and mounts was a large scale state project. Wait are you telling me that material conditions and state leveraging of industry and resources are what win wars?? Absurd
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Jan 25, 2023 23:23
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Slavvy posted:Wait are you telling me that material conditions and state leveraging of industry and resources are what win wars?? Absurd You joke, but part of the Lost Cause mythos is "how could Ohio farmhands beat the cream of West Point Cavalry graduates, the Southern gentry and the descendants of Cavaliers?"
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Jan 25, 2023 23:26
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Depleted Uranium and other heavy metals are also quite chemically toxic, even if they aren’t very radioactive (hence “depleted”).
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Jan 25, 2023 23:28
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cancelled uranium
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Jan 25, 2023 23:30
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Starsfan posted:Man it's hard to place losses from modern warfare in the same reality as what was going on 80 years ago.. You read so much cope about how Russia is nearing their breaking point with 30,000 to 40,000 casualties in a year and then wikipedia tells you that like 600,000 Russian soldiers got surrounded and surrendered around Kiev one week back in WW2. yeah and loving reddit keeps comparing it to US losses in vietnam or iraq
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Jan 25, 2023 23:30
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Slavvy posted:It's kind of interesting to think about, like could f16's being vectored on target by an AWACS get the drop on mig31's with their absurd radar and long range missiles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdFGP1vE80I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwPMQM2DmwQ
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Jan 25, 2023 23:33
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Majorian posted:Uranium is magical, like mithril. wow hope russia never gets their hands on any...
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Jan 25, 2023 23:34
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CODChimera posted:yeah and loving reddit keeps comparing it to US losses in vietnam or iraq It's funny because in a lot of ways it resembles the battles the US wasn't part of, in 1972 and 1975.  It's just that most Americans aren't really aware of it and swear the Ukrainian Army is nothing like the ARVN and the Ukrainian government nothing like the RVN.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:35
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I'll let the team sports aficionados handle the comments on this one https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1618352743831474177
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Jan 25, 2023 23:39
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Slavvy posted:It's kind of interesting to think about, like could f16's being vectored on target by an AWACS get the drop on mig31's with their absurd radar and long range missiles? I don't think the Ukrainians have any bvr missiles? Or if they did, how many do they have left? Because the Ukrainians have to fly low to stay under the horizon of Russian long range SAMs they would be trying to engage mig 31s flying faster and higher, with mig 29s or f16s at a lower altitude.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:43
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many happy returns to z-man 🎂 https://twitter.com/senateforeign/status/1618364320731262976
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Jan 25, 2023 23:44
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Frosted Flake posted:In Feudal Japan, the samurai started out as mounted archers and similarly were unproductive otherwise around the period of the Genpei War. That's one of the arguments that Bushido is made up bullshit. That it was their primary way of war and that they were always mounted archers. Bushido and the way of the sword crap all started up after they became a bureaucratic upper class because I guess you're not going to carry around a bow and arrows to show off how cool and special you are.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:46
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Jan 25, 2023 23:48
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Zeroisanumber posted:Drawing NATO in would take more political talent and juice than Zelensky has. Ukraine isn't valuable enough to risk NYC eating a nuke. you say this and i agreed until quite recently, but the vibe i'm getting from european elites is that they're increasingly seeing this as an actual existential conflict for europe. if i'm seeing this in norway, it's almost certainly even more prevalent in poland and the baltics. it's very possible to imagine someone doing something stupid (like, say, blocading kaliningrad) and invoking article 5 when the russians respond with force, at which point it would be politically very difficult for NATO to not back them i'm not saying that it will definitely happen, but i am no longer confident that it won't. the rhetoric has shifted over the past couple of months from framing arms shipments as an act of solidarity into something like "we cannot countenance the possibility of defeat in ukraine" as the equipment being sent gets heavier and we start digging into the materiel of our (pathetically small and few) active military units
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Jan 25, 2023 23:50
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Australian M1A1s had DU in them and they just lied to the government about it. Technically it’s illegal to import any form of nuclear waste into the country unless there’s a specific treaty with another country (like the UK for example). But the military lies about poo poo all the loving time without consequences.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:53
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Throatwarbler posted:I don't think the Ukrainians have any bvr missiles? Or if they did, how many do they have left? Because the Ukrainians have to fly low to stay under the horizon of Russian long range SAMs they would be trying to engage mig 31s flying faster and higher, with mig 29s or f16s at a lower altitude. Ukrainians have BVR missiles, but they're both SAR and shorter range than the Russian AR missiles. So a pretty damned bad matchup for Ukrainian fighters!
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V. Illych L. posted:you say this and i agreed until quite recently, but the vibe i'm getting from european elites is that they're increasingly seeing this as an actual existential conflict for europe. if i'm seeing this in norway, it's almost certainly even more prevalent in poland and the baltics. it's very possible to imagine someone doing something stupid (like, say, blocading kaliningrad) and invoking article 5 when the russians respond with force, at which point it would be politically very difficult for NATO to not back them if russia wins in ukraine than the domino effect will cause more europeans to fall sway to putinism
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Jan 25, 2023 23:56
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V. Illych L. posted:you say this and i agreed until quite recently, but the vibe i'm getting from european elites is that they're increasingly seeing this as an actual existential conflict for europe. if i'm seeing this in norway, it's almost certainly even more prevalent in poland and the baltics. it's very possible to imagine someone doing something stupid (like, say, blocading kaliningrad) and invoking article 5 when the russians respond with force, at which point it would be politically very difficult for NATO to not back them they do see it as existential and it's hilarious that they don't understand that the US is going to carve them up just as bad. The EU had decades to develop its own identity and failed and as a result, there's no passion for it. No one cares. No one wants to die for the EU. So it's just going to be eaten by the US cultural hegemon. Mediocrity is not a good ideology.
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Jan 25, 2023 23:57
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I forget, who is this nutjob? I think I saw their account get posted once or twice before. https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/1618381943024017408
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Lostconfused posted:That's one of the arguments that Bushido is made up bullshit. That it was their primary way of war and that they were always mounted archers. Bushido and the way of the sword crap all started up after they became a bureaucratic upper class because I guess you're not going to carry around a bow and arrows to show off how cool and special you are. during the sengoku period their primary weapon became polearms, on foot
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Jan 26, 2023 00:00
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Lostconfused posted:I forget, who is this nutjob? I think I saw their account get posted once or twice before. She was a British Tory MP who married an American record executive and gradually lost her mind.
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Jan 26, 2023 00:01
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Frosted Flake posted:There's probably just export controls on nuclear materials. putting radioactive materials in sights doesnt seem very safe
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Jan 26, 2023 00:02
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NATO did a pretty excellent job of kneecapping the idea of any sort of collective European identity (and thus some kind of proper EU collective security arrangement) that didn't include America.
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Jan 26, 2023 00:03
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Frosted Flake posted:British Tory MP Oh, that explains a lot. Thank you.
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Jan 26, 2023 00:04
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Lostconfused posted:I forget, who is this nutjob? I think I saw their account get posted once or twice before. Do people actually believe that this is true? Like, a full-scale nuclear exchange would be thousands of missiles, many with multiple independent warheads. There's no way the US doesn't get absolutely obliterated too, even if they manage to intercept a couple of hundred.
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Jan 26, 2023 00:04
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Lostconfused posted:I forget, who is this nutjob? I think I saw their account get posted once or twice before. Once referred to by people obsessed with Russiagate as "Sherlock Holmes with rocket boots" because she was in the same crowd as the game theory guy and her insane ramblings were taken as gospel by the MSNBC crowd for a year or two. Endman posted:Do people actually believe that this is true? Like, a full-scale nuclear exchange would be thousands of missiles, many with multiple independent warheads. There's no way the US doesn't get absolutely obliterated too, even if they manage to intercept a couple of hundred. Louise here is a Wasbappin level antirussia lunatic, but i suppose even she counts as a people. Zedhe Khoja has issued a correction as of 00:08 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Danann posted:if russia wins in ukraine than the domino effect will cause more europeans to fall sway to putinism the mechanism is obscure and they don't really say explicitly what they think will happen because no such answers are demanded of them - there is basically total consensus in our press on the issue, which paradoxically means that it goes almost completely unexamined. the point is that, increasingly, i'm getting the vibe that this is more than just a proxy war to our elites - it's a genuine ideological end-struggle which must be won. if you press them a little, they will say something about making sure that aggression doesn't pay or about the primacy of democratic values or whatever, but all of that feels very secondary. Regarde Aduck posted:they do see it as existential and it's hilarious that they don't understand that the US is going to carve them up just as bad. The EU had decades to develop its own identity and failed and as a result, there's no passion for it. No one cares. No one wants to die for the EU. So it's just going to be eaten by the US cultural hegemon. Mediocrity is not a good ideology. the US has such enormous cultural influence over its european allies that it is honestly shocking to behold. i knew that it was deep, but i didn't realise that they could engineer a situation like what we saw with the leopard tanks recently, where one of germany's key demands was that the US also contribute, which was completely unacceptable and borderline treasonous.
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Once referred to by people obsessed with Russiagate as "Sherlock Holmes with rocket boots" because she was in the same crowd as the game theory guy and her insane ramblings were taken as gospel by the MSNBC crowd for a year or two. And that explains why anyone would pay attention to her insane ramblings, thank you. https://twitter.com/ThePollLady/status/1618100863649841161
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