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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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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

OctaMurk posted:

The hersh story seems 100% believable. But why does russia say the uk did it?

probably because of how extremely gung ho all three of their governments have been about getting involved in the war since it started

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lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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fanfic insert posted:

"Finlands sak är vår sak" isn't very specific and could very well mean territory

the very name of finland is exactly that, "the eastern territory". our name for the country is suomi

fanfic insert
Nov 4, 2009
Russia saying UK did it was based on an intercepted sms from whats-her-face to Blinken right? Could be that they were a go-between on surveilling the OP. 5 eyes stuff being that part of the world is GCHQ domain.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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no british support at all? huh, surprising

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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OctaMurk posted:

The hersh story seems 100% believable. But why does russia say the uk did it?

because they really didn't know who did it before

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



OctaMurk posted:

The hersh story seems 100% believable. But why does russia say the uk did it?

Never trust perfidious Albion

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
hersh story seems to hinge on one source tho which i'd bet makes it easily dismissible

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

if the UK did it they definitely did it with US support at minimum their a fifth rate puppet that can barely even function

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

HallelujahLee posted:

if the UK did it they definitely did it with US support at minimum their a fifth rate puppet that can barely even function

it's a couple of frogmen and a bomb, not the NHS

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

even that seems out of reach for the uk

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

OhFunny posted:



Hmm... Liveuamap is showing a Russian breakthrough west of Blahodatne that nearly reaches the northern highway.

I'm not seeing this reported anywhere else however, so they may be jumping the gun based on a statement by the Ukrainian General Staff saying there is fighting near Zaliznianske.

If not than Bakhmut has been brought under operational encirclement.

https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1623368684474359808/photo/1

Alright so Suriyakmaps is posting about this and I regard them as reliable. The situation is bad for the Ukrainian forces in the area.

The northern road into Bakhmut is cut and Ukrainian forces in Paraskoviika and Krasna Hora are very isolated. They're going to be trapped if they don't withdraw soon. It might be too late already if they have to do so over a road that Russian forces have fire control over.

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009

lollontee posted:

no, it's because finland is a country of 5,6 million people, and sweden is a country of 10,5 million people. last time, the implicit threat of a swedish intervention in the winter war, was what forced stalin to seek a negotiated peace, instead of unconditional surrender. swedish military cooperation in the event of a war with russia is absolutely critical to finnish sovereignty (and by extent, swedish as well), and afaik the militaries of both countries agree and have plans readied. there is no official alliance however, as a rapidly disappearing vestige of the cold war neutrality of both countries.

welp

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Seymour hersh is a pro-communist puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Baathist-Islamist Puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Putin Puppet!

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/redvoicenews/status/1623039143151538176?t=nxogksTDEO3DXzBL2CHPnA

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I think Russia is trying to not escalate with the USA

the uk is a joke country no one cares about and it makes it clear they think the USA did it but want to avoid saying so directly.

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

Hatebag posted:

McNamara was willing to start nukin' if things went sideways in '58, so in hindsight it's probably for the best the pla didn't win that one

'57, actually

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


Liz Truss taking credit for a USA operation before getting rudely ousted would be pretty funny

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

gradenko_2000 posted:

The post-Cultural Revolution PLA on the other hand kicked Vietnam's rear end

hardly

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
uhhh vietnam caused enough damage to china the chinese had to take a face saving phyrric victory, it was not an rear end kicking at all.

fanfic insert
Nov 4, 2009

Al-Saqr posted:

Seymour hersh is a pro-communist puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Baathist-Islamist Puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Putin Puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a limited hangout!

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

fanfic insert posted:

Seymour Hersh is a limited hangout!

its this

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Al-Saqr posted:

uhhh vietnam caused enough damage to china the chinese had to take a face saving phyrric victory, it was not an rear end kicking at all.

It was a war that lasted a month with comparable casualties.

————

It is pretty difficult to completely seal off a city with only fire control though, there are still routes out of Bakhmut but it does probably mean some forces are too deep in at this point.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:25 on Feb 8, 2023

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

it would be similar to the USA blaming something Russia did on Belarus or whatever.

England is the Belarus of the sea

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009
“Limited hangout” - the new euphemism for being poorly-endowed.

r/limitedhangoutproblems

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
you suck shut up

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Al-Saqr posted:

Seymour hersh is a pro-communist puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Baathist-Islamist Puppet!

Seymour Hersh is a Putin Puppet!

well yeah. this goes without saying.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
limited flameout

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022
bellingcunt

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china
bellendcunt

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008



I love all the 50s harebrained civilian nuclear schemes. The spaceship that propels itself by making GBS threads out nukes, digging canals and tunnels with nukes, nuke cars, nuke rpgs (both the m-28 and fallout). They're great!

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Could be that they're blaming the UK because they figure Germany is too whipped to do anything about US sabotage, but might jump at hitting the UK

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
The British connection may be that the Royal Navy had a bunch of craft involved in Baltops 22 including a destroyer and a large number of patrol craft. At least in number of craft they were the single largest contributor.

At least for the story to work, they were at least in the loop to provide a protective cover for operations and to ward off Russian vessels.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 20:20 on Feb 8, 2023

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

If it was the US (likely given the story) it was done by seals. which means it’s a matter of time until there’s 27 competing memoirs about being the guy who planted the bomb.

At which point the narrative shifts to “we ALWAYS knew the us did it, tankie”

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Fleetwood posted:

bellendcunt

Get his rear end

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Russia should drop a tactical nuke on the norwegian base the mission started from and then claim the norweigns blew up their own base to prove they could

Dial back the totally ironic satirical bloodlust please k thx

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
https://twitter.com/OJutel/status/1623393932205002752?s=20&t=4m8ZSq2WKOz65x7K3ACKGQ

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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Hatebag posted:

I love all the 50s harebrained civilian nuclear schemes. The spaceship that propels itself by making GBS threads out nukes, digging canals and tunnels with nukes, nuke cars, nuke rpgs (both the m-28 and fallout). They're great!


the nukeshitting spaceship is actually the only practical interstellar engine we have. and it actually works

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Trump made the war inevitable.

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comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

remember this lol
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1575900626659205122



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