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Hersh showed his whole rear end when he claimed that Brown Moses was fabricating evidence of Syrian chlorine bombs. He's gone the way of Chomsky, where America= bad, anyone opposing America = resistance.  The X-man cometh fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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CommieGIR posted:If anything its concerning that an investigative journalist as import as Seymour would push this idea, he has a good track record Not since Reagan was president, as far as I can see. By 2010 he'd clearly gone into conspiracy theories. But the 1970's? Hell yes.
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CommieGIR posted:If anything its concerning that an investigative journalist as import as Seymour would push this idea, he has a good track record but the whole article reads as speculation rather than evidence based fact. his track record for the last 13 years is dogshit, he was the most prominent person carrying water for the claim that Assad was not behind the Ghouta Sarin attacks
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Herstory Begins Now posted:UK says they're going to train Ukrainian pilots on NATO fighters About drat time. I recall listening to an OSINT podcast discussing the war that had a former UK MoD consultant on talking about training Ukrainians on NATO fighter jets. The major criticism against it was "training would take 6 months" but the episode was August '22, so their response was "yes and if we had started training them in February they would ready by now."
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Feb 8, 2023 21:05
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The X-man cometh posted:Hersh showed his whole rear end when he claimed that Brown Moses was fabricating evidence of Syrian chlorine bombs. What's his CSPAM handle?
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CommieGIR posted:If anything its concerning that an investigative journalist as import as Seymour would push this idea, he has a good track record but the whole article reads as speculation rather than evidence based fact. He may have once been a serious journalist but he's been an InfoWarsy moron for quite a while now. Nothing he says should be taken seriously ever. Like I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out the US blew up the pipeline but I'm not going to believe him about it. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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His track record is pretty bad lately. Disputes OCPW and chemical weapons in Syria, has a weird account on Osama, made some claims very clearly then later said he was representing the story, not the facts, etc. Here it’s an even weirder reach, because Russia already said the UK was behind the nord stream pipeline sabotage. E: beaten a lot
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mlmp08 posted:His track record is pretty bad lately. Disputes OCPW and chemical weapons in Syria, has a weird account on Osama, made some claims very clearly then later said he was representing the story, not the facts, etc. Yeah this does seem to be the trend. He's largely ruined his credentials. Grand Fromage posted:Like I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out the US blew up the pipeline but I'm not going to believe him about it. This was my view: Right now we have no conclusive evidence that either the US or Russia blew it up. Somebody did, but this article isn't the conclusive proof he pretends it is.
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mlmp08 posted:His track record is pretty bad lately. Disputes OCPW and chemical weapons in Syria, has a weird account on Osama, made some claims very clearly then later said he was representing the story, not the facts, etc. i agree re: the uk. Makes no sense for russia to say it was the uk if supposedly there was all this evidence it was actually america.
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Grand Fromage posted:Like I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out the US blew up the pipeline but I'm not going to believe him about it. I've been following the debates on Nord Stream fairly closely, because in the absence of any concrete evidence, it's a fascinating ideological Rorschach test. But the most insightful take I've seen is still Anders Puck Nielsen's, from fairly early: https://youtu.be/hk-0qJXyido He's a Danish military analyst and former naval officer, so this is pretty much his wheelhouse. He was also one of the people who correctly called Putin's invasion ahead of time. Hannibal Rex fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 22:14
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream They lost all credibility by calling Panama City a booming resort city. That was true for about three weeks a year in the late 90s.
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Stepping back and analyzing it in context, the US would have gained nothing by blowing up the pipeline, particularly since it was already effectively dead and Germany was already sourcing gas from other places. US actions so far have been extremely rational, if a bit conservative; it really isn't the kind of move that would be in keeping with the current administration's approach to things. If I had to speculate, I'd say one of the Baltic nations might have been more inclined to do it just to register their extreme displeasure at German intransigence.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:54
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The X-man cometh posted:Hersh showed his whole rear end when he claimed that Brown Moses was fabricating evidence of Syrian chlorine bombs. Oh poo poo, that was him? Sheeeet I’d have never thought twice if I remembered he was on that loving kick.
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When and why if you know did 'Warfighter' instead of soldier become common?
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Soldier means army. Warfighter is less of a mouthfull than “Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines” (plus coasties and ~*Guardians*~) so warfighter was an easy term for all possible users. Probably includes select agencies as well.
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I heard it used in the GWoT era to distinguish between combat roles and the rest of the support, logistics, maintenance, etc. roles that are done by the military.
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Warfighter only meant one thing to me- more field time and a greater-than-average percentage of being jerked around by changing priorities each day for an exercise that seemed to be making it up as they went along
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Kallikaa posted:When and why if you know did 'Warfighter' instead of soldier become common? I'm writing this counseling statement as a result of FP Kallikaa's failure to give due respect to his fellow Service Members by neglecting to capitalize Soldier.
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Kallikaa posted:When and why if you know did 'Warfighter' instead of soldier become common? Honestly, I never heard the term until 2020, when I arrived to my unit and got spun up on Warfighting Functions (WFf) and preparing the following year for Command Post Exercises, culminating in a capstone exercise called Warfighter. If I drowned myself in doctrine, I would have heard it earlier, but it all screams Large Scale Combat Operations to me. Edit: also, because WFf encompassed mission command, intelligence, fires, maneuver, sustainment, and protection, I figure folks attribute the term "warfighter" to folks associated with any of those tasks. Bell_ fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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I'm not sure if this video will be geoblocked, but Flemish television published this video from the frontlines near Sumy. Is it me or is that a DP28 at 00:56 https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/kijk/2...rvato_55152871/ EDIT: 
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1623510800819187714?t=g2oC4jqSADypv_olAuSlrw&s=19 Had to do a quick double take that they're fighting over Sakko i Vantsetti, the 1920s Soviet Union was a wild place.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream lmao quote:Norway was one of the original signatories of the NATO Treaty in 1949, in the early days of the Cold War. Today, the supreme commander of NATO is Jens Stoltenberg, a committed anti-communist, who served as Norway’s prime minister for eight years before moving to his high NATO post, with American backing, in 2014. He was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. Stoltenberg was 14 when the Vietnam War ended. Also I'm not sure how you get to 'committed anti-communist' from the former leader of the Norwegian Labour Party.
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someone called that piece 'literal fan fiction' and that's a good summary of it
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What on gods green earth did he do that was so great that people are even remotely entertaining him Cuz I hear the same with greenwald and supposedly he did a thing in Brazil
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Alan Smithee posted:What on gods green earth did he do that was so great that people are even remotely entertaining him He broke the story of the My Lai Massacre, the secret bombing of Cambodia, project azorian, and Abu Ghraib. The roots of his current crank status were always there, in 1986 he blamed the KAL shoot down on “Soviet incompetence and US intelligence operations confusing soviet air defense “ LightRailTycoon fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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in a well actually posted:I heard it used in the GWoT era to distinguish between combat roles and the rest of the support, logistics, maintenance, etc. roles that are done by the military. In British terms this is the "Teeth Arms" which is an amusingly stupid expression. Combat (Infantry and Armour) and Combat Support (Artillery and Engineers).
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knox_harrington posted:In British terms this is the "Teeth Arms" which is an amusingly stupid expression. Combat (Infantry and Armour) and Combat Support (Artillery and Engineers). I had always thought “armed to the teeth” was a weird saying, but I’m guessing there’s a relationship and extremely dumb story between that phrase and “teeth arms” (being the British are involved and all). Also now I’m imagining an octopus with teeth for arms and it’s cracking me up in public, so thanks for that  e: warfighter was already established in 2010 in Fairbanks, it’ll be one of those weird legacy terms from GWoT that sticks around and everyone (maybe already?) forgets where exactly it came from.
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:Stoltenberg was 14 when the Vietnam War ended. Also I'm not sure how you get to 'committed anti-communist' from the former leader of the Norwegian Labour Party. Nah, this is my new headcanon now. Stoltenberg, child soldier, fighting the communists in the jungles of vietnam
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Alan Smithee posted:What on gods green earth did he do that was so great that people are even remotely entertaining him Greenwald took the credit for the Snowden leaks (despite there being a bunch of journalists involved between two news organizations) and founded an investigative news website that he wound up rage quitting when they contradicted his Tankie views. He lives in self-imposed exile in Brazil, where he makes frequent appearances on right wing news outlets spouting Russian propaganda.
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Kallikaa posted:When and why if you know did 'Warfighter' instead of soldier become common? When I got out in the mid-90s, the word 'Warfighter', really didn't exist, so I'm blaming the GWoT and the Rah Rah war good White House for it.
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Rude Dude With Tude posted:lmao Well, DNA has been rabidly anti-communist since Gerhardsen's speech at Kråkerøy. And committed whole-heartedly to NATO. Doesn't make Hersch any less of a dumb dick.
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Xakura posted:Nah, this is my new headcanon now. Stoltenberg, child soldier, fighting the communists in the jungles of vietnam Kidmando had more confirmed kills before morning recess than most gis had all tour.
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Alan Smithee posted:What on gods green earth did he do that was so great that people are even remotely entertaining him Yep, grooming an impoverished 19 year old from a developing country sure is “a thing” that he did.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:When I got out in the mid-90s, the word 'Warfighter', really didn't exist, so I'm blaming the GWoT and the Rah Rah war good White House for it. FMFM-1 was (is?) named "Warfighting" and was first published in 1989 so I think you can blame the Marines for this one.
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Murgos posted:FMFM-1 was (is?) named "Warfighting" and was first published in 1989 so I think you can blame the Marines for this one. It’s this. The attempt by the marine corps to not use the word soldier in any context other than “professional soldiering” as a discipline.
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"Servicemember" is what always comes to my mind when I think of a broad term for military personnel. But obviously that's not hardcore operator enough.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:his track record for the last 13 years is dogshit, he was the most prominent person carrying water for the claim that Assad was not behind the Ghouta Sarin attacks I saw an OSINT guy on Twitter go through the public data on ship and airplance movement, and none of the Norwegian or US ships he claims were involved are documented as being in the area.
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therobit posted:Yep, grooming an impoverished 19 year old from a developing country sure is “a thing” that he did. Specifically a homeless teen that he then married
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Notahippie posted:I saw an OSINT guy on Twitter go through the public data on ship and airplance movement, and none of the Norwegian or US ships he claims were involved are documented as being in the area. Why let facts get in the way of a good story about how the Great Satan continues to pull all the strings lol
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