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Some Guy TT posted:(Fortunately, the Army restored much of its traditional training several years ago.) lol. I don't know what else to say here.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:34
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he's a gimmick poster but i think it's quite good to have a bit of mental sparring with the ultralib world view. A bit of well meaning 2-minute hate.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:34
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Also "So how does the war end? Almost certainly not in the way of a “total war,” with Ukrainian tanks rolling into Moscow in the same way that Allied tanks rolled into Berlin in 1945, for the reason stated above." 
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Feb 24, 2023 18:36
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mila kunis posted:Supply chains and manufacturing can be built up. Europe managed to survive to 1979 without chinese inputs. The only thing that's indispensible is access to raw materials. This is all, I will just say it, straight up bullshit. The US doesn't even bother to establish domestic mask manufacturing after Covid. You can't find more clear and direct evidence that the US doesn't care about manufacturing at heart. All these offshoring friendshoring talks are just bullshit. All the former MIC products will be made 95% and finish the final assemble in Vietnam (if China cares about the US market, that is. the us market is not as big as you think.) Time will tell whom is feeding whom bullshit. But my theory is the capitalists gave the instruction to the Washington Blob to paddle this *shoring bullshit.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:41
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that grifting semiconductor bill they passed gave like 60 billion or more to the semiconductor companies who immediately proceeded to fire thousands of workers and use it for ceo bonuses so i dont think its looking to good to restart anything. at minimum to restart any kind of manufacturing in the us you need probably a decade. add another decade if most of it goes to grift which it does.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:43
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Frosted Flake posted:Also "So how does the war end? Almost certainly not in the way of a “total war,” with Ukrainian tanks rolling into Moscow in the same way that Allied tanks rolled into Berlin in 1945, for the reason stated above." why was bavaria such a US theater in the final weeks? the question is very poorly phrased but i'm sure you understand what i mean
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Feb 24, 2023 18:43
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i say swears online posted:why was bavaria such a US theater in the final weeks? to grab what they can before the soviets did and the remaining nazis surrendered en masse exclusively to the americans and became the administrators of west germany.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:44
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i say swears online posted:why was bavaria such a US theater in the final weeks? the mountains on the bavarian-austrian border were supposed to be a gigantic fortress for the last stand of the reich and the army was deployed accordingly but the fortifications and troops were never deployed/built so patton instead helped liberate czechoslovakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Fortress e: link and spellcheck error corrected Raskolnikov38 has issued a correction as of 18:52 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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Feb 24, 2023 18:49
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Al-Saqr posted:to grab what they can before the soviets did and the remaining nazis surrendered en masse exclusively to the americans and became the administrators of west germany. Raskolnikov38 posted:the mountains on the bavarian-austrian border were supposed to be a gigantic fortress for the last stand of the reich and the army was deployed accordingly but the fornications and troops were never deployed/built so patton instead helped liberate czechoslovakia thx, i forgot about al saqr's point which makes complete sense
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Feb 24, 2023 18:50
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i say swears online posted:why was bavaria such a US theater in the final weeks? The Germans completely ran out of troops and everybody was capturing lots of territory. The map leaves out the Soviets capturing Prague and the rest of Austria for some reason The French were involved clearing out Wurttemberg, but the invasion of Germany was mostly a US operation because the US had a lot of guys. The UK was close to scraping the barrel in terms of manpower.
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Feb 24, 2023 18:57
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:The Germans completely ran out of troops and everybody was capturing lots of territory. The map leaves out the Soviets capturing Prague and the rest of Austria for some reason speaking of UK manpower, i know the least about the southeast asian theater compared to the others. did burma and the malay peninsula have anywhere near the engagement the western front did? i assume the eastern front outpaces everything besides china by an order of magnitude
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Feb 24, 2023 19:07
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presumably the chorus is “all your countrymen love Hitler / same here” https://twitter.com/ap/status/1628992814531895296?s=46&t=5EI-s4RQSb0bGhoPXA188A
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Feb 24, 2023 19:26
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third-tier nu-country artist. doesn't hold a candle to heroes like mark chestnut and clint black
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Feb 24, 2023 19:27
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:presumably the chorus is “all your countrymen love Hitler / same here” where were you when they built the ladder to heaven did you think it was cool or that it was kinda gay?
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Feb 24, 2023 19:30
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https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1629163889970520066?s=20 Ukrainian defenses in the north of city look to be falling at a faster pace.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:31
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UK news going hard on Bucha today to remind everyone why this war can't end. Lots of mentions of how Ukraine must reclaim all the lost land. The existence of the DNR and LNR didn't get mentioned and they rarely do at the best of times. I guess it gets awkward to acknowledge that the population in those areas do not want 'liberating' by Ukraine. Kinda waiting for western press to drop the mask and sideways back the obvious genocide that it would take to reclaim those areas.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:46
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:presumably the chorus is “all your countrymen love Hitler / same here”  lmfao
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Feb 24, 2023 19:47
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i say swears online posted:speaking of UK manpower, i know the least about the southeast asian theater compared to the others. did burma and the malay peninsula have anywhere near the engagement the western front did? i assume the eastern front outpaces everything besides china by an order of magnitude Imphal and Kohima.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:48
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Frosted Flake posted:Global finance capital is never going to accept paying textile workers in New England, toymakers in Milwaukee and furniture makers in Montreal again, so nothing is getting decoupled. Sure they will - once global financial capital has uprooted and moved to a new country and is outsourcing to cheap labor in underdeveloped us and canada
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Feb 24, 2023 19:49
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Am I reading this right? Iranian boots on the ground in Ukraine for fighter jets lol? https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1629190464438956033
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Feb 24, 2023 19:52
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Country music is an op. TwangK Ultra.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:55
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did Ukraine really try to freeze a river?
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Feb 24, 2023 19:57
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Vomik posted:Sure they will - once global financial capital has uprooted and moved to a new country and is outsourcing to cheap labor in underdeveloped us and canada that's right.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:58
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Some Guy TT posted:
Domino theory V 2.0?
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Feb 24, 2023 19:59
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Death By The Blues posted:Am I reading this right? Iranian boots on the ground in Ukraine for fighter jets lol?
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Feb 24, 2023 20:02
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i say swears online posted:speaking of UK manpower, i know the least about the southeast asian theater compared to the others. did burma and the malay peninsula have anywhere near the engagement the western front did? i assume the eastern front outpaces everything besides china by an order of magnitude Burma had around 300,000 Japanese troops at the end of the rope, supply-wise, so no. Burma and Malaya were captured by the Japanese on a shoestring, and the time when the Brits turned it around was 1944, after the Japanese navy and merchant marine had been shredded by the USA. For their part, the Japanese in Burma tried to go on the offensive in the same year and lost a whole army without actually being encircled or anything. The terrain was really bad and there was basically no infrastructure, so every year the monsoon would shut down military operations. The Brits sent a few British units, but mostly fought with the Indian army, as well as the African divisions they had raised in 1940. According to the logic of the British officer corps, the African guys (recruited from farming villages on cleared land like vast majority of soldiers) would adapt well to the jungles of Burma, but by all accounts they were as miserable as everybody else. China was less densely invested than the Eastern Front. The Japanese were in a weird place because they had destroyed most of the pre-war Chinese military and occupied half the country by 1938, but they didn't have anywhere close to enough soldiers to actually occupy the "front line". They dispersed around 2 million Japanese soldiers around half of China, which left them with relatively few forces on hand for actual offensives. The Chinese didn't really have a military that could take advantage of this, but they could always shift formations around or find an isolated Japanese garrison that they could attack and force a response to. This is a big reason why only dumbos think Japan could have invaded the Soviet Union, they were basically out of soldiers in China and couldn't spare anybody, let alone take on the Soviets.
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Feb 24, 2023 20:05
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gradenko_2000 posted:they're really going to send fourteen Leopards, huh Now Germany has to send 88. Those are the rules.
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Feb 24, 2023 20:11
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Here's how ukraine could retake crimea: https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1628386829304053761
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Feb 24, 2023 20:11
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genericnick posted:Now Germany has to send 88. Those are the rules. the german (or maybe polish) defense person who announced the shipment said they would be initially sending 14 tanks of a planned 88
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Feb 24, 2023 20:13
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Ukraine can never take Crimea because they have no navy and the place is basically an Island with only one narrow access point available to Ukraine which could be easily defended by Russia or even if Ukraine did get in, impossible to keep open for supply. It's so clearly a pipe dream that is being bandied about disingenuously to keep the morale of the NAFO freaks up
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Feb 24, 2023 20:24
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if anyone can capture Crimea it's Ukraine
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Feb 24, 2023 20:27
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Regarde Aduck posted:UK news going hard on Bucha today to remind everyone why this war can't end. you'd think, given that this is supposed to be a war of genocide on russia's part, that they'd have some more recent examples to point to for the bloody shirt waving
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For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022? Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine and try to capture Kyiv in February 2022, and not years earlier? Moscow has always wanted to dominate Ukraine, and Putin has given the reasons for this in his speeches and writings. Why then did he not try to take all or most of the country after the Ukrainian revolution of 2014, rather than only annexing Crimea, and giving limited, semi-covert help to separatists in the Donbas? On Friday’s one-year anniversary of Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, it is worth thinking about precisely how we got to this point – and where things might be going. Indeed, Russian hardliners spent years criticising their leader for not invading sooner. In 2014, the Ukrainian army was hopelessly weak; in Viktor Yanukovych, the Russians had a pro-Russian, democratically elected Ukrainian president; and incidents like the killing of pro-Russian demonstrators in Odesa provided a good pretext for action. The reason for Putin’s past restraint lies in what was a core part of Russian strategy dating back to the 1990s: trying to wedge more distance between Europe and the United States, and ultimately to create a new security order in Europe with Russia as a full partner and respected power. It was always clear that a full-scale invasion of Ukraine would destroy any hope of rapprochement with the western Europeans, driving them for the foreseeable future into the arms of the US. Simultaneously, such a move would leave Russia diplomatically isolated and dangerously dependent on China. This Russian strategy was correctly seen as an attempt to split the west, and cement a Russian sphere of influence in the states of the former Soviet Union. However, having a European security order with Russia at the table would also have removed the risk of a Russian attack on Nato, the EU, and most likely, Ukraine; and allowed Moscow to exert a looser influence over its neighbours – closer perhaps to the present approach of the US to Central America – rather than gripping them tightly. It was an approach that had roots in Mikhail Gorbachev’s idea – welcomed in the west at the time – of a “common European home”. At one time, Putin subscribed to this idea. He wrote in 2012 that: “Russia is an inseparable, organic part of Greater Europe, of the wider European civilisation. Our citizens feel themselves to be Europeans.” This vision has now been abandoned in favour of the concept of Russia as a separate “Eurasian civilisation”. Between 1999, when Putin came to power, and 2020, when Biden was elected president of the US, this Russian strategy experienced severe disappointments, but also enough encouraging signs from Paris and Berlin to keep it alive. The most systematic Russian attempt to negotiate a new European security order came with the interim presidency of Dmitry Medvedev from 2008 to 2012. With Putin’s approval, he proposed a European security treaty that would have frozen Nato enlargement, effectively ensured the neutrality of Ukraine and other states, and institutionalised consultation on equal terms between Russia and leading western countries. But western states barely even pretended to take these proposals seriously. In 2014, it appears to have been Chancellor Angela Merkel’s warnings of “massive damage” to Russia and German-Russian relations that persuaded Putin to call a halt to the advance of the Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas. In return, Germany refused to arm Ukraine, and with France, brokered the Minsk 2 agreement, whereby the Donbas would return to Ukraine as an autonomous territory. In 2016, Russian hopes of a split between western Europe and the United States were revived by the election of Donald Trump – not because of any specific policy, rather because of the strong hostility that he provoked in Europe. But Biden’s election brought the US administration and west European establishments back together again. These years also saw Ukraine refuse to guarantee autonomy for the Donbas, and western failure to put any pressure on Kyiv to do so. This was accompanied by other developments that made Putin decide to bring matters concerning Ukraine to a head. These included the US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership of November 2021, which held out the prospect of Ukraine becoming a heavily armed US ally in all but name, while continuing to threaten to retake the Donbas by force. In recent months, the German and French leaders in 2015, Merkel and François Hollande, have declared that the Minsk 2 agreement on Donbas autonomy was only a manoeuvre on their part to allow the Ukrainians the time to build up their armed forces. This is what Russian hardliners always believed, and by 2022, Putin himself seems to have come to the same conclusion. Nonetheless, almost until the eve of invasion, Putin continued unsuccessfully to press the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in particular to support a treaty of neutrality for Ukraine and negotiate directly with the separatist leaders in the Donbas. We cannot, of course, say for sure if this would have led Putin to call off the invasion; but since it would have opened up a deep split between Paris and Washington, such a move by Macron might well have revived in Putin’s mind the old and deeply held Russian strategy of trying to divide the west and forge agreement with France and Germany. Putin now seems to agree fully with Russian hardline nationalists that no western government can be trusted, and that the west as a whole is implacably hostile to Russia. He remains, however, vulnerable to attack from those same hardliners, both because of the deep incompetence with which the invasion was conducted, and because their charge that he was previously naive about the hopes of rapprochement with Europe appears to have been completely vindicated. It is from this side, not the Russian liberals, that the greatest threat to his rule now comes; and of course this makes it even more difficult for Putin to seek any peace that does not have some appearance, at least, of Russian victory. Meanwhile, the Russian invasion and its accompanying atrocities have destroyed whatever genuine sympathy for Russia existed in the French and German establishments. A peaceful and consensual security order in Europe looks very far away. But while Putin and his criminal invasion of Ukraine are chiefly responsible for this, we should also recognise that western and central Europeans also did far too little to try to keep Gorbachev’s dream of a common European home alive. Anatol Lieven is director of the Eurasia programme at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft sorry for the long post but it’s the first article i’ve seen in the mainstream british press which is vaguely on this planet
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Feb 24, 2023 20:33
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mila kunis posted:Here's how ukraine could retake crimea: I’m not clicking can you summarize
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Starsfan posted:Ukraine can never take Crimea because they have no navy Politico posted:a large-scale air, sea and land operation to advance on several axes against key land objectives in Crimea,” forming a “robust air and sea campaign” List of "active" Ukrainian Navy "ships" 
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i say swears online posted:speaking of UK manpower, i know the least about the southeast asian theater compared to the others. did burma and the malay peninsula have anywhere near the engagement the western front did? i assume the eastern front outpaces everything besides china by an order of magnitude the Japanese humiliated the British at Singapore. hundreds of thousands of British troops surrendered to a force of 30k Japanese who invaded from the north of the peninsula. all the British weapons faced out to sea.
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Feb 24, 2023 20:45
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there was a huge election !! I remember it ahhhh
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:presumably the chorus is “all your countrymen love Hitler / same here” quote:“The world felt like it was in a new place that it hadn’t been in decades,” the three-time Grammy winner recalls. Well unless you were cursed by white, evangelical Jesus to be born in the middle east/Afghanistan. Not surprised that it's been memory holed though.
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Feb 24, 2023 20:49
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Apparently the Ukrainian government's strategy of having businesses do the bureaucratic legwork of mobilization is, shockingly, causing problems for both the economy and the army. I'm interested to see if they're able to reform this, or if they're at least able to crackdown on evaders. It seems like a big problem for the manpower pipeline if they can't get this system fixed.MediaKiller posted:Ukrainian businessmen are complaining en masse that the reservation [deferment] from mobilization is accompanied by serious problems. sum has issued a correction as of 20:54 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:
Lol, they didn't even make Ukraine apparent on the globe. You can feel how authentic that is.
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