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Pablo Bluth posted:There was recently a BBC documentary series following the Royal Navy aircraft carrier during a joint NATO deployment, and included a period in the black sea (this was 2021 I think). One Royal Navy ship intentionally passed through Crimean waters and it got pretty spicey with Russia harassing the fleet in return. Worth tracking down a copy. I'll track it down but i want to make a shout out to the 70s Sailor series about the Arc Royal because it's fantastic watching featuring a salty as gently caress old chief telling a youngster "one of the facts of life me old son, you drink a man's drink and you act like a man" Hell yes awesome snype
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Alan Smithee posted:no one will take the job because they know Russia won't pay Oh they'll pay, just not cash. Wages would probably be hard to report though I don't think tax forms have a space for "Number of bullets I shot in to the back of my own head."
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'll track it down but i want to make a shout out to the 70s Sailor series about the Arc Royal because it's fantastic watching featuring a salty as gently caress old chief telling a youngster "one of the facts of life me old son, you drink a man's drink and you act like a man" There was some old war movie where they capture a fort and the good guys discover a cache of whiskey and spirits. Officer asks his NCO what it is, guy takes a sips and grimaces, and responds with something like "bad whiskey is better than no whiskey". So the officer tells them to "get rid of it". NCO turns to the rest of the soldiers and states "alright lads, this is a man's work" and starts drinking the awful stuff. I don't remember the movie but I remember the scene.
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Charlz Guybon posted:There was a lot of revisionism of the Red Army performance in WWII after the Berlin Wall came down (and I think most historians bought into it to some extant. After all, much of the historiography of the war had been written by rear end covering German generals to make themselves look good.) I wonder if this performance is going to have that looked at more skeptically and pushed back on? Probably not. The Red Army in WWII was far, far more fundamentally competent than this after the first few months of 1941.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'll track it down but i want to make a shout out to the 70s Sailor series about the Arc Royal because it's fantastic watching featuring a salty as gently caress old chief telling a youngster "one of the facts of life me old son, you drink a man's drink and you act like a man"
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'll track it down but i want to make a shout out to the 70s Sailor series about the Arc Royal because it's fantastic watching featuring a salty as gently caress old chief telling a youngster "one of the facts of life me old son, you drink a man's drink and you act like a man" This is the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSL7-2-Xjhs If that link doesn't work for some reason, search youtube for "sailor ark royal 1978". Series opens with a lot of very drunk sailors returning to ship and getting written up. Also there is I think some nudity in part of the 1st episode so be aware if you are at work.
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's called The Warship: Tour of Duty. It's a bit hit and miss because it focusses too much on the lives of a few sailors, but enough interesting stuff on the operations manages to squeeze in. It was also being filmed when they had the f35 mishap. Sailor was a BBC documentary on HMS Ark Royal 1973-77, The Warship: Tour of Duty was decades later.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Sailor was a BBC documentary on HMS Ark Royal 1973-77, The Warship: Tour of Duty was decades later.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Probably not. The Red Army in WWII was far, far more fundamentally competent than this after the first few months of 1941. Not trying to start an argument here, but how does one reconcile this viewpoint with the 26 million dead?
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Pablo Bluth posted:Badly worded on my part; I was responding to 'I'll track it down' bit having realised I haven't named the recent series. No worries, watched Sailor as a kid so was confused. The title song was a big hit for Rod Stewart at the time.
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psydude posted:Not trying to start an argument here, but how does one reconcile this viewpoint with the 26 million dead? Disastrous defeats in the opening months of the war where millions of troops were lost to encirclement battles, the absolutely huge scale of the conflict, Nazi brutality and war crimes, and an extremely casualty-tolerant leadership.
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bird food bathtub posted:Oh they'll pay, just not cash. Wages would probably be hard to report though I don't think tax forms have a space for "Number of bullets I shot in to the back of my own head." $15 mil, or the fish brick equivalent.
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mildly NSFW but Wagner Group is now apparently advertising on PornHub. twitter.com/ukrpravda_news/status/1636000681709432834 https://eaworldview.com/2023/03/ukraine-war-russia-offensive-slowing-as-up-to-30000-killed-bakhmut/ quote:Those who enter the pornographic site from Russia are welcomed by a Wagner video saying the group is looking for recruits “from all Russian regions”. A woman twirls a lollipop in her mouth as a female voice says Wagner the “coolest loving private army in the world”.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:mildly NSFW but Wagner Group is now apparently advertising on PornHub. That post-nut clarity is gonna hit real hard in Bakhmut.
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Vahakyla posted:That post-nut clarity is gonna hit real hard in Bakhmut. When you nutted but she still shellin'
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pantslesswithwolves posted:mildly NSFW but Wagner Group is now apparently advertising on PornHub. Considering that Wagner is a sanctioned entity, is taking Wagner's money to advertise not... super illegal?
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psydude posted:Not trying to start an argument here, but how does one reconcile this viewpoint with the 26 million dead? 2. A lot of soldiers died as prisoners of war. 3. Germany also lost a huge amount of soldiers - the scale of the war was very different. 4. An astounding number of soldiers died in the first few months. 5. Soviet leadership generally tried to hold to a high intensity of warfare. This meant for example that a successful advantance would be pushed as far as it could go. Unfortunately, this lead to over extensions that were then often punished severely. Also, they would try to force breaks in the German defensive lines. If they underestimated the defense or overestimated their own position this lead to horrendously high casualties in failed offensives (see Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942).
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https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1636350203396608001?s=20 Springfield is jealous of our turnip juice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nod0SsPCp2E pantslesswithwolves posted:mildly NSFW but Wagner Group is now apparently advertising on PornHub. when they said "Hot MILF in your area!" they should have sent Wagner to the Philippines
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mobby_6kl posted:Yet more footage is leaking out
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knox_harrington posted:Appreciate this guy has actually been to Ukraine recently but I can't help feeling he's trying to get some hot takes out. Military analyst ≠ military expert, necessarily. Being practiced at piecing together what has happened is very different from predicting what will happen or even really understanding the current situation. Skepticism is fair. He was wrong early on about how poorly Russia would perform and how well Ukraine would stand up. But outside of that, imo he's been one of the most keyed-in and consistently correct analysts, and I think he does a pretty good job to clearly state his uncertainties and separate his guesses from facts. He does tend to make a pointed effort to tamp down excessive optimism or unrealistic expectations which maybe comes across as hot-take-esque, but I think that's an honest position for him (and might be pretty ingrained in his psyche from having been born in the Ukraine SSR late in the cold war).
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/europe/poland-fighter-jets-ukraine-intlquote:Poland is set to provide Ukraine with four MiG-29 fighter jets in the coming days, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday, becoming the first NATO country to do so. Crossposted. This seems more concrete than last round of rumors, since CNN is quoting the President.
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PurpleXVI posted:Considering that Wagner is a sanctioned entity, is taking Wagner's money to advertise not... super illegal? I assume those adverts are part of some russian company's targeted add suite that is only playing in Russia. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the ads on russian pornhub were all hosted on Russian serrvers for russian businesses. That's just a guess though.
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PurpleXVI posted:Considering that Wagner is a sanctioned entity, is taking Wagner's money to advertise not... super illegal? Pornhub is based in Canada with entities all over, they’re probably not taking money directly from Russian corporations. Wagner probably has subsidiaries in third countries too. Getting around sanctions isn’t very difficult.
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:$15 mil*, or the fish brick** equivalent. *Terms and conditions may apply. **Fish bricks are 90%*** water by volume. ***Remaining 10% not guaranteed to be fish.
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Alan Smithee posted:no one will take the job because they know Russia won't pay Let’s be fair, Russia may very well be willing to pay. In rubles. In a Russian bank account. Which might honestly work out for a would-be assassin because good luck living anywhere at all where the West has any kind of influence or leverage after assassinating a NATO defense minister. Or at least it’ll work out until Russia decides that since you’re a Russian citizen now you’re eligible for mobilization.
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Poland is sending all of its dozen-or-so Mig-29 Fulcrums to Ukraine, with the first four due to arrive "within the next few days". NPR says that Slovakia is "Also expected to send fighter jets".
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The chuds have some big brain loving takes on Poland supplying F16s No, this wasn't sarcasm.
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I can't find the post now, but a Ukrainian unit is using RPG7 warheads as the main body on small, commercial, fixed wing recreational drones. E- found it! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp2uPJWDGiH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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cr0y posted:The chuds have some big brain loving takes on Poland supplying F16s Brb gotta buy a holster for my conceal-carry Harrier. Thinking about getting a Hind for my ankle as a dropback
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https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-...ign=position_01 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill the Ukrainian government’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes. President Andrzej Duda said Poland would hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days” and that the rest needed servicing and would be supplied later. The Polish word he used to describe the total number can mean between 11 and 19. “They are in the last years of their functioning, but they are in good working condition,” Duda said of the aircraft. He did not say whether other countries would follow suit, although Slovakia has said it would send its disused MiGs to Ukraine. Poland also was the first NATO nation to provide Ukraine with German-made Leopard 2 tanks. On Wednesday, Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller said some other countries also had pledged MiGs to Kyiv, but he did not name them. Both Poland and Slovakia had indicated they were ready to hand over their planes, but only as part of a wider international coalition doing the same.
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cr0y posted:The chuds have some big brain loving takes on Poland supplying F16s Just gonna apply for a personal loan for <google> uh let's call it an even $100M for the airframe, hangar fees, and some O&M money. Let's see how this goes
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Arrath posted:Just gonna apply for a personal loan for <google> uh let's call it an even $100M for the airframe, hangar fees, and some O&M money. Let's see how this goes I'll meet them in the middle. If they bring the money up front we agree to launch them off a carrier have them do a loop and then land again, if they survive we do the closing paperwork and it's theirs. All proceeds from the pay-per-view event go to the wounded warrior project and doctors without borders.
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Where's my personal Nuke. I need deterrence against my neighbors.
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I'd feel a lot safer if an Abrams was my daily commuter
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CommieGIR posted:Where's my personal Nuke. I need deterrence against my neighbors. On the table in front of you
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The penis mightier than the sword.
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Wrong Theory posted:The penis mightier than the sword. The Gun is better than the Penis however!
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Brb gotta buy a holster for my conceal-carry Harrier. Thinking about getting a Hind for my ankle as a dropback Time for a revival of Micro Machines.
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CainFortea posted:The Gun is better than the Penis however!
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mercenarynuker posted:I'd feel a lot safer if an Abrams was my daily commuter The logical conclusion to the road raging pickup truck driver commuting.
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