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In WW2, Japan lost the carrier war because they had lots of losses so had the brain trust idea to draft all their flight instructors, which then meant no one could train the next generation of pilots they needed when said flight instructors were then lost in stupid fights. This absolutely stinks of the same desperation.
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Mar 20, 2023 23:42
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Drone_Fragger posted:In WW2, Japan lost the carrier war because they had lots of losses so had the brain trust idea to draft all their flight instructors, which then meant no one could train the next generation of pilots they needed when said flight instructors were then lost in stupid fights. This absolutely stinks of the same desperation. I mean last summer and autumn Russia sent most of its training cadre to the front and they took severe losses too, to the point where they eventually had to outsource mobik training to Belarus for the most part
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Mar 20, 2023 23:43
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Drone_Fragger posted:In WW2, Japan lost the carrier war because they had lots of losses so had the brain trust idea to draft all their flight instructors, which then meant no one could train the next generation of pilots they needed when said flight instructors were then lost in stupid fights. This absolutely stinks of the same desperation. it didnt help that a lot of their young impressionable talent plowed into the ocean and/or the waterline deck of a US naval ship in the pacific ocean as a kamikaze, where japan lost approx 2800 irreplaceable pilots and planes. Admittedly the kamikazes did do a decent amount of damage, sinking 34 ships, damaging 368 others, killing 4900 sailors, and wounding 4800 more.
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Mar 20, 2023 23:45
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Conscripting an entire gradeband? Jeez. I am sick of waiting around for a Russian version of Susan Powter who can...
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Mar 20, 2023 23:56
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That seems like a complete misallocation of human resources. But then again I guess I'm not a leader of a nation so who can say who's really wrong....
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Mar 21, 2023 00:01
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Nelson Mandingo posted:That seems like a complete misallocation of human resources. But then again I guess I'm not a leader of a nation so who can say who's really wrong.... Is it really a misallocation if it lets you keep pretending youre not losing?
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Mar 21, 2023 00:07
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Mar 21, 2023 00:15
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HonorableTB posted:it didnt help that a lot of their young impressionable talent plowed into the ocean and/or the waterline deck of a US naval ship in the pacific ocean as a kamikaze, where japan lost approx 2800 irreplaceable pilots and planes. Admittedly the kamikazes did do a decent amount of damage, sinking 34 ships, damaging 368 others, killing 4900 sailors, and wounding 4800 more. To be fair, by that point by the time they decided to start the kamikaze program, Japanese squadrons that committed to an attack run against an American fleet already were suffering 90% casualty rates on average. The combination of overlapping AA, coordinated fighter patrols, and radar proximity shells was really good at shooting down bombers. Imperial Japanese high command decided it wasn't that much of a difference to go from 90% casualty rates to 100% casualty rates.
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Mar 21, 2023 00:27
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#MargaritaThoughts
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Mar 21, 2023 01:05
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1637950468952391681 Strelkov appears more or less completely done with Putin. I haven't seen him go off against Dear Leader this way or this angrily until now.
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Mar 21, 2023 01:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmw3ZhdzEsWhat posted:Steamlyannaya Hamonika (1968) depicts the isolation and brutalization of humans in modern bourgeois society. Although being broadly in line with other art-as-propaganda of the era, censors felt it could easily be read as a criticism of the party, leaving this subversive short as the only animated film to be banned in the Soviet Union. this is sublime
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Mar 21, 2023 01:21
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Those notoriously fast moving Ukrainian apartment blocks were making a joke of Russia's sub-sonic and mildly-sonic non-fissile missile arsenal throughout 2013 so Putim's not wrong there Gherkin.
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Mar 21, 2023 01:24
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1637798673835864067 Battlewitch casts Horrid Visage it's not very effective HonorableTB posted:Ukraine War: it would be a poop soup and ruin the potato mods
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Mar 21, 2023 01:25
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Tai posted:Lmao yes conscript your future educated work force ontop of a brain drain last year. What could go wrong in the future. it's fine there won't be planes for russia to work on all pilots are being sent to infantry too
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Mar 21, 2023 01:49
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Alan Smithee posted:mods 
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Mar 21, 2023 01:51
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Alan Smithee posted:#MargaritaThoughts I'd order one but I don't like all the salt.
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Mar 21, 2023 02:20
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its ok to only eat some of the salt
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Mar 21, 2023 02:40
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Solovyov has discourse about Donald John Trump getting arrested and everyone has a good time taking the piss out of Trump, making this the only time I've ever had something in common with Vladimir Solovyov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaku3jpUvwU I lol'd when they were attempting to read Trump's bullshit in Russian and they keep stumbling over the words because he word vomits everything he puts on Truth social and none of it makes any loving sense e: lmfao   HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 05:22
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...he, uh, does remember that the DEFENDERS won the battle of Stalingrad, yes?
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Mar 21, 2023 05:37
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Samovar posted:...he, uh, does remember that the DEFENDERS won the battle of Stalingrad, yes? ya, his messaging for a while has been that Putin+Shoigu are loving up and not taking the war seriously and that basically theyre loving stupid
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Mar 21, 2023 05:41
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Wait does he realize the defenders of Stalingrad won even though they were surrounded on three sides I better go close all my windows and stay 5 ft away from them Edit oh he does okay so this is a thumb at the Putin faction and MOD WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 05:56
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:so this is a thumb at the Putin faction and MOD IIRC Girkin's part of the pro-FSB faction, so it in his dudes' best interest to make the regular military look bad.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:32
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CommissarMega posted:IIRC Girkin's part of the pro-FSB faction, so it in his dudes' best interest to make the regular military look bad. Without them realizing it. Possibly they probably don't. Putin made his military completely ineffective and is seeing the proof of work Infront of him. He can blame the geniuses over at Znamenka 19 all he wants but he at the end of the day did this intentionally.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:41
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CommissarMega posted:IIRC Girkin's part of the pro-FSB faction, so it in his dudes' best interest to make the regular military look bad. This is true. Girkin's the mouthpiece of the FSB primarily and they are his protectors otherwise Girkin would've had a long walk off of a short pier by now
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Mar 21, 2023 06:43
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Mar 21, 2023 06:58
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Japan's prime minister is going to Kyiv: https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1638059777350684673?s=20
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Mar 21, 2023 07:13
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HonorableTB posted:Japan's prime minister is going to Kyiv: Poop Soup Would Ruin the Potato, the less successful follow-up to Cooking by the Book by Lazy Town.
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Mar 21, 2023 07:21
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HonorableTB posted:Japan's prime minister is going to Kyiv: Gundam shipments, when
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Mar 21, 2023 09:53
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1638071596345638912 https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1638084055429160961
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Mar 21, 2023 09:57
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A year ago when the invasion started, Finnish cartoonist Pertti Jarla of Fingerpori fame did a couple of comics about the situation.   The second one is especially interesting, because I had forgotten that in early days the rhetoric from some circles was that whatever we do, we must help Putin not lose face so he has a graceful exit from the situation, and a year in that sure didn't help.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:35
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:The second one is especially interesting, because I had forgotten that in early days the rhetoric from some circles was that whatever we do, we must help Putin not lose face so he has a graceful exit from the situation, and a year in that sure didn't help. BTW Macron still brings that up every now and then, and he probably still truly believes that Putin deserves a better exist strategy than 8th floor window.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:36
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Der Kyhe posted:BTW Macron still brings that up every now and then, and he probably still truly believes that Putin deserves a better exist strategy than 8th floor window. Given the sort of rumblings among ultranationalists such as Girkin these days I think the home team (specifically the FSB, whose mouthpiece Girkin is) have begun running out of patience with Putler's follies.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:40
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Its a weird angle. Like when Vietnam went into Cambodia. China invaded Vietnam, for going into Cambodia. Vietnam kicked china out of vietnam and said they "won" Vietnam left Cambodia So china could say they "won" But like Perun said putin should kept the war defined as a military operation and set a goal and when it went south just say "operation succeeded"
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Mar 21, 2023 12:01
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1638103866452373504 Increase in military activity recorded around Mariupol. https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1638123835558883328 Thieves and kidnappers of innocent children and Ukrainians attempt to convince the rest of the world of their innocence. https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1638131573483552770
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Mar 21, 2023 12:02
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Ups_rail posted:Its a weird angle. Unfortunately putin declared that Ukraine belongs to him so there's no way to spin that.
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Mar 21, 2023 12:10
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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638136894138507265zone posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1637798673835864067 https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1638127667202465792 zone posted:Given the sort of rumblings among ultranationalists such as Girkin these days I think the home team (specifically the FSB, whose mouthpiece Girkin is) have begun running out of patience with Putler's follies. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1637950468952391681
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Mar 21, 2023 12:23
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zone posted:Given the sort of rumblings among ultranationalists such as Girkin these days I think the home team (specifically the FSB, whose mouthpiece Girkin is) have begun running out of patience with Putler's follies. Girkin turning on Putin so dramatically was quite surprising to me. It seems that this kind of schism in the upper leadership of Russia can't be good (for Russia) in any way. Previously Putin hasn't seemed to like such strong criticism at all, so maybe Girkin (and/or his enablers) will fall out of a window soon? But I'm thinking, if Girkin says these things now openly, that must be just the tip of the iceberg, because he's just an FSB worker as you say... so, does Putin now have to oppose the FSB? What's going on here, are they gonna get in a "fight"? Or will FSB succeed in their campaign of criticism, and force Putin to do... what exactly do FSB want anyway? Full wartime economy? More fascism? Nukes?
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Mar 21, 2023 12:25
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"Tanya is now in the grug" Tanya is now in the grug
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Mar 21, 2023 12:26
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Give Zelenskyy a Gundam
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Mar 21, 2023 12:35
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Wait does he realize the defenders of Stalingrad won even though they were surrounded on three sides It's ok. The Russian Airforce is going to supply their troops via airlift after Ukraine's offensive, then link up with Army group Samsung Washing machine after a spectacular breakout. Later they're going to attempt a massive push through the Kursk region, once and for all breaking the back of Ukraine's army. All they have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse.
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