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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Look if i can get intel from thug shaker central then i can get battle plans from somethingawful
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Apr 25, 2023 14:14
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constantly checking buck breaker central for leaks
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Apr 25, 2023 14:15
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mlmp08 posted:Sending an Email to Russia that says “try cutting off their supplies; you’re welcome on the victory” along with an SA catchphrase it would be a fun gag to send this in an actual letter addressed to the authorities in Moscow, be sure to post a trip report on how it goes
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Apr 25, 2023 14:18
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F5ing war thunder forums hoping to get the radar codes that will allow me to send the flight of the phoenix to strike the killer blow against the record industry assocation of america.
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Apr 25, 2023 14:18
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speng31b posted:it would be a fun gag to send this in an actual letter addressed to the authorities in Moscow, be sure to post a trip report on how it goes the first successful goon project 
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Apr 25, 2023 14:20
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Granted, it make not be possible to fully demolish infrastructure on Ukraine's Western border just based on range and what systems they could use. That said, I think the "quick" approach was already mostly over a year ago, and Russia's plan is focused on attrition. Perhaps, one could argue, they want to keep that infrastructure up to allow people to flee, arguably not for humanitarian reasons, but it is clearly sapping the Ukrainians of manpower. Also, you are likely less willing to fight if you can escape rather than being trapped. In addition, it would probably take a large amount of munitions that could be used in other sectors (Russia's ammo capacity isn't actually limitless). It goes back to the previous debate over how the war is going to end. I don't think Russia's aims are a big sweeping attack (at least not at this point) but simply to sap the Ukrainians of manpower, morale, air defense assets, and other material to the point where the Ukrainian state can't defend itself any longer.
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Apr 25, 2023 14:21
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mlmp08 posted:the first successful goon project "leninderry" in the Irish S.S.R 
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Apr 25, 2023 14:26
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hmm https://twitter.com/feher_junior/status/1649042779975106565
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Apr 25, 2023 14:29
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Comrade Koba posted:"leninderry" in the Irish S.S.R check out the city names in australia
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Apr 25, 2023 14:31
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/Orgetorix/status/1650460925307113474 some guy tts lovely articles suck, but something i havve noticed recently is that no one talks about blackwater or whatever the gently caress erik prince calls it anymore now that they can just talk about wagner mercenaries
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Apr 25, 2023 14:33
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"yeah im gonna stop nato from sending in materiel piecemeal to be piloted by nazis directly into artillery fire" —general vladmir stuputin
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Apr 25, 2023 14:35
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Blackwater is in Africa.
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Apr 25, 2023 14:36
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AnimeIsTrash posted:some guy tts lovely articles suck, but something i havve noticed recently is that no one talks about blackwater or whatever the gently caress erik prince calls it anymore now that they can just talk about wagner mercenaries erik prince is helping china now but before there were some articles from the last few years about him working with the wagners
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Apr 25, 2023 14:39
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look if Russia can't blow up tunnels, then that means they didn't blow up Nordstream, because a pipe is really just a smaller tunnel
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Apr 25, 2023 14:40
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AnimeIsTrash posted:some guy tts lovely articles suck, but something i havve noticed recently is that no one talks about blackwater or whatever the gently caress erik prince calls it anymore now that they can just talk about wagner mercenaries Also his poo poo little company has shriveled. still evil and stupid, but smaller and mostly working for China in Africa.
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Apr 25, 2023 14:43
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mlmp08 posted:Also his poo poo little company has shriveled. still evil and stupid, but smaller and mostly working for China in Africa. this was a good one i admire the craft
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Apr 25, 2023 14:49
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Regarde Aduck posted:i really don't get why they're not blowing the bridges/tunnels Because literally the only people (and I mean civilian population, not governments) in the entire loving world that actually give a poo poo about the Ukrainian people (again, population, not government) are Russians.
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Apr 25, 2023 14:51
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Organ Fiend posted:Because literally the only people (and I mean civilian population, not governments) in the entire loving world that actually give a poo poo about the Ukrainian people (again, population, not government) are Russians. i understand the point of not causing needless suffering by utterly destroying a countries infrastructure but at some point you need to actually think of your own soldiers lives. I'm aware that i'm just a pleb and there's probably an excellent reason but i just can't personally understand why you wouldn't want to stop material flowing in. If it really is because Russia doesn't want to cause unnecessary suffering then lol that they get called orcs for their efforts.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:02
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mlmp08 posted:Also his poo poo little company has shriveled. still evil and stupid, but smaller and mostly working for China in Africa. these are teh 2 first results when i google erik prince https://time.com/6076035/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army/ https://theintercept.com/2020/04/13/erik-prince-russia-mercenary-wagner-libya-mozambique/
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Apr 25, 2023 15:07
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Regarde Aduck posted:i understand the point of not causing needless suffering by utterly destroying a countries infrastructure but at some point you need to actually think of your own soldiers lives. I'm aware that i'm just a pleb and there's probably an excellent reason but i just can't personally understand why you wouldn't want to stop material flowing in. If it really is because Russia doesn't want to cause unnecessary suffering then lol that they get called orcs for their efforts. it's probably because if they start shooting at the polish border it could give nato an excuse to intervene directly
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Apr 25, 2023 15:08
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Regarde Aduck posted:i understand the point of not causing needless suffering by utterly destroying a countries infrastructure but at some point you need to actually think of your own soldiers lives. I'm aware that i'm just a pleb and there's probably an excellent reason but i just can't personally understand why you wouldn't want to stop material flowing in. If it really is because Russia doesn't want to cause unnecessary suffering then lol that they get called orcs for their efforts. It is probably because the material flowing it isn't in such quantities that destroying infrastructure would really slow it down. I mean, we already know how many 155mm shells they have on hand, and the other type of heavy equipment they are getting from the West. It isn't a situation, where destroying some tunnels/bridges would make it transit impossible, especially since there is such a large land border with NATO. That stuff is going to get in regardless. Also, the Ukrainians can always create pontoon bridges and tunnels that are not that easy to destroy (especially if you are working with precision munitions and more modest warhead sizes). Basically, it just doesn't really make sense, especially if they are going for an attrition strategy when there will be plenty of time for Ukrainians to work around the issue.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:09
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AnimeIsTrash posted:these are teh 2 first results when i google erik prince I don’t understand your point. I think Prince would work for anyone on Earth if they paid him. But his list of who he would like to hire him and the list of who hires him in reality are rather different. He also had some plan for people to pay him $5 billion to become an Afghan warlord, but no one wanted to pay him for his unasked plans.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:12
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mlmp08 and ardenes have agreed on something We are entering the end times
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Apr 25, 2023 15:12
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were there always two moons up there?
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Apr 25, 2023 15:14
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mlmp08 posted:I don’t understand your point. I think Prince would work for anyone on Earth if they paid him. But his list of who he would like to hire him and the list of who hires him in reality are rather different. both articles tlak about prince wokring with china wehre did you get the "working for China in Africa" part???
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Apr 25, 2023 15:15
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gradenko_2000 posted:was digital camo ever found to be actually good? I've only ever criticism of it that "nature doesn't look like that" or something similar, which intuitively means it's really effective at camouflaging people, but I don't know if that's simply a knee-jerk, "common sense" reaction There's a navy office where I work and I can totally see those sailors in their digital camo from a long way away. I don't know where it's supposed to work but it certainly doesn't make them blend into the cubicles or the line at the poke bar.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:16
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AnimeIsTrash posted:both articles tlak about prince wokring with china wehre did you get the "working for China in Africa" part??? I don’t know where your confusion comes from. Erik Prince founded a company, Frontier Services Group. Among their clients are Chinese businesses. Among locations tasked to work are places in Africa on behalf of or in association with these Chinese businesses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Services_Group quote:Frontier Services Group (FSG) is a Chinese Africa-focused security, aviation, and logistics company founded and led until April 2021 by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince has described FSG's main corporate mission as helping Chinese businesses to work safely in Africa. He also runs Frontier Resources Group, because he sheds and swaps company names and orgs nonstop.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:20
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mlmp08 posted:I don’t know where your confusion comes from. Erik Prince founded a company, Frontier Services Group. thanks for citing a random line in wikipedia instead of an article https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-under-federal-investigation/ quote:Despite the provenance of FSG’s funding and Prince’s history of bad publicity, Prince was able to recruit an impressive line-up of former U.S. military and intelligence officers to run the company. Key to Prince’s ability to retain such personnel, given FSG’s ties to China, has been the firm’s strictly circumscribed mission, which does not include military-related services. FSG is a publicly traded aviation and logistics firm specializing in shipping in Africa and elsewhere. The company also conducts high-risk evacuations from conflict zones. Prince has described his work with FSG as being “on the side of peace and economic development” and helping Chinese businesses to work safely in Africa.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:23
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mlmp08 posted:the first successful goon project giving the nuristanis a seperate assr but loving over the western himalayas and subjugating the kashmiris to the rule of Singhs once more shameful map
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Apr 25, 2023 15:28
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:I mean that's the crux of the issue isn't it? We can both claim that the other side is divorced from reality. Whereas the objective reality is that, more than a year in, Russia has utterly failed to conquer and subjugate a country 28 times smaller than itself. It's a special military operation.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:29
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Regarde Aduck posted:i understand the point of not causing needless suffering by utterly destroying a countries infrastructure but at some point you need to actually think of your own soldiers lives. I'm aware that i'm just a pleb and there's probably an excellent reason but i just can't personally understand why you wouldn't want to stop material flowing in. If it really is because Russia doesn't want to cause unnecessary suffering then lol that they get called orcs for their efforts. Maybe some of the people in the Russian government have some kind of sentimental feelings for Ukraine, but its not necessary that they do. If Russia just completely obliterated Ukraine; bombed all of the bridges, destroyed all water and power infrastructure, just went all Gulf War 2/Dresden/Tokyo on their asses? The Russian population would probably turn against the war rapidly. I'd wager that the vast majority, if not all, of Russians (at least those living in the west of the country) either have family in Ukraine, know someone with family in Ukraine, or know a Ukrainian living in Russia. People would know what was happening to their friends and family. Americans didn't and still don't give a poo poo about Palestinians, Afghanis or Iraqis, but can you imagine the reaction if the US went all total war on ... I dunno, Canada or Mexico? There are familial connections there. The reaction still probably wouldn't be as strong as the Russian reaction to total war on Ukraine. Russia's leaders could be cold hearted, ruthless robots and they still would hesitate to go all total-war on Ukraine because it would make the domestic political situation difficult for them. Its probably why they didn't push on Kiev, level it, and capture/kill Zelensky and end the war in the first month.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:Should've voted for Xi
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Apr 25, 2023 15:37
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Hitting the atm would keep people from being able to get gas & snacks at the convenience store which would probably cut traffic dramatically.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:38
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah but my question remains "and then what?"
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Apr 25, 2023 15:47
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To be honest, it is pretty arguable that the shock and awe campaigns on the Gulf War(s) and Serbia were actually counter-productive, all 3 wars were short enough (and designed to be that way) that attacking infrastructure didn't make a huge difference, while terrorizing the civilian population was also fairly pointless (since public attitudes weren't going to be deciding factor). It was mostly a demonstration of arms against two countries that couldn't really defend themselves, (and once Serbia hit that F-117, the pace of the bombing dramatically slowed down. The Russian bombing campaign specifically seemed extremely reliant on suicide drones in part because it was aimed at mostly absorbing Ukrainian air defenses and then occasionally hitting more strategic targets with precision munitions.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:52
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Ardennes posted:
Yeah, it certainly seems like the Russian authorities don't feel under pressure to end the war quickly - their economy's doing fine despite the sanctions, and their international alliances are holding steady or even improving - whereas they consider that the longer the war lasts, the more degraded Ukraine's forces become and their ability to take the initiative shrinks. Again, I could be wrong and there's a coming Ukrainian offensive about to sweep into Crimea, we'll see, I guess.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:54
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Nonsense posted:Ukraines regime might exist longer if they horde the weapons to beat back domestic strife. Attempting a major offensive against Crimea would be a disaster. how is this poster constantly so correct?
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Apr 25, 2023 15:55
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There is some misunderstanding about what military uniforms do. The vast majority of the time, the military uniform needs to do one of the following things: Identify the wearer to the public as a member of the military Identify the wearer to other members of the same military that they are on the same side and to not shoot at them. This is like 99% of what uniforms are used for. Yes, sometimes you may also want to hide in some shrubs but realistically that's like a miniscule percentage of the time of a miniscule percentage of the armed forces, the majority of whom are truck drivers and acountants and other such people. Even on the frontline of an actual war, "not getting shot by your own side" is vastly more important than whatever sniper elite scenario you're thinking of where the exact shade or pattern of your camouflage might make a difference.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:58
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Also at least one or two bridges got blown up in the past several weeks, probably because of the new glide bomb upgrade kit. It's also just really difficult to blow up those old soviet bridges and probably not really worth the effort right now.
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Apr 25, 2023 16:00
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the Bradleys have digital camo because they cannot support higher texture resolution. they're obsolescent and need new graphics cards
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