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Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

thekeeshman posted:

Argentina doesn't have any weapons. They can't buy anything from the NATO block because pretty much everything complicated like fighter jets has British parts in it so the Brits get to veto sales and have. And I guess they never got desperate enough to buy stuff from the Russians, which is just as well for them given how Russian gear has been performing.

Throw in their repeated economic crisis and their tiny defence budget and they probably couldn't afford to buy Russian stuff.

They've basically aquirred almost no new gear since the Falklands war. Their Navy is rusting at the piers and gets almost zero sea time. Their Army's gear is ancient, and it's questionable if their Air Force still has any jets that are operational enough to fly.

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Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
why is "denazification" of Ukraine not successful? why are Russians unable to defeat "fascist Kievan regime"?

well, Gerkin now blames the Jews

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1658013890419064834

UK officially announces they will train UA pilots for western jets

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1658026326085758977

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 09:35 on May 15, 2023

Tunicate
May 15, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 26 minutes!

sebmojo posted:

Zelensky was a tv comedian who got elected as a joke lmao

that's kind of understating how surreal it is

He's a tv comedian who wrote and starred in a series where a normal guy's rant about political corruption went viral, and the disgruntled public gets him elected with over 60% of the vote.

That series went viral, which meant the disgruntled public got him elected with over 70% of the vote.

He's the only man this has ever happened to twice.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

Tunicate posted:

that's kind of understating how surreal it is

He's a tv comedian who wrote and starred in a series where a normal guy's rant about political corruption went viral, and the disgruntled public gets him elected with over 60% of the vote.

That series went viral, which meant the disgruntled public got him elected with over 70% of the vote.

He's the only man this has ever happened to twice.

lol and he got the American reality show president impeached (for the first time)

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Tunicate posted:

that's kind of understating how surreal it is

He's a tv comedian who wrote and starred in a series where a normal guy's rant about political corruption went viral, and the disgruntled public gets him elected with over 60% of the vote.

That series went viral, which meant the disgruntled public got him elected with over 70% of the vote.

He's the only man this has ever happened to twice.

Hyperreality is a concept in post-structuralism that refers to the process of the evolution of notions of reality, leading to a cultural state of confusion between signs and symbols invented to stand in for reality, and direct perceptions of consensus reality.[1] Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which, because of the compression of perceptions of reality in culture and media, what is generally regarded as real and what is understood as fiction are seamlessly blended together in experiences so that there is no longer any clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658018545236623362
I guess this is it for the last of the VDV. :shrug:

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

I dont think Cinci's going to be back at all.

Sayhwat? I don't want to post about posters necessarily, but if someone could point me to more info that'd be good.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Karate Bastard posted:

Sayhwat? I don't want to post about posters necessarily, but if someone could point me to more info that'd be good.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029950
Here you go.

Autisanal Cheese
Nov 29, 2010

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1658023557643874305?s=20

sorry that fourth dacha really needed to be paid for

zone
Dec 6, 2016


This is beyond parody, holy poo poo. You'd think the planes at least would have proper protection, but no, it's all graft, all the way down.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

zone posted:

This is beyond parody, holy poo poo. You'd think the planes at least would have proper protection, but no, it's all graft, all the way down.

https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1658035896078290945

Fly safe!

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
the pilot sold the oxygen

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!

Alan Smithee posted:

the pilot sold the oxygen

Oxygen warehouses just going off constantly in smoking accidents.

Gargamel Gibson
Apr 24, 2014

mcvey posted:

Lol when's the last time a country lost a cruiser or higher in a war

Ww2?

FMguru posted:

Argentina, Falklands War, 1982

Ah, gotcha.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
I flew on aeroflot

ask me about being a thrill junkie

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


Oh no you didn’t

Autisanal Cheese
Nov 29, 2010

Alan Smithee posted:

I flew on aeroflot

ask me about being a thrill junkie

I once got a very cheap flight on Malaysian Airlines after Girkin shot that one down

almost flew Aeroflot once but someone explained to me what a thoroughly bad idea that was

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches





Specifically the ARA General Belgrano, formerly the USS Phoenix, a London Naval Treaty era design light cruiser built in the mid 1930s, essentially an antique

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010

Autisanal Cheese posted:

I once got a very cheap flight on Malaysian Airlines after Girkin shot that one down

almost flew Aeroflot once but someone explained to me what a thoroughly bad idea that was

To my great shame I once flew Aeroflot in 2018, as it was either them, or a 16 hour layover in Abu Dhabi for more then 3x the price. I have to be honest and admit the service was very good in the air. However the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow was the most disorganized, horrible poo poo-show of an airport I've ever had the misfortune to visit.

ZogrimAteMyHamster
Dec 8, 2015


Mokotow posted:

Oh no you didn’t

:lmao:

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

NTRabbit posted:

Specifically the ARA General Belgrano, formerly the USS Phoenix, a London Naval Treaty era design light cruiser built in the mid 1930s, essentially an antique

Interestingly, when the Moskva was sunk it was nearly as old as the Belgrano.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007



"The perfidious uk used a nuclear sub to sink a fleeing hospital ship unrelated to the conflict and then the submarine crew went on deck to harpoon all the survivors, true facts" - Argentina military junta apologists.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
Moldova says bye to dollar store version of EU known as CIS

https://twitter.com/iamdenya_de/status/1657995529006055426

hahaha, sure

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658060733018435584

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 11:51 on May 15, 2023

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Dwesa posted:

Moldova says bye to dollar store version of EU known as CIS

https://twitter.com/iamdenya_de/status/1657995529006055426

it was a slur anyway

Tarquinn
Jul 3, 2007

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
Hell Gem
Plane cope cages when??


https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1658031422169391104

Spend less on candles.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



Dwesa posted:

Moldova says bye to dollar store version of EU known as CIS

https://twitter.com/iamdenya_de/status/1657995529006055426


Flag looks like a neolithic gotse

zone
Dec 6, 2016


Moldova leaving the CIS is another slap in Putin's face. Wonder if some "concerned moldovan citizens" will start yelling about how bad an idea that is soon enough.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006

Hidden spending

Yachts
Private planes
Mansions
Coke
Cars
Parties
Clothes
Watches
Hand bags
Holidays

Tuna-Fish
Sep 13, 2017

SirPhoebos posted:

Unless he has a coup lined up to go, I think Prigozhin's hosed.

Nah, he can just explain this away as deception: "Of course I wasn't going to give them real information."

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020

 
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sebmojo posted:

Hyperreality is a concept in post-structuralism that refers to the process of the evolution of notions of reality, leading to a cultural state of confusion between signs and symbols invented to stand in for reality, and direct perceptions of consensus reality.[1] Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which, because of the compression of perceptions of reality in culture and media, what is generally regarded as real and what is understood as fiction are seamlessly blended together in experiences so that there is no longer any clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins

- Rainbow Dash, 2012

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Tai posted:

Hidden spending

Yachts
Private planes
Mansions
Coke
Cars
Parties
Clothes
Watches
Hand bags
Holidays

Spend less on handbags

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067933631856643
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067935296991239
Seems like the dogged resistance in Bakhmut might be coming to a close soon. Russia is simply leveling everything left.

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:



a few years ago i joked with some friends about a big dog meme where it growls, 'listen here millenial, pinups ARE hentai'

and now it's real

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067933631856643
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067935296991239
Seems like the dogged resistance in Bakhmut might be coming to a close soon. Russia is simply leveling everything left.

Gotta claim that "victory" before Ukraine encircles you I guess.

loving christ Putin is a loving dipshit, him and his entire inner circle.

What i don't get is, all the "Russian Defenders" logging in, all parrot the line Russia is fighting all of NATO. So loving what even if it was true? How is that a loving defense for this utter incompetent shitshow?

Russia claimed for decades they could basically take on all of NATO, now we are learning they couldn't even take on one of the smaller NATO countries or one not even in NATO.

hosed around and Finding Out now

TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 15, 2023

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

They've probably just chucked some VDV insignia on a bunch of random mobiks and thrown them into the fray

Judge Schnoopy
Nov 2, 2005

dont even TRY it, pal
I know Ukraine has a handful of planes, Russia might have a bunch of them (or maybe not so much anymore?), and there's air defense everywhere. The war, then, is mostly a ground-based engagement with artillery backing up the lines.

How effective would Russia be in the face of an actual NATO combined arms force that incorporated high altitude reconnaissance / bombers, long range missiles from modern air fighters, and a naval carrier group off the coast?

Because uh, Russia doesn't even seem close to the technology gap in modern warfare.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

gay picnic defence posted:

They've probably just chucked some VDV insignia on a bunch of random mobiks and thrown them into the fray

Would VDV even be particularly good for this if they were available? My understanding was that they were airborne/light infantry, which is exactly who you don't want trying to stand in the way of an assault.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006

Judge Schnoopy posted:

How effective would Russia be in the face of an actual NATO combined arms force that incorporated high altitude reconnaissance / bombers, long range missiles from modern air fighters, and a naval carrier group off the coast?

lol lmao is what

zone
Dec 6, 2016

The Lone Badger posted:

Would VDV even be particularly good for this if they were available? My understanding was that they were airborne/light infantry, which is exactly who you don't want trying to stand in the way of an assault.

They would still be somewhat evenly matched, because Ukraine is just using those units and gear that were already in the sector to conduct the flank operations. When the Ukrainian soldiers involved noticed that the Russians were folding almost on contact, they actually had to summon reinforcements on both flanking actions to continue the operation, and leave enough people behind to consolidate.

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CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067933631856643
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658067935296991239
Seems like the dogged resistance in Bakhmut might be coming to a close soon. Russia is simply leveling everything left.

Not like it'll matter with the north and especially south flanks getting worse by the hour and a encirclement of Russians at Bakhmut on the cards

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