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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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sum
Nov 15, 2010

It seems like, like the leaks predicted, Ukraine's SAMs outside of Kiev are depleted and Russia is able to tee off with drones and missiles now. There have been nightly attacks for weeks now, and this is the largest one recently.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1660445660674420746
https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1660450361096785920

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Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Neurolimal posted:

The situation must really be dire if they've returned to zelensky visiting every country & equating the war to their national tragedies



what's happening in ukraine is a lot like what we did to you lot - the z man to the israeli delegation

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Cuttlefush posted:

Called in for one last job

top run 2


well, kinda. that famous clausewitz quote is that war is a continuation of policy with other means, i.e. that wars are fought to achieve political goals

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

euphronius posted:

how is some f16s going to win the war. they don’t do anything !!

A young Ukrainian woman has always had a great talent for flying, but didn't have any planes to fly...

Until now.

*guitar riff kicks in*

A blonde-hair blue-eye woman is in an F16 cockpit, raining destruction on the forces of Putin. "A woman pilot? Impossible!" they say, before getting blown up.

Liberals: Now this is what I call a fun war!

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

fizzy posted:

At the press conference, Zelenskyy said he had no updates yet on the details of the jets to be supplied by allies at this stage, though he’s confident he would get the equipment necessary to win the war.

What he could talk about, with more certainty, was the uneasy connection between the Japanese remnants of a nuclear destruction and the Ukrainian battlefield.

“The pictures of a ruined Hiroshima really remind me, totally remind me, of Bakhmut,” a visibly emotional Zelenskyy told a press conference Sunday evening, after a visit to a museum on the site where the atomic bomb exploded in 1945. “There are lots of tragic pictures in the museum. The children, little babies, before their death, and we have similar pictures unfortunately” in Ukraine.

“Only tears,” he said, “are in my eyes.”

A shame, whoemever dropped a nuclear weapon on a city of babies did a real bad thing, it sounds like a war crime

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
Turns out the real Bakhmut... was inside each of us all along!! :wth:

The337th posted:

same pilot too

That pilots name? Jolyon West.

genericnick posted:

It's true, if they raise the Mink we're done for. We should sink Denmark before it is too late.

Mink II Agreement


They should honestly call it something else than the G (number) because there are obviously more than seven people in this picture

Like, each Western European country has direct representation, and then they are also doubly represented by the EU commissioner? They just went “yeah all of Europe is in too now” without changing the number Shenanigans! :mad:

sullat posted:

I'm glad that there are so many world leaders Zelensky can look up to.

huehuehuehuehue

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
russia does not have enough underequipped prisoner mercenaries remaining to continue taking territory.

ukraine (slava) can probably finish the job with four or five f-16s total. we will then begin the ethnic cleansing balkanization of russia to make sure nothing like this can ever happen again

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Neurolimal posted:

The situation must really be dire if they've returned to zelensky visiting every country & equating the war to their national tragedies

A one man travelling circus. Dancing for a meal ticket.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
If Zelensky was so weepy over Hiroshima perhaps someone should tell him that the Imperial Japanese government might have avoided that were they willing to negotiate for peace with the Allies

Is the Ukrainian need to reclaim Crimea and the Donbass worth Bakhmut, the same way the Japanese wanted to retain Manchuria at all costs?

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
the european union is the fourth reich

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

sullat posted:

I'm glad that there are so many world leaders Zelensky can look up to.

lol

currently towering over zelenskyy ama

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

DancingShade posted:

War thunder taught me Italian ground vehicles are made of paper mache.

having a look at their tech tree now and ugh doesn't look great

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

gradenko_2000 posted:

If Zelensky was so weepy over Hiroshima perhaps someone should tell him that the Imperial Japanese government might have avoided that were they willing to negotiate for peace with the Allies

Is the Ukrainian need to reclaim Crimea and the Donbass worth Bakhmut, the same way the Japanese wanted to retain Manchuria at all costs?

they should also tell him russia has nukes and is very attached to Crimea

anyway, you know who had cool tanks? Sweden

Minenfeld!
Aug 21, 2012



I roll with Soviet and French tanks in War Thunder. Love me some AMX-30.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Regarde Aduck posted:

Forces traditionally don't form the encirclement via retreat either

Cannae says what?

CongoJack
Nov 5, 2009

Ask Why, Asshole

sullat posted:

Cannae says what?

that was one time!

supersnowman
Oct 3, 2012

speng31b posted:

which is more epic, tanks or missiles?

The tanks which also shoot missiles of course.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

supersnowman posted:

The tanks which also shoot missiles of course.

Tanks that shoot missiles containing other slightly smaller tanks.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1660380926998900736
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1660381469188182016

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

someone needs to unleash captain acab on Noah bitchsmith

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

gradenko_2000 posted:

If Zelensky was so weepy over Hiroshima perhaps someone should tell him that the Imperial Japanese government might have avoided that were they willing to negotiate for peace with the Allies

I’m not sure what the current academic consensus is on the “mokosatsu mistake” but the thinking behind it is they actually were in the process of at least wanting to negotiate- Japan was basically starving at this point in the war- and Truman essentially wanted to show off to Stalin and the rest of the world what the US was newly capable of, strategic value of the targets be damned. The US had already destroyed far more of the country more thoroughly just through incendiary bombing but the political capital of the a-bomb had yet to be understood until it was used

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The reason misinformed people think the "iron cross" flag is a special swastika-like symbol is that it's the flag of the German army (and still is! present tense!). So when the German army murdered tens of millions of people in WW2, that was the flag people saw them flying.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Futanari Damacy posted:

..


They should honestly call it something else than the G (number) because there are obviously more than seven people in this picture

Like, each Western European country has direct representation, and then they are also doubly represented by the EU commissioner? They just went “yeah all of Europe is in too now” without changing the number Shenanigans! :mad:

huehuehuehuehue
Thet are too racist to extend the G# to other countries like Sputh Korea or other coubtries already in the BRICS.

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:
last night, a bunch of neo-nazis were walking around the local McDonald's asking people if they believe in the holocaust and telling them that hitler was right about the jews. thought they were kids being edgy until they got closer, covered in tats, gaudy Christian jewelry...

Never seen anything like it before, makes you wonder if they've been emboldened when you remember the fawning articles even my 'lefty' local news was doing about azov

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

gradenko_2000 posted:

If Zelensky was so weepy over Hiroshima perhaps someone should tell him that the Imperial Japanese government might have avoided that were they willing to negotiate for peace with the Allies

Is the Ukrainian need to reclaim Crimea and the Donbass worth Bakhmut, the same way the Japanese wanted to retain Manchuria at all costs?

Well the war time japanese civil government was basically hijacked by the military. So there you go.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

heritage, not hate

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/RadarFennec/status/1660011930487074816

nobody tell oryx that you can repair tanks by taking them from the battlefield and to the shop

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

every japanese national flag is fascist obv

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Horizon Burning posted:

last night, a bunch of neo-nazis were walking around the local McDonald's asking people if they believe in the holocaust and telling them that hitler was right about the jews. thought they were kids being edgy until they got closer, covered in tats, gaudy Christian jewelry...

Never seen anything like it before, makes you wonder if they've been emboldened when you remember the fawning articles even my 'lefty' local news was doing about azov

They were all FBI agents and the tatts washed off later.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
so whens Noah Smiths' next visit to Yasukuni shrine? does he also deny Unit 371 and Nanking?

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008



I can't believe the guy is this stupid, it has to be a purposeful bit

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

HiroProtagonist posted:

someone needs to unleash captain acab on Noah bitchsmith

free him

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
putting a Ukraine flag in your handle immediately kills half your brain cells

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

icantfindaname posted:

I can't believe the guy is this stupid, it has to be a purposeful bit

Imagine I posted his tweet about how he's going to use chatgpt instead of wikipedia here.

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
I’d like to extend my sincere appreciation to everyone in this thread for not being weirdly and shittily disparaging to countries not solely existing to further western hegemony as in the case of BRICS and the global south

And also generally for not going completely insane whenever Ukraine suffers a predictable loss :allears:

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Futanari Damacy posted:

I’d like to extend my sincere appreciation to everyone in this thread for not being weirdly and shittily disparaging to countries not solely existing to further western hegemony as in the case of BRICS and the global south

And also generally for not going completely insane whenever Ukraine suffers a predictable loss :allears:

libs change their spots a lot but the one constant is weird chauvinism

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/17794927

quote:

U.S. banned imports of certain telephones, voice recorders, microphones and household appliances into Russia
TASS
1-2 minutes

MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. The U.S. has banned the importation into Russia of a number of phones, voice recorders, microphones and household appliances. The list was published by the US Department of Commerce.

The list includes electric flowing or storage water heaters, electric irons, microwave ovens, boilers, electric coffee makers and toasters. It is also forbidden to supply line telephones, cordless phones, voice recorders to the Russian Federation.

At the same time, the list includes clothes dryers, machines and devices for water filtration and purification, snow blowers and snow removal machines, lawn mowers, agricultural equipment, washing machines and sewing machines.

In addition, lithium-ion batteries, Nesio rechargeable batteries, vacuum cleaners, food choppers and electric lamps are banned from importation.

The list also includes base stations, headphones, pocket and cassette radios, film cameras, projectors and photographic lenses.

the most devastating sanctions have just dropped

russia can no longer import american dishwashers

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Futanari Damacy posted:

I’d like to extend my sincere appreciation to everyone in this thread for not being weirdly and shittily disparaging to countries not solely existing to further western hegemony as in the case of BRICS and the global south

And also generally for not going completely insane whenever Ukraine suffers a predictable loss :allears:

we may be a bunch of idiotic psychos who get everything wrong all the time (especially me) but I'd like to think that we have a much more hard nosed realisim about things actually happening on the ground than others do and have no qualms with calling it as we see it whether its on the side of our opinions and predictions or not. because we're socialists (with vastly differing views and reallt nasty disagreements but still) the material reality is what matters most and not wishful thinking.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
never forget that outside of this thread everyone believed that Russia was going to run out of ammo a month into the war

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Cerebral Bore posted:

heritage, not hate

https://twitter.com/RisingSunFlagg/status/1660451629525782529?s=20

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