What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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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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Well, where's the lie? They said they recognize that in the Ukrainians.
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 22:54 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 14:18 |
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Frosted Flake posted:The official said Russia’s reluctance to retaliate has influenced the risk calculus of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a key Biden confidant who has been an influential voice encouraging the administration and U.S. allies to do more to support Ukraine. this is how this "unprovoked" war started, and it's gonna end in an "unprovoked" nuclear exchange in the same way lmao
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 22:55 |
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Some longer reads. These are obviously western think-tanks who aren't fond of Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, but they're not the rah rah NAFO crew who see all news as good news for Ukraine. RUSI in particular puts some effort into debunking some ideas (for example, they argue for the idea that an older tank is still a great thing to have if you're otherwise a light infantry platoon, so making fun of Russian T-62s is kind of dumb, when these T-62s' jobs include improvised IDF or an ~2km anti-strongpoint gun that can still survive HMG fire and all but the most direct mortar/artillery hits. In the land of dudes in trenches, an old tank is still better than no tank) Both have long-form reads in the link, not just the EXSUMs posted here. https://www.csis.org/analysis/putins-missile-war Early May CSIS on Russian aviation, its shortcomings, but how they have changed tactics to try to make up for initial failures, and how Ukrainian air defense capacity still struggles, even with changes in tactics and passive defenses. quote:Russia’s long-range strike campaign of air and missile attacks has fallen short of producing the strategic https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/meatgrinder-russian-tactics-second-year-its-invasion-ukraine Mid-May RUSI report on Russian tactics in general in Ukraine. quote:Executive Summary
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 22:59 |
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If Russia settles for anything but total victory, they will just need to fight this war again
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:08 |
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i agree but i just don't think they have it in them maybe materially, but not societally they just don't seem to believe it's that important, while the west grins and sharpens its knives
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:09 |
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you mean they lack a certain ... sisu
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:10 |
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:11 |
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i’m sure russia would be content to keep the war smouldering, as would probably china as an eternal drain on nato resources
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:11 |
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there's a very good chance i'm reacting to psyops or some poo poo but everything i've heard from ordinary Russians just makes them seem so tired and done with the war almost from the get go
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:12 |
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Neurolimal posted:He's busy with other stuff atm lol
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:12 |
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awkward, huge, and nerdy. what's his user name?
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:12 |
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Blinken would like to install a Sous Vide device for the Ukraine war, consistently cooking the Russians at the right temperature, never too hot to trigger the thermal nuclear reaction.
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:18 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:there's a very good chance i'm reacting to psyops or some poo poo but everything i've heard from ordinary Russians just makes them seem so tired and done with the war almost from the get go yeah, but what say do they have in it? if the state really feels the fight is existential, and ending it before they get what they want will just put them up against a more hardened NATO-backed Ukraine in a few years, well.
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:20 |
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speng31b posted:it talks about the blurred avatar as his main crime Can anyone accurately recount what even happened with this? iirc it was a blurred version of an avatar some gbs nazi bought for themselves, but the chain of custody or w.e of the blurred version being re-bestowed was interpreted 100% non-disingenuously as an actual factual endorsement of nazism by one or more of the most tedious posters ever to blight this place
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:22 |
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“knuckled” is a weird misspelling of “hooded” ngl
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:24 |
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Futanari Damacy posted:Can anyone accurately recount what even happened with this? iirc it was a blurred version of an avatar some gbs nazi bought for themselves, but the chain of custody or w.e of the blurred version being re-bestowed was interpreted 100% non-disingenuously as an actual factual endorsement of nazism by one or more of the most tedious posters ever to blight this place lol, no i don't think anyone from gbs bought themselves a nazi avatar. iirc a cspammer bought someone an avatar that would be banned in Germany, and calibanibal changed it to a slightly blurred version but the symbol was still easily decipherable with a joke about censoring it to preserve decorum or something
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:26 |
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Truga posted:lol that owns Americans are going to launch the first one too.
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:27 |
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if your tattoo needs a description paragraph maybe pick another design but I'm not a northern swamp nazi so
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:28 |
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speng31b posted:yeah, but what say do they have in it? if the state really feels the fight is existential, and ending it before they get what they want will just put them up against a more hardened NATO-backed Ukraine in a few years, well. I get a sense more there is just little concern for the war since it doesn’t effect them either way, or there is support out of a feeling patriotism. That said it isn’t quite like Iraq though where the US could walk away any time either, and the Russian opposition has nearly completely neutered itself. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:46 on Jun 2, 2023 |
# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:42 |
The dude who freaked out the most is permabanned now so don't mess with cspam or Russia!
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:47 |
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mawarannahr posted:Russia’s Strategic Failure and Ukraine’s Secure Future - United States Department of State the life aquatic with nordstream sisu
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:51 |
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Opinion by Fareed Zakaria. The United States can no longer assume that the rest of the world is on its side
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# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:56 |
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To circle back to how for all the hype we probably don't have a good measure of the PLA, "To disappoint just about everyone, we know nothing about the 5.8mm, at least in English. It has not participated in any major wars; no QBZ gun has been captured; the ban on Chinese ammo import means we have no 5.8x42mm in the civilian market. Even Janes is a bit vague in its description of the ammunition." We don't have any reliable information on something as simple as their standard issue small arms ammunition but we're going to rout them. e: There's a blurry scan of a test, maybe, but so far as I know the veracity is unknown and I haven't seen a translation. ee: Phew. To our relief, our hopes lie with Chinese manufacturing being shoddy. "There is one thing we can't tell which is production quality. Even among 5.56mm brands there is a wide range of reliability and accuracy, from the Russian imported steel case stuff which is underpowered and wildly varying in powder load, to the Taiwanese stuff which some reviewers managed to get near-match performance out of. Back when China was still exporting commercial ammo to the US it was not the best stuff. It is unknown how they treat their domestic production and how much things have changed in the recent years." eee: Even Firearms Blog is like "Ancient Chinese Secret " "There is limited data, which can't be checked on it's correctness, because China keeps it's military technologies secret. They also don't export any of their military standard weapons or ammunition. Their export small arms are mostly chambered 5.56x45mm, 7.62x51mm or 9x19mm. Nearly all information about Chinese military technology on the internet is based on speculation." Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 00:03 on Jun 3, 2023 |
# ? Jun 2, 2023 23:59 |
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I'm really interested to know how much of it is "keeps it secret" and how much is "western analysts think learning foreign languages is beneath them"
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:05 |
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wait how hard is it to smuggle a single round of ammo out of China? This is beyond western intelligence agencies?
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:09 |
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I'm really interested to know how much of it is "keeps it secret" and how much is "western analysts think learning foreign languages is beneath them" lol this comes up in unexpected places. It's not unusual for undergrad Classics textbooks to say "the social organization of the (Thracians/Illyrians/Bulgars) remains a mystery", but then it turns out there are mountains of untranslated books and papers in Bulgarian and Romanian. Regarde Aduck posted:wait how hard is it to smuggle a single round of ammo out of China? This is beyond western intelligence agencies? It's very funny to me that they weren't able to accomplish this before that app led to all of their spies getting rounded up.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:12 |
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Surely some youtube channels have eaten all Chinese MREs and test small arm ammos.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:15 |
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The tattoo needs an accompanying paragraph because it needs to explain a finish word to English speakers. A "my Nazi looking tattoo is bringing a lot of questions answered by my Nazi looking tattoo" if you will.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:20 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I keep thinking about this. How the gently caress are they even going to make the case here? taiwan is widely recognised as a well-functioning liberal democracy. frame it as an ideological struggle akin to the ukrainians, of evil despotic imperialists vs plucky democratic patriots and you're pretty much good. the propaganda for this has already started spinning up, and because china can't just let taiwan go there's a real opportunity for the americans to set the stage for a conflict. i don't think the taiwanese elites are as captured as the european ones, though, so they probably will resist being used like that.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:28 |
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also i've always seen sisu as a more sanguine kind of savoir-faire/dauntlessness, i never understood it to be particularly grim
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:30 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the PRC just has to wait. I don't know why the Taiwanese would declare independence and ignite a war before American power declines to the point where it suits them to work out a deal to rejoin the mainland.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:30 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but the PRC just has to wait. I don't know why the Taiwanese would declare independence and ignite a war before American power declines to the point where it suits them to work out a deal to rejoin the mainland. there are a great many provocations which are provocations but which don't amount to a declaration of independence. prominent US politicians visiting, various symbolic issues, etc. i agree that the PRC has more to gain by simply waiting for the long trajectory to favour them like you sketch out here, but there's a lot that the US can do which taiwan can't really refuse and cannot really *defuse* without losing faith on the home front. the americans are excellent at this kind of soft-power shenanigans and this is a situation with a lot of known constants which makes for decent play.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:34 |
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Lostconfused posted:The tattoo needs an accompanying paragraph because it needs to explain a finish word to English speakers.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:36 |
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I'm really interested to know how much of it is "keeps it secret" and how much is "western analysts think learning foreign languages is beneath them" The quote FF is using that says no one knows anything about 5.8mm is just a reddit poster quote from two years ago. It does make sense that a round that is both not exported by choice and also banned from import wouldn't be well known to North American hobbyists buying ammo on the local economy. Here is a more recent article on 5.8mm: https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/china-58x42mm-cartridge/384452 mlmp08 has issued a correction as of 00:38 on Jun 3, 2023 |
# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:36 |
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Delta-Wye posted:holy lol "This is my teenage son, we're very disappointed in him."
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:51 |
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Sometime after this all blows over Zelenskyy could make quite the windfall selling those authentic Zelenskyy worn green shirts. There has to be dozens or hundreds of them by now, I hope he's not throwing them out
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 00:59 |
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Starsfan posted:Sometime after this all blows over Zelenskyy could make quite the windfall selling those authentic Zelenskyy worn green shirts. There has to be dozens or hundreds of them by now, I hope he's not throwing them out going down a rabbit hole of lovely merch now https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us/products/crimea-beach-party-early-bird-ticket-sale-1-entry https://twitter.com/ItsBorys/status/1557087471053201413
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 01:01 |
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Starsfan posted:Sometime after this all blows over Zelenskyy could make quite the windfall selling those authentic Zelenskyy worn green shirts. There has to be dozens or hundreds of them by now, I hope he's not throwing them out he has been wearing the same since the start
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 01:05 |
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Actually reading the article,quote:"This is the chant of the most radical chauvinists from Western Ukraine who collaborated with Nazis, who killed hundreds of thousands of Poles, Jews, and anyone else they got their hands on," Milanović said at the event. "These are the facts." poles Thank you Mr Bremmer quote:Milanović compared it to the chant used by sympathisers of the Croatian World War II-era Nazi puppet state, known as the Independent State of Croatia or NDH. It was led by some of Europe's most fervent Hitler adherents, who conducted brutal ethnic cleansing campaigns. Edit2: quote:Although some Croatians contend that "For the Homeland, Prepared!" was also used before World War II, progressive historians point out that, unlike Ukraine, Croatia had a full-fledged Nazi state controlling significant territories, including not just today's Croatia but also parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. I guess this isn't white washing enough for Mr Bremmer. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 01:14 on Jun 3, 2023 |
# ? Jun 3, 2023 01:10 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 14:18 |
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tristeham posted:he has been wearing the same since the start that is just moronic. Go through 3 a day, authenticate them and sell them off for millions.
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 01:24 |