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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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Frosted Flake posted:What always gets me is that on the surface, it seems like the Germans had a masterful plan to overextend the Allies, attacking into Norway and the Netherlands, but apparently these were all sort of slapdash spur of the moment things. Just like how the Germans didn't intend to draw the best of the British forces in the Western Desert into Greece, they just sort of invaded Greece spur of the moment and it had the side effect of making Rommel's reputation. Lol now I have to ask did the US base all of its ideas on a WWIII scenario in Europe around what the Germans told them?
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Jun 16, 2023 00:57
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Raccooon posted:Lol now I have to ask did the US base all of its ideas on a WWIII scenario in Europe around what the Germans told them? yes
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Jun 16, 2023 00:58
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CongoJack posted:Part of the training school is getting to know US customs and culture. That sounds so lovely Thats where they indoctrinate you against anything vaguely left wing. It's a vital component of the US making Nazis everywhere
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Jun 16, 2023 00:58
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Raccooon posted:Lol now I have to ask did the US base all of its ideas on a WWIII scenario in Europe around what the Germans told them? they appointed a bunch of ex nazi generals into high posts in NATO and everything. so yes 100%
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Jun 16, 2023 01:01
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Raccooon posted:Lol now I have to ask did the US base all of its ideas on a WWIII scenario in Europe around what the Germans told them? There was no actual WW3 scenario in Europe. The plan was that if the Soviets actually pushed the Fulda gap then NATO would gently caress around for a bit and inevitably just nuke everyone and everything. That this was based on a drastic overestimate of Soviet military capability is probably not great but also every plan the US came up with post-WW2 ends with "And then we use nukes."
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Jun 16, 2023 01:02
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:they just went the long way round via belgium which didn't have fixed defenses right? Just go around the east of Belarus. Wherever that is.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:02
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1669443607986851843 The kicker would be if he was taken down by friendly SAM or something
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Jun 16, 2023 01:03
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I have no special knowledge, but my feeling is that Russia has set itself up for a long, bitter, war. Europe and the USA played their cards, the decoupling has began, the bi polar world is forming, and Russia cast its lots with the other side. The country has lurched into a major adjustment and change to the global landscape. A sad, tragic, bloody, adjustment. I don't really see any near term end, just slow protracted bloodshed. Russia will do what they can within their capability to make an example. How much is within their power? No idea. But they have all the time they want, really, while Ukraine doesn't. They were doomed from the start of course, one way or another.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:08
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The kicker would be if he was taken down by friendly SAM or something Maybe he just forgot how to fly the old Soviet planes.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:17
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BULBASAUR posted:I have no special knowledge, but my feeling is that Russia has set itself up for a long, bitter, war. Europe and the USA played their cards, the decoupling has began, the bi polar world is forming, and Russia cast its lots with the other side. The country has lurched into a major adjustment and change to the global landscape. A sad, tragic, bloody, adjustment. I don't really see any near term end, just slow protracted bloodshed. Russia will do what they can within their capability to make an example. How much is within their power? No idea. But they have all the time they want, really, while Ukraine doesn't. They were doomed from the start of course, one way or another. Well that's kind of the tragedy. I mean in the long run, who knows what would have happened had they properly committed at the start, but now they're not going to risk anything fancy that might end the war quickly, and thousands of Ukrainians will die that otherwise wouldn't've
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Jun 16, 2023 01:20
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That's the one thing that didn't change. Kremlin didn't want to commit to a total annexation back then, and it still doesn't. It's entirely possible that they would end the war right now if they terms were acceptable. But how they will be forced to go, and where this war ends, only time will tell.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:27
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BULBASAUR posted:I have no special knowledge, but my feeling is that Russia has set itself up for a long, bitter, war. Europe and the USA played their cards, the decoupling has began, the bi polar world is forming, and Russia cast its lots with the other side. The country has lurched into a major adjustment and change to the global landscape. A sad, tragic, bloody, adjustment. I don't really see any near term end, just slow protracted bloodshed. Russia will do what they can within their capability to make an example. How much is within their power? No idea. But they have all the time they want, really, while Ukraine doesn't. They were doomed from the start of course, one way or another. i pray that Russian libs can get over their love of hamburger and 'European culture'
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Jun 16, 2023 01:28
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https://www.rt.com/russia/578042-russia-nuclear-weapons/ An interesting--and insane--article that Russia must use nuclear weapons to put the fear of God into the West. I don't think Putin would consider it since Russia would be instantly alienated. But kind of spooky something like this is being expressed openly.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:33
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Raccooon posted:God drat. I had never even heard that the US was asked to just take over in the early days Because Rumsfeld rejected the Taliban's surrender back in 2001, that's the main reason their leadership survived , kept fighting, and went on to retake the rural areas so quickly.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:48
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Ghetto Prince posted:Because Rumsfeld rejected the Taliban's surrender back in 2001, that's the main reason their leadership survived , kept fighting, and went on to retake the rural areas so quickly. Rumsfeld was a real piece of work the dumbest smartypants nerd of all time
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Jun 16, 2023 01:54
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Raccooon posted:God drat. I had never even heard that the US was asked to just take over in the early days I don't know about that but there were saurites still left in Kabul who saw the occupation as a way to educate women, also people in rural regions thought the US would free them from the taliban only to find out about drone strikes + their local taliban shitheads switching sides.
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Jun 16, 2023 01:58
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the iraq war had so many good idiot grifters remember Ahmed Chalabi just lying his rear end off to goad the US into giving him stupid amounts of power Paul L Bremmer being a classic suit dummy in way over his head, doing that extreme debaathification and firing all the bus drivers and teachers and poo poo because they technically had to be in the party because they were a part of the civil service apparatus heck of a job!
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Jun 16, 2023 01:59
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FacelessVoid posted:https://www.rt.com/russia/578042-russia-nuclear-weapons/  .
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Jun 16, 2023 02:22
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Egg Moron posted:the iraq war had so many good idiot grifters The college age kids who got sent to Iraq to modernize it's stock exchange that refused all the Iraqis who said hey we cna get this up and going with chalk boards so they just didn't have one due years, and these kids previous job experience had been selling ice cream is one of my favorites
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Jun 16, 2023 02:25
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Egg Moron posted:the iraq war had so many good idiot grifters
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Jun 16, 2023 02:25
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 putin...good???
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Jun 16, 2023 02:32
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OctaMurk posted:if the maginot line extended all the way thru belgium then germany woulda been hosed Yeah turns out a wall of guns just works better when you don't leave the side gate open. The lesson learned however was that all walls of guns were useless so when one was finally encountered with a closed side gate much consternation ensued. "Where is the side door Hans? We were supposed to manueavre!"
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Jun 16, 2023 02:45
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Some Guy TT posted:
Well I'd trust him with kids. So that's one distinct advantage over our own leadership team.
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Jun 16, 2023 02:47
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The Oldest Man posted:This is what happens when you get told how denazification worked by american public schools and never bothered to check the nato leadership yearbooks to see what actually happened with those guys This was mostly Doug Feith who Tommy Franks called the dumbest motherfucker on the planet
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Jun 16, 2023 02:50
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putin is like the santa clause of russian cancer children
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Jun 16, 2023 02:50
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Regarde Aduck posted:i pray that Russian libs can get over their love of hamburger and 'European culture' One nice thing about not having any real beliefs is it’s easy to adapt.
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Jun 16, 2023 02:51
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the imaginot line
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Jun 16, 2023 02:52
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FF, what's the link and title of the article you quote 4,5 pages back? Good article but i can't find the first part of your post?
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Jun 16, 2023 03:04
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Futanari Damacy posted:This was mostly Doug Feith who Tommy Franks called the dumbest motherfucker on the planet 
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Jun 16, 2023 03:24
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Good articles on the current constitution of Azov and its relations with western backers https://twitter.com/mossrobeson__/status/1669150863196037121
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Jun 16, 2023 03:45
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Futanari Damacy posted:This was mostly Doug Feith who Tommy Franks called the dumbest motherfucker on the planet I went to grad school with a woman who had babysat Feith's kids some years prior. She didn't know much about him, and I didn't have the heart to tell her.
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Jun 16, 2023 04:00
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FacelessVoid posted:https://www.rt.com/russia/578042-russia-nuclear-weapons/ They just moved their tactical nuke stockpiles into Belarus I think the deployment of low yield nuclear weapons against hardened positions is very plausible before the end of this war. Provided they're not nuking a civilian population center they would probably get away with it in the short term and deal with it in the long term by paying for cleanup in negotiations NATO fielding depleted uranium rounds in this conflict sets the norm imo
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Jun 16, 2023 04:21
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unless russia is actually losing crimea or something, theres no reason for them to nuke anybody unless you think theyre literally crazy people
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Jun 16, 2023 04:28
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DancingShade posted:Well I'd trust him with kids. So that's one distinct advantage over our own leadership team. lol I think someone was posting a few pages ago about how Putin kissed a boy on the stomach or something?
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Jun 16, 2023 04:30
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nigel thornberry posted:lol I think someone was posting a few pages ago about how Putin kissed a boy on the stomach or something? he got it out of his system
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Jun 16, 2023 04:31
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Putin has tried being the cold rational chess master and it isn't working, now he wants to try Nixon's madman method
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Jun 16, 2023 04:31
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Tired: Arms gap Wired: Age gap
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Jun 16, 2023 04:32
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nigel thornberry posted:lol I think someone was posting a few pages ago about how Putin kissed a boy on the stomach or something? lol yup
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Jun 16, 2023 04:33
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OctaMurk posted:unless russia is actually losing crimea or something, theres no reason for them to nuke anybody unless you think theyre literally crazy people thats whats so funny about all of this, the majority think putin is an insane evil mastermind - why wouldn't be launch nukes
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Jun 16, 2023 04:34
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Putin kissed me too
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