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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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CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

the most believable thing at this point is that prighozin simply went insane. just lost his drat mind. and there’s really no evidence yet that anyone has followed him to cuckooland

yeah im leaning towards this

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Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:

Spaced God posted:

so as a dumb idiot, my understanding is that the head of the main PMC on the Russian frontlines got tired of throwing his guys into the meat grinder and/or otherwise crack-pinged for some unknown reason and has now turned his troops onto the russians? and now some freedom convoy of jan 6'ers is heading to moscow on an overnight roadtrip? is that really what's happening right now?

apparently? but it might only be some small fraction of his troops? it's not really clear yet, but it feels like it's an utterly bizarre attempt to psyop ukraine... or prigo has just posted himself into a breakdown, as doctor nwordstomper58 hypothesised.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
He’s just picketing in support of the writers’ guild. Meanwhile, MoD thinks they can just improv without a script.

Anchor Wanker
May 14, 2015
If anyone did go off with him it doesn't look like it's a whole too many of em. Yeah it looks j6 ish in a funny way

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Wasn't this how Crimson Tide started

Uhhhhhhh lmao

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Anchor Wanker posted:

If anyone did go off with him it doesn't look like it's a whole too many of em. Yeah it looks j6 ish in a funny way

Not until one of the mercs tazes himself in the balls

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Anchor Wanker posted:

If anyone did go off with him it doesn't look like it's a whole too many of em. Yeah it looks j6 ish in a funny way

to be fair these guys actually have guns so thats a step or two above jan 6th

Halser
Aug 24, 2016

CODChimera posted:

to be fair these guys actually have guns so thats a step or two above jan 6th

hey, people in jan 6 had guns

they just didn't bring all of them with them

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I don't know if the western war careerists believe Prigozhin will take over smoothly (I think they'd be right to think that, it seems totally implausible for this guy that nobody likes)

the smartest people in the roomtm have been consistently saying it would be easy, so easy they installed yeltsin to do it decades ago. is prigozhin worse than yeltsin, idk but i don't think so

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
so uh did they just take over that building? whats in it

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Beeftweeter posted:

so uh did they just take over that building? whats in it
Pool table

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

Spaced God posted:

so as a dumb idiot, my understanding is that the head of the main PMC on the Russian frontlines got tired of throwing his guys into the meat grinder and/or otherwise crack-pinged for some unknown reason and has now turned his troops onto the russians? and now some freedom convoy of jan 6'ers is heading to moscow on an overnight roadtrip? is that really what's happening right now?

I don't think he's doing it out of concern for the lives of his men, but that the Russian government has been slowly creeping towards diminishing his influence and bringing his troops under state control (as he has been useful for a time but increasingly troublesome).

He has probably gone crazy but as a result of desperation and as a last ditch attempt to preserve his position rather than posting himself into it (well, the posting too)

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

shyduck posted:

Pool table

drat nice

Anchor Wanker
May 14, 2015
In the mirror timeline where Blackwater does this in the US after some dumb imperialist misadventure, how well do they do in comparison?

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

gradenko_2000 posted:

Wasn't this how Red October started

Uhhhhhhh lmao

https://youtu.be/zsC2ETsZL0g

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

Wasn't it Wagner in Syria a few years back that was told to advance on an American position and in turn got completely lit up and shredded? It seems like they have been meat grindering these guys for a while.

breathing aids
Jun 22, 2023

by vyelkin

Bass.exe posted:

I mean, there is a lot of diplomatic escalation theory that was developed during the cold war being applied here. You have to realize Vietnam got fighters and such from the soviets even though America had nukes, and other proxy conflicts developed this theory about how to fight nuclear powers via. Its common enough knowledge in the west that places like North Korea and Vietnam got jet fighters and other weapons from the soviets and nuclear war didn't break out.

Even John Foster Dulles didn’t want to arm the Hungarians in 1956 because even a complete anticommunist lunatic knew that doing that sort of escalatory poo poo in Eastern Europe was insane:

quote:

The United States’ cautious response to the unexpectedly powerful popular uprising in Hungary in 1956 grew out of the Eisenhower administration’s policy of “keeping the pot boiling” in Eastern Europe without having it “boil over” into a possible nuclear conflict, according to an unpublished Defense Department historical study posted for the first time by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University.

Eisenhower and his top aides, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles – often seen as one of the most aggressive Cold Warriors – opted for the long view of encouraging a gradual erosion of Soviet domination of the socialist camp.

Defending Eisenhower’s reticence to take stiffer action, including covertly assisting the Hungarian rebels or threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons on supply routes into Hungary, the study notes his concerns about inadvertently touching off a nuclear war with the USSR.

None of that escalation theory is being applied today. Arming rebels in Hungary was out of the question, attempting to foment a coup in Moscow would’ve been global suicide so they didn’t even try.

TheBuilder
Jul 11, 2001

Lostconfused posted:

Nobody can actually confirm if it's wagner or not.

Unless you see some identifying markers.

Yeah it's possibly US 3rd Armored

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Posting on the Hundred Days page

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Brogeoisie
Jan 12, 2005

"Look, I'm a private citizen," he said. "One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I make or didn't."
https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1672427795794862080?t=ZBCoUtcrVFs9o7aj3MOygQ&s=19

There's Russian media now reporting its wagner but it's so ragtag/none of the markers make sense

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

Anchor Wanker posted:

In the mirror timeline where Blackwater does this in the US after some dumb imperialist misadventure, how well do they do in comparison?

The US political system has enough checks and balances to prevent this from ever happening, as the CEO of Blackwater will simply run for president and win

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Beeftweeter posted:

so uh did they just take over that building? whats in it

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1672425908202795008?t=Qr6t-yUEyGxRBoAHhQ1OWg&s=19

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

TheBuilder posted:

Yeah it's possibly US 3rd Armored

I'd be a lot more worried if it was US troops in a Russian city instead of just Wagner tbh.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Spaced God posted:

so as a dumb idiot, my understanding is that the head of the main PMC on the Russian frontlines got tired of throwing his guys into the meat grinder and/or otherwise crack-pinged for some unknown reason and has now turned his troops onto the russians? and now some freedom convoy of jan 6'ers is heading to moscow on an overnight roadtrip? is that really what's happening right now?

Not even in Moscow, Prigozhin's Jan 6'ing some place 900+ km south of Moscow.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

The US political system has enough checks and balances to prevent this from ever happening, as the CEO of Blackwater will simply run for president and win

Unless he's a dumbass like Hitler. Then he'll attempt a coup, get a slap on the wrist, and then someone will convince him to run for president.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

yeah i mean, what does the "southern military district headquarters" do? is one of the guys that prighozin was calling a traitor there or something? or is he just like seizing random MoD buildings

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


I'm guessing the building is empty

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Would anyone actually join this guy?

Halser
Aug 24, 2016

shyduck posted:

I'm guessing the building is empty

that would be january 8th

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
pictured: Wagner meets with American and British officials

Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.

How's the invasion going?

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Would anyone actually join this guy?

they did say they passed through checkpoints which obviously did not stop them in any way

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

Holy poo poo lol I can't believe this

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

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"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

Budzilla posted:

How's the invasion going?

its going funny, OP

Brogeoisie
Jan 12, 2005

"Look, I'm a private citizen," he said. "One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I make or didn't."

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Would anyone actually join this guy?

I think so, Wagner appears popular with regular Russian people

Too Many Birds
Jan 8, 2020


whatever is happening, it is entertaining

Buffer
May 6, 2007
I sometimes turn down sex and blowjobs from my girlfriend because I'm too busy posting in D&D. PS: She used my credit card to pay for this.

Thoguh posted:

I have no idea what is going on other than being confident that it is not what western media is reporting.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
western media only seems to be reporting the arrest warrant for prigozhin

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
sucks to be a mercenary captain who has outlived his usefulness, :rip: priggy and thanks for all the Content

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