OctaMurk posted:

“Without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all,” he added. “But they are being carried out. Yes, maybe not as fast as the participants in the show, the observers, would like, but that is their problem.”

Tankbuster posted:

stranger things is the cool 80s pop culture stuff that won the US the cold war but now you just make everything like 15% more grungy so the poorer mass of people that now consume this media can see it and go "so true "

OctaMurk posted:

In a rare, wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post, Zaluzhny expressed frustration that while his biggest Western backers would never launch an offensive without air superiority, Ukraine still has not received modern fighter jets but is expected to rapidly take back territory from the occupying Russians. American-made F-16s, promised only recently, are not likely to arrive until the fall — in a best-case scenario.

His troops also should be firing at least as many artillery shells as their enemy, Zaluzhny said, but have been outshot tenfold at times because of limited resources.

So it “pisses me off,” Zaluzhny said, when he hears that Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive in the country’s east and south has started slower than expected — an opinion publicly expressed by Western officials and military analysts and also by President Volodymyr Zelensky, though Zaluzhny was not referring to Zelensky. His troops have gained some ground — even if it’s just 500 meters — every day, he said.

“This is not a show,” Zaluzhny said Wednesday in his office at Ukraine’s General Staff headquarters. “It's not a show the whole world is watching and betting on or anything. Every day, every meter is given by blood.”

“Without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all,” he added. “But they are being carried out. Yes, maybe not as fast as the participants in the show, the observers, would like, but that is their problem.”

Comrade Koba posted:

ramzanhammer 40k

Zeppelin Insanity posted:

This reminded me of how common it is for people to make fun of the Trabant. Which, sure, there's some reasons, if you're car-brained. But one of the things I've seen people bring up and laugh about was that "it didn't rust". Like that's a bad thing, and a real failure of communist thinking.

(the reason it didn't rust is because the body panels were made with duraplast, which is a bit like fibreglass but used cotton waste)

Sanlav posted:

The idea that there is no material difference between manhattan, NY and manhattan, KS cause they put facades on their 2 story apartment complex's... we live in cities for facades, not density transity and access to culture. Facades.

Frosted Flake posted:

You drink from a fired 155mm primer.

i Read this poo poo trying to find out more

quote:

YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER, Wash. - When 2nd Lt. Shannon McDonnell assumed her new position as a platoon leader and fire direction officer with 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, nothing was official.

It wasn’t until she’d had four of her patrol caps taped to the backs of rockets and blown to pieces that she was certifiably a member of the team.

Then, McDonnell, who is still brand new to the artillery career field, could truly say she’s been welcomed.

Although it might appear a cruel and undeserved hail to the outside eye, Shannon sees it as more of an honor. After all, it’s tradition.

“It was kind of like my initiation into the platoon,” said the new leader "both authoritatively and officially" of 2nd Platoon, Battery B, 5-3 FA Bn., and also the only female fire direction officer for the battalion, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord asset that falls under 17th Fires Brigade.

Her patrol caps were destroyed by her fire direction control section May 23 during a field exercise at Yakima Training Center in Central Washington State that tasked them with providing artillery support for 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, in the brigade’s three-week YTC rotation.

Now, she has a collection of torn, tattered caps, but what’s more is the tangible memory she has of a custom literally decades in the making. The rite of passage that accompanies a fire direction officer’s first live shoot with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket system, the unit’s signature big gun.

“You get a new lieutenant, and it’s only tradition to shoot their patrol cap,” said Sgt. 1st Class Terry Biddle, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon, Battery B, 5-3 FA Bn.

Biddle explained that on a new second lieutenant’s first fire with the rocket system, his or her patrol cap is stolen and taped to the back plate of one of the rockets to be fired. As the rocket leaves, the back blast destroys the cap. Finally, after the shoot is finished, someone from the lieutenant’s crew retrieves the headgear, has it signed by each member of the team and returns it to the lieutenant.

He said it’s a practice unique to the community of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, like the HIMAR, where something can actually be attached to the backs of rounds.

Computer Serf posted:

do eastern europeans have access to jello?? could explain why they’re uniquely vulnerable to mines

there’s probably a way to scale this up for tanks

BearsBearsBears posted:

Wearing my Fattening Clothes today.

Ytlaya posted:

Honestly not a bad idea. People will underestimate you when they think you're fat, only for you to remove your clothes and reveal that you are, in fact, very fit and muscular.

KomradeX posted:

Making the little black girl a Hardcore Reaganite was loving wild

samogonka posted:

Good news for the american MIC

https://twitter.com/d_foubert/status/1674363432886235136

Jeff Fatwood posted:

apart from austerity, how the gently caress is Poland paying for all that? IMF opening a new tab?

Jel Shaker posted:

all their coal mines they refused to close are now worth $$$ now the germans closed their nuke plants

Jel Shaker posted:

what’s the opposite of paris syndrome because i was very upset that moscow was basically Knightsbridge with cyrillic rather than a shock therapy joose (Phenazepam) powered libertarian circus

Tankbuster posted:

its this. It's always this. There's a ceiling to your aspirations in your home country and when you reach it you are at the goldilocks zone of not really caring about the benefits your home country gives you in the form of subsidized education/transport etc. While american cultural products just gives you a story of your ceiling getting higher and you living at the center of the world (NYC/LA). You go there and there's hobos outside being beaten by cops.

Jeff Fatwood posted:

apart from austerity, how the gently caress is Poland paying for all that? IMF opening a new tab?

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

china is going to make so many huge budget films rubbing our faces in all of the horrible things we have done and we're not going to survive it

Jeff Fatwood posted:

And John Cena

Nix Panicus posted:

Russia is still at 'normal' conscription augmented by volunteer sign ups, right? Because it seems like Ukraine is putting all their hopes on wearing down the Russian defenders, but if they're getting rotated out at a regular pace for fresh troops I don't see how that can happen. Meanwhile is anyone getting discharged from the Ukrainian army because they've done their time?

Real hurthling! posted:

please let all the American roles be cast to chinese in white face

Frosted Flake posted:

Jeff Fatwood posted:

apart from austerity, how the gently caress is Poland paying for all that? IMF opening a new tab?

samogonka posted:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1674659115283480580

mawarannahr posted:

they're going to ruin Germany

https://twitter.com/CaesarsOmen/status/1674660155827314688?s=20

Al! posted:

you usually contemplate war crimes when youre winning right

KomradeX posted:

Didn't the Soviets settle this for them like 60 years ago?

tazjin posted:

iirc the argument from the Polish side is something like "the soviets never had the authority to do that"

tazjin posted:

iirc the argument from the Polish side is something like "the soviets never had the authority to do that"