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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1690308996547096576#m This is ridiculous; it's such an obvious target, you think the Russians would at some point move it. Keeping the bridge in the same place makes it an easy target.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:10
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bratwurst massage posted:What will they do? Declare a special military operation? In better news, the beach in Odessa is now open which is great because most people can't leave the country now and chill in Egypt like nothing is happening.  https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-odesa-opens-few-beaches-first-time-since-russian-invasion-2023-08-12/ fondue posted:This is ridiculous; it's such an obvious target, you think the Russians would at some point move it. Keeping the bridge in the same place makes it an easy target.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:14
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mobby_6kl posted:Maybe bomb more civilians as usual I don't think opening the beach in Odesa is such a great idea considering Russia has been attacking Ukranian civilians indiscriminately
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Aug 12, 2023 16:33
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Willo567 posted:I don't think opening the beach in Odesa is such a great idea considering Russia has been attacking Ukranian civilians indiscriminately Cities famously act as, well, cities, during war, even during siege. People have to act as people, including entertainment, or the morale effects cascade. One role of city administration during war is to prevent those detrimental morale effects. It is an affirmation to continue to embrace normal life, and in effect, is a brave finger to the enemy. Take a look at Russian Telegram trying to impute Kiev nightlife to some kind of corruption - it pisses the enemy off when he is ignored by the people he is trying to crush.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:11
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Russia indiscriminately strikes civilians while the beaches are closed, so we shouldn't open the beaches, because then Russia will indiscriminately strike civilians.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:21
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Willo567 posted:I don't think opening the beach in Odesa is such a great idea considering Russia has been attacking Ukranian civilians indiscriminately Compromise: the beach is open while your balls are nuked
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Aug 12, 2023 17:22
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When you're not at the beach: https://i.imgur.com/EGVxipU.mp4
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Aug 12, 2023 17:27
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EorayMel posted:Compromise: the beach is open while your balls are nuked I think that meme has been discontinued.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:28
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah, the Battle off Samar is such insane poo poo that if they made a Hollywood movie about it, people would complain about Hollywood making up outrageous stuff that could never happen in real life*. James Hornfisher's (the same guy who wrote the excellent Neptune's Inferno) The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors goes in depth to the craziness and is a great read I would definitely recommend to anyone. The Battle off Samar also involved some of the few (maybe the only? I forget) times in which there were gun duels between aircraft carriers and heavy ships such as cruisers and battleships. It's also the only time a carrier won one of those duels, as the escort carrier USS White Plains claimed several hits on the heavy cruiser Chokai with their five inch deck gun. It was believed for a long time that one of those hits had caused the Chokai's long lance torpedoes to detonate, though when I looked this up to make sure I remembered it correctly apparently recent scholarship and the discovery of Chokai's wreck suggest that the hit that disabled it and left it stuck as the rest of the Japanese force retreated came from an aircraft bomb.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:28
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When Ukrainians aren't huddling in their basements, they're begging for kasha in the streets.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:29
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Putting a super aerodynamic prop on your car and then messing it up the flags above it, smh
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Aug 12, 2023 17:35
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I mean what's the problem with blocking units? I mean completely normal government s use them to insure that they're highly motivated soldiers are supported and inspired to continue to move forward against the enemy. i wonder if people will try to aggressively play down their involvement this time. you can barely talk about the eastern front of WW2 without some slavering weirdo jumping out of the woodwork to yell about how unforgiveable it is that call of duty and similar games show commissars shooting soldiers, that just never happened, they just threatened arrest and enforced order just like military police in the west. actually they were a very legitimate and normal way a very legitimate and normal army operates. now there are assloads of first-hand reports from victims of the neutype commissars and most the time they have wounds received from those psychopaths to prove it. tankies exist so i'm sure it will be brought up, but hopefully it stays in their dumbass echo chambers this time. this poo poo is a crime against your own people and should be treated as such.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:45
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Log082 posted:The Battle off Samar also involved some of the few (maybe the only? I forget) times in which there were gun duels between aircraft carriers and heavy ships such as cruisers and battleships. I imagine somewhere there's a retired deck gunner who was quite disappointed to learn that fact.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:55
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Coolguye posted:tankies exist so i'm sure it will be brought up, but hopefully it stays in their dumbass echo chambers this time. this poo poo is a crime against your own people and should be treated as such. Let’s ask them * knocks on wood *
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Aug 12, 2023 17:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I imagine somewhere there's a retired deck gunner who was quite disappointed to learn that fact. Obviously, the 5" gun round detonated the hangfire bomb.
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Aug 12, 2023 17:59
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Log082 posted:The Battle off Samar also involved some of the few (maybe the only? I forget) times in which there were gun duels between aircraft carriers and heavy ships such as cruisers and battleships. HMS Formidable also fires on Italian surface ships at the battle of Cape Matapan, although she's told to bugger off and leave it to the battleships early on.
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Aug 12, 2023 18:07
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tiaz posted:Obviously, the 5" gun round detonated the hangfire bomb. 
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Aug 12, 2023 18:13
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:* a similar thing happened with Midway. There's a scene where a Japanese plane is attempting to ram the Enterprise, when a deck engineer jumps into the rear gunner seat of a landed Dauntless and manages to shoot the Japanese plane down. People complained about that being dumb made up poo poo, which is a gross disservice to Bruno Gaido who literally did that in real life. Gaido and his pilot were captured by the Japanese after his plane was shot down. On 15 June 1942, Gaido and his pilot Frank O'Flaherty were weighted and thrown overboard from the Japanese destroyer Makigumo to drown after being tortured. 
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Aug 12, 2023 18:18
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G1mby posted:HMS Formidable also fires on Italian surface ships at the battle of Cape Matapan, although she's told to bugger off and leave it to the battleships early on. Cool! Learned something today.
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Aug 12, 2023 19:02
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Mokotow posted:Let’s ask them Around late last year, or early this year, when news of the blocking brigades started to pop up they were either saying the reports of blocking brigades are fake or playing it off as minor isolated incidents. There were some minor attempts to whitewash the OG blocking brigades in WWII as well. What surprised me is that the reaction in the DnD thread, which is fairly pro-Ukrainian, was largely the same at the time. Not sure how either thread thinks about it now.
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Aug 12, 2023 19:29
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The blocking brigades are absolutely real and I've seen quite a few telegram videos of their work, both from videos produced by mobiks who experienced it and trying to get relief as well as from captured POWs explaining what would happen. The blocking detachments have also been recorded by Mavic 3 drone shooting down retreating Russians a few months ago in a wooded treeline. Blocking detachments existed prior to the Soviet Union, in the tsar's days the blockers were ironically Zaproizhzhian Cossacks most of the time. Cossacks were the tsar's secret police (okhrana) and enforcers and this translated directly to ethnic Russians manning the blocking brigades in the USSR as an extension of Russian ethnic preference by the - you guessed it - primarily ethnic Russian soviet elite. Stalin was Georgian and got away with it because, well, he was Stalin. Would YOU give him poo poo for being Georgian? By contrast Khrushchev was subjected to the usual mild jabs and stereotypes attributed to Ukrainians, and it played into the decision to ultimately remove him from power and replace him with Brezhnev This is just another form of a practice that has been in the Russian army for at least 400 years in some form HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Aug 12, 2023 |
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Aug 12, 2023 19:33
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Speaking of blocking units, there's some gruesome footage showing up as the result of a firefight between Kadyrovites and RU service members near Mariupol. I guess when the blocking units are on R&R, grudges can get settled mafia style.
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Aug 12, 2023 19:48
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Just Another Lurker posted:I think that meme has been discontinued. If only the reason why the meme started was also discontinued.
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Aug 12, 2023 19:48
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the popes toes posted:Speaking of blocking units, there's some gruesome footage showing up as the result of a firefight between Kadyrovites and RU service members near Mariupol. I guess when the blocking units are on R&R, grudges can get settled mafia style. This is a "Chechens/Caucasians vs ethnic Russians" thing and it happens a fair amount, fascinating poo poo Autisanal Cheese posted:If only the reason why the meme started was also discontinued. I think that's a bit unfair. We stopped the meme BECAUSE Willo stopped freaking out about nukes and nuclear war all the time. They've been posting normally for a while in here and I found their recent questions to be relevant and reasonable without the old kind of anxiety they used to display E: oh wait I think i did an autism and took your post strictly literally and not more about the reason WHY Willo was freaking out, which would be putin being a big piece of poo poo and starting a huge war HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Aug 12, 2023 |
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Aug 12, 2023 19:53
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Oh, some channels are saying Urozhaine near Staromaioske has been liberated, but unconfirmed by MOD so probably close to being liberated but not yet complete control.HonorableTB posted:This is a "Chechens/Caucasians vs ethnic Russians" thing and it happens a fair amount, fascinating poo poo
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Aug 12, 2023 20:02
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The U.N. should unsarcastically as possible agree to meet with Putin, in person, at The Hague for the meeting.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:09
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If a meeting was called between you, Putin, and TEMPLE GRANDIN OS's ball sack, would you go?
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Aug 12, 2023 20:14
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Karate Bastard posted:If a meeting was called between you, Putin, and TEMPLE GRANDIN OS's ball sack, would you go? yeah sure i can beat putin at dodgeball. and then make him flee ukraine as his loss.
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Aug 12, 2023 20:23
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I'm sorry I meant if a meeting was called between you, Putin, TEMPLE GRANDIN OS's ball sack, and nuclear annihilation would you go?
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Aug 12, 2023 20:52
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I'd drop nukes on TEMPLES balls.
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Aug 12, 2023 22:37
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Karate Bastard posted:I'm sorry I meant if a meeting was called between you, Putin, TEMPLE GRANDIN OS's ball sack, and nuclear annihilation would you go? yeah i'd put the nuclear football in the ball sack and throw it at putin. problem solved.
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Aug 12, 2023 22:45
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Mr Z ate my balls
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Aug 12, 2023 22:58
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Can't believe the west would threaten world security by giving guns to a country we're trying to genocide.
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Aug 12, 2023 23:08
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Biden should just say that he will double supplies every time Lavrov complains about it
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Aug 12, 2023 23:09
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What a strange trick https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1690367194561925120
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Aug 12, 2023 23:10
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HonorableTB posted:Mr Z ate my balls My condolences. Is there anyway sending one million Bradley IFVs can make up for it?
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Aug 12, 2023 23:13
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Butterwagon posted:What a strange trick As a demonstration of the future of the Russian air force it was executed flawlessly.
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Aug 12, 2023 23:16
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Butterwagon posted:What a strange trick That's the supermaneuverability you stupid westoids will never be able to match!
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Aug 12, 2023 23:22
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Butterwagon posted:What a strange trick It's not much, but it's honest work. 
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lmao the Su-30 can handle turns that tight and fast. the pilots tho? uhhhhhhhh yea
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