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They need to make a Nobel Prize for Public Relations.
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Sep 27, 2023 21:40
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mllaneza posted:They need to make a Nobel Prize for Public Relations. It would be just as valid as the fake price in economics.
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Sep 27, 2023 21:47
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Poopin and Lavatov. Lavatov and Poopin.
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Sep 27, 2023 21:48
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idgi
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Sep 27, 2023 22:06
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The United States military can be at combat ready strength in under twenty four hours anywhere on the planet. The Abrams is only a part of that deployment package.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:07
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Dwesa posted:Interesting article on how Russian provincial/rural communities perceive the war based on first-hand account Reminds me of stories from the Russian countryside during WW1. The collapse of state control and the high food prices meant that 1914-1918 was paradoxically one of the best times to be a Russian farmer.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:11
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tango alpha delta posted:The United States military can be at combat ready strength in under twenty four hours anywhere on the planet. The Abrams is only a part of that deployment package. a combat team of the 82nd airborne can be, deploying and mobilizing the US forces for Iraq under Desert Shield took like 6 months which is still alarmingly quick but not 24 hours quick
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Sep 27, 2023 22:23
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:a combat team of the 82nd airborne can be, deploying and mobilizing the US forces for Iraq under Desert Shield took like 6 months which is still alarmingly quick but not 24 hours quick Some units can be on station within 24-48 hours, but nothing like an actual large unit deployment, and for certain not armored units. That's partially why we maintain bases overseas to make a quick reaction force possible without a lot of staging in an emergency.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:28
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Vengarr posted:Reminds me of stories from the Russian countryside during WW1. The collapse of state control and the high food prices meant that 1914-1918 was paradoxically one of the best times to be a Russian farmer. there's that one rant that toshiro mifune's character has in Seven Samurai that i feel is one of the better illustrations of this for folks who are skeptical about the phenomenon. mifune's character, who is trying really, really hard to be a samurai even though he's some orphaned farmer from nowhere, detonates and rants to his noble-born compatriots that farmers have everything buried under the floor. rice, fruit, sake, meat, they've got it all under the floor! but they'll tell you, nope, sorry, all out the whole time! of course, this screed comes out under the context that the farmers are robbed every month, if not from the literal bandits the samurai are fighting, then from the government who takes "their share" and gives nothing back.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:44
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A massive thread on all the western equipment that goes into manufacturing Russian weapons in one weapons plant.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:46
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:a combat team of the 82nd airborne can be, deploying and mobilizing the US forces for Iraq under Desert Shield took like 6 months which is still alarmingly quick but not 24 hours quick CommieGIR posted:Some units can be on station within 24-48 hours, but nothing like an actual large unit deployment, and for certain not armored units. That's partially why we maintain bases overseas to make a quick reaction force possible without a lot of staging in an emergency.
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Sep 27, 2023 22:53
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Puts  into better context. If my history remembering is right at the time of the revolution huge swaths of the Russian empire were still basically medieval serfs. It's like the Mongol yoke set them back 200 years and they still haven't recovered. I had a friend who did study abroad in rural Russia like 20 years ago and the thing the people she stayed with found incomprehensible was calling the police or really interacting with the government at all. They couldn't think of any reason to call the cops, if you did they might try to stop someone from breaking in or killing you or whatever but then the cops would demand all your poo poo to get them to leave.
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Sep 27, 2023 23:01
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:A massive thread on all the western equipment that goes into manufacturing Russian weapons in one weapons plant. This kinda worries me what the same thing would find for Chinese parts in US weapons/systems.
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Sep 27, 2023 23:19
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:Puts Yeah, it just strikes me as horrifically depressing. Like I can wrap my head around abject poverty and famine and such, like with all the various civil wars in the African continent mixed with echos of imperialism, same with parts of south and Central America but this poo poo is madness to me. Like it’s fantasy novel poo poo. Half expecting geralt to ride up looking for work or a ducking unicorn or leshen to be in the woods. Like Jesus.
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Sep 27, 2023 23:20
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Coolguye posted:there's that one rant that toshiro mifune's character has in Seven Samurai that i feel is one of the better illustrations of this for folks who are skeptical about the phenomenon. mifune's character, who is trying really, really hard to be a samurai even though he's some orphaned farmer from nowhere, detonates and rants to his noble-born compatriots that farmers have everything buried under the floor. rice, fruit, sake, meat, they've got it all under the floor! but they'll tell you, nope, sorry, all out the whole time! And then sacrifcies himself to protect those very same farmers. Truly a russian parable
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Sep 28, 2023 00:01
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Negostrike posted:idgi It's one theory why they took so goddamn long.
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Sep 28, 2023 00:33
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stab posted:And then sacrifcies himself to protect those very same farmers. it's only missing baba yaga making a technically correct deal with mifune over becoming a respected samurai he totally was, in the 10 seconds he was bleeding out on some shitsplatter farmer's doorstep
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Sep 28, 2023 00:59
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Coolguye posted:it's only missing baba yaga making a technically correct deal with mifune over becoming a respected samurai There's a reference to shitsplatter and Putin here surely
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Sep 28, 2023 01:07
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pro starcraft loser posted:This kinda worries me what the same thing would find for Chinese parts in US weapons/systems. I think the US has been careful to keep an entirely domestic supply chain for military equipment.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:13
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If you have shitsplattering diarrhea for more than three days its known as a special fecal operation or Putin on the blitz.
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Sep 28, 2023 01:19
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Pekinduck posted:I think the US has been careful to keep an entirely domestic supply chain for military equipment.
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Sep 28, 2023 02:36
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Sashimi posted:Doesn't the F-35 have lots of parts made by a wide array of international partners, themselves holding a stake in the aircraft too? not the same thing as you're quoting. the question is whether or not you have all the tooling you need at home to make these things, and, implicitly, whether you have tooling to make more tooling. an army could source parts from 80 different countries and still have a fully domestic supply line.
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Sep 28, 2023 02:51
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the loving sun king was scared of coups.
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Sep 28, 2023 05:04
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:a combat team of the 82nd airborne can be, deploying and mobilizing the US forces for Iraq under Desert Shield took like 6 months which is still alarmingly quick but not 24 hours quick It's more a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_reaction_force "Anywhere in the world in 18 hours" is doable for a smaller force, and the U.S. can land combined arms within 72 hours. It's not an exaggeration, but a result of the "world police" level of influence, budget, and logistics. But expanding to a full combat presence does take some time. Negostrike posted:idgi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWz_C8uNY2g And the "Alright alright alright" is a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuER2Puym4I
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Sep 28, 2023 05:59
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1706709060349768127quote:The plywood marshall Shoygu, who barely managed to save his skin by fleeing Rostov just hours before Prigozhin's arrival, says that the Moscow regime is increasing its firepower to achieve set goals by 2025. What goals exactly, no one knows, but it doesn't matter - Shoygu's only purpose is to keep the Kremlin Ripper on the throne for as long as possible, and no Russian lives will be spared for this. Iron curtain 2.0 and permawar are the only way for P*tin to make up for the huge mistake of failing the invasion of a much stronger nation. 
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Sep 28, 2023 06:40
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hey, those are actually quite tasteful nice pieces of wood that guy collects instead of actually doing his job its actually very much art piece money hes paying for em by embezzlement. it aint plywood
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Sep 28, 2023 06:41
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I still find it mind blowing that a months built up, surprise-ish Russian attack against a half prepared Ukraine was unable to advance even the 30km required to even enter Kharkiv, let alone take it
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Sep 28, 2023 06:46
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NihilCredo posted:I've known the proverb since childhood, never realised that it doesn't exist or even have an equivalent in English! Here in the great US of A we reserve hanging for the serious crimes like manufacturing your salsa picante in the wrong region.
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Sep 28, 2023 06:48
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Here in the great US of A we reserve hanging for the serious crimes like manufacturing your salsa picante in the wrong region.
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Sep 28, 2023 06:56
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Get those loaves and fishes over to Evidence, constable!
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Sep 28, 2023 07:06
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Sure, the US is Satan, I get that, but there's also Mega Satan, Super Satan, Giga Satan and Hyper Satan to consider.
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Sep 28, 2023 07:10
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I can only consider one Satan at a time, sorry.
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Sep 28, 2023 07:35
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It gets really dicey when all the satans combine into one mecha satan
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Sep 28, 2023 07:40
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Sorry if I am butting in on anything horrific. I'm about 10 days behind.
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Sep 28, 2023 07:41
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I'm running Hyper Satan at the moment but I think it's a bit unstable, I might reduce the power limit a little.
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Sep 28, 2023 07:43
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Sorry if I am butting in on anything horrific. I'm about 10 days behind. Boy, don't you look like a poor waif in their underwear right about now!
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Sep 28, 2023 07:44
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Karate Bastard posted:Sure, the US is Satan, I get that, but there's also Mega Satan, Super Satan, Giga Satan and Hyper Satan to consider. But have you considered that because US bad, then Russia good? And if Russia bad its fake news and false, its because US made them do bad things.
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Sep 28, 2023 08:04
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Mistle posted:It's more a reference to this: Also a Marine Expeditionary Unit is only 2-4k people. Not necessarily an entire invasion force by itself, but enough for a beachhead or police actions.  Of course these sail with carrier groups, which very much are an invasion force by themselves. Also MEUs dont all ship from the US a couple ship from Okinawa Also check out this map - 33k troops in Germany alone. 
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Sep 28, 2023 08:04
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Tarquinn posted:I can only consider one Satan at a time, sorry. Cover the others with Satan Wrap
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Sep 28, 2023 08:06
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spankmeister posted:It gets really dicey when all the satans combine into one mecha satan Ah, the dreaded Natas. Or, as we in the West call it; "NATO".* *Javelin sold separately, inquire about joining today!
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