Frosted Flake posted:

America had mass hysteria over Japan sending a few balloon bombs to land in the middle of nowhere, Washington State.

fosborb posted:

that's what Japan wanted, but the us office of censorship made sure stories of the balloon bombs weren't published until after the war was over

Frosted Flake posted:

America had mass hysteria over Japan sending a few balloon bombs to land in the middle of nowhere, Washington State. It's hard to overstate how the Airpower country never being bombed or having a war fought on its soil has warped its perception of war and civilian suffering.

Lebanon was practically destroyed for a quarter century of civil war, invasion and occupation.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

sullat posted:

I think you might be conflating a couple of incidents; there was a great deal of mass hysteria immediately post-Pearl Harbor especially once Japan used a submarine to bombard an oil refinery near Los Angeles. Whether or not the hysteria was wide-spread or out of control is a matter of opinion, however since Steven Spielberg made a movie about the mass hysteria, in the American mythos movies define reality and so there you have it.

The balloon-bombs were kept secret precisely because of the mass hysteria, so they were not widely known during the war, up until some family found one of them lying around while on a hike and decided to poke it with sticks until it exploded. This was in the middle of nowhere Oregon.

fosborb posted:

that's what Japan wanted, but the us office of censorship made sure stories of the balloon bombs weren't published until after the war was over

HashtagGirlboss posted:

There was one balloon bomb that killed people on the Oregon coast. It got tangled in a tree and a bunch of kids on a picnic went over and started playing with it and oops

Frosted Flake posted:

So the country addicting to bombing urban areas has really not even experienced any?

Al-Saqr posted:

Qassam put out an informational video about their hand-placed anti-tank weapon, why they use it and it's specifications, along with a demonstration.

https://x.com/TurkiShalhoub/status/1720466927519244734?s=20


it's made to be placed right next to the merkavas munitions magazine.

they gave some statistics, it weighs 3 kilograms, it was made in Gaza, and they say it can penetrate 60 cm of armor.

so it's not a weapon of desperation its on purpose to be placed by hand.

Chillgamesh posted:

What are those little ball-and-chain things hanging from the rear of the turret? They’re visible when the soldier is planting the charge

crepeface posted:

Frosted Flake posted:

So the country addicting to bombing urban areas has really not even experienced any?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

smarxist posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

Frosted Flake posted:

and again, it's worth pointing out that the Lebanese Army has been deliberately deprived of air defence, in fact can't even buy it, like Cyprus, precisely so Israel can bomb Lebanon whenever they want, it was a condition of them leaving.

trucutru posted:

Shame on all of you for not doing anything about this awful massacre, you're less than human. As opposed to us, who may look like we're not doing anything, but in reality we are slowly ratcheting the pressure.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/thems_thebreaks/status/1720448802048364963?t=cyrgXCv-VhJcRGXqQ4KMEQ&s=19

Owlbear Camus posted:

this propaganda is so idiotic.

to whatever degree i'm fearful of militants fighting a colonial power in their own backyard coming for me in burgertown, it's not nydus tunnels into sheboygan, it's a more diffuse and stochastic but predictable blowback for us continuing to materially support massacres and genocide. to wit making me more afraid of that just reaffirms my commitment to want to my country to stop selling Israel the means to murdering palestinian babies.

Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:

drat that loving sucks. They need to get strapped like Algeria.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

smarxist posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If a PFLP fighter tunnels up in front of me, I'm thanking him for his service.

Diet Crack posted:

BMP - Big Massive Phallus

AMMAN/DOHA (Reuters) posted:

Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle East sources and Western diplomats said on Wednesday.

Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Moscow-based defense think tank CAST, said he had no direct knowledge of the offer, but he would not be surprised if a contract to supply Saudi Arabia with 150 Russian T-90 tanks were revived.

“There was an order of T-90s that was stopped for mysterious reasons, and if this is a resurrection of that order then we could suspect that the Saudis want something in return and that something could be linked to Syria,” said Pukhov, who is close to Russia’s Defense Ministry.

“If the Saudis want Moscow to outright drop Assad, they will refuse the deal, but they may have a more nuanced position, which they could possibly agree to.”

Russia and Saudi Arabia penned an arms contract in 2008 for 150 T-90s as well as more than 100 Mi-17 and Mi-35 attack helicopters as well as BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, but the contract has stalled for years.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

God knows if the Houthis could do it they would've invaded Eilat already.
https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1718631473513734531?s=20

Truly the world's most heroic people along with Palestinians.