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uber_stoat posted:it's fun watching the government stirring like a drunken sleeping giant, hangover head pounding, slowly realizing just how hosed it is. yah lol
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Trabisnikof posted:the fact that if the us buys a loitering munition it will cost 100x more than if China, Russia, Iran, etc bought it goes beyond the organizational threat to flyboys etc that these munitions pose. the cost is due to the fundamental rot at play in the american economic system. Yeah this was what I was getting at, obviously the Switchblade exists but it has the same capability as something a fraction of the price. Could the US MIC make something as cheap as a Lancet, or even cheaper like a commercial quad? Sure (lol) but if the Pentagon is writing blank checks anyway, why would they? I'm curious in the context of like what a creative supply sgt could even do for "field expedient" stuff, are there even any commercial quadrotors with an NSN number? Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 02:11 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Red Metal posted:kojima's flaw was thinking the people building weapons actually wanted to make something other than money if the actual MIC built metal gear rex then mgs1 would've been a real short game
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the cold realization that being a false flaggable imperial lapdog for egoistical grandeur isnt a winning strategy
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https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1738207852815143324?t=08-fEM5F78QJ-ZhALWiJTA&s=19 Going through the couch cushions to look for missiles stage of imperial decline
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Cerebral Bore posted:look bud, as long as the tribute keeps coming in everything is fine *touching my earpeace* hang on i'm getting word from our field office in gaul
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Centrist Committee posted:maybe what this baby needs is more emperors 2025 will be the year of 4 presidents.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Going through the couch cushions to look for missiles stage of imperial decline when vassals ain't showing up for a photoshoot against yemen they definitely gonna show up in a hot war against china
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sullat posted:2025 will be the year of 4 presidents. Likely. Or the year of none, if the various peoples who are irreconcilable decide to get more angry about things and do what normally happens. How about a USA Caesar?
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The Oldest Man posted:might as well say the nazis won ww2 because you arbitrarily drew a line after the battle of france and called the rest of it something else Looks at NATO: The Nazis did win World War 2
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KomradeX posted:Looks at NATO: The Nazis did win World War 2 Peanut Brain: the USA won WW2 World Brain: the USSR won WW2 Galaxy Brain: the Nazis won WW2
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Cheaper and cheaper inland trade route via newly built railroads will make global trade shift from overwhelmingly sea trade back to a balanced sea/land trade network, which will shift and power from oceanic island countries back to continental countries. The development of cheaper anti-ship weapons will also facilitate this long trend. Not trying to low ball the achievement of the Houthis, they still have tons of advanced weapons for a political group that aren't even considered a country. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 13:24 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:Cheaper and cheaper inland trade route via newly built railroads will make global trade shift from overwhelmingly sea trade back to a balanced sea/land trade network, which will shift and power from oceanic island countries back to continental countries. The development of cheaper anti-ship weapons will also facilitate this long trend. rybar claims houthi's latest steel-hulled casualty is the first ever successful combat hit with a ballistic ASM
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Does the US need or want a coalition for Operation Prosperity Guardian?
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GrunkleStalin posted:Does the US need or want a
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stephenthinkpad posted:Cheaper and cheaper inland trade route via newly built railroads will make global trade shift from overwhelmingly sea trade back to a balanced sea/land trade network, which will shift and power from oceanic island countries back to continental countries. The development of cheaper anti-ship weapons will also facilitate this long trend. Luv 2 control the world island babyyyyy
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watching a US ship sink without any (available) response might look pretty bad in an election year. If a Seychelles ship happened to sink in a possibly drone related incident who’s to say what happened or who is actually at fault. How long does it take to sail around Africa anyway? There was an Israeli frigate on its way from a while back that I’m sure Ansar will be excited to greet
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FuzzySlippers posted:How long does it take to sail around Africa anyway? From "Red Navy At Sea: Soviet Naval Operations on the High Seas, 1956-1980": 
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So from Google on container ship speeds today that go a little faster that means 12 to 15 ish days? Fast for trips back in the age of sail but that seems pretty significant in our much smaller world of faster expectations. So those idf ships could’ve gotten there weeks ago. They might’ve joined operation shoot cheap drones with expensive missiles but doesn’t seem like they’ve tried anything aggressive
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rando "osint" Twitter account, but https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1738430782291468598
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Russians are probably still salty about the Baltic fleet having to go around the Cape they will be glad to see a Western nation get dunked by it.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Cheaper and cheaper inland trade route via newly built railroads will make global trade shift from overwhelmingly sea trade back to a balanced sea/land trade network, which will shift and power from oceanic island countries back to continental countries. The development of cheaper anti-ship weapons will also facilitate this long trend. The Houthis only control about 1/3 of yemen's territory but it's the part where 80% of the country lives so for all practical purposes they are Yemen. Near as I can tell they haven't conquered the rest of the country simply on the basis of they don't really feel like it
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mila kunis posted:rando "osint" Twitter account, but is it really a collapse if the whole thing didn't actually get going in the first place?
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This prosperity guardian poo poo is legit baffling, wtf is going on ("lol empire in decline") I'm thinking behind the scenes pretty much the entire world is going "gently caress Israel and by extension the US we aren't risking our rear end for them" and nobody wants to be the first to say what everyone is thinking.
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Justin Tyme posted:This prosperity guardian poo poo is legit baffling, wtf is going on ("lol empire in decline") look at what the countries are doing instead and you'll get your answer, france is instead just escorting french flagged vessels. I don't think this is as much "gently caress israel" as "protect my poo poo not someone else's"
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The Oldest Man posted:probably just go ahead and update that title from "will lose" to "is losing" at this point been saying this
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tatankatonk posted:If the US Navy can't intervene against Yemen, they can definitely take on the PLAN
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Yeah, the US may have pushed things too far, they are clearly getting little to no support beyond I guess the UK's 1 destroyer (which honestly is all the Royal Navy can afford probably). The US has told its allies, "its our way or the highway" and this is the result.
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Lol that the Houthi’s have done more lasting damage to the American empire in 1 month than the Soviets did in 50 years.
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Trabisnikof posted:look at what the countries are doing instead and you'll get your answer, france is instead just escorting french flagged vessels. I don't think this is as much "gently caress israel" as "protect my poo poo not someone else's" the reasoning is most likely that if you just protect your own poo poo then ansar allah is content to leave you alone, but if you go along with an overt us operation then your poo poo is also fair game
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why isn’t the US launching rockets at random targets in Yemen; like when Hillary went nuts on Libya to help her run for president?
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galagazombie posted:Lol that the Houthi’s have done more lasting damage to the American empire in 1 month than the Soviets did in 50 years. Houthi and the Blowback
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