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FrancisFukyomama posted:isn’t Britain in warhammer a land of subhuman swampmen who have less lore than warhammer China did before the total war games oh its been a while i confused albion and the high elf island ulthuan
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dk2m posted:... Would you say MIC vs. Wall Street was part of the struggle and Wall Street come out ahead in the end? Also all the anti war cultural movements might have lineages to the American NGO ideas that CIA love to use oversea right now.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 20:39 |
stephenthinkpad posted:Would you say MIC vs. Wall Street was part of the struggle and Wall Street come out ahead in the end? Also all the anti war cultural movements might have lineages to the American NGO ideas that CIA love to use oversea right now. Reagan supported the formation of the student loan industry as a way to suppress student movements with a sword of debt hanging over them, much like the IMF.
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ro5s posted:in terms of description it’s all frozen wastes but on the maps it’s all of not north america Z the IVth posted:Strictly speaking isn't Naggaroth not-Canada? Yeah, it's all of NA, but all of it with Albertan* weather. *possibly the wrong province for this analogy, I know very little about Canada.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Question for the thread, what's America's most MICbrain war in recent history? What is the war that make the lease sense even if you win it, that has the lowest potential return to actual cost ratio? the only reason the invasion of Grenada wasn't a humiliating disaster is because US intelligence massively overestimated both the ability and the willingness of the locals to fight, and it would have been a complete bloodbath if they had put up even token resistance. it was the peak of imperial arrogance, roll in almost completely unprepared and place a bunch of your men and equipment at huge risk for just about the lowest reward possible. almost no effort at all was put into intelligence gathering or really any preparation at all for the invasion, they just came in and landed like it was a training exercise. they paradropped guys directly onto the lit-up runway at the airport that was supposedly held by hardened Cuban special forces, who would have massacred them as they landed if they had actually existed. now, in practice, nobody tried to fight back - the Cuban 'defenders' were actually unarmed and bemused construction workers, for example - but they could have easily lost hundreds of people trying to take a city-state the size of Ft Lauderdale. as-is they still managed to lose a bunch of guys in helicopter crashes trying to capture literally-undefended buildings, nearly kill the American students they were nominally there to rescue, and drop napalm on a hospital
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In that vein, Somalia. The Black Hawk Down incident specifically. It's only by luck it was only 18 dead IMO. They had convoys that got loving lost in a city that was hostile to them. They ran back and forth between the crash sites and eventually got pinned down. If someone got lucky (again) with an RPG on the lost convoy, they're toast. If the Somalis had some radios to coordinate better, they're toast. They had air support and that probably was the decisive factor above all else, but they still ran very close to just simply being overrun, and their relief still wasn''t showing up for like 12 hours after this all happens. They were lucky to get away with just 18 dead instead of a total party wipe
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 21:09 |
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if the most MIC-brained war is the one where the MIC benefited the most, consequences be damned, then it is probably the war in Laos/Cambodia. just massively profitable for the MIC, helped to create the tech industry and all their MIC profits, and defined a style of "spend and deny" wars that we're still fighting. if the most MIC-brained war is the one where the MIC showed the most hubris for least amount of profit, maybe the Kosovo War.
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 21:18 |
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Mister Bates posted:the only reason the invasion of Grenada wasn't a humiliating disaster is because US intelligence massively overestimated both the ability and the willingness of the locals to fight, and it would have been a complete bloodbath if they had put up even token resistance. it was the peak of imperial arrogance, roll in almost completely unprepared and place a bunch of your men and equipment at huge risk for just about the lowest reward possible. If you only nearly kill the hostages that's one of the most successful military operations since NATO's founding
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War on Drugs
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Wasn't Kosovo war a "win" to NATO in the western narrative. I'll admit I don't know enough about this war. Also was it big enough of a war for a MIC feast?
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stephenthinkpad posted:Wasn't Kosovo war a "win" to NATO in the western narrative. I'll admit I don't know enough about this war. sure they count it a win...but they count everything as a win now. but like you said, they didn't get to feast that much, the PR failures were pretty big, China probably got some sweet tech out of it. so least MIC gain for most MIC loss
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# ? Jan 31, 2024 22:36 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:Wasn't Kosovo war a "win" to NATO in the western narrative. I'll admit I don't know enough about this war. yep: they bombed the poo poo out of Serbian infrastructure, bombed the Chinese embassy and got away with it, showed the Russians who destroyed themselves fighting in WW1 to save Serbia how much Russian power had declined, and ensured Yugoslavia would finish fracturing. It was a win on all fronts.
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Mister Bates posted:the only reason the invasion of Grenada wasn't a humiliating disaster is because US intelligence massively overestimated both the ability and the willingness of the locals to fight, and it would have been a complete bloodbath if they had put up even token resistance. it was the peak of imperial arrogance, roll in almost completely unprepared and place a bunch of your men and equipment at huge risk for just about the lowest reward possible. Aaaaahhahahahahaha I've never heard this before and it's broken part of me
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My theory about Grenada is that every few decades they pick a little guy to kick his poo poo in to remind Latin America who is the predator in the jungle. So it's more of an imperialism project than a MIC project.
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stephenthinkpad posted:My theory about Grenada is that every few decades they pick a little guy to kick his poo poo in to remind Latin America who is the predator in the jungle. They had to take a second mordida at that apple that decade to make up for Grenada, in Panama. He's still in a US jail after being a US puppet lmao. I still think Bush I's term was just tying up loose ends from CIA, Noriega and Saddam.
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https://twitter.com/dotorii_muk/status/1752382475098276291 the days of the elite being shamed by lack of infrastructure in the us is over
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stephenthinkpad posted:My theory about Grenada is that every few decades they pick a little guy to kick his poo poo in to remind Latin America who is the predator in the jungle. When i was 10 or so an older kid told me that each president got to pick on some little state so he'd feel like a big man... Reagan got Grenada and Bush was getting Panama. Little did we know Bush would get two wars but hey, the kid wasn't wrong.
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FrancisFukyomama posted:isn’t Britain in warhammer a land of subhuman swampmen who have less lore than warhammer China did before the total war games there's actually a faction in Warhammer Fantasy, the Brothers of Handrich, that has a particularly interesting arc: they're burghers that start plotting a conspiracy to manipulate the Elector Counts and overthrow the imperial order because the despite their accumulation of wealth, they can't parley it into political power.
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Why Defense Contractors Are Saying No to Their Biggest Customer: The Pentagonquote:Why Defense Contractors Are Saying No to Their Biggest Customer: The Pentagon the hate of fixed price contracts form the wsj is actually funnier then it seems at first glance. the mic is getting eaten from the bottom up by inflation and is unable to pass that cost to the pentagon lol. also obligatory falling rate of profit. it's fine though we're not like those russians or chinese with their one dimensional and inefficient state defense companies
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 05:07 |
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https://news.yahoo.com/houthi-missile-got-close-us-221324399.html They're getting closer. Can't really imagine of a stupider use of irreplaceable assets, but declining empire's gotta declining empire.
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the us is losing ww3 but maybe they’ll legalize weed nationally in the next decade
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skooma512 posted:They had to take a second mordida at that apple that decade to make up for Grenada, in Panama. He's still in a US jail after being a US puppet lmao. Meanwhile Chavez stayed winning till the end. sullat posted:When i was 10 or so an older kid told me that each president got to pick on some little state so he'd feel like a big man... Reagan got Grenada and Bush was getting Panama. Little did we know Bush would get two wars but hey, the kid wasn't wrong. Big Man theory.
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Orange Devil posted:Big Manchild theory.
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Danann posted:Why Defense Contractors Are Saying No to Their Biggest Customer: The Pentagon US govt: i can't believe i keep getting owned by the actual ruling class
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/dotorii_muk/status/1752382475098276291 China is winning/will win the new cold war literally just through infrastructure building. Talking to local/state politicians directly is a pretty solid strategy too. Even Gavin Newsom, who transparently has presidential ambitions for 2028, rolled out the red carpet for Xi. VoicesCanBe has issued a correction as of 15:28 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Didn't a bunch of SEALs get owned in Panama?
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skooma512 posted:They had to take a second mordida at that apple that decade to make up for Grenada, in Panama. He's still in a US jail after being a US puppet lmao. Noriega died a few years ago, actually.
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vaxxed?
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VoicesCanBe posted:China is winning/will win the new cold war literally just through infrastructure building. You can go look at some Chinese city you've never even heard of in Google maps and it looks more impressive than any city in the US, it's insane to think the US is better than China at anything and if we are they're only 5-10 years behind catching up.
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Justin Tyme posted:You can go look at some Chinese city you've never even heard of in Google maps and it looks more impressive than any city in the US, it's insane to think the US is better than China at anything and if we are they're only 5-10 years behind catching up. They are 20 years behind on Cinematic Universes.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:50 |
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It did occur to me recently that if anyone in government was smart or gave a poo poo, they would have gotten involved with the SAG strike on the side of the actors. Cultural Capital is one thing we still have going strong, and, properly managed, could keep going for decades. If the US film industry goes all in on AI-generated content, that’s is a genuine threat to America's standing in the world. If anybody with a decent computer can AI generate an Ant-Man 5 that’s the same quality as the one Disney generated, what’s the point of Hollywood?
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DancingShade posted:Artillery schmillery. What we really need is Google AI pilots for our 6th or 7th generation airplanes, where you authenticate yourself as the human operator by plugging your smartphone into the console. The AI does all the hard work for you like taking off, landing, stall prevention etc. didnt someone do this with a submarine last year
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ace combat loads 88 missiles and a minigun cannon on an F35
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Everyone in Japan just assumes that's an Area 88 reference.
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ace combat makes warthunder look like MS flight sim fun as gently caress though
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 17:21 |
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always funny blasting refugee tents with air to air missiles for bonus points, no idea how the game designers didn’t catch that in QA
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Gripweed posted:They are 20 years behind on Cinematic Universes. Who needs those when you've got Journey to the West right there
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Burn Zone posted:the us is losing ww3 but maybe they’ll legalize weed nationally in the next decade just in time for page 420
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I'm convinced nationally legal cannabis will never happen. I don't know why nor can I offer any explanation, this is just a thing I feel to be factual.
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federal decriminalization is my only hope; the dairy state is in the grip of the TAVERN LEAGUE who think as long as the devil's lettuce is verboten we will turn to the bottle
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