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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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sullat
Jan 9, 2012

BearsBearsBears posted:

Do any NATO troops even know how to dig trenches?

That is encouraging a defeatist mindset, why build your own trench lines when your troops will be attacking soon anyway?

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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Ardennes posted:

The deluge occurred as Poland had became more of a concept than a cohesive entity.

We must go back

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

adebisi lives posted:

The answer is pretty clear: American boots on the ground. American planes in the air. American ships in the Sea of Azov.

Goodbye putler and his acolyte surrender monkeys in the West.

critical support for this insofar as it would break Are Troop morale

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012
Germany stopped doing mandatory military service both because many opted out and did civil service instead and also they had no use for recruits after decades of hollowing out the military.

Now they are talking about it again in the belief that as long as people are forced they will happily fight for their country instead of doing anything to actually incentivize doing so.
Neoliberalism is a powerful drug.

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀

Junkozeyne posted:

Germany stopped doing mandatory military service both because many opted out and did civil service instead and also they had no use for recruits after decades of hollowing out the military.

Now they are talking about it again in the belief that as long as people are forced they will happily fight for their country instead of doing anything to actually incentivize doing so.
Neoliberalism is a powerful drug.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

OctaMurk posted:

Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds
Both men and women could be called up to arrest decline of armed forces

Germany is also going to start celebrating Veterans Day

Veteran of what, you might ask

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

where is frosted flake?
last i saw him was a bit before the canadians changed their army logo into some pixelized abomination

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

Germany is also going to start celebrating Veterans Day

Veteran of what, you might ask

The last time they fought against Russia and shielded Europe from communist domination

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Doktor Avalanche posted:

where is frosted flake?
last i saw him was a bit before the canadians changed their army logo into some pixelized abomination

he has many faces

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Doktor Avalanche posted:

where is frosted flake?
last i saw him was a bit before the canadians changed their army logo into some pixelized abomination

He's gone, you have to let him go. The accident wasn't your fault

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
INDEPENDENT VESSEL, NO AFFILIATION WITH CANADA

Grimnarsson
Sep 4, 2018

Junkozeyne posted:

Germany stopped doing mandatory military service both because many opted out and did civil service instead and also they had no use for recruits after decades of hollowing out the military.

Now they are talking about it again in the belief that as long as people are forced they will happily fight for their country instead of doing anything to actually incentivize doing so.
Neoliberalism is a powerful drug.

Did they stop that in the 90s or so, at the End of History? I can understand that it wasn't justifiable to have mandatory military service after the unification and the fall of the USSR. How big would the Bundeswehr+reserves be anyway with conscription? Are they proposing to conscript everyone eligible or a some kind of lottery to fill a quota?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
For twelve years, you have been asking:

Doktor Avalanche posted:

where is frosted flake?

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

gradenko_2000 posted:

For twelve years, you have been asking:

lmao

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
israel/euro thread crossover
https://twitter.com/VocaISuspension/status/1789231791699636662

slay qween

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


You simply need to use a FF call, ahem:

"In this modern world of PGM, MLRS, air and drone power, there's little need for the obsolete traditional tube artillery. Furthermore, I have no strong opinions on the personal lives of attractive young women"

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
XVII ΑΔΗΛΟΝ
Οὐ μοι θῆλυς ἔρως ἐγκάρδιος, ἀλλὰ με προσοί
ζῳνες ἀνδρεῖοι ἔθηκαν ὑπ᾽ ἀνθρακίην.
πλείστερον τοῦδε βάλλος· ὅσον δυνατώτερος ἄρομν
θηλύτερης, τόσον χὠ πόθος ὀξύτερος.

Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I forget if it was this thread having an early discussion about how Spain ending up with jack all to show for their colonial plundering because it all went to the aristocracy and their creditors, but wild colonial plundering does have a tendency to foster that 'nation of shopkeepers' attitude where the only solidary the ruling class has is with making sure they stay on the gravy train, and anything in the way of that is eliminated as quickly as possible. Otherwise, there's zero incentive not to steal everything on the table, and eventually rip the copper out of the walls, as you end up with the descendants of the most rapacious and ruthless sociopaths in the ruling class being in charge of everything.

I read a really good article that said that gold fell on Spain like rain, collected in the gutter of the Netherlands, and then flowed off to Genoa

Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.

Doktor Avalanche posted:

where is frosted flake?


The current "dazzle" camouflage appears to be working

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Truga posted:

israel/euro thread crossover
slay qween
twitter poster shocked to find out about russia/israel dual citizenship.

CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀

Dokapon Findom posted:

I read a really good article that said that gold fell on Spain like rain, collected in the gutter of the Netherlands, and then flowed off to Genoa

That's a banger

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Grimnarsson posted:

Did they stop that in the 90s or so, at the End of History? I can understand that it wasn't justifiable to have mandatory military service after the unification and the fall of the USSR. How big would the Bundeswehr+reserves be anyway with conscription? Are they proposing to conscript everyone eligible or a some kind of lottery to fill a quota?

The Krauts paused conscription in like 2010. Surprised they didn't bring it back after the liberation of Crimea like all those other Euro freaks in the Baltics and Scandinavia

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

sullat posted:

That is encouraging a defeatist mindset, why build your own trench lines when your troops will be attacking soon anyway?

Trenches for me, not for thee:

https://www.newsweek.com/nato-russia-border-reinforced-trenches-bunkers-poland-1899254

Also has this little example of European culture:

quote:

The NATO states of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway and Finland have all been grappling with migrant flows coming from Belarus and Russia in recent years, movements they say represent a Moscow-Minsk weaponization of immigrants to destabilize Western governments and societies.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

When the Poles sent armed troops to ensure brown people froze to death in the fprest rather than be allowed to claim refugee status, that was actually Russia's fault

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

DaysBefore posted:

When the Poles sent armed troops to ensure brown people froze to death in the fprest rather than be allowed to claim refugee status, that was actually Russia's fault

That's why Russia is sending forces into Africa; Russia wants to force the EU to blow up migrant boats to make them look bad.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

DaysBefore posted:

When the Poles sent armed troops to ensure brown people froze to death in the fprest rather than be allowed to claim refugee status, that was actually Russia's fault

Also, when Latvia tortured them and kept them in cages without food and water? You're right: Russia.

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012

Grimnarsson posted:

Did they stop that in the 90s or so, at the End of History? I can understand that it wasn't justifiable to have mandatory military service after the unification and the fall of the USSR. How big would the Bundeswehr+reserves be anyway with conscription? Are they proposing to conscript everyone eligible or a some kind of lottery to fill a quota?

Military service ended in 2011 and by then it was only 6 months, reduced in several steps from the 15months in 1990.

It is a good question how it would work if reintroduced, before 2011 there was always criticism about the fairness of the system. Some wouldn't get asked to serve at all or got medical waivers. In the end like 1/3 of eligible people got away without doing anything and it did not make the idea of the service popular at all.

Organ Fiend
May 21, 2007

custom title

crepeface posted:

he has many faces



DJJIB-DJDCT: WHAT IS THE ACCUSATION

Fizziest: Rejecting materialism, gutting the Canadian artillery forces, being a Banderist, and misrepresenting the history of the Austrio- Hungarian Empire. Has his imperial majesty reached a verdict? 

*faces shift*
Frosted Flake: WE HAVE

Fizziest: What is the verdict

*faces poo poo*
CN CREW-VESSEL: INNOCENT 

Fizziest: Feed him to the sharkticons

*faces shifting rapidly*
Frosted Flake: HAHAHAHA
CN CREW-VESSEL: HAHAHAHA
DJJIB-DJDCT: HAHAHAHA

adebisi lives
Nov 11, 2009

Truga posted:

]

slay qween

The replies to this :psyduck:


https://twitter.com/ExiledIsraelite/status/1789260814735511809?t=PoWs0JrGG_IIGUJnnfau-Q&s=19

https://twitter.com/Nelli337/status/1789251743475241452?t=b_ASqxyRSz3qXUBQ2GON5Q&s=19

https://twitter.com/SID_withHRC/status/1789316039337001029?t=-lKHv2FchnP3eNsjtNY8aA&s=19

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Galut Greg🎗️ גלות 流亡
@ExiledIsraelite
No trembling knees. ישראלי בגלות 流亡的以色列人 ✡️🇬🇧🇹🇼🇺🇦🦁🇮🇱 🎗️

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

3 most important keywords LIBERAL ....DEMOCRAT..ZIONIST ..🇺🇸🇮🇱 Also a Proud neoliberal 🌎

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

The replies are not the most unhinged things about those accounts

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
Suryiak is claiming the four spearheads in the Kharkiv region "will soon become one" and the "situation is developing very fast". They tend to be on the conservative side regarding Russia's progress, so that's an unusual stance for them to take.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Wait so if she's Russian doesn't that mean she SHOULD be banned from eurovision???

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

The Chad Jihad posted:

You simply need to use a FF call, ahem:

"In this modern world of PGM, MLRS, air and drone power, there's little need for the obsolete traditional tube artillery. Furthermore, I have no strong opinions on the personal lives of attractive young women"

If that doesn't work, post up a tiktok or instagram posts with women in them and see if he can resist gettin' weird in public.

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


1stGear posted:

Suryiak is claiming the four spearheads in the Kharkiv region "will soon become one" and the "situation is developing very fast". They tend to be on the conservative side regarding Russia's progress, so that's an unusual stance for them to take.

What's it mean when your probing operation discovers weak spots in every single direction of the line, I'm sure it's nothing

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

It must be a clever trap lulling you into a false sense of security.

sum
Nov 15, 2010

1stGear posted:

Suryiak is claiming the four spearheads in the Kharkiv region "will soon become one" and the "situation is developing very fast". They tend to be on the conservative side regarding Russia's progress, so that's an unusual stance for them to take.

Suryiak is just some guy who's really good at geolocating Telegram videos. Who knows what will happen.

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CN CREW-VESSEL
Feb 1, 2024

敌人磨刀我们也磨刀
You say weird, Straton of Sardis says "ὅσοι δὲ γυναῖξι κρατοῦνται, τῶν ἄλογον ἔδων οὐδὲν ἔχουσι πλεῖον".

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