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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:It was designed in 1986 and uses 1986 technology. But have they just not built any since? And if they have, it would surely be cheaper, lighter, and an improvement to pop in a modern sensor. Anyway I guess asking "why isn't the US MIC making cost effective weapons or being efficient in production" is a question that answers itself.
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May 17, 2024 20:38
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KomradeX posted:Gladio still at work lets not jump to any crazy conclusions here for all we know putin ordered this assassination attempt just to prove that he could
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May 17, 2024 20:38
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Morbus posted:But have they just not built any since? And if they have, it would surely be cheaper, lighter, and an improvement to pop in a modern sensor. Look, we can build you a new rocket system for $1 Trillion USD, or we can sell you this old rocket with a tape deck for $200k each. E: I slightly overshot that, we're only giving out $600 million to replace the antique stinger line. nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 21:05 on May 17, 2024 |
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May 17, 2024 20:49
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nomad2020 posted:Look, we can build you a new rocket system for $1 Trillion USD, or we can sell you this old rocket with a tape deck for $200k each. More or less.
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May 17, 2024 20:54
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Ardennes posted:It is made more bizarre due to the fact that you can just fly to Russia and ask people. Unknowable Asiatics that require a flight from Istanbul to meet i remember back in when this started, in 2015, especially after 2016 and russiagate, seeing a western living in russia telling people on some other forum that they can watch cnn, nbc, whatever american news channels in moscow, and they just plain didn't believe 'em. It's like how if there were religious displays in Russia or Xinjiang they were forced to make a display, if there weren't any then they were suppressed. Western propaganda methods are pretty drat good, but then again I've never lived elsewhere so maybe they have good stuff in other places too!
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May 17, 2024 21:17
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status/1790765583711297690?t=r7EDH7ozXrGXx9D3xO99VQ&s=19 im just marveling at the guy going political assassinations eh no big deal slovakians are very unhappy of course they want to kill their elected offcials the contrast between this and say january sixth rhetoric is quite something to behold
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May 17, 2024 21:25
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People are more political in the east!
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May 17, 2024 21:41
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Nonsense posted:People are more political in the east! there's a lot of political grandpas in eastern europe
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May 17, 2024 22:34
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Life is political in the Orient
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May 17, 2024 22:36
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Officer Sandvich posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/kharkive-defenses-ukraine-russia-reinvasion/ I remember reading in this thread the reasoning that defenses couldn’t be built was due to consistent Russian firepower on excavation and construction equipment, which Ukraine was carefully hoarding. it’s genuinely incredible to see a bunch of people in a random message board be able to analyze this war sometimes months before it gets confirmed
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May 17, 2024 22:48
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RUSI, RAND and especially ISW aren't getting paid to do analysis, they're getting paid to produce propaganda. The problem is that by outsourcing the actual analysis government uses to those same think tanks, and cutouts like Bellingcat, it's created a feedback loop since Feb 2022.
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May 17, 2024 22:58
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I remember that one time when ISW literally called the Russians orks lol
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May 17, 2024 23:16
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Freezer posted:I remember that one time when ISW literally called the Russians orks lol Wait, what
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May 17, 2024 23:27
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genericnick posted:Wait, what https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-3 quote:Ukraine has won the Battle of Kyiv. Russian forces are completing their withdrawal, but not in good order. Ukrainian forces are continuing to clear Kyiv Oblast of isolated Russian troops left behind in the retreat, which some Ukrainian officials describe as “lost orcs.” They claim to be quoting an Ukranian source but come on you can't post that poo poo and expect people to take you seriously as anything other than a propaganda outlet. They were really high on their own supply at that stage of the war.
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May 17, 2024 23:48
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iCe-CuBe. posted:You guys have clearly never watched a Marvel movie if you're freaking out about this. The villain always scores a win before the hero remembers what he stands for and destroys them once and for all. That's what's happening with Zelensky right now. finally some goddamn sense
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May 18, 2024 00:09
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Do you condemn people who arrogantly and baselessly presume that Donald J Trump will be the Republican Party's candidate for the upcoming Presidential Elections of the United States of America?!?!?
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May 18, 2024 00:13
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I condemn the war but I will NEVER condemn orcs
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May 18, 2024 00:14
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institute for the study of war, upon learning about dakka and waaagh for the first time
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May 18, 2024 00:16
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Awful quiet in the news about the Fico hit
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May 18, 2024 00:43
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Delta-Wye posted:institute for the study of war, upon learning about dakka and waaagh for the first time Institute for the Study of Waaagh
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May 18, 2024 00:43
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dk2m posted:I remember reading in this thread the reasoning that defenses couldn’t be built was due to consistent Russian firepower on excavation and construction equipment, which Ukraine was carefully hoarding. it’s genuinely incredible to see a bunch of people in a random message board be able to analyze this war sometimes months before it gets confirmed I'm consistently amazed that the analysis in this thread is on average far better than the highest levels of alleged expertise in the West. But perhaps I shouldn't be
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May 18, 2024 00:52
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euphronius posted:Awful quiet in the news about the Fico hit There is plenty of news about the Fico hit (he brought this upon himself because he is a chud) Whether Robert Fico survives and resumes office or not, Slovakia stands on the brink The shock of an assassination attempt could heal the deep divisions that Fico exploited, but the omens are not promising quote:Then came Robert Fico, a prototype populist. He was an early embracer of identity politics: the good men and women of toil in the small towns and villages versus the metropolitan elite in Bratislava, the capital, with their imported ideas. As prime minister between 2006 and 2010 and then 2012 to 2018, he fulminated against the west for his domestic audience, exploiting the insecurities of many in central Europe after the financial crash.
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May 18, 2024 00:53
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FICO? the Forward Into Charkov Offensive?
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May 18, 2024 00:55
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this is the georgia thread as well right https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1791075341382910160
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May 18, 2024 01:09
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crepeface posted:this is the georgia thread as well right How you know poo poo is aimed at western liberals. Harry Potter and Hunger Games. Also, this conveniently excuses away public Roman salutes at these protests. 
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May 18, 2024 01:20
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its impressive how all of these protest movements about sovereignty and respecting democracy dont have any non-american media to shamelessly ape not a single work of georgian art has ever been made, so they have to borrow a symbol from some trash young adult adaptation hollywood shat out a decade ago
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May 18, 2024 01:20
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 Someone needs to add an afterward to all these books about deculturated international liberal-capitalist aesthetics
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May 18, 2024 01:22
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Georgia longs for western culture
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May 18, 2024 01:24
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VoicesCanBe posted:I'm consistently amazed that the analysis in this thread is on average far better than the highest levels of alleged expertise in the West. But perhaps I shouldn't be The people doing analysis in line with us are getting "silenced" by their careers being a dead end if they spill the beans.
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May 18, 2024 01:43
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This war is so god damned stupid and has killed so many people for no good reason.
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May 18, 2024 01:46
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The news doing a 180 about how the ukranians were caught off guard by the attacks into kharkiv are stupid because its been known for months that russia has been amassing troups. They correctly identified that these attacks are to draw away resources to those fronts. They were caught off guard by how poo poo their defenses were leading to that first defensive line.
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May 18, 2024 01:47
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Georgia needs to buckle up fast, we're running out of Ukrainians
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May 18, 2024 01:50
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supersnowman posted:The people doing analysis in line with us are getting "silenced" by their careers being a dead end if they spill the beans. i cant believe my salary isnt dependent on avoiding common sense materialism as much as possible
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May 18, 2024 01:52
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Isn't the American government the bad guy in the Hunger Games, both metaphorically and literally?
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May 18, 2024 01:57
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Ukraine could have been only be caught off guard by the lack of defenses if you only consume the propaganda. In reality it was very obvious that since last year's counter offensive they were constantly on the backfoot. You don't calmy build defenses while throwing any available resource into holding the line. Of course if you only read that Russia is losing entire armies every week it will surprise you but then you are lost anyway.
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May 18, 2024 01:57
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supersnowman posted:The people doing analysis in line with us are getting "silenced" by their careers being a dead end if they spill the beans. Yeah, SA is only unique in that we all have careers elsewhere and can think through events without running afoul of the Rules Based International Order. Well except maybe FF
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May 18, 2024 02:00
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VoicesCanBe posted:I'm consistently amazed that the analysis in this thread is on average far better than the highest levels of alleged expertise in the West. But perhaps I shouldn't be the west works on narratives these experts aren't actually teaching anything, they're essentially actors. I'm sure behind closed doors things are very different. But if you want the easy career of doing absolutely nothing for a six figgy salery, for life, to continue then you'll stick to the narrative. The lovely state of the world is probably making people clam up even more. When times get tough people look out for number 1 and if the ships are sinking then they might as well live in comfort. It's an open secret that billionaires are really into bunkers. People obviously sense something is up so i imagine the west is just going to get increasingly insane
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Nix Panicus posted:Yeah, SA is only unique in that we all have careers elsewhere and can think through events without running afoul of the Rules Based International Order. Well except maybe FF I wanted to be a historian or theologian but those aren't viable career paths in today's academy. e: gauche CN CREW-VESSEL has issued a correction as of 02:13 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 02:05
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:How you know poo poo is aimed at western liberals. Harry Potter and Hunger Games. They all watched too many Bond movies growing up. They all fall asleep to episodes of The Office.
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I wanted to be a historian or theologian but those aren't viable career paths in today's academy. The Yang Wen-li career path huh. Vo Nguyen Giap if anime comparisons fly over the head.
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