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HonorableTB posted:Lol man Ospreys look like something from Halo. I think VTOL aircraft are so cool, like something a kid would come up with
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Jun 28, 2023 16:24
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:18 hour days for me, for 6 months. You guys got 6 hours a day off?
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Jun 28, 2023 16:26
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CSM posted:It's obvious that with his 90% approval rating, Zelenskyy is trying to prevent his defeat in the 2024 elections and establish a dictatorship. Zelenskyy isn't making poo poo up, by constitution and statute Ukraine cannot legally hold elections while martial law is declared. The current declaration is set to expire in August but obviously hey intend to extend it if the war doesn't start wrapping up really drat quickly.
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Jun 28, 2023 16:27
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steinrokkan posted:Yet another proof this thread is controlled by bloodlusting DoD agents promoting their imperial war  Flyinglemur posted:You guys got 6 hours a day off? We needed time to eat our fresh steaks instead of MREs in our air conditioned tents 
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Jun 28, 2023 16:29
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mobby_6kl posted:Gulf War would do too. What's the paraglider icon?
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Jun 28, 2023 16:34
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Prettz posted:lol did you play a different halo than everyone else?  Idk I think the osprey looks like the falcon from Halo reach
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Jun 28, 2023 16:34
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Tei posted:No idea. The only russian proverb I know is: My favorite I learned from one of the COVID threads: "On the whole we live pretty well. Not as good as last year, but better than next year."
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Jun 28, 2023 16:35
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Tarquinn posted:What's the paraglider icon? Ground radar dishes I think.
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Jun 28, 2023 16:37
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:
Did you ever get Pizza Hut delivered or was that only in the reboot war? Tarquinn posted:What's the paraglider icon? Radar installations, he describes it at around 6 minutes
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Jun 28, 2023 16:38
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Anders posted:Again, no doubt that the US have a stupid large military and could 1v1 all other armies - but as we’ve seen in Afghanistan, gear alone won’t win wars This is a fair point, but you're starting to get into the question of when the military part of a war stops and when the political part begins. Afghanistan was an indisputable failure, but I would argue that the failure was not because of the US military not being able to fight.
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Jun 28, 2023 16:39
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Thanks! 
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Jun 28, 2023 16:42
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:
Hey you know where the safest place to be is during a war in the desert? In submarine.  My first deployment to the Gulf I was a gunner on an amphibious assault ship, but we had plenty of air conditioning and good food after we dropped the Marines off. The subsequent deployments on submarines were much more tolerable
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Jun 28, 2023 16:51
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mobby_6kl posted:Did you ever get Pizza Hut delivered or was that only in the reboot war? I never got deployed. I had a special duty project at the Dover Air Force Base Port Mortuary, there were several temporary buildings set up in anticipation of the ground war part of the campaign starting. Intel indicated a possible use of chemical weapons by Saddam's forces; casualties in the first 24 hours of the ground war were anticipated to be up to 5,000 dead. Pretty loving grim. My job was to make sure those temporary buildings were negative air pressured; I was an HVAC controls guy at the time- if there were any remains inside the building, none of that air inside was allowed to ever get out in the event they were hit with chemical weapons, including nerve agents. To protect the local populace. Who had no loving clue what the gently caress was going on. We were of course forbidden to speak to the media who bugged everyone who went in and out. I was able to piece all of this together in the months and years following it all but yeah- it was grim. PTSD is no joke
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Jun 28, 2023 16:53
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Lol how's that plan going to wait for USA support to wane https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1674080557204897795?t=rPAuCOfL1F4GMBkvMrtzAA&s=19 https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1674077790432374794?t=d11RRvxjNL6CRv4dtzksUg&s=19 Thoughts on what to do with a collapsed Russian state. SBU found the spy that directed the missile strike on Kramatorsk that killed multiple civilians, including children https://twitter.com/kvistp/status/1674014298211794945?t=dPsPRPtsHB1oARaBsRPzMA&s=19 HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Jun 28, 2023 17:05
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:
 
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Jun 28, 2023 17:11
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HonorableTB posted:Lol how's that plan going to wait for USA support to wane As for the other thing, we'll cross that bridge when we get there 
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Jun 28, 2023 17:14
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HonorableTB posted:Lol how's that plan going to wait for USA support to wane When did Tucker get yanked off the air? I know correlation isn't causation, but...
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Jun 28, 2023 17:19
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Wow I figured support for the war would steadily decrease as war fatigue sets in.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:20
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How much of increased support is down to Tucker Carlson not being on fox news every day?
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Jun 28, 2023 17:21
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He was kicked off the air on April 24th, happy birthday to me
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Jun 28, 2023 17:23
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I'd imagine at least some of it is that we haven't seen it escalate into WW3 and we've resisted boots on the ground. Those are things a good portion of people were worried about.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:27
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Roman Reigns posted:Wow I figured support for the war would steadily decrease as war fatigue sets in. It was a poll conducted June 26th-27th, so there's a chance that maybe people's responses were colored by a bunch of news that happened over the weekend. Maybe some event happened that made Russia look less invincible and people got their hopes up? Nah, what am I talking about, RUSSIA STRONK and Putin is in a better position than ever so that clearly can't be it.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:30
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https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1674054582295490562?t=xsMjjHeUL8-FTBmX54Zh3Q&s=19 Just a reminder of what Ukraine is fighting against
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Jun 28, 2023 17:40
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NihilCredo posted:Yeah but ignoring the Z crowd, the question "how do you run elections in wartime when cruise missiles exist" is an important one. You’re dealing with the kind of credulous dummy who fully believes that Russia only fires highly accurate missile strikes at military targets and any collateral is the result of Ukraine stupidly shooting them down or just flat out fabrications.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:45
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Dwesa posted:
So um... we would love to sell a bunch of tanks (and other weapons) to people, as long as they agree not to use such tanks or weapons to defend themselves against an invasion? Are the Swiss just not wanting to have any military exports at all after this?
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Jun 28, 2023 17:45
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traditional very lucrative neutrality
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The Locator posted:So um... we would love to sell a bunch of tanks (and other weapons) to people, as long as they agree not to use such tanks or weapons to defend themselves against an invasion?
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Jun 28, 2023 17:48
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The Locator posted:So um... we would love to sell a bunch of tanks (and other weapons) to people, as long as they agree not to use such tanks or weapons to defend themselves against an invasion? Lots of countries have sacked orders placed. Military companies are not happy with the government
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Jun 28, 2023 17:48
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Tai posted:Lots of countries have sacked orders placed. Military companies are not happy with the government It's a bare knuckle battle between the wicked swiss bankers and their neutral world banking supremacy vs swiss arms industry..... I'm betting the bankers win (hint: the bankers always win)
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Jun 28, 2023 17:51
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The Locator posted:So um... we would love to sell a bunch of tanks (and other weapons) to people, as long as they agree not to use such tanks or weapons to defend themselves against an invasion? The Swiss reasoning here is not to sell weapons to countries that are in a conflict with another nation, therefore placing themselves ~indirectly~ in opposition to that other nation, which means neutering their stance of neutrality.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:52
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Zzulu posted:It might be a surprise to certain Americans that holding an election during war is a bad thing since you guys did that successfully during a couple of wars. The major MAJOR difference here is that your borders were not threatened and your civilians were generally safe in all the modern wars. Not to mention a fair number of Ukrainian citizens are in occupied territory and it's unlikely that the occupying nazis will allow them to set up polling places.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:53
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Roman Reigns posted:Wow I figured support for the war would steadily decrease as war fatigue sets in. It turns out that when one side in a conflict decides to go all war crimes all the time, people tend to support the other side.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:53
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Russia blowing up the dam also made international headlines and helped shore up support too
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Jun 28, 2023 17:59
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Roman Reigns posted:Wow I figured support for the war would steadily decrease as war fatigue sets in. The US isn't dealing with war fatigue.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:04
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The Locator posted:So um... we would love to sell a bunch of tanks (and other weapons) to people, as long as they agree not to use such tanks or weapons to defend themselves against an invasion? Swiss policy is that they'll sell weapons in peacetime, but providing weapons to nation currently in a shooting war is taking a side, and Swiss policy is to never take sides.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:07
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/28/7408947/quote:President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Colonel Serhii Yaremenko, the commander of the 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Tsentr (Centre) Air Command. Since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, Colonel Serhii "Hranit" (Granite) Yaremenko has led a team that repels air attacks in one of the most responsible areas, Ukraine's centre and north. And most importantly, the unit provides air defence of the Ukrainian capital. 
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Jun 28, 2023 18:10
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HonorableTB posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1674054582295490562?t=xsMjjHeUL8-FTBmX54Zh3Q&s=19 They can enjoy their communist bread lines and ration stamps after the war ends, and with luck, the nonexistence of their mafia gas station after it breaks up. Disgusting pieces of poo poo like this have no place in civilized society.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:13
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Anders posted:While I have no doubt the US have the most advanced military, I have doubts that their military will perform as good in the real world as on paper as many think The MIC are absolutely profit driven, but a lot of the cost comes in the US DoD acquisition side of things requiring extensive documentation on basically every aspect of how a thing was made to ensure it was made following the proper specs and manufacturing processes so it will perform as its supposed to, in addition to making sure the company itself and the supply chain they use is safe from any kind of espionage, sabotage, or general issues in a time of war. The phrase 'good enough for government work' used to actually mean something that was extremely well made because of that. There are probably hundreds of thousands of specs that are still in active use that were formerly created by the US government and were then handed off to non-government standards organizations. There actually was a massive controversy some years ago that just wrapped up on the F35, where a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor (probably) was found to be supplying Chinese-made magnets for use in the turbine engines. It's a very minor thing and the investigation ended with 'yeah they're safe to fly', but there's still liability there.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:16
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lol ope, putin might want to pay more attention to this generals.. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18817 quote:Plot Thickens: Russian Generals Supported Wagner Mutiny but Backed Out – US Intelligence
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Jun 28, 2023 18:20
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pacerwpg posted:Did they know they could melt and reforge it at the time? Have you ever had a long and difficult project you're already kinda sick of fall apart in your hands right before the finish line? NihilCredo posted:Or maybe you can try for a 2-day truce, if you have enough of a stick to believe that the Russians will respect it? This would be a very bad idea unless Russia has literally run out of weapons. Which I guess amounts to a specific understanding of "enough of a stick", but like ... "fought you to a standstill 20% of the way into our country, ~10% of which you already had military in" should have been enough of a stick to begin with, should be right now.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:22
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Americans may love, love making fun of ourselves, our many flaws, and our own government’s seemly inept bureaucracy but our logistics are far and away the deadliest thing on the planet right now (for better or worse) it’s not a matter of America = good as much as, look at the other guys
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