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The Voice of Labor
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the middle east summit attended by
(top row) global finance,
(second row) global industry,

hamburglar, representing burger interests in banking and trade
abbadon rothschild and his demon, representing european burger interests
prince bootlickah al cuckold, representing burger interests in the middle east
the ingurgitater and the holy offerings of the globe, the burger and the bomb, representing the vital spirit of burger
prime minister crying baby hitler, representing burger interests in the other part of the middle east
president cheese burger, your president, representing your burger interests
the antichrist
prime minister supplicant chan, representing burger interests in the far east
vice president chicken head, no one invited him, no one wants him here, but he's so insignificant no one can be bothered to tell him to leave

front row, the presidential hogs, greed and gluttony, representing themselves

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DancingShade posted:

The latest USA drones are on the pricier side.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/cca-loyal-wingmen-drones-to-cost-quarter-to-third-of-an-f-35

"The rough expected cost of a single CCA will be "on the order of a quarter or a third" of the current unit cost of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter."

Too expensive to risk in actual combat really. Much like the f35. Plus I guess it might rain.

helper ships or "options" are absolutely the next step in turning fighters into actual shmup avatars. please page me when they make an f35 that transforms into a robot, thank you

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cat botherer posted:

So like dick rockets?

aren't they all?

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a sam can only destroy one uav before it itself is destroyed. a uav can hellfire an indefinite amount of weddings and schools and hospitals before it's shot down. it's not really a fair comparison

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there is nothing about suspenders which is contrary to holding the technical edge

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what if, instead of going up against countries that would destroy it, america set its sights on conquering europe? I don't think the us would lose ww3 if ww3 were the us against britian and maybe portugal or france

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are there any good books giving a historic overview of guerrilla warfare? I read the first few chapters of max boot's and, man, dude lives up to his name. you can tell he's an american spook because out of the 50 or so chapters only one is on vietnam and there are zero about native americans (though there is one on the kkk during reconstruction). I forget the author whose book I skimmed the preface of before looking at the boot book, but it was even worse

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Frosted Flake posted:

The short answer is no, because more than most forms of warfare, it's culturally specific.


that's unfortunate. I think boot's approach could've made for a good read had it not been written by MAX BOOT. if it had 10 examples, 2 or 3 per epoch or whatever, at 20 pages long each instead of 50 at 2.5 pages, that would've been enough space to present geographical, ideological and demographic context with room left to spare for the state of the empire or tyrant that was being guerrilla'd.

the defining trait of asymetry is enough. 250 pages of "the romans had legionaires, the jews had rocks and the high ground" and "the americans had bombs and artillery, the vietnamese had righteousness" would be fine with me

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it's rad that u.s. imperialism is so gross that the rest of the world has united against it even without a shared banner of dominant ideology behind it. it's like a rainbow coalition, people of all races, religious and political beliefs brought together by their hatred for america.

so after the suez canal and crimea are expropriated, what's going to be the next shipping route conflict, south africa or greenland after the icecaps melt?

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one nation under aipac

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GlassEye-Boy posted:

happy Chinese new years! Chinese IED game strong now that fireworks bane has been temporarily lifted.

https://x.com/olalatech1/status/1756301223672545609?s=20

well I guess if someone has to exploit africa and plunder all its mineral wealth it's better that those minerals go towards making fireworks that make people happy than going towards bombs that genocide innocents

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the military will harvest the homeless in an attempt to learn their secret of invisibility

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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

smdh that we replaced sub-calibre trainers with simulators.



hey not ff, why does the projectile in the hornet nest videos move so slow?

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the u.s.'s best play for stability is to start making concessions to its working class

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Tempora Mutantur posted:

fine. vacuummen, or suckers for short

I prefer violencenauts

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incitatus biden

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Complications posted:

we'll know WW3 has started when every unsecured internet facing SCADA controlled bit of infrastructure near simultaneously self destructs

i wouldn't count on the power grid lasting past that

our saving grace is that I think our enemies generally prefer to avoid civilian casualties and it's us and our allies who revel in them

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gonna say any intersection with the cspam parenting thread

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KomradeX posted:

Gee maybe NATO having all of these conferences about how to confront China, would make China reluctant to trade a good that can be used to attack them

is this why I can't get butterfly knives from aliexpress anymore?

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resupply battalions looking for charcoal and bird poo poo and piss like kirk when he was fighting the gorn

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sorry to move the discussion towards handheld artillery, but choice of cartridge seems to largely follow the pattern of "this one is too big, this one is too small, let's make one halfway between the two", so what were the other two rounds on either side of the goldilocks 30 calibre?

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the newest man personal flying device tested by the us army is a couple tabs of lsd

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that's an absolutely beautiful weapon's system. it requires a ton of energy to get into the atmosphere then the projectile looses most of its efficacy returning from the atmosphere

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Maed posted:

i remembered a british test of a nuclear warhead rocket recently that failed and it made me wonder, does the us test its icbms anymore? it'd be very funny if we tried to nuke somebody someday and the rockets just don't work cause stock buy backs are more profitable than making rocket parts

you won't be laughing when the minuteman goes up, comes straight back down, blows up, and dominoes all its nearby silo neighbors thus ending all life on earth

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Orange Devil posted:

Just make sure you set up some cool environmental storytelling before you do it.

*the vault dweller stumbles upon a shack. inside is a wooden table on top of which is a burnt out candle, an empty wine bottle and two glasses. seated at one end of the table is a human skeleton, at the other end the faded and decayed remains of a waifu pillow*

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how hard is it to incorporate a defense contracting company and get a government contract? results obviously aren't expected or required so it seems like it could be easy money to me

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this whole tawain thing is a ruse. america's real battlefront with china is mongolia

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nah, all the tbi from artillery going off has inured his brain to aneurysms

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america will proclaim no tag backs after its initial bombing campaign and will thereby win ww3

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if cia funded provocateurs intensify their attacks on concert halls, parades and other civilian getherings, vicotry will surely be ours

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Zeppelin Insanity posted:

I for one think it would be very good for the US to replace their existing towed howitzers with fantasy projects that will never get made, and I would like to encourage them to do it.

I would rather have infrastructure and health care and education. the fantasy weapons won't get made either way

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atelier morgan posted:

i tried figuring out motor, chip and pcb production figures because i have a hunch the fpv drone proliferation situation wouldn't scale to a conflict larger than ukraine when civilian electronics markets can't supply you but holy poo poo is the electronics market capital-brained to the point where i'm having a hell of a time finding output in material terms rather than dollar terms

that and search engines are worthless ofc

e: i did find a little bit of us will lose ww3 in the attempt as it sure seems like the us department of commerce only uses dollars to define the size of the electronics companies supplying the us military

maybe pick a few areas where production figures and monetary figures are available, work out the yuan to output/dollar to output relation then use that to make an assumption on chip and motor production based on the dollar output

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gonna go with pulled a knife and not a gun because of prior felonies

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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Well maybe if I had a grandfather who was more of a role model...

k, I'll bite ff, which handlebar mustached pith helmeted mil hist icon do you wish had been you peepaw?

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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Mortimer Wheeler

I see you've put some thought into this

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quote:

The town of Vicksburg—which had suffered miserably during the siege, with disease, starvation and death stalking soldier and civilian alike—would not celebrate the Fourth of July for 81 years.

look at these socialists kneeling for the national anthem

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I once read something wise written on the bumper of a car. "kill your television" the sticker read

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carloco doesn't exist, dino delaurentis is dead. yeah, movies suck because the funding to make good ones isn't there anymore

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if we let a kenyan be president I guess a canadian would be ok

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