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Nazis Against Territories for Others (NATO) is at it again: https://twitter.com/RenieriArts/status/1492249342580830211?t=h8jPu2tPEjBhxxToXyg5Sg&s=19 Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger quote:Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer, whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany. Heusinger joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Nazi German Armed Forces from 1938 to 1944, before being appointed acting chief of the general staff for two weeks in 1944 after his predecessor (Kurt Zeitzler) resigned his post due to a nervous breakdown. He was then appointed head of the military cartography office when the war ended. He later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.
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Feb 14, 2022 19:46
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Anyone have a good up to the minute source on troop movements for the invasion today?
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Feb 16, 2022 14:49
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Josef bugman posted:Just as a quick thing, but I saw this posted elsewhere and wanted to ask folks here if there is any truth to it? There's been a bunch of reports of wealthy businessmen leaving the Ukraine for fear of invasion which makes sense because nobody wants to do business in a state about to rolled by tanks. All these expectations of war can only have a negative effect on the economy. Helpfully, the US is proposing that the Ukrainian government take out some loans to fix it.
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Feb 16, 2022 20:43
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Conspiratiorist posted:Ethnic cleansing. That is what the Azov battalion is for, afterall: Exterminating the Russians and their Jewish overlords.
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Feb 16, 2022 20:47
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Cugel the Clever posted:It's also potentially (but not necessarily) indicative of media consumption. Moscow-oriented media sticks with the pejorative usage, so folks who are quick to downplay Russia's belligerence while centering complaints about the West and Ukraine will often go with the language they hear most. Yes yes, you've nailed it on the head. There's a secret media cabal spreading lies at the behest of the Russians, and they can be spotted by their use of the word "the".
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Feb 17, 2022 00:49
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Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but the market is having a bad time with all beating war drums https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin/status/1493340579467509765
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Feb 17, 2022 01:15
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CommieGIR posted:Uh, the "color revolutions" where actually just the fall of the Soviet Government. And for the most part we were actually opposed to adding a lot of Eastern Bloc countries to NATO. They went far, far out of their way to get NATO membership. I think he's referring to the coup in 2014, not the collapse of the USSR.
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Feb 17, 2022 01:18
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CommieGIR posted:Which was still a military invasion with marked Russian units. Which the 'vote to annex' didn't happen until afterwards in Crimea. And a vote held by a country notable for having what basically amounts to a president for life who jails most of his opposition. And violently murders the others. In other countries.. Are we still talking about Ukraine? I have no knowledge of Russians invading Ukraine att. In fact, the democratically elected government that was ousted was trying to establish closer ties with Russia, why would they try to get rid of them? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 17, 2022 01:28
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/samramani2/status/1545522605502992387 Wow, what kind of damage can these do?
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Jul 8, 2022 23:52
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Prettz posted:You know the MLRS of Desert Storm fame? It's that, but smaller and holds fewer of the rockets. I assume this is to be more mobile?
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Jul 9, 2022 00:22
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Kibayasu posted:Its much faster and lighter, wheeled instead of tracked. Its also far more accurate (when used correctly) then the typical artillery cannon in Ukraine so instead of blanketing an area with hundreds of shells to hopefully hit something you want to the rockets hit where you want them to +/- some margin of error. cinci zoo sniper posted:Kind of. M142 is mounted on a truck that goes ~80 km/h on highway, and M270 is mounted on a Bradley frame (tracks), but can still go ~60 km/h. I doubt either of those are being driven at max speed on rural Ukrainian roads, unless the Russian army alone isn’t meeting the desired health hazard levels. Sounds fast and accurate enough to hit a target and maybe skiddaddle before they get located. 
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Jul 9, 2022 00:34
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Mr. Apollo posted:wonder if they were just waiting for funding. Where would they take off from? Does Ukraine have any functional air fields? Have they cloned the ghost?
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Jul 16, 2022 01:46
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Plenty of functional airfields, they aren't paved with unobtainium. ...yeah but airplanes require an incredible amount of maintenance above and beyond just fuel, armaments, and housing. They are an incredibly delicate machines which doesn't really work for the guerilla warfare that Ukraine appears to be fighting.
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Jul 16, 2022 02:23
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Every piece of footage I've seen is basically one dude shooting a rocket at a tank and then bailing.
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Jul 16, 2022 02:34
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:How do you expect light infantry to fight mechanized forces? ......guerilla warfare?
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Jul 16, 2022 02:38
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....wait the Ukrainians are going toe to toe with Russian artillery!? Holy poo poo. Never mind. This war needs to end.
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Jul 16, 2022 02:44
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MassiveSky posted:So Germany will deliberately run itself into an energy crisis of unprecedented scale instead of reactivating their nuclear plants for, say, five more years? Germany looks like it's sitting right on the separation between the two developing trade blocs. Will be interesting if they cut some special deal with BRICS or just go through a cold German winter without heat.
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Jul 16, 2022 23:29
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Rinkles posted:Anyone have a sense of how the German public feels about all this? Probably a whole lot of justified anger and fear, but I hope people aren't thinking that Ukraine is not worth it. Germany can get very cold. I think if there is support for maintaining the sanctions, it will be sorely tested if this war lasts till winter.
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Jul 17, 2022 00:45
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:it's being reported that the us will announce a $3 billion dollar aid package tomorrow I think this means that the United States has run out of excess munitions to send and must produce more to continue equipping Ukraine. I wonder how much of the production line relies on foreign-made microchips.
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ZombieLenin posted:You wonder what “leftists” think about labor laws in a state capitalist Stalinist poo poo show of a state, which no longer exists, during the Second World War? poo poo gets weird when you're fighting an existential war. The years on those proclamations, 1929 and 1941, as well as the title of the book, "Soviet Labor Law during the second world war" should remind the reader that drastic times meant drastic measures. The other option was to simply roll over and die for Nazis. That doesn't mean that certain laws didn't overstep, but building a war machine from scratch capable of fighting the most powerful military on earth was not an easy feat when the czar had left the country with basically medieval technology. Before Stalin's reforms, czarist Russia lost a defensive war against the Japanese whom they outnumbered 8:1 due to basically nonexistent infrastructure and laughable productive capacity*. By the end of WW2, Russia was pumped out more than 100k of some of the most advanced tanks of the era. And they needed those tanks or else the 24 million Russian death toll would have been much higher. People forget that the USSR killed more Nazis than the rest of the world combined. That would have been impossible with the productive capacity they inherited from the czars. *Edit: Russia was also forced to surrender to the Germans during WW1 because of their terrible military capacity. Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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I think it's very strange to assume that espionage is impossible in a time of war. Sabotage and intrigue are very normal parts of armed conflict, and assuming that a Russian official's death can't possibly be the result of a faction they are currently fighting feels conspiratorial. IMO there still isn't even an adequate explanation for why they would launch a false flag. Usually false flags come before a declaration of war as a justification for it, not afterwards and especially not targeting the family member of an official. Like, why would a ranking official be willing to sacrifice their own daughter when they could just blow up an empty barracks? poo poo, why not just blame all those exploded ammo dumps on the Ukrainians?
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