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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1497045091831197696?s=20&t=ViK7gvUNtgnmnjLcyxbq3A Paging ThisIsJohnWayne
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PookBear posted:Yeah I don't think we had 140 flying tigers during ww2 There were over 300 men sent as part of the flying tigers, with over 100 of them being pilots. Edit: which isn't 140 pilots, but was a lot closer than I expected. This may also be because the program was cut short--there were supposed to be more AVGs.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I really hoped fonger was german for finger you and your "fahngervagging"
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Soul Dentist posted:Putin just needs to eat one of those Snickers bars and troops will pull out immediately! I can see it. Hitler across from advisors at a super long table. "Vhat do you mean? Ve must expand ze lebensraum for ze glory of our people. Ve must liberate our peoples trapped when our previous governments stabbed us in the back!" The rhetoric has hit a fever pitch, the miniature mustachioed menace is beet red while advisors look on muttering in confused Russian. One slides a snickers all the way down the long table like a chocolate shuttlecock. Putin appears, "Sorry about that, I dont know what came over me. Pull back all troops." He then gets up and rides out on a horse.
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Alan Smithee posted:New thread title should include penaids Pantsir around anklesir: "Does this look like PENAIDS to you sir?"
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Handsome Ralph posted:I unironically appreciated pallet chat. It was a good distraction from the doom and gloom. A real cleanser of a subject. Edit: if you make a pallet thread, I'd let these goons know
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If they weren't, could you crane the tank over? piL fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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wins32767 posted:They aren't going to connect, that's all swamp. The blob in the middle there is already in trouble, just one pontoon bridge to supply them since Ivankiv was recaptured. "Attack through swamps, they wont expect it" is the "lure them into ____ and then set ______ on fire" of Eastern Europe.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Yeah the bridge strike I think is far more feasible and the other relies far more on Russian incompetence, based on what you’re saying. Bridge strikes are a: hard to line up at range and b: not enough of a mission kill to give a surface craft that fired it a chance to survive (unless maybe these are air launched brimstone). If you're going to build a Kaiten navy, there's better ways than hoping for a bridge strike. Edit: will definitely ensure you have to defend your LSTs, however.
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Quackles posted:Hang on, where did the TNT even get sold to? Whoever bought it can't really use it without getting a lot of attention. "Stuff blows up" isn't quiet or subtle. Alternatively, buy 1,000 sticks of dynamite and ten pieces of wood. Sell the army 1010 sticks of dynamite with a 99% chance they won't be discovered pocket the difference of 10 sticks of dynamite. Repeat. Altalternaritively, replace your 1,000 sticks of dynamite with wood and sell 1,000 milspec sticks to a legal buyer: the military
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I assume the driver sits in the loaders lap while the commander sits on their shoulders
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golden bubble posted:Did you see Erdogan's demands for him to stop vetoing Finland and Sweden's entrance in NATO? Man, we're going to have to create new stationery for the NAETO/OTEAN alliance which coincidentally happens to have every NATO member state except for Turkey, plus Sweden and Finland.
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Farking Bastage posted:I'm pretty sure at this point the Stay safe NSA WIZARD.
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is sliding a red button remote across a table to a Ukrainian officer while a Price is right wheel comes to rest on "Kutuzov"
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Crab Dad posted:Lol China is enemy number one with India due to water and water alone. My read is that Indian leadership knows this isn't enough for the West to just let China soak India into the Neo Great Asian Prosperity Sphere if it came to blows. Falling in line also wouldn't ensure American participation if something like that happened. The US is known to be fickle and India doesn't have some greater alliance they compete for stature within like NATO or the EU. India has often found success by playing orthogonal to the axes of the day, much like Israel and France.
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Alchenar posted:Is this the first big conventional war where one side is operating mixed sex combat units? (not really counting Israel) It was probably WW2, though I'd be curious as to the relative numbers. See: Aleksandra Samusenko (who was convinced to let Joseph Beyrle fight along side her u nit) It's hard for me to find from simple googles who else was in Maria Oktyabrskaya's tank crew, but I assume the crew of that tank was probably mixed and not all female. Manshuk Mametova dominates searches for the 100th Khazakh Rifle Brigade. Not sure what the prevalence was, but there was at least some.
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I find it odd when people compare Russian camps for political prisoners to the Nazis. I mean, yes technically--you're not wrong but I don't think you need to travel that distance.A.o.D. posted:It is my belief that Putin is cargo culting Stalin, and is enacting the polices he has because he sees Stalin as the greatest 
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Kchama posted:Is it? I thought it was just a right-wing shithouse, considering everything about them. Communist like Stalinism, not communist communist.
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bird food bathtub posted:I don't know how much I consider it a deceptive feint. It has seemed to me to be less a deception and more of a two front attack against an opponent having a really bad time with logistics (what with HIMARS-o-clock and all) forcing them to make a decision on which front loses badly and which one becomes a fight. Russia chose and shipped personnel to one front, where Ukraine is doing some pretty serious fighting, the other was so hilariously under-staffed and degraded that it wasn't possible to fight back. This is Michael Kofman's take. It seems to me that such a thing is a natural product of interior lines. Belligerent with interior lines attacks/counterattacks, those attacks discover weaknesses or unexpected strength at one point and can shift soldiers/tactics to avoid the danger and to exploit the weakness.
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Kesper North posted:We should at least send Stake'ums Vampire vampire vampire piL fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Sep 16, 2022 |
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Marshal Prolapse posted:A dumb extremely stupid piece of Big Mac eating poo poo. Wow, Imperial Japan also responsible for accelerating the holocaust. I dont generally see a lot of people arguing that Japan should have attacked Pearl Harbor, but maybe this guy hangs out in places I don't.
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A.o.D. posted:I'd rather the cannibal. Day one of Stalingrad 2: Donetsk: "Not yet Yegor, Goddammit, we still have rations."
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I didn't do it, but if I was going to do it I wouldn't dive to do it.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:*GE enters the room* Now the West is supplying the Polish-Ukranian compact with just most powerful general? Despicable.
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shame on an IGA posted:this is how you fall out a window on the General Dynamics factory tour GD buildings don't have windows, just overly large HVACs 
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The American confectionery industrial complex has rot your brains.
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Re kon uh souuh
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A.o.D. posted:What can a JDAM-EST accomplish? Arrives three hours before a JDAM-PST 
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PurpleXVI posted:Don't sleep on this one, guy should've been a comedian as well as a politician. In 2023, the highest compliment that can be paid to a politician.
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Nuclear War posted:I just, well, does anyone have any predictions of an end to this insane poo poo in the near future to share? First, thank you for what you've done. Second, my prediction is a non-prediction. Historically, when powers fail, the people around them predicting the failure weren't especially more common or rare than at other times. The longer the people of Ukraine resist, the more resources and trust the Russian leadership expends, the less likely they are to be able to respond in full to some other crisis. A disaster or collapse that runs concurent a resolute and persevering Ukrainian people is probably the best hope. Ukraine is waiting for an opportunity, for a strong hand to fall and change the game. The deadly procession of time and the tendency for entropy mean that the unbreakable wall of defense will outlast the merely- nearly-unstoppable force of aggression given enough time. Whether they can survive and whether the West continues to support will determine how well Ukraine can emulate an unbreakable wall, but it's not all hopelessness and gloom. It's just tragedy until it isn't any more.
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