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“Yesterday” would be your local time, but no rifles is a good point. They were purporting it to be recent.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:31
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Ah, yeah, I’m sure we’ll get actual footage soon enough…
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Feb 24, 2022 18:33
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1497045091831197696?s=20&t=ViK7gvUNtgnmnjLcyxbq3A I don’t think ace combat was the anime anyone wanted to make real.
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Feb 25, 2022 06:20
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Cythereal posted:You asked, and the news provides via a fairly serious war crime. Isn't that a legal ruse of war?
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Feb 26, 2022 02:29
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orange juche posted:It's a violation of the Hague Convention of 1907, Article 4, Section II, Chapter I, Subarticle 23 quote:of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy I guess it depends on exactly what they did, details matter a lot here not captured in one tweet.
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Feb 26, 2022 02:50
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Proud Christian Mom posted:maybe yall should just stop going to cspam and then getting mad or since its a high traffic fyad lite, you can call out dumb posts
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Feb 26, 2022 02:53
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I don’t think I’ve ever seen that plane before what’s its purpose? Larger picture which should make it more obvious  It has all of the antennas so it can record all of the signals. (also as someone that struggled in engineering electromagnetics that thing is terrifying)
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Feb 26, 2022 03:16
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Naked Bear posted:Maybe they're just pumping this out on Russian freqs: It’s a king air so it’s not going to have the power for that. There’s an EC-130 variant that can do it however!
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Feb 26, 2022 03:29
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I forgot the weirdest thing about those planes: they’re army. DoD took away the army’s boats not long ago, how long are they going to have fixed wing aviation?
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Feb 26, 2022 03:49
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Kazinsal posted:I wonder what cspam’s thoughts on the Holodomor are. Not having any context for a thread but I'm assuming its something along the lines of "Churchill did the same thing in India a few years later and nobody gives a gently caress so something else is up with anyone that brings it up".
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Feb 27, 2022 02:25
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Grand Fromage posted:This is not an exaggeration by the way. Whole bunch of people who argue the Empire of Japan was anti-imperialist. Not even counting the Japanese right wing! Clearly, they did a good number on the British empire and the little bits of America's attempt at having a colonial empire.
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Feb 27, 2022 02:28
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Milo and POTUS posted:What's then holy gently caress if real The initial reaction to every live tweet from the war zone?
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Feb 27, 2022 03:30
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FrozenVent posted:Why the gently caress does Russia do comm in the weirdest way? Are they NDBs?
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Feb 27, 2022 04:58
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The difference is that Trump never really followed through on anything that didn’t involve speeches and adoration of crowds. It’s probably why prosecutors are having trouble finding any actual crimes.
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Feb 28, 2022 18:38
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Marshal Prolapse posted:That’s actually really good to know and highlights just one of the major differences in forces. I just couldn’t imagine US artillery say just shooting poo poo randomly in the Baghdad with 155mm artillery. Now someone loving up and doing it, yes, but not as a matter of policy by anyone. But in say Fallujah where the majority of civilians have either evacuated or have picked up arms and are now combatants entire sections of the city were destroyed. That’s one of the problems with arming your civilians - you’ve made the entire city a “legal” target. Take a pot shot from your apartment? Shot, over.
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Feb 28, 2022 19:42
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McNally posted:wait lol Like trading off prime minister/president except being dead/alive.
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Feb 28, 2022 20:11
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Immanentized posted:https://twitter.com/OSINTNS/status/1498359109095239686 Twitter thread says the Russian column was on a different highway so it’s not that.
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Feb 28, 2022 21:00
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mmtt posted:Ukraine MoD just claimed 96 tanks, 20 Grad MLRS & 8 fuel trucks on a hit on a fuel dump in the east of Kyiv. When did the JSTARS get on station? 
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Feb 28, 2022 21:52
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pmchem posted:the point is that Poland is a NATO member and Russia is unlikely to not retaliate against attacks originating from their airbases Yeah. Ukraine strikes Russian assets from Poland Russia launches cruise missile strike on airbase in Poland Poland invokes article 5 NATO launches cruise missile strike on Russian strategic bomber base. That seems dangerously close to thermonuclear war.
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Wasabi the J posted:That one is doing flybys low and slow to make that loving sound scare people. Or we’re severely underestimating how absurdly loud bears are.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Ukrainian SOF do not appear to be very happy with the Russians for demolishing apartment blocks with MLRS barrages. Waiting for the public “just kidding” when a Ukrainian military lawyer gets a hold of command.
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Mar 2, 2022 20:05
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M_Gargantua posted:This is assuming calling actual war crimes as war crimes means more than wet paper. Because its entirely performative among disparate powers and you should assume nobody is going to play nice as soon as there is any sort of peer conflict, as we are currently seeing. War crimes by the loser of a conflict are usually prosecuted. It’s the victor’s war crimes that are ignored. For examples see the Nuremberg convictions related to invading Poland (USSR) and unrestricted submarine warfare (US).
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Mar 2, 2022 21:31
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Cythereal posted:Yup. So far, they've hit a ship each from Turkey, Japan, Moldova, and now Bangladesh. https://twitter.com/air_intel/status/1499118307424845824?s=21 Uhhh, while I get rescuing is dangerous and all but sending a helicopter into conditions that resulted in a mig-21 crashing may not be the best idea? 
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/civmilair/status/1499495899650793473?s=21 https://twitter.com/shadyplanes/status/1499498986813931521?s=21 Savage
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Mar 3, 2022 22:59
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mlmp08 posted:People are allowed to keep these bad thoughts to themselves. Was the thermobaric hellfire variant not used in Iraq as well or are they just being dumb.
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Mar 4, 2022 20:32
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Handsome Ralph posted:"What do you mean we'd have to train them to fly them and it would take months to do so? Aren't all aircraft essentially the same?" There was a commercial pilot that lied about having experience with a French fighter type and just started flying for some middle eastern country. There’s probably at least one Ukrainian ATPL that has some hours in DCS A-10. What could go wrong?
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Mar 4, 2022 21:48
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psydude posted:Yeah they were used at the beginning of the war mostly to target cave complexes. Key difference being we weren't dropping them in the middle of Kabul. What about the hellfires? Production started in 2005. https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2005-08-23-HELLFIRE-Thermobaric-Warhead-Approved-for-Production It’s a method of augmenting a blast for a weight, a thermobaric warhead need not be huge.
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Mar 4, 2022 23:48
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:If that thread is even remotely accurate.... I want to say this exact scenario has happened before in modern times but all I immediately found or recalled was Fraser at Saratoga which is probably more legend than reality.
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Mar 5, 2022 03:40
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stealie72 posted:So after all the launches and when they finally run out of food, the various nations' nuke sub guys all meet up somewhere remote like Antarctica and hang out and BBQ and poo poo? That’s the book “On the beach” but it’s New Zealand. It makes Threads look optimistic.
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Mar 7, 2022 05:55
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Oh, right, they were wondering if going to New Zealand would buy them an extra couple of months of life.
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Mar 7, 2022 06:21
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If all the stuff about Russian communications on the ground being nearly nonexistent how do they inform troops about a ceasefire?
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Mar 7, 2022 12:29
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Nope. Is incompetence an affirmative defense for war crimes?
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Mar 7, 2022 12:39
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psydude posted:Does Russia even have medium-lift helos capable of fitting that many people like the Chinook? Mi-26 - Wikipedia says 316 built but no breakdown by operator and there are a lot. Over 17,000 Mi-8s were built on the other hand. The Mi-8 can nominally carry 24 passengers.
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Saukkis posted:The original reports showed a video of a MLRS attack launched from a shore, so it sounds plausible. So it was shelled overnight and then sank the next day?
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Valtonen posted:You mean until russia claims ukrainians are using chemical weapons on themselves? It’s probably technically true. Basically every country uses tear gas for police actions despite it being a banned chemical weapon in warfare. “Technically true” makes for the best kind of propaganda
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Mar 10, 2022 20:39
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mlmp08 posted:The Navy. Yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal I vaguely recall there was a scandal involving shipbuilding in the 1790s which was more like what we’re seeing here with nonexistent or unequipped ships being paid for? My Google fu keeps bringing up recent stuff like fat Leonard, the Taiwan scandal or a Philippine scandal.
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Mar 13, 2022 02:34
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I wonder if they were issued a rusted through AK and brought the mosin from home or something along those lines? That’s the only way this makes sense.
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Mar 27, 2022 22:17
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Nessus posted:Earlier in the thread there was mention that the southern district HQ in Rostov that all but gave Wagner cookies and tea as they rolled up to coup the government, had control over a slice of Russian military assets, including strategic forces. Presumably the idea being that if America blew up Moscow by surprise somehow, Rostov elements could nuke America back, or just to spread things around. Wagner having nukes seem like something that would force Biden and Xi to get involved. Surely nobody could tolerate that?
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OctaMurk posted:clancy himself would never have written such drivel We’re only like 1/3 through the book. If we’re going full Clancy then Prigozhin has a bunch of nukes from that army place and is taking them to a make a random African country a nuclear power in cooperation with China Or something, idk, it’s been a while since I read any of the later, crazier books.
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