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Milo and POTUS posted:Behold, reality This cyberpunk future sucks I want a refund.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Because of course Russia started throwing artillery shells right next to Chernobyl. Given their approach to war I'd genuinely be questioning if it was accidental or purposeful.
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Feb 25, 2022 02:07
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What is the likelihood of nearby countries offering air base support to Ukranian air craft? Seems hands-off enough for other countries to be doing. If you're already shipping weapons and supplies over your ground letting planes in your air space and on your air strips doesn't seem like an escalation.
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Feb 25, 2022 13:29
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Not going line by line on that screed but it rings pretty true for CSPAM. So much shitposting extremely dedicated to screaming BUT NATO, NATO THING, THING BAD RUSSIA GOOD BECAUSE NATO no matter how many times it gets proven to be bullshit.
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Feb 25, 2022 18:45
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hobbesmaster posted:Larger picture which should make it more obvious Hear me out. M.C. Escher, an aerospace engineer, and an ELINT officer walk into a bar.....
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Feb 26, 2022 03:46
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Tomn posted:Hi guys, civilian here, got a question about something and I hope this is OK to ask here. Facts "on the ground" are going to be sparse and both sides will be slinging poo poo to support their cause. Russia hasn't taken their objectives and fighting is getting bogged down where they don't want it to be. Specifics about why this is are going to take time to be confirmed. Someone that is not a Russian military officer harping on about how great and perfect their logistics are and "really they get a hot shower every day!" is talking directly out of their rear end after swallowing and digesting the above propaganda.
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Feb 26, 2022 15:50
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Yeah it’s weird to me how you arrive at the valid conclusion that the United States is often a bad actor and somewhat responsible for a lot of bad situations especially in the Middle East and Latin America but then somehow Putins Russia isn’t responsible for Ukraine Propaganda. Propaganda works.
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Feb 26, 2022 19:30
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McNally posted:I ran the signs through Google Translate and got the following results: I read somewhere that a better translation of the snake island response was "Russian war ship, go jump on a dick" so kinda sounds like that's the rallying cry.
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Feb 26, 2022 20:01
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Tiny Timbs posted:It's been pretty shocking to me to see how pathetic the Russian forces have been. I'm not going to speculate on how things will go in Ukraine from now since I know they're capable of a lot more brutality than they've shown, but they have committed such an own goal showing their cards like this. There's no way Russia remains as influential in world affairs as they have been, not after showing how little capability they actually have. On the other hand: thousands and thousands of nukes.
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Feb 26, 2022 20:53
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So it was about as serious as anyone expected and just another bullshit fig leaf. "We tried for the peace where Ukraine gives up and we get whatever we want but they just want to threaten us with more war, it's all their fault!"
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Feb 28, 2022 18:16
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles dunking on anti-air systems is just a "What the gently caress?" situation to me.
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Feb 28, 2022 22:09
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Arsenic Lupin posted:You folks would know a lot better than I do. Does the vehicle look repairable? I'm guessing that the weapons array on top has electronic controls down in the charred bit. Well, anything is repairable eventually. Question is time and resources that need to be dedicated to the task. For that specific one it looks like another vehicle abandoned in mud or by fleeing conscripts. Doesn't look like it got nailed by a weapons system. I am viewing a tiny Twitter pic on my phone though so could be wrong.
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Mar 1, 2022 18:24
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If the two options before me are "go in to debt" or "foreign invaders begin purging undesirables when they decapitate the government" that's a pretty easy choice.
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Mar 1, 2022 21:20
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Ham Cheeks posted:I don't know anything about warfare, tactics, anything. Is is normal to plant yourself in the open? There is....a LOT wrong with these clownshoe movements. Flagging friendlies, a laughable execution of bounding advance, the noted poor excuse for cover and concealment. I've seen better executed paintball tournaments where half the team is drunk.
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Mar 2, 2022 22:41
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:scream that everyone pointing out fascist propaganda is a Russian shill and must go to posting jail. There's a real problem in trying to approach the people who are doing this in good faith because C-SPAM on the forums/the alt-right in real life are exactly this and they're the loudest assholes in the room. Give them a good faith inch and they'll poo poo up a conversation for a country mile.
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Mar 3, 2022 13:38
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stealie72 posted:*Reads this thread It was called Motorpool Monday for us. My POG-rear end computer toucher MOS was out in the motor pool on Monday for flag formation checking oil, starting engines, moving vehicles two feet to the right then left.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:How is the thread title not “Putin on the Fritz” at this point? Pages back by now, but, this did not get enough love.
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Mar 6, 2022 22:04
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Defenestrategy posted:I hope when they're doing that calculus they're not factoring in the US. Our country tends to get brain worms every so often that makes us forget our international responsibilities. The world should absolutely be planning for Trump 2.0. Democrats will almost certainly shoot themselves in the dick by running Biden again or more likely something stupider I can't even predict.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:58
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Sadly, we've been here before. Doctors Without Borders stopped reporting their locations to the UN because Russia would use their no-strike list as a targeting package.
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Mar 9, 2022 22:31
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Ummm Bioweapons I would think are hopefully beyond insane even for Putin but chemical I'm honestly surprised they haven't already. Chemical weapons and going full Grozny has been my prediction for a while.
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Mar 9, 2022 22:59
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mlmp08 posted:Good! They do not want to be there with all the shelling and with every apartment building invariably turning into an anti-armor team hide sight, marking it for more shelling and direct fire. Russia's also been pretty open about their intentions once they take over. When you publicly say "We have lists of undesirables and we're going to kill these people." that's not a good situation for anyone to be living in.
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Mar 10, 2022 18:51
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Anybody that chummy, that often, on Tucker Carlson's White Power Hour deserves some serious, serious side-eye and yet tankies gonna tankie. As long as someone says "America bad!" tons of propaganda and useful idiots will champion them.
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Mar 11, 2022 17:22
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I knew it was obvious, but I didn't realise it was that blatant. It's part of the fallout of being scandal-a-minute for four years. There's never enough time to swallow the whole elephant so lots of stuff gets leftover. He was probably saying the Central Park 5 deserved the death penalty for being too Black the next day or some poo poo.
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Mar 14, 2022 22:37
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Looks like the talking points have been solidified and Russia is back on it's social media game. Some Qanon whack job bullshit got filtered through to the troll farms and is being pumped in to the brains of all the right wing idiots. You're probably already hearing the camel's-nose-under-the-tent version of this from anybody loving stupid enough to watch Tucker Carlson's White Power Hour. It's the usual playbook of the wide spread soft introduction followed by "do your research!" to get people in to the really insane poo poo. The REAL TRUTH is that Fauci had secret biolabs in Ukraine with Biden's blessing working on COVID 2.0 that are ethnically selective that Trump was trying to unmask but [insert favorite out group here] stopped him with their perfidious scheming and impeached him in the process so Russia had to defend themselves with a full scale invasion. The conspiracy will change to meet the needs of reality, of course, but for now that's the kernel of corn in the propaganda poo poo pile.
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Mar 15, 2022 16:13
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What was said earlier about trading land for time is a pretty big factor. The longer Ukraine holds out the more Russia's economy starts resembling Chernobyl. They've done a lot over the years to insulate themselves from that but you can only do so much without going full Juche in the modern world and I personally believe they were caught completely off guard by the level and world wide unity of their isolation and sanctions.
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Mar 16, 2022 16:44
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Cimber posted:You know, if they had just accepted Jesus none of this would have happened. If they're the hosed up kind of evangelical assholes I imagine them to be it's a blend between the people on the ground performing self-righteous "praying in public" bullshit their own book tells them not to do and the leadership smelling starving, desperate prey and pouncing like a predator.
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I'll repeat what I said earlier. People higher up the food chain in the church and who are more cynical about this kind of thing see others who are starving, abused, addicted, fleeing war, anything like that the same way a predator sees a weakened gazelle in the herd. They don't not-care about what's happening and are out of touch, they're there specifically for it.
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Ask me how I found out my apartment's smoke alarm is integrated in to building wiring and calls the fire department automatically.
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A.o.D. posted:It's not just that, the entire premise of an American military career is that you have to seek promotion to leadership positions. This is true of both enlisted and commissioned ranks. It's not enough to find competency in a skill set as pursue that. In fact, it's detrimental to your career to do so. Not only that, but the services absolutely play favorites with what job backgrounds they choose to promote. I almost never had a first sergeant with a maintenance or even ordnance background, and never had a CSM that wasn't combat arms. Removing the Army specialist track was a mistake and I'll die on this hill. Warrant officer has somewhat taken up the slack on that but ripping out the concept root and stem then grafting a poor replacement back on has damaged the cultural concept. Now instead of having actual skilled professionals everything is contracted out to sub-contracting contractors with sub-sub-contracted agencies and so on.
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Mar 18, 2022 22:22
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I got to play with a hard drive shredder, that was fun. Absolutely required earpro though holy poo poo. Still, bake 'm in the degausser then giggle a little when a whole hard drive gets tossed in to a big grinder. Not just little dinky laptop hard drives either, full size ones. Those things are built more solidly than I first thought.
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Mar 22, 2022 22:30
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, again: If Putin's goal was to protect himself from NATO expansion: That's failed entirely. If his goal was to rebuild the Russian empire through a land grab: that's not happening anymore. If his goal was to demonstrate lack of resolve on the Wests part: Also failed. Eh, gently caress Putin. The line of bullshit about NATO is just that; a line of bullshit lies that shouldn't even exist as a talking point but, welp, propaganda works and it forces everyone to talk about it.
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Mar 23, 2022 22:35
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vuk83 posted:That was an incredible piece of airmanship, and not in anyway replicable on a consistent basis. quote:made an injury-free landing of the seriously damaged A300, using differential engine thrust as the only pilot input. This was despite major damage to a wing, total loss of hydraulic control, a faster-than-safe landing speed, and a ground path that veered off the runway surface and onto unprepared ground Hear that clanging sound? It's the sound of gigantic loving brass balls.
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Mar 27, 2022 02:36
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What kind of coked-out-KGB-agent plan is that? Like, why? Why make it impossible to negotiate even in bad faith? Slinging dumb poo poo "negotiations" around so they can play the aggrieved victim is their thing, so why make everyone consider the possibility of dying to even do that?
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Mar 28, 2022 16:41
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Seems like a pretty good target to me. Fuel has been a huge issue for Russian troops so far. Twist that knife a little harder.
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not caring here posted:Yeah, that flying was ridiculous, how do you light them up without destroying an apartment building By not caring about said apartment building?
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Uncle Enzo posted:That's big-leagues training, mission planning, equipment and execution. I imagine the mapping and intel they were given for this was stupidly good. Like, "...and their radar operators had this for breakfast yesterday."
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Apr 1, 2022 15:12
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I'm surprised they haven't started lobbing chemical poo poo. I really thought that was going to happen sooner.
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Orthanc6 posted:A projectile reusable up to 8 times, and even comes back the very next day. I would consider a pissed-off cat inside the cramped quarters of a MBT to be a very definite ending to combat effectiveness.
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How does it accomplish that ninety degree turn for the round and how does that not make it a jam-fest?
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Rebuilding Ukraine ain't gonna be cheap or quick and millions of people evacuating causes problems itself even after war concludes.
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