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It would be poetic imo that Ukraine finally succeeds in pushing all the Russians out of the country by the time the first new snow falls, much like how this war started on the last new snow fall earlier in the prior winter
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These loving prisoners who raise their hand to fight. They just melt away as soon as they can. Who can you trust nowadays if not hardened criminal sociopaths?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Who knows; it's not like Vladimir Putin was an "obvious successor" but here we are. (Certainly not obvious to Lukashenka lol.) My guess is that, in brutal kleptocracies, the correlation between "someone that can take the reigns after I die" and "someone whose is a coup risk" is 1-to-1.
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Cugel the Clever posted:"gently caress yes, a new multipolar order emerges! The hegemon cannot endure!" Don't forget what looks to be potentially underway; America intervening to put out the brushfires, bringing them OUT of Russia's sphere of influence and into NATO's.
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Putin forgot what Abraham Lincoln said: "You can grift some of the country all of the time, and all of the country some of the time, but if you allow your cronies to steal all of the military budget all of the time, you won't be able to invade Ukraine."
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Micro penis incel is at it again. https://twitter.com/akorybko/status/1567101920208101377?s=46&t=KTHI6Bwisb05W88V5kpcWg
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With any luck different people will pick up different pieces and Russia will be dismembered, as a lesson to any other tinpot dictators with big ideas
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https://i.imgur.com/muapuY0.mp4 Since it hasnt been mentioned yet in the new thread, never forget that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, current
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kdrudy posted:When this happens, hopefully soon, who is in a position to pick up the pieces of that country. Are there obvious successors that could muster the support to lead it? me
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TropicalCoke posted:I cannot see how Russia can maintain force parity along their lines for long  Russian battle groups are predicated on smothering artillery fire.... which is notably absent since Ukraine spread HIMARS love to anything within 50 miles of the front line.  and all, but Russia's proscribed answer to this - cruise missiles & precision air strikes against HIMARS launchers, S-3/400 HIMAR interception) does.not.work for a myriad of reasons. Things will never get better for Russia; its fundamentally impossible for the RU forces to defend their ground or counter-attack elsewhere. Even if Poot-Poot cut a blank check to China to get... something? anything?... to try and turn this around, its physically impossible* to reinforce the front line before it collapses entirely. *notwithstanding somehow buying an army in 4 weeks, or Clancychat PSP (or anyone else) if you're reading this, I think we need a Clancychat Icon 
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The_Franz posted:Can we still make fun of Putin bootlickers/"Ukraine should just surrender"/"It's actually US/EU/NATO's fault" types with horrible takes? He's outdone himself with the worst possible take https://twitter.com/ECochnar/status/1571654006833033216
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SirPhoebos posted:My guess is that, in brutal kleptocracies, the correlation between "someone that can take the reigns after I die" and "someone whose is a coup risk" is 1-to-1. Yeah that's how it pretty much happens so if the principal dies suddenly, there's really nobody to take over. North Korea, China, Russia all operate on sort of the same playbook, in that everyone who might be even a thread to power is purged
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Speaking of clancychat, I watched Sum of All Fears last week and went from "what's clancychat" to "OH that's clancychat" in the space of one good movie.
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Mr Teatime posted:World war thread - Russian worship? Go gently caress yourself. holy poo poo
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Does North Korea have more 60's soviet surplus weapons/ammunition to sell to Russia? Maybe Russia will have to settle for 50's soviet surplus instead!
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TropicalCoke posted:I cannot see how Russia can maintain force parity along their lines for as long as Putin stays obsessed with holding onto Kherson and Donetsk. Between the Russian loss of material and the supposed unavailability of conscription or declaring war in Russia, it seems like Ukraine will have the preponderance of force where it chooses to attack. I don’t think they have had force parity since the summer. Nelson Mandingo posted:God drat. First Tank Guard got smoked, supposed to be the tip of the spear against NATO and now 3rd corp LOOOOOOOOOOL Either smoked or just booked it when UA came through. Marshal Prolapse posted:rear end goblin is such a loving piece of poo poo. I would love throw some expired McDonalds at him. Probably stunlocks him as he tries to lick Big Mac sauce off the ground. Jesus that’s some preem broke brain bullshit. The Holocaust by bullets started in 39 and accelerated when the Nazis invaded Russia.
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Honestly though I love how the narrative kept going "Russia is about to be serious, any moment now they're gonna send their best and Ukraine is TOAST!!!" Russia did send their best, and they're wiped out beyond unit regeneration now. In the D&D thread talk of retaking Crimea is clancychat (unrealistic) but I think at this point after they get Kherson and Melitopol, Russia won't have any loving choice. Kerch bridge will be in rocket range. Putin is a loving imbecile for keeping this going and potentially losing everything they've gained. Just send the white flag and offer to go to 2014 borders.
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All the "Russia is about to GET SERIOUS!" is just people channeling hack dialogue from their favorite 2000's anime
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Double lol that all of these towns that Russia spent months fighting to take using WW1 levels of saturation artillery fire are moving back into Ukrainian hands in a couple weeks after they received half a dozen precision rocket systems that the US has 500+ of laying around and a handful of mid-80s vintage anti-radiation missiles.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:In the D&D thread talk of retaking Crimea is clancychat (unrealistic) but I think at this point after they get Kherson and Melitopol, Russia won't have any loving choice. Kerch bridge will be in rocket range. Putin is a loving imbecile for keeping this going and potentially losing everything they've gained. Just send the white flag and offer to go to 2014 borders. The D&D thread approach is to talk about current events that are actually happening, which is why they stamped out Crimea talk over the last few months. I don't think it's the same situation now that Ukraine is actively engaging in that territory, though.
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EorayMel posted:Does North Korea have more 60's soviet surplus weapons/ammunition to sell to Russia? I think they're gonna have to settle for breaking out the REAL museum pieces. Imagine the terror of the Ukrainians when they see one of THESE rushing toward the front lines! 
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Asterite34 posted:I think they're gonna have to settle for breaking out the REAL museum pieces. Imagine the terror of the Ukrainians when they see one of THESE rushing toward the front lines! Oh no a humidifier!
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Honestly though I love how the narrative kept going "Russia is about to be serious, any moment now they're gonna send their best and Ukraine is TOAST!!!" Russia did send their best, and they're wiped out beyond unit regeneration now. They'll be able to shell putin's house nearly, his mcmansion build on the south coast
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Mr Teatime posted:World war thread - Russian worship? Go gently caress yourself. thread title had me lolin' hard KitConstantine posted:I know it's frustrating. If you think I haven't been making the same complaints that you all have in other channels you're quite wrong. But I can only moderate one forum, and it's this one.  Kchama posted:It turns out that deliberately fostering antagonism between nearby countries and also just barely holding them apart with your imperialistic might causes a lot of issues it when turns out you do not have the might you made them think you have. but enough about the inter forums slapfights
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These new AI driven image generation systems are amazing, I just gave one the prompt of Vladdy and his true love...
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Jesus that’s some preem broke brain bullshit. The Holocaust by bullets started in 39 and accelerated when the Nazis invaded Russia. Here's the question, if he was even correct in that wholescale genocide of European Jews didn't start until the US entry, why would that at all shift the blame to the US? Because essentially what he is arguing for is the anti-semitic world conspiracy expressed in Hitlers January 1939 "prophecy" that if "Jewish financiers succeeded in plunging the world into war, the result would not be the bolshevization of the Earth, but the elimination of Jewry", being openly at war with the US (FDR was regarded as interchangeably a puppet or the "chosen one" of America's "jewish financiers") and the Soviet Union was important symbolically for the nazis. Appreciating that fact does not actually make their arguments and conspiracy theories valid.
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Vladimir the Clown ピエロのウラジミール Piero no urajimīru
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Mr Teatime posted:World war thread - Russian worship? Go gently caress yourself. 
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I'll start this post with actual content directly related to the war that was kinda lost in the noise before the death of the last thread. Deutsche Welle has been making really good documentaries about how different societies have reacted to the war and how people here in Europe have been preparing for the worst, while hoping for the best. This is a documentary on Swedish preppers, which is super fascinating when you compare to the typical "American prepper". While American preppers tend to focus on individuals and shooting everyone else, the Swedish mentality is actually about building up communities where you can trust your fellow man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LRsZ6TUCCA And this one is a documentary on the debate within Finland as we are about to join NATO. Some interesting interviews with both the boss of our reservist organization, as well as the leaders of a pacifist organization. It discusses reasons, hopes and expectations of the coming years. If you want a laught however, you can check out the cool airsoft-gunners giving a QCQ presentation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVRwkJ_rGOA Both are worth watching, and might give people not from around here an insight into the Nordic mentality. Set fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Oct 29, 2022 |
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god please help me posted:Mods pls it's already done friend
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1571504086528233477?s=46&t=jSExF4ESdw1goeLFTf37Qg GET MELTED
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I know he's dead now but was Tom Clancy ever military adjacent or was he just a dude wanking off over military jargon?
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An insane mind posted:I know he's dead now but was Tom Clancy ever military adjacent or was he just a dude wanking off over military jargon? How adjacent would you call "in ROTC for a bit before getting kicked out due to bad eyesight"
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An insane mind posted:I know he's dead now but was Tom Clancy ever military adjacent or was he just a dude wanking off over military jargon? He never served if that's what you mean, but later on he did some really in depth military books that included research with 1st person accounts about various things like Air Force and Navy stuff, and he does seem to have done a fair amount of research for technical details including interviewing experienced service members. But the rest of it is just him wanking off over military jargon. Especially the whole "Gung Ho" poo poo he wrote. Best example of how hard he wanked: Rainbow Six's entire plot being about a Leftist Environmental group trying to commit mass murder.
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An insane mind posted:I know he's dead now but was Tom Clancy ever military adjacent or was he just a dude wanking off over military jargon? The only thing worse that metaphorical Clancychat is literal Clancychat.
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The pocket is closing https://twitter.com/EPICGOPFAIL/status/1571841702486282241 https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1571609137384931338 Just a minor setback
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quote:Here's the question, if he was even correct in that wholescale genocide of European Jews didn't start until the US entry, why would that at all shift the blame to the US? I said this in another thread but genocide denialism takes forms of "It was just incompetency" or "Someone else made them do it". I think this is actually WORSE than just outright genocide denialism. When you deny a very well documented and accepted genocide happened, you out yourself. You show that you have an education level, a political agenda, or a mental issue to the world. You don't have to understand the politics of authoritarianism or the other issues listed to pick up on it. When you say "Cmon guy, America made Hitler do it" or "The Holodomor was just simple incompetency" I feel like it's generally an attempt to muddy the waters. I'm sure some people genuinely have good reasons or try to be academic about it, but for other people like Michael Tracy the objective is the destruction of knowledge and it's not so easy to figure out the real agenda. It's easy to just chalk it up to the fash. It's funny how these authoritarians so quickly resort to being victims though. Russia was "the second most powerful military" and now their would be victim is striking back and ITS ALL UNFAIR!! PERFIDIOUS WEST!!!! It makes me laugh. It's like white nationalists who whine about political correctness. If you're really superior, why play games?
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Asterite34 posted:I think they're gonna have to settle for breaking out the REAL museum pieces. Imagine the terror of the Ukrainians when they see one of THESE rushing toward the front lines! If they are having production problems, they can go back to another WW2 classic, the Semple Tank from New Zealand. https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/NewZealand/Bob_Semple_Tank.php  Just bolt some corrugated steel (you read that right) to a tractor frame, add some machine guns, and done! Ready to fill with 60 year old conscripts.
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