Ardennes posted:

Are a bunch of sentient s-300 systems posting now?

Majorian posted:

Good, glad he's not waving the bloody shirt over it.

Majorian posted:

The least bloodthirsty Western leader is a low bar to clear, but buh gawd he's doing it.

CODChimera posted:

????????

Truga posted:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480165557241511936/1053133260944850975/ridingaroundtheworldspaul_1671156559448851.mp4

Regarde Aduck posted:

when these guys get captured will Russia send them to siberia or just hand them back again

Lostconfused posted:

Orlan is just russian for sea eagle apparently.

I didn't even know there were sea eagles. It's a greek thing or something.

mlmp08 posted:

Raytheon and US forces advise and train KSA on Patriot. But the operation of Saudi Patriot is performed by Saudis. Americans do not operate their systems for them and likely wouldn’t be invited to anyway.

Z the IVth posted:

Anything stopping them from just hiring a bunch of recently retired US air defence personnel to do the work?

They already have hired help for everything from construction to medicine so why not hire contractors to do AD as well.

They'll definitely do a better job than the inbred aristocrat in command.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1633509539986415616

Willa Rogers posted:

plus now I've broken my streak for having not posted in any war threads.

Tankbuster posted:

tbh mrs flake is right. The two of them get to live upper middle class pmc life and FF gets to read goofy french articles about how the SS would have won at dien bien phu

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisFlaherty8/status/1654476260708593664/photo/1

bro, acupuncture attacks!!!

Delta-Wye posted:

i mean, its wild who was lenin and stalin's 'cook',

Frosted Flake posted:

Q For the nerd crew: Does burn through jam just mean turning the power dial up to 11? You don't do it with CBR or GSR so I have no idea how it works.

Cuttlefush posted:

friends been telling me to get this. heard it's good ewar standoff missile poo poo. tempted..

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The idea that the Abrams is invincible comes from the Gulf War, when they faced off against Soviet tanks in a depleted Iraqi army that didn't even have night vision optics.

Jel Shaker posted:

not sure about that tbh. aircraft carrier is just a big ship and most people probably just think of it as such

i say swears online posted:

Lostconfused posted:

Revolution just means making russia weak/unstable enough that an outside intervention is possible.

How that looks like, and what the consequences would be, is something that almost none of them think about.

Frosted Flake posted:

Well, something I wish people would have sat down and told the various flavour of South Slav is: You can be on board for a big project or go on your own and be miserable. The Dual Monarchy offered that, but so did the two pan-slav states carved out of it. That the constitute nations of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia couldn't get along despite being in the same empire for 300 years and their own nations for nearly 100, makes no sense to me at all.

Egg Moron posted:

name the country like a dog

like bilko or bean boy or some poo poo

paul_soccer12 posted:

MonkeyLibFront posted:

Unless they are buried and have the shape like an iceberg beneath the surface these aren't going to stop any engineering vehicle that would be used when creating a breach.

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

They put all of those dragon teeth just at the edge of lines of artillery and machine gun nests, I don't think the point is to stop attackers so much as slow them down long enough to pick them off

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

No I am talking about the way the Russians have deployed them, if you look at sat photos the dragons teeth are just at the edge of huge lines of artillery and machine gun nests

Frosted Flake posted:

You could say that ideology demanded that every inch of German soil be defended, which was impossible, because the military had been fought out on a suicidal offensive, which ideology had also demanded.

The Wehrmacht of November 1944 probably could have held a line somewhere, though again not along the entire German frontier, some ground would have to be given to shorten it, but after the Bulge, no chance.

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10719658/satellite-pics-putins-dragons-teeth-defences-ukraine-offensive/

Ignoring all the tripe from the sun, you can see the trenches and artillery emplacements in the distance

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

Yeah not getting into weird armchair general poo poo like this because it's really cringe dude, you're going into pages of skepticism over photo evidence so you can justify Russian incompetence and it's very weird

lobster shirt posted:

i live in houston

Jel Shaker posted:

the reporting on the bbc makes it sounds like he decided to do an impromptu hitler impersonation and shoot a real gun lol

Ardennes posted:

Alao, the Kiev will fall in 3 days thing was from some TV pundits, it is like pretending Tucker is in control of the US military.

quote:

08:00 26.02.2022
A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia's military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era - and in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system - but this is worth talking about separately a little later.

Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land.



Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia - for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia from Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them.

The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation - when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kiev), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that "only Ukraine is the real Rus'," or to gnash one's teeth helplessly, remembering the times when "we lost Ukraine." Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade - recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum.


Now this problem is gone - Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world. In what borders, in what form will the alliance with Russia be fixed (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus )? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end.

And here begins the second dimension of the coming new era - it concerns Russia's relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a single whole. These relations have entered a new stage - the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe . And he is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul he must admit to himself that it could not be otherwise.


Russia formed a delegation for negotiations with Ukraine
Did someone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin , seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kiev ? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which happened according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity.

The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, one had to be just geopolitical fools.
More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. But the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. And already fifteen years ago, after Putin's Munich speech, even the deaf could hear - Russia is returning.

atelier morgan posted:

russia are also the bad guys

Cuttlefush posted:

it's actually still there

speng31b posted:

stop arguing with made up people or the generic concept of the thread. if you think someone believes something be specific. there might be some people who have occasionally argued anything like the specific things you just mentioned but for the most part you are making stuff up or bringing up old forums grudge BS

Neurolimal posted:

Since everyone's airing out their theories here's my take on the snip

speng31b posted:

yeah people are generally lovely at deciphering what is real and fake in the media landscape of the most reddit rear end war in history. when you mix in shitposting it's also pretty hard to know if someone reposting a lovely tweet even believes it or just thinks it's stupid or funny or whatever. that's my take anyways

in the future if you want to make a point don't start off by making up stuff that sounds like you are just generically levelling criticisms at the thread if you don't want people to take it that way. that's my advice.