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haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1759974647888568441#m
They have so much free time they're trying to destabilize the Baltic states now?

They have been doing that for decades. There was the only riot since new independece like a decvade ago about an occupation memorial being moved from city center to the cemetary and the right wing parties have some surprisinigly supportive things to say about Putin and his attitude. And then they go around trying to bankrupt the country during their stay in power and warm up economic relations with the east while trying to stay away from west, EU and NATO.
There was also the Narva tank saga which ended with an monument tank being towed away to a museom and Russia getting super angry about it and erecting a tank with hookers and blackjack on their side of the border.

Interesting how KGB has gone from stealing nuclear bomb blueprints to organizing keying a car belonging to the wife of a politican.

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haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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HonorableTB posted:

LMAO what the actual gently caress?? I just discovered this hilariously stupid thing that Germany produced in WW2

It's the VsKfz 617 Minenraumer, and well, :lmao:





They were insanely ahead of their time. The one mowing my lawn right now looks the same underneath its Husqwarna plastic cover.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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The_Franz posted:

Been a while since we've had a good 'ol macho army manpile:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1761079360671428674

Fact of the day: that roof tile is made of asbestos.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Today is the independence day of a baltic state.
Interesting coincidence that they started a war at this specific date when everything else was against them.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Burns posted:

Its the same pattern of behavior going back decades.

A century by now. This is classic gulag behavior, just Russia has modernized it and made gulag be a mobile entity rather than be chained to a set of buildings.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Vampire Panties posted:

This says Russia is building 100 tanks a month, and losing 12 a week Will it work? IMO probably not, but it won't be decided anytime soon.

Russia is like battletech dark age. They aren't really building tanks as they lost the tech and ability to build them. They are taking rusted out hulls from poorly stored tankyards, seeing what has been stolen off of them and replacing it with mostly very outdated technology and sending it to the front.

Reminder t55s are also considered "tanks" under this
Umbrella. If they truly are not desperate and outpeoducing their losses, we would see t90 wunderwaffes on the front instead of t62s and t55s and MTLBs. Their losses indicate newer and newer versions of tanks slowly disappearing and being replaced with obr2023 that are make-do downgrades of the lostech relics of yore.
/K/ had a good thread and analysis of this issue.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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khwarezm posted:

You know, I am Irish, so I'm kind of curious if these people think that if we hypothetically banned English that that would be reasonable grounds for the Brits to conquer the country again.

(Yes I know that Ukraine didn't actually ban Russian and the entire talking point is disingenuous horseshit, the point is that even if it was true, launching a massive invasion and war that's killed hundreds of thousands is still a loving insane response!)

Yes.
And then England would invade, ban all Irish language, set up schools to teach english revisionist history and deleting ireland from history, send anyone who has or potentially could harbour non pro-British viewpoints to torture chambers and then send them to death camps along with their families, randomly pick a certain % of the population to be loaded onto prison husks and send them to the north of Greenland, replace them and fill their homes with pro British people. And in the end they claim people of Ireland are happy and thankful.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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No eonder russian cigarettes are banned...

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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wit posted:

Serious question, what is the definition of tankie these days? Putin sycophants? Tacit supporters of pulling support for ukraine under the guise of X country first?

Nazis but hammer and sickle/russia variety.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Tai posted:

Nah tankies are not remotely nazi at all. Just very naive people.

They are wishing for the return of regimes with by far the highest body count.
They're no better than nazis and more socially acceptable to boot.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Waffle House posted:

Putin got really loving fat real fast, are we sure that isn't Prigozhin in an ape suit

The thin body double was on a sick leave.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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wit posted:

Well now I'm caught in a web. How about oligarch adjacent fuckheads with a penchant for doodling on maps?

e: didnt realise orc was now considered a slur applied to russians in general. Early on it was specifically the invading meatwalls.
Don't worry, russians love slurs. Anyone who speaks russian and has enjoyed being in a server with them knows what's up.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/05/after-two-years-of-trying-the-russians-finally-destroyed-a-ukrainian-himars/
Finally the 3 day special military operation can be concluded now that russia has destroyed some truck from the 80's.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Yeah I'm not seriously advocating for the return of armoured belts.

It's gonna be bad times for Russian sailors though because lol at them being able to make effective countermeasures for naval drones any time soon.

They have countermeasures, the russian military discipline is just so incredebly poor the ships are barely afloat and not even fully functional due to lack of maintenance, high corruption and theft.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Disco Pope posted:

This "not touching you" intimidation/temper tantrum throwing is par for the course with state visits and is really quite pathetic.

Seeing footage of russian "prescision" strikes, their weapons usually miss by a few hundred meters.
This wasn't "im not touching you" but a genuine assassination attempt turned into a 6d chess move thanks to incompetence of russian guidance systems..

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Shoigu to top general: "Take 1 mil to send supplies to the front"
Top general to logistics center: "You have 500k budget to supply the front"
Moscow logistics official to a contractor: "Here is 200k for all your medical supplies plus for you to transport it to the front"
Contractor to truck company: "here is 5k to get these 500 boxes of expired hand sanitizers to the front
Truck company to rear echelons: here are the 250 boxes of disinfectants the front line guys needed urgently."
Rear echelon to the front line units: "Here's *hick* a bout a hundo boxes filled with *Hick* new model of canteens"

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Alexey "Fagot" Ivanov, a spetznaz captain was finally caught and died a slow death bleeding out from his rear end in a top hat after hit by an Ukranian drone.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

Also, he and his adopted son share an app that alerts the other when they are watching porn

How do such nutjobs even get to power.in america?

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Just like take a b52, slap some ultra ultra long range stealth missiles on it and use some stealth drones to designate targets for it.

Beyond visual range air combat is such an outdated concept. We could do intercontinental air to air.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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steinrokkan posted:

If you want actual experts in making planes that can't use their weapons without literally shaking themselves apart, you want the soviets.

KA52, an helicopter that is actually expected to use its gun, featured the same gun as the fabled wunderwaffe Terminator. I did some phot overlaying and angle calculations on the videos of the terminator using its guns and I found at theoretical maximum, if it fired a full burst, it would not be able to reliably hit a human sized target at 50m and a large house at 300.
There are photos of KA52 where it has shot itself with it's own gun as the gun is so poorly designed it wobbles enough to hit the platform carrying it.

So in conclusion: Soviet engineers are so ahead of the curve they built an aircraft that can hit something, even when not firing at anything.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Was he ever employed as a designer or engineer anywhere?
Other than being great at lying the sprey and co had no qualifications at all, if I recall correctly.

Either way speaks volumes of American journalism standards (or lack thereof) that they are known as A10 and F35 designers rather than obscure internet lolcows.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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The reformer conman.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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TheBuilder posted:

according to vatniks, F-35s are flying over Ukraine doing wacky EW warfare and dropping JDAMS on S-400s

It:s not true as while f35 can't be targeted there are ways of knowing it is out there.

I wish f35s were doing secret flights over Ukraine and russia, granting eternal flights at a whim.
I even bet russia would threaten to raise the eyebrow if it actually happened. They are already fighting John Hunter Bidens Nato clone soldiers in ukraine anyway.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Knowing russia there is an equally large chance some are doing it because Ukraine is not dead enough...

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

why go through all this poo poo. like i dont get why putin puts up the charade, no one believes it, even the chuds. like he wants to be magic tsar, just have his KGBpriest ordain him already. its not like the people will rise up. they are either perfectly fine with whatever backwards stupid alt history great game horseshit explanation putin throws out in his copeium follies or fine getting discount day passes to Loo-loo land as recompense for their son/father/brother getting blow apart in some drone ambush that is probably piloted by some 20 something who playes helldivers 2.

It's so they appear legitimate and western companies.and countries can have relations with them and not commit marketing suicide.

It works, even today people are angry an brutal, genocidal dictatorial regime that tortured and killed tons of people every day and invaded random countries for no reason got put down behind the barn. And now iraq is one of the few decent countries in middle east.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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beer_war posted:

New report by the UNHCR:

- Indiscriminate atacks

- Torture of POWs and civilians

- Rape

- Incitement to genocide

The reports concludes that Putin is a real piece of poo poo.

https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/report-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine-ahrc5566-advance-unedited-version-enruuk
Suddenly the "fake" leaks from wagner discord, mobiks telegram and other such where they are instructed to kill, torture, rape and steal don't seem so fake anymore.
But this is nothing new and is a core part of russian military culture.

haddedam fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Mar 16, 2024

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Right now Britain is nostalgic for being part of EU.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Russia is indeed the only oil exporter in the world.

Also just let russia collapse and/or balkanize with everything involved. Russians deserve another chance at a new democratically elected government they can piss away and invade neighbours again, since they miss stalin or some poo poo.

Russia surviving the war anywhere near its current stat means just another war in a decade or two. Pretending otherwise is stupid and western take.

haddedam fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 22, 2024

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Funky See Funky Do posted:

While I fully understand this line of thinking it's very pessimistic. This assumes two things - in a decade or two Russia is in a better place to make war than it is now and that only Russia does anything in the next two decades.

As someone of population and citizenship of a country and ethnicity often selected as a target of a russian invasion and genocide either by joke, threat or a promise, it is very easy to see the pattern and I'd rather have the agressor put down than have my people go through yet another invasion or genocide. I'll happily pay higher gas prizes if it means russia joins the EU, NATO and the camp that values human rights and lives.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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That is big dick energy, kinda like "our refinery successfully intercepted the drone and destroyed it" kinda energy

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Keisari posted:

Are you saying that Chechnya might revolt? (Just in case, I'll clarify that I am asking seriously)

Its a non zero possibility, especially now when russia is so weak a coup could have literally walked into moscow with no military resistance.

On related note, nkvd has already found the terrorist vehicle.
It's a white van with Ukrainian plates. I expect reports of it being filled with sims and nazi-israeli flags soon.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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TulliusCicero posted:

Why the gently caress would Israel attack Russia?

They are bedfellows in genocide

Israel though hamas started their genocidal walk into israel last year after being sicced to do so by russia.
They promised to support Ukraine after the gaza war is over.

Baronjutter posted:

Imagine if terrorist groups actually hit legit cool targets like oil refineries and artillery production lines. Imagine if they focused on effective industrial targets that actually deeply hurt the bottom line of the wealthy and the economy in general. Would probably be a hell of a lot more effective than targeting random civilians the parent government doesn't actually care about.
But Ukraine has more western values and does care about its civilians so striking civvies makes sense for terrorist group like kreml

haddedam fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Mar 23, 2024

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Tafferling posted:

Just wondering... what about Kadyrov band of merry warfighters? I know they weren't keen on being deployed on the hottest fronts but surely there must have been some attrition. Maybe this is a result of Checenia slipping away from his grasp

They took heavy damage when they didn't charge their battery banks and cameras for months while at a spa in belarus so their operational capability is vastly decreased to only mere hours of tik toking a day.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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I would like Ukraine to extend official condolences for this horrific incident but i understand if they won't.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Ferdinand Porsche did 911

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Tai posted:

So as it stands, some people rocked up to a concert hall and shot up some innocent people and threw some petrol bombs. Police showed up one hour later. The criminals drove out of one of the most surveillanced cities in the world hoping to cross one of the most surveillanced borders outside of North/South Korea. They got paid a bunch of Rubles via telegram ($5k for a likely suicide mission) and fled to Ukraine becuase Rubles are very very useful in Ukraine plus the Ukraine border is very easy to cross during a war.

O yes and Russian media has an AI fake of a Ukraine official it is pushing. Cool

Survivors are survivors since the russian police and armed forces took their time.

You are better off being invaded by americans than protected by russians.

But don't worry moscow, just like many of you want, once propaganda decides who did it, a random village that had nothing to do with it will disappear overnight there .

haddedam fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Mar 24, 2024

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Not surprising considering this is russia we're dealing with and if the door wasn't locked, that shelter would've been stolen.
That's why it's standard procedure to weld or lock up fire extinguishers in russian navy.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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only russia can manage looking like victims after they invade a neighbouring country and conduct war crimes with brutality not thought possible outside of japanese ww2 human research labs.

haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Fumble posted:

Bullshit thats isreals crown

Either you aren't up to date with what russia is doing on a systematic basis or I aren't up to date on israel.

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haddedam
Feb 19, 2024

by Fluffdaddy

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Bohemian Nights posted:

Have you read a single book, or even skimmed a wikipedia article on.. uh, pretty much any major armed conflict since world war 2? Russia's hands are far from clean, but the last century has seen so many warcrimes, a not insignificant chunk of them committed by the united states and its allies.

See also what's happening in Gaza right now, if you don't want to learn about literally anything else that has happened since 1945

"whatabout americca conducting all the worst war crimes ever" is one of my favorite tankie talking points of all time.

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