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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Jun 26, 2024 13:25
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Jun 26, 2024 13:30
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Anyone have the Chrystia Freeland quote handy? The one about spending the billions to make it happen?
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Jun 26, 2024 13:56
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Jun 26, 2024 14:02
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supersnowman posted:Removing the muzzle break would probably help since it would stop redirecting part of the gasses toward the crew but then the breach of a M777 probably strike the ground on the second shot because the first one blew up the fancy liquid nitrogen recoil system. Yeah the gun would shake itself to pieces because the carriage is so lightly built. They've been working on a new muzzle brake since the mid 2000's to address existing problems of damage to the cradle (and crew) and another, bigger, one as part of the program to incorporate more titanium. They're working at cross purposes, but you can see the problem here. The M777 was imo never intended to be the primary field gun, this is a problem of use, more than design. There are lots of weapons that are considered "traumatic", that you're only supposed to fire a few times in peacetime - Carl G, Eryx, the French APILAS etc. I believe the 106mm recoilless rifles and WOMBAT in particular were restricted in training because they were traumatic. It makes sense to me that M777 be treated that way, since it was the airborne/light infantry/chasseurs alpins/whatever gun. Fire reduced charges in training, preserve gun life and crew health. Firing max charges all the time is just the result of no other modern guns being in inventory, and crews are paying the price. The other part of firing max charges all the time is this bizarre argument I've seen during the Ukraine War that somehow "outranging" enemy artillery matters? They will just move their guns closer to you. Maximum range and high velocity were used for division/corps level guns (not gun-howitzers) tasked to counter battery missions, like the 175mm guns, 4.5 Inch guns, but for general support, you need to place your field guns within a few km of the troops you are supporting (so, in danger) in order for them to have the best coverage and ability to respond to emerging situations. I guess that means casualties, and we can't have that, so... lol I don't know how our military thought ended up in all of these dead ends. CN CREW-VESSEL has issued a correction as of 14:17 on Jun 26, 2024 |
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Jun 26, 2024 14:10
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[Ukraine] Russian Gas Boycott: In Que for Russian Gas
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Jun 26, 2024 14:29
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Officer Sandvich posted:https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russian-saboteurs-behind-arson-attackat-german-factory-c13b4ece WHAT AIR DEFENSE DOING 🤣🤣🤣
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Jun 26, 2024 14:42
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Endman posted:It was, yes. Most of the reason the British hosed around in Afghanistan so often is that they wanted a buffer between India and Persia (and therefore Russia). Every time the Persians or Russians made diplomatic overtures to the Afghans, the East India Company would poo poo themselves. The British had plenty of influence in Persia btw, it wasn't just a Russian puppet, it is called the Anglo-Persian oil company for a reason. The British were needless antagonizing the Russians for the most part since there wasn't a real way for them to meaningfully get from Tebriz or Merv to anywhere. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 14:54 on Jun 26, 2024 |
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Jun 26, 2024 14:51
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Half of the rip roaring yarns of Great Game adventure are about British spies going into Central Asia to stir up the tribes against Russia. Britain was always loving around there.
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Jun 26, 2024 14:53
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So happy she's getting a peace prize.
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Jun 26, 2024 14:53
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mawarannahr posted:Two German-Russian dual nationals were arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning attacks on American military bases and other targets, shortly before caches of explosives were discovered buried along a special overland pipeline that supplies air force bases in Germany. This last part is just Gladio though lol. Do they think the Russians buried those
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Jun 26, 2024 14:54
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Back in the day, Spetsnaz had sleeper cells in NATO countries to hit the airbases on zero hour/assassinate NATO brass/sabotage tactical nuclear weapons, but iirc there was a negotiated withdrawal of them back to the Russian Federation in 1992 or something.
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Jun 26, 2024 14:58
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Jun 26, 2024 14:58
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:lol I don't know how our military thought ended up in all of these dead ends. After centuries of going along with imperial adventures there finally appeared too much of a chance of an unsurpressable proletarian revolt in response to using their lives for empire during the Vietnam war. Your beloved institutions finally couldn't throw limitless bodies into the furnace to fuel their anti-human desires anymore and have been desperately searching for alternatives ever since.
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Jun 26, 2024 14:58
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Officer Sandvich posted:https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russian-saboteurs-behind-arson-attackat-german-factory-c13b4ece that's way too many words for "normal industrial accident"
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Jun 26, 2024 15:01
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Empire 2: (Subtitle TBD)
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Jun 26, 2024 15:02
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I guess that means casualties, and we can't have that, so... lol I don't know how our military thought ended up in all of these dead ends. It's a combination of History is over, we're only doing colonial wars against inferiors from now, and we can't have casualties because people don't like imperial wars when it means they also die, and no one is gonna sign up for the military thanks to neoliberalism corrding society and especially on top of it means they're really likely to get killed for nothing, and we're certainly not going to stop doing imperial wars so we come to this
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Jun 26, 2024 15:39
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KomradeX posted:It's a combination of History is over, we're only doing colonial wars against inferiors from now, and we can't have casualties because people don't like imperial wars when it means they also die, and no one is gonna sign up for the military thanks to neoliberalism corrding society and especially on top of it means they're really likely to get killed for nothing, and we're certainly not going to stop doing imperial wars so we come to this Truly the greatest minds are in charge. The perfect system. All they would have to do is avoid antagonizing three great land powers with large conventional and unconventional militaries at the same time. Child's play. The End of History can last forever as long as they don't have to militarily confront Russia, China, or Iran, and how could that ever happen?
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Jun 26, 2024 15:48
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https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-troops-fighting-in-ukraine-would-be-cannon-fodder-pentagon-says/ North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine would be 'cannon fodder,' Pentagon says quote:North Korean troops would become "cannon fodder" if they joined Russian forces on the battlefield in Ukraine, Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said during a briefing on June 25.
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Jun 26, 2024 15:50
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Officer Sandvich posted:https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-troops-fighting-in-ukraine-would-be-cannon-fodder-pentagon-says/ Imagining the (US) supreme allied commander of NATO not using the Estonian regiment to "heroically fight to the death" to cover a US brigade's retreat
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Jun 26, 2024 15:59
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So does that make North Korea the asiatic cannon fodder of the asiatic cannon fodder? Because otherwise it would imply that some Russians aren't being used in human wave attacks, and that just doesn't make any sense.
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Jun 26, 2024 16:01
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North Korea fighting in Ukraine would be wild. lmao
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Jun 26, 2024 16:11
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Officer Sandvich posted:https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-troops-fighting-in-ukraine-would-be-cannon-fodder-pentagon-says/ Holy poo poo SovKor is real!!
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Jun 26, 2024 16:13
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Justin Tyme posted:Imagining the (US) supreme allied commander of NATO not using the Estonian regiment to "heroically fight to the death" to cover a US brigade's retreat This is what the rand paper wargaming out a war in the baltics suggests lol.
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Jun 26, 2024 16:14
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Finno-Korean HyperWar 2 incoming...
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Jun 26, 2024 16:18
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Dokapon Findom posted:North Korea fighting in Ukraine would be wild. lmao this would lead to serious consequences for North Korea. America could (glances at control panel, sees that N Korean policy is set to maximum “punish”) ah nevermind. Well, this will lead to serious consequences for Russia then (glances back to control panel, eyes go wide)
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Jun 26, 2024 16:23
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Dokapon Findom posted:North Korea fighting in Ukraine would be wild. lmao Dokapon Findom posted:Finno-Korean HyperWar 2 incoming... Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 16:35 on Jun 26, 2024 |
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Jun 26, 2024 16:28
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gently caress, i suck at posting, ah well. Need more coffee this morning.
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Jun 26, 2024 16:34
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Best Friends posted:this would lead to serious consequences for North Korea. America could (glances at control panel, sees that N Korean policy is set to maximum “punish”) ah nevermind. Well, this will lead to serious consequences for Russia then (glances back to control panel, eyes go wide) btw one chinese military vlogger i saw claimed ansahallah weaponry tech is sourced more from NK compared to iranian
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Jun 26, 2024 16:38
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ah gently caress i checked his twitter to see what he was all about and he's finnish, gently caress it i'm done what the gently caress is wrong with that country
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Jun 26, 2024 16:54
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Regarde Aduck posted:ah gently caress i checked his twitter to see what he was all about and he's finnish, gently caress it i'm done imo the Russian Empire was too nice to Finnish liberals.
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Jun 26, 2024 16:56
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Regarde Aduck posted:ah gently caress i checked his twitter to see what he was all about and he's finnish, gently caress it i'm done The Whites won the civil war there. Also see Poland.
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Jun 26, 2024 17:00
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://x.com/joni_askola/status/1805627975322173876?t=0XdUYL7e5fjsf7JO4oMIWg&s=19 The fact the guy finally got free after 14 years of being persecuted everywhere in the Free World because he published truths about the empire is surely an undeniable proof of the moral superiority of the West Also we can see how this guy cares about democracy and freedom for the fact he brands anyone critical of the USA as "traitors"
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Jun 26, 2024 17:10
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Dokapon Findom posted:This last part is just Gladio though lol. Do they think the Russians buried those it just struck me that any weird right-wing terrorist activity in europe for the foreseeable future is going to be blamed on russia as a matter of course, even (or especially) if they end up using weapons sourced from western aid to ukraine
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Jun 26, 2024 17:13
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Elias_Maluco posted:The fact the guy finally got free after 14 years of being persecuted everywhere in the Free World because he published truths about the empire is surely an undeniable proof of the moral superiority of the West
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Jun 26, 2024 17:25
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he went on rt, the cad! surely the western media would have allowed the guy exposing evil deeds of the west to do that on western media
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Jun 26, 2024 17:27
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It is interesting they finally released him though, I guess it was becoming such an international black eye that there wasn't really anything they could do as much as they would have liked to do other things to him.
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Jun 26, 2024 17:30
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Assange is loving Australian lmao how is he a traitor to the US Oh wait the west is all one system, of course.
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