No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
2yr ago
If you think people are going to be less mad when a solution to the energy problem is off the table, think again. Germans may be cucks but after some weeks of freezing their asses off Africa style (few know that most cold-related deaths happen in the tropics) that may change. Banks in western EU have been preparing for riots since summer started.
No_one
2mo ago
all else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage Both are entrenched. The war is mostly hammering enemy till he gives up with remote weapons, then taking over the position.
Actually, I suspect the First Gulf War would provide a lot of insight into the Ukraine invasion, but I’d need to do a more careful reading.
No? Incomparable.
Seeing what happened after NATO crossed the reddest fo red lines and pulled off a blatantly US coup in Ukraine, what with the US department of state people on the scene, Russians do seem to care about some red lines.
Suppose US somehow converted cca 1000 tomahawks into land-launch configuration, a feat theoretically possible in months if SpaceX or similar company were involved.
Suppose they were trucked to Ukraine, it'd only be like ~200 big trucks, and launched in mass through Belarus against carefully chosen targets which would mean Russians would, even at best ,shoot down only a fraction as intercepting them all would require having an uninterrupted chain of SHORAD along Russian western border, which they don't have.
I doubt Russia has enough fighters and enough AWACS planes to shoot them down. Suppose 100 important targets - bunkers, strategic infrastructure, ammo dumps - were hit in a morning.
Maybe Putin is cuck enough to take that, knowing America doesn't have the depth of arsenal to repeat that. Or maybe next massive cruise missile attack against Ukraine would just keep on going west and start hitting over-the border logistics hubs seeing as it's really hard to argue all that American hardware driven just across the border and fired off wasn't really Ukrainian.
No_one
8mo ago
Then in the classic Imperial Boomerang effect they take the tools field tested on the poor bastards in Palestine and eagerly apply them in cracking down on future dissenters in the UK, US, etc.
..that's really not a plausible take. The situation is incomparable, in addition, Palestinians are really, really not any smart.
wielded against some posters on this forum.
Why? If Trump wins, which seems likely, you get a smooth on-ramp for the China liberation war. Who is against that? Nobody likes China, save maybe a few expat Chinese. At least on Twitter, SV types are signalling pretty hard that they're up for the war on China.
No_one
1yr ago
They say the Jews are smart:
The offer was first made by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to Theodore Herzl's Zionist group in 1903. He offered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of the Mau Escarpment in what is today Kenya. The offer was a response to pogroms in the Russian Empire, and it was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people.
Its high elevation gave it a temperate climate, making it suitable for European settlement. However, the observers found a dangerous land filled with lions and other creatures. Moreover, it was populated by a large number of Maasai people, who did not seem at all amenable to an influx of people coming from Europe.
It's inexplicable what happened, and to me it seems it must have been deliberate negligence on party of Israeli military and security services.
No_one
1yr ago
Damn. I guess it's good there are gay people doing good work. Makes me tolerate them more. Now I have one more to appreciate. BAP's pretty good and Gaider has done truly excellent work in gaming and game modding too. (iirc a lot of these mods were by him).
There's also a War Thunder playing gay furry who's both an excellent player and not .. weird. E.g. if he didn't have a fox pfp and people hadn't wheedled a statement out of him, you'd not know he's one.
People really need to keep their sexuality private. No clue why they don't.
No_one
1yr ago
I'm pretty sure everyone has that kind of artillery in general use
Are you for real.
Towed artillery is an anchronism. You can use against inbred peasants who don' have counter-battery radar or much artillery of their own.
No_one
1yr ago
That's Africa tier weaponry.
No one else has this kind of artillery in general use. It's usually self-propelled, very often with autoloaders.
No_one
1yr ago
If you take any events that look similar between two famous figures, you can make just about any myth into a retelling of another.
Try it.
No_one
2yr ago
West is superior in radards and avionics, however, that's a very small % of overall military equipment.
Overall the western MIC doesn't seem to be in a good shape. It produces very little, and given the levels of dysfunction in its leadership I doubt it can learn from the war and develop useful things needed for a future war. E.g. they're still building aircraft carriers despite it being fairly obvious carriers won't survive modern missiles, whether hypersonic cruise or guide ballistic.
It's really quite something that e.g. in Ukraine, Russia apparently has better recon and more drone capabilities than the west, somehow.
modern man "suffers without war" is a) not really true a
I trust you are unfamiliar with the effects of war on rates of mental illness ?
Men will not go to war without this memetic attack pheromone.
I'll make your formulation more precise. Men who have been raised by women, in a civilized environment will not go to war without a lot of propaganda. Well, most of them.
the benefit of the hive (that's the best case - oftentimes the hive as a whole is not the beneficiary, only the elites are.
Deaths due to warfare were traditionally higher in elite classes. Also in recent conflicts officers casualty rates are usually higher than that of enlisted.
go to war against the system.
Men aren't bugs. A bug would go fight a tank and get squashed.
Once the system is weak enough, things will get more interesting.
For example, this hateful[1] French savage[3] racist colonizer[2] is advising his people to not fight the rioters, but let the rioters educate the Boomers who kept them as pets. Wait till his enemies weaken each other, and then reconsider. Can you find bugs doing even elementary tactics of this kind of the "let them kill each other so I can finish off the weaker victor" ?
[1]see the link
[2]
[3]just look at the tattoos
No_one
2yr ago
I didn't 'embrace' anything - but even if you do PPP adjustment, Russia just has the GDP of Germany, which means American Empire has .. how much.. 5x more ? 6x more ?
And somehow..
No_one
2yr ago
I just love these takes.
And I'm gonna love them even more when Chinese flip Canada and US annexes it and y'all are going to be like "Canada as a Chinese ally - that was a legitimate security concern of the United States" totally not like Ukraine which was brazen terrorism.
No_one
2yr ago
going to go bankrupt or move abroad
They can't "move abroad".
You can't simply move the factory to the mid west and somehow find skilled workers for all the positions. They're in short supply in the US as it is now, with boomers retiring and not enough replacements having been trained.
US AWFLs and the likes of AOC would throw an absolute shitfit if government proposed just letting thousands of Germans emigrate to the US with these companies.
No_one
2yr ago
Okay.
I find it hilarious, this assumption that Chinese are traitorous idiots who are going to backstab Russia and can't even get high tech working.
Wishful thinking by yanks all the way, obviously.
Huge market out there for China related cope material. That they're going to betray Russia and snag some territory is about the most common talking point I see though.
No_one
2yr ago
I mean, the western news media are, in effect, controlled by CIA. Or rather, the US nomenklatura -the elite body. whose members are usually very highly placed. Consider ECFR's (the EU sister organisation)'s own inforgraphic.
Not overtly, there editors know what to run and what not, and if someone doesn't take the hint the resident nomenklatura representative takes the case on.. When the journalist strayed too far from the approved narrative on Douma, an 'editor' who was unlike other editors during curiously little day-to-day work according to their CMS, but had spent several years working for the US nomenklatura got on his case. Of course, it ended up with the foolish journalist leaving.
Internet though, isn't, as Putin who is no doubt well familiar with the extent of Russian cybercrime because it regularly causes international incidents knows.
No_one
1mo ago
(Also, I really don't expect to see decent neuralink tech by 2030. It's just too damn hard.)
AI researchers and if US becomes progressive about getting value out of the dregs of society, there's like 50,000 heavily tattooed but basically healthy people fit for human testing down at CECOT.
No_one
2mo ago
I probably would not take either side of this bet.
Few modern Iranian missiles were intercepted in the last attack. Almost none. And these aren't as flat flying or as evasive as Iskander. Jamming satellites might work perhaps but it has inertial guidance so who knows how well..
No they have not.
That's your supposition, yank. Ask yourself what is a carrier group going to do when 128 maneuvering hypersonic glide vehicles appear over it.
Ask yourself how the carrier group is going to fare when it has what, 200 anti missiles. Even with perfect interception rates that's only 100 intercepted inbound missiles. Chinese LOVE large number production and they dug 1000kms of tunnels in mountains north of beijing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Great_Wall_of_China
They can shoot a lot of missiles out from China.
an anti-ship version to withstand the stress and heat of high-speed travel.
The earlier version solved this elegantly, the missiles just delivered guided bombs with a speed of 1000 m/s high up, maybe terminal 800 m/s. You can have seekers then no problem.
It'd still probably work because 100 of these would be very tough to intercept and even 5-10 hits would seriously degrade operations from a carrier. Ships are hard to sink but the internal operations aren't very redundant for reasons of space.
I'm not sure how the later version solve this, the HGV ones.
No.
They're not utter retards, so I highly doubt they wanted US to invade Iran either because that would go very badly.
Iran is a much larger country than Iraq, it has rugged terrain, ties with Russia and China and a somewhat more technologically capable population that is fiercely nationalistic.
US might have been able to topple mullahs with a color revolution, might get lucky and Iranians do it themeselves but an inevitably brutal invasion would have resulted in people rallying to the flag and something that'd make the worst of Iraq look like a cakewalk.
No_one
4mo ago
Canada and Europe aren't his allies. These places are ruled by his enemies.
No_one
4mo ago
It's been almost 80 years. Time for the occupation armies to go home.
You lot want to fight China for world domination.
Every single army soldier in Europe needs to be retrained for air and naval duties and sent to the Pacific if you want to have more than a snowball's chance in hell.
No_one
1yr ago
The best thing the US could do with such a spy is hire them into a top secret program designed specifically to feed bullshit to the Chinese.
a) something like that has never happened. Disinfo was usually fed through agents who were turned. You can pass disinfo onto an unwitting agent, but no way you could have an entire program.
b) US spooks just aren't very good at the moment, so, unlikely.
I didn't mean TAMARA but the general class of systems. Almost certainly that's not the only such system in existence as both Russia and China have a very strong interest in detecting stealth planes.
Yeah, because the many electronic and electric systems in a plane have no emissions whatsoever, right ?
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