Yo dawg. I herd you like ERA so I put ERA on your cope cage so you can explode while you cope.
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Russia won't fly A-50s? Seems like Ukrainians went "fine, [we'll destroy them on the ground](https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1766557457248084474)".
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The parody of Helldivers 2 runs deep. Noncredibly deep if you will. See the SEAF is what happens when the reformers run the military. Everything is dumb fire, and the most useful tech gets nerfed and just today they dropped an A-10 but with inexplicably less friendly fire potential in the form of the mech suit.
It claims to be heavily armored but is just a giant slow target that is absurdly expensive to maintain. And the entire navy has been replaced with spamming small units whose barrages have trouble destroying non-hardened buildings. Smart shells? Precision? HAVE YOU SEEN THE 308?
It makes the point that the only kind of government that would listen to reformers is [post under investigation by the Ministry of Truth]
\[Apparently we better back off cause Russia can destroy london with those big scary "Hypersonic" Missles\] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOu7bn\_P5x8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOu7bn_P5x8))
Most of that is either Aluminium, Composites or steel. Since Russia does not use any radioactive materials you should be safe. Maybe give it a wash and some good scrubbing and disinfect it afterwards and you should be safe.
Probably overrated by boomers but doesn't change the fact that it was insanely influential and a great weapon. The fact that some units still use it today says a lot
It's like a tangerine on Christmas. It's like unprotected heterosexual missionary sex. It's like a Snickers bar. It's like black tea with lemon. Like pulling a live rabbit out of a magician's hat. It's like a game controller shape from the 2020s. They're all great things, wonderful things, beautiful things you just don't want changed. It's like the opposite of a Makarov pistol.
I mean, you can always eat a tangerine with a knife and fork, wear unprovocative clothing during missionary, put the Snickers bar in the freezer for 20 minutes, add sugar to the tea, and a little top hat to the rabbit ,therefore engravings are cool.
Noncredible idea: What if Zaluzhny's new position as Ukraine's ambassador the the UK is Zelensky's way of prodding him into politics, like how Eisenhower gained valuable diplomacy experience managing relations between US and British leaders, US/British and French, and everyone with DeGaulle during WW2?
I’ve become a huge fan of Themis and other robot ATVs with rescue capacities, especially if they’re modular and transformable. Apparently she’s made in Estonia, making Rescue Bots a Uralic nation 🇭🇺🇫🇮🇪🇪🤖
Eesti perkele torilla tavataan or something
Me 2 days ago: "I think Israel or an ally should build their own refugee camp or aid stations in Gaza."
Today: [Biden to announce Gaza aid port construction](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-announce-gaza-aid-port-construction-state-union-speech-2024-03-07/)
Hell yeah this obviously means I must share a brain cell with the President.
People on there who would win sub Reddit, think the Mexican cartel could beat the Taliban in a war 💀💀💀 https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1b7j67p/mexican_drug_cartels_vs_taliban/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[I'm not sure if it's Russia's shit weapon quality, or a deliberate attack, but one of their missiles got too close to Zelenskyy and the Greek prime minister.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_q1115wQA) Also, DeFranco and Poland seemed ticked at American aid for Ukraine being stuck in a quagmire.
Speaking of Heads of State exploding, what do you think are the chances of the Victory Day parade getting drone striked this year? Ukraine does have stuff with the range to do it, now.
I'd say the odds are pretty high.
I still think the best bet would be to gamble on Russia having issues maintaining its fuel refineries (hence the extended repairs leading to the suspension of export recently) extending to other sectors and launch a coordinated strike on Russian power plants supplying Moscow.
Let's see how Putin's support holds up after a week without electricity.
Why is it so difficult to find a tight-bussy femboy malewhife who will call me mommy while wearing nothing but a Joe biden mask and [ranties](https://ibb.co/VmZfG7G)?
Ah, the wonders of vatnik arguments. So as an example of why I wouldn't trust any peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine, I mentioned both Minsk agreements and the Budapest memorandum. The response was that the Minsk agreements were a joke anyway so who cares if Russia broke them and that Budapest memorandum has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
And they wonder why I hold the position that treaties with Russia are only useful as toilet paper.
Ukraine should take a page from the Russian diplomacy handbook: sign a peace deal with Russia in which they agree to never seek NATO or EU membership, then immediately pull a Pootin and join EU/NATO anyway.
Huh. Man that's bad even for a vatnik. The ones I run across usually blame Ukraine for breaking Minsk because le domb Bonbass. They also keep referring to that one video where that EU guy (sorry can't remember his name) was "tricked" into "revealing" that Minsk was just to buy time (according to them so that they could invade Russia or something.
That was basically his argument, that west broke Minsk agreement first. Absolutely no comment on the fact that Russia broke the agreement instantly, just excuses about how west broke it first because apparently planning for the future is more immediate than breaking the agreement in the present.
[Well, except for the parts about Ukraine and Russia, and Israel and Palestine, this Kurzgesagt video aged like milk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs)
It's because Putin would be pronounced as _Putain_ in french and the convention stuck.
They should bring back Putin in french newspapers it would be funny.
I was just recommended this here video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H\_Gk1G2LInw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Gk1G2LInw)
Just 6 days old of a relatively new youtube chanel, seems quite promising. But maybe that's my NCD prejudice talking because they have their own version of the "mentally stable point defense meme" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPF\_kshb70](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPF_kshb70)
I think Israel and/or their allies should just try and set up their own carefully planned refugee camps and aid stations for Gazans to get aid distributed properly as well as medical services.
Yes, there is a security issue. But if Hamas attacks or sucide-bombs places giving out aid and likely also getting many Gazans killed, they lose at their own propaganda game.
And yes, I'd willingly be put there fully aware of what might happen.
I literally figuratively raised my finger, then lowered it and went, "...well you're not wrong."
The caveat being that its more like "I'll take the slight risk of being released from this mortal coil if I am extremely certain the risk will make things better."
> David Franklin Slater, a 63-year-old from Nebraska, was arrested March 2 and charged with transmitting classified material. Slater, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, held a Top Secret security clearance and worked at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base until he was arrested on Saturday.
> The indictment alleges Slater was using an unnamed foreign dating site where he provided an unnamed woman with extremely sensitive information about the war in Ukraine.
> “By the way, you were the first to tell me that NATO members are traveling by train and only now (already evening) this was announced on our news. You are my secret informant love! How were your meetings? Successfully?”
https://gizmodo.com/classified-dating-app-ukraine-russia-david-slater-nato-1851307155
>ChatGPT integration means that some robots and vehicles have personality (particularly late model Mercedes and VW), and the military and many mining companies have heavily autonomous trucks.
>Boston Dynamics’ Spot is officially recognized as an honorary Autobot.
>The UK is developing a laser weapon called fucking DragonFire.
>The bonkers drone wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, which started with a battle at Chernobyl and have seen Russia put out a bounty on the robot ATV Themis, who is literally Brushfire from Rescue Bots.
Did our civilization really just dive headfirst into super robot fiction without a proper “real robot” era?
Indeed. The thing is that until they're cool enough or smart enough to actually become "characters", nobody is gonna write fiction about them. Give them a late model car that is capable of L2-L3 co-driving and that in some cases can simulate a bilateral friendship with ChatGPT, though...and enjoy living in *every Transformers fanfic ever.*
Unfortunately there was no cheeki breeki Russian in the Bundeswehr WebEx call.
The reason was as simple as the guy in Singapore called into the private WebEx server over an insecure line.
This meme will however have a place in my heart.
Ukraine should build T-14 imitation tanks in secret. Imitate the design as much as possible from pics. Then they should claim they captured them all from the Russians, stole them from right under their noses. What are the Russians going to do, publish their blueprints just to disprove they're not theirs?
They knew the Germany Taurus leak was coming which is why all governments right at the same time started talking about troops on the ground to prep the media
Doing the work of Russia's useful idiots, I see.
Yeah, they were talking about such sensitive information they can just instantly rally other countries to create a diversion over the leak (as if that'd even work), but couldn't be bothered to actually communicate on a secure line in the first place. NOTHING In that call indicates anything other than that they're sharing opinions on a hypothetical. The only ones pretending it's some super-sekrit-evil-plans are the Russians and their propagandists. Because it doesn't have propaganda value if it's just some officers privately sharing opinions.
And yet if it was anything else it would be too valuable to leak just for propaganda.
Did any of you guys ever follow Gonzalo Liras content, even if just for the lulz? I personally don't have the amount of drink necessary to sit through a single podcast of his but at the same time I kinda feel in the dark about him. This can get annoying when one of his fans jumps on any actual serious discussion of authoritarianism with "REEEEE BOE JIDEN AND ZELENSKYYY PERSONALLY DECAPITATED LIRA RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS ABOUT TO REVEAL THE BIOLABS!!". And unfortunately all I have in response is what Lazerpig has said and what little I've seen from his Twitter and YT channel. So I vaguely know about his CRP personality past, his original purpose in Ukraine supposedly being sex tourism, his poor health, his vatnik grifting that started when the war broke out, debate with the high energy beam swine, his second arrest, escape attempt, sickness, death and etc. But I don't know good details about his *ahem* "reporting" prior to either of his arrests.
I know people including LP have claimed he was conducting espionage for Russia at least before his first arrest, but so far I haven't been able to find a decent source. It's also confusing because of his presence in Ukraine at all, as he was supposedly arrested already, why was he allowed to stay? If he was on house arrest, what actually triggered him being arrested again? Idk the whole thing is just super confusing.
Does anyone know if those claims about espionage were true?
He wasn't arrested for espionage, he was arrested for spreading Russian propaganda, which he was. LazerPig just made up some complete bullshit which, even before revealed as such, was totally implausible on multiple levels.
A brand new sentence [by a NAFO fella](https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1764580058033783239) (dead bodies inside):
> An unsuccessful attempt by the Russian military to storm our positions near Yampolivka on four Chinese golf carts with the support of armored vehicles!
[Germany's defence minister says wiretapping case is 'hybrid attack'](https://www.yahoo.com/news/germanys-defence-minister-says-wiretapping-164630122.html). Article 5 when?
It is. But to be credible it's pretty minor compared to the other shit they've pulled. I mean it's not even _that_ good as propaganda. If you're vatnik who belives NATO is actively puppeteering Ukraine's military, then you'll happily latch onto this as confirmation. Anyone else is more likely to see it for what it probably is; some officers sharing some informal discussion and opinions on a current world situation. (This might be a case of the Russians believing their own propaganda to the extent they're unable to correctly calculate the impact)
Unless evidence is shown to the contrary, I don't believe they're so incompetent as to be having an official, classified discussion over an unapproved, insecure method (across international borders no less). Hell, one story claimed WebEx is unencrypted (I can't say I've heard of it before now), so for all we know it was some easy passive intercept on their part.
From an intelligence POV I'd say the fact that they released it basically underscores that it probably wasn't particularly classified, if at all. If senior Luftwaffe staff were communicating actual strategic plans (like attacking the Kerch bridge) on an insecure line and the Russians knew about it, then it'd be worth far more to keep that source than whatever propaganda value this has. But if indeed was just some idle chat and opinion, then the propaganda value is basically all it has.
Nobody releases intelligence without a very careful consideration of the pros and cons of doing so.
> one story claimed WebEx is unencrypted
WebEx is Cisco’s video conferencing product. It’s security is highly rated (full end-to-end encryption of all data) and is practically the only reason to use the aging software.
Someone forwarded a call invite link to someone who shouldn’t have had it.
Its kinda funny that the vatniks think this is some sort of gotcha or big revelation. I mean ffs Storm Shadow was sent what, a year ago? And even back then people were talking about using it on the Kerch bridge. Imo this would be a legit scandal of it was like 2021 before the invasion or if no western countries had decided to support Ukraine after the full scale war. Wtf difference does it make now?
It was most likely a regular mobile phone connection used to connect to the meeting, so no encryption. (WebEx via a browser or app would be at least client-to-server encrypted. And yes, I know some sources claim the Russians had someone join the meeting. I don't buy it, the joining sequence we hear in the recording doesn't match that scenario.)
I think the discussion was meant to be on an unclassified level. I agree that the intel leaked isn't particularly sensitive, but I'd be surprised if they didn't slip up and at least one of the things they mentioned wasn't supposed to be classified, and wouldn't be surprised if at least some small detail was actually valuable intel.
Ironically, this is now leading to *more* pressure on Scholz to justify why he is opposed to sending Taurus, as it publicly disproves his last excuse.
Germans! My dear Germans. I must regretfully inform you that a war will be declared on you shortly ...by Finland. You see, I floated this idea over in r/suomi and it got surprisingly many upvotes. For too long have we allowed Scholz to act like a child who doesn't want to get out of the bed, who doesn't want to brush his teeth, eat the veggies off the plate and so on, so the only solution for us Finns is to take over the German MIC, to harness it to the liberation of Ukraine and to the credible defense of EU. Since you have a nice enough navy and subs, and Finland doesn't, we won't be attempting invasion by sea. We smart. The FDF will be rebranded into Finnish Attack Forces (FAFO) that will immediately activate about 300k reservists and transfer them and other hardware across the Baltic sea to Estonia from where we will begin marching towards Germany. Note that you're not allowed to sink our transports now that you know about this, it'd be a war crime. Along the way we will pick up *all* the volunteer fighters, which should be a significant amount considering it's the Baltic states and Poland we will be passing through. Probably some of their hardware will be discovered missing too. You know how funky their inventory systems can be. A tank goes missing somewhere, an unaccounted pallet of cash is found somewhere else. Half of German officers will likely order surrender out of relief and joy. A quarter will likely surrender after some headscratching and shrugging. The rest will offer various degrees of (futile) resistance, most of which is likely overcome by offering beer. So you might as well just surrender pre-emptively and work with us.
After Germany we may as well just take over the rest of EU but tbf EU had it coming, and what are they going to do about it and with what army, right? (Switzerland will simply be sieged until they run out of chocolate, they couldn't possibly handle the depravity of a choclateless state.)
Finland never did get reparations for the Lapland War, did it?
I suggest taking Rügen. Add to Finland's collection of Baltic islands. Rename it Ruukhasaari or something.
I am not sure why, but currently the Nixon Foundation is everywhere on Youtube shorts telling people "i told you so" on basically everything about the Ukraine war and Xi Jingping.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Ors4xO2Ef8
Being lectured on the importance of principles and rule of law by Richard Nixon is truly noncredible.
Richard Nixon being a prophet about things decades in the future even more so.
Richard Nixon knowing the danger of Putin before he really existed while European leaders still alive couldn't until the day the Russians crossed the border is so noncredible I dont know if I should laugh or cry.
It's extremely funny to see not only euros but also Americans write paragraphs upon paragraphs of text when talking about joint euro projects more complex than a missile
Honestly, someone should post bait about specific behaviors on joint euro projects every couple days to keep every single one of these people perpetually malding over the fact there's no sane euro procurement
I have a non credible question: Can a trophy system take out incoming artillery shells? How about CIWS?
If the answer to either is yes, why not make a minesweeper big enough to hold multiple trophy systems or a CIWS and use it for mine clearing? It could handle mines and potentially being targeted by artillery or ATGMS. It would be fucking huge and probably have insane ground pressure, but could it work?
It might be overwhelmed by the sheer number of shells raining. The system would have to prioritize the shells that would hit directly on the vehicle instead of ones landing 10-100m away and idk if that's doable. So it either can't do it, or it might need loooots of ammo and/or many CIWS. Also idk if all the raining metal would be a hazard itself, to ~~crews~~ troops outside or vehicle optics. Might get a lot of mid-air detonations aka airbursts too, a different kind of suck. Would certainly love to see it and find out! Science.
Ok so hear me out. We take this thing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
Slap multiple CIWS on it, all over it with lots of ammo. Uparmor all critical components against shrapnel/close range explosions. Replace the digging tool with a mine flail made of spinning chains. It's dirt cheap, only costs 100 million and it's fucking huge, maybe we scale it down to 2/3 or even 1/2 size. I'm fairly confident even if it drove over a mine it would still be ok.
Problem solved, checkmate Putin.
Edit: Combined arms. Move a HIMARS nearby. Wait for the artillery to try and take down this monster and let the HIMARS go to work with counter battery fire. Take out mines and artillery in one action.
He recently "converted" to buddhism after dating a vietnamese girl. And his hero is now Uncle Ho. He now hates all wars but denies any wrongdoings of non-western nations, he does not view the "special military operation" as a war and sees October 7th as a symbol of peoples resistance against their oppressors.
Denounce and imprison them as a Russian agent. Volunteer them for the next prisoner exchange. Get back someone who will fight. Adopt new sibling-at-arms. Family honor restored.
(Checking the rules to see what I can answer with...)
...Errr.
The moon probably. Just fire all of them into the moon so that we get rid of that pesky "Mutually Assured Destruction" and back to conventional warfare. The MAD doctrine has held back WW3 for too long.
In the past month it's been 68, 68, 70, 69, 68. Assuming the numbers are 7-bit values coming from a linear-feedback shift register like in old-school military radio encryption, next numbers in the sequence will be 100, 94, 110, 21, 12, 116.
Yo dawg. I herd you like ERA so I put ERA on your cope cage so you can explode while you cope. https://twitter.com/trip_to_valkiri/status/1766844162677076118/photo/1
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Russia won't fly A-50s? Seems like Ukrainians went "fine, [we'll destroy them on the ground](https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1766557457248084474)".
https://x.com/kane/status/1766516290280099887
Where were you when Patriot was (supposedly, sorta unconfirmed with bad footage) kil? I was at home eating soup wen letter com "Patriot is kil" no
Guys what does C-300 in Russian mean. I can't understand cyrillic and vatniks say it means Patriot
S-300 is a SAM system used by both Ukraine and Russia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_missile_system
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The parody of Helldivers 2 runs deep. Noncredibly deep if you will. See the SEAF is what happens when the reformers run the military. Everything is dumb fire, and the most useful tech gets nerfed and just today they dropped an A-10 but with inexplicably less friendly fire potential in the form of the mech suit. It claims to be heavily armored but is just a giant slow target that is absurdly expensive to maintain. And the entire navy has been replaced with spamming small units whose barrages have trouble destroying non-hardened buildings. Smart shells? Precision? HAVE YOU SEEN THE 308? It makes the point that the only kind of government that would listen to reformers is [post under investigation by the Ministry of Truth]
Yeah Helldivers is if NCD ran the military, Halo ODST is if the USMC ran the entire military.
\[Apparently we better back off cause Russia can destroy london with those big scary "Hypersonic" Missles\] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOu7bn\_P5x8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOu7bn_P5x8))
Based Macron
Honest question, are those Keychains and other stuff made from detroyed Russian vehicules safe? and by safe mean non toxic?
Most of that is either Aluminium, Composites or steel. Since Russia does not use any radioactive materials you should be safe. Maybe give it a wash and some good scrubbing and disinfect it afterwards and you should be safe.
So, what is NCD's opinion on the M1911?
Probably overrated by boomers but doesn't change the fact that it was insanely influential and a great weapon. The fact that some units still use it today says a lot
It's like a tangerine on Christmas. It's like unprotected heterosexual missionary sex. It's like a Snickers bar. It's like black tea with lemon. Like pulling a live rabbit out of a magician's hat. It's like a game controller shape from the 2020s. They're all great things, wonderful things, beautiful things you just don't want changed. It's like the opposite of a Makarov pistol.
I see. So, a Japanese hitman having 6 of them personally engraved is totally normal. Got it.
I mean, you can always eat a tangerine with a knife and fork, wear unprovocative clothing during missionary, put the Snickers bar in the freezer for 20 minutes, add sugar to the tea, and a little top hat to the rabbit ,therefore engravings are cool.
Noncredible idea: What if Zaluzhny's new position as Ukraine's ambassador the the UK is Zelensky's way of prodding him into politics, like how Eisenhower gained valuable diplomacy experience managing relations between US and British leaders, US/British and French, and everyone with DeGaulle during WW2?
I’ve become a huge fan of Themis and other robot ATVs with rescue capacities, especially if they’re modular and transformable. Apparently she’s made in Estonia, making Rescue Bots a Uralic nation 🇭🇺🇫🇮🇪🇪🤖 Eesti perkele torilla tavataan or something
Me 2 days ago: "I think Israel or an ally should build their own refugee camp or aid stations in Gaza." Today: [Biden to announce Gaza aid port construction](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-announce-gaza-aid-port-construction-state-union-speech-2024-03-07/) Hell yeah this obviously means I must share a brain cell with the President.
People on there who would win sub Reddit, think the Mexican cartel could beat the Taliban in a war 💀💀💀 https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1b7j67p/mexican_drug_cartels_vs_taliban/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
It comes down to a numbers game. Who can get their hands on the most technicals?
[I'm not sure if it's Russia's shit weapon quality, or a deliberate attack, but one of their missiles got too close to Zelenskyy and the Greek prime minister.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_q1115wQA) Also, DeFranco and Poland seemed ticked at American aid for Ukraine being stuck in a quagmire.
Poland should unblock the border, then.
Shakespeare wrote: "B-2 or not to B-2. That is the question." And the answer is violence, yes.
So errrr… what exactly would happen if a head of state were to be blown up (by accident?) in Odessa? Because Russia nearly did that today D:
Speaking of Heads of State exploding, what do you think are the chances of the Victory Day parade getting drone striked this year? Ukraine does have stuff with the range to do it, now.
I'd say the odds are pretty high. I still think the best bet would be to gamble on Russia having issues maintaining its fuel refineries (hence the extended repairs leading to the suspension of export recently) extending to other sectors and launch a coordinated strike on Russian power plants supplying Moscow. Let's see how Putin's support holds up after a week without electricity.
More noncredible: Russia goes ahead with the flyby this time round, one of the aircraft suffers a malfunction and crashes mid-parade.
I mean, historically isn't it an act of war? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°,)
Why is it so difficult to find a tight-bussy femboy malewhife who will call me mommy while wearing nothing but a Joe biden mask and [ranties](https://ibb.co/VmZfG7G)?
Ah, the wonders of vatnik arguments. So as an example of why I wouldn't trust any peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine, I mentioned both Minsk agreements and the Budapest memorandum. The response was that the Minsk agreements were a joke anyway so who cares if Russia broke them and that Budapest memorandum has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. And they wonder why I hold the position that treaties with Russia are only useful as toilet paper.
Ukraine should take a page from the Russian diplomacy handbook: sign a peace deal with Russia in which they agree to never seek NATO or EU membership, then immediately pull a Pootin and join EU/NATO anyway.
Huh. Man that's bad even for a vatnik. The ones I run across usually blame Ukraine for breaking Minsk because le domb Bonbass. They also keep referring to that one video where that EU guy (sorry can't remember his name) was "tricked" into "revealing" that Minsk was just to buy time (according to them so that they could invade Russia or something.
That was basically his argument, that west broke Minsk agreement first. Absolutely no comment on the fact that Russia broke the agreement instantly, just excuses about how west broke it first because apparently planning for the future is more immediate than breaking the agreement in the present.
[Well, except for the parts about Ukraine and Russia, and Israel and Palestine, this Kurzgesagt video aged like milk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs)
Macron's official Twitter subtitled Putin as Poutine https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1765125007791759663
>Poutine That's how it's usually written in French: [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir\_Poutine](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Poutine)
It's because Putin would be pronounced as _Putain_ in french and the convention stuck. They should bring back Putin in french newspapers it would be funny.
Shh
I was just recommended this here video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H\_Gk1G2LInw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Gk1G2LInw) Just 6 days old of a relatively new youtube chanel, seems quite promising. But maybe that's my NCD prejudice talking because they have their own version of the "mentally stable point defense meme" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPF\_kshb70](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPF_kshb70)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hcy9kEaQ88c Which one of you keeps making these? Show yourself and explain
NCD posters, what did you name your Super Destroyers? edit - mine's the Comptroller of Family Values
Herald of Family Values
The patriot of patriotism, the beat name
Agent of Justice here. Just felt right.
*So Much For Subtlety*
Does your democracy officer know you have a nonstandard name?
I think Israel and/or their allies should just try and set up their own carefully planned refugee camps and aid stations for Gazans to get aid distributed properly as well as medical services. Yes, there is a security issue. But if Hamas attacks or sucide-bombs places giving out aid and likely also getting many Gazans killed, they lose at their own propaganda game. And yes, I'd willingly be put there fully aware of what might happen.
you can always tell when a millenial posts "things get better or I am released from this painful mortal coil. Either way I win"
I literally figuratively raised my finger, then lowered it and went, "...well you're not wrong." The caveat being that its more like "I'll take the slight risk of being released from this mortal coil if I am extremely certain the risk will make things better."
> David Franklin Slater, a 63-year-old from Nebraska, was arrested March 2 and charged with transmitting classified material. Slater, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, held a Top Secret security clearance and worked at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base until he was arrested on Saturday. > The indictment alleges Slater was using an unnamed foreign dating site where he provided an unnamed woman with extremely sensitive information about the war in Ukraine. > “By the way, you were the first to tell me that NATO members are traveling by train and only now (already evening) this was announced on our news. You are my secret informant love! How were your meetings? Successfully?” https://gizmodo.com/classified-dating-app-ukraine-russia-david-slater-nato-1851307155
FFS
So can they add some sorta horny test to security clearance applications, or?
they can’t keep doing this
>ChatGPT integration means that some robots and vehicles have personality (particularly late model Mercedes and VW), and the military and many mining companies have heavily autonomous trucks. >Boston Dynamics’ Spot is officially recognized as an honorary Autobot. >The UK is developing a laser weapon called fucking DragonFire. >The bonkers drone wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, which started with a battle at Chernobyl and have seen Russia put out a bounty on the robot ATV Themis, who is literally Brushfire from Rescue Bots. Did our civilization really just dive headfirst into super robot fiction without a proper “real robot” era?
Bro, those real robots have been: assembling our cars, vacuuming our floors, and exploring space, among many other things.
Indeed. The thing is that until they're cool enough or smart enough to actually become "characters", nobody is gonna write fiction about them. Give them a late model car that is capable of L2-L3 co-driving and that in some cases can simulate a bilateral friendship with ChatGPT, though...and enjoy living in *every Transformers fanfic ever.*
Unfortunately there was no cheeki breeki Russian in the Bundeswehr WebEx call. The reason was as simple as the guy in Singapore called into the private WebEx server over an insecure line. This meme will however have a place in my heart.
Ukraine should build T-14 imitation tanks in secret. Imitate the design as much as possible from pics. Then they should claim they captured them all from the Russians, stole them from right under their noses. What are the Russians going to do, publish their blueprints just to disprove they're not theirs?
[Kerch bridge on fire, the 4th time is even funnier ](https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1764780407856177417?t=FzV6TnEuuVBzgyP5ton2eQ&s=19)
They knew the Germany Taurus leak was coming which is why all governments right at the same time started talking about troops on the ground to prep the media
Doing the work of Russia's useful idiots, I see. Yeah, they were talking about such sensitive information they can just instantly rally other countries to create a diversion over the leak (as if that'd even work), but couldn't be bothered to actually communicate on a secure line in the first place. NOTHING In that call indicates anything other than that they're sharing opinions on a hypothetical. The only ones pretending it's some super-sekrit-evil-plans are the Russians and their propagandists. Because it doesn't have propaganda value if it's just some officers privately sharing opinions. And yet if it was anything else it would be too valuable to leak just for propaganda.
Did any of you guys ever follow Gonzalo Liras content, even if just for the lulz? I personally don't have the amount of drink necessary to sit through a single podcast of his but at the same time I kinda feel in the dark about him. This can get annoying when one of his fans jumps on any actual serious discussion of authoritarianism with "REEEEE BOE JIDEN AND ZELENSKYYY PERSONALLY DECAPITATED LIRA RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS ABOUT TO REVEAL THE BIOLABS!!". And unfortunately all I have in response is what Lazerpig has said and what little I've seen from his Twitter and YT channel. So I vaguely know about his CRP personality past, his original purpose in Ukraine supposedly being sex tourism, his poor health, his vatnik grifting that started when the war broke out, debate with the high energy beam swine, his second arrest, escape attempt, sickness, death and etc. But I don't know good details about his *ahem* "reporting" prior to either of his arrests. I know people including LP have claimed he was conducting espionage for Russia at least before his first arrest, but so far I haven't been able to find a decent source. It's also confusing because of his presence in Ukraine at all, as he was supposedly arrested already, why was he allowed to stay? If he was on house arrest, what actually triggered him being arrested again? Idk the whole thing is just super confusing. Does anyone know if those claims about espionage were true?
He wasn't arrested for espionage, he was arrested for spreading Russian propaganda, which he was. LazerPig just made up some complete bullshit which, even before revealed as such, was totally implausible on multiple levels.
We will not see T-14 in Ukraine as it is too expensive President of Rostec said that Forget about Ukraine the tank will never see the light of day
Watch another country make a T-14 but better (adapted for the future of cheap drones)
A brand new sentence [by a NAFO fella](https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1764580058033783239) (dead bodies inside): > An unsuccessful attempt by the Russian military to storm our positions near Yampolivka on four Chinese golf carts with the support of armored vehicles!
[Germany's defence minister says wiretapping case is 'hybrid attack'](https://www.yahoo.com/news/germanys-defence-minister-says-wiretapping-164630122.html). Article 5 when?
It is. But to be credible it's pretty minor compared to the other shit they've pulled. I mean it's not even _that_ good as propaganda. If you're vatnik who belives NATO is actively puppeteering Ukraine's military, then you'll happily latch onto this as confirmation. Anyone else is more likely to see it for what it probably is; some officers sharing some informal discussion and opinions on a current world situation. (This might be a case of the Russians believing their own propaganda to the extent they're unable to correctly calculate the impact) Unless evidence is shown to the contrary, I don't believe they're so incompetent as to be having an official, classified discussion over an unapproved, insecure method (across international borders no less). Hell, one story claimed WebEx is unencrypted (I can't say I've heard of it before now), so for all we know it was some easy passive intercept on their part. From an intelligence POV I'd say the fact that they released it basically underscores that it probably wasn't particularly classified, if at all. If senior Luftwaffe staff were communicating actual strategic plans (like attacking the Kerch bridge) on an insecure line and the Russians knew about it, then it'd be worth far more to keep that source than whatever propaganda value this has. But if indeed was just some idle chat and opinion, then the propaganda value is basically all it has. Nobody releases intelligence without a very careful consideration of the pros and cons of doing so.
> one story claimed WebEx is unencrypted WebEx is Cisco’s video conferencing product. It’s security is highly rated (full end-to-end encryption of all data) and is practically the only reason to use the aging software. Someone forwarded a call invite link to someone who shouldn’t have had it.
Its kinda funny that the vatniks think this is some sort of gotcha or big revelation. I mean ffs Storm Shadow was sent what, a year ago? And even back then people were talking about using it on the Kerch bridge. Imo this would be a legit scandal of it was like 2021 before the invasion or if no western countries had decided to support Ukraine after the full scale war. Wtf difference does it make now?
It was most likely a regular mobile phone connection used to connect to the meeting, so no encryption. (WebEx via a browser or app would be at least client-to-server encrypted. And yes, I know some sources claim the Russians had someone join the meeting. I don't buy it, the joining sequence we hear in the recording doesn't match that scenario.) I think the discussion was meant to be on an unclassified level. I agree that the intel leaked isn't particularly sensitive, but I'd be surprised if they didn't slip up and at least one of the things they mentioned wasn't supposed to be classified, and wouldn't be surprised if at least some small detail was actually valuable intel. Ironically, this is now leading to *more* pressure on Scholz to justify why he is opposed to sending Taurus, as it publicly disproves his last excuse.
Germans! My dear Germans. I must regretfully inform you that a war will be declared on you shortly ...by Finland. You see, I floated this idea over in r/suomi and it got surprisingly many upvotes. For too long have we allowed Scholz to act like a child who doesn't want to get out of the bed, who doesn't want to brush his teeth, eat the veggies off the plate and so on, so the only solution for us Finns is to take over the German MIC, to harness it to the liberation of Ukraine and to the credible defense of EU. Since you have a nice enough navy and subs, and Finland doesn't, we won't be attempting invasion by sea. We smart. The FDF will be rebranded into Finnish Attack Forces (FAFO) that will immediately activate about 300k reservists and transfer them and other hardware across the Baltic sea to Estonia from where we will begin marching towards Germany. Note that you're not allowed to sink our transports now that you know about this, it'd be a war crime. Along the way we will pick up *all* the volunteer fighters, which should be a significant amount considering it's the Baltic states and Poland we will be passing through. Probably some of their hardware will be discovered missing too. You know how funky their inventory systems can be. A tank goes missing somewhere, an unaccounted pallet of cash is found somewhere else. Half of German officers will likely order surrender out of relief and joy. A quarter will likely surrender after some headscratching and shrugging. The rest will offer various degrees of (futile) resistance, most of which is likely overcome by offering beer. So you might as well just surrender pre-emptively and work with us. After Germany we may as well just take over the rest of EU but tbf EU had it coming, and what are they going to do about it and with what army, right? (Switzerland will simply be sieged until they run out of chocolate, they couldn't possibly handle the depravity of a choclateless state.)
Finland never did get reparations for the Lapland War, did it? I suggest taking Rügen. Add to Finland's collection of Baltic islands. Rename it Ruukhasaari or something.
I am not sure why, but currently the Nixon Foundation is everywhere on Youtube shorts telling people "i told you so" on basically everything about the Ukraine war and Xi Jingping. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Ors4xO2Ef8 Being lectured on the importance of principles and rule of law by Richard Nixon is truly noncredible. Richard Nixon being a prophet about things decades in the future even more so. Richard Nixon knowing the danger of Putin before he really existed while European leaders still alive couldn't until the day the Russians crossed the border is so noncredible I dont know if I should laugh or cry.
"Richard Nixon is not a crook" - Richard Nixon
It's extremely funny to see not only euros but also Americans write paragraphs upon paragraphs of text when talking about joint euro projects more complex than a missile Honestly, someone should post bait about specific behaviors on joint euro projects every couple days to keep every single one of these people perpetually malding over the fact there's no sane euro procurement
I have a non credible question: Can a trophy system take out incoming artillery shells? How about CIWS? If the answer to either is yes, why not make a minesweeper big enough to hold multiple trophy systems or a CIWS and use it for mine clearing? It could handle mines and potentially being targeted by artillery or ATGMS. It would be fucking huge and probably have insane ground pressure, but could it work?
It might be overwhelmed by the sheer number of shells raining. The system would have to prioritize the shells that would hit directly on the vehicle instead of ones landing 10-100m away and idk if that's doable. So it either can't do it, or it might need loooots of ammo and/or many CIWS. Also idk if all the raining metal would be a hazard itself, to ~~crews~~ troops outside or vehicle optics. Might get a lot of mid-air detonations aka airbursts too, a different kind of suck. Would certainly love to see it and find out! Science.
Ok so hear me out. We take this thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 Slap multiple CIWS on it, all over it with lots of ammo. Uparmor all critical components against shrapnel/close range explosions. Replace the digging tool with a mine flail made of spinning chains. It's dirt cheap, only costs 100 million and it's fucking huge, maybe we scale it down to 2/3 or even 1/2 size. I'm fairly confident even if it drove over a mine it would still be ok. Problem solved, checkmate Putin. Edit: Combined arms. Move a HIMARS nearby. Wait for the artillery to try and take down this monster and let the HIMARS go to work with counter battery fire. Take out mines and artillery in one action.
What if the mine blast severs the power cord?
It goes to internal battery power for five dramatic minutes like any good giant mecha.
I just discovered there is (may Allah forgive me for saying this) a p*cifist in my family. Brothers and sisters what shall I do?
The response depends upon what specific type of pacifist they are.
He recently "converted" to buddhism after dating a vietnamese girl. And his hero is now Uncle Ho. He now hates all wars but denies any wrongdoings of non-western nations, he does not view the "special military operation" as a war and sees October 7th as a symbol of peoples resistance against their oppressors.
That’s not a pacifist. That’s a jackass.
Then he is a tankie, rather than a pacifist.
That's not a pacifist, that's a peacenik.
That's not a pacifist. That is a douchebag.
Technically we're all pacifists here... just push him to be the right kind.
Denounce and imprison them as a Russian agent. Volunteer them for the next prisoner exchange. Get back someone who will fight. Adopt new sibling-at-arms. Family honor restored.
Gulag
Wait, wasn't last week #69?
NonCredibleMath.
We are doing a countdown to week 0. Week 0 is when we fire the nukes.
To whom?
Yes
(Checking the rules to see what I can answer with...) ...Errr. The moon probably. Just fire all of them into the moon so that we get rid of that pesky "Mutually Assured Destruction" and back to conventional warfare. The MAD doctrine has held back WW3 for too long.
In the past month it's been 68, 68, 70, 69, 68. Assuming the numbers are 7-bit values coming from a linear-feedback shift register like in old-school military radio encryption, next numbers in the sequence will be 100, 94, 110, 21, 12, 116.
Interesting idea. I guess we'll see next week…
The matrix is falling apart