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It's the dunk tank.

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Like yes sure, Russia is a very reactionary country but I wish the westerners good luck with trying to destroy Moscow the way it did Gaza.

Did these people forget the cold war?

This is not to say Hamas or the Houthis are weak ofcourse. Palestinians keep killing the IOF despite the JDAMs.

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[–] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 73 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I first remember Russia was out of ammo and Moscow was about to be invaded any second now.

Then I was told the TB2 drones were going to end Russia.

Then I was told it was their lack of numbers.

Then I was told it was their lack of winter clothes (no, they really said that).

Then I was told himars would absolutely end them.

Then I was told no it's the cluster ammo.

Then I was told the Leopard would end then.

Then it was the JDAM.

Then the Abrams and challenger tanks.

Dont forget the french CAESAR

You can check. All of those were about to turn the tide in a major way.

They're fighting the most hardened, experienced and numerous army in Europe, a trained and well equipped military with what is effectively the second largest military budget on the planet. And they're still gaining ground.

Meanwhile israel is getting absolutely owned by random bakers wearing tactical flip flops and firing homemade RPGs. Who don't have air, ground or naval support whatsoever.

Just like Americans got owned twice in a row in the same region before.

Liberals have no idea what an actual war is. All their countries have done is fighting colonial expeditions before being told by their history books it was an unquestionable win and the complete lack of achievement or victory was actually the entire point of it.

Do you condemn himars

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 36 points 9 months ago

I first remember Russia was out of ammo

I remember when Russia was out of ammo and fuel, stranded in a 60km convoy outside Kyiv, and Ukraine scored exactly zero hits on the convoy

If I remember right it actually did happen that the convoy ran dry on fuel for a few days and it should have been disastrous for them. The fact that they weren't eaten alive by Ukranian Su-25s should've been the wakeup call for libs

[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You forgot the classic: the Russians forgot to turn the tires of their trucks.

Dude predicted all Russian trucks would break down in no more than 3 weeks because they all forgot to turn the tires based on a single “enhanced” photo.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As soon as we deliver the F-16s, its game over. We've just been pulling our punches.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"With just a few strategic nukes..."

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Excited for a wave of "How nuclear winter could be a climate crisis game changer" Op-Eds, as mushroom clouds spring up all over Europe.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're too late. in a fit of (actual, literal) mania I wrote a white paper explaining how we can ground-detonate nukes in the Sahara to create a massive planet-cooling series of dust clouds. Sure, there will be some undesirable side effects, but tritium makes your bones strong.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

tritium makes your bones strong

I've heard its what plants crave.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Pulling mothballed F-111s and F-4s out of the boneyard to ship them to ukkkraine by boat because they sure as shit can't fly, and insisting that this marks a major turning point against the RuZZian uruks and that victory is imminent

[–] LarsAdultsen@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still don't understand the hype around F-16s. It's an ancient platform and it's not like Ukraine can maintain any form of air superiority long enough to deploy smart bombs...

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

No, see, yes they can because the F-16 is just that good.

You simply do not understand how much better our fighter jets are than Russian fighter jets. American air power could win instantly if we wanted it to. We're just choosing not to deploy it.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Don’t forget Javelins and ATACMs and Patriots

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Liberals think Russian military is the same as Hamas or the Houthis

To libs, every person from anywhere east of Berlin is part of the same Mongol horde

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

The French are surrender monkeys who lack courage of their convictions except when they're rioting against the government in which case they're naughty children.

The Spanish/Italians/Greeks are lazy brown people.

The Arabs are all psychotic zealots living in barren desserts because they're too stubborn to embrace modernity.

The Sub-Saharan Africans are starving babies with ebola.

The Indians are that kid from Slumdog Millionaire - dumb, horny, broke, and only relevant because they got lucky somehow

The Chinese are a hive of Communist bees.

Everyone in Latin America is a drug kingpin trying to break into the American Southwest and steal it.

Australia, the UK, and Canada are different kinds of New York comedy routines.

Only America matters. Only America can win. Only America forever and ever. Nothing will ever change. America stay winning. America.

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

During the First World War, Germans became part of the Mongol horde too.

See: Germans getting called "Huns" during WW1

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Umm akshually Huns and Mongols are different groups

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Nuance is dead 😔

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Berlin? That seething hive of barbaric huns?

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Russia, the country famous for weak air defense of course.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

This really gets me the most abou all this. Like this is the type of fact you could've picked up from a number of videogames, even, and it still doesn't land

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Part of me wonders what these suburban lotus eaters are gonna think when the Ukrainian military collapses

But another part of me knows these dipshits can twist any new information to fit their unfalsifiable orthodoxy and will probably pull a "stabbed in the back" myth out their ass

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Either they go "stabbed in the back" or they just move on and delete their old signs of support. I think it depends on the severity of the blowback, and since I imagine it being mostly contained to Europe, I don't think these dipshits will give a shit.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

yeah the ability to turn around and say they "we all knew it" when they are proven wrong beyond any doubt is unparalleled

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago

I kind of hope they run the 'stabbed in the back' play; whatever ukronazis remain will DEFINITELY find a reason to have it up and stuck for settler-Amerikans after that point.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Look what happened in Afghanistan. The whole thing fell over while Americans were still loading at the airport. Everyone in the West got super angry for a couple weeks then proceeded to memory hole it

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There were people hanging onto the outside of planes until they fell to their deaths and there was 0 mention of them a week later. Just a video that showed up online and maybe cable news (no idea I don't watch tv news) and instantly memory holed

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Oh God I remember that now. Jesus

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

I wonder if the military refugees will get the same special treatment that South Vietnamese military refugees got. They’ll probably be more ghoulish because they can’t let a white nation fall to the Slavic Horde (they will forget that ukrainians are slavs too)

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I call goal change, "it was always the goal of western intervention to ensure Russia only got and no more than that". Excluding the fact that Russia was trying heavily to peacefully negotiate for x y z 10 years ago.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They will suddenly and openly embrace the "proxy war" narrative that we've been talking about since before the invasion started, like it was always their goal of supporting Ukraine to "fight them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here" instead of "total victory by UwU smolbean-arino Ukraine over the eBiL totalitarian stinky head Vladimir Putin and HIS Russia."

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Probably similar to their Afghanistan excuses. “Oh we did everything we could but the locals were too corrupt and cowardly to use our equipment correctly”

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately not.

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

least detached from reality Ukraine supporter

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Aha! I caught you, Charles III! I just KNEW you had an account here!

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

Integrated fire support

Signal jamming and cyberwarfare superiority go brrrr

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

Liberals think they’re winning but have to beg for extra money to send shit to ukraine and get mad da tankies for somehow influencing morale and government decision making lol. For a bunch of winners they sure are acting like losers.

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Whats a Bradley square? Is that some place in New York or something?

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

Liberals don’t have brains, just a mixed-up sludge of “bad enemy man” slushing around