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by aerius
2024-04-19 12:43pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Personally I'd like to hear aerius elaborate on what he thinks Lenin's mistakes that need correcting were. Because it sounds an awful lot like he means not committing more genocide against the Ukrainians sooner. We begin with history, the last 400 years should be good enough. https://www.washington...
by aerius
2024-04-17 03:48pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 511
Views: 116186

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL Chinese & Indian soldiers beat each other with sticks to settle border disputes so that they don't start a war.

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/statu ... 3812295683
by aerius
2024-04-17 12:45pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Ralin wrote: 2024-04-17 11:38amSo to be clear, you are saying that Putin DOES have some sort of special authority over ethnic Russians in other countries, at least as long as they're near a border with Russia?
I'm saying the Ukrainians shouldn't have been stupid enough to give Putin a reason to correct Lenin's mistakes.
by aerius
2024-04-17 09:49am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

And that has what to do with literally anything you ghoulish little shit? Does Putin have some sort of special authority over ethnic Russians abroad? Does that apply everywhere or just in countries neighboring Russia? It's like you don't know and don't want to know anything about the past 100 years...
by aerius
2024-04-17 09:19am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2024-04-17 08:55amYou make it sound like Ukraine actually had a say in the matter of being invaded.
How about not shelling ethnic Russians the Donetsk region for something like 8 years before the invasion?
by aerius
2024-04-17 08:02am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

America bitching to Ukraine would be hilarious if it wasn't life-or-death, what are they going to do, stop supplying Ukraine? Oh, wait... :wanker: Let me spell this out for you. America doesn't give a fuck about the Ukraine or its people. The only reason they support the Ukraine is because they tho...
by aerius
2024-04-15 05:19pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Scranton ammo plant on fire https://fox56.com/news/local/crews-respond-to-fire-at-general-dynamics-in-scranton SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) — Firefighters responded to an ammunition manufacturer in Scranton Monday afternoon. Crews from the Scranton Fire Department responded to General Dynamics al...
by aerius
2024-04-05 03:04pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 542
Views: 37597

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Nazis: We were just following orders!
Israelis: We were just following AI!

Hang them for war crimes. Assuming there's anything left of Israel when it's all over.
by aerius
2024-04-04 09:10am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Exclusive: Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack I am beginning to think that Russia knew about the attack but allowed it to happen so it could be used for political purposes, hence all the finger-pointing at Ukraine. Putin knows damn well Ukraine had nothing to do with it but...
by aerius
2024-03-23 08:08pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Apparently they've got 11 terrorists so far including 4 gunmen. Tajikistan passports were found with the terrorists but no word on where they're actually from or if the passports are real. Russians already got medieval on one of them, they sliced off one of his ears and made him eat it. Yes there's ...
by aerius
2024-03-05 02:45pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

I looked into this too, according to Global Firepower the USA has slightly more towed artillery than Ukraine. However, the number for Ukraine here is a few hundred lower than what I've seen elsewhere rounding out their number to about 1600. If the 1600 number is true and the stuff from this site is...
by aerius
2024-03-05 11:03am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Blood doesn't matter on the modern battlefield. Fires does. And guess what??? The sheer paltry amount of Ukrainian fires holding off Russians? Yeah.... Ukraine literally has as much artillery as the entire US army. It had more tanks and armoured vehicles than most of Europe put together. And you're...
by aerius
2024-03-04 02:17pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Minus the fact that 2023 Ukrainian Summer offensive lacked the thing that NATO armies count most on... complete and uncontested control of the air. Those NATO style offensives are predicated on being able to ring up HQ and declare that certain hilltops should not exist anymore, or deep strike reinf...
by aerius
2024-03-04 12:13pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

And he is a right wing hack job. Everything he tries to claim about the UAF applies in video to Russia, these are the same morons who ran out of gas and abandoned their vehicles to John Deere, every loss of crew is a far bigger detriment to Russia because the UAF can and has sent crew elsewhere to ...
by aerius
2024-03-04 09:13am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

The idea that Iraq has any relevance whatsoever to going to war with modern Russia is just Western 'old glory days' drooling senility and hubris on full display. It was a grossly massive curbstomp against a dramatically weaker opponent with an entirely antiquated military technology in all fields e...
by aerius
2024-03-03 10:35pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 329
Views: 14897

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

This is just fantasy. There aren't enough missiles available on the entire planet to meaningfully cripple the logistics of a great power behind the lines, especially when they have to penetrate and be attrited by an IADS to hit critical targets to begin with, nevermind how you would magically put a...
by aerius
2024-02-19 06:27pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

There are no good options for Ukraine unless something drastically changes. There are only less bad options that only get worse with each passing week. I'd rather this not be the case, but reality doesn't give a fuck what I'd rather. Correct. For those who don't get it yet, this is how the negotiat...
by aerius
2024-02-18 04:29pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

There's a flaw in your argument - you are saying Russia is buying up tool presses from 3rd parties and that's fine, but the UK has to produce everything domestically from iron ore? Why, you expect Russia to branch out into U-boats and piracy? Why the double standard? Russia still has a heavy machin...
by aerius
2024-02-18 12:02pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

On the other point: I acknowledge that GDP portion based on tourism and hairdressing isn't going to be much direct help in production. Still, I really cannot emphasize strongly enough how little effort NATO is putting in. The fact they haven't so far is I think equal parts complacency and contempt....
by aerius
2024-01-28 10:24pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

The same referendum that took place at Russian gunpoint and was illegal under the Constitution of Ukraine and is not recognized by most countries? THAT referendum? :banghead: You don't get to cry about the Constitution after staging a coup to put a bunch of Ukrainian Nazis in power. That's pretty u...
by aerius
2024-01-28 09:18pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

Except, you know, Russia invaded after annexing Crimea, which was after Ukraine gave up nukes for security guarantees. Russia can only be trusted to stand act as a bully then cry foul when anyone stands up to their crap. What a load of bullshit. 1) Those were Soviet nukes which just happened to be ...
by aerius
2024-01-17 12:39pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 139221

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

I understand that Ukraine probably won't be making new aircraft, or even too many new tanks, but Russian sympathizers are claiming that Ukraine has to capitulate soon because they will run out of artillery shells if the west doesn't give them more. I want to know why they think Ukraine can't produc...
by aerius
2024-01-14 03:48pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than assumed...
Replies: 10
Views: 919

Re: Chinese Military woes... Corruption worse than assumed...

Taiwanese independence will not be a problem for China once everyone in my generation is dead. We're the last generation where a significant number of us have strong anti-China sentiments, resistance is over once we're no longer a major voting block. Probably won't even have to wait that long, my pa...
by aerius
2023-11-16 06:26pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 511
Views: 116186

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that modern designer weed strains are almost as good as cocaine. I gave a sample to a friend to get his opinion on it (he's a professional drug user jazz musician) and he was like "damn! This shit's like cocaine! If this was around 20 years ago I would never have done hard drugs".
by aerius
2023-10-04 11:32pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 511
Views: 116186

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Today (okay, actually over the last couple months) I Learned that Generation Z has no idea what the fuck a roach clip is, let alone how to improvise one. "When I was your age, we didn't have these sissy rolling papers that come with a dainty little handle built in! We made due with paper clips...