Gotta say, the US Army has made major progress.

50 years ago our weakness was really any STDs whatsoever.

Abortion in the red states, and that was work he did his last term.

Wait till he’s back in office, he’s nothing if not vindictive.

My bad, missed the subreddit.

But in all seriousness, we do need to give Ukraine the spicy throwing sticks.

I am not happy we didn’t support Ukraine more.

But putin sabotaged our democracy by supporting the worst trash among us.

And everyone said that’s exactly what he would do beforehand.

Fucking worthless animals voting out of spite.

Fuck lemmy.ml

Narrator: they weren’t.

When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist,

Non-service connected condition.

SEALs get book deals

This is a conundrum…

2066

Stationed on Mars to quell a rebellion

Become side door gunner for atmospheric dropship.

No miniguns or gatling cannons, just some metal brick with a pipe on one end.

Get sent in to extract some wounded.

Reach the evac zone and come under attack.

Hoard of rebels charging in with their new plasma guns and compact rocket launchers.

Let loose a stream of bullets.

The sounds of the rebel’s screams are nearly drowned out by the heavy “Kachunk chunk chunk chunk” of the machinegun.

The wounded are loaded up and returned to base.

Inspect MG afterwards.

Thing was made in 1942.

Tunisia, Italy, and Germany are scratched onto the gun.

Scratch “Mars” on with a knife.

That’s some Midwest shit too.

Friendly, polite, but when shit gets serious the sooner you get to it, the sooner you get through it, no point in dicking around.

Hey, we were on the back-to-back all-star world War teams too!

No they won’t!

They supported nuclear options only so long as their cock-holster putin was the only one with said option.

Now it becomes ‘Everyone has to forcefully disarm a rogue nuclear state for Russia!’ or some other bs.

Give them time, their talking points are slow over the weekend.

Who do you think designed the Soviet nukes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Institute_of_Physics_and_Technology

The Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology was the “Laboratory no. 1” for nuclear physics, and was responsible for the first conceptual development of a nuclear bomb in the USSR.[3]: 4

Russians are inbred drunk morons, which is why everything they tried since the fall has been disastrous, and why we haven’t seen su-57s and t-14s in actual combat while the semhat exploded on the pad and their own bombs rained on their soil.

If the war goes on expect them to nuke Moscow by mistake.

We didn’t hate Russia.

We didn’t care.

Do you hate a rat you saw once 5 years ago?

At best we held them in quiet contempt until Crimea, then 2022 pulled the contempt to the surface.

Personally I think we need to set an example, dresden comes to mind.

Trump is extremely pro-russian, and has managed to push most of the republican base that way.

The leadership is pro-ukraine, but their power is limited under a trump presidency.

Is that true? If the worst comes to pass, I wonder what the UN will say (not that it matters…)

You mean blizzard activision… :(

Lebanon, along with other states like Jordan, was flooded by Palestinian refugees after 1948 and then the 6 day war and other Arab states sent weapons because syria and Israel considers it a proxy war (after syria got spanked in the YKW).

The lebanese maronite Christians lived on the rich north/sest side (Beirut was once called the Paris of the middle east) while the south/east side (over the mountains) were incredibly poor shia Arab Muslims. The Syrians armed them and told them to attack the west, which they did, and won, which lead to half a decade of civil war that…vaguely settled when Israel invaded and occupied them from 85 to 2000.

Every now and then hezbollah in the south attacks Israel with rockets and such, Israel responds by bombing or even invading, which doesn’t really work well for anybody.

It’s a disaster that nobody will fix, but it’s the same problem as everywhere else, poor rural folk are angry and jealous of rich urban folk who don’t care about them and hold them in comtempt for being backwards, we have the same thing in America.

I look forward to being lectured by people who read second-hand propaganda about how this is all bullshit and actually the US specifically did… something that caused decades of war.

They don’t have look down shoot down radar.

Being low gives them cover from ground clutter, they can try to notch doppler radar, coupled with horizoning Sams like buks and s300s.

Always better to be low unless you’re shooting someone, then you fire high to give it much more range.

Because paper and ink are impossible to Forge…