this was in their early paypal days, so no

one car accident could have taken out both elmo and peter thiel at once yet here we are

from what i understand, they dgaf about other instances

wait, then in this case who gets to bomb Belgrad Belgorod Moscow

now, now, it’s not all bad. maybe it’ll wipe out some of that hellspawn geese

that’s campism

yeah, this would end badly. which is why bore-safe 40mm grenades were made (and rifle grenades before that)

ATACMS strikes were in Bryansk, and still no ww3. makes you think that maybe all of this was a bluff the entire time

Hungary made stick grenades until relatively recently, but even there stick part is much shorter (M42)

we are so lucky that basketball wasn’t as popular back then

want longer range? hear me out:

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3/4 of volume is taken by wood, what are you, russian logistics officer?

also no way to attach spoon-type igniter, this thing is properly ancient design

Sorry, i meant Wyoming. That’s where american ICBMs are. Bunker is where Putin is likely to be in such scenario, and all probable locations are known to american strategic targeting

Slightly. Most of solar energy comes in as visible light, so any visible light that gets reflected won’t contribute

Even if it reemits heat, some will be lost to air via convection and half goes wrong way

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

in his country? no one. in general? that one nuclear bunker buster in Wyoming with his name written on it

i think this part already looked like this

most powerful payload developed so far

The point is not gain of land for Russia but removing land from another state, as a punitive measure for trying to get away from russian influence. This is also not the first time it is happening. Because of how nationalist Putin’s supporters base has become over time, he chose to use small invasions like 2008 invasion of Georgia as a tool to increase his domestic popularity. This parallels 1999 false flag bombings and response in form of second Chechen war and 2014 invasion of Donbas. In all these cases, as well as for two first weeks of 2022 war, approval rating of Putin’s government soared which was exactly the point the entire time. Because of how much of that comes from nationalists, he can’t back off because he’d come across as weak and lose support, he can’t advance much faster because he’s physically unable to, and his best bet is this kind of slow grind like we see now. Any western military aid will make it harder, so of course russian influence operations are directed against it, and you know that too

Also you will not be scaling up domestic weapon production to any meaningful degree

Speak for yourself. Orbital ATK buys european explosives, we have scaled up weapons manufacture in France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Czechia and few others, there are new Rheinmetall plants in Ukraine too.

Ukrainians don’t lack resolve. In 2022, something like 85% (iirc) said that fight should go on if nuclear weapons were used by Russia. Even now 80%-ish don’t think that any territorial concessions should take place in any peace agreement. They have some of their own defense industry, lots of things (other than mostly air defense, and parts of aircraft manufacture) we can do in Europe, even if it requires some scale up, then there’s South Korean deliveries and few other things that still can happen.

Like when the swastikas came out and the genocide in Palestine kicked off, you should have realized we’re the baddies, and baddies lie.

who the fuck “we” is supposed to mean there? in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk. but it’s severely off topic so maybe don’t