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  1. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I find it funny when liberals say "oh, those poor Aztecs were genocided and colonized by those nasty Spanish!" when the Aztecs themselves were hated by every other indigenous people in their area of operation because they were so fucking barbaric and nasty. Hell, the natives even joined with...
  2. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    It's kinda fascinating that older techs, a lot of it considered "obsolete" like flak guns, are making comebacks in front of our very eyes to deal with modern problems like drones. A cheap, mobile platform would be a military truck or even technical to move with armoured divisions to shoot down...
  3. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    That's the distinction: A lot of US hardware is still Cold War era, but they've been maintained, upgraded, and solidly built upon. I mean, the Abrams entered service in 1980, and that's not counting the decade plus development time, but it has been constantly improved upon, and the next...
  4. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Honestly, with how incompetent the Russians can be, it wouldn't shock if they did so accidentally.
  5. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    sigh Knowing the US DoD, they've probably got stockpiles everywhere that they've literally lost/forgotten about in their bureaucracy.
  6. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    If that doesn't say how desperate Russia is, I don't know what will.
  7. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Because until now they really hadn't needed to do any of those things (existing stockpiles were pretty much all we needed for anything and everything, including Middle-Eastern misadventures), and the gears of bureaucracy are slow to turn. But they are turning, and the main thing the West has on...
  8. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    The only thing on his list I think he could be correct on is drug deaths, since the US has a serious problem with both illegal (crack, et cetera) and legal (painkillers) drugs. But the others? Yeah, it's all shit. I know I'm uneducated in a lot of things compared to other people, but fucking...
  9. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    And given that the materiel from North Korea is, well, crap, with many shells being unusable... yeah.
  10. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Always has: In WW2, they were dropping toilets on enemy positions for fun/psy-op purposes. Hell, we even dropped a wooden bomb on a wooden decoy army/base as a way to tell the Germans "yeah, we know this is fake" after they spent months wasting time/resources building it, lol.
  11. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I find this hilarious: Governments are literally just getting rid of their countries' old crap to Ukraine in exchange for freeing up space and getting more modern stuff to replace them. And Ukraine is using this old crap to spank Russia. :ROFLMAO:
  12. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    My fucking god, they're actually using T-55 relics. I know we were joking and making memes about it, but they're actually fucking doing it. I mean, it'd be different if they were modernized or upgraded versions, but these are stock T-55's. I think it's safe to say Russia is fucked.
  13. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    ...This is seriously like listening to a communist ranting on about how communism is winning at the end of the Cold War while citing other communists' rantings as evidence. :ROFLMAO: Bruh, come on.
  14. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    This was even true in WW1: When tanks were first introduced, they were behemoths that were seemingly unstoppable, and they were considered one of the safest positions on the battlefield because bullets meant to be shoot at people just bounced off them. And then Germany quickly introduced a...
  15. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Given how bad Russia's losses are and look to continue to be, I wouldn't be surprised if they did drag out those relics.
  16. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Yep: Even if Russia does somehow "win", it'd be as pyrrhic as burning down your house to the foundations to kill a spider. :ROFLMAO: The only hope for Russia's survival, I think, is if they start selling (in small amounts to avoid market saturation) their diamond stockpile they keep au...
  17. Jormungandr

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Yeah, the Passages are basically very unpredictable, and even with massive ice-breaking ships, it pretty much is all the various shipping and cargo companies waiting like vultures or taking the opportunity to cross them when they rarely become viable shortcuts than relying on them outright.
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