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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/BE39596E-6A64-4C26-8124-E2CF4B10F682_jpe-2409545.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Originally Posted By 2tired2run: They were pulling warm bodies in uniform from the far east early on. Rough numbers were they only had 175k-200k and not all of those are trigger pullers. At what point are they down to using cooks or pulling people off the streets or emptying out prisons. It would help if the US would quit dribbling out shit and waffling over what to send and how much. The fact we won't let Poland dump some old migs over the border is assinine. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/BE39596E-6A64-4C26-8124-E2CF4B10F682_jpe-2409545.JPG @Outofbattery I think explained that it's window dressing and the families get next to fuck all Paperwork barrier, he's gone AWOL, capturured, missing, defected ect. all reasons to to pay out (or at least pocket it yourself). |
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Originally Posted By M-1975: It's a PMC that is defacto permanently contracted by the Russian gov't. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By M-1975: Originally Posted By stone-age: Originally Posted By 2tired2run: More Mongolian looking that slav. Does anybody know if wagner group is actual mercenary or merely a particular russian unit with a designation that allows them to do stuff that regular russian army can't? Are they mercs or russian soldiers? Yeah, this. It started out that Spetsnaz guys would put in for leave and do RF dirty work, and because they were competently led and well funded, they were good at what they did. When people asked if they were RF, Russia would say no, and when people asked if they were mercenaries they’d say “mercenaries are illegal in Russia”. It’s become more like the conventional military, so naturally the leadership sucks and standards are in free fall along with morale. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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"Moldova has reportedly decided to offer Ukraine spare parts for MIG-29 aircraft. A telegram channel from the Transnistrian region writes about this, which publishes an image on FlyRadar with a plane coming today to Mrculeti from Uzhgorod, Ukraine, "to transport the parts of the plane". The information has not yet been officially confirmed."
Attached File Allegedly, video of the plane flying in. Telegram Video |
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Originally Posted By FDC: The tires on my truck right now. https://i.postimg.cc/MKSDzWGB/Made-in-Russia.jpg View Quote Nokian? |
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Originally...Posted...By...Dracster: "Moldova...has...reportedly...decided...to...offer...Ukraine...spare...parts...for...MIG-...9...aircraft....A...telegram...channel...from...the...Transnistrian...region...writes...about...this,...which...publishes...an...image...on...FlyRadar...with...a...plane...coming...today...to...Mrculeti...from...Uzhgorod,...Ukraine,..."to...transport...the...parts...of...the...plane"....The...information...has...not...yet...been...officially...confirmed." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48...80/photo_...0......-0...-0..._0...-31-1..._jpg-...409737.JPG Allegedly,...video...of...the...plane...flying...in. Telegram...Video View Quote |
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Originally Posted By slapdaddy: Good Lord, what a mess of eastern/western and modern/dated weapons and weapon systems Ukraine is going to be in possession of when this is all over. Just imagine what a headache reffiting and re-organizing this bizarre arms collection is going to be. View Quote IF UKR survives, which we hope, they will EXACTLY know which weapon systems they want. Hermann |
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Because it never gets old |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/73BDF1C9-1397-4E16-9712-CFEA2B2F5474_jpe-2409653.JPG View Quote |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
More tech folks pulling their load.
The drone war: Ukrainian-produced UAV-killers help to keep the sky closed |
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Let us never forget, government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.
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Originally Posted By Prime: Originally Posted By stone-age: Originally Posted By Dracster: "SBU neutralized militants who were supposed to help racists in case of re-occupation of Chernihiv region The group consisted of criminal elements and was generously provided with weapons and equipment by Russian special forces. Among the seized are sniper rifles of silent firing "Vintorez", anti-tank grenades RPG-18 "Fly" and machine guns of silent firing "Val"." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-58__2__jpg-2409413.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-58_jpg-2409415.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-59_jpg-2409416.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-59__2__jpg-2409417.JPG Damn. I really want a quiet russian rifle. 300BLYT? 9 X 39 MM |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
Originally Posted By 74HC: German socialist orcs are going be german socialist orcs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 74HC: Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/73BDF1C9-1397-4E16-9712-CFEA2B2F5474_jpe-2409653.JPG German Socialist is going to do what all "Good Germans" do; take a bunch of self-serving and double-dealing actions and positions while self righteously proclaiming Germany's motives are pure as the driven snow. Yet again, we are warmed and illuminated as Germany's credibility goes up in flames! |
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Deckard “nobody wants to know the truth, nobody” Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence “she’s hot and all those other things” Tucker Carlson 1/10/2018 “I used to be a liberatarian until Google”https://mobile.twitter.com/Henry_Gunn
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Originally Posted By batjka104: Interesting video. Russian SOF ambush Ukrainian SOF somewhere in Zaporozhie. Filmed from a drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ampVI0cdR3M View Quote Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. View Quote He did survive according to the description I saw. Wounded and taken prisoner. You can see the Russians wrap him up and drag him away. He fought like hell. Glad he made it. |
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Originally Posted By Prime:
View Quote That's the first vid I've seen of one actually being used and not just parked/abandoned. |
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Originally Posted By Arminius: IF UKR survives, which we hope, they will EXACTLY know which weapon systems they want. Hermann View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Arminius: Originally Posted By slapdaddy: Good Lord, what a mess of eastern/western and modern/dated weapons and weapon systems Ukraine is going to be in possession of when this is all over. Just imagine what a headache reffiting and re-organizing this bizarre arms collection is going to be. IF UKR survives, which we hope, they will EXACTLY know which weapon systems they want. Hermann And potentially build a part of them in Ukraine. They now have all kinds of stuff to compare/contrast when they come up with the new Ukrainian STANAG designs in a few years. They will leverage the Western stuff they have while replacing the COMBLOC stuff. The Ukrainian arms industry has a lot of foreign customers, so they can probably regen and sell their Soviet-era stuff to existing customers while either designing indigenous STANAG stuff or building western-designed systems under license. This will have the salutatory effect of disrupting the Russian export market for some time. Stuff they have a lot of (M777, M113s, NLAWS, Javelins, etc) or that is useful for equipping TD units (M14s, Submachine guns, etc) will stick around for a while. |
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Has this video been posted yet? I would be surprised if it hasn't, but if it has I missed it
Ukrainian troops destroy Russian weapons facility |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By batjka104: Interesting video. Russian SOF ambush Ukrainian SOF somewhere in Zaporozhie. Filmed from a drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ampVI0cdR3M Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. Is it though? It looks kinda trainingish. The UA dudes look pretty oblivious and the RU dudes act a little too textbook. |
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Ukrainian marine - Mariupol defender - rescued from Azovstal |
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God's grace is not cheap; it's free.
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"People, ideas, and hardware...in that order!" Col John Boyd
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Originally Posted By Banditman: More tech folks pulling their load. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGotZKQ91Q View Quote Wow. I could actually be useful to the war effort. I used to be an electronics tech and can solder like a madman. I could build those! |
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Originally Posted By M-1975:
View Quote I don't think that's a mine, that's got to be an IED of some sort. Damn you SSO, who taught you to do that? Who just came off a 20 year war with insurgents who loved to set mines and IEDs...hmmmm |
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Nothing annoys me more than people who use Russian talking points but nothing pisses me off more than people using China’s talking points. I’m seeing more and more Americans online who are either pro Russia or isolationist quoting verbatim talking points I read in Russian, Iranian or China state news. With Moscow being bff with Beijing it appears the same you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours is now applying to Americans who bizarrely apply it to Taiwan and of all fucking places Myanmar {Burma} These 2 idiots below being a prime example
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Deckard “nobody wants to know the truth, nobody” Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence “she’s hot and all those other things” Tucker Carlson 1/10/2018 “I used to be a liberatarian until Google”https://mobile.twitter.com/Henry_Gunn
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View Quote All saggers break down like that, I have one in my living room. The transport crates are about 3 feet tall, but once they get to the front they can be loaded into those. |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: I've had low expectations for Germany for over a decade now. Check ar15.com archives for my 2017 threads on NATO 2% GDP and China / Germany trade as well as Fort Trump Poland. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Originally Posted By WildBill375: They've been full of empty promises. This war has showed who our real allies are and Germany isn't one of them. I've had low expectations for Germany for over a decade now. Check ar15.com archives for my 2017 threads on NATO 2% GDP and China / Germany trade as well as Fort Trump Poland. For a nation with geo-political and military alliance power that is unpopular with who they align with, Germany is a great example of that behavior. They are German orcs candescently supporting Russian orcs without losing their EU power. I think some like Poland is going to remember this, and have candescent trade barriers on German imports. |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Nothing annoys me more than people who use Russian talking points but nothing pisses me off more than people using China’s talking points. I’m seeing more and more Americans online who are either pro Russia or isolationist quoting verbatim talking points I read in Russian, Iranian or China state news. With Moscow being bff with Beijing it appears the same you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours is now applying to Americans who bizarrely apply it to Taiwan and of all fucking places Myanmar {Burma} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDk8x0pIdU View Quote I agree. Isolationists will be the biggest whiners if forced to live in the world isolationism creates. It really seems half of them aren't even isolationists, they're just secret anti-americans as the arguments allways fall into whataboutisms of how its all ok because the US has done something else. |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Nothing annoys me more than people who use Russian talking points but nothing pisses me off more than people using China’s talking points. I’m seeing more and more Americans online who are either pro Russia or isolationist quoting verbatim talking points I read in Russian, Iranian or China state news. With Moscow being bff with Beijing it appears the same you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours is now applying to Americans who bizarrely apply it to Taiwan and of all fucking places Myanmar {Burma} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDk8x0pIdU View Quote I can easily debate or discuss any topic without resorting to propaganda to do so and without trying to claim some self righteous label. Good fucking grief |
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Deckard “nobody wants to know the truth, nobody” Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence “she’s hot and all those other things” Tucker Carlson 1/10/2018 “I used to be a liberatarian until Google”https://mobile.twitter.com/Henry_Gunn
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Nothing annoys me more than people who use Russian talking points but nothing pisses me off more than people using China’s talking points. I’m seeing more and more Americans online who are either pro Russia or isolationist quoting verbatim talking points I read in Russian, Iranian or China state news. With Moscow being bff with Beijing it appears the same you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours is now applying to Americans who bizarrely apply it to Taiwan and of all fucking places Myanmar {Burma} These 2 idiots below being a prime example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDk8x0pIdU View Quote Funny the topic of isolationism comes up... I was listening to Mark Levin play Ronald Reagan's 40th D-Day Anniversary speech on my ride home. I've heard it a bunch before but one part stuck out for me, even more so this time: We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent. But we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and, yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By batjka104: Interesting video. Russian SOF ambush Ukrainian SOF somewhere in Zaporozhie. Filmed from a drone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ampVI0cdR3M Very interesting. Amazing vid of an actual hasty ambush. The last guy fought hard. I hope he survived. He won’t survive the interrogation which is why I assume they were so hasty to capture him alive, unless it was staged. |
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Originally Posted By Capta: It would put the lie to three months of “special operation” propaganda. It will be increasingly obvious that Putin’s ruling elite have robbed the country blind and Russian kids are dying because of it. View Quote Also bold for emphasis. The first would be a major problem for the Kremlin. The second has the potential to destroy Putin's foundation for rule. I don't see why this isn't getting any press yet. Ukrainian propaganda aimed at Russians should be hyping this aspect big-time. Putin's war of aggression doesn't benefit Russian people at all, it only has the function of enriching Putin's cronies still more. Russian people need to see this. |
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Originally Posted By 2A373: Originally Posted By Prime: Originally Posted By stone-age: Originally Posted By Dracster: "SBU neutralized militants who were supposed to help racists in case of re-occupation of Chernihiv region The group consisted of criminal elements and was generously provided with weapons and equipment by Russian special forces. Among the seized are sniper rifles of silent firing "Vintorez", anti-tank grenades RPG-18 "Fly" and machine guns of silent firing "Val"." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-58__2__jpg-2409413.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-58_jpg-2409415.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-59_jpg-2409416.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-06-06_07-35-59__2__jpg-2409417.JPG Damn. I really want a quiet russian rifle. 300BLYT? 9 X 39 MM ... So 350BLYT then? |
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I get that vibe.
This war is fucking with my armored vehicle plans. |
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Originally Posted By Saltwater-Hillbilly: They called Afghanistan the "Soviet Vietnam", however, when it comes to the utter collapse of Russian power across the board, this is almost a an extinction-level event. Those million Russian exiles (mostly a combination of young and well-educated who, absent MAJOR changes, are not coming back), as well as expending no less than 30,000 young people (often among their most nationalistic/patriotic young citizens) in combat. is going to hammer the Russian People for generations. View Quote About 2000 pages ago (!) video of a presentation by Peter Zeihan was presented. Zeihan has called this "Russia's last war." It's not an exaggeration, for exactly the reasons posted above. The other factor will be the profound loss of the people's faith in Putin's ruling elite. |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/73BDF1C9-1397-4E16-9712-CFEA2B2F5474_jpe-2409653.JPG View Quote That's some weapons-grade irony right there |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/73BDF1C9-1397-4E16-9712-CFEA2B2F5474_jpe-2409653.JPG View Quote Here's the thing tho... they probably should invade Russia, if they are able. Capturing certain places within Russia proper would cut off supplies to Russian forces within Ukraine. Furthermore, giving Russia a guarantee that their territory won't be invaded allows them to more heavily commit their forces to invade Ukraine. |
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Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - Adm James Stockdale
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Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: Putin warns of hitting ‘new targets’ if Kyiv gets new missiles The Russia president issues a new warning to the West against providing Ukraine with long-range missiles as it attacks Kyiv. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/5/russia-to-strike-new-targets-if-kyiv-sent-long-range-rockets Putin warned that he would hit new targets if advanced rocket systems were supplied to Ukraine, adding that new arms deliveries to Kyiv are aimed at “prolonging the conflict”. Moscow “will draw the appropriate conclusions and use our arms…. to strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting,” the Russian leader said without specifying which targets he meant. “We believe that the US is deliberately pouring oil on the fire. The US is obviously holding the line that it will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. View Quote Some perspective is needed. Nobody is sending "long range" rockets to Ukraine. They're getting medium range rockets. Long range weapons would allow them to strike the oil & gas facilities in western Siberia, which would deal a crippling blow to the money machine that feeds the military. Ukraine doesn't have that, and isn't getting it (as far as anybody knows). Medium range rockets allow better capacity to strike Russian supply and rear echelon elements, and strike from beyond Russian counterattack range. This "long range" rocket nonsense is pure Kremlin propaganda. |
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Russian Superyacht Now Flies US Flag
Russian Superyacht Now Flies US Flag! | Ep89 SY News |
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Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Some perspective is needed. Nobody is sending "long range" rockets to Ukraine. They're getting medium range rockets. Long range weapons would allow them to strike the oil & gas facilities in western Siberia, which would deal a crippling blow to the money machine that feeds the military. Ukraine doesn't have that, and isn't getting it (as far as anybody knows). Medium range rockets allow better capacity to strike Russian supply and rear echelon elements, and strike from beyond Russian counterattack range. This "long range" rocket nonsense is pure Kremlin propaganda. View Quote Russia has performed rocket attacks over the entire length and breadth of Ukrainian territory. Including strikes against their civilian food, energy, and industrial sectors. Turnabout only seems fair. |
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Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - Adm James Stockdale
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: Nothing annoys me more than people who use Russian talking points but nothing pisses me off more than people using China’s talking points. I’m seeing more and more Americans online who are either pro Russia or isolationist quoting verbatim talking points I read in Russian, Iranian or China state news. With Moscow being bff with Beijing it appears the same you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours is now applying to Americans who bizarrely apply it to Taiwan and of all fucking places Myanmar {Burma} These 2 idiots below being a prime example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDk8x0pIdU View Quote You know why they're doing it, right? (foreign disinfo ops) Because it works and has for decades. From the anti nuke energy disinfo of the 70's is why we don't have nuclear power here, and even back to the Holodomor, further to now. it works. And it's a cheap investment. Just leak whatever bullshit to your favorite "journalist" and boom. Piss Dossier'. |
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KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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Originally Posted By elcope: You know why they're doing it, right? (foreign disinfo ops) Because it works and has for decades. From the anti nuke energy disinfo of the 70's is why we don't have nuclear power here, and even back to the Holodomor, further to now. it works. And it's a cheap investment. Just leak whatever bullshit to your favorite "journalist" and boom. Piss Dossier'. View Quote The 4th estate has been a 5th column since before either of us were born |
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