In fairness to the Ukrainians (never thought I'd say that) the Russians also have the habit of bringing out priests to bless their tanks and guns. Maybe its more normal in Orthodox Christianity.
I was at a Russian history museum in Moscow and one of the old Imperial Russian WWI battle flags they had on display had a big ole icon of Jesus on it.
the US airforce is full of evangelical freaks and american christians constantly prayed for the troops even in my parents' mostly shitlib "moderate" franchise when i had the misfortune of attending service back during the iraq war.
"here's a slightly worse rocket artillery system than the russian one, and they have far more of their one than we're giving you. This will definitely win the war for you"
"It has a really long range on paper because of one specific missile that we're not going to give you. Please talk up how you're going to use that range to blow up Putin."
Just one shipment of Leopard 2s bro I swear it doesn't even have to be the a5 just one shipment PLEAAAASE it'll win the war bro its 300% better than a T-90 this'll turn it around I promise
Every weapons system given to Ukraine thus far has been both a war winning Wonder Waffle and not enough to actually win the war.
Remember when they were talking up HIMARs as the thing that would do it? Before that it was the M777. Before that the Javelin.
the weird memes around this stuff has been especially gross. This mixing of orthodox religious iconography with modern weapons as a sort of advertisement for death machines masquerading as a meme? Sickening.
All of the bloodthirsty memes for this war have been sickening.
In fairness to the Ukrainians (never thought I'd say that) the Russians also have the habit of bringing out priests to bless their tanks and guns. Maybe its more normal in Orthodox Christianity.
And here I thought Warhammer 40K was satire
I was at a Russian history museum in Moscow and one of the old Imperial Russian WWI battle flags they had on display had a big ole icon of Jesus on it.
Seriously the most 40k thing I've ever seen.
the US airforce is full of evangelical freaks and american christians constantly prayed for the troops even in my parents' mostly shitlib "moderate" franchise when i had the misfortune of attending service back during the iraq war.
It's so cool how many of this planet's nuclear weapons are within arms reach of doomsday cultists.
:debord-tired:
Look, sometimes you need to appease the machine spirits
the HIMARS thing is particularly bizarre
"here's a slightly worse rocket artillery system than the russian one, and they have far more of their one than we're giving you. This will definitely win the war for you"
"It has a really long range on paper because of one specific missile that we're not going to give you. Please talk up how you're going to use that range to blow up Putin."
ukraine is a southrpark megachurch pastor constantly escalating the things his congregation needs to donate toward
Just one shipment of Leopard 2s bro I swear it doesn't even have to be the a5 just one shipment PLEAAAASE it'll win the war bro its 300% better than a T-90 this'll turn it around I promise
Six months later: "The Great Crimea Counteroffensive has stalled because our allies supplied us with inferior tanks and in too small quantities."
I wonder if any kids actually got called Javelin. Holy shit
In 2021, over 700 baby girls were named "Khaleesi". I bet anything "Javelin" will be up there next year.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
sadly walks into the desert
Okay but please try to burn some slavers and free some slaves along the way.
Classic Kenshi hours
God I love that game. I can't wait for Kenshi II