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  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    Remember: You only frag your CO at the first chance you get if you won't get any better chances later. Work SMART not HARD

    • Voidance [none/use name]
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      26 days ago

      Can you get drafted into the airforce? Dropping bombs on your own military base would be a pretty good way to go

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        26 days ago

        Judging by America’s war on Vietnam, no you’d have to volunteer and they don’t even let volunteer enlisted pukes fly planes.

        • ButtBidet [he/him]
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          26 days ago

          To add to this, it seems like they only let super chuds fly the planes. I've never met someone in the airforce that I didn't hate immediately.

          • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.ml
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            26 days ago

            I've had the opposite experience. Older airmen are surprisingly left-leaning. I knew one that became socialist after spending time on the Wall. Marines and Rangers tended to be chuddy.

            • ButtBidet [he/him]
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              25 days ago

              Not gonna lie, my opinion isn't well researched. Purely on vibes, I struggle to imagine that Amerikan airforce pilots are "left-leaning", in the Hexbear sense. Maybe libs or socdems?

              Anyhow this isn't a struggle session as I have no fecking clue about any of this.

              • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.ml
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                25 days ago

                Different time. Was offered jail or service when caught with weed. He wasn't carpet bombings kids/wasn't a pilot and while we were still in the middle east he served in more of an air support and refueling roles in Germany. Still not good by any means but I found it interesting that being exposed to the Soviets helped him quickly dismiss propaganda he was fed at home.

                Mostly just that a lot of it was lies; most of the things he heard from his superiors and other soldiers at least. He said it just was "a different way of life, one better for the future I'd think"

                Interestingly enough, he was a hardcore hippie/Beatles lover that didn't turn out complete shitlib. Not saying he's a communist either; but he doesn't revile at Lenin or Stalin and respected the Soviet Union. That's quite a bit for a soldier back then.

  • Jew [he/him]
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    26 days ago

    Its cool how she changed "never again" from referring to genocide to something about terrorists. Really really cool rhetoric right there

  • Parzivus [any]
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    26 days ago

    Highly doubt it. Iran isn't just Iraq 2.0, they have a large military. Better missiles than the US, even! Doubt the navy wants to see Kaliburs introduce a carrier to the sea floor.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      26 days ago

      Iran should actually cook up some nukes just in case.

      • operacion_ogro [he/him]
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        26 days ago

        Remembering that interview with a lib podcast where matt-jokerfied said something to the effect of "Iran has a moral imperative to obtain nukes" to deter US invasion and it stunlocked the hosts

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          26 days ago

          Libya didn't have nukes, it got fucked, north Korea has nukes it gets treated nicely, idk what you want Iran to take from that

        • newacctidk [none/use name]
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          26 days ago

          It was this incredible interview with Yahoo News' podcast

          https://youtu.be/leDn52N1nr0?t=252

          It is a painful but funny listen, as well as the ep of chapo in which they listen back to and comment on the lib interviewers being insane. These are experienced even prolific lib journalists. The old guy broke a bunch of torture stories in the 2000s. But they are utterly cooked, they are more aghast at them insulting the west wing than the Iran nukes thing

        • ReadFanon [any, any]
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          26 days ago

          Korean historian Stephen Gowans (sp?) essentially shared this take somewhat apologetically on RevLeft Radio at the end of the interview, saying that the DPRK having developed a substantial stock of nuclear arms is the best case scenario.

          My only point of disagreement there is that he said as much gingerly instead of with his whole chest. I suppose standing on business isn't conducive to being tenured in a shithole western country though.

        • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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          26 days ago

          I believe that was Felix on the pod Jon’s podcast, Lovett or Leavitt. It was a live recording but the pod Jon edited out a bunch of stuff Felix said for the official release. You can find the crappy raw audio files from the audience though if you look hard enough

          • miz [any, any]
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            25 days ago

            that was a different incident— we got audio of Skullduggery, but the Pod John cowards cut Felix's comments out entirely

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        26 days ago

        There were rumours flying around that they are in testing phases for the blast charges. Once they have these it's just a matter of adding the enriched part.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      26 days ago

      Iran has a top 5-10 military in the world. It depends on how much you weigh being a nuclear power and whether you think Iran has nukes.

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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        25 days ago

        Iran loves edging about the nukes; I think they actually don't have any, but have the materials and expertise to make them very quickly if the need arises. So if they think shit is about to go down they could prolly whip up a couple warheads and put them on whatever nuclear capable launch systems they have, or get some donated by Russia and China.

    • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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      25 days ago

      It's not. But the US seems completely unwilling to rein in Israel/Bibi. I think there's a very good chance Bibi continues the escalations to war. Once Israel is at war on 4 fronts, I don't think there's any way the US doesn't put boots on the ground. Israel is already low on manpower (they've already expanded mandatory enlistment).

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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      25 days ago

      Did you just say Iran has better missiles than the US? In what fantasy world are you living in?

      Edit:iraq = iran

        • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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          25 days ago

          Honest question, but anti missile defenses don't really work (see iron dome) against traditional missiles and there is no effective way to defend against ICBMs. So what's the value of a low flying, fast missile that can't be shot down compared to a high flying, slow missile that is cheaper and also can't really be shot down?

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            25 days ago

            I would say western anti missile defenses don't really work because their chief opponents have superior weapons. ICBMs can be intercepted, because their terminal path is predictable although fast. Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea all have hypersonic weapons that have the capacity to make significant trajectory alterations at hypersonic speeds in their terminal path. They cannot be intercepted.

            • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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              24 days ago

              I would say western anti missile defenses don't really work because their chief opponents have superior weapons

              The Iron Dome, the magnum opus of western middle defense systems regularly fails to intercept unguided, subsonic rockets that are incapable of taking evasive action. I would not say that the Iron Dome fails because Hamas has superior missiles, it fails because shooting a bullet with a bullet is a near impossible task. Also, ICBM interception is close to a fantasy right now. The GMD works around 40% of the time in tests, the arrow 3 does not work at all, the A-235 has only been tested a few times (not in real world conditions either), and China doesn't have an anti ICBM system at all.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            25 days ago

            You're right, America is super comfortable pretending to not have capabilities they actually have that other countries definitely have. All the very public reports about America's failures in jinking hypersonics and the exchange of the contracts for those jinking hypersonics to some no-name Australian company are for sure just a trick to hide that they definitely have this weapon that being public about would serve as a de-escalatory tool for dominance. You're for sure not an enormous stupid baby who believes in technical superiority that isn't real, and you're definitely not just a very mad and dumb western moron.

            • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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              25 days ago

              You started good. But then you ran out of things to stay and added the insults. Ruined your credibility. Learn how defense contracting works the come back to the table.

              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                25 days ago

                So what you're saying is because I didn't glaze your dick you can't reply? Are you a fucking princess? Oh no, somebody wasn't nice to me so I can't explain myself because I'm a delicate little smol bean who can't articulate my own beliefs

                this is the liberal playbook: OH SHIT SOMEBODY CAME BACK AT ME WITH FACTS, BETTER INVENT A REASON I CAN'T DIRECTLY ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THAT SHIT THAT PROVES ME TO BE A REALLY STUPID DIPSHIT DUMBASS

                edit: Any liberals in Houston, Texas? I think I'll only stop being mad at them if one of them wants to meet up with me in person directly face to face and I for sure won't just break their knees with a bat, like for sure for sure, I promise, definitely

              • miz [any, any]
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                25 days ago

                pathetic tone-policing cope to avoid addressing the content. coward

            • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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              25 days ago

              Oh wait....what the fuck lol your profile is ridiculous. Nvm. I'm outta here before I'm implicated in 3rd world shenanigans.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    26 days ago

    If the US absolutely wrecks itself fighting Iran instead of China communism will win.

  • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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    26 days ago

    man i keep trying to convince my dad to move from iran but he refuses. he lives in some big ass house right next to the caspian sea in a tiny village. you'd think a place like that wouldn't be bothered by ameriKKKa but i still worry

    • GaveUp [love/loves]
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      26 days ago

      If I lived in a big ass house next to a sea on my ancestral lands I wouldn't move either tbh

      I hope he stays safe though 💜

        • GaveUp [love/loves]
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          25 days ago

          Lol this made me zoom in on Iran for the first time in my life and I discovered they actually have big forests way up north

    • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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      26 days ago

      That will be like the first target after hard military targets because it'll be the goal of future beachside settler communities

  • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    showing up to a recruitment center Yes is the Fifth Column recruiter in right now? I want to talk to them.

    • Roonerino [they/them]
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      25 days ago

      "Oh yeah, just let me call him. -- Beau! Beau! Yeah I know...just leave the eastern European women alone for...well take their passports then...this was the deal, you idiot! -- Haha anyway yeah he's a great guy, he'll find you a nice trench in Ukraine where you can really stick it to imperialism!"

  • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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    26 days ago

    Iran is pretty vital in Belt and Road right? I'd imagine this is ultimately another step in efforts to wreck that project. Of course it'd be bipartisan.