[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

Irrelevant and unserious people says what? lenin-laugh

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 48 points 3 weeks ago

There's no point in covering your true intentions when you believe you will never face the consequences of your actions.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Imagine how bullshit it would be for people like George W Bush or Netinyahu to outlive you.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He said sike on this before already, why would trying this again work?

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

You gotta post where the people are, and the people are still predominantly on Twitter unfortunately.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

His ballsack exploded

hamas-red-triangle

PIGPOOPBALLS

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

God Damn America

It's also in the bible

Tell you're closest evangelical freak

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Population shortage after they all joined Azov Battalion? Wheyoooo

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Yeah maybe "enlist" is not the right word then. Still, his labor would have been directly going towards genocide.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago

THE SEALS AND THE DHOW - Seymour Hersh

In which we recall the 2 dead and 1 severely injured Navy Seals from that anti-smuggling operation that was kept under wraps but we all were distracted by the horrors of what's going on in Gaza:

The Somali dhow offered the White House a chance to justify its new offensive. It had been tracked by American intelligence since leaving Somalia because it was believed to be carrying ballistic missile parts needed by the Houthis in their ongoing campaign against Western shipping; The basis for that intelligence, which proved to be wrong, has not been made known.

American intelligence? Wrong? Damn audio is playin on loop

Back to the Lewis B. Puller. The more than a dozen senior officers from all services assigned to the ship’s command center were gung-ho to send the hot-shot SEAL team to intercept the dhow, compel the boat to stand to, and board it to find ballistic missiles or parts of weapons that were coming to the Houthis from Iran, known to American intelligence as a longtime supporter and supplier of weaponry to Yemen. But there was a serious problem. The issue is what is known in the Navy as the Sea State Code, which is based on terminology used in oceanography to describe the general conditions of the ocean’s surface, as determined by three key factors: wind, waves, and swell.

There are ten categories of sea state, and SEALs can operate with ease and safety up to sea state 3. One experienced retired senior American Navy officer told me that even four- and five-foot waves can sometimes create difficulties for a Navy tanker attempting to refuel an aircraft carrier, but it can be done with skilled maneuvering. No ship loaded with high-octane fighter fuel wants to crash into the side of a carrier.

When the seas get higher, to level 4 or 5, the waves and stronger current make boarding a targeted vessel, even a wooden dhow, an extremely dangerous prospect, in part because of the difficulty in handling steel ladders, known as caving ladders, that are standard SEAL boarding gear. The steps are lightweight aluminum tubes linked by equally lightweight steel cables.

What is hard to do at sea state 3 is deadly dangerous at sea state 4 or 5, a retired Navy officer, with years of experience in special operations, told me. “The waves are going up and down eight feet and more and you do not board a ship in heavy sea,” he said. He added that Navy captains of combat ships finishing a long deployment understand that crews due for shore leave are not permitted to leave the ship in such churning waters.

RuZZian propaganda against our Navy SEAL high level operators. They can handle it. Send them in!

The SEAL team leader said no. But he was ordered to carry out the mission, despite the obvious weather issues, and he did so.

The questions that were not asked, the retired officer said, were these: “Do we know if the dhow is carrying a ballistic missile or a box full of missile parts?” No. “Can you get a key to a launch site?” No. “Or a map of all the Houthi launch sites?” No. “Do Somali smugglers know the difference between a case of Johnny Walker Red and one of Johnny Walter Black?” Yes.

A RuZZian within our own ranks, it can't be!

The decision to ignore the concerns of the SEAL commander has been seen by the angered SEAL community in America as “beyond rational planning” and “a disaster waiting to happen.” I learned that one high-ranking member of the community, now retired, wrote a private letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, asking that the officer who overruled the SEAL commander be court-martialed for dereliction of duty as the buck-stops-here boss of the operation. “It will never happen,” the former officer told me. “Dead SEALs will go down in Navy annals as heroes, not victims.” His point was that the Navy would never acknowledge that the SEAL team had no business being sent on a search-and-destroy mission in such weather.

What the SEALS should do from my experience of watching other wars unfold is drive up to the capital in a caravan of military vehicles, then turn around halfway, then have your leader go on a lot of private jet rides prigo-pog. I'm just speaking from experience here.

[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Hope we dont start beef with Mali

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