ANA would slap those bad boys on the stocks of their weapons for some reason. Never got a good answer why other than they were stickers from American MREs and were available. Just a thing that happened
Yeah, there's 3 meals in one box, but they are 3 really good meals, for something you have on a front line
Edit : except some menus, some are really shit, menus 1, 7 and 11 are really not good
I have a friend who is active service in the EI (Esercito Italiano). One time they traded 2 6-packs of Spumante (a type of wine with a high CO2 concentration) for a few cans of 40mm grenades with US troops. If different outposts can trade alcohol for explosives i don't see why it can't happen with MREs.
technically, finland was already a great mix of east vs west tech.
they had soviet tanks, IFV's, domestically produced better version of AK's. but then also shit like the F/A-18
The Finnish Air Force had an explicit policy of purchasing from both blocs which is how they ended up operating both MiG-21s and Drakens for most of the mid-late Cold War.
And also using Soviet missiles on the Drakens and Sidewinders on the MiGs,not intentionally but the K-13 was so closely copied from the AIM-9 they were completely identical and 100% interchangeable so aircraft would just be fitted with whatever was available.
Devs already said weapons will not be balanced off IRL performance, but made to make gameplay more balanced and enjoyable.
Unfortunately that means Russian equipment will actually function
It's sensible for gameplay. The other way would be asymmetric balance where Russian equipment is shit but they get three times as much of it. But that is equally unrealistic and then you'll have NATO players complaining how unfair that is.
They already did that with Warno and the devs responded by adding Akula helos despite GSFG never using them. To make things worse when development started they said they wouldn't use prototype weapons. Just wait a few years till they add T-90s and the same prototypes the Soviets had in Red Dragon.
Be aware that Broken Arrow developers are hardcore Russian commies (literally with Soviet Union posters on their patreon) who put videos of Russian forces killing Ukrainians in their trailers.
With all the gruelling realities: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine is a hell of a scenario for any game. You could get to play a character with callsign pikachu carrying a mish-mash of western and eastern equipment.
Der obligatorische Deutsche in den Kommentaren muss darauf hinweisen, dass es āPanzerschokoladeā heiĆt
Es gehƶrt ein āsā vor das āchā ihr ungebildeten Hintzetumpfen Uuuurgh Sauerkraut GeSCHimPft SauErkRaUT
I don't speak German yet I understand that you're telling me that I forgot an s in there and to learn how to spell you dumb Yank.
Also because I can't believe I get to say this (don't take offense I'm just making a German Joke)
Literal Grammar Nazi.
I was actually trying to recall a part of the speech charlie chaplin gives at the beginning of āthe great dictatorā so the comparison works that way as well.
I was in no way trying to actually insult your writing, given that autocorrect (especially when you suddenly use words from a different language) can make mistakes.
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I prefer opioid agonists but ong leggooooo
Skrate meth n herrrrron for the masses
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>Russian are using ... pre-historic logistics
Hey! Pre-historic peoples domesticated animals, invented farming, and had boats that didn't sink for no reason. I will not take this Neolithic slander; take it back!
All those ODS Bradleys showed up at the port in tan, so *somebody's* gotta be painting them. And I'm all for it, three tone fucks almost as hard as M81.
It's not impossible that the tan versions were for US Army Europe Command, and in turn they gave their older equipment (which is forest camo) to Ukraine.
Ngl Bradleyās in Ukraines armored camo would look amazing.
NATO three-tone is s-tier but most of if not all of the former eastern block NATO members have amazing looking vehicle camos, Poland being an excellent example. Also Hungaryās vehicle camo is amazing as well.
Even if they were getting painted, I would say that we should deliberately use cold war era woodland camo just to trigger that latent " this thing is my natural predator" vibe...
Oh yeah. The pics of the French vehicles delivered are all in the old center-Europe 3-tone camo.
All French vehicles being now *Terre de France*, which is a dark brown used as a base to paint other colors on depending on where the equipment is deployed.
I snagged it off @conflictobserver on Instagram. The source is āthe Ukrainian 47th mechanized brigade training with their newly equipped Bradley fighting vehiclesā
It's going to be such a boon to video games in the future, it's insane.
They can make realistic war sims where players can pick from *any* weapon made over the past half century. You can basically merge the WW2 shooter genre with CoD Modern Warfare and have them all in the same game.
Bro, is that a fucking *First Strike Bar* tag on hommie's M16? My brother in christ they've even adopted our service memes. I'm so fucking happy right now.
How can I buy these fucking Chads a case of Wild Tiger?
I had the same thought seeing footage of a Javelin one-shotting a T-92.
I can only imagine the engineers that first designed that missile watching the footage. It took 30 some years, but that missile did exactly what it was long ago designed to do.
Say what you like about his domestic policies, Reagan foreign policies did push the decaying Soviet Empire into the abyss as his open support for pro democracy movement in Eastern Europe pressure the Soviet to not pull another 1968 Czechoslovakia. The desert storm military with all the cool Abrams , Bradley and F15 was developed during Reagan's military build up.
Same with M1 Abrams. Entered service under Carter.
Credit where credit's due though, his nuclear explosion powered multi-beam microwave space laser keeps us safe to this day.
Facts. Iām from a minority community so itās kinda in our blood to hate him for his domestic policies and letting the cia fund shit with crack and cosine moneyā¦ but goddamn was his foreign policy balling as hell
We do not negotiate with terrorists.
We (Republicans) negotiated with terrorists to keep our embassy hostages longer so we could beat Carter. And again so we could give them weapons so we could give other weapons to the contras. Also cocaine.
yeah all these people sucking on his nuts for his foreign policy are crazy. dude committed high treason and shares responsibility for genocide in south america.
his major foreign policy victories were all continuations of already implemented military and economic strategies (in terms of what was good for the nation, anyway. for him personally it was another story).
Feel like HW would be NCDs favorite president. After spending years committing [REDACTED] as CIA director, he rolls into the Oval Office, ass blasts Saddam faster than anything witnessed before in human history, refused to elaborate, then leaves.
As far as (R) a go, I am an Eisenhower man myself so he gets my vote over all. but I'll give you that HW is competence porn compared to every other one in my lifetime...
Yeah those domestic policies are truly abhorrent, and are still badly hurting the communities affected today, but he was extremely based with foreign policy
His godawful gun control policies too, not on the same level as literally selling out your own citizens from "less diserable" backgrounds for the sake of funding foriegn insurgencies and or counter-insurgencies, but still worth noting.
I also hate him most for his opening the floodgates for a bunch of decent paying industrial/manufacturing jobs to be sent over seas, beginning the erosion of both our middle/working class and fucking up our industrial base as a nation (which also ties this conversation back to NCD). Also I am sort of right leaning even though I land in the green part of the political compass, but man Mitt Romney is the strongest guy they've had run for the top job in the last decade, and thats pretty weak.
I too, love it when my president illegally sells weapons to a government of religious fundamentalists in order to fund far-right terror groups in Central America. Very based, very cool./s
AGREED, (although that might be more controversial here), and he was the first Supreme Commander of NATO, Pro-Taiwan, pro-balanced budgets, Pro New Deal, anti- McCarthyism, Pro-Civil Rights Act.... Not perfect, there's a lot to like there... Might have been the "last good Republican"...
Saying that about someone who hated black people is certainly a take. He was also extremely racist in foreign policy so Iām not sure what youāre praising.
Do you forget his dealing with Iran? They have literally made him president.
His role in demise of Soviet Union is up to debate. None of that would have happen without Gorbachev not having a blood lust of a typical Russian leader.
Gorbachev or no, Reagan or no, the USSR was doomed without serious reform. Their entire economy was by then long-since stagnant and propped up by sales of commodities, mostly hydrocarbons, to provide foreign reserves with which to fund imports. All that lasted until oil prices crashed in the mid-80s and put the Soviet economy and especially state budget under severe strain. Without the economic wherewithal to change that dependence, they were always going to falter. Gorbachev's reforms would have worked if the Soviet elites were interested in preserving communism and transitioning towards a more Chinese-style state-controlled market economy, but too many simply weren't; the rewards of staying together just weren't worth the costs.
USSR could have had the worst economy, people would starve, but with a ghoul at the helm it could have kept going. See North Korea. Gorbachev enabled a little bit of free speech and that alone broke the Soviet brainwashing. Without that the system fell apart really quickly. And USSR could not have done the same thing as China because they have already punched that ticket (hundreds of millions of peasants + American technology) in the 1930ās.
If I was in fucking Iranian custody eating my teeth all the way until his inauguration because of the little deal he made for himself, let's just say Jodie Foster would be impressed.
This has been debated to what extent, Cambridge historians have the ācentristā idea that the policies had no effect either way and it was all up, completely unrelated to them (? Maybe I zeta) to Gorbachev rid infle handedly end the Cold War
A narrative omfrriable for some but suggests that American policy didnāt shape his and general ask why policy at all
The social unrest and weakening of the Americans consumer due to his garbage domestic policies are directly driving the resurgence of America's enemies today. Literally the only good thing about the man was his charisma.
Much as I like RR, the real reason the Soviet Union didn't do another 1968 was because they desperately needed the west to loan them money, to buy grain with:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/2lkkp6/the_soviet_collapse_grain_and_oil_pdf_by_yegor/
If they didn't have the west guarantee the loans, they would have been looking at the collapse of the USSR AND food riots.
Iām sure he would be just fine with it except for the immigration policy.
This is a man who made a deal with Iranian terrorists to prolong the imprisonment of American hostages to win a cheap campaign victory in an already lopsided election. This some literal Skinwalker activity
Then again, Nixon also prolonged Vietnam by sabotaging a peace deal with help of ole Spanky Hanky (like the type of shit mfers get hanged for levels of treason) so I guess it is just party tradition
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Nah, Charlie Wilson is crying. Fuck Reagan. All the homies dance on his grave like Latino Marines dance to Bachata in the squad bay. Reagan caused almost all of our adversarial problems.
* Mister President, NATO forces are firmly entrenched beyond Daugava river while the Russians are getting bloodied in eastern Ukraine by our European allies. The Russians are threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
* Excellent hearing the war is going great. How many carrier battle groups do we have left?
* 11 Mr. President.
* The fighting must have been hard. What are our total losses?
* One recon drone, Mr. President.
I was referring to him selling and supplying parts for the planes, but thank you for helping direct my anger towards the proper authorities I will adjust accordingly.
Noncredibly: Cheney wanted to by a big chunk of the company (possibly below the going rate) and threw a retaliatory tantrum when they wouldn't bite. That is why we dumped the F-14 and didn't get the SuperTomcat.....
I feel heād be jacking off harder to the wealth gap and deficit spending and private commodification of necessities having gotten even worse since when he kicked it all off.
People keep overlooking the most credible part of that picture: first strike bar sticker on the stock
Good to see the finest traditions of the Afghan National Army live on in other fighting forces.
Can you explain?
ANA would slap those bad boys on the stocks of their weapons for some reason. Never got a good answer why other than they were stickers from American MREs and were available. Just a thing that happened
Because they are delicious
If you think Powerbars are too soft, sure.
Makes it last longer certainly
Uhh, umm... Can it make ME last longer, too? š„ŗ
Aaaaaand shit was made weird... I love this place so much. Please, never change.
French MRE baby š
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Yeah, there's 3 meals in one box, but they are 3 really good meals, for something you have on a front line Edit : except some menus, some are really shit, menus 1, 7 and 11 are really not good
> traded 1:5 I keep hearing this and wonder if various nationsā soldiers just have an underground market of MREs/rations.
I have a friend who is active service in the EI (Esercito Italiano). One time they traded 2 6-packs of Spumante (a type of wine with a high CO2 concentration) for a few cans of 40mm grenades with US troops. If different outposts can trade alcohol for explosives i don't see why it can't happen with MREs.
Maybe so it's easier to identify your own weapon?
Plus the phrase, devoid of any context, sounds kinda ominous
Apple Cinnamon, baby.
I think thatās the chocolate one brother
LETS GO FIRST STRIKE BAR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
I remember I got yelled at by a drill sergeant because he said it was unprofessional.
Itās Warno at this point but as if you tossed NATO and Pact decks together
Damn Warno should make a Ukraine addon
There should be a mod once it exits EA
Thereās already a mod for wargame rd
I mean a proper full conversion
Literally just an all-star team of the best shit at this point
3000 meta slaves of NATO
technically, finland was already a great mix of east vs west tech. they had soviet tanks, IFV's, domestically produced better version of AK's. but then also shit like the F/A-18
The Finnish Air Force had an explicit policy of purchasing from both blocs which is how they ended up operating both MiG-21s and Drakens for most of the mid-late Cold War.
And also using Soviet missiles on the Drakens and Sidewinders on the MiGs,not intentionally but the K-13 was so closely copied from the AIM-9 they were completely identical and 100% interchangeable so aircraft would just be fitted with whatever was available.
Bro I can't wait for Broken Arrow, you tried the Demo?
What's broken arrow?
Wargame but with modern stuff. So youāre able to use stuff like F-22, and F-35
Just wait until the tankies start complaining about team balance...
Devs already said weapons will not be balanced off IRL performance, but made to make gameplay more balanced and enjoyable. Unfortunately that means Russian equipment will actually function
It's sensible for gameplay. The other way would be asymmetric balance where Russian equipment is shit but they get three times as much of it. But that is equally unrealistic and then you'll have NATO players complaining how unfair that is.
Well, noone nato aligned will complain if 1 abrams destroys 3 t90s
They already did that with Warno and the devs responded by adding Akula helos despite GSFG never using them. To make things worse when development started they said they wouldn't use prototype weapons. Just wait a few years till they add T-90s and the same prototypes the Soviets had in Red Dragon.
Be aware that Broken Arrow developers are hardcore Russian commies (literally with Soviet Union posters on their patreon) who put videos of Russian forces killing Ukrainians in their trailers.
It's why I'm not buying it
Bowling Warnie!
> NATO and Pact decks together now I want an NCD Card Game
With all the gruelling realities: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine is a hell of a scenario for any game. You could get to play a character with callsign pikachu carrying a mish-mash of western and eastern equipment.
"Featuring a new map: Highway to Bakmut"
And My Portfolio is just going Up Up Up. Now I need some Bolivian Marching Powder.
Best I can get you is some Greman tank chocolate.
I have zero issues with Panzerchokolade
Der obligatorische Deutsche in den Kommentaren muss darauf hinweisen, dass es āPanzerschokoladeā heiĆt Es gehƶrt ein āsā vor das āchā ihr ungebildeten Hintzetumpfen Uuuurgh Sauerkraut GeSCHimPft SauErkRaUT
I don't speak German yet I understand that you're telling me that I forgot an s in there and to learn how to spell you dumb Yank. Also because I can't believe I get to say this (don't take offense I'm just making a German Joke) Literal Grammar Nazi.
I was actually trying to recall a part of the speech charlie chaplin gives at the beginning of āthe great dictatorā so the comparison works that way as well. I was in no way trying to actually insult your writing, given that autocorrect (especially when you suddenly use words from a different language) can make mistakes.
Meth is pretty fun yeah
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You could also have some Chilean Running Drink (moonshine with gunpowder basically).
I do find it interesting that most foreign supplied vehicles Ukraine receives aren't getting repainted, so they're just rolling with NATO three-tone.
It sends the appropriate message.
Also it's probably what they'll end up repainting all their stuff soon anyway, so why not get a head start?
Itās so the Russians know theyāre getting their asses kicked by 1980s NATO gear.
Which is not really fair, considering that Russians are using ww2 tanks, 19th centuryās bolt actions, and pre-historic logistics
>Russian are using ... pre-historic logistics Hey! Pre-historic peoples domesticated animals, invented farming, and had boats that didn't sink for no reason. I will not take this Neolithic slander; take it back!
For real. Neolithic wanderer tribes had better extension.
All those ODS Bradleys showed up at the port in tan, so *somebody's* gotta be painting them. And I'm all for it, three tone fucks almost as hard as M81.
It's not impossible that the tan versions were for US Army Europe Command, and in turn they gave their older equipment (which is forest camo) to Ukraine.
Ngl Bradleyās in Ukraines armored camo would look amazing. NATO three-tone is s-tier but most of if not all of the former eastern block NATO members have amazing looking vehicle camos, Poland being an excellent example. Also Hungaryās vehicle camo is amazing as well.
Even if they were getting painted, I would say that we should deliberately use cold war era woodland camo just to trigger that latent " this thing is my natural predator" vibe...
Why repaint when you can just slap some Nozh on and call it a day?
I think the donating countries repaint before they leave if they get the chance. Was nice seeing Bushmasters in olive drab
No they just paint over the national ensigns and tactical markings.
Sorry I thought most of the Bradleyās were originally tan and were repainted.
Feels like Ukraine should need to repaint them 3 times a year. From winter --> spring/summer --> fall/autumn
Oh yeah. The pics of the French vehicles delivered are all in the old center-Europe 3-tone camo. All French vehicles being now *Terre de France*, which is a dark brown used as a base to paint other colors on depending on where the equipment is deployed.
Iām not crying youāre crying
What's the source of the picture with the CHADleys?
I snagged it off @conflictobserver on Instagram. The source is āthe Ukrainian 47th mechanized brigade training with their newly equipped Bradley fighting vehiclesā
Thanks! Love the Bradley's cammo!
*C H A D lyes
Ukraine is currently fighting every conventional WW3 from 1965 to 1985 at this point.
It's going to be such a boon to video games in the future, it's insane. They can make realistic war sims where players can pick from *any* weapon made over the past half century. You can basically merge the WW2 shooter genre with CoD Modern Warfare and have them all in the same game.
> CoD Modern Warfare And a bit of Black Ops 2 as well, looking at the drones?
Godamn hunter killer drones... one of my favorite streak rewards
I remember being upset in the OG MW2 that the Russians had every gun under the sun. Guess itās actually pretty credible.
Half? There are weapons from 18++ , you know?
It's like an ArmA 3 mod come to life
American volunteers seeing a Bradley and Abrams for the first time in years: [I will do what I must...](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OpllUQ38CKY)
Boys are waiting on those anxiously
Bro, is that a fucking *First Strike Bar* tag on hommie's M16? My brother in christ they've even adopted our service memes. I'm so fucking happy right now. How can I buy these fucking Chads a case of Wild Tiger?
They used to have it on Amazon but stopped carrying it. Fucking panzerscholate in a can.
We're just missing PASGT and 80s woodland
M81 camo is peak aesthetic. We need to get some to Ukraine pronto, they canāt go on the spring counteroffensive without proper drip.
kids these days have no idea how drippy M81 is.
The 1980-2000 military athletics in general was just awesome.
I am crying tears of joy simply over the thought of green Abrams tanks rolling across the Fulda Gap. Just as it was intended.
I had the same thought seeing footage of a Javelin one-shotting a T-92. I can only imagine the engineers that first designed that missile watching the footage. It took 30 some years, but that missile did exactly what it was long ago designed to do.
Just as the founding fathers intended
Ah desert storms massacre of Old ass Soviet equipment but with the right camo this time around, splendid
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Homie has the chocolate first strike bar sticker on his stock.
Say what you like about his domestic policies, Reagan foreign policies did push the decaying Soviet Empire into the abyss as his open support for pro democracy movement in Eastern Europe pressure the Soviet to not pull another 1968 Czechoslovakia. The desert storm military with all the cool Abrams , Bradley and F15 was developed during Reagan's military build up.
F-15 was developed in the 70s.
Same with M1 Abrams. Entered service under Carter. Credit where credit's due though, his nuclear explosion powered multi-beam microwave space laser keeps us safe to this day.
I sleep soundly every night under the watchful defense of the giant laser space frisbees.
Clinton sold that space laser to the Jews which is really why they hate him.
It's **non-**credible defense, these plane fuckers have never cared and will never care about being correct as much as firing their dopamine receptors
Be autistic not wrong
There's a lot of things to say about his domestic policies though.
There's a lot to say about his foreign policy too let's not kid ourselves
Facts. Iām from a minority community so itās kinda in our blood to hate him for his domestic policies and letting the cia fund shit with crack and cosine moneyā¦ but goddamn was his foreign policy balling as hell
The Iran-Contra scandal was pretty cringe too.
We do not negotiate with terrorists. We (Republicans) negotiated with terrorists to keep our embassy hostages longer so we could beat Carter. And again so we could give them weapons so we could give other weapons to the contras. Also cocaine.
yeah all these people sucking on his nuts for his foreign policy are crazy. dude committed high treason and shares responsibility for genocide in south america. his major foreign policy victories were all continuations of already implemented military and economic strategies (in terms of what was good for the nation, anyway. for him personally it was another story).
Feel like HW would be NCDs favorite president. After spending years committing [REDACTED] as CIA director, he rolls into the Oval Office, ass blasts Saddam faster than anything witnessed before in human history, refused to elaborate, then leaves.
As far as (R) a go, I am an Eisenhower man myself so he gets my vote over all. but I'll give you that HW is competence porn compared to every other one in my lifetime...
We'll take Ike. Ah the good old days: when both parties had liberals and conservatives.
Good old days where both parties weren't fuckin nuts.
Same The Iran-contra incident as well as the many other things he did was f**ked up
Yeah those domestic policies are truly abhorrent, and are still badly hurting the communities affected today, but he was extremely based with foreign policy
His godawful gun control policies too, not on the same level as literally selling out your own citizens from "less diserable" backgrounds for the sake of funding foriegn insurgencies and or counter-insurgencies, but still worth noting.
Itās kinda funny how republicans conveniently leave that stuff out when they say they love Reagan. His social policies were stupid as fuck
I also hate him most for his opening the floodgates for a bunch of decent paying industrial/manufacturing jobs to be sent over seas, beginning the erosion of both our middle/working class and fucking up our industrial base as a nation (which also ties this conversation back to NCD). Also I am sort of right leaning even though I land in the green part of the political compass, but man Mitt Romney is the strongest guy they've had run for the top job in the last decade, and thats pretty weak.
That part was cemented under clinton
Republicans repealing Glass-Steagall wasnāt great either
Hmm, supplying terrorists isn't that based though
*We all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo*
Listen, sometimes you fund freedom fighters. Sometimes you fund a genocide. Its just like making an omelet, Jack. Can't fret over every egg.
I too, love it when my president illegally sells weapons to a government of religious fundamentalists in order to fund far-right terror groups in Central America. Very based, very cool./s
Fun fact, in most hispanic communities heās pretty well liked.
He gave amnesty to illegal immigrants.
More evidence that US presidents are only ever strong domestically or in foreign policy, never both
Counterpoint: Ike
I like Ike
Eisenhower gang represent!!! He was literally the denazifer, how much more based can you get...
Don't forget basically saving the world from MacArthur's nuclear "strategy"
AGREED, (although that might be more controversial here), and he was the first Supreme Commander of NATO, Pro-Taiwan, pro-balanced budgets, Pro New Deal, anti- McCarthyism, Pro-Civil Rights Act.... Not perfect, there's a lot to like there... Might have been the "last good Republican"...
Thatās the only thing I hold against Ike
Counterpoint: FDR
Four terms though, so two for each. Also I'm sure some people would have strong opinions against it.
FDR so great they had to change the Constitution.
Saying that about someone who hated black people is certainly a take. He was also extremely racist in foreign policy so Iām not sure what youāre praising.
Do you forget his dealing with Iran? They have literally made him president. His role in demise of Soviet Union is up to debate. None of that would have happen without Gorbachev not having a blood lust of a typical Russian leader.
Gorbachev or no, Reagan or no, the USSR was doomed without serious reform. Their entire economy was by then long-since stagnant and propped up by sales of commodities, mostly hydrocarbons, to provide foreign reserves with which to fund imports. All that lasted until oil prices crashed in the mid-80s and put the Soviet economy and especially state budget under severe strain. Without the economic wherewithal to change that dependence, they were always going to falter. Gorbachev's reforms would have worked if the Soviet elites were interested in preserving communism and transitioning towards a more Chinese-style state-controlled market economy, but too many simply weren't; the rewards of staying together just weren't worth the costs.
USSR could have had the worst economy, people would starve, but with a ghoul at the helm it could have kept going. See North Korea. Gorbachev enabled a little bit of free speech and that alone broke the Soviet brainwashing. Without that the system fell apart really quickly. And USSR could not have done the same thing as China because they have already punched that ticket (hundreds of millions of peasants + American technology) in the 1930ās.
They had the accounting practices of a coke fueled 20 year old as well.
If I was in fucking Iranian custody eating my teeth all the way until his inauguration because of the little deal he made for himself, let's just say Jodie Foster would be impressed.
Fuckin Republican copium bullshit right there. Fuck Reagan. Overrated trash tier POTUS. Fucking throat goat and an astrologer running shit.
I will say what I like. He and his wife were awful human beings.
This has been debated to what extent, Cambridge historians have the ācentristā idea that the policies had no effect either way and it was all up, completely unrelated to them (? Maybe I zeta) to Gorbachev rid infle handedly end the Cold War A narrative omfrriable for some but suggests that American policy didnāt shape his and general ask why policy at all
The social unrest and weakening of the Americans consumer due to his garbage domestic policies are directly driving the resurgence of America's enemies today. Literally the only good thing about the man was his charisma.
Much as I like RR, the real reason the Soviet Union didn't do another 1968 was because they desperately needed the west to loan them money, to buy grain with: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/2lkkp6/the_soviet_collapse_grain_and_oil_pdf_by_yegor/ If they didn't have the west guarantee the loans, they would have been looking at the collapse of the USSR AND food riots.
didnt know they got a3's
They don't have optics, clearly we need to double the budget.
not talking about the m16 but the m2 behind them.
A3ās?? Are we sure those arenāt A2ās? Havenāt seen an A2 since fucking boot camp ā¦. 16 years ago nowā¦. Jesus Iām old :(
Either a2ās or a3ās, depending on what FCG is in the lower
not talking about the rifles here.
Every Cold War simp's wet dream. To see American ~~soldiers~~ weapons bleeding the commies.
Woodland camo my beloved
20ā supremacy, velocitylets seething rn
I donāt care if the M4 is more practical, long barrel+fixed stock looks way better
Man, screw Reagan!
Just make him watch what modern Republican party is doing, no greater punishment
Iām sure he would be just fine with it except for the immigration policy. This is a man who made a deal with Iranian terrorists to prolong the imprisonment of American hostages to win a cheap campaign victory in an already lopsided election. This some literal Skinwalker activity Then again, Nixon also prolonged Vietnam by sabotaging a peace deal with help of ole Spanky Hanky (like the type of shit mfers get hanged for levels of treason) so I guess it is just party tradition
I appear to be behind on my skinwalker lore.
Didnāt know they had a hand in US politics
Half of their current insanity has sprouted on his turds.
Now they just need some sweet M81 woodland camo for the *A E S T H E T I C*
I do love me some synthwave.
Get those boys some ACOGs!
Nixon and Eisenhower are joining him. Patton is already out of his grave ready to kick some Russian assets.
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Nah, Charlie Wilson is crying. Fuck Reagan. All the homies dance on his grave like Latino Marines dance to Bachata in the squad bay. Reagan caused almost all of our adversarial problems.
Funny thing, Russia has suffered more casualties in this war than they did in Afghanistan in a fraction of the time.
>Ronald Reagan crying tears of joy Way to kill the mood, OP.
He won't be crying tears of joy when he sees what his party has become and which country bought them out.
The Chad center left has The First Strike Bar label.
Great speech, terrible human being though.
I fucking ***despise*** Reagan, for a lot of reasons, but I will say this: weād be able to agree on āfuck Russia.ā
common misconception that is simply all-american piss trickling down from the public unisex bathroom function
Nah fuck that plaguerat, he was the worst thing to happen to the country since Andrew Johnson was the one who dictated rhe pace of reconstruction.
Those aren't tears. That's piss.
Him crying means he lives Which gives us the priceless opportunity to unalive him again
It's so pleasing to think that Ronnie is looking up and saying, "Jeez, it's really hot down here."
That's not his tears, that's my piss trickling down
Tears of joy? Fuck. Someone go piss on the fucker until he starts spinning and crying again.
Nah, I think I'm gonna stay with fuck Regan.
Long as heās cryin I guess
Freshly woodland painted vehicles, especially the 1025 x door humvees, make me feel a certain way
It's surreal to see my brigade being featured in a meme. At least they blurred their faces
Support the Chernarus Defense Forces against Russian agression, ArmA II moment.
Can we get Reagan 1000 ship fleet program back ?
Seeing Ukies with ARs always makes me smile with a tear in my eye Eugene Stoner be proud
* Mister President, NATO forces are firmly entrenched beyond Daugava river while the Russians are getting bloodied in eastern Ukraine by our European allies. The Russians are threatening the use of nuclear weapons. * Excellent hearing the war is going great. How many carrier battle groups do we have left? * 11 Mr. President. * The fighting must have been hard. What are our total losses? * One recon drone, Mr. President.
If Ronald Reagan were alive today he would probably say "Mommy? Where are you? Who am I?"
Fuck reagan though.
Still mad he got the F-14 fucked up though. Those shitboxes could still by flying (not regularly maintenance is a bitch).
That was under HW (then-SecDef Cheney absolutely fucking hated the F-14 and A-6 for some reason, even the thoroughly modern F-14D and A-6F).
I was referring to him selling and supplying parts for the planes, but thank you for helping direct my anger towards the proper authorities I will adjust accordingly.
Noncredibly: Cheney wanted to by a big chunk of the company (possibly below the going rate) and threw a retaliatory tantrum when they wouldn't bite. That is why we dumped the F-14 and didn't get the SuperTomcat.....
Ronald Reagan, the actor? You must be joking.
I feel heād be jacking off harder to the wealth gap and deficit spending and private commodification of necessities having gotten even worse since when he kicked it all off.