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geneva_convenience lemmy.ml geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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Trying2KnowMyself [they/them/their/theirs/themself] lemmy.ml Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml
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Mid-air collision

Yes, that’s the intended outcome of firing a rocket.

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Sickday kbin.earth Sickday@kbin.earth
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Hegseth:

Stop exploding you cowards!

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geneva_convenience lemmy.ml geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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Bonus: IRGC spokesperson video

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TheRealShadeSlimmy lemmy.world TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-29
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Ironically the picture in the post is of a notably non-American MiG-29. The rest seems pretty on-point, though.

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voidsignal lemmy.world voidsignal@lemmy.world
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These freaking accidental accidents keep accidenting. It's so annoying

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gergo lemmy.world gergolippai@lemmy.world
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#7 · Quote Reply

tbf russia has been using these kinds of excuses so not only usa :)

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Che Banana beehaw.org The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org
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Hegseth: Stop exploding you cowards!

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Sumocat lemmy.world Sumocat@lemmy.world
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#9 · Quote Reply

Bonus: IRGC spokesperson video

Not the worst injury suffered by Abraham Lincoln…

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#10 · Quote Reply

Not the worst injury suffered by Abraham Lincoln…

Yeah, his brain injury wasn't very mild

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-23
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Bonus: IRGC spokesperson video

It has strong meme energy

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β˜‚οΈ- lemmy.ml umbrella@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-12
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

tbf russia has been using these kinds of excuses so not only usa :)
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η§¦ε§‹ηš‡εΈ lemmy.ml QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-02-03
#13 · Quote Reply

They just do that sometimes

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DragonAce lemmy.world DragonAce@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Elect a clown, get a circus.

This is what happens when you put a fucking moron in charge of the military.

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BarneyPiccolo lemmy.today BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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I just want to make everybody aware, that's not normal.

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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#16 · (edited) Quote Reply

Lying is the only thing Trump can do...

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Nope, cause it doesn't use pointing out that russia is an embarassment as well to say that the US is not.

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astutemural midwest.social astutemural@midwest.social
Joined: 2024-12-09
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I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you're gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage.

OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

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Zerush lemmy.ml Zerush@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-04-25
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Elect a clown, get a circus. This is what happens when you put a fucking moron in charge of the military.

...and above using MechaHitler Grok in their weapon system

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Mulligrubs lemmy.world Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
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Elect a clown, get a circus. This is what happens when you put a fucking moron in charge of the military.

The moron isn't allowed to start a war, as far as the Constitution is concerned.

Trump is the end result of ignoring the Constitution for many decades, he is what you get. And he's the dumb one

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-23
#21 · (edited) Quote Reply

I just want to make everybody aware, that's not normal.

Planes only do this when they're very distressed

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-23
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Nope, cause it doesn't use pointing out that russia is an embarassment as well to say that the US is not.

If they're an embarrassment but they're still winning, what does that say about the other side?πŸ€”

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If they're an embarrassment but they're still winning, what does that say about the other side?πŸ€”

Nobody is winning.

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Grapho lemmy.ml Grapho@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-10-19
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The moron isn't allowed to start a war, as far as the Constitution is concerned. Trump is the end result of ignoring the Constitution for many decades, he is what you get. And he's the dumb one

The constitution has always been ignored if capital deems it expedient

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Grapho lemmy.ml Grapho@lemmy.ml
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Nobody is winning.

I need to buy in on some copium futures

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AnUnusualRelic lemmy.world AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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#26 · Quote Reply

The moron isn't allowed to start a war, as far as the Constitution is concerned. Trump is the end result of ignoring the Constitution for many decades, he is what you get. And he's the dumb one

Ah, but it's not a war, you see. It's just going abroad to blow stuff up.

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I_Has_A_Hat lemmy.world I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-24
#27 · (edited) Quote Reply

I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you're gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage. OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

Shh, there's no room for rationality here! Obviously the US military, which is the biggest funded military in the world by several degrees, is collapsing because they're all big, mean, stupid, poo-poo heads and no other reason! Everyone knows the US is minutes away from collapse and absolutely doesn't have the strength to draw this conflict out for multiple decades despite the trillions of dollars spent to ensure exactly that outcome!

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-23
#28 · Quote Reply

Nobody is winning.

Okay.

Gun to your head, who's losing less?

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HiddenLayer555 lemmy.ml HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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#29 · (edited) Quote Reply

Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

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FlexibleToast lemmy.world FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
#30 · Quote Reply

Mid-air collision Yes, that’s the intended outcome of firing a rocket.

It wasn't a rocket... Two KC135s collided. One made it back.

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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#31 · Quote Reply

Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

Real "me putting on a dress shirt after not working out for two years" hours

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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Shh, there's no room for rationality here! Obviously the US military, which is the biggest funded military in the world by several degrees, is collapsing because they're all big, mean, stupid, poo-poo heads and no other reason! Everyone knows the US is minutes away from collapse and absolutely doesn't have the strength to draw this conflict out for multiple decades despite the trillions of doll...

Most of that money actually does not go to ensuring that outcome, most of that money goes to ensuring Northrop Grumman execs can get a third infinity pool and bigger sex slave dungeon. If the money went towards what you're saying it goes towards, the USS Gerald Ford would have functioning toilets.

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obnomus lemmy.ml Obnomus@lemmy.ml
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#33 · Quote Reply

Lmao is this real?

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πŸ¦„πŸ¦„πŸ¦„ feddit.org Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org
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Okay. Gun to your head, who's losing less?

The weapons manufacturers.

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Olhonestjim lemmy.world Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-28
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Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

We perfected building a near peer military with Russia in mind. We build massive fleets of wildly expensive machines and great arsenals of similarly expensive ammunition. We made almost all of that shit overwhelmingly dependent on the supply chain of a flammable, nonrenewable, black fluid easily controllable by the nation we just attacked. One which has taken seriously the new lesson that such militaries are obsolete and top heavy. The way forward lies in small, cheap, autonomous suicide drones, cyber attacks, propaganda, and economic pressure. They're one of the few countries to take that lesson to heart. We have recently decapitated the competence of nearly every powerful system of our nation; political and military, and pushed our economy to the brink. We are led by hyper-overconfident, insecure, malicious idiots supported only by a cult minority of our population.

Not quite perfect is right. The rest of the world should bind together to pressure us, hard.

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herseycokguzelolacak lemmy.ml herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-06-17
#36 · Quote Reply

Five more KC-135 planes were hit on the ground in Saudi Arabia: https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/5-us-refueling-planes-damaged-at-saudi-base-report-3216216

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gergo lemmy.world gergolippai@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-19
#37 · Quote Reply

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the original post said "only in america" or smth like that. i pointed out it's not only america.
what about you reading before commenting :)

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geneva_convenience lemmy.ml geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-01-25
#38 · Quote Reply

Five more KC-135 planes were hit on the ground in Saudi Arabia: https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/5-us-refueling-planes-damaged-at-saudi-base-report-3216216

Nice

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-23
#39 · Quote Reply

The weapons manufacturers.

See, if Russia was losing you wouldn't feel the need to do this smarmy 12 year old shit, you'd just say Russia. But you can't because you know you'd get laughed out of the stratosphere

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Arthur Besse Moderator cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2022-01-17
#40 · (edited) Quote Reply

well, some of them are built so that the front doesn't fall off at all

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MortUS lemmy.world MortUS@lemmy.world
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#41 · Quote Reply

Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

It doesn't matter. They have the capital and populace to throw into this meat grinder until they decide it's enough. We see the same with Russia, and soon we'll see the same with China. The world is getting too expensive and too crowded so the war machines are all starting up.

And thus the cycle continues; ad nauseam

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See, if Russia was losing you wouldn't feel the need to do this smarmy 12 year old shit, you'd just say Russia. But you can't because you know you'd get laughed out of the stratosphere

this is what an actual copium overdose looks like

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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#43 · Quote Reply

this is what an actual copium overdose looks like

Yes, and i hope you can come out of it.

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#44 · Quote Reply

Yes, and i hope you can come out of it.

NO U

gotteeeem

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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#45 · Quote Reply

NO U gotteeeem

πŸ‘

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Mulligrubs lemmy.world Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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#46 · (edited) Quote Reply

The constitution has always been ignored if capital deems it expedient

We had a good run, a solid century or two. In the 70s, the FBI would nail reps for taking bribes (Abscam).

Now, there's no reason to bribe illegally, we have Super PACs and shell companies for such things, and it's ALL LEGAL, so it's not even "corruption". GOOD JOB

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bridgeburner lemmy.world bridgeburner@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

It doesn't matter. They have the capital and populace to throw into this meat grinder until they decide it's enough. We see the same with Russia, and soon we'll see the same with China. The world is getting too expensive and too crowded so the war machines are all starting up. And thus the cycle continues; ad nauseam

The world is getting too crowded because of India and Africa. China's population has already reched its peak a few years back and is declining since. As long as India and Africa don't join any potential WW3, the global population won't decline.

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MortUS lemmy.world MortUS@lemmy.world
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#48 · Quote Reply

The world is getting too crowded because of India and Africa. China's population has already reched its peak a few years back and is declining since. As long as India and Africa don't join any potential WW3, the global population won't decline.

If a World War were to break out, no chance India and Africa are to be able to sit on the outskirts.

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