🌟 Internet Famous David Steel / LazerPig / Ricewynd / Malquistion - Pathological Liar, Reddit Historian, Femboy Thirster, and Vore Connoisseur

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he knows that the only group that could potentially dethrone him is his military

so he has to make sure they won't

a dictator lives and dies by his army, once u lose that, ur gone

Kind of my point. Soldiers who are trained to take individual initiative might just decide you're a terrible leader and take the individual initiative to remove you from power. Especially in a culture who has the concept of "the Mandate of Heaven".
 
Lend Lease wasn't just an ungodly amount of military equipment, a significant portion of which later ended up in the hands of the ChiComs in Manchuria, it was basic everyday necessities and industrial goods. Americans were made to deprive themselves of butter in favor of margarine in order to keep the Red Army fed and the Soviet's remaining industry running. You quibble over whether or not Moscow would have been won without Lend Lease, but the Soviet War effort would have absolutely collapsed without FDR bleeding America to keep the Soviets fighting just out of sheer lack of foodstuffs and machine tools.
 
Lend Lease wasn't just an ungodly amount of military equipment, a significant portion of which later ended up in the hands of the ChiComs in Manchuria, it was basic everyday necessities and industrial goods. Americans were made to deprive themselves of butter in favor of margarine in order to keep the Red Army fed and the Soviet's remaining industry running. You quibble over whether or not Moscow would have been won without Lend Lease, but the Soviet War effort would have absolutely collapsed without FDR bleeding America to keep the Soviets fighting just out of sheer lack of foodstuffs and machine tools.

Lend-Lease trucks, locomotives, foodstuffs, fuel etc were absolutely decisive to keeping the Red Army fed and moving through the latter half of the war, and therefore enabling them to take the offensive in the way they did. As were other, less glamorous but nonetheless vital things, like the explosives needed to make shells - 1/3 of all explosives used by the USSR were either provided through LL directly, or produced with precursor materials provided through Lend-Lease.

Most optimistically, without Lend-Lease, absolutely none of the grand offensives of 1944-45 happen. There will simply not be the shells, the vehicles, or the fuel to pull it off. The Soviets might bleed themselves white grinding forward anyway, putting even more of the fighting on men instead of using firepower, and probably meet the Western Allies somewhere in Poland.
Much less generously, without LL, the Red Army by late 1943 going into 1944 is going to be starving, immobilized, and running out of ammunition. Then it's shortly going to stop existing as a meaningfully coherent fighting force, while the Germans run rampant. Maybe they keep the Army fighting by shorting the homefront even more, and stay in the fight at cost of an actual massive famine for the civilian population, and hold on by their fingernails, at an even more tremendous human cost than already happened.
Who knows.
These counterfactuals are fairly impossible to verify, because a change in circumstances is going to make for different decisionmaking, and that's essentially impossible to predict.

In any case, the Germans are still going to lose because if nothing else, by 1946 the Anglo-Americans are going to come along advancing behind a curtain of nuclear fire, but Lend-Lease very much was the deciding factor between the Red Army ending the war in Berlin, and the battered remnants of the Red Army being met by the Western Allies on the Vistula in 1947 or something.
 
These counterfactuals are fairly impossible to verify, because a change in circumstances is going to make for different decisionmaking, and that's essentially impossible to predict.
This is pretty much the only thing that matters. Again I don't think anyone doubted that LL didn't eventually make the Eastern front significantly easier.

But idk, apparently sorting out the actual fact of the matter is "qubbling". People keep posting like someone is saying the Soviets had WW2 in the bag without LL no problem lol.
 
But idk, apparently sorting out the actual fact of the matter is "qubbling".
Don't know how pointing out that arguing over the effects of Lend Lease on a single battle as being determinate for the war instead of its broader implications for the strategic situation isn't quibbling, but if you want to sort out the actual facts of the matter, I'd recommend reading Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War, which does go into autistic detail about it.
People keep posting like someone is saying the Soviets had WW2 in the bag without LL no problem lol.
Because they do. A lot. The traditionally prevailing narrative was that Lend Lease had a negligible impact on the war effort, and tankies will still jump down the throat of anyone arguing otherwise.
 
During Xi's modernization efforts, there has also been maximal effort put into shifting the culture of the Chinese military towards unquestioning loyalty and obedience to the Party, and of course Xi himself. Members of the Chinese military in all branches and at all levels are required to take mandatory education on Xi Jinping's Thoughts on Communism With Chinese Characteristics (which is a several volume book series), reading all the books, undergoing lectures, writing essays, even at the expense of conducting military training. In fact, soldiers and officers who have not attended enough training or were not enthusiastic enough in the classes have had their careers harmed.
Despite this, the PLA is still a meritocracy, and it's really not that different to the old PLA instilling political thought in their ranks.
It could very well be that the PLA troops have lost that individual initiative that once made them successful. With the cultural changes in China and within the PLA itself, it could be that modern Chinese troops are more like Russian troops where they're no longer trained and encouraged to take individual initiative and are absolutely useless without a superior giving them orders.
I really REALLY doubt that this has happened, initiative is still vital to PLA doctrine today, system destruction warfare literally hinges on initiative (just from branches more important than the PLAGF).
 
It’s quite amusing how Chudly David sounds when talking about things he doesn’t like.

🐷Dem Chanks can only steal frum da hu-whuite man!”
😡 🐷UNLESS ITS MILITARY TATICS IN WHICHCASE THEY CANNOT STEAL FROM US BECAUSE REASONS!!!!


Like, if they can copy iPhones, drones, ai etc… it’s not a leap to think they won’t copy basic military doctrine like ensure good logistics and don’t clump assets all in one place… like you know in the post Snowden and Wikileaks age, pretty much all of this is online in PDF format, right?
The Chinese have always kept a close eye on western methods of carrying war to see what does and does not work.

Chinese have copied, but they copy to catch up with everyone else and out of practical reasons. They didn't copy in the way that comes as cargoculting like you'd see in Iran or DPRK. And they weren't afraid to put their own spin on things it they thought it could improve it

They'll take the momentarily ridicule if it means that they can catch up. Keep in mind that China even as late into the 50s was one of the most agrarian and industrialized places on earth considering it's size and significance

China today has for the most part caught up technologically with most of the west aside from perhaps the latest and greatest the US is developing. And they're at a point that they're developing their own entirely unique creations and methodology
 
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the United States made more M1 Garands in the war than the Nazis made of all small arms, including the hopelessly obsolete Kar98s they were issuing to the vast majority of their troops, and most of what the Germans built that wasn't horrifying obsolete was instead flimsy and prone to being rendered inop from anything more than a stiff breeze. Even with their massive stockpile of Moist Nuggets the Red Army was cripplingly dependent on wasn't enough to arm everyone, and those were every bit as hopelessly obsolete as the Kar, except without at least the quality workmanship that you can only get from a sober machinist. Without Lend-Lease M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, and M1 Thompsons, your average Red Army ground-pounder would've been fighting the German horde with nothing but his limp dick and whatever rubble he could find on the ground.
 
And yet Iran has working hypersonic delivery vehicles and the United States doesn't - curious!
The US doesn't go around telling the world of its full capabilities. The Nighthawk, SR-71, and B2 Spirit were in service for several years before their mere existence was declassified.

Also, you are reminded that the AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile was terminal hypersonic. In the 1960s. We absolutely have missiles and warheads with hypersonic maneuvering, even excluding the nuclear warheads on our SLBMs and ICBMs, which, by the way, pull ~Mach 20 in the terminal phase of reentry, it's just that we're so far ahead of everyone else that we don't need to go around chest-beating about how far ahead we are. If you'd stop listening to propaganda outlets owned by BRICS states and American generals looking for more funding for their pet projects to embezzle and actually research freely-available information, including from the US government itself, you'd already know this.

Khinzal is the rough equivalent of a Scud ratchet-strapped to the bottom of a Foxbat, and we were intercepting those freely and easily 35 years ago. Russian "hypersonics" are a joke, and they're decades ahead of Iran in metallurgy, rocketry, and domestic electronics. I guarantee you Iran's "hypersonics" would barely be more complex than what Hitler was chucking at London in the late stages of the war were it not for imported Chinese and Russian parts.
 
The US doesn't go around telling the world of its full capabilities. The Nighthawk, SR-71, and B2 Spirit were in service for several years before their mere existence was declassified.
I guess we'll find out what the US has and doesn't have when Taiwan goes hot. Given the absolute state of programs like the F-35 Block 4 and the Sentinel ICBM, I'm not optimistic.
 
Sentinel ICBM
TBH we had something comparable, if not superior, to the Sentinel in the form of MX/Peacekeeper, but of course retarded faggot politicians believed the Russians at their word and dismantled the program just as we were starting to get actual missiles in production as part of a treaty to which the Russians, surprise fucking surprise, didn't hold up their end of the bargain. Fucking Reagan, man. Also, just a reminder, we also removed the Bone's permissive action link interface, and therefore its ability to use nukes, because of a similar treaty that, likewise, the Russians proceeded to ignore (or maybe it was the same one). Mind you, the Russians already had a fleet of (theoretically) similarly capable supersonic nuclear bombers that the nuclear treaties they never intended to follow never wanted to take that nuclear capability away from.
 
I guess we'll find out what the US has and doesn't have when Taiwan goes hot. Given the absolute state of programs like the F-35 Block 4 and the Sentinel ICBM, I'm not optimistic.
Block 4 is such a massive capability upgrade that in decades past it would be like going from a F-15A to the F-15C, eg. Block 4 is basically a F-35A becoming a "F-35C (non Navy) variant". It's getting a new radar, new central processor, new sensors and more electrical power. The hardware for it has been installed on every jet made since ~Q1 2024 and every other jet it getting it back ported.

Even then they're already thinking about what's beyond Block 4 and that's probably a new engine and other big improvements.

It's coming along and we've already seen Block 3F rev. 2024/2025 absolutely stomp on Russian AD over Iran and Syria.

Sentinel is expensive because it's an ICBM, those aren't cheap and this is the first one one we've introduced in ~35 years

Also, we were flying F-47 prototypes back in 2019.....
 
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More like the us army and his channel is a circus
And the symbol reminds me of the Neo nationalist Sweden party
 
Lazershart released a new video and it's just a thinly veiled disguise to talk about the CR2. Man is absolutely buck broken
Local archive will be gotten shortly


The title is:

BuT tAnKs ArE oUtDaTeD bEcAusE dRoNeS!1

Technically this should be an easy W for him. I am curious how he will fuck this up. Already listening to it, he is glazing the western tanks hard though.
 
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