• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    Hopefully, Ukraine has drones waiting to take out any Russian…or heck, American, oil freighters in the region. Trump is a traitor, and any military or civilian forces who obeys his will, are also traitors. He has ignored Congress, declaring wars and deciding international relations without our authority.

    He and his kind are Dogey Confederates, and have renounced being American by their actions.

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      1 hour ago

      That raises an interesting logistics question - is it worth making cheaper per unit naval drones, or better to just scale up quadcopters and focus on attacking oil production?

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        Probably a case of diminishing returns. There is only so many observation and attack units in a given theater that you can deploy, before the enemy starts catching onto the idea of what your strategy is, what numbers you can field, and begin placing assets of their own.

        Personally, I think the ratio should be higher for quadcopters and other land-oriented drone units. The ocean is big and usually empty, with the odd concentration of highly valuable targets. If I were to decide how to approach things, I would make the naval drones relatively few, high quality, and stealthy, interdicting key zones of travel and transit. Land territories have to deal with much greater randomness, so you need a greater mix of disposable assets.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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      Till after the midterms. lol. I mean really it’s about 1 day’s worth of usage by the US. Mostly this is about getting a cash infusion for Puti’s war against Ukraine. smh. Remember those signs from MAGA, “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat.” ? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    if Putin is USA president does that make AMeircans Russians now?

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        1 day ago

        Hey, no shame in trying to unterstand your enemy. Since it’s been written by a ghostwriter it might even contain coherent sentences.

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          22 hours ago

          Yea, I’ve read Mein Kampf (not in public though) to see what I was missing.

          Spoiler

          I didn’t miss anything, he’s an incoherent megalomaniac idiot.

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            56 minutes ago

            It’s somewhere in my parents basement. My dad has read it for that reason. I would feel dirty just opening the book lol

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          23 hours ago

          I used that book cover to hide my porn magazines but people looked at me like I was viewing porn in public!

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      22 hours ago

      This was the first thing that came to mind. Then I thought, Ukraine is going to get blamed anyway, I hope they can keep that boat from making the trip one way or another

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    1 day ago

    Send Western Union additional $10M for transfer fee. Then go buy $50M in Apple Gift cards and send them numbers to my tech support guy Sanjay. The oil is coming soon.

      • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, raise the price by dollars then make the worst deal possible to give a few cent discount and expects everyone to applaud this genius move.

        If bad fuel gets into vehicles and they stall, some stations get shut down and prices rise because of local shortages and people everywhere else panic buying making things worse.

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    1 day ago

    Absolutely no one on Earth could have predicted this outcome. We’re all truly shocked and appalled.