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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Soviets never did stuff like that because they weren't lucky enough to get Obama-like president in USA.

[Sergarr]

Did the Russian military watch too much of Top Gun or something?

yes

I know it's the usual Cold War style sabre rattling, but let's be serious here, would the Soviets have pulled off something that brazen?

no because teh soviets were PUSSIES unlike the 100% pure ultranationalist ultracitizenist rusmen

Also, I wonder how Trump would react to that kind of stuff?

he would strike a deal with russia

i mean what else he could do

it's not like anyone in the USA military would actually follow his orders to engage or anything

[Orange Wizard]

If Trump actually goes to war with Russia I'll be very upset.

[Helgoland]

Actually, just gimme the VdL/Merkel combo as Vader/Palpatine, and I'll die a happy man.

Spoiler: "In time, you will learn to call me 'Mutti'" (click to show/hide)

Somebody shoot me, because this is the best my life will ever get. I applaud you, Sir.

[Loud Whispers]

I always thought picking a woman for minister of defense was a brilliant move. Any IS fighter killed by our forces will be defeated by a woman. If I understand correctly, they believe they won't go to paradise if defeated by a woman.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Women involvement in the fight against the Islamic State plays a significant role in upsetting ISIS militants' mental state because they fear being killed by a woman will result in them being sent to "hell", one 27-year-old female fighter named Tekoshin told AFP.

"I think [they] were more afraid of us than of the men," she said. "They believe they'll go to hell if they die at a woman's hands."

U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., in an interview with The New York Post in September also referenced that notion when he climed that Jihadists fear being killed by women because under jihadist law they would be denied the "paradise" they were promised in the afterlife, which also includes a God-given 72 virgins.

"These ISIL soldiers apparently believed that if they were killed in battle, they went to paradise as long as they were killed by a man," Royce said. "And these female soldiers were communicating their satisfaction with the fact that they had taken the fight to ISIL and had stopped the advance, turned back the advance — slayed a number of these fighters, who would then run away,"

One female peshmerga fighter, using the pseudonym Arin Mirkan, reportedly killed dozens of ISIS militants on Oct. 5 after blowing herself up in a suicide bombing outside of Kobane.

"I don't know her exact age but she was above 20. She was a fighter from the YPG," a Kurdish official told AFP. "She threw many grenades at ISIS insurgents. After that, she blew herself up,""

"However, it seems that male fighters are unclear about whether dying at the hand of a woman comes with the expected reward.

Women have long been a feature of Kurdish peshmerga forces. Now many from threatened towns and villages are signing up to join all-women units to fend off Isil forces who are threatening to overrun their homeland.

"We are being trained to use snipers, Kalashnikovs, rocket propelled grenades and hand grenades," a woman from the minority Yazidi community told The Telegraph earlier this month in the Sinjar mountain range."

God bless the godless Soviets for having flooded the world with their weapons

If Trump actually goes to war with Russia I'll be very upset.

Donald Trump's foreign policy speech earns praise in Russia

Putin recently called Trump "a brighter person, talented without a doubt." Trump returned the compliment saying: "I like him because he called me a genius. He said Trump is the real leader."

~o.o~

[Baffler]

I always thought picking a woman for minister of defense was a brilliant move. Any IS fighter killed by our forces will be defeated by a woman. If I understand correctly, they believe they won't go to paradise if defeated by a woman.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Women involvement in the fight against the Islamic State plays a significant role in upsetting ISIS militants' mental state because they fear being killed by a woman will result in them being sent to "hell", one 27-year-old female fighter named Tekoshin told AFP.

"I think [they] were more afraid of us than of the men," she said. "They believe they'll go to hell if they die at a woman's hands."

U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., in an interview with The New York Post in September also referenced that notion when he climed that Jihadists fear being killed by women because under jihadist law they would be denied the "paradise" they were promised in the afterlife, which also includes a God-given 72 virgins.

"These ISIL soldiers apparently believed that if they were killed in battle, they went to paradise as long as they were killed by a man," Royce said. "And these female soldiers were communicating their satisfaction with the fact that they had taken the fight to ISIL and had stopped the advance, turned back the advance — slayed a number of these fighters, who would then run away,"

One female peshmerga fighter, using the pseudonym Arin Mirkan, reportedly killed dozens of ISIS militants on Oct. 5 after blowing herself up in a suicide bombing outside of Kobane.

"I don't know her exact age but she was above 20. She was a fighter from the YPG," a Kurdish official told AFP. "She threw many grenades at ISIS insurgents. After that, she blew herself up,""

"However, it seems that male fighters are unclear about whether dying at the hand of a woman comes with the expected reward.

Women have long been a feature of Kurdish peshmerga forces. Now many from threatened towns and villages are signing up to join all-women units to fend off Isil forces who are threatening to overrun their homeland.

"We are being trained to use snipers, Kalashnikovs, rocket propelled grenades and hand grenades," a woman from the minority Yazidi community told The Telegraph earlier this month in the Sinjar mountain range."

God bless the godless Soviets for having flooded the world with their weapons

And God bless ISIS for being a bunch of primitives. If that isn't just propaganda, which I suppose wouldn't surprise me.

[ChairmanPoo]

Of course Putin likes Trump. Jingoist demagoges have to stick together...

[Sergarr]

Of course Putin likes Trump. Jingoist demagoges have to stick together...

Counter-example: Erdogan.

lol that was easy.

no but really, the reason why Putin likes Trump is that Trump single-handedly destroyed USA's political system and that's good because USA is our opponent on the geosphere

also he probably reminds him of Zhirinovsky

[sprinkled chariot]

Who picks the right dictators

The previous dictator. It worked for the Nervan dynasty.

Commodus, yea.

[Orange Wizard]

Yeah but if Aurelius had a vasectomy before he took office that never would have happened.

I'm only half joking.

[Loud Whispers]

Who picks the right dictators

The previous dictator. It worked for the Nervan dynasty.

Once more proving that the EU would be 10000% better if it just reformed the Roman Empire already

[Sergarr]

Who picks the right dictators

The previous dictator. It worked for the Nervan dynasty.

Once more proving that the EU would be 10000% better if it just reformed the Roman Empire already

roman republic >>>>>>>> roman empire

(shots fired)

[Loud Whispers]

roman republic >>>>>>>> roman empire

(shots fired)

*Roman Empire integrates refugee warriors
*Roman Empire crushes its trade rivals and negotiates trade deals with Cathay
*Roman Empire builds walls to enforce its external border
*Roman Empire has powerful military with excellent discipline to maintain peace
*Roman Empire has zero tariffs, combining the power of eagles with the free market to fix muh roads
*Roman Empire understands infrastructure strain and how to maintain stability with bread and circuses
*Roman Empire maintains legitimacy by honouring the gods to ensure good corn harvest, no democracy needed
*Roman Empire supports equal rights to everyone being eligible for slavery
*Roman Empire doesn't bother trying to conquer uncivilized slavs in the east, letting them squat in peace
*Roman Empire teaches everyone Latin and Greek so all speak at least one lingua franca, the Empire is united
*Roman Empire teaches powerful merchant classes to respect the Empire or be tortured to death

[Orange Wizard]

*Roman Empire has zero tariffs, combining the power of eagles with the free market to fix muh roads

Zero tariffs, but they did have a land tax, and later on a fairly primitive income tax. During its expansion, much of Rome's income came from pillaging, sometimes to the point where taxes were unnecessary. This is kinda hard to do in the modern world.
Ironically, the end came alongside decentralised taxation and more powerful nobles/bourgeois.

[Teneb]

Who picks the right dictators

The previous dictator. It worked for the Nervan dynasty.

Once more proving that the EU would be 10000% better if it just reformed the Roman Empire already

roman republic >>>>>>>> roman empire

(shots fired)

It's Res Publica, you barbarian.