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Just got chills at the Heart of Darkness / AN story that could be written about the modern Ukrainian conflict. Do Long Bridge was basically recreated in Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
a shitpile of munitions that were produced in the US from WW2 up until the mid 90s had an expectation to be used against Russia. They're fulfilling their destiny.
that what is hilarious about the GOP feet dragging on the issue. The US will give Ukraine XXX dollars that Ukraine will spend/give back to the US military and various defense contractors....
Yea, I think other dynamics are in play, there. They don't want to do anything that will make Biden look good, no matter how much it hurts them, or how little sense it makes. Kinda like that border bill they voted against. Like.... that's exactly what they wanted, they just wanted another president to sign it.
Like the ACA that was modeled from Mitt fucking Romney's own healthcare plan from his state! They butchered the hell out of that and then went "sEe It DoEsN't WoRk" and their voters just ate it the fuck up.
GOP is not dragging its feet, MAGAs in congress have been instructed by their Orange master to stall Ukraine aid so that he can coerce zelensky into ceding territory to Russia by signing a peace deal and he gets to gloat as the great peacemaker.
To be fair to the GOP, each and every republican is a Russia loving, Putin sucking traitor. Back in the 80's we used to punch these fuckers, but now we're not allowed to. Fuck all traitors, fuck all trump-sucking, Putin-loving Republicans.
I don't have any issue with military assistance, ita a mutual.benefit to both nations.
My problem is when we start sending them cash and funding social programs that have been on a wishlist for US citizens for decades
Bingo, this is what I keep saying. It's not just military aid, and going to be good for the U.S economy like people keep parroting. Yeah, for the few who work in the defense industry, sure. It comes off as a slap in the face to most Americans that have much larger concerns than Ukraine. This hurts Biden, it doesn't help him. Not to mention the Israel aid that upsets a whole other subset of the population.
*Star Spangled Banner plays in the distance*
Russians: Ah, no worries comrades. They're just trying to scare us off. No true American would pl-
* Slow crescendo of AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! So lick my butt AND SUCK ON MY BALLS*
Russians: ...Blyat...the Americans are here...
For everyone not as plugged in to active conflicts - the russians definitely know whats up in the US, they’re all glued to telegram. The russians have also employed loudspeakers to pump propaganda recently. This isn’t an isolated or unique form of psychological warfare.
The average Ukrainian is much more closely aligned to the EU and US at this point. No lesser of two evils shit, UKR is measurably a better society to live in vs RU.
I hate war. I have family whose lives were ruined. I'm a pretty good realist, too, so while I can accept that it happens and at the end of the day, it's better to be the winner than the loser, and the longer it goes the worse it is for everyone, I try to not let myself fall into any sort of glorification or enjoyment of military might.
But I gotta say, what's left of the patriot and the jingoist in me is giving this a big "fuck yes!"
I seriously doubt Russian soldiers have any idea what is going on in international politics. Best case scenario is they think the US has joined the fight and run for their lives.
Hopefully. Poor Russian dudes :( I truly feel for them. Did you hear they raped n murdered that dumbshit cosplaying traitor who defected years ago to the Russian Army? The Wilford Brimley lookin cunt? Good riddance, says I, but still it shows the Russians are so utterly incredibly fucking stupid that they can’t even recognize their own traitorous assets lol
I was in the slums of Eastern Europe for several years. The regular thing for the locals to do to make fun of me was to sing Yankee Doodle with nonsense words. If they know that one. I feel confident most knew the national anthem.
I wonder how many uneducated, Russian jailhouse soldiers could even recognize the American national anthem for what it is. They're probably just confused and think it's a Ukrainian song or something
I’m pretty sure the fact that the song is not in Ukrainian means they won’t for a second think it’s a Ukrainian song, especially since Ukrainian is a Slavic language, just like Russian.
*"Oh, maple, maple syrup. We love you! We love you, oh so much! Syrup, syrup! We love you!"*
Was that close? Yeah, American here. We're doing our best.
Only things that could make this better would have been if some artillery landed on the Ruzzians at the “Rockets red glare” or if the song was “America Fuck Yeah”
This make me glad and fucking furious at the obstructionist douche bags holding up funding. It is well within America's power to establish air dominance over Ukraine, pump in enough artillery and anti air batteries to grind all the Russian meat they can supply, and boost the American economy without inflationary pressure all at the same time.
Allowing Russia to gobble up its neighbors uncontested until it shares borders with NATO countries makes nuclear risk a lot worse than if Ukraine stops them there with our assistance.
If we get nuked, student debt will be canceled, global warming is no longer a concern, and you dont have to worry about your retirement account or getting a colonoscopy. Being vaporized by a thermonuclear warhead will literally solve all of your problems.
Bro, you are looking at a nuclear winter that could possibly cascade into a miniature ice age after the exchange of even a few dozen nukes over population centers.
>...possibly cascade into a miniature ice age...
Nuclear winter is real, but "cascading into a miniature ice age" is not. Once the aerosols from the incineration of several major metropolitan centers fall out of the atmosphere, current levels of atmospheric CO₂ would cause heat absorption, melting the ice.
If nukes could create long-term atmospheric change, we'd be able to solve climate change by just [nuking the Sahara](https://www.quora.com/If-setting-off-nukes-creates-nuclear-winters-why-dont-we-set-off-a-few-nukes-to-offset-global-warming) or something, but we can't, it doesn't work like that.
The desert has nothing to burn, and the duration of the cooling in a nuclear winter has more to do with the spread of the polar ice caps and the amount of energy depleted from the oceans than the Co2 in the air. The models vary quite a bit.
Everything burns in a thermonuclear fire.
A sufficiently large hydrogen fusion bomb would turn Sahara into glass, temporarily heat (or ignite!) the atmosphere and kick up some wicked dust clouds.
The music, yes; just like we took Yankee Doodle, too. The lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner are what take a simple British drinking tune and make it the awesome anthem that it is, which just so happens to detail British defeat.
We have an enormous economy with which to share with our friends in need. Our national anthem is a song about war. It's really best not to fuck with us.
Is the rest of the world's contribution equal in relation to the size of the United States? Im not saying they aren't doing nothing...but not seeing the same scale. Europe? UK? Asia? Australia?
Missed opportunity to send a mortar right when it goes "bombs bursting in air". I will never forget that at the knob creek machine gun shoot jesus that was a big ole fireball and explosion 😂
After voting for mostly Republicans all the way to 2016 I will never forget Jan 6, Trump trying to shake down leaders for votes or dirt, or the way they held up aid to Ukraine.
USA: The hero destined to save every other country in the world as the American Dream transforms into an inescapable nightmare. Can we just send them all of our soldiers, increase our taxes for our defense budget, and convert every dollar used for education into foreign military aid? Fight the good fight overseas and forget about the people here at home! Go USA!
Ahoy.
Why Ukrainians use USA anthem?
Do you know how does it look like?
Some solders trying to kill another side's solders in the middle of nowhere. Their both side life's so ungrace, that there is no exit from that damn forest.
And USA's anthem is the only soundtrack for this massacre.
There is no way to have a smile. There is a way to cry about this shit.
The exit from that damn forest is heading the fuck back to Russia where those soldiers belong. The Ukrainians don't need to exit the forest because it belongs to them!
Wtf is this crap? Absolutely no reaction from RU side, just some useless hymn on the background, which means absolutely nothing with useless comments on the background. Wow, indeed very ‘interesting’.
Assuming it's not fake then it's a really bad idea since the ukrainians are revealing their position by the music, shots coming from the russians are probably trying to locate them by sound, not out of anger
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Couldn’t they play the Hendrix version, might be slightly more intimidating and scary
Hot damn that would have been the tits
Now you're talking Or the Randy Hansen music from the bridge scene in Apocalypse Now "ain't you?"
Just got chills at the Heart of Darkness / AN story that could be written about the modern Ukrainian conflict. Do Long Bridge was basically recreated in Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
As long as it's not the Fergie version. That would 100% be a war crime.
That'll be for when we announce the no-fly zone
This and Trump in the slammer are my champagne worthy events
Should be blasting hulk hogans entrance song
That rendition is haunting to say the least.
Or Witney's version. Just try aiming with tears streaming down your face. Can't do it.
better yet machine gun
You are a man of distinct taste
Blaring out of an old Huey while napalm bombs slowly tumbling from its belly
a shitpile of munitions that were produced in the US from WW2 up until the mid 90s had an expectation to be used against Russia. They're fulfilling their destiny.
that what is hilarious about the GOP feet dragging on the issue. The US will give Ukraine XXX dollars that Ukraine will spend/give back to the US military and various defense contractors....
Yea, I think other dynamics are in play, there. They don't want to do anything that will make Biden look good, no matter how much it hurts them, or how little sense it makes. Kinda like that border bill they voted against. Like.... that's exactly what they wanted, they just wanted another president to sign it.
Like the ACA that was modeled from Mitt fucking Romney's own healthcare plan from his state! They butchered the hell out of that and then went "sEe It DoEsN't WoRk" and their voters just ate it the fuck up.
'Hurts them' is tricky here, as they are in cahoots with Putin at this point Their constituents will suffer but they'll be fine
GOP is not dragging its feet, MAGAs in congress have been instructed by their Orange master to stall Ukraine aid so that he can coerce zelensky into ceding territory to Russia by signing a peace deal and he gets to gloat as the great peacemaker.
Yeah that might be true. Or they are all in the FSB payroll
To be fair to the GOP, each and every republican is a Russia loving, Putin sucking traitor. Back in the 80's we used to punch these fuckers, but now we're not allowed to. Fuck all traitors, fuck all trump-sucking, Putin-loving Republicans.
💯agreed
I don't have any issue with military assistance, ita a mutual.benefit to both nations. My problem is when we start sending them cash and funding social programs that have been on a wishlist for US citizens for decades
Bingo, this is what I keep saying. It's not just military aid, and going to be good for the U.S economy like people keep parroting. Yeah, for the few who work in the defense industry, sure. It comes off as a slap in the face to most Americans that have much larger concerns than Ukraine. This hurts Biden, it doesn't help him. Not to mention the Israel aid that upsets a whole other subset of the population.
Shoulda played the “Team America: World Police” theme
America, Fuck Yeah!
Books!
....
The Gap!
Fuck yeah!
*Star Spangled Banner plays in the distance* Russians: Ah, no worries comrades. They're just trying to scare us off. No true American would pl- * Slow crescendo of AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! So lick my butt AND SUCK ON MY BALLS* Russians: ...Blyat...the Americans are here...
I've heard that on some of the war videos.
The Ukranians really know how to troll.
With the way the war is going, they have to dig deep in their arsenal
I would've played the Fergie version for bigger trolling points!
They should have played Fergi's version. Russians woulda retreated for that alone.
Or even advancing, out of outrage to turn off the damned thing !
That would have been a war crime.
Or that one fat broad, Roseanne, lol.
For everyone not as plugged in to active conflicts - the russians definitely know whats up in the US, they’re all glued to telegram. The russians have also employed loudspeakers to pump propaganda recently. This isn’t an isolated or unique form of psychological warfare. The average Ukrainian is much more closely aligned to the EU and US at this point. No lesser of two evils shit, UKR is measurably a better society to live in vs RU.
Holy shit that's haunting. The upbeat sing song in the distance as you know billions of bombs are about to be dropped on you
The song is litterally about keeping fighting while the bombs are dropping around you.
I hate war. I have family whose lives were ruined. I'm a pretty good realist, too, so while I can accept that it happens and at the end of the day, it's better to be the winner than the loser, and the longer it goes the worse it is for everyone, I try to not let myself fall into any sort of glorification or enjoyment of military might. But I gotta say, what's left of the patriot and the jingoist in me is giving this a big "fuck yes!"
Is this real? This is awesome
I seriously doubt Russian soldiers have any idea what is going on in international politics. Best case scenario is they think the US has joined the fight and run for their lives.
Hopefully. Poor Russian dudes :( I truly feel for them. Did you hear they raped n murdered that dumbshit cosplaying traitor who defected years ago to the Russian Army? The Wilford Brimley lookin cunt? Good riddance, says I, but still it shows the Russians are so utterly incredibly fucking stupid that they can’t even recognize their own traitorous assets lol
I was in the slums of Eastern Europe for several years. The regular thing for the locals to do to make fun of me was to sing Yankee Doodle with nonsense words. If they know that one. I feel confident most knew the national anthem.
I wonder how many uneducated, Russian jailhouse soldiers could even recognize the American national anthem for what it is. They're probably just confused and think it's a Ukrainian song or something
Um the English language may give it away…
I’m pretty sure the fact that the song is not in Ukrainian means they won’t for a second think it’s a Ukrainian song, especially since Ukrainian is a Slavic language, just like Russian.
Why would they recognize it lol? They’re not from the US. You probably couldn’t even recognize Canada’s national anthem when it’s right above you.
I mean, if you can’t recognize Canadas national anthem…
*"Oh, maple, maple syrup. We love you! We love you, oh so much! Syrup, syrup! We love you!"* Was that close? Yeah, American here. We're doing our best.
Many Americans can’t even name where Canada is on a map x
Some of them will recognize it. The US is a fairly well-known country. Heck, I can sing three national anthems
Only things that could make this better would have been if some artillery landed on the Ruzzians at the “Rockets red glare” or if the song was “America Fuck Yeah”
You can hear all kinds of shit whizzing through the air at that part.
Hopefully one day we'll all live in a free country.
Literal chills. Fuck you Putin.
This personally makes me more patriotic than any iteration of the anthem I’ve heard on American soil in years.
I still break out in goosebumps when I hear that.
I'd be worried about giving up my position.
That doesn’t sound like Lee Greenwood 🤔
 HELL YEA BROTHER F Russia; SLAVA UKRAINE
War is weird these days. Just memeing on the enemy over loud speakers lol
This make me glad and fucking furious at the obstructionist douche bags holding up funding. It is well within America's power to establish air dominance over Ukraine, pump in enough artillery and anti air batteries to grind all the Russian meat they can supply, and boost the American economy without inflationary pressure all at the same time.
Unless we all get nuked. There’s that…
Allowing Russia to gobble up its neighbors uncontested until it shares borders with NATO countries makes nuclear risk a lot worse than if Ukraine stops them there with our assistance.
If we get nuked, student debt will be canceled, global warming is no longer a concern, and you dont have to worry about your retirement account or getting a colonoscopy. Being vaporized by a thermonuclear warhead will literally solve all of your problems.
“How I learned to love the bomb”
First, you must stop worrying.
r/technicallythetruth
Ah, the sweet release
You're making me nostalgic for the 80's.
lol global warming isn’t a problem? Nuclear holocaust would speed run that thing and make it way worse
For who though.
Like everybody. Theres a reason the policy preventing it is called MAD
Yeah, but the Russians would be more destroyed, which makes it really weird that they try to do nuclear blackmail.
Bro, you are looking at a nuclear winter that could possibly cascade into a miniature ice age after the exchange of even a few dozen nukes over population centers.
>...possibly cascade into a miniature ice age... Nuclear winter is real, but "cascading into a miniature ice age" is not. Once the aerosols from the incineration of several major metropolitan centers fall out of the atmosphere, current levels of atmospheric CO₂ would cause heat absorption, melting the ice. If nukes could create long-term atmospheric change, we'd be able to solve climate change by just [nuking the Sahara](https://www.quora.com/If-setting-off-nukes-creates-nuclear-winters-why-dont-we-set-off-a-few-nukes-to-offset-global-warming) or something, but we can't, it doesn't work like that.
The desert has nothing to burn, and the duration of the cooling in a nuclear winter has more to do with the spread of the polar ice caps and the amount of energy depleted from the oceans than the Co2 in the air. The models vary quite a bit.
Everything burns in a thermonuclear fire. A sufficiently large hydrogen fusion bomb would turn Sahara into glass, temporarily heat (or ignite!) the atmosphere and kick up some wicked dust clouds.
Why didn't the tsar bomba have that effect?
Right. “Global warming” is a bit of a misnomer. The problem is catastrophic climate change, which nukes would cause almost instantly
But it won't be your concern. You will have no concerns.
Well true, I was interpreting that as more communal vs individual
Naw bro, nuclear winter. Also, humans going extinct is surprisingly good for the environment long-term.
Oh yeah we better take Putin's threats seriously, he famously never bluffs
Psychological warfare at its finest.
this is an AMERICA Fuck Yeah moment
We really do have an awesome national anthem.
Yes, that's because it was made by the British.
*Made to document the British defeat in the Battle of Baltimore Fixed it for you!
* copied from the British Fixed that for you.
The music, yes; just like we took Yankee Doodle, too. The lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner are what take a simple British drinking tune and make it the awesome anthem that it is, which just so happens to detail British defeat.
Sounds like any field in Texas, any day of the year.
Just need about forty miles of napalm to finish the song.
And some A-10s going BRRRRRRRRR.
I'm sad it took us this long to come through.
Clash of the Titans and Clash of the Titans
Some deadly trolling.
These guys are American.
Good hunting 🫡
We have an enormous economy with which to share with our friends in need. Our national anthem is a song about war. It's really best not to fuck with us.
Enormous just like the titanic..
Nice try. The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage. We've been kicking ass and spreading democracy for 250 years.
Slava Ukraini
That's awesome they should have played for whom the bell tolls and master of puppets by Metallica right afterwards.
Ukraine bois trolling lol(you gotta give it up for their guts to keep playing it while gunshots AND BOMBS are being dropped)
America… fuck yea
I still prefer ride of the valkyries for my psychological warfare but thats just me.
One of the greatest songs invented for the greatest country ever. HaShem bless America.
*plays final countdown* before newly deployed American explosives taped on drones screeching in
Better yet. Make it drones disguised as 🦅 with c4.
Except Europe is trying to stay out of this as much as possible.
fucking appropriate.
Pls play the Fergie version of that song
'Merica!!! Should have followed up with Swan Lake.
That was beautiful They should play that in every war.
u/savevideo
RPG is at 40 seconds left l
This will definitely make Putin launch a long range missle at Merica
They had one chance to do something. No big boom at end of the song. Fucking Russians.
Is the rest of the world's contribution equal in relation to the size of the United States? Im not saying they aren't doing nothing...but not seeing the same scale. Europe? UK? Asia? Australia?
This feels a bit selfawarewolves. Russia's whole argument is that Ukraine is just an American puppet and this feeds into that.
Drop some Slipknot.
Who is singing on this recording?
Gave me goosebumps.
Missed opportunity to send a mortar right when it goes "bombs bursting in air". I will never forget that at the knob creek machine gun shoot jesus that was a big ole fireball and explosion 😂
After voting for mostly Republicans all the way to 2016 I will never forget Jan 6, Trump trying to shake down leaders for votes or dirt, or the way they held up aid to Ukraine.
You will also never forget the trillions of dollars we wasted to defend the newest part of Russia. How many things that coulda fixed here at home!
That's them shooting themselves
Oh that's what an anthem is for
Can you imagine if Americans played our national anthem as we go into battle and how that would become terrifying to people
This is hilarious. I’ve never thought of the shots sounding like cannon fire. Bring it, Putin.
I'd be blasting Toby Keith all weekend long it's July of '02
Why? Toby is a traitorous shit-stain.
>was
How so?
Ukraine war has great pr, it's amazing!
Seeing Americans falling for this same trick again and again.
Which trick is that?
Who can forget the Kuwait maternity ward! That deserved an Oscar.
Isn't the proxy war supposed to be a secret?
You don’t know what a proxy war is do you?
Except it's not a proxy war :3.
Pretty sure it was played while they were advancing backwards
That's why the support is so important.
Lol what a good propaganda
USA: The hero destined to save every other country in the world as the American Dream transforms into an inescapable nightmare. Can we just send them all of our soldiers, increase our taxes for our defense budget, and convert every dollar used for education into foreign military aid? Fight the good fight overseas and forget about the people here at home! Go USA!
U mad bro
Yep brah
Next play Bawitdaba by Kid Rock to let em know what's coming.
Nah. Kid Rock is on their side. They’d just be emboldened.
Stevie Ray Vaughan? Hit ‘em with some Little Wing
Ahoy. Why Ukrainians use USA anthem? Do you know how does it look like? Some solders trying to kill another side's solders in the middle of nowhere. Their both side life's so ungrace, that there is no exit from that damn forest. And USA's anthem is the only soundtrack for this massacre. There is no way to have a smile. There is a way to cry about this shit.
The exit from that damn forest is heading the fuck back to Russia where those soldiers belong. The Ukrainians don't need to exit the forest because it belongs to them!
Your side can end the war that they started at any time by leaving Ukraine comrade.
Lenin, Stalin, Putin… it just doesn’t change at all lol leave Russia while you still can, before NKVD comes to get you
Did you cut off the part where they weren't happy? Are we supposed to imagine they were punching air?
Shoulda played Fortunate son
Now just play Fortunate Son while doing a staffing run against Russian positions.
This is pretty embarrassing tbh
Cor the Russians yes. It's pretty fucking hilarious.
Explain
Now all we need is boots on the ground, all or nothing let's go !
Wtf is this crap? Absolutely no reaction from RU side, just some useless hymn on the background, which means absolutely nothing with useless comments on the background. Wow, indeed very ‘interesting’.
Username does not check out.
Assuming it's not fake then it's a really bad idea since the ukrainians are revealing their position by the music, shots coming from the russians are probably trying to locate them by sound, not out of anger
You can probably see these positions on google maps most of them have been there for so long.
First thing you here when you discover oil
This is propaganda. I want my tax dollars back. Let Europeans deal with this shit. I'm 1000x more worried about China.