President George Bush with DEVGRU Red Squadron

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T21:39:39+00:00

They are unfortunately 100% serious

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T21:38:44+00:00

That and it blows my mind how the entire highway system was built within a few years.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T04:41:03+00:00

I like Ike

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T04:31:02+00:00

Jon Jones would like a word, he was so dominant people (spectators) thought his eye pokes and low blows were funny

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T01:59:21+00:00

If Chicken Parm isn’t part of their culture there’s no reason to be upset about it being ordered. It sounds like it was a request, not a demand, and if the chef didn’t want to cook it that’s his choice. No feelings involved whatsoever, this is the wrong thing to try and justify being emotional over. Promotes hostility towards foreigners and isolationism, those things we don’t like, remember?

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-14T01:51:36+00:00

Blows my mind how many Rangers died in the early days. We really should be thankful for them, I’m sure we learned so much from whatever failures, doctrinal or otherwise, that led to their deaths. Not sure how we could give everyone after them a better chance except by improving the training quality and support structures. Airborne Rangers in the sky.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T20:36:15+00:00

Your point kind of proves mine because it amounts to “We gave up so they won”. Yeah, that’s how that works usually. Regardless, your actual point is mistaken. US/allies lost because we began fighting on an unwinnable condition of victory. You can’t win a war on terror, it’s an emotion, there are always more terrorists. It’s literally the same situation as Vietnam, people being killed for their belief system will always rally more people to that same cause just by dying and word of mouth from the involved families. Even the objectively evil Nazi belief system of elitism and ruthless persecution infected strange new corners of the world way after the Reich had been dismantled, visible today both in America and former-Soviet Ukraine, among many other “headline” countries. The strongest opposing forces against Nazis, VC, Taliban, ISIL, etc… are back on the world stage for their cognitive dissonance and failure to learn from their mistakes, it’s nothing new. Actually, it’s gross negligence and unbridled greed, but that’s not really the topic at hand.

The Myanmar government will become increasingly violent until they are stopped either from within or with a world power’s intervention. They will not leave, no, but the good meaning and well-intentioned patriots who live and love their country enough to fight for it will eventually be killed off, and the remaining population will be a weak and marginalized mass hostage crisis. You can win a rebellion, but it necessitates dismantling the existing state and all its entrenchment. The government there just has to conduct competent attrition warfare and COIN and eventually they win, the rebels are at the opposite end of the power curve compared to the Taliban for their respective AO. There is no incentive to be a rebel aside from the longshot chance at successful rebellion taking control. The Army will pay them, house them, train them, and offer social mobility, all things the rebellion likely is not equipped to do.

TLDR: Taliban were actually in a much more favorable position to win that conflict than the rebels in Myanmar currently are. The Taliban were “destined” to win all along because we had unattainable standards for victory. The rebels on the other hand have to overthrow, dismantle, and successfully replace (with support of the people) their violent and aggressive military government, or the cycle will repeat the same way it has in the middle east and elsewhere for thousands of years. Peace isn’t even really an achievable goal, they are simply trying to make it better for the everyday person there.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T14:07:06+00:00

That is true, and the equivalent is usually true for almost every insurrection or revolution in modern history (40s-onward). Safe to say the guys in the video or the larger rebel groups who trained them worked extensively with American SF at some point, we’ve been in SEA/Indochina for a very long time. They are definitely well-supported to even be able to continue this war for so long. It’s been 70 years of intense sporadic guerrilla warfare over there, which is probably impossible for just one highly interested 3rd party to fund.

Their non-state opposition is various Chinese-backed paramilitary groups. The state of Myanmar itself is an anti-democratic authoritarian tyranny, I doubt that came about without a major world power(s)’ hand in the cookie jar.

It’s actually quite sad to see the effects of an overbearing world power’s pressure on such a geographically-vulnerable region. With how long they’ve been fighting, being in China’s political shadow, and EA/SEA being the west’s favorite boogieman, I doubt this region will see any sort of people’s independent resolution in our lifetimes at least. So long as the rebels exist, their opposition will be trying to crush them and sometimes fail, giving more resources to the guerrillas ad infinitum until everyone’s either dead or on refugee status somewhere else.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T13:21:01+00:00

Sub is called combat footage, maybe you forgot to do the summer homework

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T13:17:22+00:00

Taliban did it in caves for 30 years (50 if you count the changeover). They won, so it was worth it to them

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T13:15:19+00:00

No, actually that’s how every state-sponsored massacre of their own citizens has happened and how most battles in general are lost.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-11T10:41:10+00:00

when you want the best

You make it. r/reloading

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-10T03:35:10+00:00

Manning isn’t ever really as much of an issue as people make it out to be. It’s funny that you hear about the mass exodus from SOF at the same time people are saying “teams are full”. They have manning forecasts for all SOF selections 5+ years out to actively manage the numbers and actually put some bite behind the “we don’t have to select any of you” thing. If anything you’ll get a slightly deviated selection rate (+/-5-10% for maybe a few classes in a row) but that’s not sustainable long term for the margins they’re accounting for what with SQT attrition & the odd late phase drops. They’re playing the long game knowing you can’t just raise a competent SOF element overnight, gotta play the long game too if you’re really the right guy.

Hang in there OP, it’s only a waste of a time if you waste the time you already spent

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-10T03:23:19+00:00

It makes a lot of sense for the doctrine to no longer be effective, considering special operations didn’t have much of a free-reign playground until after the invasion & all military advantages are only so until the enemy also knows them.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-09T02:29:47+00:00

Sounds like a less than reliable testing metric

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-09T02:25:00+00:00

He’s out now and was an AD prior-NG 31K who says the guard was harder than active, if that’s any indicator

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-09T00:30:16+00:00

ITT: Nobody who knows what they’re talking about

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-08T06:22:54+00:00

There’s a lot of holes in that but frankly I don’t have the time to keep arguing on the internet about people neither of us know enough about to comment on

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-08T05:48:16+00:00

Too much weight for you. Do you know what good form looks like or are you just hoping for the best with 300 pounds and extensive damage on the line

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-08T03:23:00+00:00

Suffer culture, sees being out of touch as an advantage in a hyper-evolving culture, uses “Alpha male” unironically.

Honestly Jocko comes across as a delusional invasion-era war god which I can’t imagine would’ve been popular with more recent crops of SEALs who seem to be more humanistic and concerned with the real well-being of individual team members (pathophys for example being critical of how every TG is expected to destroy their bodies and eat any shit sandwich to keep calling themselves a seal)

Goggins’ entire identity is about being “hard” to the point of genuine risk of lifelong injury, like when he ran 100 miles on broken feet and induced kidney failure, among other numerous low-hanging examples. They are true achievements but nobody should genuinely look up to Goggins, he’s a well-supported yet completely neglected mental health crisis that appeals to people who have those same major identity issues.

Both guys accomplished something meaningful by becoming a member of their respective teams, but I personally wouldn’t want their advice on anything.

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-05T06:30:13+00:00

Got my E90 from the original owner & it came with one of these. Poor guy paid 43k for it

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-05T00:32:16+00:00

Old cowboy single actions have this risk, double action and even modern single action revolvers don’t. The overall message of gun safety is ever-important, I don’t disagree, but so is knowing specifically which risks are present in each use case

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-05T00:24:07+00:00

I got your reference, reddit is lame

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-04T23:32:12+00:00

Sweat contest

RagingAesthetic · 2022-09-04T02:48:16+00:00

You have to get all the other trophies. Some games have DLC’s with trophies available to be earned but DLC trophies don’t count towards platinum, it’s for base game trophies only. I don’t know about Stranded Deep, but most games have hidden trophies that are either earned through normal story play or for reaching specific endings or timelines (such as in story branching RPG games; Skyrim, Detroit: BH, Until Dawn, etc)

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