WeedReference420

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Sometimes a country's leadership has got to re-learn why you never use mercs unless you have no other option, and hopefully this has been the learning moment for Russia.

It's wild that "Mercenaries obviously have no loyalty and if given enough power will develop their own agendas and undermine you" has been a lesson of war going back to the Bronze Age (or maybe even before) and people still don't learn it

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

I hope the Red Army Choir were performing Tiny Dancer in the background

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

"Putin, putcha surface to air missiles away Putin... I don't wanna be shot down right now Putin..."

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

This is why urban fantasy is cool (excluding the Raytheon part of course)

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I was a Wagner Prigozhin loyalist (and as a mercenary thus presumably fairly nihilistic) and I wasn't in jail or dead I'd probably cut my losses at this point but who knows, maybe he was more inspirational to them than I'm giving him credit for

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chinese cold war foreign policy wildin fr fr

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That does genuinely suck for the Indian space program sadness

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Not a fan of the guy obviously but this goes insanely hard

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I know it's petty but nothing is more satisfying than using smug liberal d i s c o u r s e against them

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's gonna come back with a devil horn made of crash wreckage and a robot arm and call himself Punished "Venom" Prigozhin

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