ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]

This is kind of a nothing article. Like, obviously battleships built in the 40s would be pretty worthless in a peer/near-peer war even if they were in perfect working order. Even at the end of WW2 the utility of battleships was limited, and now missiles out-range their guns by 2 orders of magnitude.

Even the US knows it though, they’re all retired museum ships now. They were kept around as long as they were because some politicians had the same fixation on needing them for shore bombardment as they have for keeping low-speed flying bathtubs around for close air support.

Give me USS Liberty or give me death

That’s as much a matter of isolating the person as shrinking the yield

The propaganda ***is *** the part that cares, it’s material policy that ignores you completely

My one regret in not having children is that I won’t possibly exist in the Gestalt consciousness of the saviour of humanity, the God Emperor Leto II Atreides

That is like 5% the weight of the Codex Gigas

I’m weary of applying respectability standards anywhere, especially with something like funeral practices, but it does take real effort not to cringe at this

Biden packs the court but it’s for this bullshit

Jair Bolsonaro eat your heart out

Sure we might be a total irrelevance globally, but at least we get to be a microcosm for the subsumption of the British Empire into the American one

Just one more republic and they’ll be good I swear

We need somebody who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t condemn Hamas for dinner.

It hasn’t been ethnically cleansed enough yet for them I guess

Pretty sure any new teams joining has to be signed off by at least like, 50 people with ‘von’ in their name

Call it Bench Disappearo

See it? Not sure.

Definitely going to happen though.

German Rearmament Garbage OPSEC

21st century version of compromising encryption by signing off every message with “Heil Hitler”.

Well they didn’t officially send US uniformed troops to Ukraine, which might have been the very worst possible way since it would have meant either tens of thousands of coffins heading back or global nuclear holocaust

It’s only spent ~107 years as a unified country and caused so much of the world’s problems. Hell the most unified was when it included Austria, which was a 100% Nazi time period. 1991 was absolutely the farce to 1871’s tragedy.

It’s okay though cause we laundered it through the slightly less unpopular aid to Azov