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mircea_popescu: the
tikrit fucking offensive. if you actually had the means to do an embargo on russia, would you announce it in advance ? if you had the actual men and materiel to take as much as an ozarks farm, would you announce it in advance ? etfc.
mircea_popescu: then they run into actually trained actual men, and "o noes, snipers!!!" => collapsing
tikrit "offensive" and "we're still two weeking mosul year and a half later" because three dudes didn't feel like speaking english that time.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol at usg online redo of
tikrit offensive. lemme guess, they got a bunch of merceniaries
mats: they did retake
tikrit, but that's not rly a win... just less of a loss
mircea_popescu: anyway - i welcome the antivirus-based new gestapo. it will doubtlessly work as well as the new us model army, seen at the muchly trumpeted, quickly forgotten
tikrit offensive.
mircea_popescu: wake me up when your imperial/european drill bits produced a robot that routed the usg at
tikrit.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly counterfactual. the us is fighting the largest battle of a generation, fails to get ANY soldiers over at
tikrit.
mircea_popescu: Birdman yeah they've been blaring it out of all horns for a coupla days now. it makes a stark contrast to how quiet they'll be about the end results of this yet-another GTO (glorious
tikrit offensive).
mircea_popescu: the entire decapitation of gavin thing, with its attendant disbelief on the enemy side and misallocation of resources/misinvestment of assets in dead pockets was such a major defeat for the usg, "the
tikrit offensive"'s nothing compared.
mats: meanwhile the west is spinning the absolute ruin of
Tikrit as some kind of win against IS
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, they bought isis the weapons and then they bought isis the meatsacks to practice shooting round
tikrit.
assbot: ISTANBUL: Operation to retake
Tikrit from Islamic State stalled by heavy casualties, discord | Iraq | McClatchy DC ... (
http://bit.ly/1HcZXoe )
mircea_popescu: anyway, the recently failed megaoffensive on
tikrit produced from what i hear a good few thousands prisoners
BingoBoingo maybe surprisingly would still be willing to carry a rifle to
tikrit in USia's name. Just since USia didn't accept my flirtations last time if they take me this time I want to pick the rifle.
mircea_popescu: to properly grok how rich the triumvir was : he could afford to pay for ~18 million usians to go fight for
tikrit.
assbot: Iraq city of
Tikrit falls to ISIL fighters - Middle East - Al Jazeera English