Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

[Bacle]

Then like Germany all the Russian ethnic minorities will likely be evicted because no one wants russian minorities to be used as a pretext for invasion again.

Just like the germans before them.

This might unironically be the only move the Baltics could make that would ensure the Russian-minority excuse cannot be used on them.

It's not like there aren't records of who was moved into the country by the USSR's leadership, and this would amount to a long overdue illegal immigration matter finally be recitified.

 

[bintananth]

I will know more about the war then literally everyone on here.
At all times.

The US is more ready to fight China and Russia then people think.
Mainly because unlike both of those we actually have experience

Nice appeal to authority there. Forgive me for being skeptical.

No one is ever properly prepared to fight the war they just entered.

 

[Cherico]

Nice appeal to authority there. Forgive me for being skeptical.

No one is ever properly prepared to fight the war they just entered.

currently we have all decided to fight to the very last Ukranian.

 

[Zachowon]

Nice appeal to authority there. Forgive me for being skeptical.

No one is ever properly prepared to fight the war they just entered.

Name a time in recent history the US military has been on the backfoot and lost battles or wars without politics causing us to lose

 

[Bacle]

Name a time in recent history the US military has been on the backfoot and lost battles or wars without politics causing us to lose

How recent you want to get, because Somalia wasn't that long ago.

Though I guess that could count as politics causing us to lose, because we pulled out the Abram's platoon we had had in country for a while (which the Somali warlord and gangs were actually scared of more than are helo's), and Clinton denied the mission AC-130 topcover.

I guarantee if that mission had been given AC-130 topcover and an Abram's escort, it would have been far less of a shit show.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Name a time in recent history the US military has been on the backfoot and lost battles or wars without politics causing us to lose

You might as well ask for a time in recent history when the US military has been on the backfoot without any combat involved. War is politics by another means, there is no such thing as war without politics.

 

[Blasterbot]

Name a time in recent history the US military has been on the backfoot and lost battles or wars without politics causing us to lose

literally every war we have fought in modern times has had us hamstringing our military. why do you think politicians would pull their heads out their asses for this hypothetical war? our navy is more concerned with diversity training than combat readiness. our top generals more concerned with understanding white rage than how the top Chinese and Russian leaders think. our diplomatic policies seem designed to drive other countries to strengthen a Chinese power block. when we stumble into whatever conflict lies ahead it is gonna be done poorly and there will be lessons learned at the cost of soldiers lives.

 

[Bear Ribs]

You could also unfortunately reverse the question and ask when the US military has actually shown any success in a real fight against anything that's not a scrubby third world militia.

 

[sillygoose]

I will know more about the war then literally everyone on here.
At all times.

Yes, you come off as an extremely stable war genius

The US is more ready to fight China and Russia then people think.
Mainly because unlike both of those we actually have experience

Right, just because you say so.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

A. Single. Word.

 

[King Krávoka]

A. Single. Word.

As in foot him?

@Mourad Kadri He had a freudian slip and almost said "futanari". Now I don't know what that is I heard a friend mentioning it.

Biden thinks of the USA as the West's answer to Thailand.

 

[bintananth]

Name a time in recent history the US military has been on the backfoot and lost battles or wars without politics causing us to lose

No battle plan survives contact with either politics or the enemy.

 

[Zachowon]

No battle plan survives contact with either politics or the enemy.

Why do you think the US has the besy developed NCO Corps?
That is how the US wins. We take appropriate action in tje absence of orders

 

[Carrot of Truth]

The only other country with an NCO corps that can rival the quality of the US is probably the UK.

 

[bintananth]

Why do you think the US has the besy developed NCO Corps?
That is how the US wins. We take appropriate action in tje absence of orders

At the small scale that works but a Sergeant Major still has to salute a 2nd Lieutenant who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

At the small scale that works but a Sergeant Major still has to salute a 2nd Lieutenant who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

In any war Lietenants who don't listen to their NCO's have a habit of getting fragged.

 

[Zachowon]

At the small scale that works but a Sergeant Major still has to salute a 2nd Lieutenant who doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

A SGM orders around the 2nd LT...just because he salutes the 2LT doesn't mean he gets ordered around by him.
And one doesn't salute in the field.

In any war Lietenants who don't listen to their NCO's have a habit of getting fragged.

Yep.
NCOs know thier jobs better then the officers

 

[Rocinante]

The US couldn't beat a bunch of goat herders with rusty AKs in 20 years.

A war with China or Russia will be UGLY.

And yes, " the politics," caused problems. The same politics will cause the same problems.

The US has a very expensive, and mostly useless military.

 

[bintananth]

In any war Lietenants who don't listen to their NCO's have a habit of getting fragged.

In a sense butterbars are the bearers of bad news and fragging one is just shooting the messenger who has to go with you.

 

[Zachowon]

The US couldn't beat a bunch of goat herders with rusty AKs in 20 years.

A war with China or Russia will be UGLY.

And yes, " the politics," caused problems. The same politics will cause the same problems.

The US has a very expensive, and mostly useless military.

*points towards how the US beat the Taliban so bad they had to go into a nuclear armed country to train and regain support. Points to Iraq were the US were basically let in and still faced and defeated every enemy they encountered*
Totally lost to some goat herders.....

In a sense butterbars are the bearers of bad news and fragging one is just shooting the messenger who has to go with you.

Not what he means.
A 2LT doesn't boss around a SGM.