I get the impression the accusation is aimed at the far more RECENT past.
July 1, 2024 at 6:43 am
eon
First used in WW2. Luftwaffe had a dispenser very like our later one. USAAF had “fragmentation clusters” and “incendiary clusters”, both based on RAF designs.
Originally used as anti-airfield munitions.
clear ether
eon
July 1, 2024 at 10:57 am
Oldarmourer
Apparently Ukraine got tired of russia using ‘dispersed’ munitions on their cities and decided to fire one back to see how they liked it. The media being what it is, the blame was immediately placed on the US for building them before the Ukraine war even started…no mention of russia’s using them first.
Both Russia and Ukraine deployed cluster bombs, according to Human Rights Watch and other such wastrels. Those used by Ukraine were supplied by the USA. When DC decided to supply cluster bombs, it hit the media… and now they’ve been deployed, more media weeping…
russia shot down an ATACMS with a cluster warhead that was targeted at an airfield in crimea.
the debris, including the warhead, fell near a beach full of russian vacationers. because “hey let’s hang out on the beach in a war zone because we’re stupid orcs who have no common sense”
there was no one on that beach important enough for an ATACMS. the S500 experimental missile battery, that they’ve pressed into service because they have nothing else, was half a mile inland from the beach, and they hit it with a 2nd missile on saturday.
I had the pleasure of using that word in a report years ago 🙂
It was the early 80’s, I was Base Duty NCO and in the course of my rounds had to go through all of the barracks to ensure that the buildings and most of the inhabitants would still be there in the morning, maybe even intact.
There was a fairly quiet and surprisingly well behaved party going on in one of the enlisted barracks and while I was checking that nobody was in imminent danger of alcohol poisoning or any other routine occurance when one of the men sitting on a window sill leaned back a little too far (well, maybe ‘leaned’ isn’t the right word but it fits) tore through the screen and dropped two stories onto the only patch of grass within walking distance.
No injuries were apparent but he was sent to the MIR ‘just in case’. When I wrote the report I included “defenestration occured at approximately 2350” which I thought was nice and concise. The Base Chief thought otherwise…it seems that if a superior has to consult a dictionary to decipher your reports that is counted as a ‘not good’ thing 😉
That was the same night I had to follow a blood trail down three hallways and two bathrooms in a different barrack block, tracking an individual who had punched a window…a window with wire reinforcing in the glass…turns out you can’t put the word ‘dumbfuck’ in a report either but it’s accepted better than ‘defenestration’ and you don’t get yelled at for using it because the Base Chief is laughing too hard 😉
July 1, 2024 at 7:26 pm
Bren
Whew! Glad I got out before that, “If they don’t understand it, it’s bad,” rule went into effect. That was easily half of the total sum of words I spoke to command back in the day.
July 1, 2024 at 12:40 pm
John D. Egbert
Actually, Wikipedia is a great place to START your research – – but ONLY to START. It works only if you branch out from there (the footnotes at the end of an article give some good hints) and find at least three other sources in agreement. To take Wiki at face value is an open invitation to disaster . . .
Check the stock prices of the usual suspects and tell me someone isn’t making a boatload of $ on the war. What would happen if the patriot public divested from the entities of the cabal? Use their playbook against them.
We’d save some money, but not as much as many of you think. Do any of you HONESTLY think that the United States military ISN’T going to replace the aged out ordnance that’s laying around?
Failure to give it to somebody who’ll put it to good use just means we have to pay civilian contractors to safely demill it, which they don’t do for free.
Personally, between the options, I’d rather ship it somewhere where it’ll be put to good use.
Yes, we’re still out the actual weapons we’re sending, so it isn’t by any means free.
Shipping costs are much lower than disposal and there’s only so much you can use as EOD training stores. I’ve blown up, remotely dismantled (then blown up), functioned remotely and otherwise kinetically disposed of a lot of TX ordnance and other stores over the years but there was always much more than all the teams in all the country could use for practice simply because we call things ‘unserviceable’ long before they are any sort of hazard while the russians and some others keep artillery shells and other stores lying around until they become unstable enough to function during use. That’s largely because they consider replacing the troops whose mortar or shipboard gun detonated on firing to be more cost effective than rotating their entire stocks.
July 1, 2024 at 9:46 am
Brent Dotson
This comic takes me longer to read than any others; it takes me a few minutes some days to realize that words are included.
ukraine is targeting russian airfields and missile batteries. russia shoots down the missiles, and they fall on beaches full of vacationers because russians don’t have the common sense not to vacation IN A FRAKING WAR ZONE.
I’d say “hey, why not call up the israelis, mabe they could teach you how to shoot stuff down so it doesn’t fall on our civillians” but russia burned that particular bridge last year. calling someone a nazi and inviting in hamas for dinner and an attaboy tends to make the israelis not want to help you.
russia, in return, targets the equivalent of a Home Depot and claims it was a munitions dump.or an apartment building full of retirees and claims it was full of “NATO generals”.
I’m not keeping up with the whole Russia/Ukraine thing. I think both sides are corrupt as hell, and you know lots and lots of the BILLIONS we’re sending them, makes it back into politicians’ pockets. And not just Bidens, and not just Democrats.
Something I recently shared on social media.
A million seconds is 11 days.
A billion seconds is 31.5 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,500 years.
Our national debt is approaching $35 trillion.
No one has offered anything resembling acknowledging this, let alone fixing it.
I understand (but haven’t confirmed) the cost of servicing the national debt is now larger than the cost of national defense… Maybe some banksters need to join various traitors doing the hemp rope dance?
Politicians are corrupt. ALL politicians. The exceptions are so rare as to be miraculous. Therefore, claiming both sides are corrupt is generally a meaningless statement.
Put yourself in the place of the president of Ukraine. You’ve been attacked by a nation that’s basically imprisoned and murdered your people in the past. You need help. What do you do? Where do you stop? Payoffs? Sure. Kickbacks? Why not, if that’s what it takes? Travel the world, begging, accusing, maybe even blackmailing your way to aid that will keep your country free of the yoke of your former oppressors? Is that a bridge too far? At what point do you say to yourself, “Whelp, I guess we’ll have to surrender and allow Russia to occupy us again, because this particular trick is just too much.
Well I’m glad that, so far, I do not have to choose between annihilation by Russia or someone else, besides our own govt., or surrendering to them. Ukraine is being that by the many strikes and loss of people. By the time they don’t have anyone left to fight, whoever takes over will have the whole country to plant as it is thoroughly being ripped up.
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Mari should be careful… She could someone’s eye’s with those.
Would it be worth it if she does?
She could put you in a suffocation hold and possibly smother you… But what a way to go.
So where did cluster bombing civilians come from. Haven’t heard that one yet.
Vet Nam that I know of. Loaded them myself with some help. Not sure about Korea.
I get the impression the accusation is aimed at the far more RECENT past.
First used in WW2. Luftwaffe had a dispenser very like our later one. USAAF had “fragmentation clusters” and “incendiary clusters”, both based on RAF designs.
Originally used as anti-airfield munitions.
clear ether
eon
Apparently Ukraine got tired of russia using ‘dispersed’ munitions on their cities and decided to fire one back to see how they liked it. The media being what it is, the blame was immediately placed on the US for building them before the Ukraine war even started…no mention of russia’s using them first.
Both Russia and Ukraine deployed cluster bombs, according to Human Rights Watch and other such wastrels. Those used by Ukraine were supplied by the USA. When DC decided to supply cluster bombs, it hit the media… and now they’ve been deployed, more media weeping…
russia shot down an ATACMS with a cluster warhead that was targeted at an airfield in crimea.
the debris, including the warhead, fell near a beach full of russian vacationers. because “hey let’s hang out on the beach in a war zone because we’re stupid orcs who have no common sense”
there was no one on that beach important enough for an ATACMS. the S500 experimental missile battery, that they’ve pressed into service because they have nothing else, was half a mile inland from the beach, and they hit it with a 2nd missile on saturday.
That’s kind of where I thought this comic was aimed. Or, mis-aimed, I guess. It saddens me.
She uses those other cabal critters too, we all do…banks, media, effbook…be great to divest them all but of course that trap is part of the plan.
I think very highly of defenestration myself.
Sorry to use Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
I had the pleasure of using that word in a report years ago 🙂
It was the early 80’s, I was Base Duty NCO and in the course of my rounds had to go through all of the barracks to ensure that the buildings and most of the inhabitants would still be there in the morning, maybe even intact.
There was a fairly quiet and surprisingly well behaved party going on in one of the enlisted barracks and while I was checking that nobody was in imminent danger of alcohol poisoning or any other routine occurance when one of the men sitting on a window sill leaned back a little too far (well, maybe ‘leaned’ isn’t the right word but it fits) tore through the screen and dropped two stories onto the only patch of grass within walking distance.
No injuries were apparent but he was sent to the MIR ‘just in case’. When I wrote the report I included “defenestration occured at approximately 2350” which I thought was nice and concise. The Base Chief thought otherwise…it seems that if a superior has to consult a dictionary to decipher your reports that is counted as a ‘not good’ thing 😉
That was the same night I had to follow a blood trail down three hallways and two bathrooms in a different barrack block, tracking an individual who had punched a window…a window with wire reinforcing in the glass…turns out you can’t put the word ‘dumbfuck’ in a report either but it’s accepted better than ‘defenestration’ and you don’t get yelled at for using it because the Base Chief is laughing too hard 😉
Whew! Glad I got out before that, “If they don’t understand it, it’s bad,” rule went into effect. That was easily half of the total sum of words I spoke to command back in the day.
Actually, Wikipedia is a great place to START your research – – but ONLY to START. It works only if you branch out from there (the footnotes at the end of an article give some good hints) and find at least three other sources in agreement. To take Wiki at face value is an open invitation to disaster . . .
Yep. Wiki frequently cites itself, or articles that can’t be found. The danger of a militia style moderation team.
How silly. It’s eminently and immediately obvious that Mari has ALREADY entirely divested herself.
Check the stock prices of the usual suspects and tell me someone isn’t making a boatload of $ on the war. What would happen if the patriot public divested from the entities of the cabal? Use their playbook against them.
We’d save some money, but not as much as many of you think. Do any of you HONESTLY think that the United States military ISN’T going to replace the aged out ordnance that’s laying around?
Failure to give it to somebody who’ll put it to good use just means we have to pay civilian contractors to safely demill it, which they don’t do for free.
Personally, between the options, I’d rather ship it somewhere where it’ll be put to good use.
Yes, we’re still out the actual weapons we’re sending, so it isn’t by any means free.
Shipping costs are much lower than disposal and there’s only so much you can use as EOD training stores. I’ve blown up, remotely dismantled (then blown up), functioned remotely and otherwise kinetically disposed of a lot of TX ordnance and other stores over the years but there was always much more than all the teams in all the country could use for practice simply because we call things ‘unserviceable’ long before they are any sort of hazard while the russians and some others keep artillery shells and other stores lying around until they become unstable enough to function during use. That’s largely because they consider replacing the troops whose mortar or shipboard gun detonated on firing to be more cost effective than rotating their entire stocks.
This comic takes me longer to read than any others; it takes me a few minutes some days to realize that words are included.
A word is missing from this toon … “Motorboat” : )
Wait-there are words?
For all both Sam and Mia are preggers, they seem to be “carrying well” so to speak… yowza…
ukraine is targeting russian airfields and missile batteries. russia shoots down the missiles, and they fall on beaches full of vacationers because russians don’t have the common sense not to vacation IN A FRAKING WAR ZONE.
I’d say “hey, why not call up the israelis, mabe they could teach you how to shoot stuff down so it doesn’t fall on our civillians” but russia burned that particular bridge last year. calling someone a nazi and inviting in hamas for dinner and an attaboy tends to make the israelis not want to help you.
russia, in return, targets the equivalent of a Home Depot and claims it was a munitions dump.or an apartment building full of retirees and claims it was full of “NATO generals”.
I’m not keeping up with the whole Russia/Ukraine thing. I think both sides are corrupt as hell, and you know lots and lots of the BILLIONS we’re sending them, makes it back into politicians’ pockets. And not just Bidens, and not just Democrats.
Something I recently shared on social media.
A million seconds is 11 days.
A billion seconds is 31.5 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,500 years.
Our national debt is approaching $35 trillion.
No one has offered anything resembling acknowledging this, let alone fixing it.
I understand (but haven’t confirmed) the cost of servicing the national debt is now larger than the cost of national defense… Maybe some banksters need to join various traitors doing the hemp rope dance?
Politicians are corrupt. ALL politicians. The exceptions are so rare as to be miraculous. Therefore, claiming both sides are corrupt is generally a meaningless statement.
Put yourself in the place of the president of Ukraine. You’ve been attacked by a nation that’s basically imprisoned and murdered your people in the past. You need help. What do you do? Where do you stop? Payoffs? Sure. Kickbacks? Why not, if that’s what it takes? Travel the world, begging, accusing, maybe even blackmailing your way to aid that will keep your country free of the yoke of your former oppressors? Is that a bridge too far? At what point do you say to yourself, “Whelp, I guess we’ll have to surrender and allow Russia to occupy us again, because this particular trick is just too much.
Where would you stop?
Well I’m glad that, so far, I do not have to choose between annihilation by Russia or someone else, besides our own govt., or surrendering to them. Ukraine is being that by the many strikes and loss of people. By the time they don’t have anyone left to fight, whoever takes over will have the whole country to plant as it is thoroughly being ripped up.