Do they feel safe enough to fly Poseidons without getting popped by some sneaky fucker in a jet trainer running circles below a coastal mountain? To actually control the airspace in force they’d need to launch a lot of assets to try and find Iranian submarines that will be chilling on the seabed, quietly.

“Mines” also wouldn’t leave a hole above the waterline - but it seems that crews have stopped reporting to anyone but their insurance companies - and if the insurance companies don’t care because they aren’t offering coverage, why take pictures at all?

NATO satellites can spot all of the fixed anti-aircraft sites, and keep tabs on various pre-prepared sites which are occupied regularly, but not permanently. One big advantage of cruise missiles is that they can steer around/between known AA sites, using their low altitude or reduced radar visibility to reduce the possible engagement range by the AA site.

Now, these permanent/semi-permanent sites aren’t rendered completely useless. As the drones/cruise missiles avoid the permanent AA sites, they’re funneling themselves between them into corridors where they can be preyed upon by roving aircraft, or often smaller, more mobile anti-aircraft units. Russia is actually one of the few countries on earth that still maintains a highly varied anti-air system inventory, and has the tools to even attempt this kind of defense.

Asymmetrically, it’s not too bad. Something like an R-73 missile is estimated to cost, on the lower end, about the same as an FP-1 long range drone. Combined with the fact that many drones are being taken down by 30mm ground fire, really, the jets just need to break even with the drones that are leaking through.

I have a theory that “hit by a mine” actually means “torpedoed by submarine” now that the US Navy has been pushed too far away to conduct anti-submarine missions.

We’ll see action tonight, I would assume.

That’s kinda fucked up, but now he won’t finish his specific training in how to aim airstrikes at children.

It’s astonishing just how ruthless the Americans really are to their “allies”.

Some “mine” hits could also be Iranian submarines. VLCC’s are extremely large, predictable targets.

This headline makes me realize how confusing this war must be for liberals outside of hexbear.

They’re forced to conclude that Trump is a Russian asset otherwise the world would make absolutely no sense at all to them.

Average human gestation is about 280 days, so not quite. That said, the sailors are still cucks.

That’s funny af.

Earlier: Russia has no diesel because Ukraine has destroyed all refineries. Slobber Ukraini!

Now: Putin, please, we fucked up a war and wrecked the planets diesel supply - we’ll very briefly lift sanctions and buy your entire excess production.

I strongly disagree, I think the US should station as many assets as possible within the first island chain and within dong-fuckyou-feng range.

As harsh as it is sounds, if you live in the global north, economic west. The universe has decided you get to live in the last generation that is reasonably insulated from the planet-murder we’ve wrought. Even if you tried, you’d never be able to eat all our sins alone. Feeling the sadness of every human isn’t going to save the planet, or you.

I’m sorry you’re cursed with the awareness - but that awareness can’t do anything for anyone, or the planet, if you sink.

We’re animals, and we behave the way we’re conditioned. You can’t really blame treatlerites when their entire culture tells them that’s how to live. More than ever before in history, products are delivered directly to peoples doors for consumption with all the pain and suffering slickly obscured. More than ever, western societies do their best to hide the worst suffering from the consumer.The solution isn’t to turn everyone into brooding vanguard communists.

Communism is only one expression of ourselves and our experiences, not the totality of it. Finding reasons to live and love will not only keep your light alive, it will help it burn brighter.

For some reason throughout my life, engaging in the medical system consistently leads to doctors literally calling each other idiots.

I appreciate the… passion, but I’d also appreciate a solid and actionable diagnosis.

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Meditation while trying to fall asleep for several years. Originally this was just noting exercises to help process things my autistic little brain had maybe missed that day - as well as examining feeling that were perhaps suppressed while more lucid. Eventually the wake/sleep began blurring, and I figured out how to visualise piece by piece,. At first, it was just very basic shapes, which I could make move when tied to emotions. Then it became repeating, shifting, full-field patterns/shapes, initially monochrome, but becoming colorful over time when made to move quickly or with purpose.

Then suddenly I wasn’t doing it manually anymore, and it got a lot stronger. It took several days for it to calibrate and tune its self into a useful, non-overwhelming sense. I assume most people learn to access that subconscious layer when young, and settle on a baseline they find acceptable to their mind? I heavy a heavy suspicion that autism and dissociative affect can be linked with aphantasia.

I somehow cured my aphantasia and it practically flashbanged me for a few days while my brain figured out how to tone it down to the normal level.

The way the EU leaders have been acting, combined with even the idea of something like this does actually make me a little worried.

IRGC gives American’s too much credit. Inflicting unconditional suffering on Americans should the corner-stone of any good ideology. We must gently coax all American’s into the Omela’s basement with unending torrents of drones and rockets, and then build communism on top of it.