@sea_of_nihilism@sethharpesq Golden division was huge before Mosul, they were all over. They aren’t actually SOF they just ended up being used as shock troops. I am being a bit obtuse, the village clearing was important but the PMF never participated in the city fighting. They were always auxiliary forces
@sea_of_nihilism@sethharpesq Calling any of these battles a pmf merit is flat out wrong and insulting tho. It was always the Iraqi army who had to do the dirty work and took the casualties, never the US attachments or Iranian militias.
@PsaQkncqzw4fx@sethharpesq Retard thinks the pmf harassing random Sunni villagers in Tal afar was “helping in Mosul” lmfao stop getting your info from Netflix
@PsaQkncqzw4fx@sethharpesq Iranians never set foot in Mosul and the Tikrit offensives were completely stalled under Iranian command. I’ll admit they left because the US demanded it, but it was Soleimanis failed offensives that forced Iraq to ask for US help again
@sea_of_nihilism@sethharpesq Assad reaped what he sowed but it’s funny this is now being twisted into “Iran fighting Isis” when it was almost exclusively launching rockets at rebel positions. The IRGC was still circle jerking in a bunker during the worst parts when hasakah was an Isis stronghold
@sea_of_nihilism@sethharpesq That’s not true at all. The vast majority of fighting in Iraq was done by the golden division. The PMF never even set foot inside Mosul. In Syria they were mostly fighting rebel forces for Assad while establishing bases in Damascus and Aleppo without asking
@tnguyn254253780@pplsartofwar Those figures I gave you are well documented by charters from Soviet Union, PAVN battle reports, and photos from US intelligence of Sam sites. Why did the PAVN form 8 new SAM battalions in 1965? For fun?
@KGBTorquemada@pplsartofwar I think you need a refresher on who the invaders were in these wars. There is a reason why China feels the need to arrest their own citizens who ask questions about the justification for involvement in the Korean War
@tnguyn254253780@pplsartofwar lol nearly 4,000 SA2 missiles and 8 battalions worth of launchers, radar, support equipment, etc in the first 6 months of the program. The concept of modern SEAD traces its roots back to the Vietnam war. Name another equivalent system to the SA2 operational in 1965
@pplsartofwar as to the manpower comment it was more so that the US had to tip toe around politically cause for some reason the PLA got upset when we killed 100,000+ PVA invaders in Korea
@pplsartofwar Where did I say the north Vietnamese weren’t fighting sportingly? I said they had one of the largest and most advanced arsenals of radar guided missiles on the planet, jets, tanks, rocket artillery, etc. with no industrial base. It’s just ahistorical to suggest otherwise
@Emoboymoder@itsjolyne Azov was one of the only organized units actively fighting the Russian invasion between 2014-2022. Where else would a foreign volunteer go
@BNSH2003@Osint613 Charges include domestic violence, rape, possession of child pornography and revenge pornography, sex with a minor, and running a human trafficking ring. Seems like they’re cracking down on rape gangs to me
@350years@EthanLevins2 It would also likely jam shortwave signals for hundreds of miles. zero chance Russia or China misses something like this, and zero chance they stay quiet if they do see it occur
@350years@EthanLevins2 I think an extremely low yield airburst nuke would send a bunch of ionized/aerosolized particles into the atmosphere, intense thermal signatures for days, plus visible phenomena u just don’t see in conventional weapons. Satellites for monitoring wildfires should be good for this