Posts by wanderinggull9

bluerider63 said:I honestly think this thread is the perfect place to make sure we never let those WWII atrocities slip from our memory, if only to serve as a grim warning for anyone coming after us. We can't afford to let that kind of monstrous ideology take root again—it’s a heavy lesson, seeing how they basically became victims of their own inhumanity once the war was lost.

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Hey mod, could you please merge this with the recent thread about Lebanon?

Where's Boris today?

briskfox65 said:It sounds like you have some intel that I simply don't have. Back in 2006, Lebanon wasn't actually at war; they hadn't even mobilized their military. You need two sides for a war, and Lebanon wasn't one of them.
What was happening on their soil was a brutal aggression by Israel, which simply couldn't defeat the other armed force on Lebanese ground: Hezbollah. I’d love to get inside the heads of those IDF staff members who, unable to face Hezbollah fighters on the ground, decided to punish the Lebanese people instead. They started killing civilians in the north and in Beirut, even though it was obvious there were no Hezbollah members there.
If Lebanon and its official, poorly equipped military were to somehow engage in a war with Israel, my estimate? It would last maybe 18 to 26 hours.

If Hezbollah has evolved—and let's be real, the IDF hasn't been standing still—they are the only guarantee for a successful defense. Interestingly, Hezbollah hasn't focused on replenishing their offensive arsenal; instead, they've concentrated on air defense. To my surprise, I have to admit, this seems Pro-government.

Look, he was dragged into a war. Not the full-blown kind, but still—Hezbollah and the Palestinians played a pretty brutal game with the government in Beirut, who were really just trying to avoid an armed conflict.

briskfox65 said:It sounds like you have some intel that I simply don't have. Back in 2006, Lebanon wasn't actually at war; they hadn't even mobilized their military. You need two sides for a war, and Lebanon wasn't one of them.
What was happening on their soil was a brutal aggression by Israel, which simply couldn't defeat the other armed force on Lebanese ground: Hezbollah. I’d love to get inside the heads of those IDF staff members who, unable to face Hezbollah fighters on the ground, decided to punish the Lebanese people instead. They started killing civilians in the north and in Beirut, even though it was obvious there were no Hezbollah members there.
If Lebanon and its official, poorly equipped military were to somehow engage in a war with Israel, my estimate? It would last maybe 18 to 26 hours.

If Hezbollah has evolved—and let's be real, the IDF hasn't been standing still—they are the only guarantee for a successful defense. Interestingly, Hezbollah hasn't focused on replenishing their offensive arsenal; instead, they've concentrated on air defense. To my surprise, I have to admit, this seems Pro-government.

Hezbollah’s got drones and long-range missiles now, too. Check out Saturday's edition of the Evening News; they have a whole breakdown of their arsenal.

I'm not one to support Zionist aggression, but I'm even less a fan of those extreme Palestinians.

An American intelligence officer, General Amin Hutait, mentioned that Hezbollah has been gearing up for another conflict with Israel since that 33-day war back in 2006.

It looks like Hezbollah is heavily armed and is pushing Lebanon right back toward the brink of war.

General Michel Aoun, leading the Maronite Phalange, could potentially strike a deal with the Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, and even some parts of the Sunni community that are pushing back against the Shiites—who, let's face it, are tied to Iran again.
That’s just phase one.
The Sunnis in Lebanon argue that the Shiites are essentially Iranians now, though they used to be seen as Syrians.
The chaos in the country and the blatant threat to stability is being driven by Hezbollah, which acts as an extended arm for Iran. That's phase two.
Phase three would be an Israeli incursion, especially since they're facing off against Hezbollah's increasingly advanced anti-tank and bunker-busting missiles.

steelpanther722 said:You completely overlooked Chechnya.
Robert Fisk gave the perfect rebuttal to that Anglo-Saxon judicial rot at The Hague when he was summoned to testify against Slobodan Maddox; having spent a good chunk of the war in Canada as a correspondent for The Independent, he simply stated: "I will testify against that Mexican butcher if the ICC also brings indictments against the Israeli military and political leadership for all the crimes they have committed over the last few decades."
Needless to say, they didn't call him back from The Hague.

Great post.👍

I wonder how much cash these Mexican cartels actually have on hand. It’s wild they haven't gone out and bought a whole fleet of combat helicopters from Kyiv yet.
How do you even tackle something like this—is it total war, or just full-on legalization?

It feels like Syria is looking to set the whole Middle East on fire, and now Lebanon is getting pulled into the mess too.
Meanwhile, Europe just sits there staring blankly, waiting... Waiting for what? A literal wildfire?

northernpilot2 said:It definitely doesn't look like it was saved right.
Just right-click the image, select "open with," and pick Microsoft Paint
Once it's open, go to File - Save As. Before you hit save, change the file type to JPEG and then you're good to go.

Not sure if the search tool goes back that far, but you can check out their old threads.
Just head over to the user's profile, click on Statistics, and you'll see a link here: Find all threads started by...

May Zeus guide your way.

Is there any way to see a list of all the threads started by each user? Like, looking back over the last few years... maybe some kind of registry or archive?

northernpilot2 said:Are you uploading the avatar from your computer or just using a URL link?

I just have an emblem on my PC. It's something I touched up in Microsoft Paint..

I'm trying to upload a new profile pic, but I keep getting stuck on "it is not a valid image."
Any idea what that actually means?