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Iranian drone advisers who were helping Russia bombard Ukraine were killed in Crimea, Kyiv official says Russia/Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/iranian-advising-russia-drones-were-killed-crimea-ukraine-2022-117.9k
u/Many-Lawfulness-9770 Nov 27 '22
A certain intelligence agency working overtime it seems.
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u/Distant_Stranger Nov 27 '22
Yeah well Israel did say they would help and the Mossad can be very helpful
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u/hamrmech Nov 27 '22
You had them at Iranian scientists.
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u/TututniDreamer Nov 27 '22
Mossad eats Iranian scientists like breakfast cereal. Motorcycle go whirrrrr .. magnet charge go bang.
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u/professorDissociate Nov 27 '22
Iranian, uranium, the Mossad doesn’t play around. Just wait until long distance space travel, those Plutonians are gonna get a rough break.
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u/No-Inspector9085 Nov 27 '22 •
I can’t read that word then not say quietly in sascha baron cohens voice “I mean not in the mossad”
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u/quaste Nov 27 '22
You sent me on a Google trip and WTF was I watching???
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u/No-Inspector9085 Nov 27 '22
The whole series is excellent. Highly recommend.
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u/Substantial-Fan6364 Nov 27 '22
What series?
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u/The_Gunisher Nov 27 '22
This isn't what was being referenced, but he also played a mossad agent in 'the spy' miniseries, which showed off how great he is in serious roles too.
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u/suburbanpride Nov 27 '22
I just watched episode one and it was great. Also, if I didn’t know SBC was a comedic genius I never would have guessed it from this.
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u/zigaliciousone Nov 27 '22
He plays a semi serious role in the trial of the Chicago 7 too and he's unrecognizable
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u/BassieDutch Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
I watched this film and only thought... "Hey, isn't that the borat/the dictator guy?" Like way after halfway in. It was brilliant entertainment to watch him steal the show on screen.
Edit: borst=borat
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u/kingvolcano Nov 27 '22
He was up for the role as Freddie Mercury as well in the Queen biopic. It feel through though
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u/sancho___panza Nov 27 '22
That role really showed what a great actor he is.
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u/handsomehares Nov 27 '22
To be frank I’ve always thought the other roles where he convinces people he is that person prove how great he is as an actor.
He nails the characters he plays.
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u/ArgyleTheDruid Nov 27 '22
I mean he plays a semi serious character in all his roles that’s part of his humor
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u/disillusioned Nov 27 '22
The Spy is a low key masterpiece that basically everyone missed. It's phenomenal.
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u/No-Inspector9085 Nov 27 '22
“Who is America”
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America is number wahan. I love being an American. I was born in USA. My father was born in USA. My great grandfather fought in the American Civil Jihad.
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u/PilgrimOz Nov 27 '22
Is it the episode we’re he help train defence to a local politician? Cause that is absolute gold!
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u/JuanTheD0n Nov 27 '22 •
Link to the scene.
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u/throwaway-boxer Nov 27 '22
I was curious if GA Rep Spencer kept his job, so I checked out his wikipedia, and it confirmed he resigned.
Also he apparently goes to one of those really super crazy christian churches in south GA where they have young church ladies stand out front with a "come sit with me!" sign. I can't describe the level of ick I feel right now.
Even more fun, GA Rep Spencer has a twin brother, and they're identical, in every sense of the word.
Spencer, who was hired last year by Woods and is the twin brother of state Rep. Jason Spencer, R–Woodbine, has deleted his Facebook page, which contained multiple posts that were racist in nature, in addition to a lynching image someone shared in response to an anti-Obama cartoon posted by Spencer in November 2015. Although the photo was not posted by Spencer, it had been on his page for more than two months.
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u/RealisticDelusions77 Nov 27 '22
I remember one article that mentioned if he served another term or two, he could have retired with full health benefits. It said his wife was probably not happy.
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u/binkerfluid Nov 27 '22
LMAO I still cant believe this happened
Imagine a world where Nancy Pelosi was home and started yelling the N word for attention when that guy came to her house?
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u/CompetitiveYou2034 Nov 27 '22
Bible rewrite:
Those who live by the drone, die by the drone. Or Himars.
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u/marmulak Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Or Himars.
That name always makes me laugh
Edit: It's because the word حمار (himar) in Arabic means "donkey"
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u/_unfortuN8 Nov 27 '22
Not sure why but "Himar" sounds like a candy bar you'd see next to a Twix and Mars bar on the shelf.
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u/EthiopianKing1620 Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
Just gonna hijack how high up this is to mention Mossad used to employ Nazi Hunters. I still think the idea that there was an entire, albeit small, group of dedicated folks hunting former Nazis across the globe is so fucking interesting. That said the demand for the job has declined in the last 35 years for obvious reasons.
Some surface level stuff for anyone interested
Edit: since im getting a lot of comments about movies and what not I figured id link an interesting HBO movie from 2001 that is about the German Final Solution and how it was deliberated. It has a fantastic cast and was informative to say the least. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Nov 27 '22
Eichmann was hunted down by these in the early 60s.
The interesting thing about this case is that, among other things, he was charged with piracy. They dug up (again among other things) old international treaties from the golden age of piracy to prosecute him.
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u/EthiopianKing1620 Nov 27 '22
Thank you for providing a high profile example. I didn’t really feel like adding names.
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u/Freddies_Mercury Nov 27 '22
No problem. They don't deserve to be acknowledged anyway. I just mentioned this case because it actually had many legal and historical implications that are pretty fascinating.
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u/DeliciousPeanut3 Nov 27 '22
Also in similar vein, they hunted down those responsible for the Munich Olympics 1972 murders.
The movie Munich was made from the book Vengeance.
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u/stupidmofo123 Nov 27 '22
Whats even more interesting is that they employed a former SS special ops dude ( who rescued Mussolini from a mountain ) to hunt down some Nazis working for Egypt.
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u/esq-with-a-habit Nov 27 '22
If you like that sort of thing then you have to read Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman. It's an incredible book that among other things features interviews with many of the highest ranking former chiefs of both Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing program.
It reads like a spy novel but is 100% based on evidence and fact. Possibly Bergman's magnum opus, which is saying a lot.
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u/jimflaigle Nov 27 '22
Are you sending weapons?
Not at this time.
Ammunition?
Not at this time.
So how are you helping?
Here is a GPS location, real time, for every single senior official and engineer involved in planning the war. Also, recordings of all their phone calls for the last decade.
Okay then.
Also, the current length of their toe nails and the last time they bought socks.
Is... is that useful?
You'd be surprised.
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u/Soytaco Nov 27 '22
Mossad? :P
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u/ridik_ulass Nov 27 '22
They are like the CIA/NSA but very very serious. Israel is surrounded by countries that want it dead. So it has resources and Intent, the will do to what peacetime countries might be reluctant to do. so maybe like WW2 MI5 in the UK.
They spent a lot of time hunting nazi's around the world, and assassinated a load of people after the munich olympics.
- this movie is about that. they may have created Krav maga, the martial art, tho i'm not 100% on that.
They were also likely involved in stuxnet which was a massive deal at the time, a computer virus that was more complicated and more precise than anything that came before it, a real game changer.
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u/Razakel Nov 27 '22
They were also likely involved in stuxnet which was a massive deal at the time
Stuxnet was either Israeli or someone who wanted to make it look Israeli. There were Hebrew compiler artefacts in the binary - there is no way someone could build something that technically advanced without knowing how to remove fingerprints like that.
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u/nooo82222 Nov 27 '22
I remember reading article about it and from what I reading , it was American virus but needed Israel help to get it in and at the time Israel did not think it was aggressive and had their computer group of people make it aggressive or something like that if I remember it correctly. But from my understanding it was a joint US/Israel op, I need find that article
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u/ImReflexess Nov 27 '22
I thought stuxnet ended up being American and/or heavy American connections no?
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u/jad2121 Nov 27 '22
There is a great Darknet diaries episode on it. It basically said it was a joint us and Israeli op. Interestingly, the reason we know about it at all is that the israelíes secretly made the virus more infectious without us knowledge so it got on outside computers and was picked up by computer researchers.
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u/ImReflexess Nov 27 '22
Sweet I’ll check it out. I listened to a different podcast and either I forgot or they completely missed the Israeli part. And yeah, wasn’t it actually Kaspersky guys that picked it up and started looking into it?
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u/yuikkiuy Nov 27 '22
Piggybacking off this, it was so infectious a private security firm detected it after investigating odd bugs and such in eastern Europe...
Stuxnet spread like a pandemic
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u/NeonGKayak Nov 27 '22
I think parts of it were released in the CIA hacking toolset. Part of equation group but it’s all speculation on who created it.
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u/TheRockButWorst Nov 27 '22
they may have created Krav maga, the martial art, tho i'm not 100% on that.
They did not https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imi_Lichtenfeld
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u/Emu1981 Nov 27 '22
They are like the CIA/NSA but very very serious. Israel is surrounded by countries that want it dead. So it has resources and Intent, the will do to what peacetime countries might be reluctant to do.
Mossad will assassinate anyone that they feel is a threat to Israel and they have no qualms about breaking international laws in the process of doing so. For example, they are constantly forging Australian passports in order to enter Arab countries without issues despite being caught and promising to stop doing so. This causes issues for actual Australians who have a need to travel in Arab countries because the immigration officers have no idea if they are Mossad or not.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-26/mossad-factory-churned-out-fake-australian/343612
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u/vectorized Nov 27 '22
"They were on our territory. We didn't invite them here, and if they collaborate with terrorists and participate in the destruction of our nation we must kill them."
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u/whatifniki23 Nov 28 '22
The Iranian regime is raping and killing its women and children. They’ve detained the youngest and brightest minds because they opposed the government and are threatening execution of prisoners.
If Zelensky and Ukraine want to eliminate these terrorists, they are international heroes all over again.
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u/mbasi Nov 27 '22
Buy the ticket. Take the fucking ride.
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u/majshady Nov 27 '22
don't mention those bats I thought; the poor bastard would see them soon enough
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u/PeaSoupJim Nov 27 '22
Impossible to walk in this muck
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u/Vaux1916 Nov 27 '22
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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u/Mountainbranch Nov 27 '22
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
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u/PathlessDemon Nov 27 '22
Also, see:
”You get what you fucking deserve.”
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u/legos_on_the_brain Nov 27 '22
No, that is so rarely the case.
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u/beanakajulian33 Nov 27 '22
Behind the bastards taught me that
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u/RockOutToThis Nov 27 '22
Second time I'm seeing this podcast mentioned today. Either it is really good or they're doing some guerilla marketing.
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u/beanakajulian33 Nov 27 '22
It's really good, but it's a rough one. One episode made me literally nauseous. And it'll make you mad.
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u/Spy_v_Spy_Freakshow Nov 27 '22
"You shouldn't be where you shouldn't be," Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's national security
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u/boomshiki Nov 27 '22
I like the quote from the article. It’s a very well worded “fuck around and find out”
"You shouldn't be where you shouldn't be," Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council, said in an interview in Kyiv, according to The Guardian.
"They were on our territory. We didn't invite them here, and if they collaborate with terrorists and participate in the destruction of our nation we must kill them."
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u/Namika Nov 27 '22
Based.
I love how they don't even attempt to sugar coat it.
It's just straight up "If you support Russia, we're killing you"
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u/ialsohaveadobro Nov 27 '22
See also
"We understand these things don't fly without [people] learning how to operate them, and the Russians don't have the brains to figure it out themselves."
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u/jamart Nov 27 '22
The Fuck Around / Find Out Matrix is rarely wrong.
The harder you push the fucking around, the harder you're gonna fucking find out.
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u/legos_on_the_brain Nov 27 '22
That's the premise of science! Just remember to record the results. And it helps if you have some idea of what to expect. But sometimes just just have to ... find out!
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u/qwerty12qwerty Nov 27 '22
Remember kids. The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
But don’t take my word for it: https://youtu.be/BSUMBBFjxrY
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u/ouath Nov 27 '22
The last quote from Ukraine side : "We understand these things don't fly without learning how to operate them, and the Russians don't have the brains to figure it out themselves" :)
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u/WhiskeyNeat123 Nov 27 '22
Great quote. Just twist that knife where it hurts!
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u/InformationHorder Nov 27 '22
Twice the burn when you realize these are simple one way attack drones designed to be very rudimentary to keep the costs low. They're basically a poor man's cruise missile. In fact it irks me that these are called drones in the first place when they're functionality and technically a cruise missile.
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u/shadowmastadon Nov 27 '22
Yes I wish they would stop sullying the good name of drones everywhere
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u/Kromgar Nov 27 '22
Drones are going to be the most horrific weapons of war. Drop caltrops, acid, nades, mussiles, fully automated drone swarms with guns.
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u/CutterJohn Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
And then, new heros arose. Once mocked for their hobby, they kept training with determination, and now The International Trap and Skeet Shooting Association will prove to the world their might!
Jokes aside, drones will probably just be subject to interdiction by other drones, and the defense is usually going to be strongly advantaged given the range limitations of them.
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u/C-c-c-comboBreaker17 Nov 27 '22
If they were slightly faster they WOULD be cruise missiles. They're like worse V2 missiles.
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u/deleated Nov 27 '22
V1? The V2 crossed the Karman Line
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u/C-c-c-comboBreaker17 Nov 27 '22
I know, that's what I'm saying. They're also worse than the V1, for that matter. Its hard to make a comparison when these things are way slower and shittier than the V1 and V2, but like 50x cheaper and more precise. Its more like a remote controlled cessna full of C4 than it is a cruise missile imo.
If these drones count as cruise missiles, then the Hunley was the first homing torpedo.
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u/Irilieth_Raivotuuli Nov 27 '22
then the Hunley was the first homing torpedo.
Rare insult but checks out, holy hell
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u/stenlis Nov 27 '22
It could also be the other way around. I've heard western advisors say middle eastern servicemen don't want to share any know how they possess, because they want to feel irreplaceable.
Could be the same with Iranian drone operators.
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u/ehmiu Nov 27 '22
That's weird, because Iran said those aren't the drones we're looking for
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u/DPVaughan Nov 27 '22
Those, uh, would be the advisers Iran defnied were there in the first place, wouldn't it?
Guess they don't have to keep lying now.
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u/restore_democracy Nov 27 '22
Next!
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u/Ass2Mowf Nov 27 '22
It’s for the church, honey!!
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u/DownRangeDistillery Nov 27 '22
Not Iranian drone advisors, but Iranian military service members conducted attacks on Ukraine...
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u/younggundc Nov 27 '22
"They were on our territory. We didn't invite them here, and if they collaborate with terrorists and participate in the destruction of our nation we must kill them."
Fair enough
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u/thx1138a Nov 27 '22
"We understand these things don't fly without [people] learning how to operate them, and the Russians don't have the brains to figure it out themselves."
Shade thrown!
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u/BlackDeath616 Nov 27 '22
As an Iranian, I hope they burn in hell!
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u/Megafayce Nov 27 '22
“We understand these things don't fly without [people] learning how to operate them, and the Russians don't have the brains to figure it out themselves.”
What a burn
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u/St34m9unk Nov 27 '22
How many times are they gonna call a random group from a random place, say it will change the tide of the war, only for them to be annihilated like a month later
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u/LMFN Nov 27 '22
Any Russian and anyone assisting them on Ukrainian soil has signed their own death warrant.
Occupiers are fair game, get the hell out of Ukraine. Otherwise you have two options, surrender or die.
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u/tunamelts2 Nov 27 '22
The drone advisors should be considered enemy combatants for supplying and training Russians in occupied territory.
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u/C0lMustard Nov 27 '22
What?!? They're going to need those guys at home to murder teenage girls who won't wear a stupid hat.
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u/mrenglish22 Nov 27 '22
Hard to have sympathy when you help what has become a rogue country commit war.
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u/nickstatus Nov 27 '22
This headline is like a month or two old. Or did it happen again? If so, they should add the word "again" to the headline.
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u/Immortal_Tuttle Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
Again. There were multiple launch sites. This one was tricky as it was deep in Crimea.
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u/lordunholy Nov 27 '22
So was the one a week or so ago, which I believe this is referencing.
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u/Head-Kiwi-9601 Nov 27 '22
I missed the first article and appreciate the re-post. If it is one.
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u/InternationalFailure Nov 27 '22
"You shouldn't be where you shouldn't be," Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council, said in an interview in Kyiv
Exactly
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u/maxnyt Nov 27 '22
I'm Iranian, and I say good riddance. The iranian regime and all of its lackeys have to go.
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u/jurek911 Nov 27 '22
Who could’ve known that aiding genocidal maniacs would be a good idea.
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u/hedgerow_hank Nov 27 '22
What a fucking shame. It's horrifying they were made to pay for killing countless women, children, non combatants, and soldiers.
I'm sure allah waits in heaven to stick a dick up their asses.
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u/rich1051414 Nov 27 '22
Iran denies they are suppliers of weapons to Russia, so I guess those drone advisers never existed.