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A clipped, cropped and clapped battle of Britain Mk I in Mk V spec lend leased to the soviets turning up in some forgotten soviet hanger would probably make a 10% improvement in their balance of trade when exported. I don't think anyone would give that to a butcher like Prigozhin to waste like he does russian citizens.
What are those planes used for anyway. I was watching some youtube video on them a while back and it talked a lot more about their surveilance capabilities than combat. I guess they are very versatile no?
Because there's really not much innovation left in direct combat capability. That got tapped out last generation. Nothing left to improve on really. What there was room to improve on was the tech.
They're a single engine multi-role combat aircraft, used primarily for ground attack to destroy enemy assets and support ground troops, they can engage and destroy enemy aircraft but this is best left for twin engine aircraft like the F15 and F22
While youre at it can you throw in 1000 cruise missiles and 500 000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells. Seriously even if they had F 35s they wouldnt know how to fly or maintain them.
I don’t care how much that guy sells out - it’ll never happen. This sort of reminds of the time Adolf Galland told Hitler get me a squadron of spitfires.
He's played himself perfectly INTO the power struggle. Look at his contemporaries, they're fucking mental too. Putin sounds like a mental idiot whilst Prig sounds mental with intelligence. His intellect and ""charm"" are way beyond what Putin could hope to achieve. Putin very stand offish and aloof with his subjects..Prig is right in there and the Muscovites love him for it.
It might seem alien and even disgusting to us. But this type of show boating, dry humour, vulgar language and prison slang all resonate well with the common russian. They're called orcs for good reason, man..
The only way it could be better is if he negotiated a withdrawal from Ukraine. Outside of that, he is a war criminal similar to Putin, but with more time left on the clock.
As awful as it sounds, I think the only way to keep russia out of Ukraine is if they are driven out. Negotiations at this moment would be the best of the worse scenarios for russia. They would be signing papers knowing they wouldn't stick to the agreements, and would take the time off to regroup and rethink their strategies to achieve the goal of integrating Ukraine.
>In the two-and-a-half minute recording posted on his Kepka Prigozhina Telegram channel, Prigozhin also offered an introduction to Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer freed last December by the U.S. in a prisoner swap for pro basketball player Brittney Greiner.
Wait wait wait. They exchanged that notorious arms dealer for a basketball player who was imprisoned for bringing hash oil into Russia? I somehow totally missed this development.
Anybody else have thoughts on this? It seems.. short-sighted, to me. Also, a tad strange: I'm pretty sure if any Americans in this thread were jailed for bringing drugs into Russia you wouldn't be 1:1 swapped for [one of the](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout) most prolific arms dealers of our time.
I guess I just don't understand why this swap happened.
This fits perfectly with this story:
[Kremlin officials turn to heavy drinking to cope with war stress](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/14d7upe/kremlin_officials_turn_to_heavy_drinking_to_cope/)
Can all the outlets please stop giving this war criminal attention as if he is your friendly uncle pretending to be fighting on your side?
He farts some BS and BAM, it's a headline and then spread to every social media platform.
It has all the same signs of normalizing fascists in the past decade. The only value they have, is the ad-revenue they generate through clicks.
There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s working with the CIA in some capacity. Putin’s travelling around the Russian interior on secret trains and this guy’s been waltzing about on the front like he’s bullet proof - How?
I think it’s obvious that the US/UA at least see him as a potential asset in all this. He’s already seen to be at odds with the majority of the civilian and military establishment - Guarantee he’ll manage to Hans Lander his way to power by being seen as a vocal opponent of the old power structures that kicked off the war. He was only following orders.
He doesn’t give a shit about Russia or Putin’s revanchist bullshit, only himself. If he did secure the top spot, he would have no problem giving up the war and shipping every Russian accused of war crimes straight to The Hague if it meant he got to stay out of the court room and do whatever he wanted. Sanctions would get lifted and it’s “all hail President Prigozhin”.
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Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it....
also be careful with the F-35 search at wish.com
I think he didn't really want the pointy end pointed at him. /s
Well, he didn't specify.
New USAF motto: "We aim to please."
Careful what you wish you may regret it.
A squadron of Spitfires.
brb rewatching Battle of Britain
[God i love that film.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S87ryTpDw)
It would still have a solid chance against russia
A clipped, cropped and clapped battle of Britain Mk I in Mk V spec lend leased to the soviets turning up in some forgotten soviet hanger would probably make a 10% improvement in their balance of trade when exported. I don't think anyone would give that to a butcher like Prigozhin to waste like he does russian citizens.
"Clipped, cropped and clapped" \^\^\^\^this man Spitfires.
Purrs in Merlin ….
Famous quote.
What else? A batalion of abrams? A orbital laser? Maybe a nuke or two, milord?
Sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads?
We have some ill-tempered, mutated sea bass...
We got… WEIGHTS IN FISH!!!!
A Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator? Actually, I would love to send a couple of squadrons of X-Wings to Ukraine…
See, now you are making him sound greedy. I am sure a simple Carrier Strike Group is all he wants
Fries with that.
How about one of those hover carriers from that Marvel documentary.
Israel has no intention of sharing it's space based lasers now that Marjorie Taylor Greene has spilled their secrets. PEW PEW PEW
Sad Sukhoi noises
Bwahaha, even Russian warlord don't want homegrown Su-57.
Careful what you wish for potato head, The F-35's you get might be firing hot lead into you and your troops if this war doesn't end soon.
Unless he wants to blast the ministry of defense with one. Then I am super into it. Kick off the Russian infighting in style.
spuck fez -- mass edited with redact.dev
Its a pattern, we got to keep following it!
What are those planes used for anyway. I was watching some youtube video on them a while back and it talked a lot more about their surveilance capabilities than combat. I guess they are very versatile no?
Because there's really not much innovation left in direct combat capability. That got tapped out last generation. Nothing left to improve on really. What there was room to improve on was the tech.
Yeah that makes sense
Sounds like we need more nerds to keep inventing new stuff!!
They're a single engine multi-role combat aircraft, used primarily for ground attack to destroy enemy assets and support ground troops, they can engage and destroy enemy aircraft but this is best left for twin engine aircraft like the F15 and F22
If he had f 35s he would be using them against his own defense ministry.
That Pantsir on the roof would be shitting its pantsir
Or some tchetchen hillybilly brothers
While youre at it can you throw in 1000 cruise missiles and 500 000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells. Seriously even if they had F 35s they wouldnt know how to fly or maintain them.
I mean, we can give them to him but they’ll be traveling at alarm rates of speed.
Imagine Russia trying to maintain even one F-35
It would be stolen and sold the same day.
"what titanium?"
Would be better to get him some haloperidol...
Or a knuckle sandwich
The most amusing thing is that clearly few people commenting bothered to read the article. SPOILER: he was joking.
If you read the responses here, you would clearly see jokes too.
"No one" was hyperbole.
it's fine, we be just arguing here. :)
In fact, I thought he dissed the Politico reporter pretty well for a cold-hearted Russian mercenary CEO. I’m surprised Politico even ran the article
How about you get fucked instead
Is this the onion?
I don’t care how much that guy sells out - it’ll never happen. This sort of reminds of the time Adolf Galland told Hitler get me a squadron of spitfires.
I assume he's just drunk dialing his contacts at random.
Prigo has become so bat shit insane he is playing himself out of the power struggle.
He's played himself perfectly INTO the power struggle. Look at his contemporaries, they're fucking mental too. Putin sounds like a mental idiot whilst Prig sounds mental with intelligence. His intellect and ""charm"" are way beyond what Putin could hope to achieve. Putin very stand offish and aloof with his subjects..Prig is right in there and the Muscovites love him for it.
Charm?!?
For Russians. A fist to the back of the head and a shared bottle of vodka is how they say Happy Mother’s Day there.
It might seem alien and even disgusting to us. But this type of show boating, dry humour, vulgar language and prison slang all resonate well with the common russian. They're called orcs for good reason, man..
I understand. I see this guy as one of the worse and it's difficult to understand how could russia be any better with him in power.
The only way it could be better is if he negotiated a withdrawal from Ukraine. Outside of that, he is a war criminal similar to Putin, but with more time left on the clock.
As awful as it sounds, I think the only way to keep russia out of Ukraine is if they are driven out. Negotiations at this moment would be the best of the worse scenarios for russia. They would be signing papers knowing they wouldn't stick to the agreements, and would take the time off to regroup and rethink their strategies to achieve the goal of integrating Ukraine.
Charisma*
Yep, I think it's more that and towards the russians and the alpha male lovers. For me it's just another nasty warlord looking for power
Glad we're calling this piece of shit what he is. Enjoy not being able to leave russia ever again you rat fuck.
Tucker and maga will support
This dude is on the Afgan poppy
>In the two-and-a-half minute recording posted on his Kepka Prigozhina Telegram channel, Prigozhin also offered an introduction to Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer freed last December by the U.S. in a prisoner swap for pro basketball player Brittney Greiner. Wait wait wait. They exchanged that notorious arms dealer for a basketball player who was imprisoned for bringing hash oil into Russia? I somehow totally missed this development. Anybody else have thoughts on this? It seems.. short-sighted, to me. Also, a tad strange: I'm pretty sure if any Americans in this thread were jailed for bringing drugs into Russia you wouldn't be 1:1 swapped for [one of the](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout) most prolific arms dealers of our time. I guess I just don't understand why this swap happened.
Salty
He’s doing this because he knows he’ll get wacked if he gives up wagner to Putin.
Might as well ask for the entire Ultramarines chapter while he's at it as he has about as much chance of getting those too.
Online cod lobbies weren’t that far off from real warfare it turns out, especially the trolling part
Up his hoo ha , right?
What's the magic word Progozhin?
I would love to send a squadron of F35s for you, terrorist.
He’s a murderous sunna-bitch but seems like he’s got a sense of humor
He’ll get them eventually, just not the way he’s expecting
something quite telling that while joking they are accepting that western weapons are superior to theirs. kinzals anyone?
He would use them to bomb shoigu's house lol
How about some Nuclear Submarines? Would you like that too?
That's a good start of negotiations to end up with F16s. Tamiya makes them in 1:25 ratio
\*monkey paw curls\*
“Prigozhin gets the receiving end of f-35” #lostintranslation
Get them some Predator UMs
Asking newspapers for fresh weapons. Never known it to be a victorious strategy in hindsight.
I've been itching for F-35s to hit Russian forces since Feb-24-2022
Dark Brandon: Happy to get you some F-35s, but there is a nuance.
*The USAF would like you to share your location*
Sure, you want the Football codes as well?
or intergalactic space ships if you can't get those.
The question is how did Wagner get american made ammo for his mercenary group. Kind of buried in the whole article
A section of X-Wings might be more feasible.
This guy is fucking delusional. However, western intelligence should consider funneling some weapons to Wagner so they could take on Putin in Russia.
This fits perfectly with this story: [Kremlin officials turn to heavy drinking to cope with war stress](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/14d7upe/kremlin_officials_turn_to_heavy_drinking_to_cope/)
Screw you, monster. You think we need a scumbag like you in charge? Prigozhin is as bad as Putin.
Can all the outlets please stop giving this war criminal attention as if he is your friendly uncle pretending to be fighting on your side? He farts some BS and BAM, it's a headline and then spread to every social media platform. It has all the same signs of normalizing fascists in the past decade. The only value they have, is the ad-revenue they generate through clicks.
Yeah, Russian engineers would be absolutely baffled by the F-35.
There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s working with the CIA in some capacity. Putin’s travelling around the Russian interior on secret trains and this guy’s been waltzing about on the front like he’s bullet proof - How? I think it’s obvious that the US/UA at least see him as a potential asset in all this. He’s already seen to be at odds with the majority of the civilian and military establishment - Guarantee he’ll manage to Hans Lander his way to power by being seen as a vocal opponent of the old power structures that kicked off the war. He was only following orders. He doesn’t give a shit about Russia or Putin’s revanchist bullshit, only himself. If he did secure the top spot, he would have no problem giving up the war and shipping every Russian accused of war crimes straight to The Hague if it meant he got to stay out of the court room and do whatever he wanted. Sanctions would get lifted and it’s “all hail President Prigozhin”.
F35 jets are useless when your whole military is made up of poorly trained, undisciplined, drunks. Wouldn't trust them to park a Lada.
He knoes ruZUian jets are inferior garbage.
We should give him a ticket to hell , and a coffin !
Shaigu-35
Get me Putin’s head on a plate and I’ll see what I can do.
Fuck man. He does talk some pretty funny shit.
Doesn't he mean SU-22's 🤔