/baw/ - General Discussion

In less important news which was popular online before this broke, a handful of rich idiots in a shitty submarine died for their arrogance and cost-cutting ways as they tried to sail down to gawk at the wreck of the Titanic.
The name of said submarine was the 'Titan'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Titan_submersible_incident

>>429328
>Russia Civil War
>Red (z) vs White (z)
Huh...

Well things are official.

Prigozhin made demands to basically have the heads of the Russian MoD handed over to him for fucking him and fucking Russia, while moving his forces in.
Putin Put out a speech video calling them traitors, is presumably hiding in a bunker somewhere.
Putin accuses Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin of treason
Now Wagner is moving further into occupying major cities and towards Moscow itself, no one has seemingly really opposed him except for a couple of helicopters that got shot down for trying to attack his convoy and rare unsubstantiated reports of gunshots. Other home-defence troops they've ran into have surrendered.

>>429335
The Ministry of Défense is getting off its ass after Putin's denouncement, having the airforce bomb Wagner troops.

Dickbag Mercenaries >>> Upgunned Mallcops

Some impressive spin by Prigozhin.
I mean its pretty much true in regards to the corruption and the head of the state alongside his cronies being liars, but he's really going all-in playing at the part of the "noble patriotic soldier" finally standing up to strike down the evil choking the country.

Can he win? If he wins will he be able to use this to ride a wave of support all the way up to the top seat?
And upon his winning will Russia even remain in a big enough single piece for him to take over?

RF helicopter blew up an oil depot in Voronezh, presumably to deny its use by coup d'etat forces

So government forces are setting up defences around Moscow to face off against their approaching enemies, makes sense.
But alongside sandbags and machineguns there's also the sight of many bright orange dump trucks filled with sand being used to physically block roads?

There's been reports of riots in Russian prisons after the coup began, and it seems upon claiming said prisons Wagner reuses its classic tactics to increase their manpower. Apart from that there's also mention of RF units in Russia throwing in their lot with Wagner rather than the government.

>>429349
Wonder what it'll be like when the two sides actually clash.

>>429349

Now excavators are being used to dig a pit across the main road to slow down Wagner's advance, that might be somewhat more effective in buying time. It's an important road for moving supplies to the war front but I suppose that's not as important if you get overthrown in the short-term.

In American news a trio of cops blew away a crazy woman because she had a hammer.
San Antonio Police Officers Shoot Woman Responding To Reports That She Destroyed a Fire Alarm

https://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-charges-filed-3-san-antonio-police-officers/story?id=100350953

>>429361
Igor Ivanovich Strelkov is mad jelly about the whole thing.

>>429371

>>429329
>OceanGateGate

>>429329
>>429376
Is it wrong to see someones death as a good thing when it was caused entirely by their own actions and their own refusal to take reasonable precautions driven entirely by ego?

>>429439
>Blaming VIDEO GAMES, in this day and age
>Retreating to that tired old chestnut as an excuse why the country you are in charge of running is shit

>>429444
Then how do you explain this?

>>429457
AH SHIT
THEY GOT US BROS
DELETE EVERYTHING
QUICK

The Somalian conflict from before is still ongoing. And Somalia (in comparison to SomaliLAND) is still desperate for artillery to the point forces in a region tried to get crowdfunding going to buy a piece.

There's something grimly interesting about the reduced scale and limited degree of weapons technology involved in an African war.
As in the comparison between Somalia and Somaliland seems pretty stark but both are stuck with handfuls of obsolete wargear from bygone eras compared to that sitting around in warehouses of advanced nations who aren't fighting anyone resulting in mobs of warriors with rifles backed up by weaponised civilian trucks launching raids and some old artillery guns being like the wrath of god unleashed in comparison.

>>429546
That's true, although it's wise to never underestimate weapons for merely being dated. We've seen it time and time again.

Iran continuing to be a little shit of a nation, this time news of pirate actions at sea.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-seize-oil-tanker-strait-of-hormuz-b2370427.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/10/business/rheinmetall-german-tank-factory-ukraine/index.html

https://theins.ru/en/news/263333

[Deus Ex] What a shame

>>429606
>>429646

Over in the Russia-Ukrainian conflict Kerch Bridge has been hit again in an attempt to hinder supplies to Crimea.

For some reason despite the war going on alot of Russia tourists had decided now was a great time to holiday in Crimea (must be super cheap?).
With the bridge closed the Russian government has told them to drive back to Russia via the border territories where active high-explosive conflict is ongoing. That does not seem like a smart idea.

https://twitter.com/SentaMMoses/status/1681127057701617664

https://twitter.com/ChrisStephensMD/status/1681005154609545216?s=20

https://twitter.com/lacontroller/status/1681456457936687104?s=20

Trees are serious business.
You might be a big company treating your employees like slaves and trying every dirty trick to prevent them fighting for better conditions, but don't think you can fuck with the trees.

<-- https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/

>>429371
>>429372
He's been arrested by the government.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/21/europe/igor-girkin-arrest-russia-intl/index.html

>>429724

>>429879

>>429880

How do people feel about the absolute incontrovertible fact that aliens are 100% totally real.

Fucking Pee Wee Herman has died, cancer.

He'll be playing with his pee wee in a porn theatre in heaven now...

>"England will answer for this"
>Alexander 3 will Remember that

Luckily for the man he is not currently in Russia, so he's been sentenced but they can't carry it out at this time.

>>429833
Jesus. Taking him out back and shooting him would be more dignified. Then again he is an old war criminal. What a strange world that he's been incarcerated by Russia instead of everyone else.

Now I THINK this is meant to be a political cartoon portraying America as a dangerous warmongering monster threatening 'Asian country' but honestly just looks ridiculously goofy as a piece of art.

At least that's a step up from making America look incredibly badass like alot of such images usually do.