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Have they gone back to recruiting prisoners again yet? Just seems inevitable at this rate.

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American Dirlewanger Brigade.

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24 points

Dirleburger

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31 points

I give it a few years before they start conscripting prisoners

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24 points

What are we… some of suicide squad?

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5 points

Hans Zimmer noises intensify.

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In bad country they give convicted criminals an oppertunity to go to war for a commuted or reduced sentence.

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10 points

They were seething over this when Russia did it (allegedly)

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6 points

Oh wow that feels incredibly likely.

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22 points

It’s good to know the evangelicals chomping at the bit for a posting in a nuclear silo are going to pestilence themselves out of the picture before they get a chance to force armageddon.

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I think I also read somewhere that a lot of our nuclear stockpile has decayed to subcritical levels and can’t actually detonate anymore and we’re not sure how much of it is in that state

EDIT: No single source, on further research it appears that the cores decay in unpredictable ways that can affect how they explode, and the program for recycling them isn’t running properly and we can’t do underground nuclear testing anymore to check samples of stockpiles so they’re kind of in the dark on which ones need recycling. If anything it’s the hardware in the warheads themselves that will break down faster over time and since it’s the United States of America maintaining the warheads they’re overbudget and behind schedule and not even sure which warheads need maintaining first.

Regardless the technology for shooting down missiles has improved a lot since the end of the Cold War so hopefully if anyone is insane enough to actually launch missiles they’ll be destroyed before they can cause any damage

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12 points

:bloomer:

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Please find this source, I need a little hope.

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10 points

I should’ve guessed that “Russia’s nukes are probably all old and falling apart anyway” was yet more projection

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Oh I’m sure theirs are too. The problem is that there is no profitable way to maintain a nuclear arsenal

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K This is insane. In Bootcamp they inject you with like 50 mystery vaccines. One of them is probably an experimental CIA LSD serum, and yet the soldiers are allowed to refuse a COVID shot? Literally just make it an order and discipline them militarily if they disobey.

Conservatives think the military is failing because of lesbian cartoon ads when it seems like the brass can’t even force their goons to do what they want when that’s the entire point of being the brass

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lmao can’t the military just give them covid shots anyway? Then lie and classify the truth as a military secret.

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Maybe that’s the plan

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4 points

Theoretically somebody would have their blood tested and notice the covid antibodies. But, it’d be super funny.

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I’m sure stocking the ranks with antivax q-anon loving freaks won’t result in the next Jan 6 being a bloodbath.

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I was going to make a crack about them first being arrested for horrific war crimes in the next big war but then I remembered which military I was talking about.

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7 points
grim humor

coughing-up-bloodbath

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Or the next pandemic/conflict not a hilarious shit show.

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