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mmmmm yes, yes
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@sickburnbro @KarlDahl needs to see this
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@TrevorGoodchild @Snidely_Whiplash @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @plotinus_enjoyer @sickburnbro Know your enemy.
If your enemy can beat you in the field, do not meet your enemy in the field.
The French adopted this strategy while fighting the English in the 14th Century. They went from always-losing to always-winning.
I think it was Musashi in the Book of Five Rings that really boiled this down.
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"Amateurs talk tactics. Experts talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics."
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@Snidely_Whiplash @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @plotinus_enjoyer @sickburnbro It seems easy in hindsight but Fabius faced tremendous pushback from the Roman people and his own co-commanders the whole way. He had to bail out one of his supposed peers (Minucius) who flagrantly disobeyed instructions, attacked Hannibal, and almost got himself and his men slaughtered
It took Cannae for everyone to finally listen to him
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He could not reinforce, resupply or rearm in Italy. He didn't dare hold still long enough to beseige a city. Essentially, after losing two armies to him, the Romans refused to engage and let him run out of gas.
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@plotinus_enjoyer @InvictusManeo @sickburnbro @KarlDahl Hannibal Barca was such a master at warfare that the Romans were forced to resort to Fabius' "nothing ever happens" strategy to beat him on their own land. It worked.
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@TrevorGoodchild @InvictusManeo @sickburnbro @KarlDahl Carthage did have some really good soldiers but most if not all of those were under Hannibal AFAIK, and those were because they had a shit ton of experience fighting Romans in Italy
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@InvictusManeo @sickburnbro @KarlDahl >Thalassocracy
>Dependent on proxies and mercenaries for military power
>Child sacrifice as a religious sacrament
Yes. Carthage. Checks out.
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@TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro @KarlDahl This fits, particularly if we combine it with the "America is not Rome, but Carthage" line.
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@NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @Snidely_Whiplash @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @plotinus_enjoyer I hope people see the modern relevance to this
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@Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer it's almost totally unlikely they rigged them to overheat. It is likely they was actually modified to have a shaped charge inside.
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This site needs a news feed so I know wtf is going on with "pager explosions". I'm signed up to some bots, but it needs a legit news feed.
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Long story short: israel rigged a bunch of pagers to overheat and explode when receiving a certain signal. Hezbollah unwittingly bought a bunch of these. Injuries ensue and israel laughs at the chaos.
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@TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer @InvictusManeo @sickburnbro @KarlDahl Supposedly the reason Carthage lost the Second Punic War is because the Carthaginian government denied Hannibal reinforcements in Italy. The reasons being they cared more about Spain (where the ruling class controlled lucrative silver mines) and because having Hannibal win the war would basically propel the populist Barca family into the drivers seat of national politics, and they couldn’t have that.
Considering how the Punic Wars ended, maybe the biggest own goal in history.
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@DW2 @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer @InvictusManeo @sickburnbro @KarlDahl Carthage walked a MASSIVE army into Italy from Spain to reinforce their position, led by Hasdrubal the best general they had available.
The Romans had active fighting legions all over the Mediterranean at this point, and would have suffered and plausibly lost the war if Hasdrubal's army was able to merge or coordinate with Hannibal's. Their manpower was at its limits.
Hasdrubal crossed the Alps and was marching in from the North. He was met by two consular armies, led by Livius and Licinius. The opposing forces encamped.
In the South, following the Fabian Strategy, Nero led another consular army and was keeping Hannibal tied up. He, alone, realized that if he could surprise Hasdrubal with his own army, reinforcing the Roman position, he could enact a decisive victory and likely save Rome.
So he snuck his army out in the middle of the night. The whole lot. All of them quietly walking away, leaving only a token in their camp to maintain the appearance that they were still there. It worked. Hannibal had no idea that they were gone.
They marched the entire length of the Italian Peninsula in a matter of days, night and day, entered the Roman camps at night and shared tents to hide their numbers. Along the way, they brought nothing but their weapons. The People met them on the road and gave them everything they needed.
They immediately attacked. Hasdrubal was confident of his victory over two consular armies, and was surprised by the third. His entire army was destroyed and he himself killed. Nero immediately left and marched the length of the Italian Peninsula a second time. Hannibal had still not discovered that he had gone, when he returned.
The Second Punic War, for Carthage, was over at that point. Rome, with one maneuver led by one madlad, had changed things from probably-losing to likely-winning. Hannibal could not reinforce or supply his army by sea, and the reinforcing land-force was gone.
Scipio deserves full credit for beating Hannibal face-to-face, but Nero changed the course of the war.
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@sickburnbro @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer PETN residue found on kablooey pagers. Small explosive devices were added and all sent a signal (through telco or another signal, who knows) and they went kablooey
Also, it wasn't just Hezbollah who had the kablooey pagers
We know that israel is (foolishly) gearing up for an invasion of Lebanon, so hurting a spectrum of the various types of people who use pagers in Lebanon seems like a good idea for the evil hand-rubbers
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@VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer @sickburnbro There are a few people on here that keep up with that kind of info.
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@HoroTheWhiteWolf @VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer that would be a neat addition to fedi, like a crowd sourced news thing, where you can submit something that will be poasted by an account.
just kind of like a wordpress kind of module.
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@KarlDahl @sickburnbro @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer Been reading that they planted some explosives into those pagers.
No mega hacking or super genius move , despite kike's propaganda to make it sound that way.
They blown random civilians and told the west that those kids and elderly women were "hezbollah".
May they meet real, angry hezbollahs soon enough.
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@TrevorGoodchild @InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @NoDoxGregBrady @plotinus_enjoyer So do we know *who* had these pagers? We've heard the IDF say this was a massive failure by Hezbollah, but have they said this?
Or was this some kind of thing where they handed out pagers and it's some kind of "civil defense" kind of thing where these people have the beepers so they know "uh yeah bros, the IDF is invading"
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@InvictusManeo @KarlDahl @sickburnbro @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @NoDoxGregBrady @plotinus_enjoyer This is about as impressive as the Israeli Diaper Forces firing cluster munitions into a Beirut marketplace and hoping some Hezbollah troops would be there.
Something the Ukies do to Belgorod weekly btw
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@InvictusManeo @TrevorGoodchild @Snidely_Whiplash @KarlDahl @plotinus_enjoyer If you're gonna play power games, gotta know how to play.
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@TrevorGoodchild @Snidely_Whiplash @KarlDahl @plotinus_enjoyer @sickburnbro Good old tradition of trying to wind down whomever got too powerful and undermining its authority by the roman senate.
Ask me again why at some points various generals and most decent senators wanted to crucify them all around the Appian way.
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@dubbub @KarlDahl @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer you wouldn't even need to disassemble, just buy a used airport scanner, start a "IDF-free" business, and sell people $5 to ensure there is no bomb in their phone
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@KarlDahl @sickburnbro @Dagnar @VikingWays @DW2 @InvictusManeo @NoDoxGregBrady @TrevorGoodchild @plotinus_enjoyer >tfw gonna disassemble all future electronics I buy and check that only the necessary components are there
Bread up, Bro
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