Birb_at_Arms

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Skeets about history, politics, martial arts, birbs and post-Soviet space. He/Him

Screenshot from google maps showing driving route from Bandar Abbas to Tehran
Black and white 19th century photograph showing Zulu warriors.
The July memo allows sailors to continue to wear mustaches. It also allows certain special operators to don beards in certain operational environments when they are deemed “mission essential.” Those forces — including Navy SEALs — however must “be clean shaven” when deployed in areas with a threat of a chemical, biological, radiation or nuclear attack, the memo said.
Person who is convinced the US did a coup in Ukraine because - apparently - he didn't know Ukraine has both a President and a PM.
Screenshot of a paragraph about what weapons Taiwan should and shouldn't receive
Sleep deprived Republic solider watching what might be a nuclear ICBM headed for his home town, for all he knows.
Republic infantryman who has clearly not slept in days.
Tactical Poncho - side view
Diagram from Gorka's book about terrorism
Screenshot from The Office where Michael Scott's character receives a commendation while sporting a mullet and fanny pack.
Your argument is invalid. I have already depicted you as the soyjak and me as the chad.
The cause of the McDonald Commission was accidental; a former RCMP member on trial for bombing a private residence offered in his defence that he had done much worse things while serving on the RCMP Security Service, including having broken into the press office used by left-wing Quebec groups to steal membership lists. In response to these allegations, the McDonald Commission was created to investigate and report on the extent of RCMP wrongdoing.
Image of the Assadist's profile
Comic showing a crow (representing Dubowitz or however you spell his name) making a "deniable" death threat. When the audience is unimpressed, Ducrowitz checks his cards and is distressed to find he has prepared nothing but "deniable" death threats.
The concluding section of Fukuyama's "The end of History?"
Excerpt from Fukuyama's "The end of history?" discussing communist challenges to liberalism in general and the legacy of the slave trade in the US specifically.
Image juxtaposing a screenshot about a lesbian wedding and a Cyanide and Happiness comic
Screenshot showing the thread we are commenting on
A screenshot showing page 23 of the 1982 IDF historical report attempting to justify how Israeli sailors and aircrew mistook USS Liberty for the Egyptian auxiliary El Quesir.
Anthony Rota
"IHL is synonymous with jus in bello"
Screenshot of previous comments about war crimes.
Bankrate: 59% of Americans "don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected $1000 emergency expense." Presumably, we are to understand this to mean 59% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings.
Mr. Incredibles meme captioned "Money isn't everything" on both sides
Butina in the Russian state duma
Maria Butina
The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.
Infantry Dort Gun Safety
There are six genders and they are all River-class
"Anymore than Washington can compel Iran to open the Strait"
Iranian BM-21
A screenshot of homeownership rates by generational cohort I found through a quick Google search. 55.4% of millennials are homeowners.
The part of the Bible where they talk about horse cock
Despite not running an official candidate list, Hamas’ police forces secured the polling sites in Deir al-Balah, surrounding each location with armed guards. “Holding municipal elections in Deir al-Balah is a positive and important step,” said Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem on Saturday as he called for presidential and legislative elections, which also have not been held in two decades. “We see (the municipal elections) as an important and necessary step, and we hope they will expand to all governorates of the Gaza Strip.”
Our friend claims the Aztecs and Carthaginians failed because of woke
Fantasy two-state solution map showing land transfers from Israel to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
Musk attempting to choke a sword like it owed him money
The Lebanese military, which has sought to distance itself from the war between Hezbollah and Israel, said its units then carried out "immediate alert and defence measures", using flare bombs to detect the landing spot.
But Ron Arad's widow Tami urged Israel's leaders not to put IDF soldiers' lives at risk. "We understand that our words until now have not been understood by the decision-makers and therefore it's important for us to clarify: Our desire to know what happened to Ron stops as soon as there is risk to IDF soldiers," she wrote on Facebook. "In our eyes, the sanctity of life comes before the commitment to return the remains of a fighter for burial."