Is that true about the Makarov? Sounds made-up. I have one(Bulgarian) and that thing is a great pistol that goes bang every time you pull the trigger, which is more than you can say for many guns.
The old Avalon Hill game up Front had a Commissar personality card who gave a +1 morale boost to the whole squad (because they were afraid of him) and the amusing chrome rule of whenever a man was pinned, you had to randomly check which man in the squad he was watching. If it was the man who was cowering, the commissar executed him with his pistol.
A great game, outstanding example of design for effect, with the Russians your men really were disposable, you could take huge losses and still win. The Americans were clumsy but resource-rich while the Germans were high-tech and tactically brilliant. All done with a few elegant rules and a deck of cards that long predated Magic: the Gathering.
What's retarded? Up Front is still highly regarded today as one of the best squad-level wargames ever made. The card deck is incredibly well designed and the game runs itself with the players making lots of decisions, which is how a wargame should be. There are also Japanese, French and Italian expansion sets, the Japanese have high morale which makes them not quit but are easily killed. If your squad is pinned, you can declare a Banzai attack which rallies them all at the same time but requires them to charge the enemy and enter close combat. Usually they all get mowed down by the Marine BARs but if they get to relative range 0 they can win the game. One personality card, the sergeant, is particularly high in close combat value and I once had him kill a whole enemy squad by himself with his samurai sword.
Another hallmark of a good wargame is generating memorable stories.
No one is willing to fight for THEIR COUNTRY anymore. At best, they'll fight for a paycheck. Even the American SF demands a paycheck. Though after this stung, the associated honor of joining the American SF is going to be pretty substantive for a few years. Maybe Americans will hold the unique global position of holding soldiers who fight for honor and dignity above mere dollars. That's a hell of a position to be in when the rest of the world mostly lacks those traits.
Brilliant take on how endless scrolling kills coherent identity. The idea that Maduro "cultivated defeatedness" through TikTok dancing before the actual confrontation is kinda wild but tracks. I've noticed this pattern in corporate settings too where people spend so much time perfomring competence on LinkedIn that actual execution becomes secondary. The Hegelain slave framework fits perfectly here because the psycological submission happens way before any real conflict.
> "Is this fourth generation warfare’s proxy dynamic? Rival powers hurl developing-world populations at each other like Pokémon, compelling them to battle for abstract ideals they can’t comprehend? Or a real-world Dota 2, treating locals as low-level mobs while middle-class white men pose as elite heroes with superior skills?"
Expanding off of your Dota 2 analogy, Dota 2 is won by maintaining map control and momentum until the opposing side becomes so overwhelmed that their key structures collapse.
Countries that are the result of imperialism can be viewed as lanes populated with automatons, npc creepwaves, that are a safe and easy source of resources for Heroes in the early phases of the grand game. Later on in the game though, lanes are no longer seen as a boon, but a burden constantly needing to be maintained. Heroes need to constantly populate the lanes to relieve pressure by killing and pushing out creepwaves. If a lane is ignored, it now becomes an avenue of how someone can lose.
Venezuela is essentially a lane that was ignored by OPEC+. No heroes populated Venezuela because the responsibility of a hero was given to a npc Dota 2 creep in Maduro (or whoever was available to take his place for that matter). The United States pushed in the lane based off of a manufactured fentanyl pretext, and seized map control.
Now the heroes of OPEC who are China and Russia, have one less avenue to exchange cheap oil, skirting around sanctions.
I really agree with your depitcion of Maduro but his capture oozes fake from every hole and pore.
He knew that China wouldn't have done nothing and so Russia, that has more serious shit going on in Donbas.
He knew and was preparing this since US started bombing venezuelan boats and capturing oil tankers.
Also if Venezuela stops giving oil to China guess who benefits? Exactly, uncle Vova!
Nobody moved a finger, so he, being the fat slop that is, only thought about saving his ass and his wife's.
About this, i've read opinions of NATO international top brasses and they point out that the weirdest thing is that also his wife was being extracted. Family in this kind of operations is always a problem, not the objective. There is no point for Delta force to care about a 70 year old fugly puke inducing woman whose only merit is sucking Maduro's balls and has no political relevance, unless the mission is to extract (not capture&extract) the president and his wife who turned in after a deal with US.
It all looks so fake.
And hear this: if US says that Maduro's government is illegittimate, why on the presidential seat right now sits the vice president of the same government? Is the CIA retarded? Of course not.
I'm 100% sure that Maduro was paid/promised to be paid and he'll be treated well because he will collaborate and guide Venezuelan transition to give US concessions on oil extraction, like it happened in Guyana.
Maduro did what he did in NY court because he's playing the part of the destituted legittimate president of a country, but in reality he doesn't give a shit about Venezuelan people or Bolivarism/Chavism or whatever the fuck is called.
Glo - your wisdom and good scam life rest on our pillars. The 90s are ending, sorry you missed the best parts. You don’t last a week outside of our 🇺🇸 world… and we’re changing the rules. Sorry to get serious. We’re 🇺🇸 the landlord and we’re coming for the rent.
And slacker nomad doesn’t get far in Russia or China, the only real alternatives.
You’re funny as fuck, but you’re giving bad advice.
Is that true about the Makarov? Sounds made-up. I have one(Bulgarian) and that thing is a great pistol that goes bang every time you pull the trigger, which is more than you can say for many guns.
The old Avalon Hill game up Front had a Commissar personality card who gave a +1 morale boost to the whole squad (because they were afraid of him) and the amusing chrome rule of whenever a man was pinned, you had to randomly check which man in the squad he was watching. If it was the man who was cowering, the commissar executed him with his pistol.
A great game, outstanding example of design for effect, with the Russians your men really were disposable, you could take huge losses and still win. The Americans were clumsy but resource-rich while the Germans were high-tech and tactically brilliant. All done with a few elegant rules and a deck of cards that long predated Magic: the Gathering.
Your ability to form written sentences, but still be utterly retarded is incredible.
What's retarded? Up Front is still highly regarded today as one of the best squad-level wargames ever made. The card deck is incredibly well designed and the game runs itself with the players making lots of decisions, which is how a wargame should be. There are also Japanese, French and Italian expansion sets, the Japanese have high morale which makes them not quit but are easily killed. If your squad is pinned, you can declare a Banzai attack which rallies them all at the same time but requires them to charge the enemy and enter close combat. Usually they all get mowed down by the Marine BARs but if they get to relative range 0 they can win the game. One personality card, the sergeant, is particularly high in close combat value and I once had him kill a whole enemy squad by himself with his samurai sword.
Another hallmark of a good wargame is generating memorable stories.
No one is willing to fight for THEIR COUNTRY anymore. At best, they'll fight for a paycheck. Even the American SF demands a paycheck. Though after this stung, the associated honor of joining the American SF is going to be pretty substantive for a few years. Maybe Americans will hold the unique global position of holding soldiers who fight for honor and dignity above mere dollars. That's a hell of a position to be in when the rest of the world mostly lacks those traits.
Brilliant take on how endless scrolling kills coherent identity. The idea that Maduro "cultivated defeatedness" through TikTok dancing before the actual confrontation is kinda wild but tracks. I've noticed this pattern in corporate settings too where people spend so much time perfomring competence on LinkedIn that actual execution becomes secondary. The Hegelain slave framework fits perfectly here because the psycological submission happens way before any real conflict.
The idea of cultivation of defeatedness comes from Kojeve Introduction To The Reading Of Hegel. Highly recommend
> "Is this fourth generation warfare’s proxy dynamic? Rival powers hurl developing-world populations at each other like Pokémon, compelling them to battle for abstract ideals they can’t comprehend? Or a real-world Dota 2, treating locals as low-level mobs while middle-class white men pose as elite heroes with superior skills?"
Expanding off of your Dota 2 analogy, Dota 2 is won by maintaining map control and momentum until the opposing side becomes so overwhelmed that their key structures collapse.
Countries that are the result of imperialism can be viewed as lanes populated with automatons, npc creepwaves, that are a safe and easy source of resources for Heroes in the early phases of the grand game. Later on in the game though, lanes are no longer seen as a boon, but a burden constantly needing to be maintained. Heroes need to constantly populate the lanes to relieve pressure by killing and pushing out creepwaves. If a lane is ignored, it now becomes an avenue of how someone can lose.
Venezuela is essentially a lane that was ignored by OPEC+. No heroes populated Venezuela because the responsibility of a hero was given to a npc Dota 2 creep in Maduro (or whoever was available to take his place for that matter). The United States pushed in the lane based off of a manufactured fentanyl pretext, and seized map control.
Now the heroes of OPEC who are China and Russia, have one less avenue to exchange cheap oil, skirting around sanctions.
I really agree with your depitcion of Maduro but his capture oozes fake from every hole and pore.
He knew that China wouldn't have done nothing and so Russia, that has more serious shit going on in Donbas.
He knew and was preparing this since US started bombing venezuelan boats and capturing oil tankers.
Also if Venezuela stops giving oil to China guess who benefits? Exactly, uncle Vova!
Nobody moved a finger, so he, being the fat slop that is, only thought about saving his ass and his wife's.
About this, i've read opinions of NATO international top brasses and they point out that the weirdest thing is that also his wife was being extracted. Family in this kind of operations is always a problem, not the objective. There is no point for Delta force to care about a 70 year old fugly puke inducing woman whose only merit is sucking Maduro's balls and has no political relevance, unless the mission is to extract (not capture&extract) the president and his wife who turned in after a deal with US.
It all looks so fake.
And hear this: if US says that Maduro's government is illegittimate, why on the presidential seat right now sits the vice president of the same government? Is the CIA retarded? Of course not.
I'm 100% sure that Maduro was paid/promised to be paid and he'll be treated well because he will collaborate and guide Venezuelan transition to give US concessions on oil extraction, like it happened in Guyana.
Maduro did what he did in NY court because he's playing the part of the destituted legittimate president of a country, but in reality he doesn't give a shit about Venezuelan people or Bolivarism/Chavism or whatever the fuck is called.
Im greatful that my paranoid conspiratorial article put me in touch with Amazing men like you who share my (negative) energy and enthusiasm.
Came here for red pills, got ALSO paranoid conspiratorial articles
Not disappointed at all
Btw, thanks to your link i've read something by Constantin von Hoffmeister, 5 days ago he restacked this:
https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/venezuela-and-the-narcotic-of-spectacle
Enjoy
Pretty sure that music he was dancing to physically damaged my brain
Glo - your wisdom and good scam life rest on our pillars. The 90s are ending, sorry you missed the best parts. You don’t last a week outside of our 🇺🇸 world… and we’re changing the rules. Sorry to get serious. We’re 🇺🇸 the landlord and we’re coming for the rent.
And slacker nomad doesn’t get far in Russia or China, the only real alternatives.
You’re funny as fuck, but you’re giving bad advice.
Think it over,