Noboa was born in the US and is a US citizen. He also received his undergraduate degree at a US college, and received his masters degree from Harvard.
He is an American businessman sent to infiltrate Equador under the guise of being Equadorian due to his heritage.
Not really, the US targeted the centrifuge software with a virus that caused them to self destruct. Iran still buys the centrifuges but reprograms them using a homemade software instead of using the default manufacturers software.
They will simply write off any child or non-combatant casualties as “acceptable losses”, or more insidiously, count them as killed combatants similar to how they’ve marked children in Gaza.
For reference, due to the inefficiency of cellphones and computers, especially near extremely sensitive equipment and in hospitals with many floors that block wifi signals, pagers are the standard communication devices in hospitals.
I have no doubt that hundreds of the casualties reported were nurses, doctors, and EMTs.
If any nation sold thousands of handheld bombs to hospitals and civilians in the US, Congress would mobilize the nation for war before the end of the day.
I’m getting vaporized if I stay where I am currently 🥰
Nuclear power plants, military logistics, rail hub, military bases, airports, governmental apparati, chemical industry, weapons manufacturing plants…
I’m getting turned to dust by multiple warheads in the first strike : (
China and Vietnam still has a VAT tax system based off of the Soviet system as well
Oh, I agree, and I wasn’t disputing that Google is a scummy IDF supporting company.
I was just saying that the research wasn’t Tel Aviv University’s. He was just a contributor to the project.
This research didn’t come from there. Arar is a traveling PhD student who contributed to the research team while studying in the United States, the research is entirely google’s.
Still leaves a bad taste in your my though.
Their source is Mike Benz… on the Tucker Carlson podcast?
Really pulling out the irrefutable sources I see.
True, but that’s not displayed as inherent to the Soviets or even unreasonable to a degree. The German brutality is talked about and displayed frequently, and the actions of the Soviets are displayed as a righteous anger in response to an invasion and suffering at the hands of an incredibly evil enemy. War is hell, and I feel that the game demonstrated the brutality of the conflict well. The US and Japan also shown engaging in that same brutality in the Pacific Campaign, so its not something unique to the Soviet missions.
Even then, moments like the one you talk about are rare, and preceded by a lot of context. For example, the scene where the group of SS soldiers attempt to surrender and you have the option to burn or shoot them, comes directly after an entire mission of that SS unit fighting savagely and repeatedly killing captured or surrendered Soviet troops, and then only surrendering because they attempted to escape into the metro system but were cut off and surrounded.
Or even the scene at the beginning of “Their land, their blood”, where Rheznov gives you the option of shooting the Germans bleeding out on the floor, comes after those same Germans beat you, a captured soldier, senseless, and were preparing to execute you. Which they were only prevented in doing because of the Red Army’s arrival.
To answer your question, Call of Duty 2 is alright. You’ll run into some tropes here or there, but nothing egregious. Mainly stuff along the lines of your officer giving you potatoes to use for throwing practice instead of training grenades. The game is a simple, fun, arcade shooter.
Call of Duty 1 is much much worse and I would stay away from it, mainly because its very unpolished and not fun.
The USSR did not actually kill retreating men in the field. Blocking detachments were mainly made up of the worst soldiers in a unit and were primarily used to round up malingerers and send them back to the front. There were also roughly 100-250 men in each blocking detachment, and each group was expected to enforce no-retreat orders on a regiment of roughly 40,000-50,000 men. The primary politcal goal of blocking detachments was to persuade officers from ordering panicked retreats in order to prevent the front line from collapsing. If individual units needed to fall back, they would be allowed to.
If a solider was suspected of serious desertion, they would be arrested and tried under court martial, not shot on the spot.
The only caveat to this is that Penal troops were followed by armed NKVD officers which would kill them on the spot for attempting to either surrender to the Germans, or escape from captivity.
Early in the war, Germany overran many Soviet divisions and their armament stockpiles leaving many troops without ammunition and oftentimes even rifles. This led to many Soviet divisions that survived the initial invasion being woefully under-equipped and significantly weaker then they appeared on paper; which in turn, led to further military disasters, notably around Minsk and Kiev.
However, by the start of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, these logistical failures had been fixed for months and no longer plagued Soviet front line units. In fact, the Southern front had an overabundance of weapons and ammunition, and a severe lack of manpower due to the fighting around Leningrad and Moscow sucking up all available reserves.
What you are looking for is Call of Duty: World at War. You have two campaigns, one being American and focused on the Pacific, and the second being Soviet and focused on the Eastern Front.
From what I remember, there is very little, if any, historical revisionism or state department propaganda, so you won’t run into something along the lines of the Soviets randomly committing war crimes to show how “barbaric” they are or other garbage similar to that. The American campaign also doesn’t just hype America up to be this unstoppable war machine that was single-handedly responsible for winning WW2.
Every so often I’ll go back and replay the game due to how incredibly cathartic they make mowing down droves of Nazis. Storming the Reichstag is definitely my favorite part by far from both campaigns. Just watching the Nazi Eagle get hit with a rocket before tumbling down from the rafters and crushing the SS men taking cover behind Hitler’s podium is amazing. Not to mention the ending scene itself.
The resource that made the Me-262 impractical to produce and maintain wasn’t primarily the specialized fuel, it was the nickel, cobalt, and molybdenum used to construct and coat the inside of the engine to make the structural aluminum and steel resistant to the temperatures the jet engines would generate.
That is also another reason why many of the 1,200 jets constructed by the Germans never flew simultaneously. They were simply airframes with no engines attached, damaged engines, or engines that had been sent out without the internal protective coating, making them little more then one time use party tricks.
I really loved the Professor Layton series. They were technically very impressive for the limited hardware of the DS. Fully voiced and animated cutscenes, with a deep and immersive story, loaded to the brim with interesting mini games and side games so fleshed out they could be their own standalone titles.
I also loved Steel Diver, never been able to find anything like it!
This is how you get useless arms races that suck up resources and manpower that could be used to support the population and economy.
Also because of the sheer amount of doctors and researchers in the region tracking the disease and immediately isolating anyone infected.
One of the few good things about the UN. Their epidemiology teams and field clinics are invaluable and save the lives of hundreds of thousands a year. Genuinely good people risking their lives to better humanity.
Older generations will just say it’s like “chicken pox” and to get over it.
They’re weighing their options. Its blatantly obvious that Israel is baiting a war with Lebanon so that they can call the US in for direct assistance, which will lead to a protracted and costly war for Lebanon. The silence is deafening however, and Lebanon will need to respond somehow.