>The two-finger peace sign, also known as the “V” sign, has different meanings in different cultures. In the United States and many other countries, it is often seen as a symbol of peace or victory1. However, in some countries like the UK, Australia, and South Africa, if the “V” sign is made with the back of the hand facing the other person, it can be considered extremely insulting2.
I'm..... demoralized?
they're not anglos dude, they probably only vaguely understand the lore behind the V.
That goes for most people, even historically. Some used it for victory, others used it as a peace sign, while others supposedly used it as an insult. Nixon did the front facing version with both hands, while Churchill did the single hand version with his palm both facing away from himself and towards himself, even if that was supposedly controversial in his time.
Then again, you never know with that cheeky, fat c**t.
Was that the guy that got fired?
He does the v-sing all the time. That and hearts.
0/10
Why does this matter? It usually just mean peace and victory. There is no deeper meaning.
>syrksyi appointed as commander-in-chief
it's unironically over
Seems like he actually put Syrskyj in charge. It's so fricking over...
QRD on Syrskyi
During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Syrskyi initially organised and led the defense of Kyiv.
In April 2022, Syrskyi was given the Hero of Ukraine award for his efforts. In September 2022, media reported that Syrskyi as the architect behind the successful Kharkiv counteroffensive.
Sounds good.
OK as General.
Has fought the ruskies straight from the beginning, solid military career, probably will do OK job. That quiet, professional dude at the background, who always returns paperwork on time, but is not afraid to get his hands dirty either. Has been part of highest military command for some time now. Less charismatic and iconic, but knows the job.
Here seen with General Potato during the defense of Kyiv.
Quite down-to-earth and realist when it comes to war and strategy.
The sort of "blood-sweat-and-tears" kind of guy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66225691
here's a story with him from last July.
The dude that doesn't give a frick about losses. He's was the main reason for inordinate amount of losses for Ukraine under Bakhmut.
Bakhmut was a fine place to bleed out Russia and its proxies and it did so excellently seeing as it lasted for over a year and knocked Wagner (and god knows how many tens of thousands of Russians) out of the war with comparatively few Ukrainian losses.
There is a fair argument to be made that they stayed in the city too long and should have pulled out to avoid the urban warfare while surrounded on three flanks. That's where the ratios became less favourable.
>while surrounded
They we-
>on three flanks
Then they're not surrounded then.
Russia can afford to lose its convicts and steppe mongoloids. If anything they are a drain to the economy when alive
Meanwhile Ukraine lost its best troops just so the map would remain blue a bit more, and they are currently suffering for it
>Russia can afford to lose its convicts and steppe mongoloids
can it? Last time you tried that under Bakhmut it almost instigated RCWG when pringles went on a rampage and discovered very fast there was jack and fricking shit between him at rostov on don and moscow
Monke escaped razors edge that pringles was a moron who cucked out at the last second
>Russia can afford to lose its convicts and steppe mongoloids.
No, no it really can't. Russia already has a severe manpower shortage in its economy.
>Meanwhile Ukraine lost its best troops
No, that was Russia in the first year of the war. Ukraine meanwhile has been able to consistently preserve its veteran troops and rotate them regularily so that they could share their experience with newcomers and convert it from personal to institutional experience.
>and they are currently suffering for it
They're currently massacring the ziggers at such a rate that they will literally exterminate Russias entire male population before Ukraine gets even close to suffering real manpower issues themselves.
Like Russia didnt lose most of its best troops at the start of the war. Reminder VDV basically was destroyed they even depleted Pskov VDV units that "protect" their western nato border. 1st guard tank army what was their "elite" tank unit suppose to destroy nato was destroyed. Their most modern navy ships in Black Sea were sunken.
The last few months there was a shitshow, and the last three weeks were genuinely a disaster and we were being sent on suicide missions with no objective beyond "uh try to slow them down or something idk."
At the same time it was that pressure which caused the Wagner coup and nearly caused the collapse of Russia.
Nearly doesn't count.
Ffs prig you giant pussy
>inordinate amount of losses for Ukraine under Bakhmut
May we see them?
Yes that argument falls apart when one realises that these mythical "less favourable" ratios are mostly the product of zigger propaganda and the ziggers continued to get slaughtered right to the end. You're trying to push literal vatnik propaganda on us here, either because you're a zigger or because you've fallen hard for it yourself.
Your average soviet general with red army style operations
The Ukranian General Grant
So
>Pretty based all things considered
>Will get the job done
>Likes a drink
>Will leave the other side screeching about how shit he was for centuries (after they lost to him)
?
Thw craziest thing Grant is that General Sherman and Lee both admitted in written and oral testimony that Grant was a better General than them in tactics and as an upstanding person. But their fanboys shit on him.
>Soviet military trained
>Artillery experience
>NATO co-op experience (hopefully learned to replace the suckiest of Soviet doctrine)
>made changes to Ukraine army to get it into NATO-standards in 2013
From the Russian perspective he is the traitor general who know all of their tricks but changed sides to fight for evil NATO. Prepare for maximum vatnik shitposting now. They are crying how the war is now totally OVER for Ukraine.
Reminder that vatBlack folk defended Surovikin and that moron who got promoted for getting BTFO in Vuhledar.
Good, this war needs to end. I want old /k/ back.
>100s of hours of russians dying
>kino footage of huge explosions
>/pol/schizos getting called out for trashing the board
this is the best /k/ has been in a long time
agreed tbh, and there are still plenty of personal firearm threads. All that changed was a bunch of unbelievably stale generals getting replaced with war. Even the vatnik and poltard shill threads are at least not boring
The extreme antireaction to the pol posters shits up the board too. It's annoying when one person shits everywhere. It's even more annoying when two people do it.
>WHICH IS BETTER FAWTY FAIVE EH SEA PEA OR NEIN MIL-E-METER /KAY/?
>I WANT TO FRICK A DEER
>[insert weapon is shit]
>[insert country is shit]
>[thinly veiled /misc/ thread]
>[thinly veiled PrepHole thread]
>/akg/
>/hgg/
>/arg/
>/gqg/
Yeah man, can't wait.
took a cursory glance at the catalog and all of those threads (excepting the deerfricking one, unfortunately) are up right now.
Then what are they moaning about. I've made several non-war threads over the last month and get plenty of posts.
they don't want to be mocked for being the shills and tourists they are, and so pretend to be oldgays for credibility.
You can be the change Anon.
Don't forget about the innawoods/skinwalker threads.
He already mentioned the deer fricking thread.
that's deer fricking.
You forgot the g(r)ay man thread. Yes, agent, I will definitely pay $500 for cop pants and dress like autistic Action Man in public.
I've been lurking /k/ since 2016 and this war has been the best thing for this board since then, finally something new and actually meaningful to discus instead of all the fricking /hgg/ gays posting the same pics of Beretta 92 all the time
Bullshit
/k/ has turned to garbage, it was always shit but is turbo shit now and the janny is a homosexual.
You can't even get all the war webms here.
>ziggers have to wade through BBC and troony threads on /gif/ to find reposted Russian Telegram vids
Top zozzle, CHADnitors.
you act like they would be upset about that
Post guns.
You are just an insurable reddit homosexual that has fricked this board up.
Insufferable*
>implying its not them and their turdie buddies posting said buck wieners and troony holes in the first place
Okay fine you have a point but to be fair this board has always been dogshit.
This guy isnt even Ukranian but Russian would be cool if the destroyes his home country
>Golly, another bullshit slide thread
Can anybody just tell the rest of us what enormous L the Russians took this time? Is this about that rocket fuel cookoff at the ICBM plant that made the Yars missiles, or was there something else?
No news from Adviivka in days, so ziggers started another internet counteroffensive.
I think it is probably that. they don't spam shit unless they are feeling humiliated. it's good to know they are suffering.
In almost every culture not tainted by Bongs it's just a generic peace/victory sign. Nobody gives a frick about your weird history regarding longbowmen.
To be fair I care about it, mainly so I know more ways to frick with bongs.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel today.
Did the jannies take a vacation today? The snowBlack folk are seeping in. Also, THIS ISN'T WEAPONS RELATED.
LMAO he's throwing up the V sign from Russian markings
Ukrainians in the highest offices realize they should not fight their brothers
Could you repeat that in English, Rajesh? Please do the needful and good morning.
>LMAO he's throwing up the V sign from Russian markings
>Ukrainians in the highest offices realize they should not fight their brothers
You read it wrong because you're notin the loop.
It's the activation signal for V troops who will now turn on the Ziggers and join Ukro before crossing the rubicon to coup Putin
>Syrskyj is a new CiC
I am of demoralized. I will immediately call my Republican Duma representative and tell them to immediately stop arming the Judeo-Nazi Banderite Regime.
Weapons?
feeling nervous pal?
Why should I pigger?
Conscription notice's in the mail, wienerlet.
>it can be considered extremely insulting
Yeah to the Jerrys.
Wow, I thought this was all a psyops by street shitters? What's going on /k/?
It's only offensive if you're thrusting the two fingers AT someone
like this, it's clearly V for Victory. Churchill, an actual bong, did it this way as well.
All this is very intresting and all... But we have to get an answer to the most important of questions!
What nickname will we give to this new General?
Super Potato was magnificent, but this new dude is a bit harder. poor jawline, very classic slavic facial features... Still very cunning, ambitious and experienced enough to rise through the ranks...
General Slytherin?
No
go back
I have literally never heard of that gesture being insulting, but hey, at least it's a new topic for your hourly slide thread
It’s /misc/ trying to meme it like they tried to turn the OK sign into something
/misc/ simultaneously believes the OK sign is Satanic (resembling the number 6) but also think it's based and redpilled.
It's almost like /misc/ is not one person
Contrary to /k/ where dissenting opinions are not allowed
Nah, it's an actual thing in the UK, it differs from the "V for Victory" in that the palm is towards you when you want to insult someone.
then why isn't he doing that in OP?
because he isn't an anglo and he probably isn't doing a V for victory either.
holding your hand like that is a pretty common thing to do when posing for a casual photo, makes you seem "hip" and "cool", as the kids would say.
Don't be stupid and drag /misc/ into this, It's an old insult in bongland.
>When displayed with the palm inward toward the signer, it can be an offensive gesture in some Commonwealth nations (similar to showing the middle finger), dating back to at least 1900. When given with the palm outward, it is to be read as a victory sign ("V for Victory"); this usage was introduced in January 1941 as part of a campaign by the Allies of World War II,
>A commonly repeated legend claims that the two-fingered salute or V sign derives from a gesture made by longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War, but no written historical primary sources support this contention.[26] This origin legend states that English archers believed that those who were captured by the French had their index and middle fingers cut off so that they could no longer operate their longbows, and that the V sign was used by uncaptured and victorious archers in a display of defiance against the French.
Russia truly cannot stop thinking about the Perfidious Albion.
But no one in this image is a bong, or even from a bong-adjacent country.
>But no one in this image is a bong
Perfideous Albion has talons pulling at every string.
There is no personage safe from their sinister influence and their pawns are everywhere.
>or even from a bong-adjacent country.
Every country with a coast is bong adjacent and that didn't stop then in Afghanistan either.
>insulting2
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What's Zaulzhny going to do now? Head up training operations or just retire completely?
Might well be that he gets an operational post.
Has anyone gotten Gerasimov's take on this issue?
He's blown away by the news.
His silence is a sign of approval
I see that someone had to take the blame for Avdeevka falling
>Avdeevka falling
and how much longer will that take?
14 days, give or take?
>14 days, give or take?
Two more weeks, only including business days, so 10 days at most.
>in some countries like the UK, Australia, and South Africa, if the “V” sign is made with the back of the hand facing the other person, it can be considered extremely insulting2
It's the most milquetoast hang gesture ausgays have.
Middle finger is considered "worse" though no hand gesture is very serious to Australians.
Two fingers would be considered funny, like Indians swearing "bloody frick bastard" funny, assuming it was obviously unironic
Is brown/misc/ having another meltdown?
A missile factory deep in russia is returning under it's own power
Why was someone in the moderation team so quick to delete any thread about this?
dunno, just checked in today and saw this thread
How come? Just yesterday /k/opers were saying the plan was trashed and Zaluzhny wouldn't be sacked. Looks like you got proven to be gay and moronic once again
>whataboutism
See?
I'm just laughing at you
I look like that and say that, problem?
You sure, bro? These slide threads didn’t appear out of nowhere for no reason.
/k/ also doesn’t have a majority demographic from third world slums.
Who cares as long the daily dose of TZD keeps on coming.
OH SHIT, I didn't know Ukraine was in the indo pacific. Either you or I must be moronic....
Daily reminder that the whole "Bakhmut is bleeding Ukraine dry" argument was invented by Priggy as a way to explain why his forces were taking months capturing a relatively small city
It's Verdun shit all over again
>/k/ is a board devoted to weapons and military equipment.