Thread 64423329

Did the Russian Spetsnaz ever fight the IRA?

>>64423329 (OP)
No, and I'm pretty sure the Soviets gave the IRA weapons during the troubles.

>>64423329 (OP)
Only in deadliest warrior (not even).

Whats your favorite episode of deadliest warrior /k/boys

what the hell
there's operator models?

>>64423431
what else are you supposed to jizz on?

>>64423329 (OP)
>ninja vs spartan
>viking vs samurai
>apache vs gladiator
>knight vs pirate
what retarded matchups

>>64423379
Roosevelt vs Lawrence

>>64423379
The early ones are best
Viking vs samurai cuz of the weeby arrogant samurai expert
Spartan vs ninja cuz of the wacky fight
All the modern/gun ones suck
All the hero ones suck except vlad vs sun tzu

>>64423431
They're just overpriced GI Joes. I miss Ultimate Soldier. They did a bunch of historically accurate kits for pretty reasonable prices.

>>64423379
Haven't seen that show in ages, not since I was in middle school. I remember the Taliban vs. IRA and the Green Beret vs. Spetsnaz being hype.

>>64423359
On that note, why is(are?) The Troubles never characterized as a Cold War conflict? They ended in the 90s, for God's sake.

>>64423717
>They're just overpriced GI Joes

Woah!

>>64423359
This, the USSR would back any rebellion in the west and funded the IRA but never got directly involved.
Sometimes bad actors do good deeds by geopolitical chance.

>>64423752
Because the IRA was founded 3 years before the USSR existed and had fought under other names for decades before that.

>>64423752
It's just an evolution of an old and near continuous conflict with semi-coherent political goals. It certainly happened during that period, but side from being used a vehicle for major players, had little to do with the aims and goals of those players. Ultimately, ending the paramilitary stage of conflict was a net positive for Britain, but only due to uncharacteristic shifts in both British and Irish sympathies, so it's hard to say if who gained what if it was directed by the US/USSR

>>64423431
there are HUNDREDS of them

>>64423789
The Troubles didn't properly kick off until the late 60s.
>>64423808
You could say the same about any number of post-colonial wars, yet academics have no quarrels sometimes describing them as Cold War conflicts.

Let me be clear, I am not saying that the Troubles happened just because of the Cold War. Conflict in Northern Ireland was in all likelihood inevitable in the 20th century. I am just saying that it is clear that The Troubles was shaped by the wider Cold War, and should be presented by academics within that wider context.

>>64423752
>is(are?)
Were. 'Is' and 'are' are present tense, 'was' and 'were' are past tense.

>>64423878
I was talking about people talking about the Troubles today, so present tense is perfectly appropriate.

>>64423837
It kicked off in the 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Troubles_in_Great_Britain
As for being related no, the Poms had been stepping on the Paddies for a long time and Bloody Sunday was the tipping point that lead to a real insurgency.
For wars that are considered related they are all over trying to force either communism or capitalism on countries to form geopolitical alliances. While the IRA later leaned commie that was more about working class unity than actually forming a command economy as the Irish were historically workers exploited by british aristocracy.

You might as well try arguing that the push to tax the rich today is a communist plot rather than the working class just getting pissed at upward wealth transfer under neoliberalism pricing them out of housing,

>>64423900
>It kicked off in the 70s.
Fair enough. For me, the Battle of the Bogside in '69 was the start.
>As for being related no, the Poms had been stepping on the Paddies for a long time and Bloody Sunday was the tipping point that lead to a real insurgency.
>For wars that are considered related they are all over trying to force either communism or capitalism on countries to form geopolitical alliances.
Hmm. You might've changed my mind. I still feel that the temporal relationship of The Troubles to the Cold War doesn't get its fair due. The British troops deployed to NI were equipped and trained in an environment of getting ready to slug it out with the Soviets in northern Germany.

On a side note, found this kino picrel.
I'm finding it weirdly inconvenient to find good pictures of the BA in NI. Why was everyone using black and white cameras so much?