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[–] 21 points 3 days ago

If only there was already a Greek mythological shield which offered divine protection that they could have named this after...

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  • [–] 67 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    His shield was really fancy, to be fair. The main lesson is that when you dip your baby in invincibility juice you need to swap the ankle you’re holding them by and dip again.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Eh, just wait for the hair to grow out, then hold the baby by the hair, dip it, then you shave the hair off.

    Boom, done.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Why not dip your hand in the water also? What was the issue with doing that?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    You still wouldn't get the bits of ankle covered by the fingers

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    But wouldn't that double the invincibility and cancel out so you get a guy that can be harmed everywhere except the heel?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Wonder where they build these two huge boats, which are almost half as big as Crete.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    No your perspective is all wrong. Those are normal sized boats. They shrunk the country to make it easier to protect.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 days ago

    So... The heel is netanyahu's mood on any given day? Yknow, killswitch and all that?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Who's gonna be throwing missiles at greece?

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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    We saw that the Nazisraeli system can be overwhelmed by quantity- and guess who’s one of the foremost producers of drones in the region? Why it’s ole’ Türkiye, Greece’s archnemesis! Achilles Shield is right, lol

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    In case anyone thinks "archnemesis" is a hyperbole.

    EU warna Turkey after violating Greek airspace 141 times in one day.
    Article Link.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Considering Turkey carried out a genocide on the Greek people of Asia Minor I would hope nobody doubts that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    The foundational myth of Turkey revolves around the time Greece tried to genocide them immediately after forming from the ruins of the Ottomans, based on a (then) century old irredentist screed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megali_Idea

    The last time this was seriously pushed has been a bit though, when a literal fascist junta overthrew Greek democracy after they didn't like an election.

    That junta was the cause of the Cyprus crisis, after they planned to genocide the Turks living on the island and seize it entirely... And of course, after Turkey crushed those clowns, they immediately tried to seize Cyprus for themselves.

    The point isn't that Turkey is innocent, the Pontic genocide might have been started by the Ottomans but Ataturk certainly didn't bother stopping it, it's that pretending they're the sole aggressor in this feud because of a century old crime with no attention paid to Greek reprisals is showing a very obvious, and very obviously sourced, bias.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    Technically true: the success rate of hitting missiles with missiles will never be 100%. And even if the defender is successful he will have lost at least 2 missiles for each one incoming. Which is a win for the attacker.

    The name is quite fitting.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I'm starting a business selling cheap attack drone swarms. Think I'll call it... Heel.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I thought Greece was broke as fuck. They're buying missiles now?

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  • I think I found the weak point guys.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    Well, an almost invincible guy that had only this one weak spot...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    No one tell them!

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