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Obets wrote:

A coincidence because soon, not yet, i will leave the Centrist Party and form a party called the Obets New Way

I feel like including your name in a political party is kinda stupid, no offense, it’s like if The Democrats Were Called The Biden Progressive Party

Obets wrote:

A coincidence because soon, not yet, i will leave the Centrist Party and form a party called the FNR New Way

Wow. And why are you leaving the Centrist Party?

7th June 1942 (79 years ago): Battle of Midway ends

On 7 June 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—comes to an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy.

In six months of offensives, the Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific, including Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and numerous island groups. The United States, however, was a growing threat, and Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet before it was large enough to outmatch his own. 2,000 kilometers northwest of Honolulu, the strategic island of Midway became the focus of his scheme to smash U.S. resistance to Japan’s imperial designs. Yamamoto’s plan consisted of a feint toward Alaska followed by an invasion of Midway by a Japanese strike force. When the U.S. Pacific Fleet arrived at Midway to respond to the invasion, it would be destroyed by the superior Japanese fleet waiting unseen to the west. If successful, the plan would eliminate the U.S. Pacific Fleet and provide a forward outpost from which the Japanese could eliminate any future American threat in the Central Pacific.

Unfortunately for the Japanese, U.S. intelligence broke the Japanese naval code, and the Americans anticipated the surprise attack. Three heavy aircraft carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were mustered to challenge the four heavy Japanese carriers steaming toward Midway. In early June, U.S. command correctly recognized a Japanese movement against Alaska’s Aleutian Islands as a diversionary tactic and kept its forces massed around Midway. On 3 June, the Japanese occupation force was spotted steaming toward the island, and B-17 Flying Fortresses were sent out from Midway to bomb the strike force but failed to inflict damage. Early in the morning on 4 June, a PBY Catalina flying boat torpedoed a Japanese tanker transport, striking the first blow of the Battle of Midway.

Later that morning, an advance Japanese squadron numbering more than 100 bombers and Zero fighters took off from the Japanese carriers to bomb Midway. Twenty-six Wildcat fighters were sent up to intercept the Japanese force and suffered heavy losses in their heroic defense of Midway’s air base. Soon after, bombers and torpedo planes based on Midway took off to attack the Japanese carriers but failed to inflict serious damage. The first phase of the battle was over by 7:00.

In the meantime, 300 kilometers to the northeast, two U.S. attack fleets caught the Japanese force entirely by surprise. Beginning around 9:30, torpedo bombers from the three U.S. carriers descended on the Japanese carriers. Although nearly wiped out, they drew off enemy fighters, and U.S. dive bombers penetrated, catching the Japanese carriers while their decks were cluttered with aircraft and fuel. The dive-bombers quickly destroyed three of the heavy Japanese carriers and one heavy cruiser. The only Japanese carrier that initially escaped destruction, the Hiryu, loosed all its aircraft against the American task force and managed to seriously damage the U.S. carrier Yorktown, forcing its abandonment. At about 17:00, dive-bombers from the U.S. carrier Enterprise returned the favor, mortally damaging the Hiryu. It was scuttled the next morning.

Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto still had numerous warships at his command, but without his carriers and aircraft he was forced to abandon his Midway invasion plans and begin a westward retreat. On 5 June, a U.S. task force pursued his fleet, but bad weather saved it from further destruction. On 6 June, the skies cleared, and U.S. aircraft resumed their assault, sinking a cruiser and damaging several other warships. After the planes returned to their carriers, the Americans broke off from the pursuit. Meanwhile, a Japanese submarine torpedoed and fatally wounded the Yorktown, which was in the process of being salvaged. It finally rolled over and sank at dawn on 7 June, bringing an end to the battle.

At the Battle of Midway, Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties. Japan’s losses hobbled its naval might–bringing Japanese and American sea power to approximate parity.

After Midway and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its losses in materiel (particularly aircraft carriers) and men (especially well-trained pilots and maintenance crewmen) rapidly became insufficient to cope with mounting casualties, while the United States' massive industrial and training capabilities made losses far easier to replace. The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.

The buryat ssr wrote:

Hello all! Just moved in here!

Hey, welcome to The Free Nations Region!

Obets wrote:

yo wsup

Not much... Some people who have played a certain mod for a certain game know what's coming judging by the name and flag

The buryat ssr wrote:

Hello all! Just moved in here!

Hello comrade and welcome.

Song of the day: https://youtu.be/0vH9FjGZ_Oc

Soap tips wrote:

IM MAKING A GREEN PARTY
AND NOBODY CAN STOP MEEEEE

Not if I do first
Btw I’m thinking of changing the CB’s name

Denolia wrote:

Well crud, since everyone’s making new political parties, guess I gotta make one.

We are now accepting new recruits for the Free Nations Region Organization of the Immortal Science Which Seeks the Development of a Libertarian Socialist, Syndicalist, Council Communist, Democratic Socialist, Social Democratic (Classical Definition), and Perhaps Anarchist or Otherwise Minded Society, Whose Members Consist of Individuals Determined to Abolish All Forms of Unjust Forms of Hegemony, and Also Really Dislike Raw Tomatoes (Seriously, That Stuff Belongs in a Sauce on Pasta or Pizza, Not on a Burger, Don’t @ Me) Party (Centrist Marxist Tendency)(Pro-SR)(Pro-FT)(Lorum Ipsum)… Party!

Or, for in other words, join the clearly best party of all, the FNROISWSDLSSCCDSSD(CD)PAOMSWMCIDAAFUFHARDRT(STSBSPPNBD@M)P(CMT)(P-SR)(P-FT)(LI)…P!

Any and all criticism will be met with a mental breakdown and me calling you a sectarian because I am unable to comprehend differing opinions, thank you for understanding.

Still on-compass, cringe

I'm just about to play the new Minecraft update!

Privyet i am zio emperor of bobbersonian ruler of waterbears and master of steaks *slides a perfectly cooked seasoned and seared steak onto the table along with a homebrew of a bobbersonian replacement for alchohol called micho*

Bob bobberson wrote:

Privyet i am zio emperor of bobbersonian ruler of waterbears and master of steaks *slides a perfectly cooked seasoned and seared steak onto the table along with a homebrew of a bobbersonian replacement for alchohol called micho*

Ugh, people are roleplaying again.