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Missiles are dumb, war is dumb, killing 100 people is dumb
They'd be alive today if Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin is dumb
That's not that the commenter said. You can abhor the death of 100 people, and still commend Ukraine for defending itself.
Those soldiers were most likely high value targets. They aren't going to wast high value weapons on grunts. Their elimination would likely save the lives of many Ukrainian civilians.
You can but they didn't. Sometimes it's worth the extra effort to also write "Putin is dumb."
Armies and invasion are dumb
a lot of these Russian soldiers don't want to fight. when you hear 100 soldiers dead, it's not 100 Putins. it's just 100 regular people like you and me in a fucked up situation. good for Ukraine for protecting themselves, but "wiped out 100 russian troops" sounds like you're killing ants. they're still people.
Right now we should care about the Ukrainian casualties because they are the ones defending themselves against Russian occupation. Russian soldiers are part of an invading force and the fewer Russian troops the sponer the war will end. It does not matter how many are there willingly or not when they are part of an occupying force.
We can care about the conscripted Russian soldiers who were forced to fight against their will after the war.
Maybe in 2022 or early 2023. But it’s increasingly people who sign up because it pays well (archive.is link to bloomberg article, telegram link if you understand Russian).
sounds like a lot of people joined because of the concert attack and Russian saying it was Ukraine.
Only professional and volunteers in Ukraine.. contractniki. Conscripts are used to fill homeland positions.
Granted.. some are voluntold.. but I would not characterize it as "a lot" but "some"..
Counting the volunteers who went to war willingly only to find themselves as cannon fodder and now regret their decision as "don't want to fight" is not correct.. because if properly supplied or when easily winning these guys would be wiping out ukranians with a smile on their face.
If they don't want to die they're free to march on the Kremlin, instead. Kremlin guards have fewer weapons than the Ukrainian army.
Imagine you’re in Russia. You see every person who was ever a real threat to the government die or disappear. You can’t flee the country. A coup is highly unlikely; Prigozhin just tried it and the plane he was on mysteriously blew up. You don’t have a lot of options. Makes sense to take your chances against Ukraine than try to overthrow the Russian military/government.
What really needs to happen is for war law to be changed to allow heads of state and government buildings to be targeted. Then they’d be a lot more careful about going to war.
Not in a strategic sense, no, because Kremlin guards are still less well armed than Ukraine. The trouble, of course, is that people are too scared to make that kind of cool-headed analysis but as soon as there's a crack in the regime because, say, Omon can't respond to lesser incidents because they're lying in a ditch in Ukraine the dam would break. Which OTOH is rather unlikely to happen because regime security is Putin's #1 concern, he'd let go of Ukraine before risking it, so he won't kill off their response capability like that. He may be mad but he's not crazy.
Bad idea. If Putin loses, the Siloviki have a good justification for a coup. If Putin gets assassinated, they'd be forced to declare him a martyr and continue the fight.
And Ukraine thinks the same or the SBU would already have gotten to him. They're also not touching the likes of Shoigu, they only target competent people: The more of a clown show the Russian regime is the easier the war becomes.
Okay, but what if I told you the missile guys were the Good Guys and the dead guys were the Bad Guys?
Maybe I could even establish that Good Guys got more points, so they are now Winning?
Are you against Good Guys Winning?
Good guys and bad guys are dumb
Go ahead and say that again, dirtbag.
Team America was dumb but hilarious
sad how easily people can be made to celebrate the death of 100 people they know nothing about.
While I agree with your point in general, I too «celebrate» russian soldiers being eliminated.
The pure, evil brutality their countrymen have shown the world in the last two years is beyond comprehension.
So I guess it’s more celebrating every Ukranian who gets to live because these men died, if that makes sense.
I’d much prefer they get to go home of course. I think most of us do.
People are dumb