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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

doing my duty by brigading (commenting on the number 1 post on all)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (20 children)

No shit. Western training and equipment is not fit for purpose. Acting as a colonial cop by bombing with impunity ≠ attacking the strongest defensive lines of the 21st century. All their wunderwaffe just gets blown up by mines or drones.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (134 children)

Somewhere in the Pentagon there surely must be a series of rooms isolated for this war. In them intelligence is gathered, counterparts in Ukraine can be in instant contact, resources from both armies are tracked, tactics are formulated, simulations are run. How do I know this? Because this would be too good of a learning opportunity to pass up.

And those folks ain't talking.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (39 children)

For sure. Thinking of this war as a giant test ground for defense industry ghouls to experiment on is horrifying

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (113 children)

Haters gonna hate. Still though, they'll need to be cordial if some of these critics are also paying Ukrainian bills. Being rude is the fast track to falling out of favor with foriegn taxpayers.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pretty telling that the new line being fed to NATO worshippers is 'don't say anything critical about our objective failures'. This is, ironically, the same message Goebbels pushed when failures began to mount on the eastern front after Stalingrad and then Kursk. As the Soviet steamroller continued to Berlin, the line in the media was 'it is unpatriotic to say we are losing'. And then they lost.

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