xerxes xerxes:
Thanos Thanos:
Hopefully there's some brave Ukrainian journalists, or even just regular citizens, doing something that should break the hearts of every parent in Russia. Go out and take videos & pictures of the bodies the invaders are leaving behind as they retreat and put them online under the simple title of "The Dead of Russia". I can't think of anything more devastating to the Russian populace, and unfortunately it's something that is needed to set in motion the internal mechanism that would lead to Putin's downfall.
It’s not a new thing on Russia's part though.
I remember from the war with Chechnya, reading about Russian soldiers lamenting how they left their fallen comrades on the battlefield whereas in Afghanistan they went back for them.
I think that as the Soviet Union, in that period of time, they were at the height of their military strength and they carried themselves with a certain pride & dignity just from being the spearhead of a superpower. This gave them an esprit de corps that the current Russian army is completely lacking. They're not fighting for the "rodina" (motherland) this time around, they're being thrown away like they're garbage by a government of disgusting gangsters. The Red Army of the past was highly trained for the most part and fought with effective combined-force tactics. These poor doomed bastards that Putin's sent into Ukraine though? They're coming across like they were press-ganged off the streets by the police and put into uniform under open threat of being shot by their own government if they resist.
I can't recall in my entire life seeing a military break down in war like this. Maybe the Iraqis but there was no way in hell they were going to hold up for long when the US unleashed their full military machine on them. With the Russians right now it's like the opening scene of Enemy At The Gates all over again, where the half of the conscripts got sent into Stalingrad completely unarmed and had to pick up rifles from those who had already been killed in front of them, and/or got gunned down by the filth in the NKVD political police if they tried to retreat.
Anyone can say what they want about the US and their various foreign policy debacles like Vietnam or Afghanistan. America's enemies, like the North Vietnamese and the Taliban, might have been victorious in the end but the US military was never outright embarrassed in the field the way the Russians in Ukraine have been over the last month. American failures always result from bad policy generated by ideologue stooges in the CIC's White House but their military personnel always do the best damn job they can, no matter how shitty the people in the civilian part of command structure too often turn out to be.
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