@bucho@lemmy.one How do you think the war is going buddy? Fingers crossed the meatgrinder will continue and even more will die?
This was one of the funniest things posted here.
The reason Ukraine isn’t winning is the realities on the ground, but in my head they’re much cooler than the Russian army and that could pay off eventually.
I wanted to post the old callout thread too, but it got nuked with the rest of my account. It was great though, so many libs coming in to argue that they loved Ukraine which is why they wanted ukrainians to fight to the last
Edit: I guess you can still find it on test.hexbear.net, which is a bit disconcerting
NATO tactics assume no mines and air superiority
Wow it turns out basing your entire military doctrine around oppressing poor farmers and workers in the global south means you’ll struggle in a peer conflict, who could’ve forseen this
NATO tactics assume no, or very few mines
I’m hoping this is actually true and not just armchair-general speculation, because it would be hilarious.
Especially stupid because the main killer of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan were IEDs. Over 20 years in the sandbox and they didn’t think other countries would create something more sophisticated than fertilizer and a cell phone?
Exactly, didn’t the US military have a whole new line of combat vehicle specifically to deal with all that?
Reading the history of prior MRAP-like vehicles is an escalating series of . Originally conceived of by Rhodesia’s military, with a lot of further development by apartheid-era South Africa, especially by their police.
tbh all this talk about “tactics” and “doctrines” sounds like complete bullshit to me. There isn’t a military in the world that knows exactly what it’s doing or how to fight a modern war
NATO doctrine relies on air superiority, immediately falls apart when that’s not true Still superior to their opponents though
is an incredible emoji, thank you
