I have reused things for something that was not intended, but haven’t had this type of result. Sorry Russia. Bad idea.
OT: Repurposing gone wrong
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The guy that ducked was so damn lucky to not be killed. Then he put his hand on the barrel and probably got some serious burns.
In Soviet Russia, machine gun shoots YOU.
It’s been amazing to me that a big country like Russia has been unable to run over Ukraine. I guess this explains a lot.
Ukraine soldiers are defending their homes. Russian soldiers really don’t want to be there and would much rather be back in Russia doing something else.
Tangential to the topic... Russian losses in Ukraine are staggering and the curve is actually going up. 1,000 casualties per day. 300 KIA per day.. every day.. week after week.
1.4MM casualties, 450K KIA and counting.
Russia has lost more men in Ukraine than the US did in the entirety of WWII and it's all happened in an area about the size of Pennsylvania.
The endless number of videos on r/combatfootage is mind boggling. Dire warning though.. if you go there, just be prepared...
1.4MM casualties, 450K KIA and counting.
Russia has lost more men in Ukraine than the US did in the entirety of WWII and it's all happened in an area about the size of Pennsylvania.
The endless number of videos on r/combatfootage is mind boggling. Dire warning though.. if you go there, just be prepared...
Even more staggering and often lost in the historical noise is the fact that Russia lost some 27M people in WWII and 8-9M were military.
The only legit part of Russia's military is their nuclear triad. Even if only 10% of their arsenal is functional, that is enough. This is the same Russia that sent troops into a full assaults in WW2 with no weapons and instructions to pick one up off the ground when available and troops in the rear to shoot those who didn't advance. Tactics and preservation of lives isn't their strong suit.
I look forward to this turning into a four page thread of arguments somehow.
Yeah, can't watch. Brutal.
Russia supposedly has (or had) elite forces and equipmen that should have made easy work of Ukraine. You have to wonder if military leaders have been protecting their troops for private reasons or private patrons. It is bizarre how poorly the Kremlin has managed this operation.
The proof of the war would suggest Paper Tiger.
I really hope there's not too much argument that Russia = Bad. At least Putin's and Stalin's Russia. Some of the other leaders have been less bad or even moderately good. Those don't last long in Russia though.
They couldn't run over a small little country like Afghanistan w/ a rag tag bunch of guerilla fighters either. Wait, we didn't do so great ourselves, especially in the withdrawal
Russia for almost its entire history has not been a good offensive military power. They are great at defense though and alot of that is due to their climate and size. (almost impossible for invading armies to keep good logistical lines and the vaunted russian winters)
They're just generally not a very tactical or strategic peoples. More of a brute force and numbers type archetype.
Heck, even in the final year of WW2 when the wehrmacht was in their death throes and the red army at its zenith they were taking massive casualties at rates much larger than the germans. The germans at that point had a lot of older men and young teenage boys fighting with hardly any heavy weaponry either.
Right! And they kept going like it was another day. Day after day. Year after year. Of course a lot of it lies in their tactics/strategy. You will run out of people before we will. It worked. They took out about 4.5 million about 80% of German soldiers by casualty or capture.
I'm sure 99% of everyone has seen this video at some point, but it's an amazing piece and a great reminder of the toll the Second Great War took on the world.
This is an important point.
Russia is averaging more fatalities every 26 days than the US had in the entirety of its twenty years in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are averaging over 8,000 fatalities per month. We had 7,073 during the entirety of those conflicts.
Username DEFINITELY checks out, you guys
(Abomination of a movie though, really pissed me off. The man deserves a well-funded HBO series about his life not the trash Ridley Scott put out there)
Completely agree about the movie.
(Abomination of a movie though, really pissed me off. The man deserves a well-funded HBO series about his life not the trash Ridley Scott put out there)
It was absolute trash and as much about Josephine as him.
(Abomination of a movie though, really pissed me off. The man deserves a well-funded HBO series about his life not the trash Ridley Scott put out there)
Napoleon is responsible for the code which bares his name and for dismantling the Holy Roman Empire. But by all means let's make the movie about a love interest.
This map shows how much land they have gained back:
Interactive Map: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
This interactive map complements the static control-of-terrain maps that ISW daily produces with high-fidelity.
storymaps.arcgis.com
Saw a post before it was released that Ridley Scott just doesn't make bad movies. I turned it off after 30 minutes.
(Abomination of a movie though, really pissed me off. The man deserves a well-funded HBO series about his life not the trash Ridley Scott put out there)
Disregard, I was reading the time change thread and thought it was this one. I was right, but on the wrong thread.
