this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
67 points (91.4% liked)

Death to NATO

1541 readers
19 users here now

For posting news about NATO's wars in Ukraine, Serbia, Kosovo, and The Middle East, including anywhere else NATO is currently engaged in hostile actions. As well as anything that relates to it.

Rules:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conscription in the framework of modern warframe makes increasingly little sense to me. It's always been a pretty terrible thing, but one could argue that throwing a pike in the hands of a farmer and pointing them at the enemy had some degree of success. There was definitely a period of history where having more warm bodies than the other side was extremely important.

These days, so much of warfare is conducted without even seeing your enemy, I am not sure how much it accomplishes. Having one more guy on the front lines to get hit by a mortar doesn't do much, and you probably aren't putting conscripts on roles like drone operator or artillery from my understanding. Having trained soldiers seems increasingly more important than having more soldiers.

It doesn't matter how much money you spend on giving fancy gear to your military if the military is comprised of civilians who have no idea how to use them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a desperate tactic and the fact that they're doing this clearly shows that the war was lost a long time ago.