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On Warrior Ethos (thelemmy.club)
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Tumblr user tsarina-anadyomene: it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there Tumblr user gsot: [Screenshot of Bluesky user Ruth Baader-Meinhoff @sm-6.bluesky.social: the lesson of WWII is that aesthetic warrior cult societies get their shit rocked by school teachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else] Tumblr user drmajalis: [Screenshot of Bluesky user William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social: one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic and logistical endeavour" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"]
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

The post you're replying doesn't claim the Allies killed more, less or whatever than the USSR. It's about the importance of holding territory vs. killing. Did you just jump into this because you wanted to point out the outsized effort the USSR made in defeating the Nazis?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    What territory? The Allies were only able to swoop in and capture the West of Europe because the Nazis threw everything at the Soviets and lost.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    And that only happened because the US provided basically everything to the Soviets under Lend-Lease.

    Without American equipment, the Soviets were getting absolutely slaughtered.

    Their infrastructure was collapsed, they were out of equipment and couldn’t produce more. The US provided tanks, guns, bullets, clothes, food, and even railway to them to keep them afloat and hold off the Nazis while they fought the Western Front.

    Without Lend-Lease, the Soviets stood exactly zero chance.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Lend Lease supplied 10% of the Soviets supplies tops. This is such gigantic hypercope.

    Nobody says it did not help, but you are exaggerating the role of the US into infinity.

    Exactly like how the US propaganda tried to rewrite history after the fact.

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