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Russian Soldier Says Ukraine Almost Wiped Out His Entire Unit in Kharkiv (www.thedefensepost.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Coulda stayed home.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suspect that “let’s walk around / drive our tanks around / etc, in the open, without having taken measures to make sure the drones can’t get us” will soon start to look like those “let’s everyone run at the machine guns at once, they can’t shoot us all” tactics from World War I that in retrospect makes the commanders look like idiots because they did them for years instead of abandoning them on week 1 when it became clear they were bad ideas

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Both have the same ultimate cause, as well: politicians safe at home demanding immediate results no matter what it costs.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Coulda stayed home.

That's not really how conscription works, and especially not how it works in Russia. But on a larger scale, absolutely!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Russian conscripts that shot their conscription officer upon being handed their papers would argue otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

Those are the true Russian heroes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can tell you that if you give me a gun to fight in my neighbor country where I have nothing to gain and high probability of dying I will just shoot every ranked officier i see. It is exactly what said a russian lawyer that defend russian dissidents. They never call him to go to war thanks to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I can tell you that if you give me a gun to fight in my neighbor country where I have nothing to gain and high probability of dying I will just shoot every ranked officier i see

I'm betting you're not alone, which is why you likely won't get a gun until you are quite far away from any officers with barrier troops between you and the officers. The lesson seems like its: kill all visible Russian officers before you get a gun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haven't we seen Russian men refusing to serve have 2 year prison sentences? That seems like a much better choice than 4 days of training before being killed in a meatwave 7 days after being deployed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

My guess is you still die in Russian prison, just more slowly and painfully.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh no. Anyways, have you tried turning against Russia?

Yeah, I know he will not read this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Good. Fuck the blyats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Kinda hoping they finish the job 🤷‍♂️